certainly well yes absurdly well delicious meals video games for everyone's sports man what a life what more could these prisoners possibly want maybe the freedom maybe to see their families and have a normal life outside of a prison cell especially since the majority have already been cleared for release having been declared not guilty and just today it came out that as a punishment for the strike some of the prisoners are filing complaints and pleading for humanitarian aid for being denied a potable drinking water and heat yeah doesn't seem like that nice of a vacation getaway does it and hey robert johnson even though you think it most so absurdly awesome i'll bet you couldn't handle it for a week let alone the rest of your life without trial or charge and on that note let's break.

today i want to highlight a group of very unlikely heroes six deaver's and why am i highlighting animals as heroes you might as well the small team quite a super rodents are responsible for containing a chevron pipeline oil spill that leaked an estimated twenty seven thousand gallons of crude oil into marshes near the bay of a natural state reserve large dam built by the beavers served as a barrier for the incoming crude and successfully held back a large portion of the spill and in fact according to a utah wildlife specialist the dam quote absolutely saved the day sadly even though the beavers were rescued from the spill site many suffered severe burns on their skin from exposure to the still fuel and may not survive others have been receiving daily soap scrubs and are expected to be just fine in the larger picture however. this is chevron's third spill in utah in three short years court of the

huffington post a chevron was responsible for a thirty thousand gallons bill in june of two thousand and ten as well as a twenty one thousand gallons bill in december of that same year shame on chevron but thanks to the engineering marvel of these amazing little utah beavers the effects of this particular spill was a minimized and a much larger crisis was luckily averted and that's why these adorable creatures are my heroes today so these little guys are the heroes who is the villain all of that all but coveted title goes to butler county ohio prosecutor michael moser the man responsible for this is a bit like spring t.v. yet you know now not here either no not for us either so and ohio prosecutors apparently said about that and he's a good pasta time sail the pennsylvania ground i think it's a good idea since bill committed fraud. yes for days now i've been seeing reports

and reading the headlines about the indictment made against punxsutawney phil a poor helpless little creature ritualistically used every year lloyd did to predict whether or not there would be an early spring well this year it was wrong spring didn't come early for his error in judgment michael moser thought a fitting punishment would be death according to cincinnati's fox nineteen the indictment filed by butler county prosecuting attorney michael moser alleges that on or about february second two thousand and thirteen at gobbler's knob punxsutawney phil did purposely and with prior calculation and design caused people to believe that spring would come early while once hearing the fact that the beloved groundhog might die phil's handler bill deeley stepped up to take responsibility for the false weather forecast this coupled with countless letters from children across the state bade him not to. execute the small helpless creature

he decided to drop the charges ah glad he decided to have a heart and not emerge or an animal for not being a psychic weather satellite good job and of course after all was said and done he claimed it was all just for fun it was all just one big joke keep this in mind he took the time to final all the necessary paperwork to officially press these charges on the dime remember the ohio butler county taxpayers moser is a county prosecutor who should be dealing with real crime and real issues after all butler county is just north of cincinnati and not that far from cleveland a city that breaks the top ten most dangerous cities in the country how is it that has nothing better to do for the people you represent then this lunacy look some of you might think this is amusing but i don't i think it's downright stupid and a giant a waste of taxpayer resources and for that reason butler county prosecutor michael

moser you're my villain today. how well do you know the laws in your state probably well enough to keep yourself out of trouble right while they're actually many in conspicuous things like spitting on the sidewalk in some states that could land you jail time yet here in the us many bizarre and outdated state and local laws are still on the books having never been repealed or adapted to modern times for example in fairbanks alaska it's still considered illegal to feed alcoholic drinks to a moose in parts of florida it is against the law to engage in sexual activity with a porcupine home i'm not making this up from the antiquated to downright absurd there are plenty of crazy laws still on the books all across this. great nation

sort of break down some of this insanity i'm joined by b.t.s. producer menno amar you know i'm already feeling. it is absurd start with a category of strange animal as you've been researching is all week they're amazing and you're digging through some state laws and talk with the strangest animal related ones you've come up with sure just as a disclaimer abby did say go and find the craziest loves you can find i'm sure you can find some yeah and i did apparently americans are fascinated with bears and that's as far as animal laws go it's been bears bears bears apparently in alabama you can't have a bear wrestling match it's just it's just against the law i don't know if that's in force i don't know if you can actually if that particular law isn't force but in missouri for example a bear there's a great example bear cannot drive in a right of the car if it's not in a cage however if it is in a cage it's perfectly fine i'm actually against this one i think that there should be able to look at that he looks really really good time that's a good time for you to carry a better car you might as well have another funny bear one in alaska while it is

legal to shoot bears and skin bears and bears or whatever you want it is illegal to wake a sleeping bear for the sole purpose of taking its picture. that is a good. that's a that's a really fun one. let's see donkeys this was really great dog is arizona and georgia are unique in that you can't have a donkey about well that kills my plans for this weekend. in my donkey in the bath tub and that's actually really unfortunate and i was also planning on taking my lion to the movie also illegal wares you know that you found there and there's marilyn marilyn that you know i was just going to go right there. that's so that's so sad that we can't do that anymore we can't bring our lions i don't need to be honest i don't even know where these laws were don't know that one of the you open with you is our man have sex with a porcupine in florida that came from you so no i just feel like you can't have sex with animals and for a sport you play well because some of them probably happened some some have and we don't need to go there but let's move. under another category which is holy

offenses sure you know of course now the separation of church and state you know it doesn't mean that overlap doesn't exist of course across this country of most notably is the alcohol sale on sundays sure well these holy laws you call that they're also called blue laws and what they were originally designed to do is to enforce religious standards in the united states now has been challenged about the history of the country most recently in one thousand nine hundred eighty one under a gallon versus maryland it was found that blue laws are actually not unconstitutional so you can still in force and plenty of states do that like you mentioned with with the alcohol ban certain states are canceled groceries or you cancel cars but there's an old saying that you know if you say the god's name in vain you get five sure that's in the indiana anyone fourteen years or older who uses profanity against god jesus christ of the holy ghost shall be fined four dollars for every offense and no more than ten dollars for per day but i mean a lot of these standards that are not these crazy sounding laws exist to kind of preserve

a day of rest the sabbath to sunday not for people to go to church necessarily but for there to be a kind of standardized day for people to to have a day off during the week having that said there are other states like alabama where you can't have a fake mustache in church once again ruining my sunday and you know cherry pies served on sundays in kansas and i think it's also florida where women can't go parachuting on sunday sunday and so let's talk about we have about a minute left let's talk about the women's rights of course we fought so hard to be equal despite huge advances in any quality or there are still plenty of laws that should be repealed a long time ago over some of the most egregious you know what i think that it's interesting because it is yes women have been fighting so hard for the rights in this country and so have minority groups like blacks african-americans in this country tried so hard over the years of fought so hard to get their civil rights but there are still laws on the books that hold them back the not necessarily in force for example in south carolina there are there is a law still on the books. that would find you one hundred dollars for teaching

a black person how to read these are laws that should have been repealed a long time ago reason let a lot of these laws are repealed is simply the force so that federal laws supersede state laws. you know oh yeah oh yeah and i mean that's really going to take these as a crossing people on the say the one we we need to wrap up but what about the one of the woman adjusting her stockings in public that is in texas in tennessee can't publicly adjust your stockings it's considered a lewd act and planned you sentence some jail time up to a year well as an i don't do it don't do it if i decided you know just that are they care to take a break it down because you did it well if you like what you see so far you can adore you to. be sure to subscribe so you don't miss a single episode we'll solve all our interview segments tapped out if you want to catch those that really encourage i want to check out our interview with roseanne barr from yesterday look at every second we've done that program of the had section on the top of the page from big brother watch to weapons of mass distraction check

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the to. seduce you tell her she's anything like. as the world becomes more interconnected as culture becomes more homogenized you think that we would all be evolving to a higher level of tolerance what this is the case it's happening far too slowly because it seems that every turn whether it's radio social media or t.v. hate speech is once heard the loudest in fact in many cases it's reinforced and celebrated the most so what we do about it all new initiative called wicked pedia not to be confused with wicca pedia is being created to document and expose hate

speech in all its forms check it out. to the public figure is all those sheep in a species in this case it was only one type of man sorry execute them in front of their families i mean the day they go on strike. i spent all this muslims to kill mom was as if you know requires a speech to be this kind of a speech because different social groups getting was beginning to be discriminated against on the worst. that would be useful to use and even to kill because their religion is or they do this is the disease this sexual relations man responsible for this project is dr enough he's a med director of the institute for policy research and development and co-creator of the movie crisis of civilization he joins me now from london to talk about how this issue fits and has so many other crises facing the world today and how we can change course not because it's a pleasure to have you on. like so much i.v. so let's talk about your newest venture wiccan pedia nothing is free speech is

a protected right in this country so why the need to catalog inflammatory remarks made by these figures. well at the moment especially as the economic crisis is intensifying we're seeing the polarization of different communities escalating and it's getting pretty why are you seeing a rise in hate crimes against different communities whether they're jewish for them most of them whether it's because you're black. whether it's because of closs issues there is this growing social part of the reservation so we came up with this idea to develop an online platform that would use a style multimedia kind of platform to document and expose hate speech that does occur in the public sphere and which can lead to a stereotype of racist bigotry in any form whether it's against women whether it's against gay people whether it's against people of different of different

ethnicities over there is on the grounds of religion because of you know demeaning jorgen true stereotypes which can lead to hateful ideas ideas which are fundamentally what we bucked up play the evidence and we thought rather than kind of we're calling for hate speech to be bad and we're not calling for a new war against hate speech or anything like that fight freedom of speech if you want to get dollars you hate speech you can indulge in hate speech but if you're going to indulge in hate speech we're going. track you are going to document we're going to google and isaac against and we're going to organize public campaigns that make people aware of how devastating this kind of speech can be and we're going to use out free speech and exercise that free speech to highlight this kind of speech is not really conducive to the kind of societies that we'd really like to see this is for us this is really about building a vision for the kind of inclusive society that we really want based a democracy based on real kind of celebration of difference based on diversity

rather than based on a kind of home agendas going to monolithic idea of only one race only one that is the only one religion or something like that. yes it's a really interesting idea and i think is and i think that cataloging all this is important and there is a point where speech does turn dangerous when it does incite violence and people could die is a really important how alternately though will this project hold these people accountable for their words or is it just kind of compiling so we can be prepared to be armed with all their past discretions. well there's going to be two phases and we're going to we're going to start off by focusing on actually documenting stuff that's going on in the past by you know people on a public platform whether they're politicians whether the media commentators whether the people who run organizations you know people in the public people of

influence essentially you engage in this kind of hate speech but the idea is once a few documents that the rules are going to try and track and monitor hate speech as it happens and when it happens what we'd like to do is to galvanize people to actually respond to it and to highlight say those first i'm going to do is if if there's been an allegation or a report that someone had said has said something we need to go get true demeaning about a particular community or a group who first tried to verify that and was. verify that will basically the idea is that we'll be able to organize progressive people to say hey you know whether you all we're going to write to you we're going to call you're going to say what you said is completely wrong and we don't like me and we think that you should apologize for and retract it but the idea is resa kind of say look as active citizens we're going to get engaged and get involved and we're going to basically do the same thing if someone in those in hate speech we're not going to encourage other people to hate them or make derogatory remarks about them but we're going to

do is really politely just say hey guys this is really really horrible thing to say it's unjustifiable it's racist this is the kind of thing that we saw happening and i think that is we know we shouldn't be engaging this is not the society that we want to be living in are you going to be part of of what we really stand for in these in our democratic societies we just place to be liberal just place to be diverse or are you going to are you standing for something else the idea is really to kind of out people who all engaging in this in highlight what they really say and what it really might mean you know what they really standing for and restoring civility indefinitely and necessity if we want to move forward and progress this is human population off is that i can't think of the phrases that believe that leaves i mean why is it that humanity seems more interested in bad news hate speech than it is on positive stories and good will why does it seem like we thrive on negativity. but i don't know i mean i think one of the problems that i've seen is. because it was just a genocide scholar as well and in the process of academic work that i've done it's

one of the things i've seen and that many people are now aware of is that it's really when bad stuff is happening you know when when things are falling apart when your society is going to pot you know you've got the banking collapse you've got environmental crisis there's been a massive loss of trust and up politicians over you know lies over the wars that we've been fighting in iraq and afghanistan all of these things are compound. it out in many different ways people threw a lot off and then they want to blame someone and sometimes it's easy to scapegoat what's most visible and unfortunately what's most visible sometimes is just it could be as simple as your skin color or the faith that you preach the fact that some dude by have a long beard or whatever you know you were a skull couple you know oh yeah you know you're my if you have a sexual transsexual whatever people end up scapegoating and saying you're the problem this is the problem and you know they get it wrong because they don't really necessarily understand why things are falling why things well because you're

wrong and she says it's this community's fault was that groups fault and that's what we kind of want to say hey look really actually we were all in this together and all of us are part of this society and all of us are facing the brunt of it many different ways involved in blaming each other or blaming another group and scapegoating each other we need to really be saying that join forces and join together and build a vision of what we really want to see in the wall it is easier to reinforce your own biases than it is to confront them and ask why they exist let's talk about the war on terror which requires a continued climate of islamophobia to function i mean to be humanized the other is the enemy obvious how much of this hate speech that we do see today that you say is exacerbating is part of the bigger machine that necessitates this warfare and perpetuates that. but i think this this is an important question because if you look back over the last decade or so since nine eleven obviously there's been

a massive rise in hate speech specifically towards muslims and arabs. not just because a direct consequence of nine eleven but it's also been a direct consequence of the way the media has responded to not eleven in a way the media has actually really focused on the idea of islam and muslims as a threat is a fifth column and some of that has been very racist has been stereotypical but what's really disturbing is the role of the pentagon and the role of security agencies. in kind of hyping up this side whipping up this kind of sense of it and these these big number of reports and studies which have showed. whether it's the f.b.i. whether it's the pentagon the definitive part of the defense that has actually been from some quarters are not saying that the whole agencies of you know islamophobia or against muslims or not would be a mistake but there are elements of these agencies but you quite deliberately attempted to feed into this idea that yes actually it's a muslim problem over the last few years we've seen some reports and expressways

from the new york times in the washington post on how even some of the training that is being provided to our security agents working in the f.b.i. and elsewhere on you know counterterrorism stuff has actually been really racist. and is really demonized was in communities this hopelessly a mindset which is you know to some extent it's a reaction to some extent it's even being deliberately promoted feeding into this idea that there is an enemy out there unfortunately these kind of simple play stick you know binary divisions all quite convenient. how those most virulent elements of. governments kind of say well we need to have a war on terror because it's just them out there fighting us and it's very easy to justify going into other countries and conducting these invasions when you have a very simplistic you don't boki about enemy to say this you know that's the enemy

out there and we have to deal with them and often as you've spoken about al qaeda being more of a loose coalition then this centralized and anomie force that we're told about that has sleeper cells everywhere and we need to be in constant gradual fear of talk about how what the reality of the quote enemy that they're telling us is that we face and how can we shift the mindset because what you were just saying is reflected and also local police forces i mean look at the n.y.p.d. that the spying on muslim communities it's just amazing it's in perpetuity at the races and the demonization and how can we get out of it. well i think one of the things that i think it's very cool for people to take away and to do more research and reading on is our relationship to al qaida actually over the last decade if not longer the last three decades it's very well known we you know sponsored bin laden and his good job of being you know going to say we say you know the united states the united kingdom various other western powers. and we did this during the cold

war against it's a mobilized these guys against the soviet union against communism but what what many of us don't know is that this actually continued off of the cold war and in many many ways as you continues to this day and this is not a conspiracy theory this is us you documented fact since whistleblowers like civil edmonds for example who worked with the f.b.i. confirms. from the late ninety's to two thousand and one not just bates was funneling into central asia these islamist extremists and terrorists in order to carry out operations in order to pursue there is. a very narrow it's used to teach you can trust sidelining russia side right side i think trying to using these extremists on the ground to destabilize regions and and push through certain interests including like you know just paving the way all the gas pipelines and so on and so it all and even someone like i'm on the way here was covered leave the

recognizes the head of al qaeda and who had that was bin laden's right hand man he was actually one of the guys that u.s. officials were meeting with the quote it's edmonds he was meeting with u.s. officials at the u.s. embassy in baku. so the disc on this kind of thing continues you know we've been still find out sync with the dates of militants in this part of world in the middle east in relation to countering reined in because we see sponsoring these kind of solace in the cell of the extremists as a counterweight to the iranian influence in the reach and syria you know funding al qaeda forces in syria yet fighting them and other countries doctor's offices and that unfortunately we're out of time but i think the solutions are right there in front of us and you're tackling them right now with cries of civilization and this new project awakened pedia it's all about humanity tolerance and understanding we are one global community and we need to treat. rather that way thank you so much

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