different countries and cultures around the world that are imprisoned and justly or have sacrificed their lives for the story sixty five media workers were killed on the job and twenty seventeen with forty two killed specifically because of their job according to the committee to protect journalists with another two hundred sixty two imprisoned for practicing their trade and well thankfully the number of reporters killed for doing their job is dropped compared to previous years and advocacy director for the committee points out that the number of incarcerated journalists for spreading victims has doubled telling the intercept that there appears to be a real life manifestation of the fake news rhetoric that seeks to denigrate and deal a generalized the role of journalists in journalism in a society particularly in democracies another sobering and tragic number to come out of the c p j report is the fact that the number of female journalists killed or murdered while normally sitting at about seven percent this year shot up tonight

teen per cent. today more than ever we need good journalism so moving into the new year let us remember the journalists we've lost free the ones who are imprisoned and celebrate those independent view but truly do speak truth to power and they're always watching the hawks. wonder what it. looks like. it's what. the plot of it. what it looks like you know what i got. this. week except. the watching the hard side of the world looking for a job in a while it sounds though so for a boy or

a boy that's hard numbers things we've got numbers are on a downward trend of journalists killed in you know in the duties of their job but that's still you know forty to sixty two that's as too many really at the end of the day that you don't want to see and let alone the two hundred and some odd imprisoned it is a dangerous dangerous profession in places around the world to bring people the story. i'm going to talk about and the existential threats to mocker say are the hacks the central strength threat which i always had larry asked but this existential idealism that's best threat is and i think with journalism that's what we're seeing this is things that we never would have seen you know as observers of journalism observers as as news for the last you know thirty years it's it's very strange to watch how little respect like they respect for journalism as the fourth estate the respect to everyone who goes on puts their lives on the line that i

think i just have never seen the questioning of war. or reporters or this questioning of legitimacy is so much what also i mean i think the lack of respect for a lot of journalists. you know corporate you know a lot of respect to the actual institutions of journalism have towards journalism over the last year was way and what's interesting about the whole the fake news concept that you mention more journalists allegedly are being imprisoned because of my conditions of fake news i think that's trying to blame trump or that it's going to do a trump the fact is you've always seen governments apply you know basically crack down on stories that they don't want to see told right that any any journalist of cries corruption in some places as we know you can go to arrested for it you can even be killed for you know many dangerous governments out there so i don't think it's fair to say because the government now uses the term fake news to go after journalists they don't like it you can blame it on trial for the good target or there's nothing stream is use it because. we found a letter had

a number of high falutin mainstream media people say the same thing about us and about our t.v. and that it's like it's just that we go through which i think that's the thing with scary is that you were we have an administration that does and tiredly respect the concept of a fourth estate now and they are for the american people and for him to do his job it's important that he has that checks and balances. and we have one side of the aisle using it to attack for political reasons and you are someone who is more than willing to use what ever he can in order to push down people who do criticize and legitimately so at the end of the day you have to first cross and nobody is really just being logical and protecting the democracy of press freedom of the press one that i think the other interesting thing to come out of these numbers as well is the use of the sexual assault harassment and tragically isn't actually included in that and for the committee to protect girls as we will track those numbers so if

you're going to have you know female journalists risking their life from the for you. and you saw those numbers go up of them getting killed and then coming back to an environment of the abuses and harassment of. the as many years as the executive director the international women's media foundation or the told the told the other so that it doesn't paint the full picture when you're only monitoring murders and imprisonment and legal action because the kinds of threats that women face are equally as insidious and equally threatening to press freedom and we've seen that you know over and over again with all these high level executives get accused of sexual harassment keeping people down at all that you know the media has to fix itself to right where you are to be taken seriously moving forward and act as a good solid for the state to protect each other you know exactly that the good that's the thing we haven't seen is there is there isn't a you know there's a there's part of the journalistic code of ethics that anybody who goes to journalism school is assumed one day one day two because i didn't go to a fancy j.

school so what makes me wonder if they understand the parts in there that say respecting your colleagues about being other people that at protecting them because we're looking as turkey china and egypt which are all as the united states are have in prison the most journalists this year we don't see sanctions against them we don't see that being called out that turkey and all these places are silencing reporters ninety percent of the journalists killed were local. and that's that's why we have to really understand local and dying and worsens so what's happening is you have a big you know like a c.n.n. and i misspent b.c. or people go and get what we call stringers there's people in there who are doing all the released scary stuff before the reporter and the nice khaki shows or well let's or who are there before that person shows up it's those people that put their lives and their families and everyone on the line and or reporters who are out there in the field from everybody but our infighting puts all those people at risk

understand you know actually. ok we're in third on that list to a because they've both got our tolls for the death deaths because iraq syria that makes it go right through. there is more in journalism and killed in iraq than any other country since one thousand nine hundred eighty two. that's a great sentence. and now our tease military brings some christmas cheer for all those who stand against the surveillance state and our big brother the national security agency. the controversial part i think that you guys are probably referring to commonly known as the five amendment section seven o two that's that warrantless surveillance that put so many privacy advocates on edge and many senators on either side of the aisle planning a no vote on this members of congress such as rand paul mike lee all planning to vote against a permanent spending bill reauthorization of the foreign intelligence surveillance act before they go on winter break tomorrow this is one of these issues that is

neither democratic nor republican or neither liberal or conservative is simply an american issue this is a constitutional issue this is about the security and the privacy of the american people too many people for too long have been asked to settle they've been asked to settle on their privacy with the promise of security but we have to remember our privacy and our security are not inextricably unavoidably at odds with each other in fact our privacy is itself part of our security. and then senator rand paul said this about the vote he said quote i would vote against any spending bill that has permanent reauthorization the intelligence community needs more oversight not less so some no two is one of those rare bills that has this bipartisan support against it as you saw in the video republicans like mike lee and rand paul standing side by side with their democratic counterparts like patrick leahy and ron wyden but the bill does have some support to from both sides many

lawmakers overall have said they support putting at least a short term renewal of that into the spending bill so as to avoid a government shutdown and to pave the way for a larger debate about it in the new year hopefully in january so even if congress doesn't immediately reauthorize the amendment by year's end this particular part of the bill has its own failsafe in place meaning it will still be funded and allowed to proceed as normal up until april of two thousand and eight hundred so it's not going to be like flipping a light switch on and off if this is a no vote. thank you very much for a little boy you know i don't know how breeders see this done i wish it would wither on the vine honestly those mile per hour was yours i think we need to sit we need to have a lot of serious talks we about everything i mean what you're saying with the tax bill now is because it was a lack of to day and size is one of those things that there's just a lack of debate for congress and for the american people they have to understand

there has to be some understanding about what it is and what it does and how much we're willing to give up for that security which doesn't seem like we keep being told we're not secure or so. we don't even know where we are at this point as far as the race itself for this is concerned i mean the snowden leaks you think about it you know we're going to be seventeen in the sort of leaks we're in two thousand and twelve and thirteen out of here and i mean jeez this is a four years ago you don't even know the status of the current as well as a story no major reforms i mean you know obama the kind of void did a charade through really. reforming the other say or all we're going to put a civilian in the room of the flies a corporate like you still it's all secret you still don't know what's being said at all you know so it's pretty ridiculous at the end of the day and look i think i think the senator you know the congressman made a great point he says at the end of the day our security is our privacy you know that's part of the very basic values of our country is the fact that we have a separate you know we should a we have

a right to our privacy and not invasive you know spy or have what we do that's pfizer's argument it's their privacy they're doing a little bit about down the barrel right but remember we were told when this first started coming out when we heard the snowden leaks was that you know i think it was that simple lucy said it well. if you don't if you're not afraid if you don't have anything to hide you know we've heard this over and over from democrats and republicans if you don't have anything to hide then you shouldn't be worried yet they say you would want someone looked at their stuff right and i think that's something like everybody you know and to say that that we don't need to reform as if cia n.s.a. is perfect and blue to crack but the whole say this is what our information at rest of the cyber war as you know the argument really is like build fifty's time period the missile gap the russians have better cyber better bots better trolls you know there's you know because you just because we spend billions of dollars just watching americans all day and i'm paying attention to what's going on in the west you bring it up bring it on here all right well as we go to break court watchers

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get to shake out just because the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. barrels of the show up every hard time figuring out exactly what side of the aisle lycos tab of the walls falls on but the truth is neither a liberal or vo con she is neither left or all right there are jews usually fighting for the middle here are two of our favorites are the wallace reports from twenty seven to the first with those fighting for women who fight for each other and then the second was wallace of the wisdom of the pearls celebrated the veterans

who fight for us all. feel like that didn't you. don't be naive sweetie this is just how it works just because. those are just a few of the things that powerful men have said to me over my twenty plus years working in the film and television industry things they said after putting their hands on me without their print without my permission or propositioning from first sex in exchange for help with my career and the one time i actually reported a physical assault by one of those powerful men of entertainment and event that took place in full view of my boss and coworkers i was told to just let it go that making an issue of it making the issue of an assault would be far worse on me than on him but this week it looks like the old school of locker room talk and dinosaur behavior is beginning to spit out its final death rattle we've seen bill o'reilly revealed to be the predator that he is r. kelly can't hide from his past sexual crimes or not be hounded about his current

ones roger ailes has been ousted and deemed irrelevant ben affleck even prove the hypocrisy of calling out a predator when he himself has groped at least two workers on camera you have turned out to just be another dirty old man bill cosby roy price nellie harvey weinstein. like have all been brought to task the terror and humiliation of being a victim of sexual misconduct has not abated in the last few decades but it's actually gotten worse we fear wearing the wrong search of the office because it might be taken as an invitation to us so we laugh it off to keep from crying screaming or through writing our abusers today though and i'm happy to report that the culture of rape and harassment is on notice thanks to countless brave women and men who decided that being cool about it just wasn't there will have many more the powerful men that have threatened careers if their rocks are not properly managed

are no longer in the shadows we see you we know your names we know your crimes we know your friends we know your colleagues we know what you did and it's only a matter of time before all of that power that you have been violating people with comes right back at you because it is a silence in the face of sexual assault and harassment especially in the workplace our rules are we're all going to laugh it off next time we're going to shatter your world crush your dreams and take from you when you've taken from all of us power and will use it to take back our own this week of watching the hawks over the top but that was joined in the one of the largest bedrooms events of our nation nation's capital each year it is meant to shine a light on the need to never ever leave anyone behind even when they come home let's take a listen. nearly half a million veterans and their supporters gathered in washington d.c. this memorial day weekend for the thirtieth annual growing thunder ride for freedom starting as

a protest to bring attention to soldiers who were missing in action in the vietnam war it is now grown to a national movement that is pushing legislation and continues to speak truth to power for the veterans who can't speak for themselves as of twenty seventeen according to the government accountability office in rolling thunder there are still over eighty thousand missing and unaccounted for including over seventy thousand from world works. to seven thousand from the korean war sixteen hundred from vietnam one hundred twenty six from the cold war and at least five from the gulf wars actor and rolling thunder participant robert patrick explains why it's important matter what your political leanings to memorialize the sacrifices of our veterans if you like your freedom and you like your quality of life and you like all the things that are provided for you you need to take someone from the armed forces because we all drink from wells that day but it isn't just those who felt they also honor those who came home to a less than pleasant reception and expect people to go into harm's way and fight for you and protect you if you're not going to take care of them when they get home

but there are benefits from the v.a. just the way that they're accepted back into society we have to we have to do better and you know what this particular generation of vietnam vets they were fortunately in a war that they want every gun battle. but it was lost on the home front because it wasn't a popular war that war in particular the disrespect that was shown to the men and women of of the armed forces from vietnam is what we're trying to you know. pay back now by making sure that we honor them and we continue to fight for their their remains and if there are p.o.w.'s over there go get over fifty thousand american troops have been physically wounded fighting in iraq and afghanistan with almost three percent having suffered a major limb amputation mostly due to improvised explosive devices according to numerous reports in the congressional budget office the amputation rate for the new generation of vets is higher than for those who served in vietnam partly because of

better blood clotting technology and body armor that protects vital organs but does not shield arms or legs from bullets these new vets will be facing a fight at home once the fight abroad ends and that is when the brotherhood and sisterhood of rolling thunder and the clubs who support it will be most important teaching new generations the importance of memorial day and being of service to your country. our lives. right now it's important for your generation to know their why is there. is this national to be passed on for generations generations very good and a kid look at me people like me to go to. services or armed services maybe public service. and jack ogun whose father chris is a veteran had this message anybody who's watching this if you have a low cycle come down a lot she did d.c. tax year in make washington d.c.

thirty one bigger and better. chatted with these knowledgeable jack you know the staff you were there and you know we were there and it doesn't amazing of lives every year but but i think there is there is this interesting you know dynamic with the veterans from the different wars and how you know that you see a lot of the the old time out of vietnam service where you don't see as marcial forto first gulf war but you don't see a lot of guys from you know kind of the current or most recent generations i think that's part of the thing that comes up a lot is that they're the ones who need this this as i say brotherhood and sisterhood the most i mean these are these are really the only people who understand what you've been through and they're fighting for that and part of that is getting that newer generation is coming home better care you know and these are the guys and gals who are really fighting for that and getting out every year and

you know between ninety thousand and one hundred two hundred thousand and six participate we're talking a quarter million people in some years half a million people and even with the rain we saw they were out we road there was no stopping rain didn't mean anything and and one of the really interesting parts about the whole thing that i thought was one normally sitting politicians. don't show up most of them leave town if you don't know this they leave town they go on vacation and they go to cape were offensive but you know i mean you saw donald there would you know anything last year in the middle and that was the rival to turk drives and hear him speak and the press didn't even cover the event they just covered him you were this your secretary of state rex tillerson whatever you believe about his policies he was there not just there he rode he walked among people he didn't he was shaking hands with him and this is the thing that are that are officials in our public servants need to do is that despite whatever your whatever your political leanings this is what we need to see is out there showing

that we care and that we're there no matter what our policies and what our politics are group to group agreement. this isn't for twenty four us is the day is the day of the winter soul to sis year according to astrologers though this year the stars are aligned to give us the worst day of the year horoscope watchers should avoid starting new things today as well as we might experience more stress and difficulties than usual which is why it's good that the folks that oxford university study the fate of the missing waters of mars both for the twenty first apparently the missing liquid life wasn't stolen by nestle or poland spring but by mars itself see they found that the water they didn't float into space was probably soaked up by the planet like a sponge but then one person who is losing water and probably won't be hiding under a kettle is eighty eight year old tom parrish the teen boy of the nottingham forest

football club c thirty five years ago tom left an executive executive level job at a bike manufacturer raly began to work his way up from steward to official tea boy and what does a tea boy do and what's his secret. if you will use the tea boy do to you of course. over the two. getting to the sides of the coal and squeezing. to get the juice out of the tea bag. should be. a good cup of tea. so on this long extra long cold night as we try to keep the stars from mucking up our life have a cuppa and. tom parachute treats every day with a reason to celebrate the simple things like a good cup with some water from our support of the bars just not on the twenty mile of why god convergences auburn this day i mean we finally discovered why there's no

water on mars of every you know apparently astrological level for sure the days leading up to it now after those were the worst days of the year. i think we just became good morning america. i mean. i know i mean like my turban and i'll give everybody their horoscope i think it's interesting when you look up to the skies and you think about the tiny things that are in the sky not from astrology standpoint but you know we're we're talking about going to mars we're finally learning about where the water on mars went because. there are so many things that every time we learn something like that we learn a little bit more about ourselves in the world around us and we are going to guys who claim to have been on mars and i think that's right the weather service very true but it's all of the growth we ask you this though because this time the other ones that are later still like why why is that that we kind of immediately throw

out astrology is something that might actually make sense in the long term because like if you think about it human beings have been staring up at the sky a lot more of them and staring at television. the study of how stars move and how the constellations move and how that may or may not affect us as far as we know the power of light seems to be the basis of our existence so if the stars are getting a light touch think they might have some effect. policy of the residents of the radio you know the frequency of that like i was there so there have been some studies about how you know when they talk about like what your sign it is you know you're a leo through it those are your scorpio or. i'm coming up dorcas or copper and i wrote this we wrote the zodiac we started it was over your shoulder still really think i said i'm a leo i rule every day and he is a scorpio he thinks he wrote everything the same argue about it all that's all right but the idea is what it is the idea is each of those signs it's like you're born at a certain time of year which theoretically would be the time when the planets align

a certain way which they do continuously along in a certain way so you know there's a lot of theory about how do the waves or cycles and how does that affect a person on a molecular level i think we're probably one hundred years munder standing the brain on that level that oh we were born at this time to wait for gravity. or for what is what is magic today of science as of yet undiscovered growth this is the fifth of it shouldn't be but for those that are still prevail remember everyone in this world we are not told. so i tell you all i love you i am i robot i'm tough as a while as a people i'm watching the horrors of the big night over. just by that's all survival the. customers go by you're just

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