what's happened in peeps i mean martin and this is breaking in the set so that ill fated stand your ground law just ripped another hole in the fabric of america's so-called justice system this week a circuit court judge in florida a little bit mariska alexander the woman who fired warning shots in the air to keep her abusive husband at bay will not get another hearing alexander now wait a second trial in december where the mother of two faces an inhumane amount of jail time count i'm sixty years of the crime is trying to stay alive this despite the fact that no one was killed or even injured as a result of her actions alexander was previously unsuccessful in invoking the

infamous stand your ground statute in her defense when she was charged with aggravated assault however last month florida governor rick scott added a so-called morning shot revision of the stand your ground statute meaning alexander's defense could argue that revision applies to retroactively if they're successful in winning her second hearing because there's no doubt alexander was standing her ground during the previous trial police records demonstrated that alexander's husband had a long history of abusing her in fact he himself testified that he had not only beaten her but all of his girlfriends and despite all of this it took a jury only twelve minutes to find alexander guilty sentencing her to try to years behind bars now keep in mind the stand your ground statute is the same law that jurors took into account when they let george zimmerman the man accused of murdering unarmed teen trayvon martin walk free so if anything this gross

miscarriage of justice of not letting alexander be retried when she was actually standing her ground proves very clearly who this law is actually meant to protect and it's great that. it was a little very hard to take that. lightly that he ever had sex with that hurt there are no. such. thing. i. believe.

that. since the formation of the state governments have relied on propaganda to keep the masses obedient compliant and controlled with the advent of bernays and gerbils over the past couple decades we've seen governments perfect the subtlety and sophistication of propaganda one has to look no further than the us or the government instead of graphic media work hand in glove to promote an agenda of fear and war all of the guise of liberty democracy and security manufactured talking points like terrorists militants and weapons of mass destruction have often repeated throughout the media establishment without questioning and without question preying on the emotions of the unassuming public perhaps no government has mastered the technique more than the us in its greatest ally in the middle east israel in fact there's a term specifically for israeli propaganda called a house which in hebrew means explanation according to nine seven two magna

hasbro's quote a form of propaganda aimed at an international audience it's meant to influence the conversation in a way that positively portrays israeli political moves and policies including actions undertaken by israel. in the past often hasbro efforts include a negative portrayal of the arabs and especially of palestinians and never as has grown more obvious than when israel launches unrestrained military actions in the occupied palestinian territories its latest offensive operation protective edge is on day sixteen according to reuters the death toll is now exceeded seven hundred fifty mostly civilian casualties and at least one hundred forty thousand people displaced in refugee camps and u.n. operated schools in shelters at the time of this broadcast however just this morning news broke that i.d.f. shelled one such the ones who are refugees have been seeking safety at least seventeen are dead from the attack and dozens left wounded and helpless as gaza's

hospitals reach full capacity and furthermore israel's continued the shelling and sniper fire unleashed and khan yunis early wednesday killing dozens of the palestinians red crescent at least two hundred fifty civilians are trapped in the neighborhood in the midst of relentless attacks but as horrifying as the violence continues to be you'll still find thousands of sock puppets in the hasbro trolls defending the massacre across the web i've already covered on the show how right wing groups like the gesture council of settlements have of course teaching israelis how to edit wikipedia in a prose fashion the information war doesn't stop with wikipedia it exists even on dating websites and applications i kid you not a court of the nation a dating profile in the popular application tender named israel has been sharing updates with potential mates including such pickup lines as were using anti missile systems or protect our civilians and they're using their civilians to protect their

missiles that's the difference and while israel protects the holy sites of jerusalem hamas targets rockets at them lose said ducked is and keep in mind this account was traced back all the way to the office of the israeli prime min. start moving on to social media or an entire room labelled in hebrew the house of or a war room exists at a prestigious israeli university where there are currently more than four hundred volunteers working around the clock to argue pro israeli talking points on facebook threads pages and profiles wow no wonder why a million brand new accounts pop up on all my facebook pages whenever i criticize israel but i've never commented on anything before but not all hasbro trolls are volunteers you see last fall the independent reported that the israeli government offers scholarships to students at several universities that they share pro israel tweets and facebook posts with foreign audiences and considering twitter is one of the most popular places to share information in real time it's an incredibly useful

tool to relay facts about the horrors on the ground in gaza which could be why the israeli government has honed in on the resource to spread as much as it possibly can twitter has been ranges from paid for promoted tweets five pm netanyahu declaring unrelenting hamas rocket fire and the i.d.f. spokesperson justifying the shelling of civilian neighborhoods to a never ending stream of info graphics like this one which asks one does a house become a legitimate military target to show in a tear to house full of rockets and a command center fascinating how we haven't even seen one photo of a house that looks remotely like these scary bunkers they're telling us to litter gaza but as if this wasn't ridiculous enough check out this image tweeted by the i.d.f. saying that israel uses weapons to protect civilians while hamas uses civilians to protect its weapons showing a house full of missiles with a bunch of people standing on its roof so according to israel every single house

that is targeting are shelling has people in it protecting weapons once again never has this been proven with actual evidence and throughout this offensive the only proven case of weapons being stored in a residential area was the discovery of rocket. in an abandoned un school but concerned how gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth with a population of one point eight million people it's nearly impossible to have lee shell any place in gaza without a civilian toll and not only that but the people who have died inside their homes have nowhere else to go gaza is under siege from every side with every border closed just this week i spoke to gaza residents who debunked the human shield claim . i've been considered being used as a human shield by him because i'm an american here and i'm staying in my house but you know when i got the phone call and i got a phone call today from his yacht i refused to answer. telling me that i have to leave my home and i have to evacuate i say no i don't want to because this is my

home and i'm not going to leave it and then and then what israel does is uses and says well see how people stay in their homes they're using them as human shields but this is something that's coming to people it's their right to stay in their home country and. the reason i was in the human being is the israeli soldiers when they take over buildings and they leave they they keep civilians inside the buildings as they shoot from the top. amazingly israel has used human shields and here are just three examples in the last five years all right all right so both sides use this tactic can we stop using the term to legitimize murder look the tearoom human shield has become the crux of hasbro and it's being used to absolve israel of responsibility every time it bombs a hospital refugee center or home killing civilians and mass apparently as long as and operate behind an official army and sophisticated weaponry sanctioned by the west conducting terrorism against civilians is legitimate propaganda works to make

one man's freedom fighter another man's terrorist and you know i can't imagine any other country massacring almost a thousand people and still blame the people for committing self genocide rather. the bombs guns and tanks that actually killed them but hey that's just the magic of hasbro. new york city's upper east side might hold some of the most coveted real estate on the planet but a new high rise apartment building in this luxury neighborhood is causing some controversy in the local community see the new apartment complex will feature a special back door and transfer reserve soley for the building's low income residents you heard me right the new tower warm body of the old ideal of a tale of two cities featuring a unique four door and an alley behind the building and surprisingly the

announcement has caused quite a stir among local residents and public officials calling this new separate but equal range of an abominable and having no place in twenty first century america joining me now to discuss the details are two correspondent ana stasi a church going to. the company whose building is apartments axtell was given the green light for the project how is it able to do this legally. well not me apparently this is perfectly legal thanks to our former new york mayor bloomberg because according to two thousand and nine zoning laws divided housing is apparently absolutely fine and this project is being based off of a so-called inclusionary which would be more properly called completely non inclusionary housing program which basically allows development companies like this one if they say they are going to include more for affordable housing on site or off site to first of all do things like this have more space to get subsidies and tax breaks estimated at millions and millions of dollars of those incentives for

them. i want to read you a quote from david von spreckels son of toll brothers sounds like a rich dude who built a building in new york with a similar poor door you says quote i think it's very unfair to expect very high income home homeowners excuse me who paid a fortune to live in their building to have to be in the same boat as low income earners who are very fortunate to live in a new building and a great neighborhood i mean this seems completely outrageous logic to me how the neighbors and local residents responded to this new building policy. well i mean of course they're outraged but it isn't an affair of course obvious mean imagine you're returning home to your glamorous apartment. after a day at the spa the last thing you want to a single mother for returning home it's just too much to take in one day but no of course in all seriousness you're right it's absolutely outrageous local communities have been speaking out against this for quite some time including local politicians but you know obviously this particular project got the go ahead and you know some

people here are saying like what's next you know maybe rich people should just move to the moon there's no poor people there or let's just shift all the manhattan you know so yeah so i mean of course people are thinking this is outrageous really both rich and poor we have to say so you know it's really crazy in this day and really really is it was even crazier is that they're not even poor it's like you don't live there. you can't be really poor to even look at a very area so it's just amazing in itself and it really is like the second and third class seats on the tape tannic what the hell is so special about these higher prices housing units well i mean the way this building basically looks is they have many floors facing the river the hudson river which provides of course the nicer views and then the lower income housing is sort of on the back side of the building facing the street and it's only two to six floors so and the actual building itself is thirty three floors so what's so special you know except for the view and

obviously the ridiculous prices as is the case for really all real estate in manhattan we don't really know what's so incredible except for you know their luxurious and you know you're getting it's worth i think they're yeah they're block from amenities or something rather some lawmakers about to prevent a similar situation happening in the future and the actions being taken on this front we have about forty five seconds sure what we know that the manhattan borough president said never again in this happening is this happening in the future but the reality is that lawmakers know that fixing this kind of thing as they're promising to do takes time and they're not expecting for this to change for at least for the new year and because this is something that's based off of laws that were enacted in two thousand and nine many projects have already gotten the green light so it looks like this is only the tip of the iceberg mentioning titanic so we'll likely see more of those believable things so much for breaking it down and. coming up we'll discuss the government's secret guidebook for what does it mean to real people sorry regular people as terrorist states.

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for many of us the last thing we think about before jumping on an airplane is the possibility that we've been arbitrarily added to a government watch list and in fact prior to nine eleven the u.s. government watch list for potential threats only consisted of about sixteen names but today well over a decade in the global war on terror that list has grown into an archive of over one million individuals just this week an exposé on the intercept lays out exactly how the obama administration has overseen a significant expansion of the terror watch list the article breaks down the criteria necessary for an individual to be targeted and blacklisted by the u.s. government the data was obtained from one hundred sixty six page government document titled the march two thousand and thirteen watch listing guidance so what implications might there be for individuals on this list joining me now to talk

about just susan who fellow at the center for constitutional rights and kevin just stole up journalist at firedoglake thank you so much both of you for coming on susan i want to start with you based on this government guidebook what is the criteria that an individual has to meet to be nominated to enter the terror watch list. great well you know this guidance had a few surprises but i think it confirms all of our worst fears about the no fly list the criteria is incredibly broad to be placed on a government watch list basically all you have to do is to be suspected of being a terrorist or a suspected terrorist so there needs to be some sort of reasonable suspicion but the problem is that the reasonable suspicion standard is incredibly low it's really nothing you know something a little bit more than a hunch that someone is a suspected terrorist or is. as a known terrorist so you know there are

a few examples from the guidelines that actually illustrate just how problematic this is. for example traveling to an area with terrorist activity could be considered reasonable suspicion to put you on a terrorist watch list going to a school that teaches a certain ideology can also be considered reasonable suspicion of being terrorists and you know the other problem is that there is a presumption in favor of the government when there is a disagreement so essentially the government is saying that when we think that you're a terrorist but we're not quite sure we're just going to assume that you are and we're going to put you on this this watch list that's just been expanding expanding over the years kevin in a recent article you wrote on firedoglake in response to the document you out of that entire categories of people can be put on the watch list how can an entire demographic of people be targeted as a threat. potentially let's say one of the examples i

suppose is the christmas day bomber that happened in december two thousand and nine so wherever you know you are for room. came from the originated country i think everyone was concerned about yemen and so the whole category of benny's could be screened and be subject to more scrutiny and you saw afterwards that actually president barack obama will name that list of countries where those populations were going to be subject to additional screening and so i presume that based on what i was reading on the watch listing guidance that perhaps those countries also had more people placed on the watch list in that period would you say that specifically an anti muslim son to men goes in to influence in the guidelines given but absolutely and i mean we've seen in a previous story from the intercept that you know the slur raghead in the n.s.a. memo and we've seen how that likely is a bias that drives the n.s.a. but we just know that from the last ten years that there's been. a lot of this project is driving much of the counterterrorism activities of the united states and

as you see in the guidance there are so many loopholes that leave room for people's prejudices to drive. so many loopholes and dude susan let's talk about the consequences of up on such a list what might a person experience aside from being barred from travel. yeah i mean and first i just want to add to kevin's point which is pretty significant i mean the guidelines actually say that you know race and religion cannot be the sole factor for nominating someone on the watch list but that leaves open the conclusion that it can be a factor for putting someone on the watch list so the government has certainly exploited that in recent years and you know a vast number of people on the watchlist and the no fly list these days are muslim . and as for the consequences i mean the consequences are pretty severe so for someone who's you know for example on the general you know large one point five

million and sri terrorist database that list gets distributed to local federal state law enforcement agents and so for example you can imagine someone who is stopped at a traffic stop and the police officer you know looks up their name in the computer and sees that they're on a government watch list a terrorist watch list and you can imagine that that person being detained for far longer than necessary and questioned unnecessarily about their activity and that's something that we've definitely heard of happening to a number of people there are also immigration consequences for being put on the watch list and i think something you know one of the most sort of severe consequence of the watch list is exactly what happened to our clients in a case that was filed by c.c.r. and cuny. clear. our clients were put on the no fly list which

bars an eventual from indefinitely from getting on an airplane that goes over u.s. airspace and you know they are not terrorists they do not pose any you know threats to terrorism and they certainly weren't engaging in any acts of you know that would threaten civil aviation yet they were placed on the watch list and it provides an opportunity for f.b.i. officers to come to them and say look we know you're not a terrorist we know you're not dangerous and in fact this is what one f.b.i. officer said to our client by you're on the no fly list and we're going to use that as leverage if you if you work with us and become an informant against your own community that's the only way that we can take you off the list and that's particularly problematic of yes i mean there's so many there's so many things that i want to set it up but let's move on if the information is coming from intelligence sources from around the world we're talking about tens of thousands of

cables higher how many people are sorting through the data who's all timidly making the decisions on these designations. well look you've got people in the f.b.i. terrorist screening center that are primarily involved and looking over this data. and then also there's a more i guess top secret database where there is data being fed into it at the national counterterrorism center and then that data as it says in the intercepts story is stripped of classified information so that the data can ultimately shared be shared among the several agencies i think there's one quick quick critical point to make here about how the government was able to keep this secret before it was ultimately leaked yesterday and published by the interest in the story yesterday because eric holder as attorney general actually argued that this is like a road map of the terrorism tracking system of the united states and a lot of. or to organizations like the center for constitutional rights from ever

being able to see this use it in defending their clients and it's very significant that this is not a right they do for i do not susan i want to get your take also on a recent a.p. report that reveals that over the last five years one point five million people been added to the terror watch list what drove this dramatic increase and how is it possible to sort through that much data. yeah i mean i think that's one of the biggest problems with having you know such broad criteria for placing someone on the watch list i mean it leads to an incredible amount of discretion by low level you know individual f.b.i. field agents and again with so much data there's not a lot of oversight and not a lot of meaningful oversight over the names of the people who are placed on the list and so essentially you have a single f.b.i. agent making a decision about when to put someone on a terrorist watch list and that decision gets rubber stamped by his supervisor and

at the terrorist screening center you know it recently came out in the court filing a couple weeks ago that the terrorist screening center which is supposed to oversee all nominations to the watch list actually rejects just one percent of all nominations and in two thousand and thirteen half a million names were added to the watch list and it's really incredible for me to believe that there are half a million known or suspected terrorists walking around in the united states and what's even more important is knowing that the government might be using some of these as leverage to get more her informants. in there was a point made in the article that even death. you're welcome i mean the guidelines on how for dead people to be watchful is what does that even mean. well this is a really huge issue for people who happen to share the same names as individuals who are now dead but still. all are on the list as you can imagine finding yourself

at t.s.a. checkpoints and being pulled aside constantly and confusing you because they've got someone who's dead now the government claims that this is a terrorist tactic to travel and engage in terrorist activity under the number of girls i guess of these dead terrorists that are still on the list but as you can imagine it's very in a vicious sort of system if you're leaving dead people in the database. right know exactly i mean it's time to time to hash out because the list a little bit susan i mean kevin made a really good point earlier about the secrecy i mean from a national security perspective do you believe the disclosure of the guidelines or the criteria needed to be put on the terror watch list would hurt national security if not why do you think that these were kept secret old. yeah i mean when you look at the guidelines and see just how sweeping they are and you know how many possible individuals the government can label as

a terrorist based on you know very tenuous information. it's no surprise that the government wanted to keep this secret because you know there would be an uproar if people knew. just just how broad these this criteria is and you know the government has always fought in courts and has said in a couple of cases now that they can't release this information to the public and. because of that the case challenging the no fly list needs to be dismissed this is their way of evading any sort of personal right billy for the no fly list and so we hope with the release of these records you know the government can no longer hide behind that defense i mean absolutely unfortunate a time i mean an unfortunate you can't find out until you go on one of these lists until you kind of come up come up to head to head with one of these officials thank

you so much you guys. susan who really appreciate guys coming on. thank you. for watching you guys be sure to follow me on twitter at the martin drove me to my i want to break the all over again. well it's a list that is being suggested in the latest numbers among the many candidates are perceived in addition as actually fact you need doesn't do too much for ad revenue my tech agriculture giant teeth on a seventy six year old american farmer based in indiana. do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a great america is the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to

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