other countries and world leaders turns out the people in those countries don't take too kindly to having their privacy invaded and now one country is standing up to uncle peeping tom resilient president dilma rousseff just postponed a trip to d.c. and protests of u.s. surveillance and now the government is working on ways to circumvent the n.s.a. altogether one such plan would require internet service providers to set up local data storage centers protected under local privacy laws and brazil's postal service is taking a step further by developing an encrypted e-mail service so here's to hoping other countries take a cue from brazil and stand up once and for all to america's global spying machine . the the possibly the teams they are looking very hard to take a little while to get the. one that he ever had sex with that her right there looking. a little.

to the touch. with the. little. part about you but when i think about monsanto the first thing that comes to mind is food safety and i mean number one after all i'm talking about a company that went from producing cancerous gems like d.d.t. p.c.b. as an agent orange do you not agree re-engineering a staggering portion of the food we eat here in the u.s. just to give you a sense of how monopolistic this industry has become consider that forty percent of the world's g.m. crops are grown in the u.s. or monsanto alone controls eighty percent of the corn and ninety three percent of

the soy corn and soy make up the base of almost every processed food item in this country and interestingly enough america is unique in its production and consumption and g.m. owes. every other industrialized country has either completely banned or at the very least labeled g.m. products why because these countries have recognized the risks associated with them most recently a french scientist concluded that g.m. corn leads to tumors in rats so with this knowledge why is the u.s. government giving monsanto a blessing of deregulation and not just the blessing to sell their products but to sell them with a guarantee that consumers have no idea what they're actually eating so the answer is simple the government has no shame when it comes the revolving door policy between private industry and regulation it all started when george bush sr dean g.m. crops as substantially equivalent to non g.m. crops after that declaration is made the floodgates opened and saturated the market

with untested food products this policy continues today because of the dozens of us government employees that have a personal stake insuring them on santo meets its bottom line take for example former democratic congressman toby moffett as connecticut lawmaker worked in congress three years before he became a lobbyist for monsanto. or think that's a conflict of interest how about the career history of margaret miller she originally worked as a researcher on bovine growth hormone or b g h for monsanto and now she publishes research papers on b g.h. for the f.d.a. and get this her research was backed by michael taylor the current deputy commissioner for policy at the f.d.a. this guy headed mises the revolving door first taylor was a lawyer for one santo then he joined the f.d.a. as deputy commissioner for foods then you went back to monsanto and became its vice

president for public policy yeah i'm sure is f.d.a. position help open that door but don't worry is now back in the f.d.a. in the same cushy position as it was before the rubber stamping pro monsanto alleges. and he's not alone take marcia hale and josh cain who left their jobs at the white house for a lobbying positions that monsanto meanwhile virginia weldon and the lady at watford ditched their positions of the chemical giant for two job openings at sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue i mean really if you thought there was an underground tunnel between the white house and monsanto even the kings and queens in the highest court of the land have ties to the mega corporation clarence thomas used to be an attorney for the ag giant and now he sits as justice of the supreme court. you know if there is one person you could think for an old mr roger be chief be cheese research alum santo led to the world's first genetically modified crop so

knowing all of this is it any wonder why congress not going to the extension of the monsanto protection act and the latest spending bill and this has been a revolving door alert of congressional sellouts and has always sponsored by monsanto. reddy no nestle's making a living canadian water in fact every year the company extracts two hundred sixty five million liters of water from the ground in hope british columbia and sells it back to the residents for a dollar nineteen cents but nestle is getting away with it because the canadian province has no zero regulations on accessing its water this means that nestle can keep the land with absolutely no consequences and without making a dent and its twelve billion dollar annual profit margin understandably the six

thousand b.c. residents who share a local water source with this giant multinational are concerned with the free for all and warn organization called the water wealth project is fighting back earlier i spoke to its campaign director she was among the first asked her how exactly did nestle come to extract water from the ground and hope completely for free here is her response. centrally it is simply because they are allowed to. break now the water laws in b.c. are set up so make a corporation like nestle are able to come in take groundwater not have to report it to anybody but i mean i guess more specifically with nestle they did they bought what was a family owned bottled water company that was set out in b.c. . in the ninety's and essentially nestle bought it in two thousand. where then they changed the operation from what was a nine to five quite a small scale operation to now

a twenty four seven around the clock operation where they are obstructing groundwater. i just find it hard to believe that it's really is like the wild wild west out there that there's absolutely no regulation at all from these giant multinationals to extract water from the ground i mean can any other corporation big and small to be exact same thing there and what about residents. exact same thing residents corp the like it's a glaring failure in. the water law of this province at this time where there's a complete absence of groundwater regulations. and so yeah it's that simple it's simple you go in you drill a well wells and you're able to access the groundwater for free you don't have to do any sort of mandatory reporting or reveal how much water you're extracting there's no oversight in terms of the long term impact that it might have to be draining groundwater in large amounts it's really again a glaring failure of water law in this province and something that i think is one

of the really we're one of the last year's fictions in north america to have not you know come into the twenty first century and to see any sort of regulation other groundwater unbelievable nestle's defended its actions on its website by claiming that they're the largest employer in the area providing jobs for seventy five hope residents what's your response to that. you know it is true you know it's a small community up there folks are quite reliant on on on the industries for jobs you know that said if there was if there were you know mechanisms in place where local residents could be involved in making decisions about what type of industries could could could function in their communities and access their groundwater you know there's a potential that other or other industries or organizations sprout up. and i think the other the other piece to it is that although nestle definitely is offering these jobs you know there's other. there's other. i think

elements that are necessary for a company like nestle to undertake before they could call themselves a good corporate citizen you know a major one is understanding the territory that they're working on and it is unseated sallow territory which means that there aren't treaties in place that really allow for the natural resources to be extracted at this at this rate and so for nestle to come in you know if they were to claim to be a good corporate citizen they should have prioritized engaging with the chihuahua first nation the unions are first nations whose territory they're on to make sure that their operation is not violating their rights and their needs said i just want to repeat seventy five jobs i mean that's that's how they're justifying everything they're doing there is providing seventy five jobs really a drop in the bucket when you look at the bigger picture here you mentioned the local community here how do you think nestle's footprint is adversely impacting the local population. there's also issues with with the extraction of the water how it

does impact on other residents who are tapping into that aqua for their own residential use. in terms of you know the water pressure that's available to them again though this is something that we don't have adequate science or monitoring underway to pinpoint if this is a consequence of nestle's operation or not because of the overarching failure of the provincial government to really prioritize regulation of how groundwater. as an activist i just wanted a few a personal question do you think water is a human right and how does a personally make you feel that peter brady back the former c.e.o. nestle chairman said you know water in this way is an extreme view. so bizarre and quite delusional really but and yes the idea that there is not a human right is. the reasonable radical

perspective i mean given the fact that our bodies are more than seventy five percent made of water you know that really we couldn't go we could we could go barely hours maybe days without water to really survive when people start talking about water that water not as a human rights you know that it is something that could essentially be withheld from people. particularly based on a billet a to pay framework so that's a that's a major problem for a nice to be preacher break back and never have to worry about having water to survive i can't say the same for millions and millions about billions of people around the world let's talk about solutions here right now are there any signs that the governments planning to take action and start regulating nestle. they're they're out there are i mean that said we've seen these signs before so it's

definitely something where there needs to be some withstanding pressure but it has been it's about. i mean nearly six seven years that we've seen such strong remarks coming from our environment minister stating the need to reform the water act knowledge ing that this is a problem that there's no regulation of groundwater withdrawals. said we'll see where it go i mean what what we need what we would like to see at the water well project is that those reforms take place in a good way that acknowledges aboriginal rights and titles that allows for more local control over these decisions you know so that nestle can't just come in and apply for a license that's going to impact a community like hope and have that decision made in a place like victoria or ottawa but centrally right now we're working with legislation that was crafted in nineteen zero nine. zero zero. and. then it just hasn't been a priority for the government's response to it or to reform it at risk and we're.

sponsor the needs of people nowadays was there not to mention an important point which is that it's not just about getting them to pay for the extraction of water it's really about shifting over that control to local bodies and really really taking reclaiming this food stuff as peter brady quinn to call it how can we make that happen how can people in the united states all around the world really help stop nestle from taking over the planet's water supply about thirty seconds. he. i would say one you know of course don't buy the stuff to you know keep keep maintaining visibility in the in in the opposition to the right like that that we just can't we can't we can't we can't be bullied or intimidated or think that it's not worth it to fight back and make sure that you know that we're making these clear demands that water needs to be protected as a human right that companies like nestle are able to access that intake and broken bottles that you know make sure that that doesn't become

a norm you know pushback on that normal household and so what is right thank you so much executive director of the water wealth project really appreciate everything you're doing a no problem should wal-mart be required to pay a living wage to its workers here in the district are caught that question has been causing conflict here in d.c. and will find out why next with making the us.

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there's a media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the scene push to secure the place your party there's a golf. course shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . washington d.c. is one of the last major cities in the u.s. without a wal-mart and the largest retailer in the world announced the opening of six stores in the district the d.c. council passed a living wage bill this bill would have required wal-mart to pay its employees a minimum wage of twelve dollars and fifty cents per hour while d.c.

mayor vincent gray called the bill a jobs killer and vetoed that measure and just yesterday the d.c. council fell just two shorts votes short of overriding that veto paving the way for wal-mart to begin to take over of the nation's capital so to discuss how the lack of a living wage bill will strike d.c. is working class and why wal-mart should change its slogan to everyday low wages i'm joined by mickey lewis executive director of d.c. jobs but just thank you so much for coming on and again you for having me and so what now you know it's vetoed the mayor viewed videos they voted you know they voted to not over the video are there any other legal avenues that we can take to make sure that wal-mart does not set up shop here in the district while. i don't think it's that we don't want them to set up shop i personally as a resident i think that six is too many in a twenty mile radius city but we do want economic development in our city but we want it so that it benefits the residents the people who are unemployed as well as

the underemployed residents who are. really struggling so. while the bill didn't pass it wouldn't just have been about wal-mart it would have also affected other billion dollar corporations. here in the district already but since they're building six you know the big to do but at this point now. i think we're going to keep advocating we're going to keep telling our city council that d.c. residents deserve better and in fact this whole multi-year you know push this movement in the city to hold wal-mart accountable has led to several council members introducing a citywide minimum wage hike. which they had never introduced before.

so. we have to figure out what the best steps are to move forward at this point. it's question is how why do you think it is that several supposedly progressive members of the d.c. sort of council did not vote to override that veto because really it was their chance yeah it really was their chance well. council member che said that she just didn't think it was a good piece of legislation and that's the way that it was written and she had some technical problems with it. tommy wells who. who we generally think is very progressive you know he supports paid sick days but he he didn't vote for this because he said that. number one our returning population returning citizen populations need access to low wage jobs and also that people in his ward specifically in ward six need. access

to cheap affordable goods at a walking distance so. the thing that was disappointing about those reasons is that again we all want economic development in our city but we just want it at a price that the rez the workers that work there can also benefit of course that's always the argument ok our economic development it's a jobs killer but. i mean let's talk realistically about the living wage which is astronomically high i mean according to mit living wage calculator thirteen dollars sixty eight cents an hour to live in the district mickeys so i just don't understand this disconnect here yes of course we want jobs as of course what i can on a growth but really it's expensive. but it's really expensive i know i pay rent here and i've been up and down as a low wage worker myself trying to struggle and make it here. and the thing is just

so disappointing is that thirteen twenty five or twelve fifty something in the twelve to fifteen dollars range is doable for a billion dollar corporations like wal-mart and in fact when you pay your workers a living wage it builds loyalty and then they want to sell the brand more their they take pride in their job. you know when they don't when you see how big your company is growing but how you're not profiting from it. you know you don't have pride in your job and dissent starts to happen amongst employees you know there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of wal-mart workers across the country who are starting to organize themselves are all our wal-mart associates because they're tired of being underemployed given part time hours not given access to any kind of medical benefits or job security or a living wage and so we see that trend across the country and that's why we are

fighting so hard to make sure that companies that can pay do it is beautiful to see workers not only there in the fast food industry as well and i want to kind of debunk these myths that we hear a lot you know what will drive up the cost of consumer goods out wal-mart if they do pay a living wage i just want to really quickly wal-mart's because this is a claim that would drive a consumer cost but according to a study by u.c. berkeley if wal-mart paid its workers twelve dollars an hour it would cost. the average shopper almost fifty cents per trip i mean that and i think that a lot of people would agree about this one of the absolutely why you know what is their argument when they're faced with these facts i guess they just kind of not address them and it's really the same argument that has existed since the one nine hundred thirty s. since eighteen seventy's you know any time you give your workers a little bit more it's going to kill jobs going to kill jobs and so in this

situation. before the jobs even started or before wal-mart had a chance to make profits they're like well we're just going to not build three of the six stores here because so they're killing the jobs and four they even get here there's plenty of residents that needs jobs here and in fact mayor gray just there's a thousand new people moving into the district every month like there's there's people here. that want to shop they just talk about the health care we're also subsidizing for wal-mart workers health care and food stamps is while i can't say the exact statistics what it is but i just read somewhere on twitter earlier today that some percentage of wal-mart employees actually are on public benefits i think what i just read is that one superstore one wal-mart superstore taxpayers pay almost a million dollars nine hundred thousand dollars to subsidize i mean that's that's amazing i mean that's just an astounding figure so really you have to look at you

know the cost benefit analysis here to talk about this race to the bottom approach to business in general i mean why is it so destructive. it's just struck just because. like wal-mart has been such a profitable model in our economy that other businesses are looking in saying well how can i do what they're doing is well so it becomes kind of like the standard you know. and over the last several years you see this proliferation of low wage jobs in the retail industry as well as the restaurant industry and. i think that we can do better because they're so profitable there's no and i want to debate about thirty seconds left but what can people do to help make sure that wal-mart really holds itself accountable and pays workers a living wage i think that every time they go in and shop at a wal-mart they should tell the manager like i want to be a patron here but i want to know that the workers are treated good and i'll stop

shopping here until i know that you improves quality for workers and you have any websites or organization that people can get involved in or go to apply for and they can check out our wal-mart or as well as d.c. jobs with justice dot org and. i think you have c.w. dot org as well all have information thank you so much mickey lewis executive director of decent jobs for a miscarriage by having me going to. school to. see you so was good enough to know him best. guys over the years we've seen what the true nature of so-called free trade agreements have been effects of which created the leading job market for the american middle class and expects plaintive working conditions for foreign workers

but over the last few years a new kind of trade deals been in the works called the trans-pacific partnership or the t.p. being it's unprecedented series of negotiations not led by world leaders but by multinational corporations yes big banks global telecom companies pharmaceuticals and fossil fuel giants are all standing to benefit immensely from the passing of this deal only to add to this troubling scenario is that negotiations are being conducted and total secrecy not only are the american people left in the dark but members of congress are too to make matters worse as public attention is finally starting to shine a light at those shady dealings it seems that now these same multinational groups are looking for a way to fast track the t.t.p. they go shaders have launched a campaign to force u.s. lawmakers into an up or down vote without having a chance to even review the content of this international agreement. we can not let this happen fast track in the t.p.t.

this conniving trade deal goes against basic democratic principles this friday september twentieth leading t.p.a. negotiators will be right here in washington for another round of secret meetings so if you're in the area come join the rally outside the office of the u.s. trade representative and also. your congressmen and senators the phone calls emails and tell them no vote no on the t.v. people you fast tracked and the t.p. in general is a call to action guys time to bring the t.p. out of the shadows into the light.

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