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dreich against injustice and harsh conditions at america's most notorious to tension count began more than two months ago and no movement has been made by the u.s. government to resolve the crisis so far jonathan hafetz a professor at the seton hall university school of law represents a number of the. i think the more pressure may force to us to respond it may not come right away but i think that that the pressure that's triggered from the hunger strikes and the international attention of the statement by the u.n. i think me you know may have that effect over time i think that it's going to force the united states to realize that it just can't simply ignore what's act want on a moa and that at some point it's going to have to come to grips with the fact that you know these these men are being imprisoned year after year without charges and you know more and more and more are in fact eyeing him in jail and i think it's very difficult to. you know be able to to justify this and you have to really kind of tie yourself in knots to do so. russia demands
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a more balanced investigation into chemical attacks in syria has accused the un are going to undermine the probe and draw parallels with the weapons of mass destruction the hype the us used as a pretext to invade iraq. and u.s. student wants to give every american the ability of making their very own weapon in the comfort of their own home and that and plenty more stories and just the sack.
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thank you for joining us here on. heavy handed police have calmed down on an unannounced rally in montreal arresting nearly three hundred protesters utils say the demonstration has to be registered with authorities for it to go ahead legally says the correspondent for the canadian affairs website rappel dossier he says the lower is a clear violation of citizens' rights. ninnis will buy a lot of sixes and activists by the student straight last year in your provincial law. law as well which was announced by everyone in the united nations and i can assure our rights to the back bar association representing all problems boyer's prosecutors but it was a serious violation of civil liberties which was then refuel by the us i mean the interim government nobody really knows what to make of this we've been a country where we've always taken for granted the right to protest the right to
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express our opinion and so a lot of people right now are very very fearful and so there's an attitude that want to go out they want to challenge this by law they know what's happening is not right but at the same time they're afraid halt all the heels of cypresses downfall yet another tax haven may be seeing its last millions of leaked emails have exposed their client list of the british virgin islands politicians superstars and top businessmen worldwide old being implicated in a cyber security expert and the whole sol who's our campaign manager for the u.k. pirate party points out the irony that some of those with the offshore accounts were actively promoting austerity. some of these people appear to be in positions where they wouldn't necessarily want to be associated with sticking a lot of money onto an office into an offshore tax there's clearly a disconnect between what people are saying in terms of taxes and austerity especially and what they're actually doing in terms of their personal finances and clearly there is some regulation needed this may well change that having this kind
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of information out there may well cause this to be a much bigger political issue than it has been for a long time it's something that you obviously have to deal with when it becomes public and so most people everybody's know not offshore tax havens exist but i haven't really understood the amounts of money involved in this case i think somebody suggested up to thirty two trillion pounds worth of cash such in those. isha is sent off shore in ways that aren't necessarily being tracked and monitored or available to governments that maybe should be. this is our take moscow has accused the un of trying to undermine the investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria the syrian government claims rebels used illegal agents near the city of aleppo last month killing around two dozen political historian gerald horne explains why he believes the u.n. investigation will bear no forget this quiet from the north atlantic countries about this chemical attack speaks volumes that speaks loudly because we all know that if this chemical attack could be pinned on the damascus regime of president
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our son that they would have been shouting from the rooftops about it but fact that they're not quiet about it i think says all that we need to know we all saw what happened at the arab league meeting where they were able to maneuver the rebels to take the heat of the regime and we all know about the recent entente between turkey and israel which does not bode well for a peaceful resolution of the syrian crisis therefore it seems to me that an attack of this chemical in an investigation of this chemical attack but moscow and beijing in particular managers who want to see. it's the promise of a getting whatever you want whenever you want it but as three d. printing office to fulfill your dreams to the nearest millimeter it's got a dark side going to port and i reports. from the state of the union in youngstown a while we're no workers are mastering the three d. printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything
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to a store in soho new york three d. printing technology has officially gone mainstream the demand is much greater than our supply right now and we're actually ramping up and expanding rapidly to meet that demand this three d. printing company maker bot opened its first retail store last year it is selling its newly released replicator to desktop for just under twenty two hundred dollars using a plastic material the machine deposits ultra thin layers to form any object that can be molded in software welcome to the world of independent manufacturing so this stretch bracelet took about sixteen minutes to make but other objects that are bit bigger like this cupcake gift box took about fifteen hours of printing now while the time a very anyone with a three d. desktop printer can essentially make anything that they want at our website thing occurs that is a repast atari for three d.
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printed items we have more than forty thousand items on the thing over that are free and downloadable and one of our terms of service is that you cannot upload anything that is to a weapon. this is where twenty five year old cody wilson enters the picture a group of friends and i started a project called difference distribute. we want to use a three d. printer to print a gun to release the files open source the texas law student has already printed a thirty round magazine and lower receiver that houses the bolt for an ar fifteen and he's reportedly working on completing a rifle with a three d. printer his blueprints for guns and gun parts are distributed for free on his website but i'm very assuring people ok this is something that can be done right now. right now the self described. market after kist has thrown a major wrench into america's gun control debate as a national conversation going it was a debate that started in december after twenty children and six adults were shot
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dead at a connecticut elementary school overwhelming majorities of americans americans who believe in the second amendment have come together around common sense reform by background checks that will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun meanwhile just last month wilson became a federally licensed gun manufacturer and dealer there bypassing the debate the rendering the debate irrelevance whatever laws make about of this discussion this sort of ability to manufacture objectivity of firearms at a localized centralized basis means of the law really won't matter in the law may say that something is illegal but if you can turn into a device that's on your desktop and manufacture that at will with nobody knowing that you've done so then the law doesn't matter at all with a reported three hundred million guns in circulation the u.s. has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world and the second highest rate of deaths by firearms among industrialized nations. and just as
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lawmakers are finalizing new legislation that would tighten the nation's all too easy access to firearms experts claim that technology will ultimately outpace their meager efforts at gun control. r.t. new york. well in just a moment a palestinian parliament member marwan barghouti. i mean so to know a city in europe i'm the host of the twenty fourteen winter the picket. signs. thank you. saatchi. thank you the. way a. dog days of. the pride days it. takes
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with me i have dr mustafa barghouti the leader of the palestinian national initiative a member of the palestinian parliament and also a former minister of information dr thank you very much for joining us have a naughty my pleasure often obama gave his famous cairo speech four years ago you say that this is the best speech ever made by an american president particularly regarding palestinian issues four years on would you agree with the sentiments you expressed then. it was the best speech or would still say so but he didn't fall on it on the contrary he retreated from what he said was very disappointing and very unfortunate instead of pushing the israelis to stop settlements as he promised he stopped talking about the matter why do you think i think he penned down to israeli pressure from one side but also to the american establishment i think. well he had an opportunity after the second election to proceed to make american
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history especially after receiving the nobel peace prize and for making peace but i fortunately none of that has happened. if this continues then. this passivity of the american position and this passive passiveness of the american president of this continuous specially at this time this would mean allowing the israelis to kill the very last opportunity of two state solution are we just talking about past seventy or we're talking about specific regions because when obama was here we did see demonstrations on the palestinian street what are the issues that the street is angry about that the street is angry about many things first of all they see that the united states is totally biased to israel and it's not hiding it's even declaring it constantly second they see that they're americans are allies in the peace process leadership yet they are not being an honest broker in this process by monopolizing they are not doing their job at the same time they're not allowing any
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other party to do that to do this job but third there were many negative gestures even during the visit of president obama one of just said was that he refused to meet a child who of one of the presidents and bill in israeli presence here refused to listen and to hear the palestinian grievances and pain another negative matter was that he visited an israeli music. which contained stolen material from occupied territories this in our opinion should not be done by an american president because he would be in a way legalizing an act of theft from palestinians. the third thing he visited that i've been. grave which is good but he refused to visit mr arafat's store you could agree or disagree with president arafat but he was a symbol for palestinians and. and both of both of these people were assassinated
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by the enemies of peace so there is this lack of equality lack of even handedness that makes palestinians to be specially that they realize that the united states is the biggest supporter of israel why doesn't a bomb have the well is it because he has so much pressure on him or do you put the blame on his shoulders well why he is of course to be blamed it's not just the pressure because he's definitely the most knowledgeable american president of the palestinian issue given his background but more importantly he's a man that comes from a certain background of people who suffered from segregation. if it wasn't for the civil rights movement in the united states that fought against and in america he would have never become the president of the united states he himself would be most sensitive to the issue of segregation that is being built today in palestine what about the fact that he met israeli leaders in west jerusalem and the palestinian
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leaders in ramallah would it have not been a more symbolic gesture to have met the palestinian leaders in east jerusalem or have left to resign him out of the the whole equation and perhaps make israeli leaders in tel aviv absolutely visiting israeli leaders in west jerusalem. one way of something that the united states of usually does not recognize which is that it was a limb is not is a capital and you think that's what they're trying to tell us why isn't the message i don't know i know that he should have met people in the studio as well he met a number of young people who are choice in for him but these are not the real young people who are in the streets or who are. organizing the nonviolent resistance and palestine or who have who are making the palestinians putting in only this elective it. is unacceptable this lack of equality this lack of even handedness mixed palestinians very angry and makes them disappointed. they
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didn't have much hopes anyhow from the visit but mr obama did not surprise anybody what about the fact that he gave an address to the israeli public but he didn't address the palestinian public what do you make of this again it's another another indication that he is making a visit to israel and on the way he's meeting some palestinians. i'm not talking only about the amount of time that as i look at it but about the nature of the events i wish you would have visited for instance he blown to see by his own eyes graphically the system of segregation that israel has created what i wish he would have gone to a palestinian university and met with palestinian students that are not selected specifically to meet with him and yet maybe we're being too critical on president obama i mean he did come to a mile he did meet with the palestinian leadership and prior to his visit the white house didn't present the trip as if he was going to make any big announcements the
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expectation was you know perhaps we're being too critical on him i don't think so the question is would he have visited them a lot if he was not visiting israel. and we're not saying that it's bad that he visited the model is good he's the president of one of the most powerful countries in the world and it's good that he's visiting the question is what is coming out of this visit and the bigger question is why the continuation of this passive american approach this specifically passiveness at a time when the whole. the whole possibility of two state solution is being killed by the bulldozers of settlements. is unacceptable it's responsible and acceptable and this means that those who are silent about this destruction and who are not even daring to criticize it but actively participate in something that will end the very last opportunity of peace based on two state solution and that is not
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something good for the palestinians or israelis in the final equation what was the significance of his trip that's the problem there is no significance he came when israel has just elected the most racist and most extreme government in its history a government that because they are constantly before. that they have no intention of allowing a palestinian state they are offering palestinians a self-governing status within a punt to stand system of apartheid in the program of the new government there is no mentioning of the palestinian statehood and the leaders of this government one of them minister of housing who is a settler himself has just declared that there will be no place between the river and the sea for more than one state which is israel and palestinians have to accept that so basically he came to a government that is most racist most. are going to stick to the possibility of
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peace. and he didn't say a word about it as you say the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu government has moved from being a right wing government to extreme right wing government exactly but even if netanyahu wanted to make peace with the palestinians his hands are not tied by the israeli government well of course because he created the settlement movement or he contributed to the symptom of movement he made the settlers so strong now they are inside the government three of them are the ministers another one is the head of the financial committee and clearly said. it's a monster that netanyahu himself created and participated in creating and now he cannot complain that he cannot do much because of this monster. he is part of the problem. and not part of the solution there are many who say that it's in america's interest to continue the occupation it's good business if nothing else do you agree with us i know that there is a strategic alliance between the united states and israel i think continuation of occupation and a system of apartheid is going to addictive to the same values that the americans
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speak about all the time day and night the same values of democracy and the respect of your moderate it's a threat of terror so there is a big contradiction here second i think. these settlements and this apartheid system contradicts even the american interest in having stability in the middle east those who think that the situation in the middle east will remain as it is short sighted sooner than later with the prevalence of democracy you would see more and more people in the middle east siding by the palestinians and demanding that out of the palestinians the continuation of a system of apartheid is the most disturbing losing factor in the middle east do you think though that now with his second term in office president obama might in the future pressure on israel that perhaps this trip was just the beginning of maybe hearing both sides and it could develop into something else we'll believe it when we see it up till now we've seen none of that and we're not going to sleep with illusions we're going to look at the facts and the realities. meanwhile we
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have to make our own reality and we've made up our mind we will create our own reality by insisting on changing the balance of power by through our nonviolent resistance by trying to unify all palestinians together and by demanding a strong international solidarity campaign including boycott divestment sanctions against the israeli apartheid system like was done with south africa in other words we are not dependent and we will not be dependent on where that america will change or not we will take our the matter in our hands that's the meaning of the new nonviolent movement in palestine taking the initiative in our hands and putting our facts on the ground and in countering the israeli facts on the ground with palestinian facts on the ground if they are not this change the spoils ition them that would be ok that would be positive but we are not going to it prime minister netanyahu said at the united nations that a deadline for iran's nuclear program is this coming spring do you think that that
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might have been the real issue on the table during president obama's we can visit well look clearly and this is it and what was stated the issue of iran was but the head of the palestinian issue that's clear to everybody but and i think that's wrong and that's a mistake and always israel had an excuse for not dealing with the palestinian issue and not achieving peace first it was the soviet union and that palestinians are in our lives the soviet union then it was easier than it was syria than iraq now it's iran may be tomorrow it will be as a vision i don't know so they always have an excuse but the iranian issue is not an issue that should prevent dealing with the palestinian issue the palestinian issue is much older and much more serious and much more. and has much more impact than that on an issue in my opinion president obama has spent more one on one with netanyahu then he has with any other leader who do you think is calling
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the shots i don't. but i don't know who's calling the shots nor one thing the chemistry between them regardless of how long how many hours they've spent together the chemistry has not been good. i don't know how it is to do but i know one thing that president obama had a much better positions before he had all these hours with another you know than he has now what did the palestinian authority what does the palestinian authority get from this recent visit from president obama the most important thing is that is the first american president that visits palestinians after out of the city it was declared in the you don't. know where that is important of course but beyond that i don't see any of that effect does it weaken the p.a. in the sense that there's so much anger on the palestinian street and they welcoming president obama on a bomb missed him. i don't know if it weakens the you know what it what will weaken it very much if the i do to go back to negotiations without
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a complete settlement freeze and without clear terms of reference if they're delusional and if they're bent under pressure from the american side or israeli side then will they will definitely lose a lot of their popularity and lose a lot of the of their credibility dr mustafa barghouti thank you very much for joining us here and i thank you you thank . you know when the history of any culture there are some dark chapters throughout human history there's been war on every continent and religious strife and oppression every culture has some skeletons in their closet and in recent u.s. history the scandals prison at guantanamo bay as making patriotic americans
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scurrying around a decade or so rather than slamming the door shut and get mall i hate that term condemning it as one of the greatest mistakes in american history and gloriously declaring on t.v. channels and newspapers the country wide that it shall never be repeated again the pentagon instead wants to blow another forty nine million dollars expanding it even if you are one of the types of things that american gulags are super cool and awesome do you realize it takes over one million dollars per year per prisoner to keep the place open are you sure you don't want that money to go towards something else like your children's education the thing that burns me up about this the most is that obama promised if elected to close guantanamo bay and as commander in chief of the armed forces he could do this whatever he wanted no amount of filibustering by the republicans could stop him obama you promised hundreds of millions of people to do something very simple start the paper work tomorrow buddy make the nation look better that's your job but that's just my opinion.
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