welcome to break into said i'm abby martin so we're almost on the brink of war with syria yes that seems like just yesterday that obama was about to drop cruise missiles over the basket because assad allegedly crossed the red line just days after the august twenty first seran gas attack killed nearly fifteen hundred syrians the administration released an intelligence brief place in seoul blame on assad of the deadly assault even secretary of state john kerry well aware of the fabrications told by the u.s. to get into iraq assured us that quote we will not repeat that moment we've taken unprecedented steps to declassify and make facts available to people who can judge for themselves and although those facts were never laid bare mounting pressure forced obama into diplomacy but legendary investigative journalist seymour hersh

just wrote an article that tells a different story take a listen to what he said about the real reason obama decided to back down from a military strike. i'm telling you he didn't do it because the american people said no he knew it because he didn't have a case. there was incredible opposition there will be one it is written about it is maybe history books it was a credible operation from some very very strong minded constitutionally minded people in the pentagon amazin and hersh went on to write obama failed to acknowledge that the syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarin and the months before the attack the american intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports citing evidence that al nusra a jihadi group affiliated with al qaeda had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it and quantity. then we may not know

exactly what happened syria on that fateful day but we do know that this war as had been based on lies before and we can't afford to let that happen again now it's back to set. the legal. they are very hard to take under. the. law that or how to act with the terror threat there. but.

it seems like in today's society it's almost impossible to address government conspiracies without being painted as a lunatic but history proves conspiracies do exist and in fact many that have gone down in the store or record would shock people to the core if only they knew about them. this lack of context regarding events that have shaped this country is a detriment to an open and honest society which is why i was so disappointed to see an article in new york magazine that ridiculed a well documented government conspiracy the iran contra cocaine connection and reference to this scandal the article says quote this episode soon became fuel for perhaps the last great conspiracy of the twentieth century that the cia had spread to crack through america's inner cities the cia's shipping trucks well. but before i get ahead of myself let me remind you what the wrong contra was all about between one thousand nine hundred five and one thousand nine hundred sixty us

sold weapons of the iranian government despite an existing embargo that specifically for bade them from doing so what happened next was a set of secret operations aimed at swapping american hostages for these weapons and then they vary in those funds to arm a group of anti communist rebels and they called the contras but as president reagan once put it those contras were the moral equivalent of our founding fathers yeah if our founding fathers were also international drug traffickers see according to claim to be classified documents the cia had not only allowed the trafficking of cocaine nicaraguan contras but actually protected the drugs meanwhile in the reagan doctrine the cia was training and assisting their operations see the late journalist gary webb published an investigative series on cocaine trafficking and the contras in the one nine hundred ninety s. his findings were attacked of course by the u.s. government as well as several mainstream publications and eventually cost him his job but not without some glaring evidence coming to light his report led to

admissions by top officials on the relationship between the u.s. backed rebels and the and well known drug cartels of wishing to traffic cocaine to the u.s. these allegations are only reinforced when l.a.p.d. detective michael rupert confronted former cia director john boyish about the cia's connection to narco trafficking. i can tell you your voice your former los angeles police are going to thank you that you can go throughout the very early. yes that was an l.a.p.d. p.d. called testifying about cocaine being filtered through america's inner cities and if you just can't comprehend that the same government which is fighting a multi-billion dollar drug war is partially responsible for spreading the drugs want to look no further than the cultivation protection that the u.s. military is supplying for opium and afghanistan. the war torn country had nearly eradicated the crop prior to the occupation and now ninety percent of the world's

heroin comes from afghanistan so the next time you hear something dismissed as just a conspiracy theory maybe take a second to dig a little deeper than what's presented because you might be surprised at what you find. i i i i i i i. all of us already know about the extent of government surveillance and infiltration of activist groups across the country but we'll have decepticons government spying is on the rise there is another aspect of the trying to constantly overlooked corporate espionage think about it in the corporatocracy that we live in governments are merely outsourcing to private entities to collect all of our information and these corporations about in really good at it they know operate in higher li independently from government when it comes to undermining opposition

forces by perfecting a laundry list of dirty tricks some of the biggest corporations on the planet have managed to stay one step ahead of the activist who are trying to expose their corruption so they go over the top five craziest corporate tactics used against these groups activists and whistleblowers i'm joined by b.t.s. producer emmanuel below what. i'm still getting over your lindsey graham. well i've never heard a story like this and let's go over it you know what's really amazing is of course we don't trust the government but at least the government has some sort of constitutional limitations at least you can vote these people out of office and we really want to do people really woke up why should we trust corporations i mean we're talking about private entities who are just trying to protect their bottom line and act pretty much with total impunity here i think that's a totally valid question i have no idea what what is worse is a is government spying any worse than corporate spying but what we are learning now through this amazing report put forward by the center for corporate policy is. all these cases of corporate espionage that uncovered over the course of decades that

are now shows that the same tactics that are implemented by intelligence agencies here in the united states are now being adopted by corporations and then these corporations use them in the same way as the government does except you know they're not doing it for any. a lot of reasons they're doing it for reasons like you said to me that corporate bottom line and keep whatever corporate secrets they have to themselves and you're telling me earlier that this is actually not really happening worldwide it's kind of just i mean there's a lot more oversight on this kind of activity worldwide i mean i feel like it's broken your home and eggs and stole your computer actually knew it there would be some sort of legal repercussions exactly no that's one of the things that this that this report highlights in places like england and france i mean these are crimes that some of the tactics that we're talking about here are committed by really big corporations wal-mart monsanto dow chemical chevron are you surprised that any you know you have no right ok with wal-mart right and they're targeting mainly

progressive groups and g.m.o. activists animal rights groups. reform groups across your state people who are threatening their profit margin and like you're saying that some of the things that they're doing breaking into offices wiretapping phones these are very illegal but there is no congressional oversight in the united states so when other countries like france or england when this is when this is found out these people are made of mockery of in the media that prosecuted these do jail time for these things but here in the united states this is the way it is it's the cold and i'm cold but doctors say many you know collecting information that's not too shocking to me talk a little bit about really briefly on how they collect information generally right well we want to do kind of a top five list of tactics and i think that probably dumpster diving is the most common but it's also the one that isn't illegal i mean there's and there's nothing in the books that keeps you from you know going to some activist organization going through their trash and this happens a lot in example paperwork everyone yeah i mean pieces involved in a in

a lawsuit right now related to you know people going through the trash dow chemicals involved in a lawsuit regarding the tapping of phone calls kraft was involved in in another series of allegations related to them. snooping on on organizers and activists who oppose g m o's so these are these are just a few the tactics and like i said like the dumpster diving it's. seems more innocuous because it's not illegal but it's you know one of those like superficial things the dirty trick and yeah i'm sorry but hacking into computers and reforming that's the same they agree just then and here's another really crazy one hire cops i mean we're talk about corporations actually outsourcing now back to taxpayer funded police to do what exactly right i mean this is the report actually puts this in a really good way just like very clear way and what you can do when you have a law enforcement understand it kind of adds that extra layer of the community right so there's nothing that keeps

a corporation from being able to hire an active duty cop versus just a retired marine or retired cia agent and you know in the report they even say even active duty cia operatives are allowed to sell their expertise corporations are now able to replicate a miniature service of a private cia employing active duty and retired officers from intelligence and or law enforcement so that kind of gives you that added layer of protection if you're a corporation that wants to hide something it doesn't matter if it's. you know it's an oil spill in ecuador like chevron's you know constantly trying to kind of way get to get around ways of people finding out the truth there or or or anything else when you have the law you know law enforcement on your side that kind of when you have a private army of the one percent nanny let's talk about impersonating others which is really a common tactic used by government agencies infiltration of groups yet impersonating others and saying they are going to give it and we talk about this in terms of whenever the government whenever we hear about police officers that have

infiltrated an activist group or when you have the whenever you hear about the n.y.p.d. doing surveillance of muslim communities these are the exact same tactics used by corporations now chevron in two thousand and ten i'm going to use the accurate or else bill because it's very relevant there's this this case is still going on right now in new. but in two thousand and ten chevron had tried to recruit a journalist to kind of provide information that wasn't really factual it didn't reflect what was actually going on in ecuador and so the constantly looking for new ways to do this whether it's infiltrating an organization through activists word whether or not it's hiring people to do so and we only have about forty seconds left but the most crazy one is blackmailing outright blackmail and using it against these communities right groups or other and blackmail is illegal anywhere you think you can do this but i think that the best case that i can remember again from two thousand and ten is when we queue leaks and julian is assigned had announced that they were going to. you know. take down this major u.s.

bank because they had all this damning information they didn't announce what bank it was going to be but the only start getting the threats immediately started getting the cyber attacks and then journalists affiliated with with we could lease many of whom we've had here on our show and glenn greenwald for example the guardian they were receiving threats saying you know we're going to ruin your career if you continue to support wiki leaks in an effort to take them down and this is rampant and this report really shows that so i really encourage anyone to check out that report by the center for corporate also thank you so much for breaking down these agreed just corporate crimes that go complete and radar up a lot appreciate you don't mind if i do. have a break you guys i talk to a young man who is well on his way to becoming an agricultural expert and he's not even old enough to drive yet stick around.

big bucks for. everybody to do its job did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy shred albums. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once will just my job market and on this show

we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem try rational debate in a real discussion critical issues facing america to find a job ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. of. the the. couple. three years ago an eleven year old stunned an audience at a ted talk about and asheville north carolina his name was burton bear and he gave an impassioned speech about why he's against genetically modified foods take a listen. i discovered the dark side of the industrialized food system. first there's genetically engineered seeds in organisms that is what a seed is manipulated in a laboratory is it not into my nature like taking the d.n.a.

of the fish and putting it into the d.n.a. of a tomato yuk don't get me wrong i like fish tomatoes but this is just creepy. the seeds the seeds of them find in then ground the food they produce improve and cause cancer or other problems and that in people of many food producers places the mind to mind most folks don't even know they exist. burke is now fourteen but he hasn't stopped his crusade against him out and the fight against big agriculture he joined me earlier to talk more in depth about the dangers that g.m. could pose i started by asking him what trauma tackled the issue at such a young age. i really fell over the years as i learned more and more about this subject that i was especially as a little kid that i've been deceived in tricked by all these come to me as in these cartoon characters that i grew up with like you know tony the tiger on t.v. and sam and i just i felt like to myself that i need to let the american public my friends and family

a lot of the people i meet know about what i was learning in that it was such an important thing and to me i think food is one of the most underrated subjects in our culture these days because it's something so important that we have to eat three times a day or you know we starve and eventually die without it and that nobody really knows what's in their food or where it comes from it's very true talk about what you have learned throughout the years what do you think the biggest danger is of consuming g.m.o. this. well showing from a lot of the studies that i've read in terms of studies from monsanto other g.m.o. producing companies and also i mean articles i've read from the institute for responsible technology. said to gene most can lead to many things from kidney and liver disease kidney liver toxicity tumors in cancer and i. infertility in those situations in many of these ninety day. forty day rest from all

sources scientific. sources even dr sarah lee new report was very interesting reading that if you notice many of the ones that come out from independent studies . you see that there quickly discredited by the people who hire them and that's because they are getting funding from the gmo companies themselves. what do you respond to critics who say that jim of maximize crop yields conserve resources. my view on that is that if you read the fine print on most g.m.o. seed packages are contracts that they actually say that you will get better. better yield if you have property irrigation but isn't that true with all crops that if you get proper irrigation you'll have better better yields and without it in that if you really look the majority of time you don't see much of a difference in. kneels from both crops and i think that many

inorganic. inorganic crops are g.m.o. crops that you'll actually see more of a nutrition density and again accidents than if you take a organic squash the same size as nutrient dense oil versus g.m.o. of crops and you put them on the scales right next to each other again exposing that same size of the g.m.o. will actually weigh more than the more than the g.m.o. variety and that's because as more nutrient dense qualities and more has more minerals and more micronutrients in the gmo in. a modern crop cultures what happened. do you think that there's any good to come out of genetic modification of . as of right now from what i've seen of how that how the deimos are being sold and marketed i don't think i don't think there is because of the way that there's not there's not enough testing done on them by the companies who use these g.m.o. some on the flesh food industry and that just from my observation that our

farming does not have we don't have the technology to really make them safe for people's consumption i don't think there's any good that will be able to come out from geno's in a long time you know burke what about the banning g.m.o. is versus just pushing to label them because i feel like we're pushing to ban them it's such a huge endeavor there and will be seventy percent of the food in our grocery stores right now in the us and of course all over the world what's your response to that. response to that is that trying to get g.m.o. stand here in the united states is sort of like trying to go across the country and one day without making any stops you know you're trying to take and there are such such a big undertaking that really we're not prepared for and we don't have the power or the fuel to do it but i think that we can by giving them a label it can start. it's the first plate. we can start start actually start the conversation and have hopes of getting g.m.o.

is banned in the future and. there's most. stages i find in banning team those like i was just in russia earlier this year and. they have they have g m o's in there but they ban them from production but not from importation so we'll see. g.m.o. there's different ways of you can allow them in your food system i think there's so much opposition to labeling them as we know we saw prop thirty seven fail in california and the proposition just failed in washington. i feel like it's not so much biting against it i think it's more of the money and the power coming from the companies who have been the best interest to keep g.m. those not labeled. i was in california a week or two right before proposition thirty seven was voted on and i was in san francisco and i was in some of the larger cities there and you know every. yard out of five yards out a label you know some props proposition thirty seven yard sign and i didn't see any

any dissent from ation or any you know no no i'm thirty seven campaign ads which the middle of the country and there where most people are not you know not the most educated seem to have a unknown proposition thirty seven commercial every you know every commercial break or lease to early more than that to live a commercial break and i felt that they were really trying to target the certain audience of people and a certain level. that people wouldn't want to you know they just so oh there's it's going to it's going to cost us next one hundred dollars on a grocery bill and that we don't want to buy this because it's going to cost so much and they wouldn't the funny thing i thought about the. the commercials that they would meet and tell you what the food labeling was for another you said a good part of the last five years traveling to different organic farms you were just saying that you've been traveling all over russia across the u.s. one of the main lessons that you've learned from. travel's i think one of the biggest lessons i've learned from going to different farms each farm everywhere in

the united states has something innovative and unique to that farm in that place whether it be the way that it will sell to moves around this you know chickens and cows or that you know just a little bit some something unique that somebody had done and i that's what i try to find in every and every farm is something different that is interesting and something with practice that i may want to use in the future and talk about your book and burke on the farm what was the main message and why did you choose to convey the idea is that a picture book. that book was really started to have a reference for little kids and what farming is because i remember when i was really young kid five or six years old asking my parents oh mom dad what's a farm or where does food come from make all comes from a farm and you know that's the place out in the country where you know there's big red wine or some cows grazing in the packs passion with a very conventional idea of where it comes from and i didn't really get much more

than that other than just you know this very vague idea of what a farm is and where our food comes from what's your message to young people to care about these issues and take an active role in protecting the food supply today. yeah i definitely think that anybody of any age can go out there make a difference and i have in i started out six years ago just talking with friends and family about what i was learning on the internet and after three years of doing that i was given a great opportunity to go out and talk about it but i think that we can all start you know coming the other with just in small groups and having dinners and maybe g.m.o. free friday sort of things and. just you start sharing this with other people in so in these good grassroots efforts that we see like proposition thirty seven in the bill in washington that you know in small little campaigns can turn out to be something big. with people like you burke i have hope for the future of this plan. thank you so much for prayer speaker author you food advocate really appreciate

your time thank you very much a pleasure talking to you. regardless of how much public support exists for the labeling of genetically modified foods communities across the u.s. are facing an uphill battle against the monsanto's and some of the world this battle is exemplified of far from the shores of the mainland u.s. i'm talking about the whole why an island of. this in a historic vote last october the quiet county council passed a measure to force agricultural companies to disclose their pesticide use and the type of g.m.o. crops they grow on the island in a surprising move the mayor of kwai or not a car velo sided with big ag and vetoed the measure citing his concerns that the bill would undermine several state and federal laws and because public outrage at the mayor was so severe he released

a legal document from his county attorney to prove his concerns and the problem is that releasing this confidential document gives these agricultural giants the exact legal blueprint they'll need if he has to defend the long court now thankfully just a few weeks ago at a quiet county council over road america bellows vote veto rather and passed the bill no doubt paving the way for future of legal fights but just a few islands away on the big island of hawaii a mayor who has not been brainwashed by corporate interest has stood up to big agricultural just last week hawaii county mayor billy can always sign the first of its kind bill into law that would prohibit biotech companies from operating on the big island and prevents farmers from growing any new genetically altered crops now notably the bill does exclude the island's g.m.o. papaya industry but those law goes further to promote community based farming and ranching than any other. law in the country can neuer promoted this controversial

bill despite strong opposition from the majority of the items farmers. noise is on the right side of history here with the passage of this bill the big island joins countries like mexico which banned all g.m.o. corn last month and italy which prohibited the planting of monsanto g.m.o. corn back in july because despite what these biotech companies would like us to believe there is absolutely no scientific consensus on the safety of g.m.o. foods in fact less than two months ago a group of two hundred thirty scientists from around the world including one of the scientists who helped develop their original g.m. tomato signed a statement criticizing the amount of disinformation about these foods so cudos to connive for having the courage that mayor covello does not and helping further a real dialogue about these frankenstein crops. before i get out of here let me tell you i want you to check me out on twitter and abby martin if you like what you see you can follow me there you'll find all my tweets linking to segments from the show including random thoughts i have throughout the day and also please help us

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