torturing khan his kidnappers them the room 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 on 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. this country is obese and while the prevalence of 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 and 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 and even after recognizing the problem how do we begin to turn the tide in a country where big mac. is more formal than a grocery store salad but 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 eight of the united states highest level of economic freedom to be x. and not a fast food consumption and obesity rates of course u.s. has 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 even with. the increase in bus routes consumption for poppy and there was also consumption and also more protected economy. 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. tax all the proceeds. like soft drinks fast

food and to subsidize fruits and vegetables with the revenues from these that. day solicit or that even by adam smith pressure tax and supported by adam smith in the wealth of nations in seventeen seventy six you can also as think of all. of those goods as food sectors that are dominique if you will and call pollutants is the issue calls to well a small farmers producing trash and healthy foods in the economy. and also all you need to forms in the cultural sector to use old i'm tired my all to x. girls or moons core. groups and you can also little in a song law suit ports or small farmers switzerland as some of the lowest auction u.b.c.

to rate 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 the 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 with 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 and media they had a nice little anytime called we tell. people are trying to come forward.

policies big corporations and the so called corporate libertarians those who girlish fire and smear but they don't really. they they basically engage in mass income pains. basically museum floor and people of all the true information of all foods so all i think is is very very difficult. if we saying we cannot fight so be stupid and weak but some reforms here and there i don't think the evidence is supports into of course there is also this idea of deregulation has become almost like a montra. all you want to say should be 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 discussion of the fundamental economic all the series regulate global and national policies on an economic story an. article that didn't market needs of plays but the market needs to be kept in its planes what about these giant corporations that you're talking about i mean here we see advertising basically brainwashing everyone to 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 weren't. for healthy policies you because you relate to these corporations. themselves we know all that for damn it's not profitable to produce healthy foods because actually to produce fast food and also processed

products is much more efficient and economically sound so all you need the public here to to fight is strength to want to relation and unhealthy products in terms of other ties you i think that. i think there's some stats show that more than ninety percent of americans corn children were taken as more for our needs 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 powerful propaganda affect us and the ideal personal responsibility it is really knows you curse if you think about six months you're all he is here it's. 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 whose home we live and the larger social structures and we nations also these large differences in these three rates demonstrates that you can have different policies and you cannot assume deregulation is a bridge it's well thank you very much really informative study and we really need to get on top of this issue dr wagner perfessor u.c. davis really appreciate coming on it you very much. coming up you guys will answer some viewer feedback stay tuned. in the u.k. welly wearing david cameron is out in the drowning tory heartland throwing sandbags

soldiers and cash in totally into the floodwaters but dave all the stick your balls in sheffield cannot stop the rising tide that is sinking all boots into your black hole of debt economy because it's the triple crunch of environment energy and economy and no junk shop can save us now. not even a one four seven will save us dave we've been stuck or. to what extent being held new doctor success elf the arab spring depends on the people in that region on the arabs and to what extent it still depends on b. big power brokers hide behind seal pursue that on that time that the influence of the outside powers phase is getting get stronger now because of the absence of a major country like egypt but i assure you the area will be decided by iran

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the day we celebrate a naked toddler shooting pheromone arrows and dark hearts otherwise known as valentine's day and all those holiday. it's become all about she's e-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 the fifteen the roman celebrated the feast of looper call 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 saint valentine 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 and right while the kinky and sadistic asinine 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 tall 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 a love of 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 americans spend a whopping eighteen 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 lining in bling 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 traditional 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 scanned ten thousand facebook break up 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 that 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 twenty five and tire minutes to kill mcguire 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 with 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 a death penalty activist and host of moment of web series that i just said i would have cleared the moment of web clarity and 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. 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 so take it back another step in right this

rocks and clubs. let's go over some of the most commonly cited defenses of capital punishment here when you hear a lot of people say how great 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 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 like 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're going to look what kind of bargaining and dealing is this because you're twelve zones out of your tax dollars insanity it is. but you

cannot deny you can't i mean ok you can argue with that money 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 true every study that's not ever been done showing me in ways that are actually still killing people right open early keep killing people despite the debt but 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 there you would see ten years down the road i want to do. 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 on the i want to see it if it is it really isn't a deterrent even though you know you're saying that there's still murders happening 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 i mean 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 murderer or my family a family member was going down the road. in that part of what used to what if it were your family to sit 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 bomber 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 stacks 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 then sent into a closure with exotic birds and packed yeah it feels pretty good right why don't we do those things because they're morally wrong so 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. through. some of the i know i know i know you do this i mean it's ok. but i think i think you 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 beat 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 then you have really harmed us that basically what it comes down to is the death of these completely not only 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 there were eleven 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 the eleven witnesses ten you can wipe off and not to mention all the people that have already been exonerated through evidence on death row they were already on death row they've been exonerated and nineteen seventy three a hundred and forty three have been let off death row because they've been exonerated let's say one year that same thing if they had just been killed a little faster we would have killed innocent people unbelievable and we camped out of time. comedian moment of clarity thank so much for coming on. that's our show you guys i'll bring this up all over again next week and

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