or is. it. worse cheaper to live a little lighter for the. radio guy or. what. have you never seen anything like i'm still. alive and happy martin more than breaking the set the house has voted on an amendment passed by congress and would have limited the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of phone records to just those who are being investigated and last night the debate on the amendment highlighted just how divided lawmakers really are. we're here today for a very simple reason to defend the fourth amendment have twelve years gone by and our memories baited so badly we forgot what happened on september eleventh there is

more information contained in the phone book that sits at home on your kitchen counter about each one of us then the information that is in the national security database that we're talking about today i rise in strong support of the amendment and i do so as the person who is the principal author of the patriot act in two thousand was. even the alter of the patriot act stood up against n.s.a. is warrantless spying after all the arguing the amendment finally made it to a vote and a narrow margin of two hundred five to seventeen it was voted down representatives gomer ellison and cummings are just a few of the people who voted in favor of boehner bachmann and why are are just a few of those who oppose the amendment i vote for the full vote count on breaking the stats facebook page so be sure to check it out to see if your representatives voted for or against protecting your privacy and look even though i'm sad this moment didn't pass i'm amazed at how close that one. to beseen there's only

a twelve vote margin rejecting a bill to fund a major n.s.a. surveillance program that's huge and it means that more lawmakers are finally listening to their constituents because they know just like fifty six percent of americans do that the u.s. government's overstepping its bounds when it comes to spying so let's keep the pressure up the conversation going let's break the set. let's look for a better shape i mean like. it's been less than a month since egypt's military ousted the country's first democratically elected leader mohamed morsy the overthrow came on the heels of demonstrations consisting of a third of the country's population demanding morsi to step down and since then clashes between muslim brotherhood supporters and security forces of the dozens dead and countless more injured but the tension is only mounted mounted excuse me in recent days today the brotherhood defiantly called for

a stand against the toppling of the government and urged supporters to rally this weekend but they call it legitimate crew and response the military chief has called for a rival rally to crack down on what he says is terrorism and violence from morsy supporters egyptian police are planning large scale reinforcements and fear that it will turn into a violent head to head between the two opposing sides so here to give us some insight on what this unrest signals for the country's future and how this could all affect the shaky relationship between egypt and the west i'm joined now by so hard to see is so say a professor at texas a west island school of law and mohamad egyptian activist thank you get so much both for joining me on the panel. thank you so hard start with you i know that you were in egypt at the time of the uprising against morsi what are your thoughts about how it all went down well i must admit that i did not anticipate that it would turn into a military deposing the first presidential first democratically elected president i knew that there was a very. strong disfavor against morsi his popularity rankings had plummeted

and that there was change coming but i did not anticipate it would be this extreme and i would venture to say that at least as a legal matter by definition it was a military coup now the question is was it a popularly mandated or was it something that was inspired super imposed by the military and that's where i think the debate lies now meant that you find the military opposing the president problematic yes it is really because the action the military talk now will create chaos as we see since. july the third and we see the street in many people get killed we have a massacre of fifty something fifty seven people. have been. on eight. july then it is a problem and then there was

a call in for people to go to morrow is really surprised me because you never expected the chief military to ask to be able to go out he have the mandate to secure the country from outside or inside with the police here calling the police and the military to have a better mission from the last can be able to go out there could be the violence will create some of the thugs the police control came back after what had been and they would create more chaos more killing. or will be minimum or none at all i mean what should have them what should the military have done when a third of the country is on the streets demanding morsi to step down should they have sided with the establishment or with the people first of all are you think of the have their plan is not something came surprise in in forty eight hours they gave. give morsi a. forty eight hours to decide the should we finished of old and then the should

all of the bridges then or even if the for the same to have election. over a foot in both his position that's really cool everything and b. will be more then now we'll for the business he's aboard. the diminished. how is a video nobody like to know who she is so far and. everybody is stick with it we don't know what would happen if we don't hear it did seem very rushed i mean pretty good our kind of referendum to man stepping down and now he's gone i mean people are even saying where is morsi i mean his family members saying we can't access him i mean it is a scary situations are i know a lot of egyptians had problems with the so-called democracy i'm a lot of problems with the constitution drafted can you talk about some of these grievances that egyptians had about the process while morsi certainly made

a lot of mistakes and i would venture to say that the most egregious one particularly as a matter of legal implications was in november two thousand and twelve when he unilaterally issued a presidential constitutional declaration that authorized him to serve as the president of the executive the legislative and the judicial branch and put all of his future decisions above just review and that is really where the tipping point occurred particularly these of the civil society and these are the the judiciary which were to stakeholders that i think he could have won over had he not behave in that way and then that essentially led to the illegitimacy of the constitution itself because you ram through the constitutional referendum and yes it was passed all the voter turnout there were some numbers indicating that only thirty percent of eligible voters had turned out and that many of the opposition parties and their constituents had boycotted it and so you had a constitution that was that lie. legitimacy and from there on after he made

a lot of very foolish moves from assad pointing governors and certain governorates that were known for having terrorist ties such as the one in luxor very controversial such as appointing governors without asking the constituents themselves who would they like to be their governor so he was doing what mubarak was doing with an islamist face and that i think was the fatal mistake for him. and i'm going to go to you would you agree that. morsi was kind of excluding a lot of minority voices and kind of overstepping the bounds there ruling the country he really made a lot of mistakes. but he would have been landing there before before the second round of the election even the ask him to step down and would somebody else say mr. innes to the him all that give a bad feeling for him and then the start of. any action he took even though.

careful control which is the military leadership which you control of the country before morsi also issued. the clear before he took office and almost from everything they can see the parliament the through the kind of courts and so on there's a give him a hard time and a mistake what. in that if he was trying to defend himself and then he in a change in that but really he had no time to get himself together he have better choice of the around name a. prime minister in my opinion he stick with him and the stick with the. attorney general. of the country also. oh it was not necessary to stick with

that but it's become hard headed from both sides and the opposition really didn't do anything to help the always put stuff in front of him to make him feel and that's that's part of the failure but he should have listened when he saw that people came out and accept that a friend them to vote on he said to accept him or not or election i really thought he made a mistake on their. so let's talk about u.s. gyptian relations because obviously egypt is a very important country for. for the u.s. it's been very careful not to call it a coup get it's delayed the shipment of f. sixteen fighter jets the country where you think the strategy is here why is the u.s. being so wishy washy and not taking a stand well i think that the u.s. has taken a stand by not calling it a coup that is taking a stand and i think it's a prelude into what i think will inevitably be the decision either from congress or

from the executive branch that is not qualify for a coup for purposes of providing military aid or at least if it does qualify as a coup legally there will be a special waiver that will likely be issued by congress as was the case for example of pakistan and also with algeria in order to recruit them as allies on the global war on terror so this is not an unprecedented situation in the end obama i think is going to weigh the benefits of keeping the military as an ally in a very very tumultuous area right now where there's a lot of instability versus disenfranchising this affecting the egyptian military which the egyptian which the american military in egypt american government needs as an ally so in my opinion it's it's a done deal it's just a matter of going through the legal gymnastics and trying to persuade the american public that obama is taking this very seriously when in fact i think geostrategic. factors are going to dominate. thank you so much both of you for joining me for

this important panel the very important subject we'll be following the professor and an activist ahmed rashid it. very very slow to come tonight there are ten corporations that only just about everything you can through today are ready to break. it all over my language or what i will only react to situations i have written to reproach for. the pollution. no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your letter palin says it is or. else. they do no more weasel words when you question me prepared for a change when you punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech and now the freedom to cast.

to the future. this will consult you updates and you try to transmission makes for a smoother ride bush and scientists conjure up could crystals the e.u. says he's laser sight some joke on one of the take giants comes to town and she updates cheer on. the contrary. i've seen the per session of the cross many times it doesn't matter if there's snow a heat wave or hail stones people keep on going but i don't expect anything just one i told myself i keep on going as long as my heart told me to that's all i wanted at the moment. i have sense so much she's seen i'm carrying these sayings on my shoulder. do you want me to put a man in shared no that's fine

a lot of people were so exhausted they could barely walk their feet hurt and some of them strangers who were evacuated three to wanted to keep going i don't know what tomorrow will bring. peace process what peace process the palestinians have suffered over four decades of illegal israeli occupation and over twenty years of the so-called american sponsored to go she should have gotten them preciously little why are obama and netanyahu and abbas interested in history does it have anything to do with peace or are there other agendas in play. i.

that's the. purpose. of. their. lives. according to the

pentagon's own estimates the u.s. military has nine hundred bases rolling across one hundred fifty three countries now the government claims it only spends about twenty two billion dollars to maintain these bases and troop presence worldwide however according to many in depth investigations taxpayers realistically pay about two trillion dollars for the pentagon to occupy the planet but the ebb and flow of us wars that began and it's important to realize that hardly ever do u.s. bases actually shut down and close for business ever anywhere think about it what is the u.s. really ever left a country it's invaded other than iraq literally kicking out american troops and forcing its bases to shut down the u.s. military still has expansive outposts in korea germany and japan you know it's easy to talk about the military industrial complex in the abstract by discussing numbers of spending troop levels or even subsequent deaths for military operations but rarely do we ever hear about what a fact is bases have on the local communities they're stationed and so today i want to zero. and on one small island which you probably know very little about one

that's been greatly destroyed by the u.s. military over the course of the last sixty years okinawa japan it's the largest of the okinawa and right you grew islands which are cut off from japan's mainland during world war two while the u.s. was deliberating over whether to engage in a four ground assault on japan and invaded okinawa after the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in decimation of ninety percent of the tropical islands infrastructure the us use the island as a staging area soon after the us dropped two nuclear bombs on mainland japan and the war ended but sovereignty wasn't fully restored to that country until nine hundred seventy two but even after that the island of okinawa has been kept under what is essentially a us military dictatorship until this very day the island was a perfect little ipad for america's next wars in asia korea and vietnam and given the us is recent asia pivot okinawa is still proving its usefulness according to

author chalmers johnson in his book blowback okinawa is host to about thirty eight american bases which occupy twenty percent of its land twenty eight thousand u.s. troops live there plus an equal number of d o d civilians johnson notes that quote there is nothing particularly unusual about this manifestation of american military imperialism in okinawa except for its concentration and continues to say that the presence of these bases unavoidably usurps distorts or subverts whatever institutions of democratic government may exist within the host society obviously tens of thousands of young americans immersed into a foreign culture that they are completely ignorant of is only going to breed endless problems the sixty year military occupation has been rife with sexual assaults robbery hit and runs and arson committed by the brave soldiers who claim that they're there to protect the japanese people and to make matters worse these problems are only exacerbated by the status of the armed forces agreement or so. a

treaty that essentially gives the us total immunity from crimes committed on japanese soil one of the things so far laos for is the us military to pollute anything and of a responsibility from cleaning it up after the vietnam war thirteen thousand tons of poison gas including sarah and lee from military storage bases on the island causing environmental destruction that still prevails today. but perhaps the greatest and justice of all of the crimes against humanity which are committed with almost total immunity to see the crimes taking place on okinawa that a rate of almost four times the amount taking place in other military towns all over the world and in fact a hannah's murder a brutal rape takes place almost twice a month there. yet despite this horrific record every time there is a sexually violent crime committed the u.s. military refuses to turn over the suspect until they're indicted by a japanese court a process so mired in bureaucracy that it's rarely ever done the only time these service members are handed over is when widespread demonstrations pressure of the

government to do so like in one thousand nine hundred five when three military men abducted and repeatedly gang raped a twelve year old okinawan girl and then were seen lounging by their base pool the protests that followed that incident shook tokyo and washington and they delayed their plans to build a brand new base on the island because of fear of recruits repercussion from the community that is until now. you see yet another base is set to be built there but this time in an ecological preserve small fishing village that's home to an endangered marine life and coral reef and while the base has been approved it's currently being stalled at the local level because of the villages mayor and his constituents who vehemently oppose its construction so what's washington doing in response well plotted to get the mayor out of power of course but with the mounting pressure from the citizens of the island the u.s. military is finally agreed to start the process of removing nine thousand marines

but get this. one any years to do so and it doesn't even begin to compensate for the catastrophic damage that's already been done the disregard for life and the ultimate destruction of a homeland so at this point there's really no initiative the u.s. could take to make things right it's just too little too late. you may be familiar with those who bursts we make it a fruit juice bottles at your grocery store the ones that are being marketed as all natural and on g.m.o. well and they get. just agreed to settle a nine million dollar class action lawsuit for false labeling as it turns out those wholesome fruit smoothies include eleven chemical additives including one derived from formaldehyde shouldn't come as any surprise though considering how naked juice is own by have to see a company that's no stranger to lawsuits over deceptive marketing pepsi also

happens to be one of ten corporations in the world that control nearly every product we consume take a look at this chart you'll notice that the list also includes coca-cola johnson and johnson kellogg's and nestle the reach of these corporations have a number of brands they own is staggering and while many people hold these giants in high regard trusting them because of their sheer volume and reach the truth is that many of these mega corporations have a dark side one that consists of deception propaganda and the lave labor all for one bottom line profit well i've compiled what i think are some of the worst corporations in terms of social responsibility right now and here to help me break it all down i'm joined by b.t.s. producer man mel got up oh no go on man i'm going to allow you to so many talk a little bit more before we even get into all this insanity about this lawsuit from against naked and pepsi poor naked. feel really what is this actually is as far as

lawsuits go really worked out to these advantage here a class action lawsuits nine million dollars you get to settle the all they have to do is take all natural out of the name of the brand they get to keep able to continue labeling it non g.m.o. even though it's been proven that there's eleven like you mentioned eleven chemical additives including one that is g.m.o. strain of it it's like a genetically modified soybean it's called fiber sold to it's and you can even digest this stuff so i mean it's really terrible and it's almost across the board this isn't the only company that's doing this and. i think that this is this is really kind of kind of horrible and more more symbolic of the way that all of these companies are kind of getting away with not being not. i mean to label anything yeah and i think you make a good point when you say that once they just settled they can still maintain that kind of packaging the deceptive marketing and really no one really knows about this last guy who may be vitamins but i can say i'm damned if i do you know it's a melancholy lot of that stuff i mean so you have people are still going to buy it

thinking that it's the healthy all right and if it's a really dangerous and it's overpriced it's one of these other similar lawsuits going on yet now we mentioned that you know pepsi is one of the big ten that includes kraft foods coca-cola and all these it was just mentioned a few kraft is going through a similar lawsuit over the word wholesome and blaming principles of little bit silly kellogg's coffee cereals had similar issues in two thousand and eleven and then now again in two thousand and thirteen over finding synthetic materials inside of inside of their foods of course kashi you've seen all the commercials it's the best stuff in the world that might be snapple i don't know but she does the same thing in the markets itself and people wearing togas going on canoes doing all this crazy stuff and that is just kind of shows you the p.r. machine beyond behind the speaking of p.r. machine let's talk about nestle one of the largest companies in the world i think the largest group coming in the world other than their chocolate slave labor they

are one of the largest water bottling manufacturers in the planet and you know before i said some stuff about nestle we actually got a video response from an android replicant working for nestle in front of this beautiful. flag and lake and i think she said i mean i really don't know what you're hearing that's on her by yeah anthropomorphize into the i'm actually i'm actually sad that you stopped sending videos i thought that there was a break in the. time no matter i wanted to get her on this show is the good old stephanie but that shows you how strong their p.r. machine really is i mean the video when i first put it out i got an immediate response i mean they have a whole team just doing damage to. troll on their image and then when you put out this other video kind of not one we got a response i mean they have a full on p.r. department if that's what they've got to say that's the thing about deceptive marketing and journalism's ugly sister which is p.r. right it only affects a few people you're deceptive about something it's really going to affect the

people that are you know activists against you mose and the people that might be allergic to something like soybeans and if you see that you have no sawyer no products it's not a label then there's something called you know and it's like the shock that people can go with this is this is serious though and i think that. a lot of these companies that are touted as being oh these are the symbol of what a company should be like nestle nestle is that it's amazing that people actually revered nestle as being a symbol of what corporations should be on really their very irresponsible my god yeah and number that we saw that list earlier and it was c.n.n. economics list of the top ten most i don't know i wasn't most socially responsible companies but was right most like most admired companies hire c.n.n. money article that show the most admired companies and you get companies on there like c.n.n. and whole foods and we know that whole foods thing to be admired that was led found in some of the candy there prove that they're producing along with trader joe's but i mean the converse of the and this is something that you found that you showed me

earlier was that you know we look at into a list that says one of the worst companies some of those same companies that are in the best lists are also in the worst and you see it a lot when actual consumers are data mining what they find to be the worst socially responsible companies that when you see like an economics website saying well these are the best companies because it's really all about the bottom line about money and so you have seen nestle raping the planet i mean making millions of percent increase on this on extract in the water out of times of drought bottling you know putting waste or round water that's essentially free and the company's chairman has already kind of made it very clear that he supported privatization of water so i mean i don't know what more you can say i think what we can expect next is nestle to bottle air no but you know what a lot of charge. and they were sent because. maybe they won't charge for the exhale but let's talk about some other companies that just we find to be right and if you look at this list that we kind of were trying to come out of the just a little bit yeah it's a little arbitrary because at any point in time any one of companies like apple or

b.p. could be put on the worst list last year remember hearing about apple in the foxconn . yeah it was a. whole list of those that were going on i think that this year it really is wal-mart that's going to be taking market is the worst company really about and i think d.c. had some local news too were wal-mart was trying to push itself into d.c. and they refused to pay anymore the minimum wage i mean this is been contentious for years now wal-mart trying to come into d.c. and now finally they were able to get themselves a spot somewhere in in the northeast part of the city and now this news that they're not going to be paying more than the minimum wage and that's kind of got people up in arms and so it's not looking like wal-mart is going to make it into the into the city but beyond that beyond just you know when it comes to labor here in the united states there are kind of reaction to that bangladesh family not a lapse is really what i think makes this a really horrible company and what they did was they were willing to sign onto the international agreement that would have set those standards so that you know that

wouldn't happen again and so they said leave it to us to kind of regulate ourselves and we're going to make sure that that doesn't cause us largest sexual discrimination lawsuit in history against wal-mart on top of that the way that they treat their employees here is just shocking but hey you got tom cruise and incredible whatever they are over in say oh you know this is the best we can do you get a bigger hollywood a scientologist on there you can i guess you can sell anything out many will have to go over the rest of this list another time or at a time thank you so much meanwhile. time. and that's going to do it for us here you guys in d.c. thanks for watching and have a great i will see right back here tomorrow. people's wages that going dahlan the amount of people working is going up. they're doing jobs that they increasingly hate just for a small box apartment of extortion at rent and pretty soon people are going to be

stuck and trapped in a cycle of oppression a new leader is going to come in he's going to flip the switch and he's going to be talking to or in the. morning news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule today. couldn't take three. three. three. three. three. old freeboard

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