the answer is you can't because as we've seen time and time again the mainstream media paints palestinians out of the other alone distant voice that can only sympathize with its own people and once someone is merely labeled palestinian it's acceptable to exclude them from the debate and let's break the side. please please they believe very hard to take at least. one lie that he ever had sex with that hurt their little. league.

if you've ever been to thailand or amsterdam you would know that prostitution is a booming industry in many parts of the world for you and billions of dollars and millions of visitors every year now of course prostitution laws vary by country but whether it's an outright ban or fully regulated industry one thing is for sure just like drug use there will always be a demand and there is no long the world will ever change that while fishel numbers are difficult to gather in the us it's estimated that prostitution generates fourteen billion dollars annually despite its illegality and according to a two thousand and four a.b.c. poll as many as thirty percent of single american men over the age of thirty admit to having paid for sex at least once in their lives now the debate over illegal.

zation or decriminalization usually falls under a moral argument often ignoring the benefits that such a policy change could generate specifically for the woman involved except in the case of nevada multiple counties in the state do currently permit legal brothels with resound in success according to the new york times eighty four percent of women working in a legal nevada brothels feel safe perhaps because most of them work for themselves and therefore don't need abusive and controlling pimps in the picture furthermore these legal prostitution hubs have no evidence of trafficking but as far the far as the rest of the country excuse me unfortunately the underground nature of prostitution leaves a little data for social scientists to observe until this month the national bureau of economic research published a report on the effect of decriminalizing indoor prostitution the report cites a fifteen year study showing that as much as eighty five percent of all sex work activity in the u.s. is moving indoors to places like escort agencies in the sausage parlors and the

internet it also highlights a curious case study of the decriminalization of indoor prostitution in the state of rhode island see in two thousand and three zero rhode island district judge ruled that indoor prostitution was no longer a felony by two thousand and nine however it's the governor signed a law once again criminalizing the practice while the motivations for the initial ruling and following the ban are debatable the data observed during the time it was decriminalized is irrefutable not only did decriminalize prostitution lead to a decrease in sex related arrests but a thirty one percent drop in rape reports as well as significantly fewer cases of us t.d.'s it's a first of its kind study in the us and one that blows previous hypotheses out of the water as they relate to rape and as to not only first sex workers for the entire population now in regard to sexual violence it's been argued that decriminalization would lead to an increase market which then leads to an increase . and violence against women but once again the data suggests otherwise in fact the

authors of the report that quote decriminalization may also reduce violence by increasing sex workers willingness to cooperate with police and reducing opportunities for police corruption prostitutes commonly report a reluctance to contact the police when they are the victims of deft or violence this is perhaps one of the most important takeaways especially considering the fact that sex workers are often the victims of police violence themselves see cops routinely target prostitutes during sting operations and in some absurd cases even have sex with prostitutes before arresting them you know just to make sure and it happens more often than you'd like to think just this month a police officer in florida was arrested by another undercover officer posing as a prostitute that continued crackdown on sex workers is only costing taxpayers at

the end of the day one only has to look at the case of jennifer sue we heard a sex worker in ohio who had been arrested forty five times on separate charges eventually costing ohio residents one hundred thousand dollars so let's stop sitting up on our high horses and judging every sex worker as a drugged out lowlife was being demeaned by the industry instead we should embrace the fact that legalizing and decriminalizing prostitution was actually empower women who choose this profession give them the resources they need to protect themselves and others because as much as you may want to turn a blind eye to reality you can't deny the facts. earlier this month obama congress for a three point seven billion dollar a merge and c. package to address the flow of on. companied minors crossing into the u.s.

but the funding as little more than a turn a cat to stem the growing humanitarian crisis along the us mexico border just this week the senate responded to obama's request by slashing one billion dollars about funding citing the initial amount was simply over budget this blatant dismissal comes as congress eagerly preps for its august recess but as lawmakers prepare for a five week vacation from governance tens of thousands of children sit in the holding cells military bases and repurposed warehouses along the border waiting in limbo for their cases to be heard so help me break down how bad this crisis really is and why congress is stalling immigration reform i'm joined by breaking the separate emanuel got up on what's going to be good to see you so let's talk about this emergency three point seven billion dollars funding what exactly was it going to be used for and why are lawmakers rejecting the some right and of that three point seven billion i'm glad that you mentioned that congress is now saying you know this is this is way we're way over budget we're not going to we're not going

to be going to syria and iran i mean we got a we got us as a whole funding apartheid in israel. the money is going to kind of give a little bit of relief to ice agents and c.p.b. agents and the department of health and human services that are completely overburdened with the amount of just the influx of unaccompanied minors right now and unfortunately congress going into august which by the way that headline read that the funding for border protection is going to be running out by september that is actually according to jay johnson from homeland security will be running out by august at the rate that it's burning right now so it's desperately needed we're talking about a record number of unaccompanied minors coming in and the fact that congress is leaving town for five weeks so it's a really really bad message not to say that if they were here they begin to tell you anything but it does send a really really bad message that they're not going to be more it's a shame that it's even going to wrap before even the expected deadline because as we know the system itself is so overburdened as it stands talked about the stresses already on that. right i mean we're talking right now of seventy thousand children

that have come in unaccompanied minors are not here with their parents this is just children that we're talking about since october by fall of this year by september the white house has already estimated that it's going to be upwards of ninety thousand we're talking about a system that was designed into the bush administration to house eight thousand kids and were expected to before the end of the year be at ninety thousand i mean these statistics are really really troubling in the fact that we're now being forced to turn abandoned warehouses mitt makeshift shelters for these kids turn military facilities into these kids so this funding is desperately needed not only for you know border patrol is going to run in money but for health and human services to find a place for these children right and i remember reading reports of these kids are sometimes getting beaten in these warehouses i mean abysmal conditions sometimes you know better than where they left behind of course being driven out by by so much violence in latin america where you're from many not only do is

this overcrowding the facilities taking place but also the process i mean and that's and that's adding to this problem is the length of time that it takes a process these kids yet that are you ready for these statistics with this this is a really really troubling. it can take upwards of nineteen months to process a single case and as of june of this year and this is department of justice statistics here three hundred seventy five thousand cases are pending ok so we're not only talking about you know an influx into a system that's designed to house eight thousand kids we're talking about thousands and thousands of cases are going to take well over a year probably over two years to process why did they take that because that's the system we keep hearing about this immigration system that's broken in america this is what's broken about it we simply it we're not just dealing with the millions of undocumented immigrants that are in the country already we're having to deal with the thousands tens of thousands that are. they're continuing to come and over crowd

the existing facilities having to put them in difficilis facilities that don't even exist and then deal with. this is that in no way their fault these are kids that are coming into a system that simply cannot remedy and what's so unfortunate is that the debate is so dumbed down because you have republicans actually blaming obama for creating this crisis and then you have obama kind of the deporter in chief responsible for more of the board and this is the saddest part about this argument is that it's so heavily politicized and we should really be taking this for what it is which is a humanitarian crisis now thankfully the media in america even whether p.m.s. n.b.c. c.n.n. fox news or tear or whatever is turning that page and we are treating it like a humanitarian crisis but we now need the political will from congress to see at the same rate and unfortunately states are taking the matters into their own hands for better or for worse talk about that yeah and i mean this is another one of those things that sends the wrong message to the federal government should be setting the standard the federal government should be setting the guidelines for what we should be doing in terms of immigration policy as a result like you said states are taking matters into their own hands california

new mexico connecticut connecticut several states are passing their own versions of the dream act so that certain cities across the country are passing their own their own legislation to give licenses to undocumented immigrants these are the sort of like the positives that are coming out of this but it shouldn't be up to the states to do it should be up to the federal government other states don't have that heart friendly approach texas for example send a thousand troops a thousand national guard troops rick perry a thousand national guard troops to the border that again sending the wrong message about our message and we have got thirty seconds flat but i mean a lot of a lot of this problem as we mentioned before stems from the drug war and a lot of these policies in latin america central america that's driving these kids actually to the u.s. you're from honduras talk about how that's all part of it right i mean i'm not going to blame all of us policy for the reason that the this immigration crisis is going on but yes the u.s. drug or u.s. policies economic policies that are drug does. placing workers in honduras creating

violence that's forcing these kids to leave that's all a big factor that's all something that we need to start looking at exactly there's so much here a man iraq really shaken on thanks up. coming up i'll be talking about the roots of the palestinian israeli conflict and why i understand you can help end the violence today. on marriage and the financial world. talked to goldman cannot stop the advance only take in the debate the threat is not going to get any economic in life there are. they want to so this is back to the middle ages. you know they derive their villages from the very very rigid interpretation of if you look at a country like egypt for example sadly enough with very high poverty the reason

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fortunately doesn't sound anything jim's mission to teach music creation and why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care only. since july eight israel has been engaged in a brutal offensive against gaza operation protective but the country's bombing campaign and subsequent invasion of gaza has reached a tipping point with scores of civilians dying every day the media is no longer able to ignore the bloodshed at least six hundred ninety. less than ians have been killed at the time of this broadcast and over four thousand five hundred left injured according to the middle east i at least one hundred sixty one of the dead are children that's one child being killed every hour work and gaza according to

the un now on the israeli side three civilians and thirty two i.d.f. soldiers have died during the latest siege according to palestinian health officials israel's military has targeted mosques schools and more than twenty five health facilities including elderly care units and hospitals so far over one hundred thousand palestinians have been displaced from the violence as horrifying as these developments are this is a tragic tale that's all too familiar here in the west we're taught that israel is a country surrounded by terrorists who want to destroy it and that constant barrage of rocket fire threatens its way of life which gives israel the right to defend itself over and over again a defense that facilitates more than three billion dollars a year in military aid from u.s. taxpayers more than any other country receives and support so given the overwhelming amount of u.s. support for one side of the conflict what are its roots and who is the true

instigator of violence to break it all down i'm joined by allison aware author of against our better judgment the hidden history of how the u.s. was used to create israel and founder of americans knew thanks so much for coming on allison. thank you for having me so allison for the last decade the media has been saying any violence is justified by israel's right to defend itself from rocket fire going back all the way to two thousand and one debunk the talking point that all of this started with hamas rockets. yes it's very easy to debunk that the media just sort of doesn't bother to look at the actual facts for some reason the fact is that the first rocket from gaza was launched in april of two thousand. in two thousand and one a total of four walk rockets were launched from gaza i was in gaza before that in february and march of two thousand and one before any of these rockets had been launched and i personally saw and you know many other people did too that israeli

forces were shelling gaza at that time nightly they were also shelling parts of the west bank in gaza i would go through some residential neighborhoods and specially in southern gaza that were completely bullet riddled by israeli mortar fire rocket fire they were using f. sixteen s at that time already helicopter gunships. i saw large residential homes full of families that were in ruins in february and march of two thousand and one. already that year i believe israeli forces had killed about thirty five palestinian children. before any of this rocket the rocket launches started so obviously there was a great deal of violence coming from israeli forces. that preceded the rockets and also i'm sure go on when i was going to mention there the other thing that the media says which is of course following the israeli talking point is that it is

because of hamas that israel is engaging in a one one assault after another on gaza but hamas was elected in two thousand and six and we already saw a number of invasions of a great many many people killed long before hamas was arrested according your organization allison israel currently has two hundred sixty two jewish only settlements built on confiscated palestinian land and have demolished over twenty thousand palestinian homes a cycle of about famous map showing palestinian land loss since one nine hundred forty six through the year two thousand i don't know if we have that map showing those for subsequent states under what legal pretense is this being justified. well it's really not legal this is against geneva conventions you cannot acquire land through conquest but israel continues to do this israel it's important for

americans to realize that israel has never declared its borders you know we are consistently told it's the only democracy in the middle east and yet it has not declared its borders because it does it has from the beginning had a plan to expand those borders and it has done so and in addition it's never it's never written a constitution there are in the constitution so it can change its basic laws whenever it wishes to and it does that. in israel's that they pulled out their troops from gaza years ago but i. and as someone who's been there extensively who studied the area very extensively talk about how the population is still being controlled in the occupied territories how the border is still regulated in a way that walks of central staples from reaching the people. yes the gaza has basically many people call it quite accurately a large open air prison israel controls the borders it's very difficult to get in the gaza and to get out of gaza because israel and egypt which controls the

southern border and does very much what the u.s. and israel wanted to do makes it impossible often impossible to leave gaza and to get into gaza it's very difficult so after the massacre that occurred a few years ago in which about one thousand four hundred palestinians in gaza men women and many many many children were killed their homes huge huge parts of gaza were destroyed i saw that two going in a year later very little had been rebuilt because israel was preventing building materials from going into gaza so people were still still living in tents the schools had not been rebuilt many hospitals had not been rebuilt clinics i talked to an israeli palestinian physician who explained to me operating rooms were under supplied they didn't have they often didn't have anaesthesia that necessary for just simple standard operations they didn't have x. ray film to use for x.

rays they were very significant medicines and medications lifesaving ones that were insufficiently available in gaza itself there were a great many of the small children who were suffering different types of diseases easily treated ones some of them causing excruciating pain for for toddlers for example who then were not being allowed to leave said to go for medical care in gaza has been under a siege since. mosse was elected in two thousand and six but truthfully before that when i was there in a few years before that it was also very difficult to get into and out of gaza even again before hamas was elected right so we have all the borders closed even chocolate pasta anesthetics i don't see how any of those things could be justified to not be allowed in gaza none of those things could be made into weapons alison you talked about before two thousand and six let's go back all the way to began in

you wrote a book called against our better judgment which talks about the hidden history about how israel was created and why it was formed the what we role did the us play and its creation elsom. well in researching my book i was astounded to learn that the movement to create israel called political scientists and has existed in the united states since the late eighteenth hundreds and i grew up here and i i had never even heard of that movement but it's a very significant one u.s. officials in the state department and the pentagon and our intelligence agencies were actually opposed to supporting zionism and zionism was the intention of creating a jewish state in palestine land that was already inhabited by a population that in the early one thousand nine hundred two was approximately. eighty percent non non jewish it was no actually it was ninety five percent at that point that was non jewish so the idea was to dispossess that population and create

a jewish state on that land. there were major manipulations in the united states to push the scientist agenda i was astounded to there are a great many books that have documented that just most people don't know about them because most of them are out of print but there was major activism on behalf of zionism some of it was very public much of it was kept hidden there were a number of front groups for the groups that were in palestine at that time working to fight against the palestinians who were living on that land so it was. if people want to go to no where did this violence in gaza start do you go back to july twelfth there or maybe june eighth when the the three israelis were abducted you learn that just before they were abducted for palestinian children had been

killed you learned that from the beginning of two thousand and fourteen january first there had been already thirty palestinians killed before those three were abducted so where do you start where do you go back to understand the beginning you go back to the creation of israel which occurred with a war of conquest in one nine hundred forty seven one nine hundred forty nine in which approximately three quarters of a million people were pushed out to make way for a jewish state the palestinian role in this their their original crime was simply being on land that someone else wanted. and all we hear today is the hamas is this terrorist organization that's constantly using human shields and that they rejected the cease fire alison i mean how did hamas come to be and why did the palestinian authority and fatah. phailin gaza and gaining support. well gaza and the west bank both it's important to remember that there are very much under the control of

israel the government with within those two entities are there. largely because israel allows them to function to a degree i mean israel controls the borders we're talking about governments basically within prisons so they have. only they have very limited power now gaza but there were there was of a fair election in which hamas won the election under five which was the main palestinian authority things had gotten worse israel had taken more palestinian land it had created more suffering for palestinians the palestinian authority had been unable to stop that so here we have hamas a. chance to change parties that's usually considered a very positive thing for a democracy to see that there is a sharing of power that a power different party can be elected it was pro-trade accurately at that time as

not corrupt that it would fight for the rights of palestinians and try to prevent the continued confiscation of their land so there was an election held by all accounts it was a fair election hamas was elected. israel did not want that so immediately gaza in particular came under a great deal of pressure especially economic pressure. hamas was demonized although it had won an election there are resistance forces in the palestinian territories that are armed but hamas was also a political party that had done a great deal. ted organized clinics schools etc which of course then makes all of those fair game i guess for bombing targets we have about twenty seconds left alice and obviously the two state solution it doesn't get on the table what can people do to help stop this violence alison we have about fifteen seconds. this

really comes from the united states it's our over eight million dollars per day really now it's moving up to about ten million dollars per day coming from the united states and the diplomatic shielding once more americans start letting their elected officials know that we do not want our money used this way that we do want peace in the middle east and that funding israel prevents it thank you that's the only thing that thank you so much we do need to stand up and demand that to be and allison where author founder of americans knew. thanks so much for watching be sure to follow me on twitter at abby martin join me again tomorrow and i break this out all over again. you know margaret mitchell author of gone with the wind one with enough courage you can do without a reputation but in a highly emotional and social media driven world what's extremely concerned sometimes hysterical residents of twitter and the like hashtags their outrage

salans of miles away at the slightest deviance from what which they all have tag agree is the only acceptable course well people y'all are going to need oh a lot more courage. we chase profit very large very attractive and now very globally recognized source of oil for the world and into the future the world's odd cheapest and best petroleum deposits have been mined out we have to use more energy to get this energy industries grow like a cancer each of these squares it's ten kilometers square. and this whole area is slated to be flamed out of that's your drinking water that's our wildlife service and that's our fisheries we chop stop this is the end game when it takes

two tons of sand to make one barrel of oil you know you're at the bottom line and that's where we're at. the chill ourselves. you surely know where you. can.

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from around the globe. to. military transporters fly the bodies of more m.h. seventeen victims to the netherlands five densification while investigators search for further remains on clues out of the crash site. the airliner crash has turned into an information war by western media echoing the u.s. state department accusations against russia and refusing to hear any counter claims . or fears rise for the welfare of an r t contributor missing in eastern ukraine with reports that he may be held by government forces. israel's ground operation in gaza bolstered by tanks helicopter gunships and warplanes more than seven hundred palestinians dead diplomats.