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washington meet. the media the voters elected a businessman to run this country business because. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done for. the headlines an r.t.a. france passes a new anti terror law which has sparked concerns it might be used by the government violate human rights. the suspects behind the mortgage the shoe blast which killed more than three hundred people on saturday may have carried out the attack in revenge for a u.s. trade on his home village also the israel defense forces raid a number of media outlets in palestine which regularly work with global networks including r.t. authorities say it was part of a counterterrorism operation. our lot of the.
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new york and spanish m.p.'s held a silent protest in madrid's parliament demanding the release of two cattle and independence leaders who will take on monday. even come to life from moscow are you watching r.t. international and i'll start with france where the parliament has passed a new anti terror law which bans increased powers to the security services the bills already sparked concerns that it will reduce freedoms r.t. shouted devinsky his feet delving deeper into the story for us and joins us live now so. further details do we know. well this law contains a raft a range of powers powers that were in the state of emergency that france has been under now for almost two years what it does is it consolidates a lot of those powers in the security services in law and this will take effect
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from november first after being passed through its last hurdle in the french parliament today now and this law will allow the police to have this huge we're after new powers this includes the ability to turn up and search your home if they suspect their sympathies to terrorism organization in that home they will also have wider powers when it comes to stopping and searching people on the street they will be able to wiretap communications that means being able to monitor phones and e-mail communications as well as being able to close down places of worship such as mosques if they feel that there is a threat that there is radical preaching taking place and they will be able to do that without sending any evidence up front and they'll be able to keep under arrest anybody who's suspected of having any terrorist links now this has been pushed by president he is in fact the architect essentially of this law and this is what he
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had to say today about it. securely the anti terror draft law on the reinforcement of internal security has been adopted by parliamentary majority and will come into power on november the first when the state of emergency expires the state of emergency was. however we've seen in recent months that it unfortunately doesn't protect us from the reality of certain attacks because any state of emergency can protect us and totally reduce the threat. so much ground saying there that the state of emergency hasn't necessarily protected french citizens but many of its powers will be essentially contained in this new law and that state of emergency has been in place for almost two years since that night of terror in paris in november two thousand and fifteen when many many people in paris lost their lives in a spate of coordinated terror attacks now despite the fact that state of emergency
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has been in place for almost two years it hasn't always protected the citizens of france from terror attacks. well mike brown has repeatedly said that the state of emergency hasn't reduced the threat level of terrorism in france does zero and he's talked about what will be done in conjunction with this new law to improve the way that security situation security forces actually talk to each other in the future with the fact that there's going to be discussions about this in january about a further law and about the fact that the police officers and other security
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services must look at sharing information instantaneously to prevent any terror attacks now many civil rights organizations and human rights organizations have criticized this anti terrorism law saying that they feel that it will erode some of freedoms in france without necessarily offering more protection for the citizens of france and while the majority of people in france have said they support it many people i've spoken to say they are concerned about those a rouge freedom given that the state of emergency hasn't reduced that threat level to zero they are concerned that neither will this new anti-terrorism legislation. charlotte the charlotte there for us and we can talk now with the glazebrook he's an independent political analyst who's been following the story good evening dan what are your thoughts because i mean people do argue that given the state of terrorism in europe and in particular france the authorities act and here it is.
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well the thing is you can't be a neo colonial kind of war mongering power like france and expect to be permanently immune to the blowback and the consequences of that fronts in conjunction with the u.s. and the u.k. has been sponsoring death squads in libya and syria has turned how to turn libya into a basically a safe haven for these sort of death squads that have been then launching attacks all across the middle east and africa and north africa and also europe as well that attempting to do the same thing i have been attempting for five years to do the same thing to syria well if this is your foreign policy then there are going to be repercussions and they've they've they've they've tasted some of those read repercussions in the form of the very. violent extremist groups that they've been supporting actually then carrying out attacks in france as well so if that's your policy then no matter how many vicious police state. piece of legislation you
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institute then unfortunately you're never going to be able to keep your population one hundred percent safe because your whole foreign policy is about setting fire. to other countries and other countries are we are we are in a very connected world at the moment so there's no way you can have this kind of foreign policy and be immune from from the consequences but of course they'll attempt to do so but at the same time it's always and you know the made the police may be able to stop some of the attacks possibly with these new powers but even then as the danger isn't there of actually alienating even further the community that is the the terror groups rely on to recruit from if you're going to if you give the police and we know that there's the police have a very serious problem in front of institutional racism and brutality against arab and muslim communities the been case after case in recent years and of course they
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have a long history of that going back to the massacre of hundreds of people. half a century ago in. in the river sign in protest against the war and so on so that if you're going to give police this power they're going to use it to discriminate against against communities that are already alienated that's going to put potentially more recruits into the hands of these these death squads so it's a very dangerous dangerous thing to implement this kind of police that was not adjusting your foreign policy during that causes and also said today don't just jump in there is that he said that the state of emergency we had before didn't work i mean that's a surprising thing to say isn't it i mean a ok you could argue it hasn't because we have seen terror attacks but then why will this new policy that is implementing be any better well i suppose he his argument is that this going to give even more sweeping powers to the police and even the state of emergency which was already
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a massive breach of civil liberties as had existed over two apparently wasn't wasn't enough but as i say you can go down this track all the way to a completely or thorough or authoritarian police state if you want but ultimately if you don't deal with the root causes which is the brutal foreign policy on the one hand and then the alienation of entire communities due to your systematic institutional discrimination and racism on the other hand if you're not going to deal with those even the most vicious police state will not be able to stop. being some people who decide to lash out ok don't look. like they have a reality of it that was downgraded brit thank you no independent political analyst thanks peter. now another nice evening the suspect responsible for a brutal bombing in somalia may have carried out the attack in revenge for a raid on his home village that's according to local officials to discuss this
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further now in a joint by some miracle smear a good evening so what more then do we know about these latest developments. well according to officials investigating the mogadishu attack that killed over three hundred people on saturday the bomber may have been taking revenge for a u.s. led raid back in august and now the death toll now stands at three hundred making it one of the most devastating attacks in recent years as well as the deadliest somalia has ever seen and it's now known that the bomber a former somali soldier was from the same community targeted by the u.s. led raid back in august now the operation in question allegedly resulted in the deaths of innocents including women and children which led to tribal leaders to call for revenge against the government as well its allies but let's take a look at what a local deputy had to say about the incident. these local farmers were attacked by foreign troops while looking after their crops among the dead children aged between
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eight and ten this is real genocide because they were innocent deliberately killed while on that. now for some context the somali government initially denied any civilian a civilian casualties which was only amended hours later furthermore u.s. africa had also stated it would be investigating the incident but until today we've yet to see any conclusions of but nevertheless this is all a very interesting development as scholars and international organizations alike have long linked radicalization to us imperialism and this could possibly be yet another case amongst several that we've come across ok thanks mary that was a nice america well i think director believes that the suspect could have easily been radicalized off to such a tragedy. this is a classic case where by you know someone who's lost a relative or a close person or persons would be easily recruited by extremist.
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ideological organizations like in this case the usual response in such cases would be to try to calm down and try to subdue the news in a sense in order not to cause a lot of outcries in the world and so on and in order to also keep the. facade of being in control but again real stories on what is really happening who'd come out and then you know the whole world would know. the israeli defense forces have raided a number of media outlets in palestine claiming they've been inciting terror we can get more on this now from local journalist who's in television. last night the i.d.f. and shin bet raided the west bank offices of eight palestinian media outlets and production companies these companies have been accused of collaborating with hamas
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and islamic jihad two of the companies ram sought and transmedia work completely shut down one of the media companies pal media works with major news outlets including b.b.c. and c.n.n. and as well as r t the company's equipment was seized and two palestinian suspects were arrested several of the companies are located inside palestinian t.v. channels based in gaza and lebanon r.t. asked i.d.f. for comments and the response was that it was an anti-terrorism operation the companies are suspected of distributing incitement materials and the purpose of the raid was to shut down the company's presence in the west bank and prevent incitement which often leads to terror attacks the palestinian authority condemned the raid saying that the intention of the i.d.f. separation was to quote sabotage those exposing crimes and accuse israeli forces of a gross violation of international law palestinian media workers and activists protested in front of the un office in ramallah against the shutdown the raids occurred just hours after the israeli government stated it will not deal with a palestinian unity government which includes hamas unless it disarms recognizes
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the state of israel and renounces violence last week the palestinian movements fatah and hamas signed a unity deal which marked the end of a decade long split you have more to hide the head of israel's coordinator of government activities in the territories claimed that the channels broadcast constant incitement against the state of israel he claimed quote it's no secret that these two channels inspired several times terrorist to go out and commit terrorist attacks against innocents is actually the second rate of a palestinian media company back in july the i.d.f. raided the pal media communications company and confiscated all of its media materials and this was a huge issue because as we mentioned earlier pal media is associated with the b.b.c. c.n.n. . and other news so using spanish m.p.'s have had a silent protest in madrid spad been demanding the release of two catalan independence leaders who would monday evening. during the parliament session and hold up signs and support for pay. yeah more are
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a lot of that but it didn't look like they're listen you're yes. yes let them of course have never thought of it i mean the leader of the congress repeatedly tried to call the m.p.'s to water until they finally sat down meanwhile madrid still trying to pressure the cattle on the day to clarify whether he declared independence or not. it's not difficult it's just a simple question have you declared independence of cuts alone you are not getting in their demand to the catalan government is firm their demand expires same as in twenty four hours so let's have a quick reminder the know what's happened this week to cattle and independents leaders were arrested on monday for the key roles they played in organizing the independence referendum one of them is the leader of the catalan national assembly and the other is the president of an organization that promotes catalan language and culture since then spain has seen
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a wave of protests. through. jonathan shafi from the radical independence campaign feels that the ye should step in to protect catalonia from further oppression from madrid. i think this sends a message from spain to the people of cuts alone and demanding the democratic race that they're going to continue their kind of method of oppression they're going to continue to try and clue stone in democratic structures around the question of independence but the big question that speed posed for democrats right across is
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whether or not they're going to stand up with enough voice they're going to stand up with enough of an argument that's going to say to spain that the international community feigns its behavior unacceptable and that they support the right of self-determination forgot to libyans the u.s. backed forces in syria have to clear victory have resigned extent in morocco we'll have more details after the break. seemed wrong. but also just all. to me paul just to stamp out disdain because advocate and in danger of it equals betrayal. when somebody find themselves worlds apart. just on the common ground.
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here's what people have been saying about reject this is. the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs the party oh yeah it is the john oliver of party america is doing the same we are apparently better than nothing at the same people you've never heard of love redacted the next president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. hello again now us back forces in syria have to claim victory over islamic state in iraq claiming the city is now fully under their control these are the latest pictures from the city it's a virtual ghost town there was you can see the destruction also caused either by i
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saw a militia shelling or airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition aid agencies say a huge effort who we needed to end the humanitarian crisis there the international coalition meanwhile says that the city still only ninety percent clear advice so a spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general says aid is ready and waiting we have received reports that much of the city has been damaged or destroyed due to the fighting we're closely monitoring the situation and stand by to deliver lifesaving assistance to those in need as soon as access is granted and security kept the traditions permitted by so claim drakkar is its de facto capital back in twenty fourteen the first major offensive against the terrorists there began two years later it was one series six largest city but now it's little more than rubble.
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recently called missionary forces were ready to demolish the whole building to target one member of i so they have no problem killing civilians. we ran from death and fear any human being would be afraid the sound of the planes makes us afraid they were shelling the civilians destroying buildings and houses rakhal was destroyed by a coalition aircraft only ten percent hit the targets the rest hit civilians. the un estimates that an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq out every day. and they seem to be no real escape for the sunset billions the level of suffering in korea and relatives family of the children is
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actually. just kind of stuck in. china's president has been outlining his future plans for the country during an epic three hour address to the national congress of the communist party changing paying touched on many topics including military expansion judicial military must regard combat capability as the standard to meet in all this work and focus on how to win when it is called on who will take solid steps to ensure the military is prepared for all strategic directions and my progress in combat readiness in both traditional and new security fields speeches like this one due to. a place every five years and more than two thousand delegates around china were in attendance that main their main aim of the pings address was challenges the country faces and
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to point out the areas that need work especially soundly and believes the president very pressing issues is rallying the chinese people and the communist party to make china great again as it were creating a better life for his people and defending the country against any perceived threats. of its sovereignty and particularly he also highlighted the fact that china entering into a year of great uncertainty is looking around the world there are perceived disruptions threats you have a new president. and what was happening over the south china sea china's opening up its economy relative terms but china is unlikely to copy the examples of other countries i mean less of all in the form of collapse of the collapse of the former
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us as our i think china learned big big lesson and it's going to go about is trying to actually feeling the stones in crossing the river as it were but there is no dolled up nowadays as a colony is more open compared with a couple of decades ago. a russian lawyer sparked a media frenzy year earlier this year after it emerged that she had met with trump during the u.s. election sky's meeting with the new was seen by many is clear proof of russian meddling and collusion donald trump son think he was about to get help from a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin we all know her name now and tell us about sky italia natalya vessel needs sky this is looking more and more like treason all these strange behavior from the president it's all explained and now she's. back in the spotlight after a media outlet found and released her memo of that meeting and it mentioned nothing about handing trump on his rival hillary clinton has previously claimed according
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to her notes natalia wanted to discuss sanctions imposed by the u.s. and a number of russian officials they were being punished over the death in custody of sergei magnitsky who worked for a moscow law firm and had been investigating mass corruption in russia she says she wanted to prove the sanctions were politically motivated. to pull up with something just to make it clear i was never against any sanctions because they don't involve my client but i'm against manipulating facts i'm against how these origins haven't investigated the story behind the make the act what happened in the us most pure politics. or as i personally gave this memo to the journalist i can't recall her name this is a translation of a memo that i prepared for myself before my trip to the u.s. last year everything eleanor and i shared with police and american lawyers this memo was the result of my own investigation so again it's good he worked for the
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hermitage capital management fund he died in a pretrial detention center in two thousand and nine while he was being held over tax evasion claims the u.s. accused a number of russian officials of complicity in his death and imposed sanctions against them authorities there have denied any wrongdoing in the case but even the newly published memo hasn't or a suspicion the tally for some this guy is a kremlin agent some media outlets to claim the documents language resembles another member handed to a u.s. congressman by russia's prosecutor general talia's says there's nothing suspicious though about that easy. what is craft go to church and i've read this memo and i agree that there are some similar points there is nothing extraordinary or criminal about that i have written about my investigation to prosecutor's office many times in this memo there are just facts it doesn't matter what language you write them and it's all the same to me is ok however some think that you're working for
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kremlin with the globe it's a very stupid conclusion well at least now they will read into the full story which the. you're watching are saying thanks being with us this evening that's how things look so far today and i say we'll have more news at the top of the hour don't forget that you can keep crossing all the stories to. make us manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the final larry go round you know one. time we can
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before. you knew just remove one of the names for it. is. the most lowering don't always were burning people in the old security clearance a little. bit here we have our own version in a. little over city blurb with an exploding very. clear concept of burning trash and war is not new it is all this war itself the difference here was that this war was lasting for a decade and included tens of thousands of troops and personnel to support the
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invasion of iraq and the war in afghanistan. where they were alleged rash and these huge open air heads. they burned everything creating this black plume of smoke that had been just bursting are settling over is small the word of five cities. and you had people living in barracks right next to this clune people working right next to it and now working with it with no protection whatsoever. and will receive more blasting the fire and we're going to have to make it instigated this way is a catastrophe in the making. at the start of the war in afghanistan the military commanders on the ground realized that they had
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a big problem with the trash that was accumulating from the war each soldier was accumulating approximately nine pounds of trash a day on a battlefield they didn't know what to do with it so they came up with the idea through centcom which is central command decided to create burn pits to burn the trash that was being accumulated. over that is is where the military during the war collected all their waste in one central location and sort of burying it they decided to burn it they burn everything that you can possibly think of what they take the bright. moon. why we would burn less human waste. trash and. plastics medical. supplies.
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to name. anything that they wouldn't use anymore they were burned. at times they also had. body pipes. plastics chemicals paint batteries tires literally anything that could be disposed of was thrown in there. and it we were dumped these. days a few elaina. and then lighting that. there was a blue smoke and the haze looked like the san francisco for the smell was extremely toxic very very putrid burn your eyes burn your throat burn your nose i mean it was just nasty dirty stinky. some days the. concoction of
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the smell of the burn ph and the sewage pit would literally make you would drop you to your knees and you'd vomit i mean it was it was that bad you knew. there was no protection. and not. many were not ok to give them a gas mask but it was a pretty. clear. mind i knew. there was more for nuclear biological chemical. and i knew. it was never mandatory for us to learn that. no safeguards were in place to protect the soldiers ball as a matter of fact that they would build the seas burn pits sometimes within three hundred meters from from where the soldiers were were actually quartered behaves in
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the smoke drifted over to our trailers where it just kind of hung all day all the time twenty four seven right above you know always smell the. you know. plastic bird buildings or the wood you know mel's. i mean. it's just really an offensive putrid kind of a smell it's very hard to describe. because when it was mixed with the smell of the sewage be it was just i mean it's just got awful your nose would burn your eyes would water your throat would burn during the course of the day you would you have to go and dust yourself off your hair or your clothing with all the ashes that were falling on us. now we never complained. they say embrace the suck man.
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because to the work area we had initial briefing mother superior and we were told to keep an eye on our people that you're going to get for they call the iraqi crowd everybody gets sick for the first couple of weeks. but now without a doubt within a week people were falling out getting sick i really don't remember anybody questioning at that time. the health effects that it would have me absolutely when thinking about that and thinking they got it on control or here you know certainly our own people wouldn't be doing anything knowingly to poising us but that turns out to be you know. not the case. these personnel would be exposed to a toxic soup of chemicals released into the atmosphere plastics and star riffle metals chemicals from paints and solvents petroleum and lubricants jet fuel anomic splode ordinance medical and other dangerous waste. here men
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are supposed to breathe clean their air is twenty one percent oxygen and seventy nine percent nitrogen with no air pollution or particles in the air and in particle air can trigger asthma and when you particles in an open air setting at low temperature low heat it generates thousands times more particles than using a. burning particles particularly for burning carcinogens exposed as a person when they need it and hail it sniff it get it on their skin and they get exposed to carcinogens which can cause cancer so burning with j.p. eight which is jet fuel low temperature will be says benzene which is a carcinogen. i find it amazing that the military having a regulation for everything you didn't have any regulation in place. that operations and those burn pits that were created in iraq and afghanistan whimpers
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from two thousand to two thousand and nine burning without any regulation at all didn't have regulation where they would be built how they would be constructed they didn't do any soil samples before they built the berm pits they didn't do any plume samples after the burn pits were operational for many many years. after nine eleven i don't care they just wanted to keep on funding because they they had they won and they mad it right. here wanted to fight the war even now in here we can burn stereophile we can burn certain things in open air so why would they allow. when the soldiers to do it personally within three days i could feel it like something was wrong and it hit me real hard i went to search. for medication. i cream and i bought it and for me it just wouldn't go away
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within fifteen days that i was there was even sicker i was pretty sick to hold a plan and when i came back and return back to the states i knew differently something was wrong. and that became the battle of trying to figure out what was wrong and how bad it was going to be i started developing sinus problems me you know a lot of other guys me to get nasal sprays and stuff to try to alleviate that and i just had. sinus problems veterans were coming home they had stories to tell they came home they're experiencing all these health conditions they didn't know why these presumably very healthy men and women all of a sudden were walking around like old men and women not being able to exercise the way they could so they started writing about. the stunning statement from the united states military it says open birth is that iraq
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exposed thousands of troops to toxic chemicals a mysterious illness is affecting veterans who were exposed to open burn pits which the u.s. military used in iraq and afghanistan to torch everything from batteries to body parts experts say the pouring out of these pits are toxic and dangerous so while troops may survive the battle they may also be. in september two thousand and four. known as. the v.a. clinic instead of seeing caucasian men with meal chairs and oxygen who were in their eighty's. the entire composition of the waiting room changed was full of young women and men of all ethnicities and they're all in their twenty's back from their first year long deployment in iraq. the typical service member came in with an inability to complete a two mile run within regulation time. most of them had already had
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a traditional work up for pulmonary disease including x. rays c.t. scans primary function testing all of these studies returned normal or near normal in almost every case. it was subtle because these service members complained of shortness of breath with exertion but their x. rays and function tests indicated that they shouldn't have any disability at all that doctors were throwing up their hands and saying what would cause a twenty seven year old man to have a long. long journeys or a respiratory condition eighty five year old man and they started pointing to their exposure to these burnt heads in the fail to realize that a lot of these guys and gals had been living around these pits for for their entire tour duty. hacking cough would go forward and then when you start to bring in no
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different colors it's something trunk and general body weakness just try. goodnow for their head to be some explanation that led us to begin doing surgical lung biopsies to look for things that you might miss in conventional testing. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry finally i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was
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again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there were no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the neighbor's yard the senate is full on awesome well the only show i go out of my way to launch a lot of the really packs upon our leadership is the john oliver of our three americas doing the same but we are apparently better than nothing better said i see they believed overheard of love redact for the night not the president of the world bank so are you going to go write
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a seriously send us an e-mail. right. tony. what he found was a series of veterans who had a q lung disease acute being area versus a ball. injury that he was able to find through long biopsies what he found were these tiny little holes these tears and their long tissue he saw nothing of these veterans to come to his own conclusion that they could have only got this from a toxic exposure. to produce his career looking for this problem and he was able to discover it and the diagnosis was constrictor prophylactics in english it's
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a small airways disease so the lining of your loans are destroyed if you have a perfectly healthy young soldier. goes over to iraq and afghanistan because bad with construction project way this that's really a big concern or we're clearly implicated. in increased incidence of lung disease associated with deployment. video indeed decided they weren't going to send any more veterans his way anymore. i think dr mueller's research in his study is a perfect example of. trying to avoid the issue and trying trying not to to pay the compensations to veterans. that they deserve he has the proof he has everything they are and they still will not even address his research. there were many people in that apartment or defense that
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couldn't accept these findings in you could speculate that they couldn't expect be that they couldn't accept these findings because of the potential broader. the idea that maybe there was a new asian orange. this deployment the government is looking down the road at billions of dollars in health care costs that they will be responsible for and i believe that they're doing everything they can to fav that off.
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with the minutes of the burn fats are causing ls along the soldiers this is a new disease we call this iraq afghanistan war long injury some of the more severe cases entail that all the positive hits of the longs so it is aimed while the factorial exposure to the symptoms or anywhere from from respiratory issues some mild to severe to rare forms of cancers leukemias it's a wide range of symptoms that people are experience him if you really look into it and do the research you could make these symptoms directly to the burn pits my diagnosis is one that started out as you know i had sinus plasma sayto much if you can say that in one word which is a four point four centimeter tumor right here in my head that started out as
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a solitary plasma site tomo it was biopsied and trying to be that. will automatically flip down and so me till you have a tumor in your head underneath your brain. ah you want to know. what's going on with that and i didn't know anything about this burn pit exposure thing or nothing until after my diagnosis. so the first thing i did was i ran to the internet and i started researching this particular issue and it kept coming back to the same thing what causes plasma psycho toxic exposure. when he first got back i mean he was healthy he was out the it was probably not even less after. a year that he came back they started. the tonsils and got swelling pain.
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and he would delete and he would believe from his mouth. i would have chunks of tissue come out of his mind and he would spit it out and i believe it was two days a day after christmas when he was told that he lists cancer it's. really really ill. discussion leo. was vomiting feces and everything else and that when they took out the gallbladder just to be safe when they went in there to remove the gall bladder they took a biopsy of the two but that was blocking my lower bowel be a little mackenzie. as you know beau biden vice president biden son served in the military and he served in iraq and he was imperfect health shortly after the camp home within nine months he started getting sick he had
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a brain tumor. and he eventually died from the brain tumor the same type of brain tumor that many of the soldiers that are sick from the permits are complaining about same type of cancer there's a lot of. circumstantial evidence that points to you know his death may have been caused from the burn pits. but. it just didn't make sense it didn't make sense that my healthy husband had cancer and then it turned out there were two types of cancer how was it not the burn pits is not a type of cancer for a young twenty seven year old guy to have because first he didn't smoke he never
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smoked he's not a drinker. usually that's the type of cancer that older gentleman who smoked for a long period of their lives should tobacco or drink the doctor he said it was chemical exposure. or the troops are healthy or they don't go. in there coming back in there not a lot of more healthy anymore. it's a challenge but for other people it's it's been damn. turns out the military knew all along that this toxic exposure could very well her the troops living by these burn pits lieutenant colonel curtis in two thousand and six had written a memo saying the pollution there was dangerous that it would be causing health hazards to live and work near the pits it was completely buried its own calm
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no one no one took it seriously deborah they never addressed his issues soldiers on the ground had no idea about colonel kurtz's findings. and his concern us was never shared with anybody remember which is completely buried. they knew this and they continue to free didn't do it. even though would you do that we'll willingly accept. being shot we've. taken prisoner. but nothing was signed up to be poisoned by around people. there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between the burn pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from clearly the cat was out of the bag the two thousand and six memo had basically said that the
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military was aware that the pollution levels around the pit were at an unsafe unhealthy level now they deal with the after them and always told wished attempted to downplay it they have their own study. commissioned in two thousand and eleven with the institutes of health and medicine that study had said that they could not find a connection between the pollution levels around the pits and the health effects that the veterans were experiencing. those studies which were very in-depth did not identify an increased risk of respiratory symptoms or disease at locations with burn pits as opposed to no burn pits. the army did their own study. years later and it was it was completely flawed for several reasons one it only
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studied one burn pit out of two hundred seventy three that were located in iraq and afghanistan they didn't have prior plume samples because it was done done the whole study was a complete. for. as for snow. new york and july. you may not find snow in albany new york. but that does not mean that it does not snow in albany new york. monitors when. you may not burning trash the monitors are too far away from the burning you may not detect a part of. it in a monitor until after the burning stopped you may not detect. any common sense tells you there was a lot of bad air. all
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around the globe. the world's finest people building. the company. the waste management responsibilities were part of a contract that was held by kellogg brown and root which was a subsidiary of halliburton the company once run by dick cheney vice president dick cheney during the bush years the story about how how bird and take your got these no bid contracts really has not come to light. i know from some
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media control both voters elected to businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. terror law handing more powers to police after the president's. state of emergency no longer. headline stories are the suspect to shoot last which killed more than one hundred people. may have the attack in revenge for a u.s. raid on his home village. israel defense forces raided a number of the media. which regularly work with global networks including authorities say it was part of a country terrorism operation. protest
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in madrid parliament demanding the release of. independence leaders were detained on the. twenty four hour news live from our headquarters in the russian capital international i mean o'neill welcome to the program we begin in france where the parliament house passed the new terror law which increased powers to the security services the bills already sparked concerns it will reduce freedoms r t charlotte has been delving deeper into the story and joins me live on the program hi there charlotte what more are we learning about this. well we know much more
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about the measures that are contained in this anti-terrorism bill which will take effect now on november first that's when the state of emergency will end here in france this will give the security services why draft of new preventative measures to combat potential terror threats to france now let's have a look at some of those measures they include the ability for the police to have more ability to go in and search somebody's home they will have a raft of new powers which will give them greater ability to stop and search people on the streets if they think they're acting suspiciously it will also allow them to wiretap communications so that it could be communications on your telephone or via e-mail and it will also allow them to close down places of worship such as mosques if they feel that there is a preacher who is preaching terrorist related material or trying to radicalize people as well as increasing the ability to put people under house arrest to are
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suspected of having any links to any type of terror organization now the architect of this law is president might call himself take a listen to what he had to say about it today. secure the anti terror draft law on the reinforcement and internal security has been adopted by a parliamentary majority and will come into power on november the first when the state of emergency expires the state of emergency was effective however we've seen in recent months that it unfortunately doesn't protect us from the reality of certain attacks because any state of emergency can protect us and totally reduce the threat. president affirmed again today that the state of emergency had failed to prevent many terror attacks in france and that he didn't feel that the measures in that state of emergency went far enough let's take a look at some of the attacks that slipped through the net under the watch of the
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state of emergency. well mr macron has spoken today about the new that will be implemented on november first the beefing up of these powers for security services but he said it's not just that that's enough he said that security services must be working together must be communicating instantaneously and busbee much more regular rest in how they approach and threats of terror civil liberties groups and human rights
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organizations have criticized this law now for many months many believing that this will erode civil liberties in france and the reality is it will erode some civil liberties but it will not guarantee that it will provide any more security to the citizens of france than the state of emergency has a lot of questions about the charlotte dubin screw up to bring us live from paris by cuba let's try and answer some of those issues with. former am i five intelligence officer ali good to have you on the program given the amount of terror attacks the movies furred off is it not that's what people in support of this new movie are saying. well of course the people of france and people across europe in many other countries are also being attacked regularly want to feel safe so the government wants to see to be doing something however are these steps the right thing to do will they actually meaningfully increase the security of the french and
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what troubles me with this is that it tends to mirror a number of very draconian laws that were brought in in the u.k. from two thousand or more it's but the celebrated after two thousand and one with the nine eleven attacks and after two thousand and five of the seven seven attacks where we saw a number of the same measures come into place in the u.k. and yet the u.k. has been subject to a greater share of attacks over the last few years too so will it meaningfully improve the safety of the french people i'm not sure the other issue around this though is that effectively what micron is doing is he's codifying into french law the measures that were already pretty much in place under the state of emergency between after the attacks and twenty fifteen and at the time the discussion and the concerns of french civil liberties activists and human rights activists was that the french have a written constitution they have certain rights enshrined by law the state of emergency was passed because of the appalling attacks but that was only seen to be for a limited time what nikon is doing is now codifying the same terms and putting it
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reverend french and all your courage pick up on the second point you made the president said that the state of emergency it worked out of the beginning but it failed to prevent a number of terror attacks why do you think he believes that this new law will do that why such confidence. i think it's p.r. basically i mean the terms of the new law are pretty much the same as the terms of the emergency powers so what really is actually just between the many many. i think they've expanded the stop and search powers around major transport hubs and also this idea that they can close down centers mosques places religious worship if there's hints of radicalization but there's no proof required for that closure and that is quite concerning as well because of course what is radicalization at the
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moment of course everyone in france is focused on the concept of islamic radicalization but what if that spreads what if there is mission creep so that someone who protests against the government is deemed to be a radical and you know their work may close down we've already seen this in france over the last couple of years with ecological activists being targeted by state followed around spied on having committed no crime and these sort of laws been used against them too so i am very concerned about tension mission creep against. wider society groups as well as the radicalized islamists and such acts like this that tend to go hundred one with privacy issues don't three a recent public paul i'm just looking at here shows that the majority of french people think the law is going to reduce freedoms. are they right to be concerned. absolutely and again this idea of you know mass wiretapping and everything is following in the part of what has happened in the u.k. with the stupid charter the invest free powers act that came into power the
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beginning of the year where the spies can do bulk data hacking but measure data hacking bulk hacking of our computers and our phones and we know time after time after time all these lone wolf attacks across the whole of the west western world over the last few years that all the people who have committed these attacks have already been known to the authorities because they are drowning in a tsunami of information rather doing targeted specific investigations and into people who like to keep focusing on committing a terrorist atrocity they are missing these people they're falling through the gaps the intelligence agency and structures so they're not doing their job as well as they could be because of this mass hacking this mass collection of information so. it's very worrying the fact that france seems to be sort of following helter skelter down the pulse of america with the n.s.a. and he came with d.c. h.q. collecting all our data help expert analysis as ever from former m i five intelligence officer thank you. moving on now huge protests
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against the terror group al-shabaab have broken out and more good to shoot with reports police have been firing length runs protesters know it followed claims by officials the militant group could be behind saturday's brutal bombing of the somali capital. was thank. god. well our main theory on this stage being investigated is that. the main suspect may have curried the bombing in revenge for a raid on his home village that is according to local officials to discuss this
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further let's bring in. what do we know about this latest development well according to officials investigating saturday's mogadishu attack the bomber may have been taking revenge for a u.s. led operation that took place this past summer tragically saturday's attack has left over a three hundred civilians dead making it the worst attack somalia has ever seen and also among the world's deadliest and now it's known that saturday's bomber a former somali soldier was in fact from the same area targeted by the u.s. led raid back in august now the august raid in question allegedly left civilians dead including women and children which prompted tribal leaders to call for revenge against the somali government as well as its allies but let's take a look at what a local deputy had to say about the incident. these local farmers were attacked by
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foreign troops while looking after their crops among the dead are children aged between eight and ten this is real genocide because they were innocent deliberately killed while on that. now for some context the somali government initially denied any civilian casualties which was only amended hours later furthermore the us africa had also stated it would be investigating the incident but until today we've yet to see any conclusions but nevertheless this is all a very interesting development as radicalization has long been linked to operations like the august raid carried out by foreign powers and this could possibly be yet another case among several that we've come across syria can live from washington d.c. with the update thank you will director of the u.k. based think tank amar what cuff believes the suspect could have been easily radicalized after such a tragedy this is a classic case where by you know someone who's lost the relative or
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a close person or persons would be easily recruited by extremist. ideological organizations like in this case the usual response in such cases would be to try to calm down and try to subdue the news in the sense you know not to cause a lot of you know cries in the world and so on in order to also keep the. facade of being in control but again real stories of what is really happening who come out and then you know the whole world would put no. israeli defense forces have raided a number of media outlets in palestine claiming they've been inciting terror we spoke earlier to a local journalist here who was in tel aviv. last night the i.d.f. and shin bet raided the west bank offices of eight palestinian media outlets and
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production companies these companies have been accused of collaborating with hamas and islamic jihad two of the companies rob sought and transmedia work completely shut down one of the media companies pal media works with major news outlets including b.b.c. and c.n.n. and as well as r t the company's equipment was seized in two palestinian suspects were arrested several of the companies are located inside palestinian t.v. channels based in gaza and lebanon r.t. asked i.d.f. for comments and the response was that it was an anti-terrorism operation the companies are suspected of distributing incitement materials and the purpose of the raid was to shut down the company's presence in the west bank and prevent incitement which often leads to terror attacks the palestinian authority condemned the raid saying that the intention of the i.d.f. separation was to quote sabotage those exposing crimes and accuse israeli forces of a gross violation of international law palestinian media workers and activists protested in front of the un office in ramallah against the shutdown the raids occurred just hours after the israeli government stated it will not deal with
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a palestinian unity government which includes hamas unless it disarms recognizes the state of israel and renounces violence last week the palestinian movements fatah and hamas signed a unity deal which marked the end of a decade long split you have more to hide the head of israel's coordinator of government activities in the territories claim that the channels broadcast constant incitement against the state of israel he claimed quote it's no secret that these two channels inspired several times terrorist to go out and commit terrorist attacks against innocents is actually the second rate of a palestinian media company back in july the i.d.f. raided the pal media communications company and confiscated all of its media materials and this was a huge issue because as we mentioned earlier paul media is associated with the b.b.c. c.n.n. and r.t. on the brink the details about right after this.
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what politicians do something that. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to press. that's why the press that's what before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my call. i. i. i i. i i i i i
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i. i. seventy minutes in the program welcome back u.s. forces in syria have declared victory over islamic state in iraq up claiming the city which was known as the terror group so named caliphate capital it's no fully under the control they say these are the latest pictures from iraq as you can see virtually ghost city the destruction was caused by either i still shelling or are strikes by the u.s. led coalition aid agencies say a huge effort will be needed to and the humanitarian crisis there the international coalition meanwhile states the city is still only ninety percent clear of ice or a spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general says aid is ready and waiting. we have received reports said much
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of the city has been damaged or destroyed due to the fighting we're closely monitoring the situation and stand by to deliver lifesaving assistance to those in need as soon as access is granted and security county conditions permitted well i still claim the fuck do couple buck in twenty fourth being the first major offensive against the terrorists began two years later it was one serious sixth largest city but now it's little more than mobile.
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recently called mission after us is we're ready to demolish the whole building to target one member of ice and they have no problem killing civilians. we ran from death and fear any human being would be afraid the sound of the planes makes us afraid they were shelling the civilians destroying buildings and houses rocket was destroyed by a coalition at craft only ten percent hit their targets the rest hit civilians. the un estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day. and they seem to be no real in this case for these civilians their level of suffering three and peeves family of the children exceptionally. and sky just getting. here they are astonishing pictures aren't they will let the sky said further and
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bring in live sarah leah whitson from the middle east and north africa division of human rights watch you're very welcome to the program this hour certainly a we've just been looking at pictures of the city really is it a ghost city something apocalyptic or something. what information do you have on the state of the city as it stands right now. oh well we don't have anyone on the ground in iraq just now but obviously we are following the news reports of the images that are coming out as well as reports from the u.n. various agencies that have been able to monitor the situation on the ground as well as many other sources on the ground that we have directly in iraq. do you think that the u.s. led coalition are being cautious enough while the earth strikes on the city because there are there there have always been a number of issues with civilians being used as shields except indeed terrorists
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hiding in schools etc what's are not dalton to make sure that civilians were not killed. well sadly in this war i don't think any part of the conflict leading with the us time government and their supporters the russian government have shown any care whatsoever in terms of their targeting practices and the destruction we saw in particular in eastern up on this testament to that the recent bombardment of rock oh it has also been disappointing because our investigations in iraq all have show that in fact the u.s. coalition forces against isis have not shown or not share of caution in terms of doing their assessments of civilians on the ground are relying primarily on internal information not gathering enough information from the ground and they have not done a good enough job of investigating attacks where civilians have been killed according to the united nations almost two hundred seventy thousand people it's
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a staggering figure how fled the city. do you think you'll ever be able to return home or what kind of timeframe are you looking at for people to actually go back to where they're from. well obviously they can't return to rubble and so the most important piece of this in terms of people being able to return home is the restoration of housing and basic infrastructure for people to return to as the images show such a vast part of the city has been destroyed making it uninhabitable but we also know that there are already plans in way for the reconstruction and development of some of these areas we certainly hope that any reconstruction will be done in a nondiscriminatory fashion what what information have you on the humanitarian situation inside the city right now for instance are the resorts is on the ground to provide basic necessities for those who are still in the city and there are
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people in the city. we have very little information on this humanitarian relief teams are only now beginning to arrive there has been a disruption in the water supply there has been a depletion of food because of course the area was under siege for such a long time there is a severe lack of medical services medical care hospitals that are functioning a severe lack of blood of course and so there is a massive massive humanitarian need on the ground in terms of returning to some sort of semblance of normality in iraq what's it going to actually take. well i think we have to look at those short and immediate term in the longer term and the short term certainly the rallying of isis from iraq car will help we hope at least or end the war there and destruction there but on
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a broader scale in order for syrians to have real security there needs to be an end to the killing at the hands of the syrian government which of course is responsible for the vast majority of killings of the syrian people and unless there is accountability for those in the syrian government who have committed terrible atrocities against their own population it's really hard to imagine how there is really going to be any long term people that they were very much the spirit out there that they're trying to get rid of terrorists eradicate terrorists who are using civilians as shields in a lot of cities like this but of course we have seeing instance on both sides sarah leah whitson human rights watch the. polish m.p.'s have held a silent protest in madrid's parliament demanding the release of two cattle on independence leaders who were detained on monday night they stood up during the problem in session and held up signs in support of the per. hour a lot of it. but it didn't lock up their listening. to nearly as
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democrats have never thought of it in. the congress leader repeatedly tried to call the m.p.'s to water until they finally sat down and involvement in still trying to pressure the council on leader into clarifying whether he is actually declared independence or not she implement it's not difficult it's just a simple question have you declared the independence of cuts alone you are not is that a good image that demand to the catalan government is firm that demand expires some as in twenty four hours. just a quick reminder of monday's events to cast lawn independence leaders who were arrested for the key rules they played in organizing the referendum one of them's the leader of the national assembly the other is the president of an organization that promotes council on language and culture since then spain seen a wave of protests thought through the it unto
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perty was i was jonathan shafi from a radical independence campaign believes the e.u. should step in to protect catalonia from further oppression at the madrid. i think this sends a message from spain to the people cuts alone you know who are demanding the democratic race that they're going to continue the kind of method of oppression they're going to continue trying to stone democratic structures around the question of independence but the big question that speak for democrats right across is whether or not they're going to stand up with enough voice they're going to stand up with enough of an argument who's going to see to spain that the international
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community feigns its behavior on except the bill and that they support the right of self-determination for cuts. that's how the weapons the evening news update looks at this hour and see in thirty minutes. kind of financial for my. money laundering first visit this cash in the three different. we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something over cayman islands or do we know all these banks are complicit in the kleptocracy we just have to call and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we got a nice laundry watch for max and for stacey all beautiful jewelry. again for max they know what money you want to hire. don't be a watch guys record. so
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it's seems wrong why don't we just don't call. me. yet to shape out just to cut education and it gets rid equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. act had. a could have plea state that the abuse really made it to contracts awarded to k.b.r. represents the most blatant and improper contract of abuse i have witnessed during the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how to go to no bid contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he'd left. with twenty million dollars worth of stock options from
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nine eleven till two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price he made about a billion dollars off the war there's a great you do that if you change the nine hundred ninety phone defending the woman he is no longer about five minutes he's being interviewed the american enterprise institute he says he would be a disaster fast beast fans who are we have no exit strategy oh no you change the vanity and that's one of the method to do his work for however nation hundreds of millions of dollars is the next to. u.s. military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. the veterans who are now suing k.b.r.
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because of their what they believe service connected health injuries say that k.b.r. short cut it didn't install and center raters when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste when it was a guess the o.t. regulations to do so and as a result they are sick of all the contracts that k.b.r. and held were received require them to comply with e.p.a. regulations the allegation is that k.b.r. rather than complying with the contract complying with these environmental regulations disposing only of what should be disposed of using incinerators doing it the right way for reasons often related to profit margins was disposing of dangerous toxins in a way that directly impacted the health of soviet troops. seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of
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styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks one of the stuff. that should have been segregated out it was mine it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out if you're k.b.r. employee and you're throwing. biological medical waste into the. into the burned tires and anything else. that is known to be a toxin. then you're you're careless and you're you're putting people's health in jeopardy and that's exactly would a lot of these k.b.r. contractors were doing. to or for me to accept is if i were. working for k.b.r. and they have knowledge of. hazardous chemicals on the ground to cause cancer. and i'll. just put it mildly and i had
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a prius that is necessary. i'm. very upset over that. today very very upset. that they did that. the military exercises regular daily oversight and supervision and periodically issued evaluation reports of k.b.r. performance not just on waste disposal but across all the many functions that k.b.r. performed in the war theaters so the military was aware of what k.b.r. was doing and if they thought that k.b.r. was doing those kind of things then they would have been in position to make those practices you know change to halt very little government oversight on the love scene of the major personnel in directly the actual work force were kellogg brown and root personnel. i've seen time and time again take your claim that the reason
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why they didn't do what they were supposed to do is they were allegedly being told to do something or working under the military supervision my experience has been and what i've seen in sworn testimony is that too often k.b.r. personnel were more or less directing the military about what was going to be done rather than the right way. when i noted the violations infractions and improper actions. to root for them to management force and i was basically told shut up that they would make the decisions about them as decisions. the case or record lambert and what k.b.r. tried to do with him when he tried to expose what was going on and reveal some of the misconduct really points to an attitude that i've seen before or k.b.r. is more concerned about keeping the truth down than fixing the problem. we know from the g.a.o.
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reports that have come out since you know way two thousand nine two thousand and ten that both the d.o.d. am k.b.r. were not operating these burn pits within their own regulations they were burning as service materials all over iraq and afghanistan you know this not only from the veterans but through the g.a.o. reports g.a.o. also found that many of these burkhead were still operating as late as two thousand and thirteen and this is at least two years after they were told to shut them down or they would have been a lot better off using incinerators incinerators use less. fuel i believe they're more energy efficient and they release less toxins and so that means that any military personnel soldiers and others that are in the area
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aren't going to be exposed to toxic chemicals toxic fumes that kind of thing to operate the burn pits was much cheaper of them to do to put in high temperature and sewers cost would have been astronomical. many veterans i've spoke to believe that k.b.r. was merely cutting corners. to save money my understanding is they were given the money to do the incinerator and so it wasn't a budgetary issue this may have been a cheaper way to go this may have been an easier way to go but it certainly wasn't what was best for our soldiers so far in addition to the congressional inspector general investigations that have the document the misconduct there's been hundreds of decorations sworn statements by former employees military officers documenting how the operation of the burn pits was exposing troops to the worst toxins known to
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man rather than properly disposing of these things like they promised. easy. he. come to find out that i was for about six months was built on a chemical. manufacturing and storage facility there. during the war and then we went to build a base there was my understanding. with. samples of what was already in the ground or contaminated and they found that the most severe illnesses were coming from five different bases in. these bases used to be former chemical weapons facilities. it was actually told to me.
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they knew the. meaning it was contaminated. flabbergasted. i want to talk about these claims that are being served by plaintiff's lawyers who effectively are saying we don't agree with the decisions that were made by the military there were we think there were safer ways as we said ten years later five years later we think there were safer ways of disposing of waste and somebody should be accountable for not doing it the way that we think was safer. themselves and all this is about. how to dispose of. waste. the problem with that argument that i've seen is that in most cases in fact across the board. military. and i know what i believe all these.
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generators. are offline if they were to found out. in. i mean if they would have realized. that we did in the fog of war we got to fix the mess in the took action to fix it. he didn't. now it turns out there was something else in the contract because all that wasn't good then an indemnity folks so screw anything up they don't have to pay for the bill get stuck on the american taxpayer there would be an indemnification even for negligence on unreasonable acts by k.b. or managers agents or borders if they fell within the definition of what is covered even if they caused the injury or death to these. but under the provisions of those clause that is correct even if they cause injury or death to civilian employees.
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under the provisions of a cost that's correct even if they cause injury or death to the american soldiers. it does not and does not carve out an exception for civilian with our soldiers which means that means that if in fact the activities fall within the definition of a clause thing k.b.r. could could apply for reimbursement preferable even for death or injury to american soldier that's correct even for the death or injury to a british servicemen. that's correct even death or injury to iraqi national or other world national working on a cave your project. correct they were going to get fully reimbursed for every single legal penny they spent as well as any damages found against them and probably one of the biggest bail outs of a government contractor that's been documented so far. the indemnification
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is is absolutely criminal if we have over one hundred thousand soldiers ill it just shows it's a good example of you know how much our government really cares about our soldiers are just pawns. they're angry they're far straighted they feel as though they gave . everything they had to the us government they believed that sam had their back when they sent them over to iraq and afghanistan to fight the war they believed when they came back they'd be taking care of. the the military the v.a. or are supposed to take care of their veterans. and are supposed to provide good health here and a good transition out of the military and the military and v.a. has failed miserably on doing this and not only want to put issues but you know a lot of mental health issues and everything else there are many people who are
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working with the v.a. who feel that studies have been either. belated have been prone to bias in favor of. results that my air to earth vets having psychosomatic problems instead of physical problems. with this manufactured consensus extend to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final clear your realm to listen to the one percent until. it's time to ignore middle of the room sit. i mean real news.
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how does it feel to be a sheriff the greatest job in the world it's as close to being a king as any job there is one business model helps to run a prison now we just do or don't like us here nobody over the place and i don't know what comes anymore when i was a sergeant maybe more is cost effective that's what they want to do that i know and they don't give a damn if you did so as a not very badly painted to put it back into the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the us sam bridge what she could is behind such success. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to.
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have to go right to the press this is what a four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. this should. be. the office of public health conducts large studies of the health of american veterans however if the studies produce results that did not support the office of public health written policy they don't release them. this applies to data regarding health consequences of environmental exposures. in afghanistan and toxics exposures in the or on the rare occasions when. study results are really. laid it to make them unintelligible so there seems to be an
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it depends on who you get provided with the bureaucracy. for me has been a nightmare to deal with getting bills from the labs for one thousand two thousand dollars for blood work. getting these bills call in the lab the v.a. supposed to pay these bills and they don't and you're already sick with chemo and radiation. nobody's paying them. right now or quarter million dollars in debt from cancer. or bankrupt. v.a. still denies my claim that it's not. exposure's. politicians the congressional people that we sought to help us unfortunate drop is like a hot potatoes with sen. so we have no resolution i know you still do minor cases
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of attorneys for sure you would want. to see. were. you know it was awful didn't make it to a lot. of time so i can make with your golden rule the v.a. system itself means that about fourteen years or for me it's no benefits that's why after ten years i don't get the benefits it was or i think of the a should take more. be more responsible with these guys because they have already put their lives on the line for us why would we. not give them the proper medical attention that they need why give them an appointment three months out and then. send it. prolong get even more to maybe eight months nine months a year and then even fighting for their benefits if they don't. then book person twelve months of them coming back and he doesn't get out diagnosis
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forget it they're screwed because they don't see it at its service related service connected the burden of proof is on the veteran they have to be able to service connected it doesn't matter whether you have it or not or the condition can happen during the day you enter to the left that's the big window that you have to fight. iraq afghanistan war injury is our generation's agent orange. if you look at the historical precedents with agent orange for decades it was not acknowledged and then after decades in his study. and then finally soldiers were training. so it still goes whether iraq afghanistan war longing for we can't wait that long poor the burn pits to reckon that it's not the pay's that the guys are in the females are dying from the it's
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a lot faster the illnesses are showing up in the sentence lot sooner he put in his time he sacrificed. and gave everything that it was possible to get and. and more proud of that and we don't regret that and he doesn't regret that and we would serve again our sons have enlisted so it's not the service that's a problem and and things happen in war and we understand that there's a cost and and we will pay with that because there are some things that are worth the cost but the other side of that is that at the end of it they take care of you and every single time there's a war we do this song and dance with the government where they say no no it wasn't us no it wasn't that it's just you it's you know i don't know what it was it's just
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the look and it's not every single time and when is it the last time when is it that they just say ok. this is was it and you did your part. what does that time come where you're not fighting afterwards the fight should be done. i see no end to this because with the agent orange the vietnam veterans still suffering still fighting to be recognized on top of that gulf war veterans fighting to be recognized now you're adding another million or so iraq and afghanistan veterans fighting to be recognized that's two generations at least of the men and women who are sick. and they have overwhelmed a v.a. system that was not prepared to handle that to compensate every.
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soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about their exposure illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits we would bring would be literally soon to be a broke and. they don't want to pay it so the waiting in the decades a lot of those soldiers will die you know time and they won't have to pay anything . paul grow up and. get the middle finger. the vs new model is. delayed and i hope be doubted. the veterans that i speak to are all for that and their bewilder some of them are so sick that they don't know if they're wake up in the morning and i'm not exaggerating every year is something new. something that's taken away from the quality of life that he has and
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that we have as a family. unit. in that i would can just walk into a restaurant or down and he will have a meal. because he's sitting there he's trying to. keep him sound busy on his home in time or uncomfortable for. the simple things that. we take for granted. that he doesn't have. our heart. what. what what what is our future going to be like what does that hold. it's just going to get worse.
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i'd like to think if you choose blight. but that's my optimistic guy trying to i think all change one myself because if i read about the disease that i. just. saw i don't know i mean maybe i get in the cold and dark you'll see me in my wife in some wonderful unless you want to try for me nothing jail or helping. me right now it's too much take care of my husband. take care of every other. woman's husband and. man's wife who served who did their duty because they believed in it because they believed that it was the right thing to do and. that's all we're asking. there is absolutely
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a moral obligation to fix it when these veterans come home and they're saying no matter what their sect problem we have an obligation as the american public to take care of these men and women who sacrifice themselves for us i. i hope. this will have an ending where they jump on this and really story. aggressively treating the soldiers at the v.a. and but i don't see this ending well at all. the outcome is is going to be. do. you think he's going to. get everything you can for i don't. know when the.
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or ever had. was. her her. her her hook up her. family home dogs may not only be tasty but also deadly the relationship between cancer and i'd say it was proved suggestive no proved and a fairly strong one there were two thousand routes involved in the study it's a very extensive study done by a well respected scientist. do chemicals that down the appetizing pink color really increase the risk of cancer and i chose a means of known to infuse damage in the last intestine is it
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a shared skepticism they do know. that step or risk is is truly by independent scientists and in the needs industry period you for this i received some compensation for my time as well as the others why is that i mean lobby definitely do like what we've been doing and if you want to learn more you'll get a definite on seeing them fly you are only here and you're not from back then. is it big business against health. as it started to show. that all stand in safety line. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not be on. perforations.
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