and in the illinois third good not bad for the land i've heard more than eighty five percent of the globally threatened birds in latin america have been impacted by large scale logging and cultural operations was that the. you know this takes the stand take stands in what's called an object pines and there punctuated by open areas the blue in the summer glasses top of those talk about the scots and thrive in those sunnier landscape pine barons perri savannah's without the canopies all of this is possible by simply kind of just allowing the land to do what it naturally does rather than trying to excavate it and create it shifted in the what we want it to be right you know exactly and this was the thing is that what happened in wisconsin is that a lot of non-native pines were grown there after timber in that the turn of the century a lot of houses built the united states were built with wood from wisconsin and once it was all done they started growing but the pines that they did were red pines are non-native they're used for wood pulp for what paper manufacturing and what floors because they were native they mess up with everything so now what he's

doing is literally just allowing these jack clients and all that natural habitat to come back for butterflies and all of this and be is as we've talked about and so the a lot about twenty thousand audubon magazine actually remarked on how the silver lining of the great recession of making golf courses not making as much money in closing is that they're now being bought up by conservationists and so now maybe these new golf courses built by people like cars or who are avoiding pesticides and all that stuff and using the natural land itself instead of messing with that that could make you know golf or conservation like we like that's a very different than our presidents idea of what golf clubs i mean you know let's remember that made sure it you know majors been around a lot longer than us they probably perfected how best to create places for animals to thrive and then we can be. better as way about majors way better out of that as we can learn from her all right as we go to break our borders don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and. c.r.

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you. but every new year comes a new set of resolutions for most people they can range from losing weight drinking glass to being more active and finally cleaning out the front hall closet dangerous the front hall closet dangerous but for filmmaker amar. the beginning of the new year marks the beginning of his quest to bring a real third party challenge to the two party dictatorship that dominates u.s. politics after the killing of his father and five others in the two thousand and twelve sikh temple shooting in wisconsin collate his political activism found cause and purpose in fighting for gun control and the reduction of hate crimes and collate the is no stranger to the two party system after running for paul ryan seat in the u.s. how proud of representatives as a democrat wisconsin's first district back in two thousand and fourteen but now he shared his two party passes fighting for a third party future joins us now from chicago to discuss his latest endeavor

welcome. how are you always always a pleasure to talk with you one of the things i want to you know we're starting the brand new political utor is now upon us and you believe that this is the time is truly now to begin to third party movement in the u.s. why do you believe that why are you you saying twenty eighteen is the year to do it . i think after watching bernie go through that last election we've all realized the importance of the independent and the independent has gone by the wayside over the last forty years at one point we had twenty to thirty in the house in the senate and now we have one bernie and then usually polling suggests forty two percent of all americans consider themselves independent and ideally if they actually had a party that had a strong platform which we do they might continue their independence but usually the fall by the wayside in pick a party and that's kind of creeping like

a bipolar attitude and almost like. an uncivil rest you know civil unrest you have to pick a side or you have to pick you have to give up certain things that you have to pick a side that isn't too far from you and how do you that's the really big challenge so how how will you go about building that new third party movement and let me tell me a little bit about independent party united dot com. so as you know probably the republican party was founded in wisconsin and rooted in wisconsin. very near where i was born and i was thinking you know you literally thirty minutes from where i was is where the republican party started. and something like this is like a twenty year project a ten year project and the best way to to do it is do it almost like teddy roosevelt tried to do the progressive party remember when he was shot in the walkie and then his speech ended up like ricocheting the bullet and he still gave

a two hour speech yeah. we're at that point where we can see that both sides don't have the answers they're going to bark at each other for another two decades they've been barking at each other for these past two decades so the best way to do it is grassroots on the ground suggesting in nominating new congressional candidates or new state representatives or new you know representatives and we're just launching now just to start rolling into that. that's interesting you say you just launched now so did tell us a little bit about that website independent party united dot com like what what can people find out. oh that's a great question tyrell like so what we tried to do was summarize all of the salient points that you need to know to catch up on all of politics in america today we did that because if you have a two hour experience on that website you'll know what's important and what's not important and you'll get the evidence the firm evidence not from the fake news but

from people like you guys who really study it and really get into the nitty gritty of it so that if you go to that website you'll have everything you need to know about where you stand interesting where where where where have other third party movements you know failed and where you believe you know you will succeed you know i mean we heard this talk a lot over the last push in the last i would say ten fifteen years. or even ninety eight when my father ran you know everyone parties here it's here and then it kind of fell to the wayside you know what what what sets this apart from the other attempts to kind of organize in these independent disenfranchised voters. i think your father by the way jesse did an amazing job at showing how two hundred thousand dollars could both parties he was a true independent and. i think we're going to. it's going to succeed isn't coalition building something that the green party doesn't do something that the

other third party candidates don't do we suggest coalition building so something that we're doing with the independent party is it's not a religious conversion if you become an independent rather you are a watchdog on both sides you can caucus with the democrats you can caucus with the republicans you still an independent and suggest you know based on their rules you can show up at their events and you can have suggestions and discussions with them so coalition building is primary something that we've lost since the one nine hundred ninety s. since the internet has dawned everybody's kind of built their own silos and they've built. that does seem to be the hardest part because the truth is third party third parties or you know we call them third parties i mean outside of that two party monopoly is is considered you know it's going to ruin things it's going to do this it's going to mess up but now we have a congress and we've seen the last twenty thirty years the whole time i've grown up

is seeing this go from one side to who has power who has this how can you do it they can't even coalition build within the their own party now with the power of independence is that you have they have to come they have to win with the last election started with they have got to have to learn to cope coalesce with with people from other parties like we saw with the bernie thing so how will you one of those things how will you build those but i asked also. the suppression that that third party suppression by republicans and by democrats in the corporate media who consider anything about third parties you know a threat to democracy. i mean it's a tough one you guys know coming down the brass tacks those two parties don't represent the normal person one party is the party of big business the other party is an intellectual elite that wants to speak for the people right. this forty two. that we talk about if they stop giving their power to other people and say you know

what we're going to select the best amongst us to run then i think we can you know we can offer a challenge we can create that that vibrant conversation. however it's difficult because the amount of mudslinging that has happened in the past two decades it's unseen i mean down the fake news down to you know fake. like people actually alleging assaults or you know negative things that are detrimental defamation so as a third party our job would be to throw that mudslinging aside to get right into the real political strategy and philosophy of our country and i think if people stay there will be able to raise this party pretty quickly now you mentioned earlier the greens and libertarians are there are probably the two biggest third parties out there today what what about those existing third parties you know where

where do you see them fitting in to to your efforts for this independent party like you said coalition building you're is that something where you would reach out to those two and say look you guys have ballot access especially to federal level you've made some moves here and there you know how do they fit into this overall movement. and you hit the nail on the head they've already started moving in these steps it's a matter of galvanizing them throwing away some of the differences and going at the similarities and a lot of similarities are we want corruption and both parties have proven themselves so corrupt that i mean most other countries are looking at us not as their philosophical leader on democracy anymore they're looking at us as a corporate oligarchical regime that needs to be handled and then i think with those third parties especially the green party is a good example we can show that there is a bit of organizing that happens on the democratic and the republican side and

though they have the philosophy right they're not playing the political game correctly and that's ideally maybe something we do in the midwest have a very well. chicago out of wisconsin a while. and sometimes minnesota sometimes wish. very much you know that's. right it is a very midwestern thing is that we kind of say it doesn't really matter which is why i think it surprised people in wisconsin since it's been this whole wisconsin ruined everything because we voted for trump but at the end of the day it's you you didn't you expected them to just vote for a democrat you didn't realize that they vote on the issues they vote on on things that are very important that they you know if they feel it can actually affect their family they'll vote that way not about party and i think more people are like that i'll vote for the party and the person who has my values at stake and you think that's the thing that it's more about your values it's about what are you

going to do for your average working class america and that has to be first and foremost do you think. i think so and i think both you guys know primaries are the election process if you do not pass that primary you're not getting elected and this allows us to bypass the primaries on both sides because those primaries are rigged when i ran against paul ryan oh my god i got backlash from both sides i had made up stories from one side and i had e-mails going out from the other side telling people all he's from california he lives in california he doesn't actually come back to wisconsin though i used to come back all the time and if we can bypass those primaries we can actually get people who are like jesse like your father tyrrell somebody who succeeded in another field sees the corruptions from sees the corruption from outside and enters with a strong. philosophy and that's what we need right now we don't need people who are shelled to either party we need people who are like stand up americans i couldn't

agree with your more we wish you good luck in your efforts here and definitely people's post will check in with you as the as the as the time draws near for the upcoming elections this year thank you very much former congressional candidate. thank you. thank you that's. civil rights activists erika garner passed away recently at the age of twenty seven erica fought tirelessly after the death of her father eric garner at the hands of unjust and racist police violence she chose despite the fact that at work or down physically to fight to never back down she didn't choose the struggle it chose her and erika garner rose to the occasion with an already broken heart she gave love and those silly unlike many african-american families they suffered but in that suffering she taught us all inspired us and in that we are rising to the occasion as she did hold up by her strength let's take a moment to remember her words for spirit and her inspiration thank you erika and

much love to the entire garner family. devon the million is without being. that what happened so mom for over it would spoil the nation. you know protests and everything and you know what i'd do it would be our family so dish just goes to show everything that would happen and i pads with trayvon martin and everything it could be you everybody you know it everybody could be there regardless it's a lot of evidence out there a lot of innocent people being beat down by police. and that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told will open up so i tell you all i love you i am tired roll them for a while and keep on watching those hawks and have a great day all right. all

see we have a great team we need to strengthen before the free float world cold and your bets have been a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will call him that started seriously. thousand zero zero zero zero you didn't hear i called russia. nice dry. left left left more or less ok stuff that's really good. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in

the streets. the simple fact is now ladies there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in it's been a struggle. and this man found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution tiny house on a city parking space is not a solution here. someone wanted to ring the site otherwise it'll be a free for all they're a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers show the world with

a tax haven the secrets to trillion united states dollars passed through most. in the amount of time that we've been in panama papers exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of most like from documents where examine. all the people which basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of. newspaper. and probably other politician which were. other politicians the media would point to find their targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so

many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no one american single specially good oh a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china that this special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. of the panama chronicles. in the headlines today iran's military chief declares an end to the week long anti-government protests in the country coming up that we look at how the demonstrators were encouraged from abroad. bryson violent crime in one of germany's regions may be linked with the influx of young male migrants according to

government research. and the u.s. national security adviser says washington should reveal what he calls in situ was russian meddling to prevent further into fear of. what's around the world welcome is just a four pm here in moscow this is a international my name is kevin now in our top story iran's military chief says the unrest that's been blighting the country for the past week is now over but at least twenty one people died in those nationwide protests and there are still reports of small demonstrations last night youngest began as a working class protest against declining living standards and high unemployment but it quickly fled into violence anti-government rallies u.s. leaders were quick to throw their support behind the uprising next as honest to sit churkin reports they might have misread the will of most of radians it appears.

when they ask for a better economy when they ask for the government to spend money on their own country as opposed to terror exploits overseas or in other countries sure we would certainly like that to you i support matt i'm not going to go i'm not going to see that's why you're trying to trap me into something like that i'm not going to go there straight out is not that is not our that is not our policy but we hear what the iranian people are saying poverty corruption and economic uncertainty have the potential to trigger protests the world over. and they can quickly turn ugly. but the international reaction to such unrest. seems to depend on the country and question this is the precise picture of a long oppressed people rising up against their dictators that's a little bit on you know i mean in any country people can protest against high prices but when have a such demonstrations happen in our country opponents of the establishment come out

and support them some western leaders are barely able to contain their enthusiasm for regime change and are rushing to throw their weight behind the demonstrators we are now seeing an organic popular uprising organized organized by brave iranian citizens on the largest scale since two thousand and nine the great to bring in people have been repressed for many years they're hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the wealth of iran is being looted song for change it is essential that western powers. the west the mullahs. back in the arena. because it's only with their backing that the the iranian people are secure and can go all the way securing their freedom of the previous regime but we've seen where this apparent pro-democracy fervor can lead. to in

a year. the american president says he supports the protesters but these protests are not protests against the government these kinds of demonstrations happen in any country and they are against rising prices but each time these demonstrations happen we see that the authorities opponents use them for their own purposes the majority in iraq i believe want evolution not revolution people arab spring style which has brought so much suffering elsewhere on the other hand the west seems oddly quiet about the massive rallies that are being held across iran in support of the government. it deals with. the root of it is just a canard it's the problem of youth unemployment i personally haven't been able to find a job for a long time but if people have a job they don't have any problem with the government of course most of the raw economic problems are domestically generally but another reason why investment and

us new jobs has been slow in coming is that contrary to their obligations under the nuclear agreement western countries notably the united states have not taken sufficient steps to facility normal financial flows when it comes to iran the west says it's listening but clearly selectively co-opting democracy for its own ends is a difficult habit to break and associates are going to artsy london. as those protests in iran began to gain more international attention a number of fake images was circulated widely on social media to check out this tweet it shows purportedly a woman photo woman hitting police officers with a caption iran but it turned out to be a screenshot from an iranian movie of being exposed the man who posted it claimed it was supposed to be symbolic anyway every time a video which gave thousands of views and was said to show a march in iran was later proved to be

a protest in bahrain but for twenty eleven other fakes were perhaps less clear one post claim to show the uprising was that when it was actually a photo of a pro government rally. the u.s. national security advisor has got his knives out for the new year it seems with a call to reveal what he describes as insidious russian meddling masters says that pulling back the curtain might be vital in a first step to prevent further interference the russian blamed trend hit full throttle almost a year ago with the release of that u.s. intelligence report that kept the momentum going all the way through twenty seventeen. arguably the biggest story of twenty seventeen was russia it was on the lips of world leaders and politicians but this wasn't always the case this was obama's analysis of the country back in twenty fourteen russia is

a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors. not out of strength but out of weakness regional power weakness well that was the past in the last year we've seen russia propelled to be the greatest threat on the planet in the words of the former f.b.i. chief what kind of threat do you believe russia presents to our democratic process given what you know about russia's behavior. well certainly that in my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth well here's how it all began on january sixth of last year u.s. intelligence agencies issued a report saying that russia had tried to influence our elections with this russian president vladimir putin ordered an influence campaign in twenty sixteen aimed at the us presidential election russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the us democratic process denigrate secretary clinton and home her electability and

potential presidency we further assist putin and the russian government develop a clear preference for president trump now the authors of the report at the time said they had high confidence in their judgments a few pages later they explained exactly what they meant by high confidence with a little disclaimer high confidence generally indicates that judgments to based on high quality information from multiple sources high confidence does not imply that the assessment is fact or a certainty such judgments might be wrong well after the report the word got around that blaming russia was now a thing and that opened the floodgates in twenty seventeen hardly a lection went by in europe without russia being accused of meddling. the balance disruptor covert group in two thousand and sixteen covert disruptor. part of our responsibility to. the rest of the world about what's going on in the

united states germany france the other one in montenegro. from hacking into the danish defense ministry to trying to meddle in the maltese elections russia has had a truly diverse collection of accusations thrown at it russia is accused of influencing the braggs it vote through social media probably yes sure i don't believe all of this it's russia they're crazy right russia was accused of intervening in the french election yeah you know what i believe that to the german election sure. catalonia separatism yeah yeah i believe that to all take oliver about sending bots after a star trek star trying to take him down with sexual allegations star check no star

wars i would believe i have my doubts about box so i would say no. they were actually accused of that was. russia hacked into the us irish and.