capable of manufacturing it and quantity. listen we may not know exactly what happened in syria on that fateful day but we do know that this war's have been based on lives before and we can't afford to let that happen again now it's back to set. the. very hard. to. get back with the terror threat there. was.

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 in fact many that have gone down in the story 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 the 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 shipping trucks and never.

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 six the us sort of weapons of the iranian government despite an existing embargo about 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 the 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 in their operations see the late journalist gary webb published an investigative series on cocaine trafficking and the congress 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 director deutch is the former los angeles police are going to take you that you can go throughout this go through for a little. 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 while the decepticons government spying is on the rise there's 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 operating independently from

government when it comes to undermining opposition forces 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 enjoyed by b.t.s. producer manual what. i'm still getting over your lindsey graham. well i've never heard a story like this many 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 we can vote these people out of office of 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 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 all these cases of corporate espionage that they've 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. reasons they're doing it for reasons like you said to meet that corporate bottom line and keep whatever corporate secrets they have to themselves and you were 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 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. form 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 legal 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 court as i call it 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. we wanted to 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 going to some activist organization going through

their trash and this happens a lot in example paperwork everyone yeah i mean piece is 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 craft 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 that a dirty trick. and i'm sorry but hacking into computers and informing that's insane 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 the

law enforcement on your side 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 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 the 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 and part of 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 ecuador oil spill 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 they're constantly looking for new ways to do this whether it's infiltrating an organization through activists or 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 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 they need only start getting the threats immediately started getting the cyber attacks and then journalists affiliated with wiki leaks 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 policy thank you so much for breaking down these agree just corporate crimes that go completely on the radar. of the brady guys i talked 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. they look like. weather can enjoy the sun and the ocean.

was buried here years ago. these people suffering the consequences. how much more poison lies on the ground. behind this there is what we. called the bank on which there is a deposit of plutonium left by security test which caused. despite previous cleaning efforts there remains a deposit of a little less than two kilos of plutonium stuck in the rock the coral reef about ten metres down. a never ending legacy. when you talk about working with the society of one who do you think should be in charge of determining which we use to tell it should be the people shouldn't be the government this is not a. right or left it's an issue about the fundamentalists more extremist.

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please please please please please please. i live. thirty years ago an eleven year old stunned an audience at a ted talk of bend in asheville north carolina his name was burke and bare 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 was seed is manipulated in a laboratory is a nod to 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 and tomatoes but this is just creepy. the seeds the seeds of them find didn't even grow the food they produce and 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 two modes 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 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 in 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 that 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. those. 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. it's said to g m o's 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 days. for a day rest from all sources scientific. sources even dr sarah lee new report was very interesting reading that and if you notice many of the ones that come out from independent studies. you see that they're quickly discredited by the people who hire them and that's because they're getting funding from the g.m.o. companies themselves. what do you respond to critics who say that g.m. of maximize crop yields conserve resources and. my view on that is that if you read the fine print most the most packages are contracts that they actually say that you will get better. and 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 excludes than if you take a organic squash the same size as nutrient in soil 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 notoriety and that's because as more nutrient dense qualities and more has more minerals and more micronutrients in the gmo. cultures what happened. do you think that there's any good to come out of genetic modification and. as of right now from what i've seen of how that how the dmoz are being sold and marketed i don't think i don't think there is because of the way to there's not there's not enough testing done on them by the

companies who used these g.m.o. some on the flat 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 from geno's in a long time you know burke what about the banning g.m. owes versus just pushing to label that because i feel like pushing to ban them it's such a huge endeavor seventy percent of the food in our grocery stores right now in the u.s. and of course all over the world what's your response to. my 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 they're 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 point. we can start start actually start the conversation and have hopes of getting chemos banned in the future and. there's multiple. stages i find in banning g m o's 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 that g.m.o. there's different ways of you can allow them in your food system why do you 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 biding against it i think it's more of the money in the power coming from the companies who have that in their best interest to keep g.m. most 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 at a label you know yes on props a proposition thirty seven yard sign and i didn't see any you know any dissent from ation or any of you know no no i'm thirty seven campaign ads and so i went to the middle of the country and there were most people are not you know not the most educated they seem to have a a no on proposition thirty seven commercial every you know every commercial break or at least more or more than that to every commercial break and i felt that they were really trying to target a certain audience of people and a certain level. where that people wouldn't want to you know they use oh oh there's it's going to it's going to cost us an extra hundred dollars on a grocery bill in 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 or they wouldn't even tell you what the food labeling was for another one 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 i'm across the u.s.

one of the main lessons that you've learned from. in travels i think one of the biggest lessons i've learned from going to different farms each farm everywhere in the united states had something innovative and unique to that farm in that place where there be the way that joe south and those around his chickens and cows or that you know just a little bit some something unique that somebody had done and that's what i try to find at every farm is something different that interesting and something with a package 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 ideas in a picture book. that book was really started to. have a reference for little kids for me because i remember when i was a young kid five and six years old asking my parents oh mom dad what's a farm or where does food come from and they all comes from a farm and you know that's the place out in the country where you know this big red

barn and some cows grazing in the patch passion with a very conventional idea of where food comes from and i didn't really get much more than that other than just this very day 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. i definitely think that anybody of any age can go out there make a difference as 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 going out and talk about it but i think that we can all start you know coming together with just in small groups and having dinners and maybe g.m.o. free friday sort of thing and. just you start sharing this with other people in the grassroots efforts that we see like opposition thirty seven of the bill in washington that you know i'm a little campaigns can turn out to be something big. with people like newburgh 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 veto the measure cited as concerns of 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. to defend the long court now thankfully in just a few weeks ago the quiet county council overrode american 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 signed a 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 this 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

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