the. dog i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set i want to start off today's show by giving a shout out to nine hundred centuries abolitionist frederick douglass because today is his birthday so after escaping the shackles of slavery back in eight hundred thirty eight douglas became one of the leaders of the abolition movement as well as an extremely accomplished writer in order his leadership was an integral in raising slavery consciousness in the civil war era and after the war was over douglass helped lincoln move the emancipated slaves out of the south he proved the colonizing myth that black people were somehow inferior to whites completely wrong even though his dedication was primarily for black equality also believe in the equality for all disenfranchised minorities one scene famously said i would unite

with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong all i couldn't agree more so let's find that common ground in the spirit of frederick douglass and let's break the set. the please please please a little very hard to take a. look. at you ever had sex with that her right there.

yesterday on the show i talked about a pakistani man named kareem khan who is an active drone activist who filed a lawsuit against the u.s. and pakistani government after his son and brother were murdered by u.s. drone back in two thousand and ten well just before he was set to speak with european lawmakers about this horrific practice he was abducted from his home by twenty men some of whom were wearing police uniforms according to witnesses for entire eight days khan's whereabouts were unknown and only because of the tireless efforts of international activists putting pressure on both the u.s. and pakistani governments khan was just released today from his captors and now we know the horrifying details about what happened to him during that time so you can was taken to a cell where he was aligned folded and driven for hours i'm sorry after he was blindfolded and driven for hours according to human rights organisation reprieve while detained in mr khan was interrogated beaten and tortured he was placed in

chains and repeated the question about his investigations into drone strikes his knowledge of drone strike victims and his work advocating on their behalf after beating and torturing khan his kidnappers them through. from a van on the side of the road and told him not to speak to the media otherwise they would come back for him con expressed his gratitude to the activist community and said quote i never thought i would see my family again i know it's because of activists that i am free and i would like to thank them even though khan's case sparked international outcry was not unique by any means just last year the un sent a delegation to pakistan to investigate the thousands of people that been illegally detained or disappeared inside the country in fact according to dawn dot com in january of this year the pakistani government signed a law that codifies kidnappings just like cons some of the things this and saying a lot of law allows our special forces to be able to open fire on anyone committing

or likely to commit terror related offenses allows the government to detain any persons for a period not exceeding ninety days allows the government to withhold the details of anyone being detained under that order and anyone facing charges of the ordinance must prove their innocence to the court not the other way around so for now it's a miracle that khan is out of detention and back with his family despite the harsh attempts to silence dissent about drones he isn't backing down khan is still planning to go to europe to speak to parliamentarians about his story look no one should have to endure being tortured simply for speaking out it's a tactic that has needlessly murdered their family their active forces at play here to silence the voices on this matter and we can't get speak we cannot let that happen khan's release shows us that enough pressure and noise calling attention to these human rights abuses will allow justice to prevail.

over one third of this country is obese and while the. obesity makes the problem seem more mundane the truth is that obesity is one of the leading causes of preventable death in the us because it leads to other health problems like heart disease stroke diabetes and even cancer but obesity doesn't just hurt our health it drains our pocketbooks as well according the centers for disease control and prevention in two thousand and eight quote the estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the u.s. was one hundred forty seven billion dollars and the problem is getting worse by the year even after recognizing the problem how do we begin to turn the tide in a country where big mac is more fordable than a grocery store salad one professor alleges the answer to america's obesity epidemic is just a healthy dose of government regulation is also a lead contributor to

a new report the bolton of the world health organization that concludes that stronger government intervention is needed to slow and possibly even reverse the problem of obesity earlier i was joined by the lead author of this report and u.c. davis professor robert the day vocally and i first asked him which countries fared the best and the worst and his study. trial ninety ninety nine which is it doesn't say you know a united states highest level of economic freedom index and not a fast food consumption and obesity rates of course us as thirty five percent of the situates but these three times higher those switzerland france and these are around eight to ten percent these were get caught and. the most you create bus routes consumption per copy and there was levels of consumption and also you know more protected economies you terms of deregulation and exact type of regulations

are we talking about here antitrust laws sugar taxes can you give some examples of the type of regulations that you and the study propose. a good start could be for example tax all the structural sins. it's like soft drinks fast food and to subsidize fruits and vegetables with the revenues from these that it's. basically support even by adam smith the sugar tax and supported by adam smith in their wealth of nations in seventeen seventy six you can also list in cobol. that almost because. food sectors are domini if you will and call pollutants it's very difficult to have well a small farmers producing fresh and healthy foods in the economy. also all you need to. see the cultural sector to a usable i'm told by all to x. girls or moon's core. groups and you can also little

song lawsuit poor for small farmers switzerland is some of the lowest actually in peace it's a great cause small farmers have me sixty percent of their income comes from government subsidies. so yeah that's a good way to do reverts you. know i couldn't agree more with a kind of the and in the subsidies to massive ag corporations and kind of giving them more to small organic farmers i can agree more of that but in terms of the sugar tax i mean it seems like a great idea but now everything has sugar in them nearly all processed foods have sugar and of course we saw what happened with bloomberg attempt to ban. certain a certain amount i mean people don't really like that and also that would really raise the prices for pretty much all processed foods how do you expect people to get on board with that. well i think one of the problems is that it's

a big corporations out of control engles media they have a nice soul and you try and probably tell people are trying to control will and. hell if you policies big corporations and the so-called corporate libertarians those whom goyish liars and smear but they don't really. they they basically engage in massive come pains. basically museum floor and people of all the true information of all foods so all i think is is very very difficult but if. we can fight some of these tapings and make some reforms here and there i don't seek the support of course there is also this idea of deregulation has become almost like

a montra. all you want to get regulated by the so-called south correcting market this as shown to be a flawed idea especially during the financial crisis in two thousand and eight so we need to read this guy sion of the fundamental economic all the cities regulate global and national policies. economic story and. article all can sadder than market needs of plays but the market needs to be kept in its blades what about these giant corporations that you're talking about i mean here we see advertising basically brainwashing everyone into consume consume consume what do we do how do we began to combat them and actually push the government when the center of the government's been used as a tool for the market right now. yes i think that we need a massive social walkmans that will create for healthy policies you because you

feel that these corporations. themselves are we know all that for the families not profitable to produce healthy foods because actually to produce fast food and also processed braggarts is much more efficient and one economically sound so all you need to tolerate here to to fight is strength to want to relation and analyse crowther in terms of other ties you i think that. i think that some stats show that more than ninety percent of american score children recognize more or are makes all the. other fictional characters and the and of make dolls are more akin to his than the christian cross that's give you a glimpse of how our for propaganda as affected us and the ideal personal responsibility is really knows you curse if you think about

a six month year all of gears kids get a deal personal responsibility is completely bogus also because our dietary patterns and our he gave us is not to be affected by where you leave his home we leave and the larger social structures and we nations also these large differences in these two rates demonstrates that you can have different policies and you cannot assume that deregulation is a bridge well thank you very much really informative study and we really need to get on top of this issue dr avoid perfessor u.c. davis really appreciate coming on if you very much. coming up you guys will answer some viewer feedback stay tuned.

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a news report i mean grow up well i have one thing to say to you. no hold on the facebook laura wilson says in response to a segment where i called it a teacher for forcing creationism on students she says until now i had no idea that i behave the creator of the universe so much i took particular exception to your condescend remark about people who believe that one came from a man's rib while abby actually came from a man's prick or do you believe that you came from an egg that fell to the earth what actually knows shockingly i believe that i came from an egg being fertilized in my mother's ovaries through my father's sperm moving on to twitter at ya screw she writes i've been a fan for a while but lately a same to me more like c.n.n. just all the news spend same is god. all are you talking about and i've ever

watched c.n.n. yeah i should really really stop focusing on justin bieber's arrest and michelle obama's clothes sorry about that they're going on twitter at as it says i don't favor neutrality but is a journalist supposed to be so opinionated the answer is yes journalists should be opinion because guess what this is an opinion show and even if i tried to hide i wouldn't be able to my disdain for the horrific subject matter i broach on the daily look man things are changing advocacy journalism is on the rise it's time to stop tiptoeing around issues and call out things that we know are criminal time is running out and we have a country to take back now on with the show. today's the day we celebrate a naked toddler shooting pheromone arrows and dollar hearts otherwise known as

valentine's day and all those holiday has become all about cheesy cards and making the single people of the world feel like crap its origins are actually much darker see many historians believe that the holiday is based on an ancient roman festival february thirteenth to fifteen the roman celebrated the feast of looper called the the men sacrificed a goat and a dog then whipped women with the high that the animals they had just slain young women would actually line up to be hit because they believed it would make them fertile while this pagan ritual didn't sit too well with the catholic church so they tried to christianize it by linking the practice to the legend of st valentine's a man beheaded by the roman empire emperor claudius the second for performing secret marriage ceremonies gets a whole new meaning to the term head over heels of my right while the kinky and sadistic as i am origins of this holiday have largely been forgotten it seems like

the weird use of animals to promote fertility is still alive and well. this valentine's day size really does matter so if you want to score big points with your valentine go big with the big hunk of love bear from vermont teddy he's four and a half feet so let's face it no girl can resist a teddy bear that's just adorable. yes that's an actual product but i'm sure tens of thousands of people have already purchased because who wouldn't want to human size stuffed bear to get you all hot and bothered but the giant teddy ruxpin also reveals the true meaning of valentine's day has become love made in china products as it seems like this artificial hallmark and hershey corporate created holiday has become all about showering us with more on necessary garbage in fact intelligent thirteen american spent a whopping eight teen point six billion dollars on the holiday including one point six billion dollars on candy one point nine billion on flowers and don't forget the

golden jewelry four point four billion on diamonds of gold and silver ling in doing so listen love is obviously something to be celebrated but unfortunately this holiday does nothing more than manufacture pressure on all of us to submit to driv traditional gender roles and express our feelings through consumerism rather lauren martin of elite daily dot com probably gives the most cutting take when she writes quote we're still stuck on the idea that man has to make grand gestures and women must respond appropriately we're still stuck on the prehistoric notion that couples should be celebrated and individuals should be ashamed valentine's day is for imitators it's for people who don't know how to act unless directed by hughes not to mention this holiday sadly does little to actually bring couples together and fact dated journalist david mccandless and ten thousand facebook breakup notifications over the course of

a year and found the majority of breakups happen in the days following valentine's day as well as the two weeks. before christmas probably in part due to the enormous pressure and expectations surrounding the holiday so look i'm not trying to knock love or relationships i'm not trying to be bitter and i'm not trying to say that you don't need i'm just saying you don't need to wait to show it to your partner that you love them and if you do want to participate in v.-day and for god's sake please be more original than a giant stuff teddy bear that i can assure you no woman wants because reading all of your money just to fit in with some societal archetype of true love goes against everything that real love is supposed to be. the. last month fifty three year old ohio death row inmate named dennis mcguire was executed in

a way that had never been attempted before so that normally inmates are put to death using a specific chemical concoction thought to be humane humane in the sense of the prisoners supposed to feel no pain however in this instance the ohio prison decided to experiment with a cocktail that had never been tried before the injection comprised of the sedative madonsela hydro morphine a derivative of morphine this deadly mix took one hundred five entire minutes to kill maguire and according to witnesses he spent that time visibly struggling and gasping for air so why are states turning to such an unproven experimental methods of execution while last year european drug manufacturers announce that they would no longer be selling the u.s. pentobarbital one of the primary ingredient in traditional capital punishment because of ethical concerns but that didn't stop several death penalty states here in the u.s. from moving forward but the practice but beyond this barbaric barbaric ways this

country executes death row prisoners the very practice of capital punishment should be questioned here to bug. several of the most common arguments for the death penalty i'm joined by anti death penalty activist and host of moment of web series that i just said i want to clear to the moment of web. cam what's going on right before we get to the reasons of why people should or shouldn't support the death penalty i want to go back to the terrible chemical stuff that i just talked about i mean do you think that we should really make executing more humane and and don't you agree with that you told legislator that we should bring back firing squads yeah i think firing squads is definitely the way to go let's just go back to the wild west i mean after all this is like a caveman thing to do put people to death so why stop with a wild west i say just club people right now to take it back another step in this rocks and clubs. let's go over some of the most commonly cited defenses of punishment here when you hear a lot of people say how great it is how borden it is clear there's

a lot of. implemented here i don't know about you but i don't want my tax dollars going to kill i'm sorry going to keep murders a lively why should i pay to keep feeding murders in prison this is that's a great point well first of all it actually costs more to execute these people because of the court trials because of the mandatory appeals it costs a lot more to execute that it does give them a lot but secondly it's just weird to be like that person should die because it's ten cents out of my taxes a year ago ok so ten cents for a murderer no good you don't want to pay that what about twelve cents and it's a rapist well what about fifteen since it's a pedophile you took the pup look what kind of bargaining and dealing is this because you're twelve stones out of your tax dollars it's insanity it is. but you cannot deny you can be ok you can argue with that money or whatever we can argue about our pocketbooks all day mostly you cannot deny that killing people sends

a real clear message to all the would be murderers in the country to not kill exactly it's a great deterrent and that's. absolutely true in that it's not for every study that's over been done showing the way they're actually still killing people right now open early keep killing people despite the death there's no difference in states that have the death we don't have the death it would make sense because i think i'm not i'm not that i've experienced it but i think when you're murdering someone you're not that you're well let's see ten years down the road i want to put it. ok i mean even if it's more expensive to kill these people which you know who knows if you're if you're lying i'm not want to read it but it is it really isn't a deterrent even you know you're saying that they're still murders happen and i haven't seen any evidence to back that up but even if what you're saying is true what if it were your family let me seriously that is the argument what if that were your family were horribly killed and the question is do you mean my family killed by a murderer for murder or my family a family member was sitting on death row. in that as well as to what if it were

your family if there was it on death row. but then then we get down to the best reason right here in this business people are innocent and well. i want to go to go to one of the reasons. that people always give they always say when you get through all the steps they always get the last one where they go well it feels good listen it feels right to see jeffrey dahmer you know palmer some horrible person it feels good to see them die or use of them wouldn't feel good to see like the heads of goldman sachs and a u.f.c. fighting match with brock lesnar beaten with sacks of their own money yeah i feel pretty good and wouldn't feel good to see the real housewives of beverly hills have dry wall shoved in their mouths and spackled shut yeah it feel pretty good and would it feel good to see the heads of exxon and chevron drop in oil and then covered in bread crumbs and sent into a closure with exotic birds and hacked yeah it feel pretty good right why don't we

do those things because they're morally wrong so if we find all those things morally unacceptable why not a racist fault the death penalty and we haven't gotten into the racist thing yet i really do want to see the heads of goldman sachs know i go. to. somebody i know i know i know you do this i mean is this ok. but i think i didn't get to the racist thing which is they've done studies and an equal death penalty trials the number one determinant of whether you're executed race of the victim race of the video race of the perpetrator race of the victim of the victim so apparently you know killing a black person not that big a deal but you kill a white person you have harmed society ok so you could be will smith or oprah to death with a tennis shoe and that doesn't really matter but if you touch a hair on gary busey head then you have really harmed us that basically what it comes down to is the death of this completely not only a moral but it actually has had innocent people on death row in the past i mean

there's a couple famous cases troy davis of course i mean pretty much. nine hundred eleven and nine of the eleven witnesses recanted and one of the remaining two was the main suspect or the secondary suspect so he probably did it so all of to eleven witnesses ten you can wipe off and not to mention all the people that have already been exonerated through evidence on death row that they were already on does run they've been exonerated it's nineteen seventy three a hundred and forty three have been let off death row because they've been exonerated let's say why do you not say anything if they had just been killed a little faster we would have killed innocent people unbelievable and we camped out of time. but all day i did as a comedian moment of clarity thanks so much for coming on thanks. that's our show you guys i'll bring this up all over again next week and a great weekend guys. question

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