to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck. i mean. i know that i'm sitting in the team really messed up. in the old story so personally. that's. the worst you're going to live through the white house or the. radio guy minestrone. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. me everyone i'm abby martin and this is going to set well it's been a little over one week since the tragic death of journalist michael hastings early treats from wiki leaks and videos the state of the f.b.i. was investigating him because the big story he was working on but now we're

learning more information about that fiery car crash that led to his death you see hastings then a fellow staff member that buzz feed a disturbing e-mail in the afternoon before he died and it he said quote the feds are interviewing my close friends and associates perhaps authorities arrive at buzz feed headquarters may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews also amount to a big story and you get off the radar for a little bit all the best and hope to see you soon after that fatal car crash the following day another interesting development emerged statement from the only witness to the crash was captured by ana sparring of the young turks and explains how to carve a sparking and caught on fire before it crashed into a tree. that really is the. cheese but. this is the. one that's the. put it that. you saw this. sparks prior to him hitting anything you just saw it at the bottom of the

car. goes with the most but it doesn't lose in the in the puzzle. and in another bizarre twist richard clarke the former national coordinator for counterterrorism told the post that hastings crash is consistent with a quote car cyber attack you further explained quote what has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is that it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a car and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn't want acceleration to throw on the brakes when the driver doesn't want the brakes on to launch an airbag you can do some really highly destructive things now they're hacking a car and it's not that hard now i want to note that although clark said this is a possibility i can't confirm that is indeed what happened nor can anyone else furthermore the f.b.i. has continued to deny that they ever investigated hastings so as it stands there

are no further details or leads but the point of telling you this is to remind us all that there are still a number of questions surrounding his death and it's up to all of us to seek answers so let's go break the set. where you are going to be like. oh. well obama has just kicked off a tour in africa a region that probably once had a high hopes for america's first african-american president in two thousand and nine obama iterated his commitment to the betterment of the continent stressing that his election was a new moment of great promise so what has this administration done to help africa since taking office well over the last five years food security hiv prevention and climate change initiatives have all been a distant second to the u.s. government's number one priority the war on terror over the past two years alone the pentagon has committed itself to conflicts in libya mali somalia and central

africa establishing at least four drone bases and stationing navy ships are along every coast of the continent so to discuss president obama's latest trip and u.s. policy in africa as it stands today i'm joined by mere woods co-director of foreign policy in focus at the institute for policy studies thank you so much for coming on to be with you so what is driving the u.s. is pivot into africa well we have to recognize that africa is on the rise africa has over a billion people it has resources that are vital for the global economy from oil and gas to other key resources uranium gold plutonium but this is actually quite long so it is the center of the of africa for the global economy that is actually driving not only the u.s. and china which get a lot of recognition but also brazil india turkey the list is a lot of countries but primarily the brics you know brazil russia india china and south africa i see those drivers in terms of economic determination of the

continent so i think these are key elements of it so that we always know that resources are involved when you see. us look at a region that this was the africa summit by the african union in ethiopia what was the takeaway from this because the central issue is self-sufficiency peace and security i mean could this mean a new push to drive out foreign military intervention well let's understand this was the fiftieth anniversary. you have the start of the organization of african unity an organization that started out with with this key mantle being uniting the continent not only in terms of peace and security but also on economic development regional trade telecommunications road infrastructure a large set of activities including currency in new currencies being in vision by first the organization of african unity and then it's transformed organization the african union which was created about a decade ago to actually expand the space to include social movements and civil

society to also include opposition party leaders and and also the diaspora folks like myself that are living outside of the continent understanding the diaspora plays a critical role in determining the future of the continent so the african union set for itself this huge agenda to actually put forward the priorities of africa from a continental perspective and to assert africa's dominance in this twenty first century as really a region a continent on the rise how much power they really have though considering how just in the last couple of years we saw mali intervened nato in libya in the arab spring in north africa overall i mean is it possible that they can stand up to these kind of imperialist forces well i think the african union has done a lot it still needs a lot more work in terms of actually preventing the conflicts from occurring stemming the flow of weapons into the continent this is a priority number one it is the weapons that are actually fueling these conflicts and so what you see libya is the best example the african union actually had

a plan forward they had a plan that would see not only the transition from qaddafi but would also assert peace and stability for the region that would include all the issues of democracy popular participation and economic reform that people in the streets were clamoring for but the african union was marginalized it was sidelined and we know quite frankly that the u.s. to. the lead with nato decided that aerial bombardment was the way forward and also armaments and arming fact factions in libya was the way to go and we see the unintended consequences those weapons then flowed from libya across borders to mali and have now contributed to really chaos in the region there stabilize the region without a doubt so you have three weapons you know both provided by the west as well as from from caches in libya and you also have a military training ironically in the u.s.

right captain sanogo who launched the coup in mali was actually trained in the u.s. for the past decade as part of the transfer hell initiative you know to the kind of seek out terrorist throughout the region well this was the result centrally army and equipping an army that decided to take things into their own hands and created havoc in the region do you even golding nor had anything to do that because i know a lot of people are speculating about that and gadhafi is kind of pursuit of that and you mentioned the currency kind of being developed by the you well i think you know it's like iraq they're off often multiple. people say it isn't only the oil that was the issue in iraq when the u.s. invaded but but clearly the oil had a lot to do with it and i think also when it comes to africa you know the region is rich in oil but also your brain am without which nuclear power could be possible and we know quite frankly that only the u.s. but also france very much interested in accessing your amy and for nuclear energy so it is these vital resources you know so i you know i cannot say it's

a shift away from. that but i can say that the vital resources you know again it's like iraq it's not only iraq that where there's oil there's military money to military interests that is also the case for africa and we have to understand now that you know about a quarter of the oil coming to the united states as of two thousand and eight now comes from africa so this is increasingly in this twenty first century going to be a region. of strategic importance not only to the us but to the world and now is a time where when africans in the streets are demanding a different way demanding that their leaders put the interests of the people first of course and i want you mentioned kind of the leader of the opposition in libya was trained in the u.s. role in mali right there in that area mali. who launched the coup about a year ago in mali was trained in the us as you know of kind of the hypocritical stance on the war on terror while training these these leaders who then go to commit crimes and in congo the battalion that had committed that mass rape against

women was trained by the u.s. military how many other covert operations do you think are going on across the region and why do you think there are so many drone bases being developed across the world and i think there was a decision made and clearly what we see are three key factors first accessing oil gas mining other all of these vital resources second the so-called war on terrorism and third countering china so there has been this steady increase in the militarization of us indeed with africa i get it started many say. under the bush administration and has continued under the obama administration and really what you see is not only the increase in armenian training of armies often armies do scandalous you know reprehensible acts against their own people but what you see is the u.s. relationship with you know again these these what some call the friendly dictators or friendly tyrants in places like rwanda or uganda you know arming and training

the militaries that sustain these dictators in rwanda and uganda in spite of the role that they have played in destabilizing not only. the eastern congo but really the entire region and so right now there's a real call a real push to move away from the militarization of u.s. africa policy to move away from the push to more technology drone. do you want weapons on the continent and to actually rebalance u.s. engagement with the continent to receive the balance away from defense and towards towards development towards helping to support building blocks of healthy society education housing health care these people in the streets are calling for they are doing that and it really shows that parker see of the us and in terms of supporting and propping up these dictators while you know talking about who planetary and causes a mirror woods i really appreciate your insight co-director of foreign policy in focus at the institute for policy studies appreciate it a pleasure thank you. stay tuned guys after the break we're going to cook birthday

shout out to the late a literary master george orwell. well . this month high tech means good help whether it be the latest laser cutters on lifesaving heart rushing innovators are working hard to keep you healthy for some companies it's been a winding road from car simulators to cutting edge training systems for others it's been a lifetime of work i'm watching the mysteries of the skull check it all on technology we've got the future. they were ready to do anything for their country to leap to try out it was to love the country more than yourself if you joined the military for any other reason that you're probably not going to have a good day they were tools in the hands of the state now they live remembering the

past which is impossible to get rid of. the war. but i'll ever good people to get hurt. but i've heard good people them to be silent. but would prefer not to be sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. because. i was so some people who. is cheaper than target. on our.

there are very few literary master and masterpieces that can transcend generations there are even fewer that serve as a blueprint for the future one of those books is one thousand nine hundred four one of the most prolific novels of our time the author was born eric arthur blair is probably most known by his pen name george orwell and this week would have been his one hundred tenth birthday george orwell was one of the greatest visionaries of the twentieth century who identified himself as a democratic socialist under the soviet union he was forced to flee under communism suppression of socialist dissidents and one thousand nine hundred five he wrote

animal farm a novel anthropomorphizing an animal kingdom meant to serve as a metaphor for stalin's betrayal of the russian revolution soon after all wrote his most famous book of all time nine hundred eighty four which portrayed a terrifying future of a total surveillance and police state tragically just one year after it published in one thousand nine hundred seventy or well died of tuberculosis. at the unforgivably young age of forty six however his work lived on and assist staunch opposition to injustice and authoritarianism led him to produce one of the most genius narratives ever written sadly orwell's dystopic future and vision in one thousand nine hundred four seems to ring more true every day in this technological age let me just say that if you have not read this book you must not just because it's a work of art from front to back but because it is so eerily realistic in fact it was even made into a film in one thousand nine hundred four take

a look at the trailer. so many of the ideas and concepts in this book are a political to the way our society has evolved today in fact since the explosive revelations about the n.s.a. spying on american citizens sales of one thousand nine hundred four have skyrocketed so what is it about this story that risen resonates with so many

what kind of future does it depict well imagine a world under complete to tell of terrorism the world perpetual war surveillance and mind control governed by a singular ideology all independent thoughts and individual of them apart from this reigning philosophy is considered to be a thought crime it doesn't matter whether or not you vocalize your dissent the mere . act of thinking it is enough no need to write it down or even say it out loud because the second it crosses your mind it's only a matter of time before the thought police come after you and once they do you'll simply disappear with every record of your existence wiped out and vaporized at the helm of this state oppression is an ambiguous and called big brother and every day it requires a ritualistic cult worship to the state orwell describes it as a hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness a desire to kill to torture to smash faces in with

a sledgehammer seem to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current but aside from this tire radical adulation of big brother there is also a calculated manipulation of language designed for one reason mind control people are conditioned through repetition and propaganda and all must abide by these three slogans war is peace freedom is strained and ignorance is slavery these terms are contradictory on purpose which orwell refers to as double think defined as the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct this paradox is also applied to the purpose of government ministries inside the state similar to the nazi propaganda ministry being called the ministry of public in the late game and in the book the ministry of the truth controls all information this is where historical revisionism takes place by rewriting articles modifying photographs all in agreement to the party line because everything the

party says must be true or refers to it as reality control the majority of people living under the system are weak minded and capable of understanding anything more than the parties of world view this willful ignorance is instrumental in the state's control over the piano. then there's the perpetual war to fight an unseen enemy. in some cases the government bombing itself to keep the masses living in fear or well describes the concept quote the object of waging war is always to be in a better position and which to wage another war but constant war is also to ensure the destruction of humanity's potential as orwell explains quote the essential act of war is destruction not necessarily of human lives but of the products of human labor war is a way of shattering to pieces materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and hence in the long run to intelligent

guys look around for as long as i can remember this country has been at war perpetual war against an invisible enemy there are nationalistic rituals held to celebrate an authoritarian government one that you can't question without being labeled anti american or a traitor the masses have a blind trust in authority and relinquish their privacy for so called security history is revives to favor the winners and taught to eager minds shaping them into modern day proles we're told that dropping bombs is the path to peace and occupation is the path to liberation but this nightmarish prophecy was never intended to be an instruction manual and it's up to you me and the freedom of our minds to prevent it.

first several years the israeli government was forcibly administering birth control to a segment of its minority population with doctors and jacked an ethiopian jewish woman against their will with a contraceptive vera but it wasn't until this january that a government official fine. only acknowledged it one investigative journalist who interviewed thirty five ethiopian immigrants found that they were being intimidated and threatened into taking the shots all being told that they were merely an occupation but many speculate it was all part of a deliberate attempt to restrict an expanding minority in the country you see over the last two decades israel's experience a significant influx of ethiopian immigrants they're now being close to one hundred and thirty thousand living in the country and while the government is finally put an end to this and humane insane population control tactic this story has shed

a light on a dangerous contraceptive that's now being pushed to minister on women of color all over the world including right here in the u.s. so here to talk about the use of depor vera and how this is targeting minority populations in both here and abroad i'm joined now by randy short president and national spokesperson for the clergy coalition thank you so much for coming on thank you for having so israel allegedly put put this to an end can you talk about what you know about the health effects though because obviously women were being administered this for years without knowing about them well the drug was first patented in one nine hundred fifty nine by the middle sixty's there were a lot of fun ethical experimentations done in particular the greedy clinic study and georgia on poor black and poor white women know so many people that this drug did not get approved until one thousand ninety three ninety four but during that time that was used on women all over the effects of that are serious excessive

bleeding osteoporosis breast cancer cervical cancer heart attack stroke ectopic pregnancies excessive weight gain which can lead to type one or two diabetes short or long term infertility maternal death it strips the epithelium the inner part of the woman's womb. taking her morse of sceptical to. an s.t.d. s fear for doubling the chances of getting hiv aids clear h.p.v. gonorrhea of syphilis and there are other things that bothers the middle health one of the things that's come to us that the group that i work with the rebecca project is that many women are telling us that they've had mental problems the f.d.a. and two thousand and four was so concerned about the dangers nature of the proper vera that they issued a black box warning which is the most serious warning that can be issued by the

f.d.a. about how dangerous this drug is and despite this warning this black box warning it's still being administered under multiple agencies to multiple countries around the world yes who is administering it why and where it's being used primarily in nonwhite countries so muslim countries pakistan bangladesh indonesia burma possibly on the myanmar minority all over africa central america and latin america and of course the united states depending on whose information you look at it's disproportionately used on african american women who's doing it planned parenthood is one of the big purveyors of it in addition to that you have the population council you have the international federation of planned parenthood you have a lot of persons and groups that have a mouth who's in view that there are too many people and therefore they want to reduce the population they know this drug is deadly it's cheap and it makes huge

profits for the parent maker which is spice or and you say idea is also one of. our forty seven years it's been an unofficial policy of the u.s. the idea office on population to use or to send abroad dangerous unsafe untested or unapproved drugs and and you said that this is being obviously disproportionately affecting my new. already population yes if they know that it's deadly why would they be administering it to minority population i mean what is really that's all about here there are too many non white people if you look at a gentleman by the name of dr or even whole who was head of the u.s.c. id office on population from about nine hundred sixty six until nine hundred seventy nine he was able to first convince president johnson that it was in the national and commercial interest of the united states that one fourth of the women in the developing world be sterilized so there's some sense that if there are too

many black or brown people that somehow their needs will conflict with the capitalistic purpose to games of the united states and its allies and there's been multiple lawsuits against pfizer for the detrimental health of facts from this drug but they seem to be getting away with it and seem to keep you know direct to consumer advertising it was already doing that they're making a lot of money the u.s. department of justice has sued them in the last ten years and find them about six billion dollars but if you're making billions and billions that's the price of doing business but you have to understand the people that are being steered towards a struggle are poor they lack education and legal representation and they're being tricked so they don't know now you have to understand the pfizer lost in canada they've lost in europe but they go to countries where they can't be sued you can't sue from nigeria here you can't sue for mozambique here so you can go to countries

where you either have a corrupt government structure or they're coerced or show us that they've constructively manipulated into having this drug as part of their international foreign aid are you see what i'm saying so the women are become just chess pieces in a mouth lucien eugenics game and so you think this goes beyond just a corporation making as much money as it can pushing it on on as many people as they can you the. it actually goes down to this is a modern day form of eugenics that engine aside yes and it's happening here in the u.s. as well yes it is well that's very shocking and we'll definitely follow up this story very disturbing to thank you so much for coming on ready for your time randy short president national spokesman and i'm with the rebecca project on human rights all right thank you all right. well that's it for a night show you guys have a great night and we'll see you right back here tomorrow.

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