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a police officer to tell you why and how intense to protect. in the us the rest of the news move over california the netherlands yes that tiny little country in northern europe is the place to be when it comes to eating healthy and your poor put out by the anti-poverty nonprofit oxfam is ranked all the countries in the world according to the ability of their population to access and tricia's and healthy food to get their rankings oxfam researchers scored each of the world's one hundred twenty five countries top one hundred twenty five countries according to how they measured up to four main questions people have enough to eat can people afford to eat is food of good quality and what is the extent of unhealthy outcomes of people's diets but all the results were tallied the netherlands came in number one france and switzerland both came in

a close second of the united states was tied with japan for twenty first place chad which is located to africa and borders the war torn country of sudan comes in dead last so what makes the netherlands such a model for healthy eating and welcome policy makers here in the united states do to make sure that americans can start challenge down like the dutch joining me now for more on this is going director of policy for food security hunger agriculture and trade at oxfam america going thank you for joining us thanks for having me good to have you with us what makes the netherlands so great it's the dealers who are studied looked at a variety of factors to see how eaters do how consumers of food do in these countries and we look at some of the traditional issues like how expensive food is and where the people get enough to eat but we're also looking at issues like the quality of the food whether food prices go up and down and whether food outcomes that is to say people's health are good as well and that's what's a little bit different and that's why the netherlands rate so well not only in.

food affordable and cheap and plentiful but their health outcomes are better than many other rich countries i lived in europe for a year and lived in germany but i spent a fair amount of time in holland and in the middle and. what i know from germany we lived in a small town in germany everybody's backyard and very often their front yard was a garden people didn't have grass that was that's an affectation that we got from the from the british aristocracy. is that the case in the netherlands as well as that is that part of it that people actually the people grow a lot of their own food or. is that just incidental to this well the netherlands. is a food exporter and quite a big horticultural producer so they have a lot of vegetables that they grow there it's not clear whether that's what's driving the better food outcomes for the netherlands but generally what we're what we find is that they have a more diverse cuisine and that they have less diabetes and obesity and then other rich countries too so the focus isn't just on making food cheap and plentiful but

also something about the culture or the policies is making people healthier it's it's very interesting we here in the united states it's if you want to go out and buy food prepared food. it's so much cheaper to get something to take chicken for example it's so much easier to get you know wings with with sauce that's you know just full of fat and sugar and salt and fried and then to get a you know a lean. piece of chicken breast i don't eat chicken but it's just an example i thought why is it that in america junk food the stuff that's really bad for us the stuff the poisons us is cheaper than the stuff that's actually good for us and why is it that the opposite is true apparently in the no one's yeah well this is this is part of what our point in our paper is trying to point out is that there are different food models and it's a structural story there are structural issues and probably a role for government to take a stronger action we're just beginning to see the begin. things of public policy

beginning to trail this because obesity and diabetes are such big burdens on the population not only for done just on health but on our systems our health system and so forth that we really need to begin to think about how to turn turn the corner on our health related to food and the american model is bad we see that the more that mexicans eat like americans there's very good studies on this now the more unhealthy immoral because they become so that was with asian immigrants in the fifty's and sixty's are some good science done in that immigrants tend to be healthier and eat better but as they become more americanised they become more obese and more diabetes and mexicans living in mexico the more they watch american t.v. and they and the more they speak english and don't eat tacos the fatter they are so so yeah so even if they don't even come to america to get that america guess is that contagious that's the point and we're worried about this the spread of bad food models to other countries that's that's remarkable there was a study that was published a week or so ago about how in schools that offer junk food that have vending

machines or that even just offer. you know candy or or cookies i mean just you know whatever that they have higher obesity levels than in schools that don't and and then there was a interesting subtext that the kids who actually had to pay for desserts as opposed to you know with cash as opposed to with a credit card or had to pay for desserts as opposed to getting it for free there was a measurable outcome so they are there are we finding the the little levers that we can turn that will produce big changes in obesity yeah we're trying some of these little nudges to try to make bad food look more costly and good food easier and cheaper but it's not clear that that will solve all the problems we may need to take bigger steps at the same time we need to be mindful that there's a lot of people on the planet who don't have enough food to eat it all a lot of children that don't get good nutrition and this report is trying to tie together the best with the worst and recognize that we're in one global food system and we need to. make sure the at the top of the bottom we're doing well and we're

incredibly wasteful here in the united states. i'm wondering also if i mean holland has had a national health care system since after world war two as has virtually all of the rest of europe and the german one goes back to the eight hundred ninety s. . might those countries be making decisions that result in healthier outcomes as matters of both public policy and social pressure because people don't want to be spending you know more in taxes or whatever you know for the national health system and could you know the advent of obamacare of a national health care system or the you know vestige of peace of one here in the united states could that be pushing us to do this well we hope so but what you're doing is connecting health care health and food and which are often very disconnected in our lives in here in the in your and in other countries too i couldn't say whether because they have better health care system that's why the

dutch are healthier and eat healthier there may be some connection there and why is saudi arabia so low on the right yeah they're very affluent so they have access to a lot of food it's cheap and not necessarily very good you can't grow a lot of fruits and vegetables when in saudi arabia so probably the proximity the lack of proximity to food grown makes a difference and then because people it's very hot i think people tend to be more sedentary so you have a lot of obesity there remarkable remarkable stuff going thank you so much for being with us tonight thanks ron it's great to meet you thank you. in tonight's green report we are standing in the middle of a climate change driven extinction of them and while you might not understand it you will certainly and can certainly feel it right now large portions of the united states are once again feeling the bone chilling effects of the so-called quartet.

normally these frigid temperatures dip down from the arctic into northern portions of canada and that's a bit lately they've been going all over way down from the arctic to cover you and me much of the u.s. in the first polar vortex hit earlier this month there were record low temperatures from chicago to florida so why is the arctic express suddenly taking over so much of the united states it has to do with something called the jet stream the jet stream is a river of air i above the earth the usually determines what kind of weather different locations are going to get typically the jet stream moves quickly from west to east in a straight line direction but lately the last few months the jet stream has been bouncing north and south which causes these more extreme weather events from severe thunderstorms and tornadoes to arctic like temperatures and blinding snowstorms for example back in june of last year mcgrath alaska at ninety four degrees fahrenheit one day after being only fifteen degrees fahrenheit

a few weeks earlier. and thanks to a crazy jet stream and superstorm sandy hit in october of two thousand and twelve it took the strain of turn from the atlantic ocean straight in neutered into new jersey something that happens once every seven hundred years or so. it's right now weather experts and scientists are still trying to figure out why the jet stream has been so out of whack and many of them are suggesting that the quiet might change and globally global warming basically over climate change are to blame. called joe the drunk jetstream meanwhile as weather experts are trying to figure out the jet stream scientists in the arctic are trying to figure out why there's so much more us. thanks to warming temperatures in the upper portions of the canadian arctic ice that's been frozen for thousands of years is melting and revealing a lot including ancient seriously ancient boss. scientists have found

a poly rift poly poly through moss it is in the melted ice that prove that the planet's current warming is absolutely unprecedented in the memory of any kind of human civilization that's because of the loss had been exposed to any other point in time to be nice it would have been destroyed but now here it is we're finding it fresh moss analyzing the moss scientists found that those samples some of the samples buried under that ice were between twenty four and forty four thousand years old. that means that in some places in the canadian arctic temperatures are today the highest they've been in at least the past forty four thousand you. from ancient was in the arctic to record low temperatures riding a crazy jet stream effects the global warming and climate change are having our on our environment are getting clearer and clearer.

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detainees out of the prison or otherwise close that complex regardless whose fault it is though it's encouraging to see people in the military call out want for what it is a national embarrassment and a threat to our most basic. bad. suzanne tennis the republican illinois congressional candidate is under fire today for comments she made to the chicago dairy daily herald about god punishing americans for their so-called sinful lifestyle she told the daily herald that she believes god controls the weather and has put tornadoes and diseases such as autism and dementia on earth as punishment for gay rights and legalized abortion. you don't know the saddest part of all with views like that susanna tennis would probably be in the more moderate wing of the house tea party. and a very very ugly gordon den linger while everyone else was busy celebrating martin

luther king day on monday the pennsylvania state representative was busy proposing his so-called freedom of conscience amend it passed the amendment would change article one of pennsylvania's state constitution so that the government could not punish an individual or entity if the individual or entity makes hiring or other employment decisions or provides services accommodations including housing advantages facilities goods or privileges based on sincerely held beliefs that's right representative of. freedom of conscience amendment would you legalize discrimination as long as the person doing the discriminating does so according just and serially held beliefs whatever that. pose in a moment like that is terrible enough on a regular day the fact that representative dangar would do so on martin luther king day. that is for you a little. crazy

to learn google i did love. randi tech lovers rejoice that there is now an app to create sex tapes with their google glass it's called glance and according to its creators the app is going to revolutionize love making idea behind lance a simple suit your partner says it's to use the app all you need to do do is turn off the lights roll down the covers and say ok glass it's time and glass will stream what you see to each other so the you and your partner can watch yourselves doing that or the beat when you're finished just say ok glass pull out partners who want to even think your experience can connect glanced up to their phone so they can watch themselves getting it on from multiple angles at a time when you're all done ones all the footage together to create a twenty first century sex tape with all the presents getting signs pointing

towards a glance becoming a success there's still no word on whether or not it's developers plan a partner in their app with the virtual sex simulator that's taken in japan by storm. in eighty four year old man is recovering today from a brutal attack on the streets of new york his name is k'ang wong and he was jumped as e.j. walked across a busy street in manhattan he was. then thrown up against a wall and left with cuts all over his face since been sealed up with four metal

staples the attackers then brought wong to the nearest police station where he was booked on charges of jaywalking and resisting arrest came along as attackers you see were new york city cops the city's police commissioner bill bratton who has said that excessive force wasn't used in his arrest but that statement doesn't. face up to much muster it's pretty clear the cops overreacted doesn't speak any english and it looked like he was resisting the officers in question that's almost certainly because he didn't understand a word they were saying understandably his family now plans on pressing charges. arrest is outrageous of its own right but it also speaks to the broader problem of police brutality in this country in some places police culture is very professional in others it's just plain militaristic or jaco wist i know this from personal experience back in one thousand nine hundred six the olympics are coming to atlanta just like now with sochi trying to ramp up their security atlanta needed more

security for the olympics than it was available from the local police at that time i was writing a novel about a private detective and shadow in atlanta p.-i a now longtime friend named do it want to maker who has held a variety of jobs in law enforcement and plays the bagpipes for fun in georgia police academy had opened their doors to civilians that year with an executive protection training course for people who work for olympic athletes elites and visiting v.i.p.'s and do it got me into the course i did not only completed the course but getting a license for two years as a private detective in the state of georgia. most of the guys going through the course were small town cops who'd never had any professional training at all and what i discovered in the georgia police academy is that there are a lot of a really good really dedicated really smart people who aspire to or already work in law enforcement. i also discovered that there are a small number yahoos who are just really really excited about the chance to get a gun in a billet club and have the legal authority to kick this stuff in and somebody

actually counted one of those guys in the hand the hand part of the academy's course i still remember the bruises it's cops like that who do things like beat up an eighty four year old man for jaywalking it's cops like that to crack open a protestors head at an occupy wall street protest. part of this i believe has to do with how we talk about water first in the united states we don't solve crime we fight it we don't have a campaign to stop drug addiction we have a war on drugs we tell cops that they're in a battle with crime and when they act then they act accordingly like soldiers not public servants shouldn't be any surprise then that the number of swat team deployments swat teams being something that was actually pretty much on her toes when i was growing up jumped from around one hundred in the one nine hundred seventy s. to over fifty thousand in just the one year of two thousand and five. we've turned our public servants into warriors we've started to give up at the federal level at

least on the whole idea of community policing. the federal community oriented policing services program cops program. which provides resources for local police forces around the country was started in one thousand nine hundred four during the clinton ministration as part of an effort to put one hundred thousand police officers on america's streets and i mean literally on the street like walking the beat the idea was to get officers out into the community out of their cars and into the community where they could form relationships with everyday people and they could act more like teachers mentors friends community members act more like that than like soldiers madison wisconsin police officer katie adams a great example the kind of person the cops program was meant to create she's a neighborhood officer in a crime ridden north side of madison and unlike regular patrol cops in madison neighborhood officers are put in at risk communities to help make a difference and build relationships with citizens in the hopes of preventing

future crime. officer katie as everyone calls her is beloved in the communities that she patrols so much so the kids follow her wherever she goes she's even inspiring children in the communities to become police officers when they grow up as a clip from a local news story about her. though she knows will follow her i'm like the pied piper sometimes that's ok though even though officer katie doesn't have any kids of her own she has plenty here i'll bet love is for marie no fun she has connection with the cop comes over a shared passion marie wants to be a police officer their bond led to a job shadow some kids or even other people they have like a bad perspective on police officers and like they do this to do that now they care is about getting people to trouble but she gives up her script perspective like now i like that but the promise of every neighborhood having an officer katie. has become increasingly unlikely. that's because ever since the bush administration

republicans in congress have cut funding for the cops program virtually every year it's now been slashed by hundreds of millions of dollars one hundred thousand cops the bill clinton put on the streets most of them are gone that things have actually gotten worse over the past couple of years in two thousand and ten seven hundred ninety two million dollars is a lot in the form of federal grants of the cops program for local police forces across the country and that was a big cut from the clinton years by two thousand and twelve that number shrank to just one hundred ninety nine. we need to reverse this trend and ramp up funding for community policing. programs like cops encourage law enforcement agencies to do more than just catch criminals they encourage them to work with communities and in communities to create a culture of trust that breaks down the barrier between cops and civilians they always they also encourage police officers police officers like katie adler to work

towards solving the actual root causes of crime as opposed to trying to just stop its symptoms. not all police officers are bad guys the vast majority of my experience are actually want to do good by their community. but it's clear that by turning our law enforcement agencies into patel eons we've created an environment where violence is both more acceptable and more likely. if we really want to prevent people like kang wong from being brutalized at the hands of the people who are supposed to protect. and we need to totally rethink what it means to be a police officer in america. part of this means drawing down wasteful and ineffective initiatives like nixon's war on drugs to do nothing but alienate already vulnerable communities from law enforcement but we need to go bigger than we need to make a commitment to funding the cops program so the police work is seen not just as a way to catch the bad guys but as a way to serve communities all across the country. we also need to pay police as

professionals and thus hold them to professional standards just like we do in other professions this won't stop all police brutality but will go definitely a long way toward making sure that our streets become less of a battle zone and more of a place where we can all learn to live with each other in peace. that's the way it is tonight wednesday january twenty second twenty fourteen. don't forget democracy begins with you it's not a spectator sport get it get out there get active in occupy something tag your. world. it's technology innovation believes developments from

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