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a funeral the same as one enters a mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. i'm going to do just that and you're watching all of. us. greetings and salyut asians well it appears that going to war with north korea is once again the most popular way to report to go ice cream this week in the halls of power you're in washington. b.c.

after north korea rattled its saber our own thoughtful commander in chief rattled his own spewing out the no oft quoted fire in defeat. and as i said they won't be met with fire fewer and frankly power the likes of which this world has never see before. sounds like the donald's been loving this season of game of thrones just like the rest of us but tragically george r.r. martin dialogue doesn't quite translate well in the real world international politics in response to trump spire and viri north korea general kim rocket genome the head of the country's strategic forces declared sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason then only absolute force can work on him. do you feel like your country is in a little bit of trouble when kim jong il people are saying your president is bereft of reason or our church but while the schoolyard kind of tit for tat back and forth continues between north korea in the united states that hasn't stopped the war

hawks in the military industrial complex and corporate news media from salivating over the chance for bombs to start dropping once again for example check out ali velshi is war porn on m s n b c makes middle missiles which can hit combat units incoming missiles communication sites and more some of them are able to deliver a five hundred pound warhead to a target have you ever seen someone so excited to see technological marvels destroy targets him of course by targets i mean north koreans and by north koreans i mean yes people human beings so before we let these two nations talk us into war and the media cheerleading them on let us let us pull the dogs of war back and start watching the hawks.

like you that i got. welcome aboard watching the hawks they are a rover and i talk a lot about the move the war dogs are loose everyone's trade insults we got guam being a threat and mel floyd well i think the most shocking thing about all of this weekend for me at least has and the fact that i found out so many people that i knew and respected didn't know that part of u.s. territory so that. shocker for me but. this entire thing is just as you said it's tip for tat it's childish and when even even the most childish are saying this is a child this is just well you know and the thing that gets me and we were talking

about this is that i'm sorry but when you look at like how the media and a lot of the politicians in congress and all that are treating this and the defense contractors most importantly i smell a lot of like run up to the iraq war all over new you know you know north korea is you know a country you have to keep an eye on they could do something bad you never know but it's like six months ago everyone was making fun of them for a failed missile i mean you know everybody talked about how there were early there is garbage are years away all they've been all over sudden all of a sudden out of the blue suddenly oh they're going to get us you see c.n.n. displaying maps that they can strike chicago at any moment you know stuff that like again they said wasn't the case just six months ago just a year ago all of this so miraculously in three months north korea is suddenly has become this massive global threat. you know every look at this c.n.n. headline this was just like last spring north korea missile test fails u.s.

military says i mean you saw a headline after headline like that basically saying. they can save the rabbit or saber rattle all they want but they're really not that big of beyond you know to south korea and maybe japan they're not really that big of a threat but now suddenly they're a threat to american shores well even from a military standpoint they're not even if they have one or two of these missiles that could even possibly get that far that could even hit something which has been the problem they go up and they all come down or they just come right back down they don't hit their target but they don't have the equipment they i mean they're talking about stuff that's years and years old they can't get upgrades it's a terrible fight to be saying we're going to take them yeah it would be pretty quick and pretty bloody and pretty. awful you're exactly right even twenty fourteen the pentagon released its annual north korea report which was a twenty two pages susman of north korea's military strategy made it quite clear that their ships planes and armored vehicles are old and obsolete and despite north

korea's military first economic strategy there's no money for upgrades i was in two thousand and fourteen i don't get strange they about it we got more and more money and came up with the no matter it's interesting too because the experts also have said basically the same thing over the years yet frank is a policy director of east asian studies and pacific affairs for the senate foreign relations committee from ninety seven to twenty twelve had this to say the likelihood of a sneak attack by north korea one with nuclear weapons to me is infant tested really small i think that under most circumstances even now when they're frankly already under the economic sanctions a military pressure north korea will not be suicidal it's big talk and it's always been but the fact is you have to sit down and discuss this we need to come up with a plan and we have to be on board with with south korea and china first talk is more important but why isn't it i think right now through all this talk is that the military deployments industry is getting record gains in their stocks so you wonder why there's so much talk of war on t.v. these days. finally it seems the mainstream media and west the washington

politicians are finally woken up to big pharma frankenstein monster of an opioid up an epidemic that's been rampaging across the united states according to a report from the american society of addiction medicine four and five new heroin users started out misusing prescription painkillers in fact a s.a.m. found that in two thousand and twelve two hundred fifty nine million prescriptions were written for opioids which is more than enough to give every american adult their own bottle of pills cities big and small across the united states are now dealing with the fallout from this rising epidemic an r.t.s. not just discovered that this fall and tells more than just the care or incarceration of the addicts but also dealing with their delivery method. many refer to the u.s. open. at epidemic as a modern plague and according to the c.d.c. the number of heroin related deaths has nearly quadrupled as a byproduct of that health crisis there is another one in the making use needles are carried up all across the country and all those who don't even use drugs or at

risk for disease. and the scene of serenity and natural beauty. it's startling to know endless amounts of needles are all arounds it's an issue about that's not only that everybody has to take serious or washing up on the shores. of. this poison so for me and just your it's from neighborhoods transit camps are popping up infested with needles. our ports of hypodermic needles turning up all across the country is staggering and alarming rates here in law massachusetts just outside of boston you don't have to go far to see just how vivid the country's problem is the only problem the harbor dharmic needles are coming down every day we're like what's going on in. rocky moore center heads a clean water projects he's been cleaning the merrimack river for the past fifteen years in the mud for the last four years rocky says he's noticed needles in the water here in there but he says the number of needles he's seen in last two have

been unbelievable but when you start seeing a lot of the needles then you know there's something wrong. according to morison part of the problem are these homeless camps since the majority of them including intensity or near the water the camps all along with the needles in them regularly washed up acting as a large conveyor belt the river transports these needles off the river and even into the ocean but needles aren't just turning up in areas where homeless reside we traveled to your area and at plum island we discovered a huge needle within five minutes of hitting the beach jimmy murphy father of three was shocked to know needles were in places like plum island where his kids one of them just six years old were merely yards of the needle we came across it's very. scary and it's very much a part of real life and it's like you at yourself is just this reality and it is yeah this is supposed to be a nicer part of town how surprised are you to hear that this issue isn't just some other places where there's homeless counts but it's actually here on the beach it's

very very surprising and shocking and i think it's pretty telling where you know it shows that it's the epidemic is everywhere i don't know what do you know sort of the same whether george charros has run a business near plum island for the last several decades he says needles haven't been an issue in the past but now people are finding them on the beach and turning them and there's a lot of people want to be you know occasionally go burn up a. needle in the heart of times they don't want to touch it or even get a container and scoop it up for or take a. nap dinner or something and put around and that's what kills you when you find this toys when you find kids toys that are here around heroin it while shocking it's nothing new as these images reveal massachusetts coupled with new hampshire are reportedly the fastest growing states in this epidemic across the country to california epidemic there is worsening to an entirely new level in the city of san

francisco alone there were reportedly two thousand one hundred seven just found in march of twenty sixteen and just one year later this past march it whopping thirteen thousand syringes were found and many worry it's the children at risk for these blood borne illnesses just seventy five miles south in santa cruz an eleven year old girl reportedly stepped on a needle in a swimming pool in two thousand and fifteen eleven point five million americans abused prescription opioids in two thousand and fifteen resulting in a whopping fifty two thousand deaths in overdoses that year an all time record and authorities say they expect that number to rise they're going at it all wrong morrison points to his local needle exchange program as another part of the equation how many illegals are being all over the riverbanks big. is this puts my guys and my volunteers in jeopardy too so i want to worry more what's going on out here and find out i ran toward gentleman down there and he says you know what he says this is the company right here was passing all the needles up according to the national academies of sciences engineering medicine while the improper disposal of

needles is a huge continental exchange programs they have helped lessen the number of people getting hiv or hepatitis from sharing needles by providing clean ones he reached down to the greater lawrence family health center for comment the same clinic morris instead was passing out free needles while they initially agreed to an interview they declined at the last minutes however an employee who wished to remain anonymous tells us they have programs aimed at educating people to help get needles off the street kids that morrison was opposing also contain bleach water and caps for the needles to they can be safely disposed according to the employee programs like theirs are the reason why the number of drug users getting hiv hepatitis has dramatically declined so the question remains if they had not clean needles helps stop one epidemic how do we prevent it from creating another be sure to join us tomorrow as we discuss the root of the cause of the opioid crisis sweeping the country. and joining us today to talk more about her report is the

tossers or to correspondent plushest we thank you for coming on i you know i think for a lot of people who are dealing with this epidemic in their neighborhoods this is absolutely shocking to see that many needles are sitting out there you know certainly i mean i couldn't believe my own eyes and my photographer and i got there you know we kind of discussed we weren't expecting to find the number of needles that we witnessed we thought maybe we'd see some here and there and maybe include some pictures from people that had sent us some pictures you know email but i mean the amount of needles we thought everywhere we went basically i mean we would look down and sure enough we were standing by some type of used needle and just to know that in parks and beaches where there are kids plans you can see america port it's . really scary to know that they could potentially step on one intel makes you think twice about taking your shoes off or even wearing flip flops and it's interesting though too that it's kind of you know with every needle you know that was also was suffering person you know by and large at least you know so you have

to also remember to put those two things together that every needle you see there's probably you know there's the user who's suffering and using about needle to begin with it's very interesting well now natasha recently the president obviously in the new administration said ok we finally this is an issue we need to do something about it declared a national emergency so what's not just it's a great question i mean there's eleven point five million americans that are addicted that are suffering from their addiction and we have twenty three million americans who are in recovery hopefully they all get out of it as you saw in the report fifty two thousand deaths and twenty fifteen experts are saying that that number is clearly rising and there is legislation being put forward senator rob portman out of ohio he drafted legislation to basically get one hundred eighty one million dollars of spending a year for preventative treatment and also for treatment people are going to already affected but the main problem that we discovered speaking to

a doctor out of new jersey he said that in the one nine hundred eighty s. they were taught to basically overprescribed make people comfortable and now a lot of states are cracking down on how much you can prescribe and for how long and so now people no longer have a prescription so now they're turning to street drugs like heroin to treat their pain and so the key is to not get them hooked in the first place so it's a really tricky predicament and that's what i was going to kind of whether it's logical question is you know is this all street drugs i mean obviously doodles you are or what i'm old and where do they know where the heroin is going to coming from and where these drugs are coming from and where the government of the beatles are coming from that's a great question and as you saw in the report there are some you'll change programs that it's coming from but again they're trying to do something very. positive and then we saw you know in the one nine hundred seventy s. the world got its heroin from southeast asia the golden triangle then afghanistan and then twenty fifteen. there surged by forty three percent their production rather from

a genetically modified poppy plants and so that just made their production or even more so but now we're actually in our production to mexico is where a lot of it's coming from and they're also shipping in fenton which is very similar to heroin but fifty to eighty times stronger and so now with drug law enforcement officers they have to use hazmat suits to touch this stuff and so i really hope this doesn't affect the crisis that we're already in but it seems like it's inevitable that it unfortunately well will definitely i look forward to the next piece on this story thank you so much for coming on a day and educating. me to work with them happen in across the country are to 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 poll shows that are tea dot com coming up we delve into the world of top secret j.f.k. assassination documents with the man who is responsible for declassified united states district judge out of minnesota john to stay tuned for the truth.

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big bloody well we're here let's throw down a lot of oil that's how we use them in the culture in this country now that's where i come in. i bet it's still on our to you america i'll make sure you don't get railroad you'll get the straight talk in the break. one of the most fascinating and a serious events in u.s. history to this day remains the assassination of president john f. kennedy spurned on in the one nine hundred ninety s. by oliver stone's movie j.f.k. the nation began to re-examine one of the nation's most infamous crimes to separate fact from fiction and provide the public with some much needed transparency congress established the assassinations records review board presided over by attorney and law professor john tonight i'm now the chief judge of the u.s. district court of minnesota the the board's mission was to clear up any remaining

mysteries surrounding the assassination now more than twenty years later the strobes of documents are finally being released with some appearing online earlier this summer and the rest kegel for publication this fall we were joined earlier by judge him to learn more about his role in this process thank you so much your honor for coming on to day cheap united states district judge of the u.s. district court for the district of minnesota the horrible judge to. thank you so so much. thank you i want to get started in the ninety nine. chairman of the assassination records review board in charge of overseeing the public release of all the documents related to the j.f.k. assassination can you give him briefly explain to our viewers how you came to this position and what your work and tale and how many documents we're talking about at this point. well it was interesting i had not any experience

in really understanding or reading many of the books about the assassination of president kennedy i had attended a lecture but i was asked by president clinton if i would do this and i told him at the time that i didn't have any experience or didn't have any strong viewpoints and he said well that's perfect because i don't want someone running this effort to declassify records who thinks he knows what happened so if i didn't want to do this i said the wrong thing when i was asked about serving in this role i was a chair of a part time board although it seemed almost full time at the time there were five. and we had declassification authority over any record that could reasonably be related to the kennedy assassination there's still a lot of secret records by that time thirty years or so after the assassination it

was long past time to release records that there are so many people who are interested in seeing especially after all over stone's movie introduced conspiracy one o one to a new generation of americans and we began our work in one nine hundred ninety four and by the end there were about five and a half million pages of records at the national archives most were fully opened in . i think to me that we made over thirty three thousand declassification decisions over that five year or four year period and we did radack some material we are obligated by law to do that but we tried very hard to make sure that we did not hide anything that was centrally related to the assassination itself we were there to open records not to protect records interesting very interesting you were

quoted in a recent interview saying quote bombshell information about lee harvey oswald for example you're not going to find in these records whether he had discussions with anyone in advance it could have been the basis for a conspiracy i don't know if we'll ever know that for sure and it seems that we are saying is this release the release is a gold mine for those of us who are research or as an historian but it's there's nothing in there specifically of the supports i may have the alternative theory is so what can we expect to find in the documents that the public didn't know before they you think are valuable. well i think when we did our work in the one nine hundred ninety s. we tried very hard to find everything that we could. you know and some agencies it was relatively easy to find records the f.b.i. is filing system is quite complete and very accurate and well catalogued we found the cia records to be much more in disarray and you know in the end we tried very

hard to find everything i don't know that we found everything and i don't i can vouch for the fact that perhaps agencies may have been hiding information from us still after being required to submit it to us under under the law and so i don't think in this group there's a lot of records that can be released this year unless president trump stops the release he has the authority to do that. that he does. there's going to be a lot of records released a lot of records that already have been released that have redactions in them and those redactions would be removed most of those read redactions relate to. intelligence gathering methods methods of protecting the president there's some personal privacy information but a lot of it has to do with the names of people who are involved in requested protection particularly law enforcement and intelligence officials who are still

living in the one nine hundred ninety s. we also protected information which i think will be probably more interesting. information concerning the work that we did closely with the mexican government back in the one nine hundred sixty s. to spy on other countries in mexico i think every every country there was there was spying on everybody else because every country in the world had embassies there even countries that did not have diplomatic relations with each other and we were persuaded to protect some of that information how that was done because of the concern about our foreign relations with the mexican government in the one nine hundred ninety s. that we might undermine a good relationship at the time i don't think there's any need to protect that information anymore there was a good argument in the one nine hundred ninety s. for that there isn't any more and what also is very interesting about mexico is

that two months before the assassination. made a very strange trip he took the bus from dallas down to mexico city went to the cuban and soviet embassies we know a lot about those visits because of the embassies were being bugged by both the f.b.i. and the cia but it was a very strange visit and while we have tried to find as much information as we can and. that there may be more information in the files about the at the mexican side of that investigation it's interesting you know that the cia comes up a lot of new subject of their kind of paperwork was in disarray and a lot of the major you know i think you'd see theories surrounding j.f.k.'s death you know revolved around his battles you know with the cia. in your opinion in going through these things did you feel like that was an agency at the time run by

allen dulles the you know did i have that animosity towards towards john kennedy i don't you know obviously i'm going to ask you to weigh in on whether or not you think that they were involved in his death. what did you see a kind of a pattern of animosity in those files towards john kennedy. well i think there was animosity arising out of the bay of pigs situation in which the cia was heavily involved in training and putting the castro cubans forward and then there is a feeling that the kennedy administration did not give sufficient support that day which led to the failure i think there was a. misunderstanding between the president and the agency of course removed not long thereafter john mccone who was heading the cia at the time of the kennedy assassination was a good friend of the president's he was a trusted ally of the president's but that doesn't say much about what was going on

further down as we learned from the church committee investigation in the one nine hundred seventy s. the cia at the time elements of the cia were relatively lawless and not controlled by anyone and it's entirely possible that they could have harbored some level of animosity toward the president over the bay of pigs and the removal of mr dulles. for forty years textbooks that told us that the moon was for. in a giant impact between a baby earth and a mysterious large rocky planet the size of mars called a relative together so what if i then left us with the earth and the moon however new tests on the lunar samples of the one nine hundred seventy two apollo seventeen mission don't actually support that theory the sample should resemble the up but down to its adams the samples are exactly like earth so new theories have emerge one is that the a didn't hurt earth but and created the moon but it was a planet identical to earth the second is that they did it impact were different

but the force of it mixed everything together so well we can't tell the difference the third hypothesized as a mysterious orbital data of the donut shaped cloud of debris scientists from harvard coined cynthia cynthia that one circled the sun bouncing banging and blitzing about these donuts created the perfect size moon spinning at the perfect rate in the perfect plates the mysteries of earth silver sister abound and every step backward is a leap into the future that it most definitely is so let's leap into the future of tomorrow because today right now we have to show what you can see it's a dental that is our show predict then remember everyone in this world we're not told with love though she was told you all i love you i am i robot and on top of the wall and people watching those hawks out there are great and.

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a mercenary army much like blackwater plus every day we wake up wonder and whether he'll get us into a nuclear war started on twitter to discuss these issues and much more i spoke with one of the best known peace activists in america the co-founder of code pink medea benjamin here's a conversation. lydia thanks for joining me good to be with you lay things have been there so you just got done with a vigil at the white house around the topic of north korea and increased i don't know nearly declarations of war that seems to be trumped seems to me tweeting out. it seems to be a cycle where every couple years they go oh we really have to deal with north korea we've got and they start getting america you know revved up for some kind of bombing you just over there what what what are the people there think should be done what do you think should be done well i was just in south korea but i was well known as agreeable for that.