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erin without the people rising up again. almost a thousand people are killed in iraq in just one month forcing the country's prime minister to ask the u.s. for help to end the violence. america's huge soon to be old and new spy complex is the target for outrage with authorities failing to keep the public away from what was supposed to be a secret facility. they put it inside of the middle of an army base so you can protest to the army to protest the n.s.a. . back to the already notorious data center in utah which will host super computers able to store piles of phone e-mail and search engine data that has been harvested . and in ruins pakistan says attempts to negotiate with islamist militants have been destroyed after a u.s.
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drone killed the leader of the taliban in the country. it's five pm here in moscow this is archie coming to you live with me and he said now wait good to have you with us october was iraq's bloodiest month for five years the nation is struggling to curb the levels of sectarian violence and iraq's prime minister has been forced to oust washington to help him fight terror she's going to camp has more. we know that the iraqi leadership has made a request for u.s. assistance in the fight against terror we don't know the details of that request the leaders wouldn't elaborate on that the iraqi prime minister called al qaeda a scourge for iraq and the middle east the iraqi prime is those arrived in washington in the month that turned out to be the deadliest in the last five years
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for those who are following the news it's becoming such a repetitive phrase the deadliest month in iraq for this many years said we hear it all the time the fact is that following the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three terrorism has skyrocketed in iraq the sectarian war that broke out as a result of the invasion has created a great environment for terrorists the iraqi prime minister says it's getting worse because he says as a result of the so-called arab revolutions there is a power vacuum in the region which extremist forces take advantage of it specifically spoke about syria and the situation there of course even though iraq's nouri al maliki knows what the u.s. invasion has led to in his country he can't be too critical of washington because after all in a way it's thanks to the u.s. that he's now in power so let's take a closer look at the numbers now according to iraq's interior defense and health ministry is the number of deaths in october reached nine hundred and sixty four people that's ninety percent of which were civilians but the government says this
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is the highest death toll in a single month since april two thousand and eight back then over a thousand people were killed however the numbers don't correspond with the u.n. data which suggests july this year was equally as bad i spoke to have a gun owner who is a kurdish iraqi novelist and former prisoner of saddam hussein's regime she says the ongoing bloodshed is forcing people to live in fear. daily life from morning until night and every single hour of the day people are feeling unsafe to do anything whoever goes they don't know i mean doesn't know whether they come back safely or not. distrust of the regime. terrorists and mostly targeting innocent people or other.
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other forces. i'm gonna also told us there's no agreement with in the iraqi government and that's leading to more violence against civilians. government is quite busy squabbling among the alliance is formed of alliance of some political parties most of them got many issues and they are very busy five think each other so this intense fighting is causing a lot over the. horrendous violence against the civilians. another country struggling with a wave of violence could have lost the chance for peace talks islam about its plans to start negotiations with the taliban are derived after a u.s. drone strike kills the militants leader details coming up later. germany and brazil want the u.n. to do something about the excessive it electronic surveillance
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a new legal personal data collection angered by revelations over the n.s.a.'s activities they've submitted a draft resolution to the general assembly this comes as the u.s. plans to open a huge data warehouse to store the millions upon millions of e-mails and phone calls it's collected artie's more important i met some americans fighting to stop it. known for its desert climate. and picturesque mountain. utah has long been home to the nation's largest population of mormons today it's also home to america's soon to be biggest spike complex they put it inside of the middle of an army base so you can you have to agree protest to the army to protest the n.s.a. . damn garfield learned his lesson on independence day when police prohibited more than one hundred restore the fourth activists from protesting in front of the n.s.a.'s one point five billion dollar data center. shortly thereafter
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the group thought of a way to claim a two mile long stake right next to the n.s.a. they keep on trying to kick us out for being here why don't we just adopt a highway rethink. and we can clean up in the coming weeks a picket sign will be placed right here that says we're store the for you tom and for each day that employees report to work at the data center they will pass by this sign reminded of the public distrust of the n.s.a. and its ever expanding surveillance programs r t four members will be required to clean the highway at least three times a year but many activists like lorraine a potter plan on being outside the data center much more often armed with an anti n.s.a. picket sign they believe that it is their place to take in harvest all of our information the fourth amendment to the us constitution guarantees the right to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure. r t four was born into
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a nationwide grassroots movement after whistleblower edward snowden revealed how the n.s.a. spies on its own citizens as well as foreigners world leaders and even the vatican we're never going to be able to reverse this if we don't speak up if we don't say something if we don't get people aware of what's being done so what's being done inside the utah data center according to reports the surveillance complex will be filled with servers routers and computer intelligence experts working to intercept capture and analyze vast quantities of the world's communication. or other after buildings back there if the secrets inside the data center are heavily protected by fences the national guard and countless warning signs that overlooks the whole. kind of is almost like a symbolic overwatch of the populace that make you paranoid up or naya r.t.
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you top. now despite public outrage u.s. lawmakers want the n.s.a.'s data harvesting to continue the senate intelligence committee approved a bill that would cement the collection of domestic telephone records of the authors insist it will increase transparency but critics say little will change senator feinstein's bill is an effort to codified the n.s.a.'s bulk collection of americans telephone records which is in fact on shaky legal footing right now and there's another program that's being legalized in this bill which has not gotten as much attention as it is it really should which is the back door searches of international communications and so what has been happening is that the n.s.a. is allowed under the limits act to go collect huge amounts of communications of people who are suspected to be foreigners overseas without any individual warrant because they are foreigners overseas. well one of group is fighting to restore the
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privacy of e-mails they call themselves the dark alliance and they've created an encrypted spy proof platform phillip zimmermann the president and co-founder of silent circle told r.t. about his bid to resist service at once. we're trying to restore the privacy that we feel that has been lost by a pervasive surveillance email is intercepted by intelligence agencies all around the world and we've discovered through the snowden revelations that. our own government is spying on its own citizens who has turned all americans into foreigners as if we were. you know intelligence targets we can't make everything surveillance proof but what we can do is try to reduce the amount of exposure of e-mail metadata that's the data that says what the man who is from who we've stew to date and time and these days the method data in the mail header is is really
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important for being able to surveil a society and see who's talking to who governments under fire for spying or restoring to the well used national security defense british authorities claim the partner of reporter glenn greenwald who's been publishing the n.s.a. leaks was involved in espionage and terrorism simply for carrying documents supplied by edward snowden that claim was made in a scotland yard statement at a court hearing now david miranda was detained at a london airport in august questioned for nine hours and then released without charges after that he took legal action against the u.k. government demanding the return of materials police seized from him the authority started their own pro criminal probe without spelling out the basis for the investigation he said they were reviewing items rwanda was carrying which included fifty eight thousand documents from u.s. and u.k. intelligence. and as
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a revelations have been piling up and many believe more leaks are to column so what impact will they have that's what we're asking you on our website today and so far sixty percent say politicians will talk more about privacy but do nothing almost a quarter are predicting that a rise in public discontent and more protests will happen a little more than ten percent believe there will be no effect at all if everyone's already used to be easily and a minority the smallest number just four percent are hoping for steps to secure privacy and in fact curb surveillance had r.t. dot com and cast your vote right here we have plenty more ahead for you. have a right to join the free trade zone in just a few minutes we'll look at whether ukraine's businesses will really benefit from the move don't go away.
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on november the sixth more than four hundred cities around the globe are hosting mass rallies for seared justice freedom. followed million mask march on our t.v. and our t.v. dot com delivered george is on a big journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty to one. in a record setting trip. there. are numbers. let's take a large relay. on mars. welcome
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back to watching our live from moscow the leader of the pakistani taliban has been killed by a u.s. drone strike prompting anger from islamabad pakistan says the move will sabotage the government's attempts to curb violence via peace talks with the taliban the group has vowed to avenge the death of their leader several times it has been claimed that how can move soon has been killed only for him to turn up still alive he had expressed a willingness to hold serious talks with the pakistani government and said he was waiting to be approached as apparent death comes as the pakistani government sent a delegation to start peace negotiations and peace activists nor mirror says this latest drone strike could severely tarnish u.s.
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pakistani relations this is an absolute defiance of. on behalf of the u.s. government of what in the washer you've had explicitly stated was necessary for poc son to take the matter into its own hands and this just seems to be a slap on the face to say your peace talks really do not mean anything to us and it seems to be the u.s. stating that it it wants absolutely nothing to do with the pakistani government's stance on this so we see a regression in terms of in terms of where we could be heading. ukraine's preparing to sign a landmark partnership deal with the european union at the end of november it would guarantee the former soviet republic free trade axis but is the country's car industry ready for the change artie's alexy or investigate. entering the association agreement with the e.u. is being sold to the public as a step forward and while indeed the country's farmers might enjoy better export deals with a projected four hundred million euros annual profit the machinery bosses are not
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so happy the country's factories might simply not be able to afford modernizing to use standards that would cost almost a staggering one hundred thirty billion euros and that would repeat the fate of the industrial giants who have already been caught in that trap hungary's bus factory it was the leader in public bus production throughout nineteen seventies europe producing more than fourteen thousand buses a year in two thousand and seven is shut down having failed to compete on the european market it's now reopened only to export small shipments of buses to latin american countries and repair all their models in the one nine hundred seventy s. poland's lightweight delivery buses were exported to over one hundred countries all over the world but in two thousand newsome orders and f. a c. factories both vanished from the face of the earth after being purchased by dell and g.m. respectively lot to be as rough buses were well known in the year in the soviet union those were probably the most widespread public transport vehicles on the country's roads but in the one nine hundred ninety s.
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the company failed to meet standards and lost the eastern market as well who were so keen on your integration that it blocked roughs last ditch attempts to save itself through a merger with a russian gas company in one thousand nine hundred the car factory was officially declared bankrupt there are more examples of such failures in central and eastern europe all united by one issue failure to survive in the european market as things stand it's hard to imagine which industrial enterprises in ukraine would be able to avoid the same fate. well it's just stirring footage we have available at our t.v. dot com. these pictures allegedly show california prison guards using pepper spray against the naked screaming mentally ill in they forcing him to take medication and on line for the full video. gathering intelligence the launching strikes at up to six times the speed of sound a u.s.
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company on vale's plans to create a new supersonic drone more on that project at r.t. dot com. write the scene. first for you and i think that you're. on our reporter's. instrument. to be in the. press and media freedom worth nothing. when it comes to the interests of multinationals we have a media that is corrupted by power mostly by corporate power you have corporate ownership from the top corporate advertising coming in from the side we have the media this is where advertising and money and corporate influence is really the
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mother's milk a documentary filmmaker is being sued. for the truth is being told a private investigator so something so you think. even reading it happens people buy and sell those kind of services all over the world when you've got hundreds of million dollar industry that needs to protect its reputation a few million being spent on an only campaign to do just that is probably goods good money wells will spend. so what will be the budget in the big boys going bananas. on november the fifth more than four hundred cities around the globe are hosting mass rallies for seared justice freedom. followed million mask march on our t.v. and our t.v. dot com.
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look now at some news in brief this hour starting with the shooting at los angeles international airport. i saw him coming out of the elevator and i want to buy about ten feet away from me with this guy who did. he just grabbed the rifle like like he knew how to write it just you don't believe it's really it's like seeing something on t.v. police say the gunman who opened fire on friday sent a suicide text message to his father prior to the incident soon after a twenty three year old paul sincere stormed into a crowded terminal killed the security agent and wounded several other people the shooter was overpowered but the incident set off panic and the stampede parts of the world's sixth busiest airport were evacuated and over seven hundred domestic flights disrupted get all the updates on this developing story on our web site r t dot com. in other news more than one hundred firefighters battle a major fire at
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a scrap metal yard in the east of london and it's believed to contain hazardous gas cylinders it started just hours before firefighters were due to walk out on strike over salaries and changes to pension conditions. two members of greece's far right golden dawn party have been killed in a shooting and were attacked at close range from a motorcycle outside the group's office in the capital after the incident comes amid a government crackdown on golden dawn after an anti fascist rapper was stabbed to death this september. the british banking system is going down the drain that's according to max kaiser. it's all in a day's work for this woman she opens up a manhole cover and scoops out this much slower because she can delighted by what she finds as you see she was pulling the gutter oil straight out of the sewer and then processing and giant vats of toxins and chemicals in order to create the
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gutter oil there's an analogy here between converting these sewer garbage that slop into reprocess to bits available as a combustible or yes on the street with the slump in the financial system so they take credit they take collateral that's been abused and has been sold down and resold hundreds of times and they put it on the balance sheet of the bank of england and the bank of england exchanges fresh slop me in the form of a guilt which is then the collateral upon which the housing bubble in london is based and if you were to examine the balance sheet of the bank of england you would find a process pork slop and gutter slop and oil and all kinds of dog bar bit on the. you know fill in whatever it is.
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france has issued a radius alert after a kitten died of the disease which is potentially deadly to humans there is no known treatment to the cured the infection if it has taken hold european health officials are working hard to prevent further outbreaks but in the u.k. the government has recently relaxed controls artie's probably boycott explains. nowadays every man and his dog can travel to the u.k. can you imagine the price of every friendly animal you meet. imagine the rabies in britain back when this public information video was made westminster sphere of rabies was so high that any animal coming into the country had to enjoy six months in quarantine first rabies is a killer we must keep rabies out but the rules were relaxed last year when britain was forced to join the european union's pet travel scheme. it's a bit like the razor system these dogs have come a lot from brazil run by the way vietnam in thailand they all need to be
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quarantined upon entry to the u.k. but pets coming in from europe and some other countries are exempt so all they need is a pet passport and a microchip. since the scheme started there has been seven hundred fifty one cases of rabies in animals in romania and three hundred eighty five in poland the latest case of the disease was in holland there was no longer the requirement for a blood test on a six month wait which means that the doc can be vaccination be within the u.k. within three weeks which bears no resemblance to the integration period easy's those who work with animals say that angry at the government's failure to challenge the e.u. directive and safeguard the u.k. and saudi we are going and everything europe that seems to say we seem to have to we're not protecting ourselves we seem to side in the slot sights and sounds we've put ourselves at risk this pictures owners take her in an ounce of the u.k. on a regular basis this is what her e.u.
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pet possible looks like but campaign to say that less so easy to forge the number of dogs being smuggled into the u.k. illegally has increased by food hundred percent since the rules were relaxed. that dog can be brought into the country going to a mix in a park with other dogs if that dog was a carrier they nixed those policy known to other animals then you've got it out right travel. it cools absolute devastation the department for environment through denver left fast says the risk of a dog with rabies entering the u.k. is still extremely low but animal charities disagree several have already said that that's stocking up on rabies vaccines in order to protect best. london's. i'm next on our team find out what happens when a filmmaker takes on a giant food corporation.
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a spanish language teacher in texas has been fired for posing nude in playboy before she became a teacher parents and found out about this demand that she be fired because her past was inappropriate and that it was a distraction the classroom well this was something she did in the past which was legal so this i mean if you pose for playboy you are forbidden to work in a normal world also as a former teenage boy i can tell you that any young attractive teacher will cause a distraction with the boys and wolf you can fire people for being distracting that when they have to for every teacher with a handicap or abnormal appearance on the other hand though teachers are supposed to be people for children to respect and to look up to and when you're spares teachers
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warned of so of the good stuff for money to playboy it is a lot harder respect that sort of person and it sure isn't a good example for my daughter this is actually a very complex issue but i can say is that you should really try. to fight the temptation to make quick money with some nude photos it could come back to haunt you but that's just my opinion. it's not to say that your story isn't given the fans voice and given fair coverage from your perspective but it's something that they have got better relationships with the press than you do and they're being stupid is appealing for not to be using those to their advantage. i know i understand that i'm up against the huge machine employing scare tactics need to control p.r.
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spin and dirty tricks these lobbying and public relation firms provide a variety of services among the services that some of these firms provide is to actually plant opinion pieces for what we call op ed in american newspapers. they have people on staff who do nothing but sit around all day and write up an opinion piece then they'll go out to a think tank or to a university and recruit someone there with a big name to put their name on the piece and then they will plant the piece in an american newspaper when we got the opposition and saw this david ginsburg declaration i was personally surprised he's in the l.a. copyright society an organization i was president of one time and i remember when we admitted him into the society and and that's a group of people who are primarily defense oriented you know representing filmmakers defending against these kind of claims so so why did don't bring in.
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david ginsburg provided a declaration in which he basically summarizes the film and sort of agrees with dole's characterizations of certain aspects of the film being false there is a paragraph in here that is sort of startling where he compares heuer film to a world war two era propagandist. example i will give here with relevance to the film dramatically and he's talking about your film goes back decades to the nazi era anti-semitic film. the eternal jew so what he's doing here is he's equating your film to a propaganda piece that was trying to essentially justify the massacre of jews to go out and list somebody and say we'll give you a script of what to say and will pay to say it and we want to pay you in particular because you might be somebody known to be on the side of filmmakers so it'll be
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meaningful that you're turning against one of your own you know is is is really disappointing. money talks. the internet it seems. i found out the dole had both my name on google whenever you googled my name. would follow. even our own movie trailer would have a doling. aggressive comments appeared in a commentary tract after online articles. falls grassroots on the internet. there is no question it's cool that people at the moment in strategic communications are using false identities in the virtual space to raise awareness of certain issues.

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