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the debate over long and horrendous oppression of native americans injury for today this decision marks the bare minimum amount of respect that first nations peoples deserve now let's break this up. please. please. please very hard to take that leap. you better act that hurt their little. league. at least.
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it's been ten long years since the cia carried out its first drone strike in pakistan the bombing which took place on june seventeenth two thousand and four in waziristan province allegedly targeted a senior taliban official however the missile also killed five civilians including two children and today just one day out of the tenth anniversary of this killer of warfare it was announced and killed six people in that same problems today is repercussion mots like how they only have a two percent success rate all save myself the energy and point out that i've been covering the absurdity of drones and the very beginning of the show in fact on such a dark day a dark anniversary i'll let that coverage speak for itself. so i know her respect can use the rest drone and killed another six human beings and yemen oh i'm sorry did i say human beings i meant al qaeda militants all apparently worthy of execution without trial as we know the necessary to be labeled as a militant or enemy combatant by the cia as such the judge jury and executioner
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takes the form of a machine obama is officially the drone king he's ramped up the use of. unmanned killer robots dramatically since taking office drone warfare in yemen somalia pakistan and elsewhere sort of the ninety's been hit by these killer robots at least three hundred and seventy six times killing anywhere between four hundred to one thousand civilians two hundred of which children and these numbers are a conservative estimate over the course of the last three days several u.s. drone strikes hit southern yemen killing as many as fifty five people and perhaps the deadliest weekend since the advent of drone warfare the white house is still denying requests to give any justification for one of the most inexplicable sasa nations that of sixteen year old american citizen. a walkie the drone that killed him literally blew apart his body along with at least five other civilians sixty
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five percent of u.s. citizens continue to support the use of drones to fight terrorism according to latest gallup poll one reason for this level of support could be the level of extreme detachment people have with the program to many it's out of sight out of mind there was a poll earlier in the week that said that. you know the number drops to magically in terms of approval way you look at whether they're killing civilians or not while the reality is. right here who have been impacted by us. but we're innocent people and that we have done nothing wrong and hopefully hopefully by listening to my story and seeing my children and me and my hearing about my mother about being blown into pieces we'll put some pressure on their politicians but that's something that i can't really speak about it's just something that i hope for. so let's heed the words of this man and hope that the cia's drone program is dismantled once and for all so that we can avoid another ten years of judge jury and executioner by
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a robot. past few weeks have seen the continued escalation letters from the islamic state of iraq and syria or isis attacked the country's largest oil refinery in the city of beijing holding up fifty german contractors in the process this development comes on the heels of obama announcing that two hundred seventy five troops would be deployed to the country to protect u.s. interests in the region with all the talk in the western u.s. should do to respond to the crisis we've heard almost nothing from the iraqi people themselves and so to discuss the current devastation from an iraqi perspective i'm joined now by dr dali american peace activist really big pleasure to have you on dollar thank you so much for the opportunity so you grew up for part of your childhood under saddam's rule in iraq moved to the u.s.
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and then you went back after the u.s. invasion now that you were but what kind of differences that you observed as a child as opposed to going back after the invasion well. our family here and when i returned in two thousand and four this is after the eight years of iran iraq war the devastation of the six weeks of the one nine hundred ninety one gulf war thirteen years of sanctions and then shock and awe and there was just extensive devastation to roads infrastructure and when you just mantle of government and. civil society structure and one thing that was noticeable to me it's very basic but garbage collection and this then becomes an issue a health care issue for communicable diseases and many displaced persons and so it was really it was a shock to go back and let's take a listen to a pretty stunning but mr. took it all took. place.
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down the center of the reich you could easily end up seeing pieces of iraq fly off it's a quagmire paraded around the mainstream media talking about we should invade again . it was a mistake. when they knew exactly what was going to happen to mated the strength of the iraqi resistance i think it purposely or was targeted and then the sanctions were continued over the next thirteen years in order to. who are historically very strong and resilient and resourceful. and was able to oppose the most powerful. now iraq is a difficult country to rule but this is over history of centuries millennia that you have various rulers and many other coups taking place so this is a long history of this kind of struggle for power in iraq and talk about how you think that sectarianism evolved after saddam. that's why after
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a week after we showed up sectarian is not native to iraq this was imported and forced down the throats of the iraqi people by the occupiers in two thousand and three we formed the coalition provisional authority formed the iraqi governing council which was hand selected a certain number of ethnicities and religious sects and ultimately we brought nouri al maliki to power. conservative. and that sectarianism also with the poorest borders with iran and many religious militias cross those borders and entered into iraq and the south was pretty well dominated from that time on so it has been a sectarian stranglehold that the current government has on iraq and its people of course you know the syria wars bleeding into it it's just a complete disaster you know you you've actually talked about other militant groups that we're not hearing about from the corporate media of course there's more than just isis going on while we've been told the whole story but what's going on
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northern iraq well this is kind of the we have a new book and they're even saying like isis is worse than al-qaeda so that. when they start talking like that you should be suspicious there is a presence of isis there is a presence of foreign fighters however a group of a thousand or even several thousand fighters does not have the capacity to take a city the size of mosul one point four million people hold it and then move on to take other cities there's something bigger at place and one of the groups that has established itself is the general military council of iraqi revolutionaries this is essentially i think this is comparable to what happened in iraq in one nine hundred fifty eight when iraqis rose up and kicked the british colonialists out and declared their independence the military occupation from the u.s. and u.k. is gone but this stranglehold of the government that we put in place is still there and they want it out there driving the sectarianism and of course obama just
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announced the two hundred seventy five troops to protect u.s. interests not even to just amazing that word is even out there do you think this is just an indication of what we can expect more of in the future i think so we like nouri al maliki because the multinational corporations have come back into iraq after saddam hussein nationalize the oil in the one nine hundred seventy s. and the oil companies as well as other western companies now it's a feeding frenzy on the dying carcass of iraq so we will do what we want to to defend our interests the funny thing is that we are now. collaborating with iran who also wants the sectarian maliki government to stay and so both of us are arming nouri al maliki and an interesting situation really is the future of the country ten years from now what will stop and the bloodshed and just utter destruction well i don't know whether it'll be ten years whether it be one year whether it'll be
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fifty years but this is the history of iraq and iraqis know their history very well they have seen the highs and the lows. and they as i said unbelievable resilience to keep going and keep struggling for their families their cities and and their country there is no there was no. divisiveness before the occupation showed up and what they want to return is a secular government certainly without political repression but it's up to iraqis to decide their own future and what about antiwar activists and i guess just people who don't want to see the u.s. ball mean it again with airstrikes or sending troops in there what can we do to help the iraqi people without of course playing into these proxy wars from empires . well not a lot that we do has made a big impact but what we can do is raise our voices and say that we don't want drone strikes we don't want arming of the nouri al maliki government and it's very
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interesting that both states in that region who claim to be a democracy israel and the government of iraq are we are arming them in violation of the us arms export control act which says that we don't arm governments who attack their own people so who use it for offensive purposes and there is nothing more offensive than the policies of israel or in iraq absolutely and you know just like we have about thirty seconds left but i just can't help but say that there was unprecedented protests in the street hundreds of millions of people to demand to not invade iraq and i just don't know what it's going to take for this government to listen that military intervention is not the answer to all your i think anti-war activism is trial and error unfortunately and we keep going we keep pushing forward to spread the information which is why i'm so glad for the opportunity to be with you here today thank you for sharing another side and are you can check me out on facebook or i have a lot more posts from the people on the ground not from the mainstream media you
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have you're taking a really really thorough account of what's going on people that you talk to there thank you so much really appreciate coming on thanks for having me. coming up you guys will talk about all the stories that were missed all the amazon was falling over. hillary's new book stay tuned. to. the united states for once beloved why don't want to be there ramifications on policies why should russia want a country called rape in the united states there because it's in russia's interest to do so because they want to be nice to the u.s. but because the amount of the state in iraq. is bad news for old same countries in the rejoin russia iraq united states do funnily enough have a pretty common interest in stabilizing the situation.
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the way she is inexperienced. and just gave the following over hillary was. this you could want. she was greeted look at the video from the republican national committee the person was a squirrel costume were in a t. shirt that read another clinton in the white house that this is the job of the carter she generous with the so-called squirrel even some republicans think the squirrel is a tad goofy so she made the most of that moment she certainly did and lots of super pacs and pacs are going to be traveling around the country following her every event doing stunts like this she handled exactly right yes it seems the better part of yesterday afternoon was dominated by the corporate media covering hillary being accosted by an activist in a squirrel suit and how gracefully she handled it so what do we miss while being distracted by c n n's bandwagon coverage promoting a woman who hasn't even announced her candidacy yet well for starters and what could very well have been a far more important bridge gate scandal new york governor andrew cuomo is causing
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a stir after funneling state funds reserved for water safety in order to pay for a new city bridge yet according to the environmental facilities corporation cuomo withdrew five hundred eleven million dollars from the clean water fund to help cover the cost of the to panzi bridge and while the plan has not been approved by the e.p.a. yet there is already a tremendous build up of discontent for example the organization environmental advocates of new york said recently that diverting funds meant for clean water to instead support the construction of a bridge so it's a deeply troubling precedent there already enormous. needs for sewage treatment clean ups in new york city that go unfunded because of the significant shift and resources indeed and according to alter net it's projected that the state's aging water systems require upgrades upwards of sixty billion dollars governor cuomo of course insists that the reallocated five hundred million dollars is only a loan. and that it could be repaid ironically not
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a single corporate media talking to head has made a peep about bridge gate two point zero but i guess that's because it deals with the future of clean water an issue that actually matters is that an overweight governor with a high school grudge anyway onto another big story that mainstream headlines seem to have missed suntrust bank has agreed to a massive legal settlement that could bring some relief to florida residents who are victims of the two thousand and nine mortgage crisis the d.o.j. settled with sun trust for nearly one billion dollars following a lengthy litigation which targeted to lenders and loan modifications and foreclosure abuses the settlement includes a forty million payment to provide some relief to sun trust borrowers who are forced out of it's between eight and two thousand and thirteen now this lawsuit is certainly a win for some but doesn't come close to correct in the wrongs and acted on the millions of americans directly affected by the mortgage crisis keep in mind that between two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine there were over six million homes listed under foreclosure and while the billion dollar settlement
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might be a good first step slapping the wrist of these predatory lending agencies won't come close to the accountability regular people deserve. and speaking of deserved justice it looks like congress is finally doing something about the rampant backlog of rape kits in the u.s. lawmakers are expected to grant forty one million dollars in grants to process the more than one hundred thousand untested rape kits all across the country in some instances these kits sit untested in evidence boxes for ten years or even. longer that means that tens of thousands of women all across the country who went through the highly invasive and often traumatizing experience of a rape kit medical exam may never see their silence brought to justice according to police statistics compiled by the guardian cities like detroit and vegas have literally thousands of backlog kits the city of memphis alone recently discovered twelve thousand untested kits some of them dating back even twenty years this in
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addition scuse me to the discovery of another four thousand untested rape kits in dallas texas which reported just today look these statistics are a clear indication of a massive national problem they also represent a mentality that doesn't take the issue of rape in america seriously enough but i guess on accountability for rape just like wrong for wrongful i cannot speak today wrongful foreclosures and sidestepping the importance of clean water aren't strong enough stories to go against against a guy in a squirrel suit and messing with hillary clinton. xavier otherwise known as sob who is a computer hacker who participated in cyber attacks amounting up to fifty million dollars in damages according the government's are estimates but unlike other online
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hackers faced with a seemingly disproportionate prosecution sob it was let off the hook scot free after a short jail sentence and a music twelve hundred dollar fine this is because shortly being after being arrested for it online activities quickly accepted the f.b.i.'s offer to become an informant and turn on his own community of an ons more than a dozen times during his sentence and the f.b.i. applauded quote extraordinary cooperation with the agency and while saddam is most well known for facilitating the hack of intelligence firm stratfor took down hacktivist your. hammond according to a newly released article on mother board involvement goes much deeper and much darker and the breakdown of the two authors of the expos they are to represent like another more journalist dan stein thanks so much for coming on a rise so we know that saga obviously infiltrated anonymous before you know the whole jeremy hammond thing you guys just released an article released on based on newly released documents that actually says that he went much farther and what do
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we find out first to back up saga never really infiltrated anonymous to begin with it all started off this this was a hacktivists himself he actually believed in hacking for a cause at one point and tried to do these politically motivated attacks that anonymous are doing raising awareness to situations different parts of the world the arab spring stuff like that when he was caught in june two thousand and eleven you know that's when he did start cooperating and what we found out is you know it was more than just cooperating it seems like you know according to documents that we have that many points to the f.b.i. would that raise a bunch of questions i know we can't even get to it today but the really big is that this involves the f.b.i. and and anonymous is so. in twined with all these really bizarre questions about how the f.b.i. can actually use an informant to conduct. surveillance on groups and to even perhaps give them feed them ideas on what to attack and that's what we saw in
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a couple cases and particularly this one and this company called mantic and dad let's talk about man what was the real story behind the hack in that timeframe well i mean you know you look at this company which has thousands of contracts with a lot of different government agencies and you know when we first started researching this we thought oh you know maybe this is a scrimmage they're so close to a security company that helps the f.b.i. to secure their communications. why would this have to take place if the foreman was inside and knew about it. but you know. but hacked itself was volunteered by somebody that came along like in a handful of cases. hey look at this you know explodable vulnerability to the security contractor. and we gave it to him and then he you know it's kind of a conspirator along to other people that were able to exploit it so he was basically
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all manufactured yeah. and many many of these cases what happened was they didn't actually do the hack himself the kind of orchestrated like a conspiracy as you said where someone would come to him and say here is a target i've already breached for example man tech in this case look at what we can get from them and rather than. you know calling up the f.b.i. and the story ending right there what he would do is you know perhaps you would meet with the f.b.i. that day perhaps you would call up perhaps you'd be sitting right there with them but additionally he would also go into chat rooms with members of anonymous and say look at what we found we got a guy and he did this who wants it and he that's how you would net people and six months later we had actually found out it's another company called stratfor the same thing happened someone came to him with a vulnerability he passed along to a fellow named jeremy hanna now he's doing ten years in prison for a crime that monsignor literally encouraged him to do you know many times did he help orchestrate attacks a number to get you to give you a give you
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a integer i'm not sure how comfortable i would be in saying that you know you actually did this many times but looked at hundreds of. and there is. many many instances where quite literally urged other members of anonymous to you to participate in activities that range from mr mean errors to crimes that would be punishable by death and yet it's insane you know dan of course as we just mentioned six months after this initial hack of man tak took place for. ten years and discussed an f.b.i. informant you know you know gives up gives up so many other people just so he doesn't have to sit and languish in prison how does this sentence compare and why is it so disproportionate to these people facing up to one hundred year sentences in some cases i mean you know you have to look at him and he does have a criminal history he was convicted under see if a back in two thousand and six two years for that. so yeah there is
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a great disparity though with monsignor and what's really interesting to me about this whole thing is stratfor which everybody is fixated on because it's what everybody got in trouble for you know there's other things mentioned but hardly ever shows up in any indictment might show up in a warrant. so this company which is kind of like a small intelligence punk publishing you know geopolitics subscription. becomes the highlight that you know they're able to finally you know convict somebody in order to create a strong deterrent to other actors. who they're able to put away for a while you know charged brown that's just some of this to have you know these insane charges and then of course you threaten some of the charges that are likely to be going for after he's become an informant you know we see. you know if anything ever happened to me you know what he's already done so you know i would
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have to just put everything in try to get a deal so. you know what these crimes have been about this guy to a degree yes i want to crimes. fairly because in this case in particular someone had already breached man tech someone got into this company someone found a couple hundred megabytes worth of files what that person would have did with it i don't know but that person went to monster who went to anonymous and then had you know this internationally dispersed collective of people all over the world all with different ideas of how they want to be lined hacktivists and political activists do all this and you know he fed them stuff like that and one really interesting thing i know we have to wrap it up is. we do know that the world really does think that out as it is cases where look like he's actually encourage people to commit like very outrageous crimes in the man tech story found evidence of him actually approaching other hackers and saying why don't we try to sell these stolen government documentaries take these stolen government documents and some to china so as being irish that's been
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a great killing for that yeah that it's insane you guys thank you so much for breaking it down and your blake really appreciate it that's our show you guys are going to morrow and break the set all over again and. try to. pull it out of. new. york it's a sure thing everybody. know what. it's like. so. it's.
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i punched but i didn't understand where i did it when the man rises the woman should. run from him. everyone who sees this video to also speak to the children's father. my has then became a controllable keeper that he could do anything. i don't cry i know i'm tired of crying too don't cry. the fighting in eastern ukraine leave the city of slovyansk with no water or electricity and almost all its hospitals closed all while the president's repeated values of a cease fire are yet to be fulfilled. a cry for help iraq's asking the u.s.
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the earth strikes against sunni insurgents this are to control at a faster pace than even the american troops managed during the two thousand and three invasion. also this hour the ballad russian president's left red faced after alexander lukashenko falls victim to a phone prankster pretending to be the son of ukraine's ice the president.
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