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sexual harassment claim that we must always be. as if. we. are and then capitalists. are your own shots and i know i mean well yes i am i'm shocked in the sense that i'm shocked it's it's taken this long. because a look at her decide to sort of come out as a as a normal everyday look it's a boys' club over there we all know it's a boy's quote i'm going to look at the look at the rows of old generally white ways and white male faces and you know every time the president gets up to say to the union yeah yeah. it's so it's not that shocking at the end of the day but it hurts and it's hypocritical because how many campaigns have you seen that all the campaigns are all here's look badly here's my family values blues vote for me i wouldn't do a thing i wouldn't be you know grabbing girls under the table yeah i guess you are
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. more than you want to have and then anybody wants to really admit it but this is a thing of this isn't new this isn't something that's like magically happened in the last it's not a democrat issue it's not a republican issue it's not an independent a libertarian i don't care what party you belong to or don't belong to it's an issue and it's something that we have to take care of now two major years where there's a really bad really really disturbing in two thousand and seven and two thousand and twelve about four million was paid each of those a year four million dollars in taxpayer money so in two thousand and twelve that stood out as four million dollars were divided amongst twelve cases which is a lot of money this isn't like oh we'll give you a couple weeks pay this is a large amount of money in two thousand and seven it was four million was divided between twenty five different settlements still a lot of money and now the numbers have gone up so you have more people doing this but the report doesn't break down the amount paid. each person in. the type of
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claim so it's kind of makes it impossible to determine which is why they do things like this so you know what it is or makes them possible to determine exactly how much money was spent basically for sexual harassment or misconduct and what was just general disgusting misconduct of any variety and what's interesting yeah that's what's interesting is that the executive director of the office of compliance susan. points out of the report that the settlements could also relate to you know other issues that a large portion of the cases originate from employing officers in the legislative branch other branches other than the house of representatives and the kind of phrase that like the washington post and other o.b.o. of the like oh well that's like it's not just sexual harassment that's so seventy million dollars of like a complaint send them back settlements for god knows what it's like we thought it was odd that they had a couple million dollars lying around and could i mean it was running for the some asian economy handicapped discrimination i mean there's
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a million different things that workplaces settle for right right so conyers allegedly paid twenty seven thousand dollars in public funds to a female employee a staff member that included part of that was this. request for sexual favor contacting. address warning other women with whom he believes connors was having an affair caressing their hands sexually and rubbing their legs and back in public all totally inappropriate you're completely this is why women have a hard time in the workplace because when you have people like that who for years and years and years this behavior is like oh that's just how he has he's just hands you're he's just grab your he doesn't mean anything by it what it does is keep talented people men and women out of the workforce because they don't want to be in those situations it's hostile they don't and they are bringing they're going to bring a major ethics you know investigations if you're in now as a lawyer who's a democrat from new york and zoe lofgren another democrat from california are those
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senior democrats on the house judiciary committee zoe lofgren actually the committee on the should take up this matter immediately with a goal of probably assessing the validity of the news account this report of behavior come out be tolerated in the house of representatives or anywhere else. so will keep an eye on congress because a prayer we have to know we could we could leave alone to just play amongst themselves. or wonder just how racist prison sentences are in the united states well according to a new report the united states sentencing commission african-american men on average serve sentences that are twenty percent longer than their white counterparts this is even after the contrary they controlled the data for factors like age education and prior criminal history even more disturbing the disparities have gotten worse in recent years r.t. america's actually banks has more on any given day one in every ten black men in his thirty's is behind bars that's according to the sentencing project a new report
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published by the united states sentencing commission finds on average black men who commit the same crimes as white men receive twenty percent or longer prison sentences according to the commission report over the years of black white sentencing disparities have been increasing from one thousand nine hundred eight to two thousand and three in some. for black offenders were eleven point two percent longer than white offenders between two thousand and three and two thousand and four that percentage dropped to five point five between two thousand and five and two thousand and seven the percentage skyrocketed to fifteen point two percent now between two thousand and seven and two thousand and eleven the percentage increase to nineteen point five and between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and sixteen the percentage remained about the same around nineteen point one the commission said sentence lengths increased after the two thousand and five supreme court's decision and the united states versus of booker case bugger gave federal judges more discretion on sentencing alternately leaving it in their hands to
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impose harsher or more lenient sentencing however before the decision federal judges were required to abide by the commission's sentencing guidelines the commission cites this as a reason for why blacks are facing longer sentences the now whites mark meyer executive director of the sentencing project says quote what we see is that the charging decisions of prosecutors are key whether done consciously or not prosecutors are more likely to charge african-americans with such charges than whites at this time the united states holds the title of housing the world's a largest prison population according to prison studies dot org the u.s. incarceration rate is six hundred sixty six inmates per one hundred thousand people among whites the rate is four hundred fifty inmates and that's compared to the black incarceration rate said twenty three hundred inmates per one hundred thousand
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people which is five times higher than the incarceration rate for whites. the commission's report finds of sentencing disparities were eliminated at least at the federal level this would reduce the number of black men and prison by nine percent saving taxpayers at least two hundred and thirty million dollars a year for watching the hawks actually banks are tiered. kuku we just finally admit as us citizens living in this society the let's just admit that basically every when you see numbers like that it's staggering yet can we just admit that like ok maybe we abolished slavery maybe we abolished jim crow but did we really know i mean when you're seeing this many incarcerated african-american men and women in jail at twenty three hundred out of one hundred thousand compared to what's four hundred something or what that yeah that's i agree and it's just at and it's disgusting it's totally disgusting is i bet your money not all those twenty
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three hundred to one hundred thousand truly deserve to be in jail of course not i mean that's the problem is that we have not only terrible sentencing we have no rehabilitation and the truth is from a lot of levels i just don't think that our justice system is equipped to be putting people behind prison behind bars for anything you know because they get it wrong so much you're look talking to me earlier today about how the death penalty gets it right i mean you would think that we would get death penalty right no not at all someone to die we better get those cases right no no that's wrong well since october seventeenth hour as of october seventeenth twenty seven thousand one hundred sixty people in this country have been exonerated from death penalty from death row. a number of executions have taken place that there's a very strong evidence of innocence on the part of a person and according to one study this is not about family of newsweek one out of every twenty five people sentenced to death is innocent. that's death there's no
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turning back once you execute a person you can't go back on that you can't let them out and give them a check and say sorry and to me you've got this thing and what's worse is the same people are pushing for a longer sentences and more harsher harsher and harsher sentences for drugs and now we're gay american communities these are the same people cry about how african-american men aren't there in their midst and my cousin or whatever in jail right then maybe we need to start calling them for what it really is it's hidden racism it's now not just remember sentences on drug users you know it's hidden racism because if the majority of your population in prison is you know african black then guess what what you're asking for is for blacks to be in jail longer and we need to put more of them in jail that's not that hidden language really means i mean black men more twenty one point two percent less likely than whites to have their sentences reduced by a judge and even when they do see
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a reduction of their sentences they're still sixteen point eight percent longer than one hates who sentences also get reduced so no matter what they're getting the run of the deal now what's interesting to go before we go to break but i want to drop this one on you women of all races still actually receive a shorter sentences than white men yeah so hey when it comes to getting thrown in jail at least women got a little bit of a leg up on the rest of us a lot of it and but the thing is it's based on very sexist ideals because the idea is that they think oh a women should be at home barefoot with baby is or whatever the had they been with us me doing so they tend to give us lighter sentences because well so more harassment lighter sentences that's the even out there i check out there for us when you're going to go to break a hard watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics that cover the facebook and twitter see our full shows at our two dot com coming up sean stone sits down with the famed historian peter cosmic to discuss the fifty fourth anniversary of the assassination of john kennedy and the documents the cia's. i
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on november twenty second this week the united states mourns the death of thirty fifth president of the united states john fitzgerald kennedy assassinated during a motorcade in dallas texas fifty four years ago kennedy's death still haunts the country to this day not only for the tragic loss of a leader just beginning to fulfill his promise but also for the mysterious coverups bizarre characters and official secrecy that continues to surround his death to this day john stone recently sat down with famed historian peter couche next to discuss the anniversary of the assassination as well as the documents and materials
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pertaining to kennedy's murder that the government is still keeping secret to this very day. it goes back to one thousand nine hundred two and all of his movie and the assassination records review board in the congressional legislation and said that all the files except for a handful that somehow threaten national security interests have got to be released in full by twenty five years so i think we are told were twenty six twenty seventeen the government had twenty five years to prepare for this the trump administration in its unprecedented incompetence was not ready to release them they didn't have enough and vance notice twenty five years was not enough time for the intelligence agencies to make their case so trump was supposed to release the last of those thirty one hundred documents on october twenty sixth. instead they did not release them they released either fifty two or fifty three new
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documents others were heavily redacted some of them were now less redacted but the key files of key people involved in assassinations involve that other very very questionable operations that people wanted to see for a long time did not come out the assassination records review board that was set up in one thousand nine hundred two my friend and nelson who talked with me was one of the five people on that and they released. norma's eighty eight percent of the documents were released hundreds of thousands millions of pages of documents were released but there was twelve percent that were held back some were deemed to not be relevant and others were too sensitive but they were supposed to all be released by twenty seventeen and many of them still have not been released and could including most of the key ones that the researchers were desperate to get their
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hands on. and as far as the holdup the idea is. that basically the cia and the intelligence committee is going to release these. files next year or might they never be released they might never be released they might this cia and the f.b.i. so two thirds of these files there was supposed to be released last week were cia and f.b.i. files those agencies have been putting a lot of pressure on the trump administration to not release those files so even though from said he was going to release them we know that trump has got a pretty bad relationship with the intelligence community however the generals around him are putting pressure on him to listen to what the intelligence community is saying and they don't want their they've never been in favor of bringing sunshine on to these things they have never been in favor of transparency as we
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know and then again they're going to make their case and put pressure on trump not to release these files it would be very very unfortunate if they win and also a lot of the ones that are out are very heavily redacted and sort of like when oliver his movie j.f.k. came out saturday night live on the news said that they would have got to important document about the kennedy assassination and it showed that every word on it was blacked out except lee harvey oswald and the comment was well this proves that lee harvey oswald acted alone you know if that's what these documents are like now they're still covering up you know we should we should know this we're not going to ever get the definitive answer to the kennedy assassination there's not going to be a smoking gun document it's not going to be something saying that edward lansdale or lyndon johnson or howard hunt or anybody conspired to kill kennedy although some
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of them have made deathbed confessions that they did but so we're not going to get that kind of document. we are going to get more insight into some very very murky areas we're going to find out more about what was happening in mexico city when oswald was down there for a week six weeks before the assassination we're going to find out more about what was happening in new orleans when i. was working both with anti castro groups and pro castro groups we're going to find out more about howard hunt than harvey in some of these joe and i these and some of these other people who are of special interest to the people who sass the nation buffs and researchers but we're not going to ever get i don't believe the definitive truth from these documents but we will learn a lot that we should know by now after fifty four years and we mentioned the role of l.b.j. in the assassination what's interesting is one of the documents presents that the
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k.g.b. was very suspicious of johnson's role in the assassination. yeah johnson i mean we know that johnson is on record as saying he doesn't believe that lee harvey oswald acted alone he doesn't believe the shots came from behind a lot of things that johnson himself has questioned over the years as have robert kennedy and jackie kennedy and a lot of others. but i never thought that there was any possible johnson connection newseum and then they said that the next week there was going to be a scandal breaking out about johnson and it was going to happen the week after after the assassination and it was going to mean that johnson would be very likely off the ticket in nineteen sixty four when kennedy ran for reelection so that's that seems to be very dubious and worth looking into and i did look into it and there were several major scandals brewing around lyndon johnson that were going to
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come out does that mean that johnson was behind the assassination no of course not i would never say that i don't have any evidence is to suggest that but we know that johnson was involved with some pretty questionable characters and so he's one of many people who possibly had a motive to kill kennedy and that's what oliver is trying to show in his movie j.f.k. is that kennedy's assassination was a tragic turning point in american history that had kennedy lives even back to america knowledge the world could have been very different after the cuban missile crisis he and khrushchev were working together to certainly limit and possibly end the nuclear arms race kennedy wanted to pull u.s. troops out of the naam as he told more than a dozen people all those public statements were somewhat dubious contradictory kennedy wanted and the space race and cooperate with the soviets the space
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exploration his amazing speech commencement address that he gave in american university in june of sixty three calls for and. into the cold war we had kennedy lived the world would have been on a path toward peace much greater democracy and international cooperation. but kennedy sadly was cut down as the following year was khrushchev and their vision for world peace doesn't die but it's clearly going to be set back by the johnson presidency by some of the leaders in moscow over the next two years and so then we have the tragic not the tragedy but the crime of the american invasion of vietnam which fifty eight thousand two hundred americans died i'd like to make the point that all my students have been to the vietnam memorial walls here. the message of that is that it's got fifty eight thousand two hundred eighty americans who died listed on there in the tragedy of messages the tragedy of vietnam is that
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fifty eight thousand two hundred eighty plus americans died i asked them what would it mean if that monument also had the names of the three point eight million vietnamese who died when the over a million cambodians laotians the brits the aussies everybody who died right now the vietnam memorial is four hundred ninety two feet long and it had the names of everybody who died in that war it would be poor that eight miles long and that would have been a fitting moment oriole to the vietnam war and then that's what oliver and i've been trying to show. so and that's what kennedy was could've happened with kennedy and oliver pointed out and this am two sixty three the chase and its am two seventy three so kennedy's assassination is very very relevant today still and part because we know there was a government cover up and the question was was there
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a conspiracy who was behind it so you've got people who had who hated kennedy we know that the joint chiefs hated kennedy for both the cuban missile crisis and the bay of pigs and his hostility toward the military we know that the cia leaders hated kennedy after the bay of pigs kennedy talks about those cia bastards and he says i'm going to shatter the cia into a thousand pieces and scattered in the wind and it puts the cia heads in every country under the u.s. u.s. ambassadors it really cuts the legs out under the cia and this and the joint chiefs and the cia pushed him to go in to the end to cuba during the cuban missile crisis and he refused. also into the bay and the bay of pigs you've got the f.b.i. who dislike kennedy intensely in j. edgar hoover especially you've got the anti castro cubans who thought that he betrayed them and the bay of pigs you got the pro castro cubans because kennedy.
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goose was trying to assassinate castro although they had moving toward reconciliation at the end you've got the southern segregationists who hated him. so you've got a lot of people who had a motive lyndon johnson might have had a motive as well but there's a number of people out there that make you at least wonder what really happened. to that little is significant twit lee harvey oswald really act alone and shoot kennedy at a worse angle going away with the with the. mail order rifle that doesn't work effectively i mean there's so many questions and that's why this story never dies and hopefully won't die. in the last half century it's been said by many that earthquakes simply can't be predicted but in your scientific paper from a team a geophysicist posits these stunning hypothesis that the earth's rotation has
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distort please slow down right before increases in earthquakes around the world see about every twenty five to thirty years the earth's rotation slows down by a few milliseconds per day for about five years it is in the fourth year of the slowdown that seems to possibly trigger an increase in earthquakes now science suggests that the slowdown occurs when the planet's outer core of liquid metal which creates our magnetic field sticks to the seven hundred one hundred seventeen hundred mile thick silicate rocky shell of the mantle which sparks a disruption in the force so to say ultimately causing more earthquakes of course these theories are based on data observation and we'll need a lot more evidence to prove it but and less than a year we could know one way or another if there's that sense twenty eighteen c. is the third year of the current rotational slowdown so we'll just have to wait and see if we can take the pressure but i thought the earth was flat. sheridan's. all right well that was our social groups remember what in the world we
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number. of. the if. i don't look. i in the. with islamic state on the back foot in syria the leaders of iran turkey and russia agreed to host an all inclusive syrian talks to kickstart the country's post-war political process. lebanon's prime minister announces he's putting his surprise resignation on hold off to the president asked him to reconsider the p.m.'s fault a regional political crisis two weeks ago when he said he was stepping down.
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