fire but. like. at this point. what. i'm reading here one word. your friend posts a photo from a vacation you can't afford. a different. the boss repeats the same old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still tends to rejection poetry keep. ignoring. the post only what really matters. to your facebook news feed. but. i would like to know that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. role. in

fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our press simak know we've been hijacked like handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once all just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identify the problem try rational debate real discussion critical issues facing define are you ready to join the movement then walk in the big picture. of. what's really good folks in this is breaking the set filling in for abby martin so even though president obama and congressional

counterparts are on vacation there's one issue that isn't taking a break the humanitarian crisis at the us mexico border secured into just released stats from homeland security the number of migrant children from central america seeking refuge in the u.s. is like nothing we've ever seen it was because while there is still a perception out there that mexican nationals are the biggest contributor to the immigration crisis that couldn't be farther from the truth see over seventeen thousand children have crossed the border thus far in two thousand and fourteen it's more than eighteen times the number that entered the u.s. at this point in two thousand and nine and it's no different if you look at the other northern triangle countries from a lot of we've seen over fourteen thousand migrant children leaving their. a tree and over fifteen thousand others from about their mother this year alone now it's no surprise that ended us leads this unfortunate list considering the country's homicide rate is about ninety murders per one hundred thousand people more than twice the rate of even what the milan and several other and the vast majority of

this violence is directly tied to brutal gang warfare propped up by the failed us mexican drug war that is the nothing more than pushed cartel activity further and further south now today roughly forty percent of all cocaine that enters the us goes through hundred us meanwhile hundreds of millions of dollars in the u.s. foreign aid continues to flow into these three central american countries every year funding corrupt governments that are also responsible for mass human rights abuses so not only is this a not only is it morally right for us to assist these children who escape conditions of violence and destruction it's our obligation so let's break that set . they are very hard to take. that are acts that are right there.

in the wake of the michael brown shooting in ferguson missouri the conversation about police abuse has shifted toward the disturbingly disproportionate violence that affects minorities in america now earlier this week we took a look at a report that outlines how a black person is killed by police security guards or armed vigilantes every twenty eight hours in the us i also mention that this points to a conversation about race issues that our lawmakers don't seem to be willing to have and even though the u.s.

is a world leader in gun deaths where we should be talking about ways to curb gun violence that discussion always seems to end with a debate over whether or not the government is trying to take our guns which unfortunately means nothing is being done in terms of progress but even before the michael brown shooting this deadly violence against blacks received special attention after the death of trayvon martin in florida and the lengthy trial of george zimmerman where instead of leaving a neighborhood issue to local police a conflict broke out that led to the death of an unarmed african-american teen and a not guilty verdict for the shooter the zimmerman trial subsequently introduced the term stand your ground into the public locks. is creating an entirely new debate over state policies that encourage vigilantism now for anyone who might still be unsure of what a stand your ground law is usually points to a policy that allows a person to use deadly force in self-defense without the duty to retreat but just last weekend a new report commissioned by the american bar association highlights some shocking

statistics so it turns out that states that have stand your ground laws in place have actually seen a rise in homicides using empirical evidence to back the notion that these laws are having the complete opposite effect of their intended purpose now in fact according to the study in two thousand and thirteen stand your ground states experienced an eight percent rise in homicides compared to states without the laws but the report doesn't end there in fact the study found three disturbing commonalities among stand your ground states the first is that such laws actually obstruct police yes according to the nationwide survey there is widespread opposition to stand your ground laws by law enforcement officials all across the country joseph vance a former a.t.f. officer and one of the authors of the study added that quote instead of encouraging peaceful resolution through the rule of law stand your ground laws encourage violent actions they place police officers at risk and give criminals an automatic

defense of the second finding is that there is a high level of confusion within the criminal justice system in regard to these laws keep in mind that there are currently thirty three states that have some form of stand your ground laws in place and there they are in no way consistent the study not only found that the states are applying the laws haphazardly but if but officers prosecutors and juries have uniformly expressed confusion over how these laws are supposed to be applied case in point was the zimmerman trial which contrary to what many of heard it was not argued using florida's stand your ground laws but after the trial was over at least one juror admitted to the press that she had been instructed by the judge. edge to take stand your ground indic consideration before issuing the verdict and indeed it is counterintuitive to note that stand your ground laws give more legal leniency to the average gun toting civilian in florida than a u.s. soldier deployed in a combat environment but of course the most disturbing finding is the disproportional effect these laws are having on minorities and there was one

statistic that stood out the most and stand your ground states a white shooter that kills a black victim is three hundred fifty percent more likely to be found to be justified that if the same shooter killed a white victim. now look regardless of where you stand on the gun debate we can't claim that these laws decrease homicides we can't deny that gun violence disproportionately affects blacks and other minorities but what we can do is argue against an acting more stand your ground laws and urge lawmakers to repeal the existing ones and this won't solve america's issues when it comes to race or stop police abuse for that matter but if the goal is to curb back violent homicide stand your ground just might be a good place to start. i . but you know there should be no doubt about the reality of climate change but the

lack of immediate action to address this impending global catastrophe is leading some scientists to consider a solution known as geoengineering or the natural altering of the natural world by artificial means now it seems like a drag death a drastic approach one that could potentially have hazard of hazardous effects on our planet but it's already being implemented so to discuss this topic clive hamilton off the author of the book earth masters joined abbey earlier she first asked him to debunk the popular conspiracy theory of ken trails most of we have to take science seriously that's why we hate old. about climate change and if you talk to any reputable or even disreputable cloud physicist or atmospheric camera store atmospheric scientists will tell you that there is no evidence whatsoever for these chemical trials conspiracy there are no calls in the professional journals there's no peer reviewed science it's just

a conspiracy theory which is proliferating on the internet and we shouldn't take it seriously at all and let's move on to climate change because another obviously big issue is deniers and you know it's fresh in the wake of the polar vortex i mean how do you respond to people saying that is proof that global warming isn't happening i mean look we have to listen to the scientists these are the people who are experts and yet you have politicians the senators on the hill who suddenly become. very physics and believe they can reject the mountain of scientific evidence and make their own personal judgment i mean do they ever jacked want to gravity because they just could or it's inconsistent with their ideology climate scientists have a good explanation for the polar vortex warming doesn't mean that you know every year it's going to go up by half a degree consistently it means we're transforming the operation of a very complex atmospheric system and sometimes we've got to get to bands like the polar vortex which itself is explained by global warming because the because sophie

is warming up this these are sort of cold air that constantly goes around the big easy being pushed out so you get these. sweeping across the united states and yet you know one snowstorm in washington is for some people is enough to obliterate painstaking scientific work according to recent drexel university seventy five percent of all funding behind climate change and i was actually on nick for like we cannot trace where this is coming from how we sort of fight back against the propaganda we don't even know where it's coming from. well specifically where it's coming from but we do know it is a huge amount of money that is being channeled through obscure sources and then being fed into the conservative think tanks here in washington and elsewhere in order to try to undermine the legitimacy and believability of this body of evidence on climate science and also to attack personally and also often in very vicious

terms the climate scientists themselves. the truth is that this is just like. the tobacco company funded campaign against against bans on smoking in fact it's the same people often the think tanks the people who campaigned against legislation to restrict smoking but now. to work for the fossil fuel corporations to try to undermine the credibility of climate science and this way. that they should not do what the science says they must do i was speaking enough isn't that he's a guardian journalist who writes extensively about climate change and he was saying you know people like al gore other prominent politicians who are pushing a lot of the global warming rhetoric also are kind of pushing for money making schemes as a solution the carbon credits he says you know it's just kind of a money making scheme do you think that's a responsible way to fight climate change the carbon credits climate change the

ultimate collective problem and asking individuals or calling on companies to get behind that in itself is not going to so i mean we have to shop the greenhouse gas emissions which means that we have to shop reduce our consumption of fossil fuels end of story how do we reduce consumption of fossil fuels we need national policies that basically my fossil fuels more expensive than the alternatives to renewable energy energy efficiency and so we must have some carbon price on carbon where that takes a for. of carbon tax or whether it takes the form of an emissions trading system in a sense it doesn't matter as long as we impose a cost on polluting the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels that's the fundamental thing on which ninety nine point nine percent of economists will agree sure but i think consumers are looking and saying why is the burden pushed on me when you have

no giant meat packing industry twenty percent methane emissions that are heavily contributing. to the meat packing beef producers like coal fired power plants that are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions but just as you know you eat beef when you go and buy a hamburger you consume. fossil fuels when you turn the switch on in your home and in the end it's go to where you have got to pay more for using fossil fuels now business is the now offices that's just the bottom line i mean if they can make a lot of money out of it illegitimately then we made the policies to to work on that but in the end we have to pay more for our pollution and that rolling tire just to use less polluting forms of energy and less polluting forms of. green with you and i also just think that corporate america and also world government should

really take the lead and then you know hopefully will influence the people to follow let's talk about the solutions here is geo engineering at the coal. well it's a big question is what you mean by geo engineering of the prominence in the most attracting most attention and most research is called self or soul sprang and the idea is to cut the atmosphere with the. sulfate aerosols tiny particles and it's kind of a. pollution which. reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the earth and bit by cools it now a lot of people would say there's something fun. you're wrong in installing a convert so. that will allow somebody somewhere to have a handle on the local thermostat to reduce the temperature and of the earth and therefore affect in talk with the earth differently profound problems particularly if you have one country the united states or china which is based in geo

engineering or russia which is pushing quite odd for work on geo engineering and getting international acceptability if you have one nation study to control the climate system. then you really do have a profoundly equal situation which is why many nations of the south many poor nations started to say hey we want to read about this we want to have a say in what's going on that is a really interesting question indeed i never even thought about that you know world governments actually having more control over the other of the holds temperature environment thank you so much clive hamilton for breaking down the misconceptions about geo engineering professor of public at the exit charles through university really appreciate your time. sorry guys coming up you'll hear why the pentagon is bracing for societal collapse stay tuned.

did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy correct albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once built on my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trying rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america to find ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture.

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innovation. developments around russia. the future. in two thousand and eight the department of defense launched the minerva research initiative a multi-million dollar program to quote improve the d.o.d.'s basic understanding of the social cultural behavioral and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the u.s. but according to journalist if he's a med at the pentagon is working with major u.s. universities to militarize social science and prepare for a global civil breakdown earlier nephi's came on the show to discuss the minerva initiative and abby first asked him about one particular study that set out to discover why the protesters don't become terrorists. recently the study was supposed to be focused on looking at what are what are the things that kind of stop

peaceful surveillance who support so-called radical causes to quote the project what was stops them from getting involved in kind of crossing that line and becoming involved in some part of terrorist activity or some kind of political violence so the idea was that what they would do is is analyze normal every day kind of social movements peaceful n.g.o.s to try and understand what is the what is it that stops them from becoming involved in political violence but what was really interesting and disturbing about the project is that even though they kind of said that that was the point of the research when they actually cuts ago rise to these activists that they were studying they specifically categorized peaceful activists as supporters of political violence so even if you are not engaged in what might be described as to the provided if you are a member of a group that is somehow questioning the status quo or calling into question

government policy you'll begin to being active on the environment or calling into question corporate policies then you could be seen as a. torture of political violence so this is really what was really disturbing about this was the way in which the boundaries between activism. social movements and kind of radical causes were somehow being equated with terrorist activity or threat to national security which is really worrying and there's absolutely no grounds for that kind of conclusion to be drawn when we look at who is r.c. involved in terrorist activity what in your mind of the biggest dangers of weaponize in social science and cultural anthropological studies well i think one of the biggest dangers of course is that by absorbing civilian institutions into what is actually a very narrow parochial military agenda what is happening is that objective independent social science scholarship is you know on these issues is being prevented instead what so then we have this and i've experienced this myself and my

colleagues in social science have experienced it where there is now this you know there's there's people or academics like anybody independent media anyone activists or you know they need money they need funding for their research now all the big money is coming from the security industry in the defense industry so you have the defense industry in effect controlling the discourse controlling the discourse and counter-terrorism on security studies on international politics these are crucial subject areas that students are going into their learning from and the idea really is that we want our students to be getting an independent and impartial understanding which can input in a meaningful way into policy which can give policymakers good tools to really understand the way the world works and make good decisions instead what's happening is we have these this very narrow agenda which is co-opting that discourse co-opting not research and really you know kind of constraining and that's where we have this very orwellian trajectory towards controlling information and essentially

determining what is what kind of truth is legitimate and what kind of truth is illegitimate right. it's using these studies to exploit the cultures that you want to i guess seize upon. the nerve of program has also been used as a method for studying societal breakdowns due to climate change this is extremely fascinating considering the pentagon is the largest polluting institution in the world why do you think defense officials are suddenly so interested in studying the societal impact of climate change with against a very good question because as we know in terms of meaningful action to address climate change scientists across the board have been have been telling us that you know even our current emissions reductions targets are just not enough and they will still guarantee disaster not even you know even the administration's recent measures which are most welcome again within that danger trajectory at the same time however we've got the plans or go on funding this kind of research which is

really about trying to track what are the consequences when climate change does happen how's it going to make societies kind of more vulnerable. you know the kind of extreme weather events that we've been seeing over the last few years how is that going to make them more vulnerable and what kind of planning do we need to put in place to ensure that western interests u.s. interests damaged and this takes me back to the minister your friends so i was talking about which of course is in a very very insulated with the pentagon you know we have a special relationship here with the u.s. and the u.k. and that research is looking very much of how we need to maintain the functioning of the global economy and access to resources access to potentially endangered supply chains in the context of climate change in the context of all of these other kind of. uncertainties such as energy depletion or economic crisis so this is really about how do we maintain business as usual how do we keep the system going

when costs increasing when dangers are increasing how do we do it also of course we're not making more and more people i. and they want change how do we keep things going and how can be a hot would be aware of where those things are going to hit and where those vulnerabilities are going to hit in the future so you can be prepared this is actually again about empowering the existing system which is actually creating these crises rather than transforming that system so that we can somehow prevent all mitigate those crises and maybe transform things for the benefit of of most of the people on the planet instead this is about ready for and in a fight this is that this is the defense manifesto for the one percent right right now exactly and on the other hand you see this thousand actively suppressing information about climate change this is highly disturbing not be as you wrote an article about the i.p.c.c. which is the united nations' intergovernmental panel that releases the most comprehensive reports on climate change but according to your article these reports of actually been diluted thanks to pressure from the world's superpower countries

talk specifically about how these reports are diluted and what evidence there is that this is happening so there's been a number of reports talking about how the various elements of the i.p.c.c. some summaries for policymakers have been diluted so that it doesn't apply to the logs body of technical reports which is like goes into thousands of pages that's not what we're talking about here what we're talking about is the summary documents which are presented to policymakers and that's supposed to obviously determine the policies that then decided you know what we need to mitigate climate change etc the problem is that the policymakers themselves appear to be actually influencing what they're being presented in those summaries so what with what's been happening yeah this goes across the i mean there's been a lot of debate about the mitigation reports but less attention is being paid to the actual scientific assessments fall the impacts of climate change so the school

i wrote was looking at the information that i got from a guy called david. it was a previously a review of the i.p.c.c. in two thousand and seven and this time around he had contact with a number of leading scientists who were involved in that process where the working groups work. with policy makers to finalize the summary and in that he said. he gave quite a lot of detail i see in how a number of leading most but very powerful countries who happen to be the countries that were most responsible for greenhouse gases and he said this with the united states china saudi arabia interestingly he said saudi arabia actually led to the kind of push to really water down these summaries and he said that what they were trying to do was dilute the extent to which the impacts of climate change were seen to be. leading to drastic consequences in terms of the need for greenhouse gas

reductions so that was the upshot and they actually asked for diagrams to be removed and they called for diagrams of projecting emissions to the mission's trajectory over the last over over the next couple of decades there they wanted that to be watered down and they also wanted detailed. data on the nature of greenhouse gas reductions that were required over the next few decades to be watered down as well so this was very very worrying and a lot of independent academics who were members of these working groups and who were giving advice that many stages of these processes actually came on the record in a number of publications. not just the guardian and i see confirm that this was happening and they were very worried that there was a real effort here by the most powerful polluters in the wild to essentially water down the kind of. policy prescriptions that might be asked upon them in order

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