they're with us. what's poppin everyone i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so today the u.s. announced that it plans on reducing its stockpile of anti-personnel land mines with the gold eventually eliminating them they announced it came during a conference taking place in mozambique to discuss the progress of the one thousand nine hundred seven land mine ban treaty which has been signed by one hundred sixty one countries so far great well except the fact that the us still remains one of the noteworthy countries that has refused to ratify the treaty including china russia india and pakistan so while this announcement is worthy of praise the u.s. is not legally bound to set any goals i'm told makes a full commitment to actually signing the treaty and let's not forget that even if the us along with these other countries did sign on the ban and a limited their current stockpiles it still wouldn't erase the millions of native

land mines that still litter countries from cambodia to angola during the vietnam war alone according to associated press the us dropped seven point eight million tons of munitions over vietnam and an estimated eight hundred thousand tons failed to detonate contaminated around twenty percent of its land this has resulted in the injury or death of the least one hundred thousand people according to vietnamese government but of course vietnam is not the only country that remains haunted by the ghost of wars past afghanistan as one of the most heavily mined countries in the world due to its prolonged occupation by the former soviet union and the subsequent us invasion and as i've mentioned before on the show as a result eight hundred square miles of the country is still covered with on detonated explosives so while it's very convenient for the u.s. to say it plans on signing the treaty this move means very little in till all of these countries legally commit themselves to banning their use all together now

let's break this. it was a relief very hard to take that leap. lightly that he ever had sex with that hurt their feelings. that. amidst the economic recession cities across america have been struggling but none

more so than detroit once a bastion of economic boom detroit fell victim excuse me to the worst predatory aspects of our broken economic system and the results have been devastating but forty percent in poverty in a foreclosure crisis on matched anywhere else in the nation the traders are now fighting another battle the right to water so for the last decade residents have seen their water bills go up a staggering one hundred twenty percent and now thousands of households every week are seeing their water shut off completely a catastrophe the united nations has called a violation of human rights to report on the situation and what people are doing to fight back is on the ground in detroit r t correspondent megan lopez. is one of the most essential elements of life. americans enjoy some of the cleanest and most abundant water in the world but what happens when the pipes are turned off and the tap runs dry how am i supposed to wash my child while i supposed to shower

must fill in the largest. american city to ever file for bankruptcy residents are falling behind on their water bills now facing five billion dollars in bad debt the water department is taking drastic measures to plug holes and that means cutting water we sent out forty six thousand little or forty six thousand shuttle notices in may. all those forty six thousand shot of those about forty five hundred were actually shut off some of the city's most vulnerable are scrambling to find a way to pay their bills bills that have gone up one hundred twenty percent in the last decade well beyond the national average the city's water department argues that this financial burden has been put on the backburner by many families who didn't believe services would be shut off but for carla walker miller i'm more likely to assume that those are people who decided it was their water was shut off not to buy their medicine or not to eat that evening you know not to do something

that's really really important because again we're talking about a low income population this is one of those houses that has had its water shut off and you can tell that because the detroit water and sewer department went ahead and painted on the porch that water cut side now they've been doing this more and more frequently to abandoned houses and they are they say going after abandoned houses first in order to kind of avoid it wasting water for houses that people simply don't live in now up and down this block there is one house after another with those water cut signs these two houses happen to be right next to one another and they're really relying on the residents to report these houses however more often these days the houses facing shut off have residents living inside this is did detroit water brigade headquarters groups like the way fun in the detroit water brigade are working with residents to get on the water they need in the short term and the funding in the long term to sustain themselves with poverty in the city hovering at forty percent and an eight percent unemployment rate that is no easy

task we have donations the water that people have say we also have water filtration devices as well as aqua tablets so that people could you know access to clean drinking water these groups are now calling for help from the federal government and even the united nations to address what they described. as a humanitarian crisis nikita rally is one detroit resident who is afraid of the consequences of missing even a single payment if you tell someone i don't have water in my home that's the first strike you can get your children removed or you go to the war department if they help get my children back they don't care that fear isn't completely unfounded the michigan welfare rights organization says that child protective services will come into the home if water is not running frayed that if your bills keep going up if they cannot seem to resolve this problem with the payments that your daughter could possibly be removed. don't just think big and she isn't alone no being

you're shutting off the water on the most vulnerable first which now raises a human rights question it raises a moral question what if people do once the water is cut off out of the take their medicine if they're seen a shot of they make the formula for the babies however the water department argues we have the the burden of being heavy to be realistic in a lot of folks the activists for example don't have that burden that they have what they feel are simple solutions. which really don't really hold water if anybody can come up with a way that we can make the detroit drinking water is good as it is right now for pennies on the dollar will point to listen unfortunately this is not the case the city of detroit recently announced an eight hundred thousand dollars plan to help struggling residents. there was water prices set to increase another eight point seven percent in july that money is really just a drop in the bucket people detroit are resilient to strong they can take

a look but i'm telling you the breaking point is coming leaving some residents salivating for a solution to this water crisis and others just plain thirsty reporting in detroit michigan meghan lopez r t. it's. as modern industry has expanded in an exponential rate and the resource extraction has reached never before seen the levels perhaps no group of people has been impacted by the land depletion more than those who have lived on the land for thousands of years just take a look at this map that shows the rapid an unbelievable takeover of native american land just in the u.s. and for first nations people across north america having their land recognized by federal governments and protected from this expansion has been a centuries long struggle in which they nearly always end up with the short end of the stick but yesterday and one of the strongest victories for indigenous people in

recent memory canada's supreme court issued a ruling that could have a major impact on the country's aboriginal population canada's high court sided with the chilcotin nation a tribe of about three thousand people living in the remote areas of british columbia the case involved a contentious battle over an area of land that companies have been looking to exploit for commercial logging but the supreme court ruled that this land cannot be touched by outside forces as a result of the tribes long held occupancy what makes the case unprecedented however is that for the first time the court to find a legal term aboriginal title as i mean that specific swathes of land used by indigenous people for activities like hunting and fishing prior to contact with europeans rightfully belongs to the respective tribes and this is an especially important ruling for the province of british columbia because the united kingdom signed virtually no treaties with these tribes when colonizing canada but beyond

just the chilcote tribe this decision could settle land disputes between native tribes and developers across the country most importantly with regards to the proposed construction of the northern gateway pipeline one of the numerous planned . lines across canada and the us if built this pipeline could carry over five hundred thousand barrels of alberta tar sands oil a day across territory occupied by first nations people the supreme court's ruling could also have ramifications for s.w. on resources and energy companies being sued for its shale gas exploration on territory belonging to the macmac tribe in the province of new brunswick now unfortunately in this ruling it probably won't have much of an impact on the battle of the infamous northern leg of the keystone x.l. pipeline due to the previously established treaties between indigenous people in alberta and the canadian government but of course according to canadian prime minister stephen harper treaties are meant to be broken and as such is allowed energy projects in the tar sands to go through with zero zero zero zero zero middle

sustenance or him put from affected aboriginal communities and according to a lawsuit filed by the beaver lake cremation keystone x.l. and related tar sands development projects impact an area of over twenty one thousand square miles of land guaranteed to them by in one thousand century treaty . so although this ruling by the supreme court is indeed his stork until the canadian government starts putting the interests of first nations people before the interests of predatory energy companies justice will never be truly served. coming up we'll talk about why history lessons might not be giving us the full picture about ancient civilizations. to the. city that building billion euros

a test of each one. to keep them tocome up you'll sell some same piece for two fronts we believe such as the sun. the future. his name was joseph good because he was nazi germany's minister of propaganda the midst that he created exist to this day. eucharist google's propaganda it was supposed to actually trying to denigrate other nations while at the same time raising ordinary german so studiously to. keep its users go bills news precisely what the masses need to hear in order to make them follow him he was like the pied piper from the fairy tale that made grant's fall to the tune of the spite of. the myths created by the chief nazi ideologist bound for

tal saw in the west we have to fight these myths today in memory of those who walked in the second world war. we all marvel over the ancient pyramids of egypt the mysterious sculptures of stonehenge and the majestic hanging gardens of babylon and the chronology of these archaic civilizations is firmly established with in academic circles and cemented and history books so you can imagine how suggesting an alternative view of this history would render you

a heretic in academia but going against the grain doesn't necessarily mean you're incorrect which brings me to my next guest graham hancock is a prolific bestselling author and one of the world's leading experts on the study of ancient civilizations provides a very compelling perspective on the true ordered. ns of modern man earlier i spoke to hancock about his groundbreaking research and i first asked him how he thinks the fields of archaeology in history have sanitized the past. first of all let me say i don't think it's any kind of conspiracy i think that we have a large number of dedicated hard working committed scientific professionals working in the field of archaeology they feel they know what they're doing like all scientists down through the ages they have a reference frame that they work through that reference frame becomes their definition of reality they find it very difficult to accept alternative points of

view i think it's as simple as that i think that you can look at archaeology in terms of the history of science and see that science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board and sometimes those new ideas don't deserve to come on board but sometimes they do this is the way that ideas progress gradually new information will come out and if a new idea is worthy it will be supported by that new intimation graham the more modern day example of a theory once considered outrageous that turn out to be factually supported by evidence well for example continental drift which which everybody is familiar with today and which we you know we regard as a fact that the continents move around and you can even see the chicks all puzzle. on the globe of the earth but when they get there proposed the theory of plate tectonics continental drift back in the early one nine hundred nineteen hundreds of

about one thousand eight hundred nine hundred twenty i believe he was ridiculed humiliated accused of being a madman the idea was seen to be patient lee observed and another thirty years passed before the idea was except. to them now of course we all regard it. as plain fact and and obvious but that poor individual have to go through really humiliating public pillory because he was proposing an idea that turned out to be completely correct amazing you've also said that there is a quote mother culture from which all ancient historical civilization sprang from can you explain what that concept entails well again let me be clear i am proposing an idea for discussion i'm not complete and not not claiming but i am in possession of some indisputable facts i think we should consider the possibility of a forgotten episode in human history i think we should consider the possibility

that our picture of history and prehistory may not be complete and that cataclysmic events have occurred we know that cataclysmic events occur there part of the life of the earth the cataclysmic events have occurred on such a scale that they could have wiped out all traces of the great civilization of the past now of course academic historians and archaeologists do a kind of belly laugh whenever one mentions the word atlantis but let's not forget that atlantis comes down to us the oldest surviving reference to atlantis comes down to us from the greek philosopher plato and he tells us that nine thousand years before the time of soul on which is nine thousand six hundred b.c. or eleven thousand six hundred years ago a great civilization was destroyed in cataclysmic floods and earthquakes and vanished beneath the sea and he said that the disaster was so complete that

humanity was obliged to begin again like children with no memory of what went before now it just so happens that plato's date eleven thousand six hundred years ago in one thousand six hundred b.c. in our column there plato's date fits exactly with an episode. called the younger dryas which geologists recognize which did culminate in dramatic flooding and quakes and it's really odd if i to made the whole thing up that he managed to pick a date that fits perfectly with modern geological understanding of cataclysmic events at the end of the last ice age now the suggestion is that that atlantis by any other name by the way you need to know that the the story of atlantis comes to us from plate over there's an identical story in india for example in fact this story is repeated with different names all around the world and the suggestion is that there were survivors of the cataclysmic collapse of that prehistoric civilization and that those survivors settled in various points around the world in

egypt in south america in mexico in mesopotamia and so on and so forth and sought to preserve protect the knowledge that their civilization had built up to to create some kind of institution which would pass it down to the future and this is the remote common origin that explains the similarities between these widely separated ancient cultures i want to get into a little bit of these historical inconsistency what is the earliest account of longitude an astronomical map in our modern science claims could have existed before the eighteenth century or so well see in order to do long issued you need an accurate chronometer electric time keeping device if you like which will which will tell you the time at a particular point on the service then you can then compare it with local noon at the point you are and realize how far how far away you are from that point on the surface and we did not have chronometers that were capable of keeping accurate time

on ships until the late seventeen hundreds and so our civilization has been able to plot longest chewed accurately since the late seventeen hundreds before that there was always a danger. that you were dead reckoning would be off and that you would sail suddenly into a cliff or a coastline that you didn't expect to be there because your calculations were wrong but once we had accurate chronometers that could keep time on board ship the longest you problem was solved and that's the late seventies hundreds the problem is that there are ancient maps from well before the seventeen hundreds which show the world a as it looked during the last ice age and b. which have highly accurate long to choose and these maps in most cases were created in the fourteen fifteen sixteen hundreds but they were based on older source maps which are now lost to us for example the famous piri reis map the admiral turkish admiral piri reis tells us in his own handwriting on his map that he based it on

more than one hundred older source maps that he believed to come from the library of alexandria they were falling apart and so he decided to preserve the information on them on his map and in the process he incorporated extremely accurate long to choose which we must then include conclude were present on those older source maps recently and australian paleoanthropologist discovered the possibility of yet another species of humans that existed alongside our ancestors up to fourteen thousand years ago what do these contant find say about our understanding of human evolution at this point i think i think what they say more generally about our understanding of the past is that our picture of the past is very incomplete i mean we've been going along for the last fifty or sixty or more years thinking that yes there was neanderthal man and also there was homo sapiens sapiens our own species that was its neanderthal man became extinct what thirty thirty five perhaps twenty

five thousand years ago and then we were the only human species on the planet but within the last few years we've had the discovery of. sis from the island of florists in. indonesia and also the so-called red people in china both of whom were a distinct different species of human both of whom survived until about twelve thousand years ago so this tells us that we we really can't claim to have perhaps ever to have a complete picture of the past about means that we should at least keep a small fragment of our minds open to extraordinary possibilities in the past and one of those extraordinary possibilities the one that i've concern myself with is the possibility of a great lost civilization which is memorialized in myths and traditions all around the world and of course you've talked extensively about stonehenge the great

pyramids how all these things kind of point to that theory grand i want to get into your ted talk last year called the one consciousness that was put off you tube on the ted x. blog it says we didn't censor you but were you surprised that your wildly popular talk was pulled and what does this say that the institution of ted which is portrayed as this beacon about a free academic thought it was a great disappointment for me because i had the highest opinion of ted prior to this but myself and my colleague rupert sheldrake both gave talks at attend a conference in london both of those talks considered what would be regarded perhaps as extraordinary possibilities about consciousness by mainstream science both of those talks were subsequently deleted from the ted x. you tube channel and then because there was a massive outcry across the internet that this act that was seen as censorship ted reinstalled them in what my friend rupert calls the naughty corps there on their own website where with great difficulty they could be found and seen again and

commented upon now the reason that ted gave for pulling out talks they said it was because our talks were not in accord with mainstream science but every single reason that they gave for saying that they subsequently had to. deleted if you go to the relevant whether site now you'll find that ted's original critiques of us are all crossed out by ted themselves and our refutations are published there but still they refuse to put the talks back for you tube which suggests to me that a particular faction of science which is the science that seeks to reduce all mysteries to matter which says that consciousness is purely an epiphenomenon of material activity in the brain there's nothing else to it this is this is not a fact this is an ideological position within science about ideological position is presently making the decisions for ted and if you have a point of view which is opposite to that particular corner of ideology you will

not be able to express it on the ted media this is perhaps the most fascinating thing that i found today look into your twitter feed at new research suggests that phobias and memories may be passed down from genetic switches alone also you have actually inherited experience i mean do you think this kind of groundbreaking research what does it tell us about the naive when it comes to our understanding of what consciousness really is it tells us what we really should know already that consciousness is the greatest mystery of science and that it is perhaps the scientific mystery that we most urgently need to solve and we have at our disposal a ray of natural substances called the psychedelics which allow us to switch on and off altered states of consciousness at will which are a super device superb devices for exploring the mystery of consciousness and yet for ideological reasons these reasons are totally ideological that the justification for them simply does not exist for ideological reasons we have prevented from doing so and this is

a cover for all sorts of other restrictions and controls on the freedom of the adult over his or her own body and over his or her own consciousness unfortunately health care is constantly wheeled out as a reason to remove our sovereignty. trend of freedom in western societies should be towards increased individual sovereignty rather than decreased individuals over graham hancock absolutely incredible i mean people can watch you for hours and have their consciousness expanded quite a bit where can people find out more about your work. graham hancock dot com the lead today it's my facebook my facebook account as well is very active and i spend a lot of time talking there that is also adult graham and coke thank you so much for taking the time out today graham to shed a little bit of insight into the world graham hancock author philosopher really appreciate it thank you. that's our show you guys thanks for watching be sure to follow me on twitter martin or maybe next week when i'm back to sat all over again

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