it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinct. yaf sessions known differend as mr magoo oh you are so raised. over the past even his friends call him that over the past month he has set out on a quest to reinvigorate a war on the american people he has asked congress to for permission to prosecute medical cannabis suppliers who are abiding by their state's laws he has also

reauthorized civil assets for forfeiture a highly controversial practice in which cops steal basically steal people's property and he's announced his desire to start a new war on drugs but here's something you need to know the u.s. drug war isn't about drugs it's not about drugs the drug war is about freedom and apocrypha and privacy and corruption and racism and that may be at the tell at the bottom of the page if you can squeeze it in also drugs. the drug war is about drugs about as much as winning an olympic swimming meet is about keeping that bathing suit from riding up your crack. yeah it is a crucial aspect. but if that's all you're good at you're not winning. last year we learned the drug war was designed from the start to avoid the blackouts are to destroy the black community and the reputation of the black community even more than. dia has all right. it was also designed to

destroy the activist community and especially the black activist community this is probably something you felt in your gut like you knew you knew it was true but you never thought you really get clear proof of it kind of like when we knew barry bonds could naturally hit every single pitch from giant stadium to yellowstone national park like you do it but you didn't have the proof. but last year we finally found out about the convention confession of john ehrlichman former white house domestic affairs adviser under richard nixon who was the first to declare the war on drugs he was the one and in one thousand nine hundred nine with nothing left to lose or gain ehrlichman told author dan balz the nixon white house had two enemies the anti-war left and black people by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily

we could disrupt those communities we could arrest their leaders raid their homes break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news did we know we were lying about the drugs of course we did so there you have it the drug war was never about drugs they were they the drug war was never good. and yet our government has used it to justify everything from police militarization to a bombing and paid in foreign countries to jailing millions of americans we lock up seven hundred of our citizens per hundred thousand compare that to sweden where they lock up fifty three per hundred thousand and half of those choose to be in prison for the soft beds in the smoke tearing that the dice for the guy for it's incredible we have the most people in jail per capital of any come a country except. seashell all right sage shell which has

a population of only ninety two thousand they have like eight hundred prisoners total total that's the same number we have at the holding pin at mall of america right because they tried to look one of the mannequins or other. the drug war was never about drugs the drug war a war against our own people is one of the most crucial issues in this country and nearly everything said about it on the mainstream media is complete garbage in terms of importance for the corporate media does not put the war on drugs anywhere near the level of say katy perry's haircut or donald trump's killer recipe for a hot cup of coffee. the key is to marinate the raccoon testicles in like. you get to like a limb and juice kind of marinated and also you've got to milk the goat by surprise

chris strictly by surprise. last month for one of the first time the mainstream t.v. they head to a channel revealed the core truth of the drugs the war on drugs has always been a pointless sham for decades the federal government has engaged in a shifting series oval all alliances of convenience with some of the world's largest drug cartels for example in the one nine hundred sixty s. they were working with mob boss santo trafficante jr yes he was a man named trafficante. cool ran a drug truck it talking ring i mean that said i could take a presidential advisor of con artist named kellyanne conway. all right thanks to you i have an all white house press secretary named david pilar out of my face. so why did they work with

trafficante the cia wanted for del castro dead and in return for trafficante help in various assassination plots they were willing to turn a blind eye to the extensive drug trafficking by trafficante and his allied cuban exiles so in return for help killing field ok astro they would allow the trafficking of enough cocaine to satiate to the beggar death stagehands during the one nine hundred eighty nine told. so how did that go the whole killing of pradelle castro thing. oh it was a long gone where they just waited until he was a hundred years old and then and then they smothered him to death with natural causes. clever clever they're very. yes. toad's sneaky the drug the drug war was never about drugs in another pivotal moment the cia imported significant amounts of

l.s.d. from its swiss manufacturer in hopes that it could be used for successful mind control they went on to dose thousands of volunteers with acid apparently those volunteers included can rob hunter of the lyricist for the grateful dead you could have guessed that one and whitey bulger the mob boss and hitman one to guess that one could barely why do you didn't have the kind of l.s.d. that shows you all living things are just loving energy vibrations. you got you got a bad batch. anyway in a lot of ways this experimentation is given credit for helping create the psychedelic interest of the nineteen sixties as well as stupidly wide collars on shirts. goddammit cia i knew you were evil i knew you were i knew you were up to all kinds of no good but i didn't know you were responsible for the big g.'s. is nothing sacred to you. then in the 1980's as the

reagan administration tried to overthrow the sandinistas in nicaragua the planes that secretly brought arms to the contras turned around and brought cocaine back to america again shielded from u.s. law enforcement by the cia so the us government was pumping our country full of cocaine while locking the small time dealers away for years what each of these examples shows is that the drug war was never about drugs not to mention let's assume let's just zoom for a moment that doing drugs is wrong or right just for the sake of argument i don't know if i believe that but let's just say the sake of argument that they're wrong isn't really it's really more wrong than say animal abuse or raising children in a discussing home or pushing a handicapped person over so you can get a taxi or puckering your padded wanna was sarcastic comments about this lack of taste in movies. people rarely go to jail for any of those things for they rarely

go to jail for animal abuse but constantly go to jail for getting a little loopy from a drug or giving that drug to someone else couldn't you argue that smoking something is almost the last criminal then all of those things those last criminal then sending men and women to die in an illegal invasion of a middle eastern country under the pretense that there are weapons of mass destruction when they're totally art what about drowning a hardworking american in debt for the unforgivable undeniable crime of getting an education thereby taking their entire life their entire existence and setting it on a path of of misery should that come with a harsher sentence than popping a pill but these laws are set up this way because the drug war was never about drugs.

thank you all this candle perpetrated on the american people is breathtaking and the number of lives destroyed is hard to even calculate so in conclusion go yourself mr magoo has already thank you. both. thanks. thanks thanks to do it for this past thank you this past monday was

black women's equal pay day that is the day in twenty seventeen at which point a black woman will have earned as much as a white guy earned in twenty sixteen alone for doing the same job so it would take a black woman nineteen months to earn what a white guy gets in twelve months and i think i speak for all white guys here when i say. why do they get a day this. is a very racist. we want to ten. unfortunately equal pay day for a chinese woman at an apple foxconn factory is sometime in two thousand and twenty seven so. don't shoot the messenger all right. if i if i were them if i were the people building each i phone i would just leave and show the side. he exploded so dumb americans could spend months trying to find the smell.

but luckily for us foxconn has just announced they're opening their first u.s. plant in wisconsin made in america i was actually means something again rumor has it even the anti-suicide nets around the buildings will be made right here in america. yeah they'll have to have to reinforce them a little because of the size of our workers but. yeah we will tear right through you dig a little suicide yet they do nothing to us. so. the name of the name foxconn doesn't really inspire confidence does it it's a combination of outfoxing you and conning you. i honestly i prefer their competitor scam ha ha ha ha ha. i just like their products better. i think what fox conn's american rival really means is that rather than building up

worker rights in other countries we have managed to cut our own protections to such a degree that we can now house the worst abuse centers in the world jobs aren't going overseas anymore because workers are exploited just as well right here at home you know we had a dream we did a while back we were like one day maybe i'd. who can work all day just to afford the bus ride home from work. and we made that dream come true we made it happen we are two nations and as many of you know when workers are exploited really well the stock market celebrates and it just broke twenty two thousand the dallas jones just did for the first time ever wall street sees a worker with no benefits and it has its pants. because it's something else helping wall street is our massive weapons contractors which are

also spook tested right now our number one customer saudi arabia is like a kid in a candy store of death they are just having a blast successfully assaulting the people of yemen with our help and causing what the w.h.o. just declared the worst cholera outbreak ever and one of the worst famines ok this may look bad as may look bad for us but think about it this way the u.s. is terrible at cooperating with other countries right where we're real lone wolf or over a lot of relationship problems so this is a big step we are currently partners with saudi arabia in a massive war crime so. you know don't focus on the other words in that sun's just focus on partners. we have a brand why balmy in clive we are well we have a body. but you have to wonder are we running out of places to commit war crimes do

in fact the u.s. war machine has found iraq two point zero well i guess iraq was iraq two point zero . and then libya and syria that so this is like a rock fifteen point. it's yet another country that's not shackled to us economically or via the world bank and now we want to create a cia backed coup there it's venezuela. and you maybe you think the u.s. only cares about getting involved with countries with huge oil reserves there's no reason they would and that's a good oh wait the proven oil reserves in dennis will are recognized as the largest in the world. so this week our mainstream media has been breathlessly telling you that how horrible it is it's horrible we have to bring democracy back to venezuela while we hold hands with brutal saudi arabian monarchies well could our

ruling elite be prosecuted for any of these war crimes or past crimes don't be silly that never happens as tony blair just this week the high court in the u.k. blocked the prosecution of the former prime minister for his role in the war crimes in iraq you know it's really not fair it takes a white guy five times as long to get convicted of as many war crimes as black guys we wise guys are discriminated against. we are. in fact since the inception of the international criminal court more than a decade ago only africans have been brought to trial why guys who shared their own carrying a. gun could write but i was comedy shows coming up in seattle and washington d.c. just email redacted tonight or to america dot tv pretty tales and guess what arrive back.

in case you're new to the game this is how it works mark the economy is built around quickly for ratios from washington to washington. the. voters elected to run this country business because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done. would you have for breakfast yesterday quietly to put those for. your wife or. donkey. what's your biggest fear a little bit on the hayride when celeste medical board you say if you ever met him so best quarterback. let's point the topic that doesn't belong in the piece now

i've interviewed you to question more. watch the hawks founded by three young americans love their country but we have to constantly question our government watching the hawks brings the stories the give voice to the voice. we dig a little deeper we get the stories that everyone else is afraid to touch is afraid to talk about because they don't want to upset the corporate sponsors or interrupt their government access now is the time more than ever we need to question more. we're in this post truth world or world words have to matter again about educating people and giving them contacts instead of telling them what they can dialogue is far more valuable than to be.

that. document recently analyzed by the center for public integrity revealed the fossil fuel industry is spending millions to fill k. through twelve schools with pro oil propaganda in order to get our kids to grow up climate change denying any it's instead of just the standard idiots we've been known for. us is our senior all to school pipeline specialist who make your money. told me the money and climate change doesn't even have change to spare those green

peas bakers are out on the street climate change is asking me for money. but big oil is giving a lot to schools the oklahoma energy board for instance spent forty million dollars in the past two decades on k. through twelve outreach and curriculum not unlike the oil industry and other states and of course daddy oil bucks wants a say in what's being taught or not being so there are pretty much just paying schools and manipulating teachers to advertise to children look leave the days of that hippie vegetarian miss frizzle are over. and then bus runs on diesel not magic what do you kids are too much rooms now we have new characters to teach of science like fuel is freddy all over oil patch and petrol pete. when there was a real that's receded as the phiri crew father gave schools nine thousand copies of

petrol peanuts big bad dream where pete wakes up in a world without petroleum and it is scary keep looked around the room and many of his belongings were missing including his clothes for school. runs to the bathroom to brush his teeth and comb his hair for school but his tooth brush and comb are missing if they go to school but. we've been to the really good. to kids that's that's ridiculous look russians yeah right the by products the by products from oil like to brushes and combs are not our problem here it's our over dependence on oil for transportation factory farming military worst petro pete going to be one or environment is completely collapsing in fifty years because we didn't heed the warning of climate scientists i don't

know maybe it could be fined had to repeat in this scorched wasteland kind of like kind of like where's waldo but with more scorched wasteland. and so where is pete oh he's dead. or maybe he's living a mad max existence milking the blood of heretics to feed his harem of broodmares. we're feeding kids this garbage this is not science it's lee this is not garbage these are rich resources created by the oklahoma energy board have you seen their video series lab time with leo that because of climate deniers who ripped off bill nye his boat. that's just ridiculous climate change that's not even science well kids if you live in oklahoma or a dozen other red states you'll never need to study science climate change or evolution all you need to know is the story of adam and b.p.

. you mean the same thing did you know adam and eve were naked until they found out about petroleum the. same as. this stuff is great let me show you this lesson from a program in ohio that teaches small. all children how fun franking is using twinkies and strong was telling her a.t.m. you're kidding that's not real yeah it is look you want to learn how to frat come on you want a little fracking fracking. ok well fine i'll do the honors so you stick the drill shaft into the soil and use your high performance pump. that's the scariest thing there. was. no way. you really went anyway thank you to

dispose of the waste properly plus swallowing is not in my contract thank you very much. of the way. i don't i don't know what is on the contract but next our military has been up to no good big surprise but in a strange twist it actually has to do with getting rid of our outlandish amounts of weaponry for more on this let's go to our troops not only mcgill. in a time when this country is bitterly divided i think the one thing that can truly unite us as americans is our insatiable need to burn.

difficult to work. difficult to work with my ass. though not everything should be burned for entertainment nor can it disappear without a trace people who live near ammunition plants like this one. bradford's virginia know this all too well it's one of fifty one active sites across the country where the department of defense or its contractors are today burning or detonating munitions for raw explosives in the open air often in close proximity to schools homes and water supplies over thirty years ago congress banned open burns when they realized it's a lot like burning man except with none of the fun not nearly as many man never seen a lot more cancer lawmakers granted the pentagon and its contractors a temporary reprieve to find the safest way they allowed to talk the burning of

munitions because stopping it too suddenly might not be safe that's like songs from your neighbors arm and insisting in order to stop safely you have to keep strong for the next twenty minutes open burn sparked outrage from affected residents like these in bradford where the plant burns as much as eight thousand pounds of munitions daily we already know from iraq and afghanistan that opening burns are of about as good an idea is drinking fireball over the age of forty or two white men making a t.v. show fantasizing about the confederacy winning the civil war munitions tires even body parts burned in pits right next to living quarters of soldiers and while registry exists for vets who suffered damage from these fires there's no registry for low income black residents and cities like colfax louisiana where clean harbors a contractor with no sense of irony earns munitions with zero regulations on

emissions while presenting we can clean promotional videos with the employees who apparently weren't great of the benefit up and say geez this company calling themselves clean harbors is like the port a potties a burning man calling themselves. well clean harbor. what's going on in colfax is just another battle for environmental justice where the chance of being exposed to pollution increases the lower your income and the darker your skin gets the twenty four thousand university of minnesota study finds us minorities face nearly forty percent more exposure to toxic air pollution louisiana state rep terry brown tried to ban open burns in two thousand and sixteen but the space chemical industry and defense community fired back saying the move would a loony jobs even clean harbors countered with pictures of freshly painted third pads with flowers and cut grass look just because you give something

a make over on the outside doesn't mean it's changed only inside the i want face of the trump administration change several times it's still largely run by people whose insides are powered by gov big. actually that makes it sound like they recycle i'm pretty sure scott pruitt just thinks recycling means using his diesel powered engine to also power is industrial to cook an entire baby cow at a time but open burns were made a terrible solution to eliminating the military waste covering toward a million acres of land cleanup costs are only a fraction of the military budget activists need to mobilize in places like colfax and bradford so that the only thing that's been burned is this. dam dam wider reporting from bradford virginia. redacted. that's just shows what i am already i agree you get it you guys.

it's called the feeling of freedom. everyone in the world should experience freedom and you'll get it on the old rolls. the old according to just. welcome to my world come along for the ride.