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afghanistan and the taliban figures were the good guys but alas last night official buildings near the cia headquarters in kabul and karzai as presidential palace were attacked the attack led to a ninety minute firefight and left at least four people dead the taliban has since taken responsibility however this incident raises many red flags for the future of the region just days ago the u.s. and afghan governments were preparing for peace talks with the taliban you know the same militant group that this government's been trying to eliminate for the last ten years in short afghanistan's one giant mess it's been the longest u.s. occupation in history between the green on blue attacks daily roadside bombings and now having to admit that the only way for peace moving forward is to make concessions with the quote and i mean but nothing's black and white and it's not going to be an easy transition this latest attack verifies that and it makes me worried frankly that afghanistan's uptick in violence might soon near iraq's post occupation adding to the true. and of d.c. stabilizing the same country as the u.s.

claims to be liberating but that said let's break that. letter where you are saying that if you like. right now and it's a whistleblower edward snowden remains in a transit area inside moscow's international airport although he hasn't technically crossed into russia's borders the media is having a field day and tag and eyes in the country for not making a move earlier today russian president vladimir putin said to reporters that quote the sooner snowden selects his final destination point the better both for the u.s. and for himself who can also reiterated that snowden is not a fugitive rather referring to him as a free man adding that the whistleblower can't be turned over to u.s. authorities on the grounds that the u.s. and russia do not have an extradition agreement and as this drama continues to

unfold corporate media pundits have been holding their court of public opinion on the matter paid to not only snowden but guardian journalist glenn greenwald as traitors. greenwald's a total phony he is anti-american he loves to radical regime and he did this because he hates america this had nothing to do with publicizing information that was alan dershowitz last night on c.n.n. a slightly softer tone from the tenant colonel ralph peters who recently suggested that snowden and manning should both receive the death penalty but to cut through some of this inflammatory rhetoric to give us the real insight on the story i'm joined now by michael ratner president of the center for constitutional rights and attorney for joining us on q. and wiki leaks michael thank you so much for coming on and it's good to be with you always so you've been closely following this case do you know anything more about the status of edward snowden at this point why do you think he still at the airport now i don't know abie i mean what's been said is that he left hong kong he's now in

the transit lounge in moscow and according to what we read wiki leaks has said he's apparently what the team you know the foreign minister of ecuador has said he's applied. ecuador and conceivably from sort of what you read between the lines possibly in other countries as well what's interesting about that is of course julian assange has asylum from ecuador and he has it on the grounds are grounds recognised by the united states that whistleblowers are entitled to asylum under the refugee convention it's a it's because it's the allegation that they're being persecuted because of political opinion so that i think he has a very good claim that claim would trump any extradition for him and any interference in that claim is really considered outside the bounds of a treaty that says that asylum and people apply for asylum or to be protected as i understand it the us government made his travel documents invalid present

a difficulty for him to travel moving forward. i think it presents no difficulty at all apparently have quit or has given him a travel document which allowed him to as i understand it at least leave if not leave on kong perhaps get him to get into the transit lounge so he has a travel document of a sort i don't think i don't think that's what's going to be the issue here look at the united states at this point what's remarkable to me is it looks like this bumbling giant here they have this giant surveillance system that they're trying to justify that it's going to make it safer and they can keep track of of one of their of what was formerly one of their own it's quite a remarkable illustration of the limits of the united states it is indeed and i know that wiki leaks has obviously been instrumental in helping snowden plan this escape and map it out do you have a connection was initially made between the two. you know i don't know i don't know anything about that i woke up is just a surprise to everybody else in the morning when i saw that julian assange that

wiki leaks had helped give advice to legal and diplomatic and apparently with the leaks had paid for the plane fare and helped facilitate the asylum application i was as surprised as anyone else by that so that's as much. yes i know and when you look at the countries snowden has fled to in conjunction with the information is released about the u.s. spying on hong kong and russia i mean doesn't it just seem like it's all very well thought out plan very well executed and do you think that he has any more tricks up his sleeve moving forward you know i don't think we've seen obviously we haven't seen the end of it we have to see what happens and where he goes but what's most interesting so far is that both china and russia have refused to bow to u.s. pressure and ecuador apparently hasn't either and that's quite remarkable i mean the u.s. is the richest most powerful country in the world and they have put incredible rhetoric plus pressure on these countries and it again it shows the limits but it's also shows that there's support i think for ed snowden because he's revealed this

worldwide surveillance system on all of us and he has support for that and people are upset by that unfortunately in the united states as i'm sure you know and as you talked about on with the media the major media are lining up behind the congressional approval the presidential approval carrion etc and we're not really getting the fourth estate except from programs like yours and a few others as to what really is going on and that's where the support is coming from for this feeling this massive surveillance of all of us what they're upset about they claim is that oh this tipped off the people in china and hong kong etc let me just say the people in hong kong and china their governments they know what's being done by the united states they know their information is being surveilled the people that really upset and tipped off essentially are confirmed are people in the united states and around the world and then you have hundreds night and the u.s. is the night extradition treaties from all of these countries before when criminals from their countries and not say instead of the criminal but i'm saying in the past

actual criminals from ecuador exciter have been in the u.s. us tonight actually i don't blame is countries because they won't you know i mean what favors do we owe you basically but i want to move on to the law as a constitutional lawyer i mean of course there are going to fish bowls charging that snowden rope. law but on the flip side michael can you break down exactly how the u.s. is violating the constitution and breaking the law in this case well you know hacking or going into a computer in an unauthorized way is essentially against the law in most countries of the world probably all countries so when the u.s. and its most narrow level goes into the computers in hong kong or uses the prison system to spy on computers and our content all over the world that's breaking hacking laws computer protection laws all over the world of course it's also of violating the sovereignty of the countries where those computers are it's also violating every single one of all the privacy rights that all of us have all over the world we of course in the united states have

a special protection of the fourth amendment other countries in the world have their own protections it's basically made our lives completely transparent while it makes the government completely opaque it's utterly contrary to international agreements contra took a mess took law contrary to our understanding of what the integrity and dignity of a human being are and let's talk about snowden portrayed in the media you just said that he's going to be judged in the court of public opinion of course there really isn't that a state holding the public officials accountable it seems to be getting more negative by the day i mean how is this declaration of guilt hurting his case. well you know it's interesting i do think it's getting more negative and you know they put the pictures on one of the t.v. shows of the o.j. simpson chases if as if snowden is you know being chased like o.j. simpson and i do think you know if he came forward in admitted in a way to sort of take control of the story and say here's why i did it and it's a beautiful statement that he made explaining you know why he did it why felt

massive surveillance was wrong and it's interesting that he would he could have said a lot more i think he said he could have revealed every cia station in various places in the world but he didn't because he wanted to go after this massive surveillance system something that would really a. people both in america and in the rest of the world and that's what what's happening with our major form of democratic communication the internet is being completely controlled and government aided by the government of the united states the u.k. and perhaps some other countries in the world it's an incredible statement it's where i'd like to see the media start to focus rather than on some car chase i mean it's pretty outrageous and the protection really given to the government and this program by the journalist that you cited and others and the one sidedness of the quote debate on this is i find just disheartening just disheartening which is why i'm in i'm so happy you're here and i and others to really give us what that debate is about it certainly is lacking strongly across the corporate media it's amazing

the rhetoric that i'm hearing michael i'm just astounded day after day hearing what people are saying even about glenn greenwald i mean the increased scrutiny on a journalist for doing his job as a journalist multiple government officials are accusing him of breaking the law what basis are they using to call for his prosecution you know people have said there's now in this country a conspiracy to commit journalism and we've seen that we saw it with julian assange and wiki leaks we saw it with the with the fox news person james rosen when they got a search warrant against him by accusing him of being an aider and abettor of his source and now we're of course seeing it with glenn greenwald what they're really saying is that he is essentially aiding and abetting his source that he's revealing information that's for him but had to be are being revealed by our quote espionage laws and that's the way they're doing it but what they're really going after they don't really care about to be violated the law according to them which i don't think he did at all but they care that he is breaking the unwritten understanding

between the media and the government in this country or they go to the government they go to the white house and they say should we publish this should we not publish this or they do self-restraint saying we're not going to publish this people like graham and glenn greenwald julian assange and others. are breaking back and i think the hope fourth estate and it's really not a fourth estate for most of them or fifth estate whatever they call it is really is really upset that their time had that well i'm so sorry we're out of time it's about time that self-censorship and thank you so much michael ratner center for constitutional rights appreciate your time thank you abbi. still had on tonight show nestle has responded to my story about their corporate takeover of the water they can find out what they had to say and whether the response backs their record . they were ready to do anything for their country to me is to love the country more

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so you guys may remember that a few weeks ago i called out nestle the largest food company in the world which raked in almost twelve billion dollars and share profit last year i criticized the company specifically for its corporate takeover of water because you see nestle owns multiple brands of water in this one right here on spring in fact bottled water might just be nestle's most lucrative product won't shortly after that video aired this network received a vaguely threatening letter from nestle accusing me of making a series of quote offensive and hysterical allegations that have no basis in fact according to nestle one of those allegations was that i was the company of quote leaving villagers dying of thirst and sucking the world dry leaving millions of people without a drop to drink wow nestle ever heard of the term hyperbole clearly i'm not saying

that nestle is literally east stealing the entirety of the world's water supply but if you think that their p.r. machine is in full swing now just wait because this is about to get cray initially they said it would be glad to offer clarification if i had asked for a response it's not to be fair i invited them on the show and offer them a platform to set the record straight but instead i got this. i'm stephanie from nestlé we saw the video you post on you cheap criticizing nestlé over water so his own response. wait was that siri. thank you stephanie for the prompt response in video form which i'll play now and phone or jack my response since i can't talk to you like a real human being so please go on. you claimed we make a huge profit on both water but the figures you quoted were wrong in reality we pay

move to other ground which he uses. first of all i never said that nestle pays any less or any more than its competitors but you know what she's right i did quote an incorrect figure of profit i cited of fifty three million nine hundred eight thousand two hundred fifty five percent was calculated from the council of canadians canada's largest citizen advocacy organization would receive zero corporate or government funding according to their website nestle pays three dollars and seventy one cents for every million liters of water it pumped in the local watershed which is then packages in single use plastic bottles and sells back to the public for as much as two million dollars as stephanie points out the insane profit margin of fifty three million percent doesn't take into account some important costs. that you have to add the manufacturing costs infrastructure water resource protection quality control salaries stool age distribution in fact profit margin is the best and ten percent you know ten percent doesn't sound like

that much but unfortunately i couldn't find a breakdown of how much nestle spends on any of those things however i did against an insight on how extensive nestle's water treatment process is it turns out that nestle was recently embroiled in a lawsuit after it was discovered that one of their brands ice mountain was really just well repackaged tap water yes folks tap water which by the way costs about two thousand times less when it's not in case in plastic but even if that is just repackaging tap water to be fair i'm sorry. still not counting for the cost of extracting oil to make the non-biodegradable plastic water bottles shipping them around the planet to be consumed in mere minutes only to be gotten thrown in the trash and shipped to landfills in india so what's next. we take water during droughts in canada and fact we've always reduced our water use during droughts and will continue to do so we use less than one percent of the available spring water

at hillsborough in ontario the water cycle naturally even pension is every drop of this water weight millions of gallons of water extracted from lakes and reservoirs will be magically replaced by nature ok so what about during droughts well according to the huffington post government tried to put limits on nestle's water struction during shortages guess what being the big powerful corporation it is nestle was able to convince the ontario ministry of demand environment to remove the restrictions back to you stephanie. chairman doesn't believe water is a human right that's wrong he does the whole company dolls we've known recognize the human right to water and we ensure all our people respect it really really you know what i'm going to let your boss peter brady chairman and former c.e.o.

respond. water is of course the most important raw material that we have today in the world is a question of whether we should privatized the normal water supply anyway so the population and there are two different opinions on the matter the one painting which i think is extreme is represented by the n.g.o.s. that they have who bang on about declaring the water. as a public rest stephanie your boss just said that thinking of water is a public right isn't it stream view clearly not shared by him since it is goes on to say that water should be applied a market value just like any other food it carry on. is a crisis that threatens food security and we're determined to help address this i

couldn't agree with you more stephanie there is a global water crisis and i'll tell you what's making it worse the bottled water industry is mining water taking it away from its public municipal sources and selling it to make a profit so is there anything else you'd like to say. thank you for drawing attention to water it's an important issue an important resource but we would urge you and your view is to look for the facts about tell use of water on a website nestle dot com stephanie you're welcome and thank you for that video with that beautiful green screen landscape hey stephanie maybe i'll see you again in nestle's new ad campaign for peer life a high end bottled water that targets stylish women oh and did i mention that this new brand will get its water from an endangered salmon fish hatchery in oregon according to the state's department of fish and wildlife but don't worry nestle

will still be paying the same standard price for this more high end water folks here's what all this water talk boils down to initially the idea of privatizing a resource that every living thing on earth the pens on was scoffed at especially considering how water is practically free all ready now water's a multi-billion dollar industry that tricks people into a bind filtered tap water wrapped in plastic waste and i mentioned that the e.p.a. standards for tap water are much more stringent and the f.d.a. is oversight on bottled water so. really what is the difference look at there is one thing to take away it's this filter your own water and not just to save a buck but to save the future of the earth. and we. are. it's been a busy month for the supreme court they've been deliberating on

a love in different cases including a number of very controversial issues that need to be resolved before the summer recess on monday two decisions were issued that made it harder for workers to prove they had suffered employment discrimination one ruling narrows the definition of what constitutes a supervisor in racial and sexual harassment cases the other makes it more difficult for employees to prove that they have faced a legal retaliation for complaining about discrimination needless to say. very good news for countless individuals and organized workers that have worked tirelessly to fight on behalf of disadvantaged employees and yet another decision released just yesterday the supreme court avoided a sweeping ruling on the constitutionality of affirmative action programs it was a highly visible case brought on by a white student who sued the university of texas saying that the school had denied her admission based on race and then the court sent the case back to the lower court for further review and while it did affirm the use of race in admissions it

has made it harder for institutions to use these policies to achieve diversity while it may not be a loss for affirmative action just yet it's certainly not a win so what new decisions came out of the supreme court today and what a hot button issues will be decided by the end of the week to give some insight on all of that and more is b.t.s. producer amir david on the ground at the supreme court. have you today the supreme court ruled in yet another historic decision in a five to four decision the court struck down a key provision of the nine hundred sixty five voting rights act now this provision mandated that nine states mostly located in the south be subject to federal oversight election law now the court says that these laws are based on outdated information and is mandating that congress come up with an updated formula to determine which jurisdictions will need to be subject. that election law monitoring

now civil rights groups are saying that this is a major setback that this of course is the protections afforded right now to african-americans and minorities who are beginning to up their participation in the voting process however the states object to this law argue that the discrimination that once existed in these southern states does not exist anymore and therefore that this statute is completely irrelevant now we're still awaiting a decision on two more high profile cases regarding gay marriage we're expecting to hear back on those either tomorrow or on thursday of this week the first is called windsor versus united states and the court is really taking a look at the constitutionality of something called the defense of marriage act or doma was passed back in one thousand nine hundred six and restricts federal marriage benefits from being applied to same sex couples so if this act is found to be unconstitutional abbey thousands of same sex couples will be eligible for

federal marriage benefits things like a state tax treatment social security even something as simple as applying for a green card on behalf of a spouse who is a foreign national the sacket gay marriage case i'm sure you know abbie has to do with proposition eight which was a referendum voted on in california back in two thousand and eight and which voters decided to ban gay marriage within the state so abbie there is still a lot at stake here in the coming days that could dramatically change the legal and political landscape for gay rights going forward. or if you're wondering what i'm doing when i'm on urgently on twitter adding more and if you like what you see you can go in there you'll find all my tweets linking the segments from the show as well as really thoughts i have about the day but also please help us get breaking the set running theme on twitter occasionally on the hashtags we can get through a nearly twenty but only with your guys help so how did. where dot com and check me

out at abbey martin and guys that's our show we did night please come back again and join us to break the set tomorrow. the saga of edward snowden a whistle blowing hero to millions around the world washington calls him a very dangerous security liability and a threat whatever his state one thing appears to be clear stilton justifies his actions in the name of transparency and the need to have a public debate on the surveillance state in that regard as he succeeded.

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whistleblower edward snowden sitting in transit at a moscow airport. dismissing the conspiracy theories of u.s. officials as. meanwhile the u.s. is trying to throw the world off prisms saying its spying project only targets terrorists on social networks and i phones. that extremists use them in the first. u.k. chancellor has small bad news in store for the british public he said to lay out his plans to slash eleven. billion pounds from government budgets.