tear gas and stun grenades israeli police clash with crowds of angry palestinians rallying against the occupation of their land. goes from bad to worse in cyprus where many are you to see more than half the savings wiped out overnight and since the e.u. demands an unprecedented rate on bank deposits exchange for a bailout to rescue the country's failing economy. going ton of bay detainees press on with the week's long hunger strike as lawyers for the inmates claim many on their death's door as a result of that protest. from the carriage also my colleague marina joshie will behave next or that abby martin looks at the plight of guantanamo detainees and their treatment not just at the hands of the prison guards but the media as well

that's in breaking the set. you live on one hundred thirty three possible so food i should try it because you know how fabulous and lucky i got so many i mean. i know that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so actually. it's. worse for the little thing the white house says of the. radio guy for a minute. what. did you never seen anything like this until. the bell on abbey martin and this is breaking the set so i forgot to mention one thing about the guantanamo bay hunger strike going on how damn good the prisoners

have at their help or in a robert johnson military defense editor and business insider the hunger strike is not only been overhyped but get mo is apparently more like a club med than it is a prison about this headline of his the other side of the get most strike detainees are treated absurdly well has absurdly well delicious meals video games for everyone's orts man well 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 of 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 a 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 corded the huffington post a chevron was responsible for a thirty thousand gallon spill 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. it's 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 fill the pennsylvania ground i think it's a good idea since bill committed fraud. you know 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 spoiled kid to predict whether or not there will 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 i got. punxsutawney phil did purposely and with prior calculation and design caused people to believe that

spring would come early well once hearing the fact that the beloved groundhog might die phil's handler bill deeley stepped up to take responsibility for the falls 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 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 file 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 he has nothing better to do for the people he represents than this louis c. look some of you might think this is amusing but i don't 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 well there are actually many conspicuous things like spitting on the sidewalk in some states that could land you jail time yet here in the us and 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 move 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 mental model i'm already laughing. it is absurd let's start with the 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 disclaimer abby did say go and find the craziest laws 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 goes it's been a bears bears bears barely an 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 going to carry a bear to curry might as well have another funny bear one in alaska while it is legal to shoot bears and skin bears and melt 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 swallow that's a that's a really fun one. let's see donkeys this is really great donkeys arizona and georgia are unique in that you can't have a dog in a bathtub well that kills my plans for this weekend bathing my donkey in the bath tub and that's actually really unfortunate and i was also planning on taking my lion to the movies also illegal ways you know that you'd found there and there is 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. that you open with humans are and have sex with a porcupine in florida that came from you so no i just feel like you can't have sex with animals in florida why in sport you play well because some of them probably happen some yeah some have and we don't need to go there but let's move on to 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 the 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 the country most recently in one thousand nine hundred sixty one under a gallon versus maryland it was found the blue laws are actually not unconstitutional so you can still in force the laws and plenty of states do that like you mentioned with with the alcohol ban certain states are canceled groceries or you can't sell cars but there are several states that you say the god's name in vain you get fined

sure that's a good 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 days. 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 no 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 and 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 the reason let a lot of these laws are repealed is simply the force so that federal laws supersede state laws. you know i don't know and i mean that's really going to take these actually prosecute on the books say that when 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 in play and you sentence some jail time up to a year well isn't i don't do it don't do it if i guess that it is just that are they can make a very good it down because he did it well if you like or you see so far you can

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i want to get to do it if you've never seen anything like this contract. as the world. comes 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 we 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 the wicked pedia is being created to document and expose hate speech and all its forms check it out. to be the figure is. a speech

in this case was going to take them outside the execute them in front of their families i mean there they go on strike. six or us muslims to kill mom was as if you know the price is deep today this kind of a speech because different social groups what's the use of these going to be against i'm worse to be a soldier if used in the book because it's their religion so they do this is the this station 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 every so let's talk about your newest venture wicked 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 escalates and it's getting pretty boring and we're seeing a rise in hate crimes against a few communities whether they're jewish for them most of them whether it's because you're black whether it's because of claus. 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 dorgan tree stereotypes which can lead to hateful idea is ideas which are

fundamentally what we bucked up play the evidence and we thought rather than kind of we're not calling for hate speech to be bad and we're not calling for a new law or against hate speech or anything like that fight freedom of speech if you want to indulge you hate speech you can indulge in hate speech but if you're going to indulge in hate speech we're going to track you we're going to document we're going to get an isaac against it 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 three speech and exercise that free speech to highlight that this kind of speech is not really conducive to the kind of societies that we'd really like to see a really 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 homo genesis going to monolithic idea of only one race only one that is

that the only one religion or something like that. yes it's a really interesting idea and i think it is and i think that cataloguing all this is important and there is a point where speech does turn dangerous when it does and cite 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 why you know people on a public platform whether they're politicians whether they're media commentators whether they're 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 you 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 who first i'm going to do is if if there's been an allegation or a report that someone had said something we need to all get true demeaning about a particular community or a group who first tried to verify that and once we verified it 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 recent 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 what 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 in

nazi does we know we shouldn't be engaging this is not the society that we want to be living in are you going to be paul of of what we really stand for in these in our democratic societies we're just place to be liberal just place to be 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 said. 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 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 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

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 enough politicians over you know lies over the wars that we've been fighting in iraq and afghanistan all of these things are compounded 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 more if you have a sexual or transsexual whatever people end up scapegoating and saying your the problem this is the problem and you know they get it wrong because they don't really necessarily understand why i things are falling why things why because you're wrong and he says it's this community suppose that groups fall and that's

what we kind of try to say hey look really actually we're 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 kind of. then 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 a really 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 and was limbs and i robes. and that has been as a direct consequence of nine eleven but it's also been

a direct consequence of the way the media has responded to nine eleven in the way the media has actually never really focused on the idea of islam and muslims as a threat as a fifth column and sort 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 started whipping up this kind of sense of it and these are these big number of reports and studies which have showed. whether it's the f.b.i. whether it's the pentagon the different department of defense that has actually been from some quarters are not saying that the whole agencies of you know islamophobia or against muslims other that would be a mistake but there are elements of these agencies that 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 you know security agents working in the f.b.i. and elsewhere on you know counterterrorism stuff that you've 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 but unfortunately these kind of simple play stick you know binary divisions all quite convenient. how those most virulent elements. of our 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 poking about enemy to say this that 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 i mean force that we're told about that

has sleeper cells everywhere and we need to be in constant fear of talk about how what the regality 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 few people to take away to do more research and reading on is our relationship to all quite chilly over the last decade if not longer the last three decades it's very well known that we you know sponsor bin laden and his good job of being united and i say we i 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 doesn't know is that this actually continued off of the cold war and in many many ways as you continue to this day and this is not a conspiracy theory this 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's side right so 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 will 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 us you one of the guys that u.s. officials were meeting with a quote it's edmonds he was meeting with u.s. officials at the u.s. embassy in baku. so disk on this kind of thing continues you know we've been still find out sink. the gates admit it since in this part of world in the middle east in relation to countering it 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 for coming on and sharing your perspective on this issue. paul everyone thanks for

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