terry 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 and there was incredible opposition that will be one of his aides written about his maybe in history books that was incredible 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. listen we may not know exactly what happened 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 i'll expect to set. the little.

they are very hard to take a. look. at 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 governor. 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'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 in one thousand nine hundred sixty us sort of 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 class 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 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 boy about the cia's connection to narco trafficking. i can tell you your voice the former law if you are going to take you. through out there are a lot. 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. look 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 is another aspect of the trying to constantly overlooked corporate espionage think about it 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 activists who are trying to expose their corruption so they go over the top five craziest corporate tactics used against

these groups activists and whistleblowers and i b.t.s. producer emanuel rob below what i get out of the 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 cause additional limitations at least to get a vote these people out of all. 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 and 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 the 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 patriotic reasons they're doing it for reasons like you said to beat that corporate bottom line and keep whatever corporate secrets they have to themselves and they 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 right 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 chemical chevron are you surprised with any of those yet right ok with wal-mart right and they're targeting the mainly progressive groups and g.m.o. activists animal rights groups. reform groups a 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 wire

tapping 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 as i call it but doctors say many. i can 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 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 opposed to most so these are these are just a few the tactics and like i said like the dumpster diving it's times for diving 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 about hacking into computers just like i mentioned before i mean that's insane they agree just then and here's another really crazy one higher 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 a 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 a way to get get around ways of people finding out the truth there 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 for 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 spill

because it's very relevant there's this this case is still going on right now in new york but in two thousand and ten chevron had tried to recruit a journalist to kind of provide information that wasn't really factual that 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 were 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 julius had announced that they were going to. 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 complete and radar. i didn't break you guys i talked to a young man who's a well on his way to becoming an agricultural expert and he's not even old enough to drive yet stick around. i play this street cleaner who's in love with a waitress i go on stage managing that there's an audience i used to take drugs and drink like a fish. the police told me about the circus but i was such a punk i was like what circus.

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the. thirty 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 was seed is manipulated in a laboratory is something 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 and tomatoes but this is just creepy. the seeds the seeds of them find and then ground the food they produce them 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 o's 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 tricked by all these come to me as in these cartoon characters that i grew up with like you know tony the tiger 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 it 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 in 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 g m o's can lead to many things from kidney and liver disease kidney liver toxicity tumors in cancer in a. infertility in those situations in many of these ninety day. forty day rest from all sources scientific. sources even a 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 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 the most 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 that 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 next question 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 and. cultures will happen naturally. 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 used these g.m.o. some on up less 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 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 that sort 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 place where we can start start to 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 fighting 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.o. is 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 annoying proposition thirty seven commercial every you know every commercial break or least early more than that to live a commercial break and i felt that they were really trying to target a certain audience of people and

a certain level. way 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 going to cost so much and they wouldn't the funny thing i thought about the. the commercials with a wooden even 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. we're. the main lessons that you've learned from your 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 whether it 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 the 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 you know 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 things and. just you start sharing this with other people in the grassroots efforts that we see like opposition thirty seven below in washington that you know i'm a little campaigns can turn out to be something big. with people like. i have hope for the future of this planet thank you so much for prayer speaker author youth 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 coal why 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 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 if he has to defend the long court now thankfully in just a few weeks ago in a quiet county council over road america bellows vote veto rather than pass the bill no doubt paving the way for future 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 find a first of its kind bill into law that would prohibit biotech companies from operating on the big island and prevents farmers from going 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. unity 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 close to you for having the courage that mayor covello does not and helping further a real dialogue about these frankenstein crops. but 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 find all my tweets linking to segments from the show including random thoughts i have throughout the day and also please help us get break into such trend mean on twitter rosenhaus tags and we can get trending on the twitter sphere like today i'm trying to my recent interview with tyrrell's and her about how you plans to unite radical thinkers check it out you guys had a twitter at abby martin that's it for the show today or one check it out tomorrow or breakfast at all over again.

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