transit. you all best way to the heart of moscow. the headlines this hour on r.t. thrilling and tense america secures victory over russia in the men's ice hockey match after a dramatic penalty shoot out at the winter games. care every minute may count for a russian pilot in a u.s. prison after he was allegedly refused medical care despite his wife and lawyer saying he is critically ill. of the sliding scale of justice in israel seven arabs claim their prosecutions were motivated by their ethnicity citing examples of jews who freely admitted killings but were not tried for. oh there's more on the all of those stories online and r t dot com we continue our coverage of the sochi olympics next hour but before that it's breaking the set with our host had martin right here on r.t.

international. the. dog i'm having 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 and even though his dedication was primarily for black equality also believe in the equality for all disenfranchised minorities one see 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. very hard to take a. look. at you ever had sex with that earthquake 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 but 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 organization reprieve quote 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 codified 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 qana 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 kongs really 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 and 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 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. from one to ninety nine to two thousand c.e.o. eight do united states your highest level of economic freedom index and 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 around eight to ten percent these were get cottage cheese and. the was increasing bus consumption per copy and there was levels of consumption and also more protected economies. 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 system. suits like soft drinks fast food and to subsidize fruits and vegetables with the revenues from deeds that was. disclosed to the toilet even by adam smith the sugar tax was supported by adam smith in the wealth of nations in seventeen seventy six you can also list in cobol they trust those because. food sectors are dominique if you will and call pollutants it's very easy she calls well a small farmers producing trash and healthy foods in the economy and also all you need to florence in the cultural sector to use old i'm told my all to x. or moons core. groups and you can also little

in a song law suit ports or small farmers switzerland has some of the. chilean p.c.t. relating to course is 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 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 any time can we tell people are trying to control wards. hell if you policies big corporations and the so-called corporate libertarians those whom girlish fiat and smith but they don't really. they they basically engage in massive come pains. basically museum floor and people of all the true information whole foods so all i think is is very very difficult but if. we can fight to be stupid and meek by some reforms here and there i don't see the courts into 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 discussion of the fundamental economic policies regulate global and national policies on an economic historian. article. didn't market needs of plays but the market needs to be kept in explain 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 we need a massive social weren't. for hell if you call this easy because you feel that these corporations. themselves we know all of that so that means not

profitable to produce healthy foods because actually to produce fast food. and also process products is much more efficient and economically sound so all you need to collaborate here to to fight is strength to want to relation and analyse products 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 makes all the . other fictional characters and the and of make dolls are more a canal 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 a six month year all of he is 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 of these large differences in these three rates demonstrates that you can have different policies and you cannot assume deregulation and say. well thank you very much really informative study and we really need to get on top of this issue dr void glee perfessor u.c. davis really appreciate coming on thank you very much. coming up you guys will answer some viewer feedback stay tuned.

surveyor dillard's the location of a voice still remember. how to do it well there's of the low high tech and said you would stop this storm we might be more my people will die. is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. when they wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy gas and burn victims that. this is the one that i want to go with them once again it's the fear factor. women are definitely the target of the gun lobby and you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would just prefer. i know to say more and more if that's really scary

marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth were clearly not the safest. guys it's that time of the day to respond to your feedback since i constantly tell you guys to write in with their comments on social media starting with you tube c r b c r s b t talks about the last thing tank i did with my producer manny rob lowe

where he says it always throws me when she breaks out which like handshake come on this is a news report out of a grow up well i have one thing to say to you. 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 had no 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 seem to me more like c.n.n.

just with a new spin same as got. old 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 their 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

is the day we celebrate a naked toddler shooting pheromone arrows and dark hearts otherwise known as valentine's day and all those holiday. 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 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 as a whole new meaning to the term head over heels of my right while the kinky and sadistic as an end 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 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 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 rule re four point four billion on the 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 writer 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 on lust 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 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 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 with the practice but beyond this barbaric barbaric ways this country executes death row prisoners the very practice of capital punishment should be questioned so you're going to bunk. 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 would have cleared the moment of web. 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 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 now to 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 how boring 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 murderers in prison this is that's a great point well first of all it actually cost 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 look 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 in dealing is this because you're twelve cents out of your tax dollars it's insanity it is. but you cannot

deny you can be 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 no purely keep killing people despite that 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've 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 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 living 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 going down the road. in that part of what if it were your family that was set 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 i want 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 unabomber 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 wouldn't 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 hacked yeah it feels 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. 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's head then you have really harmed us that basically what it

comes down to is the 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 or. 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 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 one year that same if they had just been killed a little faster we would have killed innocent people unbelievable we camped out of time. but all day i grew as a comedian moment of clarity thanks so much for coming on thanks so that's our show you guys i'll break all over again next week and a great weekend guys. place

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