decisive military action to combat isis when intelligence makes such a strike possible and the m.s.m. has also been selling drone strikes as the best solution and fact even the quote a liberal center for american progress released a report two days ago colina on the us to prepare for airstrikes but probably the most interesting part about obama's speech was his claim that iraq is a sovereign nation that has the right to choose its own leaders seriously when did iraq become a sovereign nation the minute the us would realize that it's of war in the country result in the creation of yet another failed state because see no western powers have done nothing but violate iraq's autonomy by dismantling its government launching depleted uranium and white phosphorous attacks an occupied its people for the last decade this is old news to me now let's break this. they are very hard to take a. look. at how exactly would that hurt

their little. league. so even though traditional newspapers are suffering like never before syndicated columnist still carry enormous weight and their opinions can be hugely influential on millions of readers across the country take washington post conservative columnist george will for example who was once named one of the most influential washington journalists and his columns are still publishing papers throughout the

country now earlier this month the will a seventy three year old male felt the need to weigh in on a pervasive issue affecting young women all over america college rape so of course we'll wrote his piece on how rape is one of the most underreported crimes in the country how rape culture and entitlement among a small subset that man has been allowed to thrive online and how institutionalized victim blaming has led to enormous shame and fear for those who are sexually assaulted just again instead of decided to go a different route writing in his column titled will colleges become the victims of progressivism that quote colleges are learning that when they say campuses victimizations are ubiquitous and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges victims proliferate. translation according to well the second a woman steps foot on campus she sets out to earn the coveted status of being a rape victim because there is no more honorable title for a college age female but shocking he doesn't stop there well goes on the right

academia is learning that at the temps to create victim campuses by making everyone hypersensitive even delusional about victimizations brings increasing supervision by the regulatory state that progressivism celebrates. yeah because the fact that the government is actually trying to address this in demick crisis is forcing people to become delusional about the reality of rape and then goes on to try and debunk a well documented report put out by the justice department finds that one in five women will be sexually assaulted during their time at college now it is true that the exact number of sexual assaults are hard to track but that's primarily due to a severe epidemic of underreport dini and fact according to d.o.j. just twelve percent of college sexual assault survivors ever report the incident to authorities arguing over the stats misses the much larger point that will is just the latest journalist

a plain of the notion that rape is very often the victim's fault as a result of how common this type of argument is it's no wonder why so many women refuse to go through the emotionally and physically painful process of reporting rape it only takes a cursory look through the headlines and see the very real and horrendous impacts of coming clean about sexual assault victims endure everything from bowling to slut shaming to arson to suicide especially if the alleged assailant is a well known actually eat or member of a prominent family furthermore even if the victim can't make it through the initial process of reporting it there's almost no guarantee there assailant will be brought to justice rapists escape jail time at a stunning rate according to the rape abuse and incest national network the country's largest anti section. violent organization for every one hundred rapes that are committed only three rapists will spend even one day behind bars now thankfully some newspapers are withdrawing their support for columnists who refuse

to acknowledge this harrowing data and continue to engage in perpetual victim blaming yesterday the st louis post dispatch announced it would be no longer featuring will's columns and apologize for running as a original piece stating that was offensive and inaccurate but unfortunately it's going to take a lot more than just one canceled newspaper before the toxic mindset is overcome because of will and so many columnists like him will continue with their same ignorant diatribes as a result of never understanding what it's like to go through something as frightening as sexual assault when it comes to rape it's about time we start tuning in to the powerless and start tuning out the powerful. the fast paced lifestyle the west often the most difficult challenges facing society like poverty and environmental destruction are pushed out of sight out of

mind and walt easy to blame corporations and stagnant governments for the world's current state it's sometimes important to take a step back and see what will role we as individuals play in maintaining our broken system that's why one entrepreneur decided to claim individual responsibility for the problems that plague our society is name is jordan phoenix author of the book it's all my fault how i messed up the world and why i need your help to fix it he joins me now from our new york studio thanks so much for coming on jordan. it's good to be here so jordan explain why you personally messed up the world because you're just one of seven billion people on it. so i create garbage i burn fossil fuels i'm a consumer i don't know how to live without the systems we have in place today and so the way i look at it is i'm just as responsible as anyone else we all use all of these systems and all these products but we love to point fingers at other people when in realistic terms we should really be focusing on what we can do to change ourselves because that's the most powerful way to take action jordan why should the onus be put on the individual when the main factors contributing to these issues

are the out of control multinational corporations and inept governments. it's a very good question abbi well all of the governments that you speak of in multi national corporations are actually made up of individuals so when you break it down individuals changing themselves is the most important thing that we can do i believe we all point fingers at one another when really the best thing we can do is take action implement the ideas that are already working and replicate them i like your i like your enthusiasm let's talk more about the paradigm shift that you're proposing is that needs to happen before twenty first century challenges can be addressed. so the reason why so many people feel powerless today is because we're so dependent on modern systems these complex systems we've created every really created bunch of lots of new technologies that we love and use every day such as the cameras in front of you right now but at the same time we feel powerless because we don't know how to live without them so i think if we get back to combining the best of what we have today in twenty first century technologies with

pre-industrial evolutionary self-sufficiency we can really bind it to create new types of lifestyles that have never existed before and meet everyone's needs without relying so much on the volatile and corrupt financial systems that run our world i totally agree we need to really reinvent the wheel here and stop relying on these old failed paradigms to talk about what the most important issues the address in your book global poverty next month you're going to be. ten barking on a huge endeavor you're going to walk all the way from canada to mexico talk specifically about what you will be other way to get that. issue out into the mainstream other than to do something extreme such as walking across the continent and speaking to people about it all along the way so what i'll be doing is building support to spark community incubate now the way this works is we would bring in experts in fields such as construction and urban agriculture and real estate and law and really bring together people to buy up cheap real estate because the cities

have the biggest need to rebuild actually have the cheapest real estate so rather than people sending out resumes looking for jobs that don't exist when we buy of this land teach people how to grow their own food how to build their own shelter how to create their own energy and learn skills around optimal habits for productivity skills around leadership and learn skills that will allow them to be entrepreneurs and create their own jobs so they don't have to rely on others and also cut their costs so their their basic loss of living could be much lower than what you would find in a typical consumer society in a first world country today and it sounds a certain task to talk more specifically about how you're going to sure that there are long term benefits from your plans in these respective cities. absolutely so financial stability is a major portion of what i'm doing the way that like to do it is to utilize equity crowdfunding which the jobs act passed in two thousand and twelve and the equity crowdfunding aspect of it is expected to pass within the next few months and when that happens every day people will be able to crowd actually buy an ownership of

these programs so imagine instead of buying a stock in a company x.y.z. that goes up and down you actually investing in people and the way it works is once these people have their potential unlocked and they're actually able to create their own businesses a small percentage of their income will go back into the program to make it financially sustainable and able to spread into other regions that need it all around the world so that's the way that i'm looking at it the reason why i'm doing the walk is to be able to see which communities are most receptive to these ideas and to allow them to figure out which communities have the biggest need and which are the most receptive i plan on launching my very first community incubate or in. twenty fifteen really quickly how many cities are you planning on stopping and doing that. so i'm going to be stopping in seven cities in vancouver seattle portland san francisco los angeles san diego and tijuana another solution you're proposing is something you're working on called project free world which uses decentralized crowdfunding to address critical global issues how would it be

different than other crowdfunding sites and why do you believe that this is the best way to tackle these issues. sure so project is actually a crowd solving platform so it's not as much focus on the crowd funding as it is bringing together people who want to help people who need help and the most effective ideas that are already working in regions all around the world so i recently interviewed an organization that works in nairobi and it's created a financially sustainable way of creating jobs for the youth living in urban slums and i asked the c.e.o. this is an amazing idea what's stopping you from scaling and for a small organizations very hard for them to get bigger and often when they do get bigger they become more bureaucratic and they stop innovating so rather than waiting for one organization to meet everyone's needs i thought why not create an online platform that brings together like minded people with complementary skill sets so you can replicate what's already working because if this idea alleviates poverty in nairobi there's slums in mumbai that people should definitely know about this idea and in sao paolo and in manila and anywhere around the world where

there's an urban slum people should be able to find out about this idea and find other people who are like them who want to and these problems that's the idea behind the website i love it now that's such a great idea i mean giving people the tools that they can all access all around the world we have this information revolution and we need to really seize on it to work together really quickly and plug your website where people can get involved and help out. awesome so project or that's the name of the website and i've recently along with the book i've released a bunch of wire frame so i plan on developing it much further to become more interactive and i don't care if it's me or somebody else who has more talent ability and web development that can accelerate this product it's about helping people thank you so much jordan phoenix social entrepreneur author of it's all my fault thanks for coming on coming up i'll talk about the horrendous conditions endured by u.s. prisoners in solitary confinement stick around. join

me. in park and financial commentary interviews and much. only on bombast and. a genuine appeal for peace negotiations or a gambit to intensify the conflict these are only some of the questions surrounding the ukrainian president's call for a cease fire pushing those options are narrowing. the way it should be a problem for any country to diversify the sources of supply or demand that's a size at the beginning since he will energy policy.

right so you. were struck. and i think you're. like. most of the solitary confinement probably seems like something reserved for the worst criminals on earth but for tens of thousands of peoples anywhere between ten to twenty three hours a day completely isolated from everything is an everyday reality it's a form of punishment that the u.n. refers to as torture now it's hard to know exactly how many prisoners are sent to

solitary but here in the west it's estimated that as many as eighty thousand inmates are currently being held in solitary often for years at a time. poll senior staff attorney at the center for constitutional rights came in we show to talk about what exactly these conditions are like. prisoners in california spend decades some of them up to twenty years in a small cramped concrete cell they sleep on a thin mattress on a concrete slab on the floor and they never have a normal face to face conversation with other human beings the only people they have access to to talk to are the guards who slide their food tray through a slot in their cell door they don't have a window they can't see the outside world california alone out of any correctional system that i've ever heard of even denies prisoners in solitary confinement telephone calls they can't make any social phone calls to loved ones friends on the outside unless in the case of an emergency like when an individual's parent dies

they. given one call in that decade prisoners spend decades in this type of confinement so sometimes these inmates are sent to solitary for reasons as simple as depicting game signs in their artwork perhaps the most important thing to understand is what solitary does to the human body and spirit terrible evidence from researchers studying the effects of prison isolation found increased levels of anxiety panic insomnia heightened aggression and depression among other mental health problems however a growing public awareness about the barbaric practice means a growing scrutiny this month in oakland judge granted class action status to inmates being held in solitary confinement at the infamous pelican bay prison facility plagued by countless allegations of physical and psychological abuse and last summer protesters there about a hunger strike involving dozens of inmates and in effect to draw attention to the conditions under which they were being held furthermore earlier this month colorado

governor john. signed a law ensuring that mentally ill inmates will no longer be kept in solitary confinement citing constitutional standards that protect individuals from cruel and unusual punishment this makes colorado the second state to take a legislative action on behalf of the mentally ill behind bars but despite these developments tragically solitary confinement is becoming more prevalent and that more individuals subjected at the trauma of isolation will find it harder or even downright impossible to reassemble in a society once released so if you like me want to see an end to this archaic practice them speak out go to facebook dot com slash breaking the set sign the petition against this injustice and lend your voice to stop the abuse of solitary because torturing people by a walking them up in small isolated cell should never be part of a quote system of justice.

earlier this year an investigator working with the organization mercy for animals captured horrific animal abuse on camera at an iowa dairy farm the blatant cruelty included tactics like jumping on the backs of distressed cows beating them with canes and even dragging injured animals by chains around their necks the undercover exposé lead to criminal charges being filed against the company involved but in court barry's but instead of applauding the brave whistleblower who exposed and humanity the industry fought back by aggressively lobbying the state to pass an ag gag law a bill that effectively makes it illegal for anyone to go undercover to expose factory farming under ag gag laws the only filming allowed within these food production facilities require explicit consent by the factory owner unfortunately this kind of stifling secrecy is not unique to idaho ag gag laws have already been passed and six other states across the u.s.

and are being pushed and many more and it's no surprise why just in the last election cycle big ag spent more than ninety million dollars to ensure their interests are protected but the fact that so many lawmakers are siding with the industry has prompted independent journalists to take innovative approaches to shed light on the horrific conditions of factory farms my next guest is one such investigator well potter is an animal rights activist and author of the book is the new read which compiles the government's demonization and assault on the animal rights movement over time and he just launched a new project on kickstarter called drone on the farm an aerial exposé which will combine investigative journalism with aerial photography via drone to help bypass these ag gag laws altogether the project has become viral and became fully funded and mirror days joining me now to discuss more about it journalist will potter amazing to have you on as always well so i love this idea of using drone technology

against the corporate corporatocracy rule this is never. before talk about how you got the idea and what exactly the project one tale was we've talked about before on the show the laws have been spreading across the country and now into other countries as well and i've been focusing my work on that photography being criminalized and i saw some photos from satellite not too long ago from a photographer called mischka hammer and they were really startling to me because you could see the pollution from these industries from the state of talking you know it's they were just saying just striking and kind of haunting and beautiful in their own really disturbed tway but as a saying those of us think well what would happen if we could get even closer if we had a drone that could actually be over these farms documenting what's happening and i think it's time to use that technology for productive and powerful purposes instead of by the government and police yeah and what exactly are we looking at because i mean seriously it looks like a zombie festering wound and a disgusting nuclear waste lot here and that's a good summary of it these are feed lots on cattle operations and i'm sure

a lot of your viewers i've heard in a lot of these communities the pollution is so toxic from spraying the manure on the fields from these what are the what are called waste look there's that the surrounding communities have higher rates of cancer in asthma and just have to deal with that stench constantly yeah i mean i drove on the five from from l.a. to san francisco a lot and believe me i mean it's just hours of the stench it's horrific and it's also a huge contributor to climate change as well were you surprised at how viral the project got i really was because you know when you have never done a kickstarter and i felt like really putting myself out there is just going to be my friends in a couple of readers and let it all. take over and over again that it was fully funded in five days and i think it was really struck a nerve with people i mean these aren't activists and they're not all vegetarians or anything like that it's just people don't like being told what they can't see and that they can't make informed decisions and i think this really crosses over to

a lot of different issues about. factory farming environmental is a surveillance exactly and i think this is really indicative also a case of a niemeyer and you helped expose her case talk about why that happened how she was the first person charge of the ag gag laws but then was released and how public pressure was so crucial in making that happen so the rhetoric from the industry about this ag laws it's about these covert activists that are infiltrating businesses with amy's case she was on the public property and she saw a sick cow being moved by a bulldozer and she just did what any of us would and she started filming it and she was prosecuted under ag gag for that in utah the first person i ever wrote about her case and it created such an uproar that in twenty four hours the prosecutors just said forget it and they dropped all the charges and to me that really reflects. the heart of this issue public exposure is toxic it's toxic to these industries and it's toxic to these repressive tactics of acca laws and hopefully we can build on that with this new investigation as well and people want

to know why and i think that there's deceptive advertising around where our food comes from people have no idea and and things like this when they see it they're horrified and they're like this is unacceptable and you're doing an incredible job really bringing light to this have you received any kind of response from the industry or state to say hey you might not want to launch this project was bracing for that from the moment it pushed publish we've already seen some response from the industry one industry or what website they compared my drones which i haven't even purchased yet to the death star. which the study how the dros works so do what is. it another website a lot of the commenters were talking about how if i brought these anywhere near their forums they would shoot them down immediately so if i have concerns i mean this is an ambitious project it's never been done before like you said but i think the fact that they're already freaking out about this and it's just the kickstarter page really reflects that i think we're on to something when just like what you

said you said what do they have to hide. and it's not just these ag as well as you've been very vocal about the and want to praise terrorism act this law was passed under a shroud of secrecy why and what does that do to kind of take it to the next level and i think a lot of people would be really shocked to learn how this has been going on for so long i mean immediately after september eleventh these industries started pushing for terrorism powers to be used against protesters and what they had won a prize terrorism act it's so vague and so broad that according to its supporters including democrats it could be used against nonviolent civil disobedience and to me that's really how this is all expanded it's gone from we need this to go after arsonists invariant goals to now we needed to go after nonviolent civil disobedience and then we needed to go after photographers i mean it's getting worse and worse and better just witnesses on a public sidewalk seen a cow getting dragged with a bulldozer ryan shapiro the prolific four filer found this document that the f.b.i. basically said that animal rights activists were not

a threat have never been a threat to humanity how are they justifying equating this to terrorism and in shapiro's work is a doctoral candidate at mit has also found some other incredible documents about the f.b.i. considering terrorism prosecutions for nonviolent undercover investigators like himself when he was an activist years ago photographing animal cruelty on duck factory farms for. so the disconnect between this is overwhelming i mean more people than ever before what to know about these issues they care they want to find out what's going on and the f.b.i. and industry are trying to shut that down well how did it feel to know that your work was being surveilled by the counterterrorism unit of the f.b.i. i would like to say i felt better but it's trouble and i mean. you know they had a nice blurb about it that i hope we can use on the next book which said my work was compelling and well written which was really flattering but at the same time you know the counterterrorism unit has been monitoring speeches and articles and

interviews like this one this is. not the type of material that should be a national security documents and journalists should not be surveilled right exactly what kind of corporations and i know that alec is involved in these two while i mean really briefly talk about who is actually pushing through this legislation so alec as i'm sure your viewers know is this a secretive corporate front group and they literally have corporate money to draft the legislation as state politicians go off to fancy dinners or broadway shows and they have a model bill called the animal in ecological terrorism or that includes much of this ag gag legislation that dates back to two thousand and three so for years now these industries which are the pharmaceutical industry big ag the national cattlemen's beef association the dairy industry have all been pushing very hard for attempts to criminalize their opponents and will if you're talking about expanding this project now it's taken off viable talk about what's next and how people can get involved we have about thirty second thought it took off right away i mean

really started working with people through ted ted fellow right now and met photographers and journalists all over the world who were eager to be involved and so we're sort of talking about how to expand it to others of ways that i think will help shed a light on what these industries are trying to hide better watch out well part of the nation having on mandrake you so much for your work that's our show you guys dreaming and tomorrow when i'm going to start all over again. eugenics what's your next vulgarize they should know darwin science punishment for an on committed crime i was never believing in a chief you believe still today that if you don't know why. but i still don't know

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