revolt against slipping c.d.o. a story or media project c.d.o. down to our teeth on top. of the. what's up guys welcome to breaking the set i'm out of the mind over the weekend america's grossly over militarized police force once again showed its true colors first in charlotte north carolina where police killed twenty four year old football player jonathan feral who was seeking help after miraculously surviving a car crash the homeowner called nine one one and told the dispatcher is that a man was repeatedly knocking on door leave when they arrived at the scene farrel charged at them but something tells me that by charge they meant stumbling injured so naturally want to cops fired a stun gun when that failed to stop him another police officer opened fire and killed him but not to be outdone in the police brutality department on the same day in new york city the n.y.p.d. opened fire in times square toward a man pretending to point

a gun at officers instead of hitting the crazed man who was later found to be unarmed police struck two female bystanders protect and serve more like shoot first ask questions later in. the perp it was a. very hard. to get. a plug in that had sex with the target there.

with all the concert reminders about nine eleven there is one crucial element consistently left out of the conversation the sick and dying first responders who risked their lives on that fateful day emergency responders right now of a fifteen percent higher rate of contracting cancer than the general population and already more than a thousand people who rushed to ground zero to help have tragically died according to the c.d.c. sadly the nine eleven heroes you would expect the government to be helping the most have been left in the dust talk more about the struggle for medical care i'm joined now by john feal first responder founder and president of the feel good foundation john of the pleasure to have you on thank you for having me talk about the most pressing medical issues facing nine eleven first responders right now. cancer in the beginning in the first few years it was respiratory but now it's cancer and this is just the first wave of kids is the blood kids is the leukemia is do you all

gain cancers but in five or ten more years you get to see dispenses kids as they'll be into the waybill cancer and like i tell everybody this is a generation long issue with a generation long illness what's the status of the droga act right now and how many victims has it compensated but so far. well i can tell you a really important date is october third of this year which is about i believe seventeen days from now if you were affected by nine eleven if you would bear even if you're sick or not sick you should register with the b.c.f. . to get compensated because they have to october third you'll be left out and this is a bill that we passed three years ago and healthcare has been up and running for two years now and doing a great job in the compensation part of the bill is slowly catching up to the health care part keep in mind this is only a five year bill which. is in october of two thousand and sixteen and we're going

to have to go back to congress and walk the halls of congress again and get this bill we knew so there's a lot of obstacles and a lot more hurdles and all way absolutely as you mentioned there's been multiple waves and there's to be more to come as well waves of cancer as i understand has been quite a difficulty even getting congress to cover all of the cancer cases thus far what's been the delay on that. well you know let me let me take everybody back in time you know for years they said we weren't sick and we will cry and wolf. fact that matter is the will feed us in the world being cancer and right now nyasha diminish the health care party to build this is a two part bill the james zadroga health and compensation act is over fifteen hundred people that have been certified now by niosh and there's still thousands of others went non eleven related cancer. you know for years they told us this was a new york issue just four hundred thirty five congressional districts in the united states four hundred thirty of them were represented at ground zero somebody

from every state came to new york during the cleanup of the recovery in one home and a lot of people got sick and the national non-election program now treats over twelve thousand people from across the country that is sick from their heroic actions at ground zero the days and weeks after and you mentioned how it expires what happens when it does expire and is the four billion dollars a lot of dust far enough to cover everyone's expenses and how is the money allocated i just threw a lot of questions at you well now it's a good question four point three billion dollars one point five billion of that is for the health care and there's plenty of money to treat everybody for five years when we go to renew the bill the health care part of this bill will be renewed i will bet my one kidney on that on that confident even congress as paul the job they're doing now will not renew this bill the compensation part is two point seven billion in change. they're waiting till october third in see how many people they have on october fourth that have registered and file claims and

then they'll be able to make a determination on how people are going to start to be compensated right now there's about twenty seven thousand people that have registered and i'm going to say a third of that have legitimate claims because the ill from nine eleven and its aftermath you know if you took every toxin that was in the air that day in the following days . you put it in a bottle you'd have a skull and crossbones saying home full of swallowed consult a physician then you have the toxic soup combined and that was something that no doctor no scientist has ever seen before and the absorption due to nose mouth and skin has made these men and women and you know i say these men and women i'm one of them has made these people sick and you know for years they said we had a poor that nine eleven got to say we don't have to prove it anymore they have to prove that nine eleven didn't get a sick. good point and sadly so many people have already lost their lives john and we can't wait any longer speaking about toxics lou seven days after nine eleven

christine todd whitman of course the former head of the v.a. issued the statement that she's glad to reassure the people of new york they're safe to breathe the water safe to drink and concentrations are such that they don't pose a health hazard we're going to make sure everyone's safe john do you think that her and other government employees should be held criminally culpable falsely assuring people that they were safe. well listen christie todd whitman. she's going to meet god one day god will be judge she can live with her action in her words i remember that you know on september seventeenth which is tomorrow is my anniversary when i was horribly injured i remember christie todd whitman coming out on the sixteenth and saying. the water was safe to drink she took what she took her orders from the white house and listen they wanted wall street up and running and they had to do it they had to do it do i understand that yes do i agree with it no thousands of good innocent people got sick and many have passed away we lost about close to forty

eight hundred people since nine eleven from their own misses and this year alone we lost forty two that we know up that we're keeping track of forty two people taken from us too soon and close to fourteen hundred you know nine eleven twenty seven hundred and fifty one innocent lives were lost to senseless violence we're halfway to them now because of poor leadership and bad politics and basically corruption and you know i've said this in. million times a circus monkey could have been walk compassionate and done a better job politicking at the nine eleven between congress albany and city hall a lot of people dropped the ball on helping people and you know when you're when you have a position of power and leadership you have a moral responsibility to help you can stay in joints and you know a lot of people they have to look themselves in the mirror and say you know what i think i failed absolutely john feel feel good foundation everyone check it out we got to put the pressure on congress fund the nine eleven first responders thank you so much for everything you do god bless you.

think back to twelve years ago how you felt right after the attacks of september eleventh two thousand and one was a national climate of fear sadness despair and anger from paris to duran us allies and enemies held candlelight vigils and solidarity world leaders presented a unique opportunity for understanding reconciliation and peace that amidst the chaotic aftermath of the attacks too many were already calling for blood and just seventy two hours later lawmakers were already voting on a resolution that would take this country to war but it wasn't just any war declaration it was an unprecedented measure that would come to redefine the role of america's intelligence and armed forces in the twenty first century the two thousand and one authorization for use of military force or the math is

a broadly worded piece of legislation that gives any president authority under the law to preemptively attack any country organization or individual deemed either a threat to the u.s. or an associated force to terrorism it was a codified step toward perpetual war which sadly still continues today yet in the deliberating moments toward such unprecedented power there was a lone voice that warned us of what these actions could lead to and september fourteenth two thousand and one barbara lee a congresswoman from berkeley california stood alone on the floor to cast the only no vote against the math while four hundred twenty other representatives voted to give the president a blank check. september eleventh changed the world our deepest fears now. yet i am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the united states this is

a very complex and complicated matter. a complicated matter indeed not only would america be waging a war against an invisible enemy in the name of national security and lawmakers recklessly abandon their responsibility to uphold the values of the constitution. however difficult this vote may be some of us must urge the use of restraint our country is in a state of mourning some of us must say let's step back for a moment let's just cause just for a minute and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control yes we should have taken that moment to consider the logic of fighting a tactic and every corner of the world see barbro really understood the consequences that go along with military action. to hate begets hate and violence

begets violence. as a member of the clergy so eloquently said. as we act let us not become the evil that we deplore. millions dead as a result of the u.s. occupation of iraq and afghanistan thousands lost in the series of shadow war worldwide the rise of drone bombings extrajudicial fascinations indefinite detention and the unchecked growth of and higher industry devoted to bloodshed unfortunately barbara lee's warning has become reality and the process of fighting a global war on terror the us has become the greatest purveyor of terror in the world.

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it's rare to find a government insider that not only recognizes america's system of two tiered justice but is actively working to expose it ramsey clark served as attorney general overseeing the department of justice under president lyndon b. johnson from one thousand nine hundred sixty five to one thousand nine hundred sixty seven during his term clarke was instrumental in passing through the most significant bills of our time civil rights act and voting rights act since leaving the administration ramsey has been one of the most prominent figures leading the charge against us militarism this troubled everywhere from vietnam to iraq where he studied the devastating effects of western sanctions on local populations he documented his findings in a two thousand and two book called impact of sanctions on iraq the children are dying joined me earlier to discuss his research on iraqi sanctions evolution of the rule of law since his time as attorney general and why he represented saddam hussein i first asked him what iraq was like before western intervention in one thousand nine hundred one. and iraq was. the most prosperous.

arab country in the world. instead of living it was highest infrastructure was. better than most part of the united states. had good education good health care. before nine hundred ninety one before. we go for the invasion ninety period between after nine hundred ninety one january nine hundred ninety one who we invaded and started bombing and we'll head. two hundred thousand sorties over when every few minutes bomb the new each other who country in one thousand nine hundred one in the before that was very prosperous and. progressive and. since then it's suffered enormously nobody feels safe any day in iraq they haven't since. two thousand and three. hundred. he one.

hundred killed every week thousands more often than not. in countries. and crushed in a unique way for unique a long period of time with. violence enduring and then. talk about how many children died as a direct result of these sanctions and why specifically children. who should know i'm a big supporter of you and it's the hope of one of the major hope at least of peace on earth the. un sanctions imposed on iraq in august of ninety. impacted severely on its importance and they couldn't get infant formula for instance. by the late fall of that year forty seven thousand five hundred children under the age of five died as a direct result of the sanctions within three or four years four hundred seventy

five thousand could be counted who had died as a direct result of the sanctions i was going into iraq every year during that period and always go through my turn to origin you're lucky if you spent thirty minutes in there to get out. and spend on the bed with your mother that's your custom there and mother just start wailing when the baby die. we try to take him from former then but it's takes a lot of different for me to feed infants of the countries of iraq and roger and they couldn't get it for all their wealth because of the sanctions and because of the military threat the military action against them constantly one of the great crimes against humanity. since world war two. have sanctions ever work without having devastating effects on the pop on the people of certain countries instead of the regime. if you think about her she mission sanctions the

impact that we. just the poorest and. those with less power to actually asked the necessities of life and the pleasures of life. and influence or somebody to help them they can't make it. if their parents are poor and you can't import infant formula the mothers are malnourished and mother's milk is. well below normal production and if they were all in a particular mother. in france now i. just famous incident which our secretary of state. was asked. on one of our major interview programs four hundred seventy five hundred seventy five thousand children under the age of five dead as a direct result of the sanctions is the price worth it and she looked at the cameron said difficult question but yes the price is worth it listen. there's no morality. and anyone who can say that anything is worth his

life at five hundred seventy five thousand children. ramsay you were talking about the bombing campaign that was going on at the same time as these harsh economic sanctions were being applied to iraq what were the targets of those bombs at that time and they were hitting infrastructure primarily from one end to the other from . the border with turkey to the. city to basra and below. and they were hitting bridges. in baghdad they hit so many places i remember the justice ministry was a place i frequented. that badly hit. but it was intended to. you know hit agriculture even trying to burn fields and destroy crops and.

like anything it would nourish the people. who have genocidal purpose. and strategically determine it's not just military targets i mean obviously this is a lot of civilian infrastructure targeted on purpose as you just mentioned given what you've seen and how sanctions that firstly affect the population of these countries the most how do you feel about this administration using humanitarianism as the justification for a strike on syria. it would it's pretty in humanitarian to put it mildly it's also. the chair of the violation of human rights and international law. one country can take it upon itself to be punishment for the whole world i think it can bomb people where they are. that anywhere for any. state around stated purpose their purpose unstated in the state something that they

claim is your purpose in your real purpose. the real purpose in changing of syria is driving and endangering the entire christian population there which is a very large population for the largest middle east countries we need integration religious and otherwise if we're going to peace with each other. which it is time i've been very close to both and be one of those people over there good news for their strength and their courage but we have to live at peace with them. and i couldn't agree more with alan ramsay you've taken a lot of heat for choosing to be part of saddam hussein's legal representation why did you choose to represent a brutal dictator. who i didn't. see here i i was shocked and. i felt. an absolute duty to do it if i was requested. she brought to bear. we

don't have equal rights we don't have rights we have privileges in the underprivileged. and i believe in rights of my adult life striving for people's rights and royer and otherwise. and he got no fair trial a fair trial would. possible perhaps under the circumstance you could turn and turn him over to people who've been trying to assassinate him for twenty years. and trying to did that for the trial it was a farce. but to stand there with him in try to honor she'd interested in truth and justice. i would have had a hard time reading it myself if i had agreed to do it do it again in a minute. i could not do it. well put considering how this week marked the twelfth anniversary of the horrific nine eleven terrorist attacks what's your take on how the government decided to kill and throw bin laden's body in the ocean instead of giving

a trial and that in so many answers the american people. are very muddy we don't. practice what we preach. we totally ignore. fundamental human rights international. standards. when it comes to international affairs. our government i mean you know i just came back this year from the sixtieth anniversary of the war in. korea and the fortieth anniversary of the war in. vietnam. millions killed. you know a good thing is the people who are thriving it's beautiful to see it shows that there is a future after hill the war on terror is now carried out by the executive being judge jury and executioner especially in these drone wars telling people that they claim are terrorists that any fair trial at all how dangerous that up. are we

setting for the rest of the world with this policy. who are showing that. the powerful do as they will in the week suffer is a must. and that's the cruelest most immoral thing that you can say to. show id. powerful should try to uplift the poor should know. if you are better about themselves if they did not talk about their a good use of non political. strength in the shrinking themselves. in the violent of sin. who are as dr martin luther king said it really hurt him to say it's. the greatest provider purveyor of violence on earth it's my own country one thousand nine hundred seventy three which i heard here in new york the greatest purveyor of violence in the united states of america someone like you who has served in the administration decades ago seen it out on the outside now when you

were serving in government was it more transparent and accountable to itself and the people than it is today or is the level of deceit and corruption kind of all relative as attorney general and. a free hand to. i wouldn't state i hadn't. rendered justice is i so if it is possible to make a difference but it's it's a struggle and it's. not sure that any different you may will long endure. and what we try what would you tell people who just feel like it's hopeless and you know look looking at the world and say how can we get out of these of this policy of bellicose militarism the harder it gets the more important it is that we stand up and struggle. i watched in the sixty's and the pain and misery and danger to our african-american population a lot of time in the early sixty's and working primarily in the area and i was

young i was. from the south. african americans are facing danger and humiliation deprivation all the time and they sang and they marched and they said we shall overcome. when you got there you had we. not better off than we were sure throwed in she'll margin and she'll believe in that we shall overcome if you don't believe that you much will crawl in a hole in the. struggle it is to cope with life. it is indeed a ram we definitely have seen change happen albeit slowly it does happen and it takes the struggle in the streets thank you so much for being a voice of the people representing justice and truth ramsey clark former u.s. attorney general. so far how do our you tube channel at youtube dot com slash breaking the set and be sure to subscribe to that missing a lot of. all of our interviews posted on the videos tab. fantastic interview with

former presidential candidate rocky anderson so go check all that newborn at youtube dot com slash breaking the sat and you guys that's it for me tonight all of us here breaking this set will see you right back here tomorrow. cretaceous free. free. free free. free. free. old free blog videos for your media project c.e.o. don.

well the wonderful strong arm in a lot of these policies i think you're right. pleasure to have you with us here today i'm sure. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for asians to rule the day.

in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture today yet another mass shooting this time in the nation's capital brought home the reality of gun violence in america the latest information on today's tragedy later on in the show and it's been five years since bush's financial crisis assured in the most serious economic downturn since the great depression but how much is really changed and what can we do to make sure wall street doesn't bring down the economy again also this story speaking of wall street bankers are added again in today's daily take i'll tell you about their latest plan to turn the financial system back into the biggest casino in the world.