greetings and salutations we here in the united states would love to thump our chests until they turn red white and blue about all the freedoms we enjoy especially when we compare them to the rest of the world the strongest foundation of that freedom we brag about so much as our freedom of speech but over the last few years we've seen that once that one is granted strong freedom slowly but surely good warm weather can crack down on the sand papered sledgehammers of corporate self centered censorship and government intimidation the union of government force

and corporate know how it's not new to the young history of the united states but the voting public is most often left unaware of this rather dangerous tag team take for example the corporate government synergy that was at work during the dakota access pipeline protests of last year only now are we slowly discovering the powerful forces that were working behind the scenes to not only abuse and arrest these citizens practicing their constitutionally protected freedom of speech and assembly. but to also discredit disparage and publicly flogged in the media three coordinated public relations campaign a public relations campaign that according to investigative journalist steve oren of de smaug and curtis waltman of muck rock drafted the talking points used by law enforcement to an attempt in that attempt to discredit the anti dakota access movement the talking points purported that the movement was led by out of state

agitators with gangs and drug dealing ties had connections to anarchists and palestinian activists use the violence and possessed the guns and knives etc etc. so as the tag team of corporate power and government force continue to shred our constitution in the name of greed and subservience now is the time to start watching honks. you know that i got. it. while the watching the hawks i am a robot and i'm top of the hour and joining us today to discuss his recent article

on the public relations war was working behind the scenes with law enforcement to discredit the water protectors at standing rock is investigative journalist steve oren welcome steve good to be back thanks for having me steve first of all tell us a little about these these rather mysterious corporate political p.r. firms that you discovered were working behind the scenes during the go to access protests and what kind of things were they responsible for and who was ultimately involved. you know the important thing about this story of course this is this happened back in october so it seems almost like a history story but explain why it's still relevant today but the thing that made this newsworthy and unreported to date was through an open records request we basically discovered that the talking points which were queued up about these particular protesters who had convened at this native american reservation in and

standing rock and cannonball in north dakota the the talking points actually did not come from the police who were you know convened they are from various states but actually were drafted by outside public relations firms one of them being firm by the name of off the record strategies which is run by a former bush administration official george w. bush who. you know he now runs the firm for the bush administration he was doing leading communications for the iraq war both die iraq and afghanistan or and then this in particular the surge strategy for afghanistan so he was leading communications a war room if you will which was basically convened to fend off critiques. the u.s. is involvement in that war that were coming from liberals and from the democratic party at the time so this is a guy they have mark faisel who runs that firm he was contracted by the national

sheriff's association the documents show to do this work which was basically in essence to discredit the activists who had convened there and he was contracted alongside another firm by the name of valve which is run by another republican party operative the former head of the republican national committee's research operation name but a method of jeff berkowitz are the most don't really show much of what they did other than that they were seen. c.n. every male that's because maybe they were communicating more specifically and directly with the national sheriff's association which would mean we didn't get those in open records requests we got these records from. the laramie county sheriff's department in wyoming so an e-mail in which they were c.c.d. or communicating directly we obtained these e-mails basically show. the strategy was basically outlined in this model we have taken which was the talking points

that they use starting in early october which was about about a month after lots of out of state cops came to the state they were in kind of a crisis mode trying to figure out how do we communicate what's going on here and so with the help of mark feisal of off the record strategies they drafted this memo and you really see in this memo all the talking points that were then used by the sheriff's department that a lot of people at the time were pretty angry about because they thought they didn't really describe what's happening they were saying that the. protesters there were violent that they had sympathies with pro palestinian movement that they were polluting the camp that they were. you know basically that the main message that they were violent they were agitators that they were doing riots this any way to show that they were not peaceful they were not careful as they describe themselves so they all centered around this early october memo and that was eventually it wasn't just the medal that was kind of stood still we saw the e-mails that they found sympathetic media to pass the memo to social conservative media in the state

of north dakota conservative radio and it was a strategy that was realized and really pushed for the next couple months after but it was led by this guy mark feisal that's really runnable stop as opposed to that you found these e-mails like yeah well we didn't hear much about i think that's what's incredible about it is that we didn't hear about it during the protests we didn't hear anything about this was there an effort a distinct effort to conceal the relationship between the p.r. firm and the sheriff's department and long. force. well i mean if you see the name of the firm it's called off the record stretches and never saw on their website they do advertise that we do this important work but we don't ever do it on the record so that write up a firm that speaks on behalf of any particular cause but they're helping with strategy behind the scenes it's not really a surprise that we didn't hear about this during the peak of these protests and of course they were communicating with government officials which is government

records which can be obtained from the open records request which is how we discovered that relationship in terms of that other firm doubt of still really not clear exactly what they were doing we stuff to do more reporting on that all we know is that they were basically seed on every single email so they definitely involved in strategizing and different opposition research efforts but we don't know and we don't even know the full extent of what this firm. off the record strategy but we do know of course that the name that it was not supposed to be there was on the edge of the governor afterwards but. i think i think the million dollar question is for people you're kind of following its ok with me the protests didn't affect me or you know i'm mad about this but you know why should so this is both here in the united states and elsewhere around the world be concerned about these you know kind of behind closed doors partnerships between you know whether be unions or government or law enforcement or and kind of you know political corporate p.r. purposes why why should we care well ok so that you know of course this is part of

a multi-pronged policing strategy if you will and so of course public relations or in that world they might call it psychological operations or psychological warfare and terms of the military this is one prong of the strategy of course the same time there are hundreds of cops who came in from out of state under this compact emergency management assistance compact or the mask this compact was really used in an unprecedented way normally used for natural. disasters for hurricanes for other types of disasters of that nature to bring in law enforcement to help police with those efforts they're brought in instead to police protest with no heavily armed with military tanks no military tankers with military arms many many thought is basically an occupation of that particular protester militarized reaction to it and why it's not just a piece of history fast forwarding to today we see that the emergency management

assistance compact has been updated and passed as law in the state of louisiana where another pipeline that connects that go to access the bayu bridge pipeline is being proposed and is up for potential permits from the department of natural resources there that connection goes to the gulf coast of louisiana we see that not only that that compact isn't place but the same private security firm tiger swan was just denied a permit there but we see that at the same firms are involved we see the same spokesman a guy by the name of spider marks who is speaking on behalf of tiger swan he's been involved in the louisiana and we see that the national sheriff's association who was so involved in the code access and was working alongside this p.r. firm they are also now deeply involved in the head of the current head of the

president of that is associated and is a sheriff in the state of louisiana but the national association is already sort of figuring out its response to protest of the bayou bridge pipeline when the last thing i'll say is in a webinars of the national association which we reported on the story. took place in may they both spiteful who was in that well but are and then another head of operations of policing for that called access by protests. sheriff of cass county about an appalling those two on the wagon are basically said that back in april they met with the attorney general of nebraska to talk about potential responses of protests around the keystone x.l. pipeline which are heating up in that state so it was just a piece of history is that a lot of the same there are pieces of that response in the code acts that are now moving into today and of course there are sort of first amendment rights which might be implicated with you know the right to speak you know your first amendment

rights with. you know the right to speak out against things you disagree with and plus of course the you know the merger potentially of these private firms like tiger swat and the state sanctioned police apparatus so there's lots of issues that are in play that go just you know protest against things that people think are bad for the environment they're actually big free speech issues and they're police policing related issues that could have implications long into the future most of the yankees and i think the incredible story and i thank you for staying on this because it's one of those things that the connections between the police officers and this kind of cool luzhin between them is really important for people to see because even if you don't care about pipelines it's going to be something tomorrow and the next day and the next day and i thank you for all of your and credible work on this and have more appreciated it is now is

a pleasure steve. thank you so much for talking to us. as we go to break don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our whole show on our two dogs coming up sean stone discusses all things saudi arabia with zeinab high school senior and then we preview the new episode of productive tonight stay tuned to watchable. lead. all the world's dates and all the news companies merely players but what kind of part is r t america play. off r.t. america purslane many ways the news landscape is just like the real

news big names good actors bad actors and in the end you could never you're on. some other parking all the world's all the world's all the world's a stage and we are definitely a pledge. and i'll give you what the mainstream media can't so big picture go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. if you've been watching the news plenty of air time has been devoted to saudi arabia in recent months from the president's much covered state visit to the saudi's tough stance on neighboring cutter's ties to terrorism and finally to its hosting a future g twenty summit saudi arabia appears to be

a big player on the rise what has been all last talked about though is how the kingdom has used this soft spotlight to cover for its ongoing and worsening human rights abuses a humanitarian crisis caused by its all out war on yemen as well as the hypocrisy of one terrorist sponsoring government calling for a blockade of another to get a better grasp of what truly lies beneath the behind the saudi government stop talk and bold action sean stone spoke earlier with dr sam hussein as spokesperson for the baki an organization and organizer of a recent protest here in washington d.c. . after the same saying thank you so much for joining me today i want to start by discussing with you dear bucky organization that you're a member of and you're very involved with this most recent recent demonstration in washington d.c. just because going to us what the demonstration was about. smoothly a slum a lake of peace and blessings be upon all my viewers today thank you so much for

having me shun the absolute pleasure and thank you for letting me discuss this important topic. mentioned. on the member of the hero of musician and a spokesperson for both the organization actually and. manifested in front of saudi embassy july third this month and we were there in front of the saudi embassy in washington d.c. this was one of many protests that were held globally and were there to deny. terrorism the right there to denounce the root cause of terrorism and leave her there to show the media that the me majorly have missed the proverbial writing on the wall when it comes to the root cause of terrorism and if you think about it. there. is more than three thousand muslims there were

marching in the streets of washington d.c. we started at the saudi embassy and we had a clear message for the saudi ruling authorities and then we marched to the white house and we had a clear message for the saudi embassy as well as we had a clear message for the layman that they're on the streets and for. policymakers in washington d.c. . it's interesting the saudis are trying to take the mantle of saying that they're fighting as betting the coalition basically against terrorism right and they're taking on this dismantle now and yet they're accusing countries like qatar of being you know basically sponsors of terrorism and that's allegedly the reason for this sanctions against qatar the saudis are our leading how to use perceive this conflict between saudi arabia qatar currently isn't really about terrorism or is that a facade. absolutely an added to the smokescreen as you know that

is being portrayed to us at this point if you see you know. they weren't they weren't happy with al-jazeera speaking up against and there's a lot of conflicts there but definitely not i mean all things for terrorism point toward saudi arabia if you kind of look at it if you if you look at nine eleven fifteen out of nineteen hijackers mostly saudi citizens if you look. this funding the propagation and everything all terrorism bikini leaks everything point to are saudi arabian links and so that saudi money is most definitely involved in the propagation of terrorism being in the bucky organization want to have sent a clear message in the memorandum that you submit to the saudi embassy and be have

asked for to be demands and. you know five demands and i'll just point out a few of them first was to stop funding aiding terrorism across the globe second was to stop bieber denouncing the wiping away all peaceful world her sites that are existent in this world and if you look at it. the cemetery which was in medina you take that name on because we think that the bucking cemetery is the first site of resistance the first quantum scene of the hobby terrorism we want to unmask the. term all islamic terrorism and remove it. and show that it does nothing but the hobby terrorism that exists. in the world is a tragedy to those who feel that comedy to those who think the hit r.t.

america show we're back to tonight will make you laugh and cry but in a good way the good way they attack the stories mainstream comedy is just too afraid to even touch and joining us tonight to preview this week's latest episode of artes regard to the right are the one and only male we care about the end of not a phrase that. we're to vacuum for. their very touchy. feeling and frankly john with all of this touchy feely ness i'm sure you have a really happy. lovely story that brings joy to our heart and then crushes our soul possibly about a child yeah yeah great this is the part of this is obviously this is the first time in a while that someone has really kind of rocked my world or maybe even kind of rethink how messed up things are so there's this girl she's eight years old now the time she was seven she's still doing this stuff her name is bond and she's

a syrian refugee living in turkey and you'll see her on all these prominent media outlets particularly c.n.n. and she's and she's speaking about you know the tragedy in aleppo and calling for the world to act essentially for regime change but what's crazy if you actually watch her speak it's very clear that she doesn't know how to speak english that she just phonetically reading these words syllable by syllable and doesn't know the context of what they mean because there was lead footage of her on turkish t.v. being asked questions in english and she has no idea how to answer them she just saying her status lines and was really crazy is that so this is being pushed ubiquitously through c.n.n. and also now she has a book deal with simon and schuster and she was named as one of the top twenty five most influential people on the internet by time magazine and if you look at this is a parallel to what they did what the government did leading up to the first gulf war in the early ninety's with that girl and who is fifteen years old kuwaiti girl talking about how they're throwing the babies out of the now that has been proven absolutely that was

a false testimony and it's known as something called atrocity propaganda and from everything that i've seen it looks like we're doing it again it makes me think like the level of collusion by intelligence assets in the government into the mainstream media is more widespread than i ever thought so we have a clip we have a clip that's on the larry of yeah yeah and i had to make it funny. i once. went to the room. and the school bully leaves a nice. to come back. together we can help them and trust me i take no pleasure in making fun of a little girl struggle to read well maybe a little bit i am a monster but this is crazy she's been exploited by a large entity she can't possibly understand. oh god same thing happened to me in those how to hairstyling videos. they were going to sit on.

momma loves his talent wax. in the palm of my hands and just shifted it throughout . his time for the funky i needed the fifty bucks ok i didn't know that lady was going to man again but my head like i was a sock puppet. anyway if you're not yet convinced that this is a rotten side or at least that she's being used for those purposes there's a lot more proof. this is the thing there is a lot more proves you really have to watch the. whole package and see the line you definitely are a monster oh yeah right i mean obviously there. yeah so i just make that clear but i don't we know you're it's hard to see this on your crazy thing to say but it's hard not to see this as some sort of psychological operation pushing for regime fall i mean that is that's the thing that. i have seen those videos too and i've

always wondered you know this is something that you know wasn't you know something that was a dork a straight up from the get or was it you know a mother who wanted to speak out about you know her view on what's going on there but then kind of like used her child to do you know there was more innocent possibility then we'd be done now was jumped on and then used on the i don't know if there's a lot of really weird horrible things going on in the saddest thing about it is you have this kind of you're seventy eight year old girl kind of caught up in the middle of it all but what's crazy is certain tweets so she has her own twitter account that went very vile it's going very viral right i just liked. hundred seventy thousand followers yeah. there are some tweets that they deleted because it was just too crazy. but she's saying them and one thing she said she was like better to go to world war three then it is you you know allow holocaust and then they delete it right and then there's a bunch of people i also saw two that were like you know jumping on there and like putting out tweets that she did kind of. so mean and so it's

a little pretty funny what it was it was like a mob it was like oh yeah you know it's like it was like it was. thirty five minutes multi-role fighter jets going to play. with no race actually. are actually territories right. now i also understand. i also understand that the camp couldn't join us today because of. the ball extraordinary strike if you like that. really investigating the story very deeply and you know it's like it's a daniel day lewis kind of thing. and. so he does get into police brutality at the start of the show and he really talks about you know everybody's talking about police training and what we can do to improve the relationship between police and their communities that they are supposed to serve

and protect but sometimes it goes horribly wrong you know and so one aspect that hasn't really been discussed is like the mental health of these people carrying guns and there's been some cases of police using steroids some doctors getting busted for giving out like thousands of prescriptions to police officers and the thing is cops don't get tested which is very. true professional wrestlers and question yeah you know the integrity. test. for you there are enough people with steel chairs and a fake way. to deal with tasers and guns in a real where hitting them with bully leaders to read test to ride a bicycle i thought you were going to carry a gun and you did very effectively work it took you to write a. pretty pretty ingrained it's more pervasive than we know or realize you know and for some reason and it affects facts judgment it makes people more aggressive more

violent it's also just stuff for people and it's like is every instance of police brutality connected to steroids no or some absolutely well if you look at the officers you see now they are huge huge i mean arms like this and you're looking at people who are like but are this. builds arised. order is not. really great except for the smell of things and well there's got to yoga i claim that. one cop at a time well i got to say thank you so much they were always coming on and tell us about this week's episode of er doctors and i don't miss where doctors lie which airs every friday on r t america at redacted so might be ip which features exclusive interviews and panels every thursday are to america that ladies and gentlemen is our show for you to day remember everyone in this world we are told that we are above the not so i tell you wall i love you i robot on tap and i want

to keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and. in the us a child can choose another because in school with we're telling little physicist teachers we don't. recruit. will says to you if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves. the pentagon is funding a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers your chance to step up to an apollo so that point comfortable with yourself. brings you out of your shell you can't go wrong with the military it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do but some veterans are

willing to tell enthusiastic children a little more they ask me call of duty is a very popular first sure video game. it's play and that's because the military like call of duty to turn off call of duty oh yeah well you can turn off more than a lot of these kids just don't hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them to be told or does it just need more recruits. i've got to do just that and you're watching all of your. questions. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the sixty's full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same thing.