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every human being is precious and every loss of life tragic so it's hard to take obama seriously when he says things like this in response or any time bombs are used to target innocent civilians it's an act of terror well it seems like you just summed up your drone policy abroad some maybe it's time to look in the mare obama. i. took two deadly explosions set off near the finish line of the boston marathon on monday sent shock waves across the country at least three people were killed including one eight year old boy and over one hundred forty people injured however since the tragedy there's been countless kneejerk reactions and baseless speculations circulated in the media world over the who what and the why see for yourself. this is like. a
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a bomb explosion that we hear about in the news in baghdad or israel or some other . place in the world the materials used are incredibly common place it seems pressure cookers basic circuitry and the problem there of course is that commonplace objects harder to track and also i think to sort of effectively strike fear in the hearts of americans because they're so ordinary you know if anybody can do this who's to say that everybody american citizen blows up random people that's a middle eastern scene that's not an american scene what are crazies go off they they target the government or kind of explosives were used so for instance if it was just sort of a signature of al qaida if it was more conventional explosives which are much harder to get hold of now that might be some other kind of right wing extremist you know everything from a lone wolf jihad is to a right wing extremist and also i don't think it's a great idea to outline the anarchy. cookbook to millions of viewers on cable t.v.
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the reactionary absurdity range from alex jones tweeting within thirty minutes it was a false flag to erik rush or fox contributor who only hours after said that muslims are evil and that quote we should kill them all yes this is a public call to exterminate one point six billion people in retaliation for an attack perpetrated by a suspect whose identity remains completely unknown. but even though no actual facts of emerge about the attack in the past two days that hasn't stopped the corporate media from area around the clock coverage based in higher li on speculation so vial his media corporations a horror out tragedy i mean do we really need to see the bloody explosion in slow motion frame by frame a million times plus all of this coverage is just filler in the place of real news guys we're not learning anything this is nothing more than disaster porn these people are so desperate to report on any information that they are not jumping the
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gun and reporting false information time and time again and this regurgitation is going on twenty four seven like this story from the new york post which reported within hours of the bombing that a saudi man was in custody and of course every mainstream outlet ran with the story just like they did today when for the billion the time when yet another breaking news story emerged across the mainstream that there's a new suspect under arrest check it out. one of the sources is a boston law enforcement source who tells me that an arrest has been made in the investigation which identified has now been arrested fox news alert and now it is being told to fox news to a fox news reporter that indeed an arrest has been made so what you're hearing from three separate sources is that no arrest and they do not know the identity of the person what do they have where we just don't know what the cases and i told the viewers from the beginning we're going to try to be transparent about the. mission
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coming in and how many sources we had on it where was coming from and that's what we've done now we find ourselves at two twenty seven pm eastern time not knowing exactly whether an arrest has been made or not yes megan it's quite obvious that you know nothing so i guess the moral of the stories of turn off the corporate news and wait until facts emerge that we can actually analyze but of course if we did that we miss the next breaking story within the breaking news story because you see over the last twenty four hours public officials including the white house have received letters containing the deadly poison ricin for restarting flashbacks of the anthrax attacks in the wake of nine eleven remember this the anthrax the u.s. government initially tried to link to muslim extremists and later to saddam hussein and that coming from the u.s. government's very own bio weapons lab if there's any lesson learned here is that we shouldn't jump to conclusions we should always question the claims that are made and question the way this attack will be manipulated by the establishment
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a media that feeds us disinformation in times of strife is nothing but reactionary and irresponsible this is ear when one tragedy for weeks on end whilst ignoring the terrorism sponsored by our own tax dollars around the world is the real disservice made to the american public. my heart goes out to the victims and all those affected but let's take this chance to understand instead of react because this nonstop news coverage doesn't just exemplify their laziness it exposes their agenda an agenda to sell war and to fearmonger the populace into submission no matter what the facts are. looking for it never seen anything like. the way of the world. in washington d.c.
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is one where if you stand against the grain and you stand alone as was the case with congresswoman cynthia mckinney who served a six terms representing the state of georgia her vocal opposition to many establishment policies set her apart as a fearless trailblazer and she's channel about the same descent in her political activism ever since leaving office she's done everything from running for president with the green party in two thousand and taking trips to gaza to bring emergency aid to palestinians well earlier i had the chance to speak to congresswoman mckinney i first asked her what her thoughts are looking back after getting smeared and gerrymandered out of office and this is what she had to say. by the way you would start out with this because this is exactly what i was thinking about myself is i recently wrote a piece about the softer repression that i continue to experience even up to right
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now and. as explained in academic literature soft repression consists of ridicule stigma and then finally silencing when all else fails then the person ceases to exist so yes it's not just that you raise an issue and you try and do the appropriate research which is a responsible way to approach any issue particularly if you're an elected official and this is the kind of pushback you get from the special interest who don't want the truth to come out and as you've just outlined i mean it's it permeates for years and years after the propaganda machines at the height of the samarian cynthia the congressman rather the let's go over some of the things that you have to just be me. and there's another example of it. even after
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dr martin luther king jr was dead and now because of the jury decision in december of ninety nine in memphis tennessee we know that the jury decided that the evidence was overwhelming that the united states government itself but just played it in a conspiracy to kill dr martin luther king jr and guess what that did in the smearing the smearing continued well after he was dead oh yeah i mean that's still ridiculed and mocked as a conspiracy there i mean this is declassified documents that have led to this civil suit that you're talking about that have overwhelmingly confirmed this unanimous decision from over seventy eyewitnesses who testified there and let's go over some of the things that you did speak out on when you were in office i love this quote i remember you grilling rumsfeld on the house floor in two thousand and five overheard a number of issues i wanted to play one of which was regarding dying core in child
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trafficking let's take a look at that. called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business but at the very moment of that speech dein corps was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children mr secretary is it policy of the u.s. government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls so after you know that was years ago and then i see an article like this sent their words as foreign contractors hired afghan dancing boys according to wiki leaks i mean this is well after you had already addressed it and i just ondine corps web site they were just awarded a twenty million dollar contract i mean this is on top of the the slew of criminal activity we already know that these military contractors are responsible for why is the government still allowing this to happen and covering it up well you know general. donald rumsfeld's response was that you know companies you know are low.
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to get out of the penalty box but as i pointed out to have dined gore was never in the demoted audience and so we've got these military contractors who are former generals and big shots you know the foreign policy goal rules military gurus who are and and of course political insiders who old already had these organizations these companies and they are able to act with impunity using taxpayers' dollars and so it's about time i let the people of the united states say not in our name not with our tax dollars and we will demand of our members of congress that they hold these organizations accountable but it hasn't happened yet. will feel like what you see so far checks on hulu and who are dot coms are breaking those set their you can watch the latest episode of
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breaking a set like monday's which featured my interview with sex and relationship expert on how bieber does a scroll through watch every episode it's something that all december so in favor us common are doing a good outcomes i'm going to set it in a break from my preaching for habits they turn to hear more on my interview with former congressman something mckinney next.
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get another portion of that same clip that you grilled him about nine eleven war games let's take a look at that. the question was we had four war games going on on september eleventh and the question that i tried to pose before the secretary had to go to lunch was whether or not the activities of the for war games going on on september eleventh actually impair our ability to do to respond to the attacks so they had the general of course followed ups and impair their ability enhanced their ability i mean when i saw this clip when i was younger i was like who is this woman i love her i mean why do you think it's a war games were important as like nine eleven there were. many researchers independent researchers citizen researchers who. had begun to try and delve into the facts around september eleventh because clearly we
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were not getting any kind of factual accounting from the bush administration and i wasn't contact with them the leading one of course was michael rupert who eventually went on to write the book crossing the rubicon where he spelled everything out you know sort of pinned the blame on the cheney operation out of the white house and now there was a mistake though that i made and the mistake was that i specified that there were four war games going on because now we know that there were far more war games going on and our one of the ways that we found that out was when the secretary responded with the names of the war games there were two additional names that nobody knew about none of the researchers knew about it so now we know that there
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were six seven who knows how many war games going on bat in my mind is a clear indication that something untoward was happening on september eleventh and that's why i have followed up that question was was september eleventh a special security event was it designated as a special security event prior to the. events of september eleventh and of course the answer came back that it had not been so designated. but the war games i mean you know the war games was only one aspect of getting through to secretary rumsfeld that there was at least one member on the house armed services committee who was paying attention to what they said and you know but the value
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as i think back on it of me being there and being able to put these things on the record was that i did the same thing i was equal opportunity you know so i did it i asked penetrating questions of madeleine albright when she was secretary of state i asked the same penetrating questions of collin powell when he was secretary of state because the bottom line is that we live in a republic and the people who we vote for and the lead have a responsibility to represent our interests and our values and that's what i tried to do every day that i was on capitol hill where don rumsfeld deflected all of your questions but they were very important something i mean this is particularly one of the most important aspects of nine eleven because why would they have all these war games schedule about took the fighters far away from where there is no space station and in order to respond effectively to these attacks which they're trained
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to do so it is a very very crucial aspect and i'm really happy that you got to confront about that you also asked about the two point three trillion dollars missing from the pentagon that he announced on the day before nine eleven of course was forgot about completely after the event when you get on multiple aid missions to gaza after leaving office i mean a boat that you're on actually got and you ended up in an israeli jail why is the sort of radical action necessary. i'm glad you also question in the way that you posed it it is necessary. kerry because the situation has come so far so i'm hinged that ever in the every day affairs of a us government now we cannot assume that the bill of rights of quizes to us we can that's why it was so important for me to participate in the liberty fest that
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recently took place in atlanta because this idea this cherished notion of liberty is literally at risk and. well george bush pinned everything all of the rolling of the war machine was because of september eleventh and then after george w. bush were uncle obama says that you know we have to kill people all over the planet because of september eleventh and so if we don't get to really. the heart of the operation of our government and what our government is doing in our name with their tax dollars then i am one of the first was to say sadly that the constitution will mean nothing the bill of rights will mean nothing rule of law will move nothing and we're getting closer to that point every day if you can just imagine how far along on the political spectrum we've come. when you have
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a republican president. leaving office dwight eisenhower worrying. people about the military industrial complex and you have the or obama a democratic president actually advocating cutting social security and medicare which constitute the social safety net for our seniors i wanted to ask you one more question about palestine since you've been there for an activist for the palestinian cause of course in the us we don't even acknowledge what our tax dollars are funding and terms of the some part state do you think that there is even a chance until we see world pressure such as what what we can solve with south african apartheid to end the israeli apartheid i mean is there even a chance without back kind of pressure to end what's going on. well that kind of
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pressure actually is building and mounting today i was honored just certain to be asked to serve as a juror on the bertrand russell tribunal on palestine and we actually traveled to cape town south africa so that we could investigate and hear from south africans about their experience and in part apartheid and then also hear from israelis both jewish and arab and also. the palestinians in the west bank and the i.q. bad we couldn't they wouldn't allow a representative from gaza to come but we were able to hear what their treatment like what their day to day activities are like and. the south africans said that the palestinian experience and they said this on the record is worse than what they experienced under apartheid and so
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a part i have now is an international crime and that's why the government of israel has steadfastly opposed like for example when president jimmy carter wrote the book calloused i'm not apartheid or apartheid not palestine or something like that at least not i'll head east not apartheid. but they came down so hard and president carter because they didn't want the association to be made as a result now bertrand russell tribunal of palestine has gone on record and said yes while. the features of apartheid in palestine are significantly different from the features of apartheid in south africa the practices of israel with respect to the palestinians whether they are inside
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israel or inside the occupied territories do constitute a legal breach and that legal breach is a part had so now is very clear that israel is an apartheid state and the recommendation coming from the bertrand russell the tribunal on palestine was that the b.d.s. the boycott divestment and sanctions regime that was engaged in by civil society with respect to south africa and that eventually helped to bring a part has down in south africa should be in gauged vigorously. with respect to israel as well in israeli practices against the palestinians i am very pleased and proud. really honored to have been able to serve as a juror on that tribe you know well and who is standing on the side of israel in this situation to stand on the wrong side of history frankly i mean people in this
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country really need to wake up because as long as the u.s. is allowing the violation of international law i don't really see israel changing its ways congresswoman and i want to move on to just this whole rebranding of the war on terror you mentioned obama's kind of and haired and harradine of bush's whole policy of the war on terror of course now we're seeing drone bombings instead of ground troops now we're seeing these interventions under the cloak of nato humanitarian interventions with libya why do you think or what do you think it will take to really get a new antiwar opposition to these new actions because of course we didn't really see that in terms of libya and now we're seeing really strong rhetoric about syria well first of all we've got to get the false actors in the pretenders out of the peace. because they are there to hinder the peace movement to promote it one of the things that i found in my reading in my school were reading was the origin of this war on terror which is very interesting because when israel carried out
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a targeted assassination. and they ended up killing the wrong person and after that the international outcry was so huge they ended up killing an innocent doctor and so the outcry was so huge that the ministration sent former senator george mitchell chill israel to specifically tell israel not to use the words war on terror. because that was what israel was using to justify its policy of targeted assassination that's where we get the war on terror now it's common usage it's common parlance and. i believe this was israel's response to george mitchell
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to his mission and that was to make sure that the whole world use the language war on terror which now of course it is and it's a very dangerous language indeed congressman because it's perpetual it's it's never ending you are fighting a war against a tactic i mean it's it's completely insane let's talk about hugo chavez and you're about to go on the speaking tour you were in venezuela immediately in the wake of his death what do you think of the media portrayal in the aftermath of his death mocking people mourning him versus what we're seeing in the wake of margaret thatcher's just to look at wolf blitzer and c.n.n. and the fox friends and you know i cannot stomach them because of the blather that they serve unfortunately that blather is being eaten and consumed by the vast majority of the people of the united states but a significant number of people an increasing number of people are abandoning cable
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television because what they're getting is a distraction and just information they're getting anything except information and empowering empowerment they're not getting that. i was former congresswoman cynthia mckinney i'm happy she's the corporate news because if we don't. and we can't to the truth and you know it's a shame that all the honest representatives. speaking truth to power may not be a popular move but it's the right move and more people need to step up.
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