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greetings and salutation. well what's yours appears at the fossil fuel industry has been taking a page out of the tobacco industry playbook when it comes to public health and public relations i know i think oh i thought oh shocking shocking according to a new peer reviewed study by harvard researchers jeffrey soprano naomi oreskes the tory is big oil conglomerate exxon mobil has been making some rather explicit factual misrepresentations to the public regarding the effects of fossil fuels regarding the effects the postle fuels are having or have had on climate change in the dryly titled study assessing exxon mobil's climate change communications one nine hundred seventy seven the two thousand. fourteen the researchers used

a social science analysis method to examine one hundred eighty seven documents including internal memos peer reviewed papers by acts on scientists and advertorials that ran in the new york times advertorials in case you're wondering are those cute propaganda pieces put out by corporations and political groups that look like news articles but are in fact advertisements for their products or belief systems essentially they're the appear to me of big news but since corporations do it i guess it must be ok to all those pearl clutching fake news gate keepers and an op ed for the new york times the researchers exclaimed that roughly eighty percent of the companies academic and internal papers agreed that climate change is real and human caused but eighty one percent of their climate change advertorials in one way or another expressed doubt. like i said how very big tobacco of them heard this story before and started watching all.

of. that i got. welcome on the watch and i robot interrupted them to have a salad yes exxon mobil apparently knew for a long time that climate change was bad that they were helping fossil fuel industry was was helping you know cause it mitigated make it worse but not telling the public about. that in fact telling the public the exact opposite of that. are you

sure double your little extra special they're so concerned about the environment a big oil company lying to people about its product. while i was so obvious now i think that's that's what's so surprising is that after years and years i think the brand of exxon to any of us born. you know before nine hundred ninety just its environmental wreckage all of this just kept going to the floor of the cleaning of birds no this is what we know about exxon you know. all of these things that have done such great damage and they're branding us so hard to get it into a place that might actually be nice for be able or where they might actually trust them to do some of these things by their response to this says we're going to keep on we're going to keep on. have made a lot of money in the last year they have some of the largest oil producer of the

united states. i think they're red their revenue is about two hundred eighteen billion last year and what they say is that the deny of having led this for a decade long campaign of dissent from nation scott sylvester e. spokesperson had called the latest study inaccurate and preposterous stating to the media quote our statements have been consistent with our understanding of science climate science they also criticize journalists for having allegedly cherry pick to data and a way of unfairly put the company in a bad way as opposed to them cherry picking data to put their industry in a better light that's different out of church pretty good leverage your money is a researcher's response actually jeffries super under their retreat researcher at harvard university had them the co-author of the study told a.f.p. we looked at the whole cherry tree using social science methods we found a gaping systematic discrepancy between what exxon sad about climate change in private and academic circles to what it said to the public they lied. you know it's

simple you know they had it now they're going to try the branding and i'll go we're making things from algae now terrible forget about everything they knew that their product contributed to climate change they knew that climate change was real i mean that's what you're seeing here is a climate change it's dirty and it makes the air bad right really it's not a good idea and they knew this is early as may nine hundred seventy nine they were sounding it all internal alarms on climate change you know these researchers have found an internal memo from that you hear that said the most widely held theory about climate change is that the increase in atmospheric c o two was due to fossil fuel combustion as back in seventy nine that was back before it was even like a whimper in al gore's mind you know those like you didn't even register yeah kind of you know and and then and then they had a peer reviewed study by exxon scientists seventeen years later concluded that the body of evidence now points towards a discernible human influence on the globe that causes you know climate change or global climate the causes that climate change all of this is happening while exxon

mobil is spending tens of millions of dollars to put editorials in place you know these advertorials like in places like you know the new york times or you know spending money on politicians to say the opposite all of these things just to cover their business what's interesting to me but what really hits me is the imagine if in seventy nine let's just put on our imaginary you know mr rogers thinking caps imaginary hads imagine happens every night. you know what this is our big industry but clearly our industry has a major impact on the environment of the maybe we should start we can't change everything over overnight but if we start pushing towards like green energy exxon could be at the forefront of green energy and slowly divest out of basile fuels into green energy think about the thought process there then everyone would be looking at the brand saying like wow what a brilliant brand i'm going to i want to buy from exxon but they make the best electric cars. they make the best you know their survivor solo at least from all

exactly instead no no we're going to hold the whore this diet you know the you know the as i know they started death my dad found dinosaurs it's truly really should tell you everything and they're getting sued love them right even current former employees actually was. alleging that the company because of this deceived them by making false and misleading statements about the financial risks of climate change and that affected the bell you of the shares they bought the company three california communities are suing thirty seven all of this might end up being like big tobacco where they get mailed the courts for having known about climate change and then say the opposite to the public. once upon a time not long ago in march of two thousand and sixteen albuquerque resident jennifer p.d.l. left prison and checked into a halfway house she was clean from drugs working on her parole and committed to getting her life back on track for herself and her five children by may of twenty

sixteen she had met her own prince charming he drove her to work told her she was beautiful and most importantly he spent time with her kids it was like nothing jennifer had ever experienced a man who did not abuse her a man who loved her jennifer's dreams were coming true but the nightmare was bubbling just below the surface after two years of sobriety he had slipped her an ecstasy pill and encouraged her to begin using a get she financially supported his drug habit but resisted his requests to put him in contact with her old drug contacts eventually when the man of her dreams came to her desperate to make some cash and extract himself from dangerous deals with former partner she relented and put him at touch with two meth dealers in the area jennifer priddy i was arrested on august tenth two thousand and sixteen and charged with conspiracy to distribute mass she was one of over one hundred people arrested in a safe operation overseen by the federal bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives in albuquerque's most impoverished minor. the neighborhoods and prince charming he

turned out to be an a.t.f. confidential informant known as number nine zero nine seven and worse yet he had run the same scam on twelve other women also arrested in this day the a.t.f. bragged in the media just days after john first arrest saying their operation had exceeded expectations because they had brought quote the best of the best to deal with the worst of the worst the best of the best like a confidential informant nine zero nine seven who has a decades long history of trafficking drugs and was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence and battery by strangulation in two thousand and fourteen and the worst of the worst a mother of five trying to stay clean and turn her life around or it can i just say that i'm a little bit peeved by this being very eloquent because we're live on television and i have been affected i want to say to them i'm sure there are a lot of bleeps coming out of this this really upsets me because this is this is

not only has two factors this hits a failing drug war does more to arrest you know people on the lowest you know of our of our system you know the people the power the struggling mothers so far you know those are the people who get thrown in jail but you don't see you know big time pharmacy goes through the jail you very rarely see the cartel leader thrown in jail you know or the bankers the you know move their money around and also you have seen the federal government's use of performance is ridiculous and it's a it's a complete disaster right now this one to the way they brag about it it's just. it's foul and to use a wig on woman like this tried doing everything right and some this person and so it's essentially what they did is they got all these informants what they brag about is they did it during the stagg which is received a lot of criticism for a minority of from minority communities black hispanic within albuquerque new mexico of this there was one hundred four arrests. see. sure of what they say is

one hundred twenty seven firearm seven pounds of math two want to have pounds of heroin fourteen ounces of crack cocaine and pound of ecstasy one are no sorry's some ecstasy one pound of cocaine and four vehicles this was their huge you know getting these violent this is right over it a war were to say that brought in a hundred four people basically were sort of the resident of one hundred four people you know i challenge the a.t.f. to one day actually go to wall street and make these arrests and there's product herbs and do all the drugs they buy them assume oh gosh if i have a no right medicine and what's worse too is the racial implications of these arrests and this one of the guards i was a people yeah and that was the first thing that people noticed because they were targeting in neighborhoods that were poor had a lot of single mothers and high minority population and so black and hispanic. and the thing was twenty seven percent of those who were arrested were black despite the fact that albuquerque only three percent of the population is black and.

they only make up five percent of the entire drug and gun arrests and convictions for all of new mexico from two thousand and six to twenty fifteen so statistically they're not if you know there isn't there the thing that really gets me is how much this guy was paid and all of them that they brought. they were paying them about fourteen hundred dollars a week in cash undriveable close to the informant plus they get bonuses and expenses and what they're saying what they're saying is that the gentleman who had one after. that they were saying he made somewhere between eighty and a hundred thousand dollars a year cash not tracked that was all from the u.s. government giving us a b. and. this woman up that's he specifically went out with a whole bunch of women dated them befriending them became friends with their family inserted himself into their lives made them believe that he was he was you know in love with. and then he turned around begged them to help them and set them up and.

nobody can have any oversight i mean even jason chafes has been asking for. jason out of utah i think i'm beginning i think i figured out this case maybe made me realize why he had to lean. back in april twenty fourth twenty seventeen there have been a report that came out about oversight of confidential informants on the payment systems that they use. and they found that since two thousand and twelve the a.t.f. the da paid almost two hundred sixty million dollars largely determined to be completely seen and during this house oversight committee jason chaffetz became who was the house over the head of the chairman of the committee at the time became quite frustrated waiting seven months just for their guidelines to. congress has a right to have this material and it is unbelievable to me that you think that we

shouldn't have a copy of it now you may be caught in the middle you may be listening to others and i'm sure in your mind you think you know i don't get to make this decision unilaterally but you are the one that the d.a. sends before and so i don't care if it's the obama administration of the trumpet ministration nothing's changed here. they are nothing's changed they still by the way that house oversight committee still does not have the information and that they have requested documents ever quested from the obama administration and regards to fasten a serious which broke the vaal law and they still haven't given the congress and the use of these informants to revamp all of it because clearly it's not working at the end of the day all right as we go to break log watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered at facebook and twitter see our full shows of r t v dot com coming up sean stone sits down with journalist and author play escobar discussed the new silk road in afghanistan and the u.s. foreign policy that cultivates that stayed true to watching the whole.

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white house struggles to find answers to some simple questions like are all nazis bad or just some is china our enemy or our friend is mexico paying for the wall or wait and another is a small matter of whether or not we should engage in ukraine civil war by arming one side with lethal weapons hopefully originally many held out hope that this administration might be different that for once we my mind their own business and not equate doling out bloodshed with building global democracy but the usual schizophrenia we have now come to expect not only as our president not putin's puppet he's now considering sending weapons to the very people who would love nothing more than to use them to take moscow for what will probably be just another update out of many more to come on your part paul has the latest on the foreign

policy for. defense secretary mattis certainly assuaged any fears in kiev that the u.s. will not provide lethal weapons to the government strongly suggesting he personally supports the plan currently sitting on president trump's desk speaking alongside ukrainian president petro poroshenko mattis emphasized the special bond between the countries that. you no longer. love you one hundred percent. no no no you have to assume you know the region or if you. wrote. them to show you the room. or why don't you show us you know we're going to be really really creative you work through. your very. very

short from right for me to be there in form. and here's what we. well you did. pretty. mattis went on to point out the u.s. recently approved a one hundred seventy five million dollars worth of equipment shipments to the country including specialized defense equipment the poroshenko government has been locked in a civil war since coming to power in a coup in two thousand and fourteen at the time u.s. assistant secretary of state for european and asian affairs victoria nuland highlighted the hefty contribution american taxpayers have made in the country since the fall of the soviet union they've invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other pools that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. critics of the plan to send lethal weapons to ukraine say it will only escalate the conflict as head of the russian foreign

ministry's department for a non-play for ration and arms control declared quote the masterminds of the plan to supply lethal weapons to crane apparently proceed from the assumption that the situation in the east of the country isn't explosive enough already and that it's needed to add fuel to the fire secretary mabus said his trip to ukraine was meant to strengthen the u.s. relationship with care of president trump must now decide whether or not to take it to a level which can be summed up in one word lethal in washington on your part until our. president from seven hundred eighty degree turn on his campaign trail promises of pulling u.s. forces out of the quagmire that is. the longest running war in united states history by the way many of his supporters and critics with more questions than answers how much more taxpayer dollars will be spent how many more u.s. soldiers will be how many more people will have to die in this suppose of by

against terror with questions swirling investigative journalist and author pepe escobar joined from paris to discuss the future of afghanistan the. impact of u.s. foreign policy there and the new silk road to be illegal drugs blowing out about war torn countries prevalent poppy fields let's take a listen to that discussion. that they ask of i thank you so much for joining me today i want to start by actually discussing trump's recent speech he's now basically made a u. turn for most people from what they expected of him and his foreign policy outlook before he was elected now he's calling for more troops he wants to basically do a surge in afghanistan as well as basically pushing a more belligerent tone across the globe let's start with afghanistan what is the economic interests of america in afghanistan to basically put four thousand more soldiers there. well look like if it's groundhog day isn't it we

have seen this thing all over and over again if anyone who's been to afghanistan a reporter for afghanistan knows that there is no really terry solution ever in afghanistan we had at least one two or three different surges the latest one was an absolute disaster the taliban they control at least sixty percent of the country if you if you get out of the main cities it's basically taliban controlled territory in the east and not in the punjab virally in the north because that's the territory but in the south end in the south western desert helmand province all the way to near the afghan border it's basically taliban why because the central government in kabul they cannot run anything it's immensely corrupt most of the army. or we get into the ethnic divide in afghanistan you cannot have an army that is mostly tajik in a country that the bush tunes are

a sizable majority. and not to mention the backs in the north as well which are not very well represented the lord does them everywhere the blow of the not even the bulk of what the ninety percent ninety five percent of the so called american aid to afghanistan was on the bone being front on the military front was locked for economic development and if you talk to an average african in kandahar for instance or not to mention province to the countryside in our province helmand province. sixteen years ok the soviets were there for eight and a half. years and have been there for sixty and absolutely not see happen to better their lives. and we are seeing you not only. a real arrangement. the warlordism and the warlord factions in fact in an to same time

will have absolutely i would say marx brothers style episodes like google genius of being incorporated into a solution for afghanistan as well and this is the guy who was basically born been with the reigns in ninety ninety two ninety ninety three so if you don't understand that and that's the problem with the pentagon the they can never understand dick black city the ethnic complexity the social complexity of afghanistan and try to work out a solution that is not a military solution and now. what many could say it's a sort of a military zone that is running the white house donald trump is basically following what his generals are saying which is once again ok let's satisfy our industry military complex let's have another mini surge with four thousand five thousand troops and not seeing many surge compared to the previous one the aerial search and

almost as you mentioned they are hidden enormous hidden economic interests and that's when the narrative really gets interesting because we have a debt u.s. geological survey a report stated more or less that. unexplored the wind trillion dollars of mineral wells in afghanistan the russians had the previous report which was more or less the same saying and the chinese made their own independent reports as well the difference the chinese are already there exploring corporate it's very complicated because you have to deal not only with the brokers in kabul but with the local bureaucracy and the warlords who want a piece of the action especially when they see a foreign multinationals that work in their country the taliban may say we're not going to attack the russians other chinese but they could attack western companies for instance if they venture to invest in you know. so what trump was basically saying is one of piece of the action the one piece of this one three dollars in an

explorer manner well so i'm going to send my surgeon tried to convince the afghans to give me a piece of the action it's not going to war because this is not how it works in afghanistan and the only solution for afghanistan who will be to have all the players on the table including the taliban include the local warlords who are not valid bonus well including people like marciano who used to be a huge warlord and now you know these is a minor. sideways and obviously different factions of the government in kabul and the ethnic divide has to be represented the interests of the. banks as well it's not going to happen so who said that this might happen there russians and the chinese why because afghanistan is an observer member of the shanghai cooperation organization if you talk to the kremlin and if you talk to the chinese leadership in beijing they're going to tell you the same saying there's only one solution for

afghanistan and he has to be solution side by side with different leaderships let's say and. the shanghai cooperation organization which is a security mechanism but is also an economic development mechanism so called pair of the your. proposed solution to afghanistan so the pentagon non-solution to afghanistan and then you have a united preserve the picture. politicians often make poor decisions but one former australian prime minister has finally come clean that he missed a historic series of votes and parliament during the world financial crisis his excuse say it happens then leader of the opposition tony abbott finally admitted recently in an interview that instead of attending debates he was the famed and often secretive members only. dining room where he and other astray and part of members drink so much wine that abbott then passed out of his office till morning

missing a number of votes at the time when asked by reporters about the accusations he was governor governing while intoxicated his response was that is an impertinent question we had a couple of bottles of wine. maybe two like it wasn't more likely his absence didn't spark a great depression and australians can laugh about it now well time maybe everything does happen for recycling. you knowing about it no you don't whine about it. you know. you can't keep a look in his defense you can't keep these thoughts bottled up you have to i want to know what i want to know you know how many how many politicians are actually you know just politicking while under the influence maybe they need to be under the. real question is. how many of drunken i mean i can might be the only explanation

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