politicians write the blog. right. here just to read. what's up folks i'm out in martin and this is breaking the set so every once in a while the stories i cover on the show become even more personal than they already are heard this week i talked about how swat teams raid one hundred forty six homes every day terrorizing families and neighborhoods across the u.s. court of the a.c.l.u. sixty two percent of these raids are to find drugs which are mostly nonexistent consider now up to a whopping sixty five percent of the raids result in no contraband and lo and behold not even a day after i covered this story a producer of this show's house was violently raided along with her extended family

amidst the ransacking of the houses officers dismantled almost everything including baby toys a stroller and even the toilet yes because of a guilt by association case of mistaken identity my producer along with her relatives have been traumatized now having to put the pieces of their lives and homes back together look i was already pissed off about this but once the police state messes with my friends it gets personal and let's break the. the please. please they are looking very hard to take a. look. at you ever had sex with her right there believe. that.

during the latest siege on gaza western media coverage has been downright shameful take a look at a couple headlines from the sworn in three days and israeli military offensive dubbed operation protective shield first fox news says gaza rockets aimed at israel what would you do with just fifteen seconds wow then the so-called liberal news site fox declared the tragedy never ends palestinian rockets force israeli peace conference to evacuate women on a human rights watch an organization that's supposed to be on the criticism of atrocities even it leads with indiscriminate palestinian rocket attacks almost leading to headlines framing the violence as one sided as dangerous enough nothing

nothing compares to the blatant mr action displayed by a.b.c.'s diane sawyer last night we take you overseas now to the rockets raining down on israel today as israel tried to shoot them out of the sky part of the tinderbox israelis and palestinians and here it is really family trying to salvage what they can one woman standing speechless among the ruins. see the only problem with this broadcast was of the photo of sawyer showed of bombed out buildings and israeli families trying to salvage the remnants of their homes were actually palestinians and gaza city now thankfully there's been so much outrage over this egregious mistake that a.b.c. has already issued an apology on line and claims that it will make another one on air but how many people will see the correction how many watching that report saw those horrifying images and thought wow look at how much damage hamas rockets are doing see photos of israeli homes being destroyed in

a similar fashion simply don't exist whatever damage is done by rockets pales in comparison to israel's aerial bombings yes we all make mistakes goodness knows i've made plenty on the show but this is not just a common or excusable mishap this journalist running a college explains sorters baldness reporting reflects either deliberate lie by a.b.c. news or willful ignorance so severe that palestinian death and misery is invisible even when it's staring a.b.c. producers square in the face death and misery which by the way now amounts to at least ninety palestinian deaths according to gaza health ministry and over three hundred thirty nine injured at the time of this broadcast or two israelis have been injured as a result of the rockets but you won't hear this disproportionality reported in the western press because palestinian deaths are just another inconvenient truth.

in two thousand and ten fidel castro made waves when he announced that cuba's socialist model was no longer working now the media latched on to this is an example of socialism failure what castro clarified soon after is that his country's system was in dire need of reform since then cuba's decentralized state owned enterprise is a. allowed hundreds of thousands of people to open businesses in the private sector however cuban leaders have made clear that these measures do not equate to the embrace of capitalism but instead are necessary modernizations and just this week current president raul castro has reassured the cuban parliament that while they won't be immediate more reforms are on the way to combat the country's poverty and slower than expected economic growth yet despite cuba's willingness to embrace these changes the reigning view of the small island nation in the us is that of an

oppressive to tell a tarion wasteland is that really the case where earlier i spoke to break in the newest addition to the team on the program bill i started by asking her to explain the concept of internationalism and cuba's role in liberation movements around the world. so a lot of times people keep thinking of cuba as the bubble but in reality from the very beginning q but the cuban revolution was all about drawing partners in movements across the globe that were struggling to liberate themselves and i think this is most clearly exemplified in various personal involvement and cuba's involvement in angola where cuba sent up to twenty five thousand troops to assist the angolan liberation movement which at the time was fighting both there which is the belgian backed congo and south africa which was the at the time still an apartheid state and both were being supported by the united states and in fact nelson mandela himself has pointed to a and to cast the castros as inspirations and even cited them in helping to assist

and apartheid in south africa in fact there's a quote from nelson mandela we can share where he actually says the cuban people hold a special place in the hearts of the people of africa the cuban internationalist have made a contribution to african independence freedom justice unparalleled for its principled and selfless character so i think anyone who thinks that. cuba is this shut off a nation that doesn't want to connect with the outside world or never did that pretty much sums it up right there i want to outline also how politics and also business is run in the country so again you think of like guns in the face that people no private enterprise at all and no participation in elections in terms of business at the beginning after the revolution it's true that there are you know you had to get your license and you had to have a state state permit to put up shop however more recently the state

has been struggling to fund some of these business operations they've been selecting a couple of been this is to go more cooperative route as opposed to solely state sponsored and just for our audience to understand to cooperate as a worker owner workers all have the stake in the business and they can kind of control the future of the business and really be invested personally right it's the radical idea that workers themselves should own the financial stakes and make the top decisions at a company as opposed to a couple shareholders buying stocks from their beds are very different from from a yacht in the galapagos i was on i would say so on another really fascinating thing about cuba i guess for better or for worse that people might perceive it as there's no advertisements instead you see kind of these banners for the revolution depicting images from the uprising led by che guevara and and and the castro family and it just really incredible because here in the west what are we inundated with about four thousand. five thousand hours

a day i mean what is that doing to us as a society in just think about it you've talked about this plenty of times on the show whether you're depressed or you're overweight there's a pill right that they want to sell you whether you're sitting at the bus stop there's an ad in your face trying to tell you what's wrong with you and what you can buy to fix yourself and while yeah most of the billboards and ads in cuba consist of you know revolutionary slogans and artist depictions of the revolution when you think about symbol the. the fact that for example socialize medicine in require any pharmaceutical ads that takes away from a lot of ads and food to the fact that right i mean in a sense it could mean an l g d l g b t community have made strides in cuban health care interestingly enough the fact that health care is free in cuba hasn't diminished from its quality life expectancy in cuba is seventy seventy nine years old which is just slightly higher than the average life expectancy of an american but yes so in terms of women. birth control is actually paid for by

the socialist health care plan and ironically enough in the wake you know we're debating still having a debate in this country over whether or not the morning after pill is abortion pill when in fact cuba has invested in and providing women with this pill because they say it prevents abortion and also just the first state sponsor of gender reassignment surgery which is incredible i know that during fifty years ago the cuban government it was kind of institutionalized discrimination against. people as it is many many planes in the rest of the world but fortunately i guess this country now is kind of really taken strides in leading the pack in terms of ought to be tried and i know that we're almost out of time but you know all of this aside i think the main point here is yes there's definitely criticisms to be made of cuba there's a prison to be made of how state enterprises run how media is controlled and consolidated by the state however it is very important to mention that all of this we don't know

how cuba would be if it were allowed to flourish without the sanctions and embargo in place since the cold war and israel and the united states continuously are the only country that seem to want to really force this embargo on cuba and there's a saying in every day life that no man is an island you know no human could exist without interacting with its fellow humans and although cuba is technically an island no country is an island it can't sustain itself just considering the fact that the one of the the largest economies in the world is ninety two miles from its coast yet refuses to provide any sort of exchange of goods and services. i was brought in a separate is are on now. and you know we wouldn't know what cuba were like if it were allowed to flourish on its own without the hendren something us and its allies because while the us continues we're pecha way that cuba has this isolated rogue state obviously it still poses a threat as evident in the zoom zoom you know fake twitter installed by usa id in

the country there are efforts to actively undermine and overthrow the castro government to this day making it clear that even the most powerful nation on earth are still terrified of a tiny island nation doing it differently. coming up i'll talk about one of the biggest safety hazards facing americans due to our addiction to oil. or you like me and want your comedy news and some t. want your comedy news to be a bare fisted no holds barred fight to the dead. like a truth vampire winding into the necks of the corporate elite billionaire freaks while they're going. out so that's what you get with my new show project of the night. with the washington well as submissive to the leaders being suggested in the latest

numbers in the media candidates talk receive government issues actually back to a new doesn't do too much for ad revenue my own tech agriculture giant takes on a seventy six year old american farmer east india fallout do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering the great america is the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to the status quo but one might give you all of those points and working toward the american dream the next they were just trying to survive this time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real causes of poverty.

there's an insatiable. excuse me demand for oil across north america increasing every day governments have made it their mission to take every shortcut imaginable to transport the substance and perhaps no place is more aware of this fact in the town of loch magon tick back so you may remember that just over a year ago one of the deadliest train accidents in canada's history took place in this town just ten miles from the u.s. border in july six two thousand and thirteen one attended freight train carrying seventy two tanker cars filled with crude oil rolled away and the railed causing an unbelievable explosion that lit up the sky with hellish fireballs when all was said and done forty seven people lost their lives more than one million gallons of crude spilled on the streets and six city blocks were completely destroyed canadian prime minister stephen harper said that the city looked like a war zone but sadly this tragic event has done little to stop the exponential

expansion of north america's oil by rail system and fact under harper's watch between two thousand and nine and two thousand and thirteen shipments of oil by rail increased from five hundred to one hundred sixty thousand carloads a year that's an increase of nearly thirty two thousand percent what's most frightening however is that the rail tracks that run through rock magon tick or not at all equipped to carry hazardous materials and a subsequent investigation found that the type of crude on that fatal train was wrongly classified and was as flammable as on leaded gasoline now it's important to note that an april the government did remove five thousand of the most dangerous rail cars from canadian tracks and impose new regulations regarding the speed and structural integrity of the rail system but when it comes to the highly dangerous nature of this material these minor chain. ages are mere stopgap until the next disaster and here in the u.s. even these slight regulations when it comes to transporting crude by train are

virtually nonexistent consider that between two thousand and nine and two thousand and thirteen the transportation of crude oil by train increased from about eleven thousand carloads to four hundred thousand and hundreds of these cars are the exact same type of model and carrying the exact same type of crude as the train involved in the canadian explosion. but if you think that population centers in the u.s. are safe from these type of accidents think again according to a recent study by the nonprofit group forest at the ex over twenty five million americans live within the blast zone of an oil train explosion now i know many of you might be thinking this is exactly why a massive pipeline projects like keystone x.l. need to be built but pipelines hardly guarantee the safety of people and the environment and so that according to investigation by global news alberta's pipeline system alone has averaged over two crew and spills

a day over the past thirty seven years that equates to over twenty eight thousand spills these types of weeks could be catastrophic for communities like mayflower arkansas where entire neighborhoods had to be evacuated after tar sands oil flooded the town. so if mitigating climate change preventing toxic destruction of fragile ecosystems and an ending resource wars are enough to convince you that we need to rapidly wean ourselves off of this ancient black toxic goo and let this serve as another reason because at the end of the day there is no safe way to transport toxic sludge. to. the snowden leaks on the n.s.a. spying agenda has given the world a better understanding of exactly how the u.s. can government conducts surveillance on innocent civilians but thanks to

a recent article by the intercepts we now know exactly who is being singled out by u.s. agencies the article highlights five prominent muslim americans from diverse backgrounds from academia to islamic rights organizations now i'm joined by one of the men targeted by saul gill former homeland security official under the bush administration thank you so much for coming. don i thank you so much for having me so how did you first find out that you were specifically targeted by the n.s.a. i received a call from glenn greenwald asking me if i could meet him somewhere in either in washington d.c. or new york i went to new york to meet him and that's where he told me that i was actually targeted by the n.s.a. and what was your initial reaction when you found out that it was just a shock i mean i couldn't believe it i didn't think why what i did. to arouse any suspicion or why i should be under such monitoring. it is particularly fascinating because unlike the other gentleman who the article exposed you held a top secret security clearance at the department of homeland security absolutely

that's what shocked me the most mature years before this i was working in a highly classified environment i have an above top secret clearance and a top secret sci there were no issues there so and then just two years after that they're monitoring me so i just couldn't understand it that's why i was so shocked and people are asking me are you angry are you upset now and i just think i can't get beyond being shocked it's all right you have got to be on the song good there's nothing in my background that would lead anybody to believe that i either harbor any terrorist feelings i'm a puppet of a foreign government or i'm taking any direction from foreign government or even have any contact with a foreign government outside of aspect of the law that's what's most surprising to me right and i think i'm going to decide that because that's what the n.s.a. is response was and is not these warrants need to be issued for people who are actively you know agents of a foreign government participating in illegal law doesn't terrorism or sabotage well and that's what's even more concerning about the n.s.a.'s response is that

they're basically leaving it out there in the open to suggest that maybe i was part of one of those categories when you know there's absolutely no evidence nobody's ever come after me and my security clearance was never revoked never suspended it just makes no sense i guess do you feel betrayed by the fact that you were spied on by the very government you served a little bit a little better you know what i have again i'm just i can't move beyond the shah. saying it makes absolutely no sense in trying to figure out why they would do that how does it advance national security and what safeguards need to be in place so it doesn't happen to be they keep saying there's probable cause probable cause a problem because a fairly high standard you go into any court for any other crime you know robbery breaking and entering and you have to meet a fairly high standard just to get a warrant and in this case they have no evidence because there's nothing there. and i think it's also important that you don't know the details of course of how you were being spied on or obviously the details of the probable cause that they're claiming absolutely the most frightening aspect of it all it's still being spied on

at night because when greenwald papers just go to two thousand and eight he never has anything that says ok the spying that stopped i was all cleared now i can assume that i'm cleared because it would be the biggest waste of resources to spy on me and monitor my emails for seven years and nothing has happened if i haven't done anything until this time you know nothing's going to be there how do you think the information collected on you was used there's no there's nothing to be used i mean the information that was collected on me during the time i was running for a local state office in the state of virginia so people were e-mailing me about you know potholes and traffic and traffic lights things like that so there's e-mails between me and my friends saying we're going to go to dinner are you going to this event are you going to that event that's the kind of evils that i was engaged in there's absolutely nothing there now i have a law email that has clients but i do civil law i'm not a criminal lawyer i don't represent anybody who's on any sort of a terrorist watch list i do corporate law mergers acquisitions things of that sort that's why it's so troubling to me that i'm on this list well you know we don't.

we're trying to find out why as well and the one thing that we really care cross is something that you were cleared by the d.a. just for right years ago back in two thousand and three where someone that you were associated with was involved in this assassination attempt not even what you were supposed to do with but just very. loose affiliation right you were cleared by the d.a. to talk about those circumstances you know they accuse me of the robot. moody who was the head of a muslim group that i was involved in american muslim council he after i had left the american muslim council was arrested and basically tried and convicted for you know from the assassinate of the crown prince of saudi arabia. my association with him was very minor and at the time that i met him every congressman was meeting him jim moran and tom davis anybody nor the region was meeting he went to meet governor bush that time governor bush in the governor's mansion in austin texas so that's when i met him when every politician was meeting including the future president so

we can assume that governor bush is also part of the little house and then i was cleared and so they said that i lot of my security clearance forms that i didn't disclose my association with the american muslim council which is absolutely false i disclose everything. that i disclose or you know this is also. a former f.b.i. agent named john quando and so that you played a major role in the muslim brotherhood he responded to his claim it's absolute because i have never met anybody in the muslim brotherhood i'm not in the muslim brotherhood i've never gone to egypt i've never associated there has not been one statement at all but tributed to be a spouse any violent views or any views of the most of brotherhood at all and i would not know them and i'm not i'm not any were affiliated with them so to play a major role in the muslim brotherhood is absolutely ridiculous it does sound very inflammatory and baseless you know as you mentioned before and there's there's absolutely nothing in your past that could warrant this type of

a green just surveillance which leads me to believe or i guess the question why you five i mean you all are muslim most of americans do you think that this fine has to do with religion i think i asked you i think it's a factor that we're almost them and we're all in actively involved one way or the other in politics and civic affairs and i think that somebody in the government is . is afraid of that doesn't want that to happen there's something going on there but yeah absolutely there is no other explanation it has to be because i am muslim and because i am active politically now this was a relatively small sample what i think of the seven hundred names on a list that haven't been disclosed you know given the. church committee preachers committee given the cointelpro surveillance that we know took place decades ago with the capabilities that the n.s.a. has now and the f.b.i. has now do you think that this goes beyond spying on most americans not that we should be more has that that i'm just wondering what your views are on that absolutely i think there's the n.s.a.

at this time can spy on anybody and basically any form of communication not just email text messages and you know back in the old days that used to be that knew you'd go and sweep for a bug and everything like that and you'd say ok there's a bug there but now with the technology being it's all done to satellites and it's all done remotely so they can literally spy on anybody and when they talk about probable cause in the files of court approves ninety nine percent of all the warm sort of presented to them so there's and that's a pretty high you know pretty high success rate eg dismay it makes no sense that ninety nine percent of the warrants would be approved by the fathers of course so as they can spawn any form of communication anywhere regardless of whether you're an american citizen or not and regardless of whether or not an american muslim or not right what's next for you i mean are you planning on taking legal action or not at this time in the main reason for that is i just don't think it would do any good i think the us government the hysteria there they always talk about national security and there's always there's so many there's so many technicalities built in

the law that i don't think that i'd be able to get anywhere awesome go for it tried illegal action before when he was surveilled without any sort of a warrant and that never got anywhere so i don't think this is going to get into what i'm really hoping happens is that the congress now looks at this and puts in the safeguards in place if you talking about their oversight authority they keep talking about safeguards now i hope that actually put safeguards in the so you know others aren't surveilled like i am and i think you know your kind of example fine how this whole probable cause notion is utterly shattered and they're sitting here right now there's no reason for you to be spied on or for our resources to be spent on spine oh that's a lie that you're right that's exactly right you know in theory it sounds great ok you're going to have a problem. going to make an application go take it to an independent judge of the independent judgment valuated and then basically sign off on it which is what the n.s.a. is saying but in practice it just is not working because the independent judge or whatever is being put in the affidavit is just being blindly signed off on the right it's clear that it's just our guys who is sort of you know

a system when really you know they pick someone to sign up on everything thank you so much for coming on breaking it down if i saw a girl attorney former homeland security official really push a come on thank you very much for your show much thanks for watching you guys be sure to follow me on twitter at adding martin going to my winter break to start all over again. world. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia. the future of coverage.

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