but the guy district looks like the group amnesty international says it's very concerned about how police in north dakota have treated protesters it says the use o. force by police violates protesters rights to a peaceful protest i watched people shot with rubber bullets i watched peaceful prayerful water protectors get mace and pepper sprayed and none of them fighting back one time we had better and all around the world. to stand with over four thousand veterans but that's all the people and that's what happened here there was an awakening because there was an awakening tribes namo that this is a turning point for us to try to make our lives better and come away from. what the federal government has left who supported the bill with that bill solidarity they're not able people are wondering if they're going to and not not tomorrow. right here where the upcoming approach is that's where the pipeline crossing

actually is this route coming up here on the right and you could turn there turn around. we could see a route break there were to land this guard but but on the goes over the hill. thing on. the news. so this is this is our community cannonball these are good halls of being an urban development sure they're lower income housing and the rent depends on the salaries that you make so the incentive not to work because if you don't have income you don't have to pay for the house there's not enough although a. lot of people who live here. so we get little things like this this is a fee much trailer of during katrina they needed temporary housing and they got and and after housing was a needed. they gave them and they shipped them up here for us all the problem with

these trailers is they are very low efficient so cost the hundred bucks a month in the wintertime eight hundred bucks a month to cool in the summertime. so it's just a bad design that's a bad bit i'm going to explain the solution and all that and i'll be ready for this climate but it's better than nothing what we got here this is the kind of volunteer school so what's with the fence around just an elementary school well anticipated that you're comin in this area and being that you can't be within fifty feet of a school they put the fence up to remind you. guys or financial survival guys. when customers go by you reduce the price.

well reduce some lower. that's undercutting not what's good for food markets it's not good for the global economy. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone signed up to be poisoned by our own people that was nuclear biological and chemical products said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits would really literally send a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so they're waiting decades. a lot of those

soldiers will die in time and they will have to. get the finger of the beast. delayed. right now what we got here this is the kind of. so what's with the fence around just an elementary school well anticipated that you're come in this area be within fifty feet of a school they put the fence up to remind you. to turn left. and steven does his best to get further than fifty feet away from the school we could turn to. dave's house which is one hundred feet of earth. what we're going to do is we're going to drive straight up here and we will just back off i'm going to turn left here back it there to go out the single street in the

back off i'm going to be. a big test being. creative and just put a cherry on top and say hey dave i've driven these suckers a whole bunch and. it's it's it's your lamp but it's my arm actually it belongs to the good people that outdoorsy ok. i was just going to help you. stephen and dave head inside so stephen can get a little more person. into the know yuval. i'm curious about you the stars because you're a little rambunctious humor but you have your knowledge is extensive like you almost talk like a lawyer but you don't have a lot of so i'm just wondering how did you have fifteen all this knowledge. here where did you find the time to go to law school i went to law school i got an

honorary degree from vermont. asked me to come and give a part in full am i went and i was on it is. there. anybody river gives you heard of trying to discuss. these law school and it's a dr of law what makes it even better so i got a doctor we could be that quick from there where you from did you play ball with i was raised on the pine ridge reservation all the way up to sixth grade my dad was a coach he was the head coach for basketball he was the head coach for cross-country and in one nine hundred seventy nine his team won. country states by the time i reached sixth grade he became the director slash basketball coach for united types technical college so he brought us up to bismarck north dakota after high school. she actually snag me if you remember nicole was dave's wife from the

last episode. became my high school sweetheart we ended up going to bismark state college so who talked to first so i'll tell you what happened. that's what i want to know we were we were. good friends her dad worked with my dad but she didn't know. i had a major crush on her she was like the most beautiful tree in the world and then when i was a senior and i was playing basketball. i said if i score thirty points tonight and i get a kiss this is ok so what the cold doesn't know is that i can score anytime i want but i don't i try to get the team i'm a team player i want everybody to skip school. so. we play tennis court thirty points. so then that i get

a kiss and it's like wired into the slate buzzing usually you know there's an old saying. when you're dating someone you want to score some points you literally took as the literal idea and then order to score some points you had to score some points you can ask her if that's true. and she'll confirm that i think she'll even then she was hopeful that i would score so we both went to school we want to work dakota state university you know there's there's something about both the call and i that song usual both of us chose to come back to standing up and raise our kids here now the grass always seems greener off the reservation but we were both raised on the reservation and we turned out ok so what's wrong with this picture here to some wrong one has to change it are the codes one how do you change the codes you have to become the government you have to become the code maker you

have to be on a tribal council want to get into politics and i get out of tribal council out first and if they've got a chance i just say i'm going to run and so i put my name in the hat and they elected. so now i launch i'm a council and i come in my eyeballs i just want to play after four years my brother touching because i think it's i'm one of seventeen and i can't change it i can't reform the government my two years go by and the chairman succumbed. so and i couldn't be left in two thousand and thirteen. and in order for us to accomplish economic development business the woman or the first accomplish government reform in order for us to get the workforce and the skill set that answer lies within education and lies with investing in our youth so as a chairman wrong. what i did was say focus on. what we can do for the

kids how can we empower our kids. let's head back outside. dave take stephen outside to show him the view and also help him understand the problems brewing in his backyard well dave this is the view from your backyard here this is it and you know this beautiful body of water tell me about it right here where we're looking was once where the cannonball community was this is a result of the flood control but if you look at the river it's not a liver anymore it's a lake so what the federal government that in one thousand nine hundred four to pass a pix lonna and in fifty it actually flooded. because of the flood it killed all the part cottonwood trees it killed all the plants and killed all the natural habitat and we were forced to relocate on the hill tops so that's why our community is up here today so i understand before this what looks like a lake there is a thriving part of your career in. industry or businesses coming out of it or yeah

there was it was easy to access the other side of the river so we had our tribal members they were able to cross the river and they were able to help the farmers and ranchers on the side if you go further south along the river they have a hotel they have. a bank and they have a rail system where your reasons for this had to be in the forty's so there was a thriving economy that was. a result of the river but when the federal government flooded the land those industries those businesses have died but this is just an example you have three infrastructure projects that have a significant impact on our people and when i say significant impact i mean literally changing the way we live if you can see where the towers that is where the pipeline goes there's a high chair. that can break and if it gets into water the spill response plan the company has pushed everything on to this side of the river not the side that's off

the reservation sort of push everything this is right below my house and they're saying this is where we're going to clean it up when we say what impact is it going to happen if there's no impact you have nothing to worry about but we know it is because we were told the same thing over and over in the past and i say what why do you need this infrastructure project what's the reason for crossing the river with this pipeline. this point and they said well we need it for three reasons we need it for economic development we need it for energy independence for this nation and we need it for national security so i said. we already pay for. energy independence with this dam you create hydro power we're already paying for it we already pay for national security you take in the gold on the black hills to back your currency we're already paying for economic development you took our land those three things our people have been paying for we continue to pay for it we pay the

cost now who benefits we live in a state of dependency we have high rates of poverty we have. all the symptoms that's the cost that we pay for this nation and our ancestors suffered the most so it's our responsibility to remember that you know the messaging today either in the culture or in the media or whatever is like you know. the problems with native american indians today that's all stuff to talk about when i. know anybody what do you think about that they'll say well that was an us we were not the ones who took your land that was our ancestors so get over it they don't really understand that that behavior that was done in the one nine hundred eighty nine hundred is happening today and it's the two thousand that's happening right now and that i play is a perfect example of it it's twenty seven you know to be. well the technology that we still have these squabbles and whatever it's funny because there are so

many times when you're talking and i'm missing and i'm risk on i want to say something but the problem has been listening that's why he's been so quiet the citizen and the lack of understanding. across the country with with all the issues i think it's just more it's mostly people wanting to be heard and having a willingness to listen to tell me what in all of who you are and all of which he said what's america to you to me personally absolute straight up. america represents this is my perspective and i don't want to offend anybody but it represents somebody who is a perpetrator who. raped somebody early on and did it again. did it again. and everybody thinks it's ok and the

awakening that you hear is the first nations the first people of these lands the first occupants of these lands saying that that's not right and listen for once like we don't have to be the victim anymore so in order for you to not be the victim you have to learn how to forgive not forget but let's learn how to forgive and let's find a way so that our children and their children and their children have a better than what we have today i'm no longer going to be the chairman. it was honor and a privilege for me but i'm focusing on now what can i do to continue to move to continue to. make change. inspired and not just new things are standing off but for for all that sounds pretty good sir thank you again we should think with.

this part of the pilgrimage has come to an end as our hero says goodbye to dave he's bequeaths with the kids. with the sacred tribal seal for dave this is a pretty big deal for stephen he has gained further insight into the problems facing the ancestors of the original americans. now our hero sets his sights on the midwest where he will hopefully find macs and continue on it's great to hear him. next time on the great american pilgrimage he's got a good gig for the next eight years now. i was told by your. bed that i would get credits and production. for feeding them yeah they were already out of work and there and then and we can

do that i have the power to do that all of us old enough. although being too low no we get by while you had more than. one so the. i think terry's indeed to have potential to kind of come out of this impasse of implementing the minsk agreements by recreating on the un peace operation this is very sensitive politically walls contributing countries to be eventually offer troops it's off to decide to be house confidence and to have not. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into pigs these are

the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of flow bloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good are the results then usually peaceful by the people gathered in which to watch the old beat people with your daughter julie. who treated beautiful blue she was i mean to file a legal. challenge nothing more than this she did not was always think they see something and not get it. while the same measure is still in place to one of the consequences to weaken bluebirds food dispute who will first root. the truth of the shooter this is the consequences are actually quite

acceptable as a decision. some animal rights activists are just upset that we eat meat period which makes no sense by the way because animals eat other animals and we're supposed to be equal with animals but suddenly they don't want to humans eating other animals so in a sense they're saying that animals have the right to eat other animals but humans don't have a right to eat other animals even though they think we're all equal so so there's a logical inconsistency there.

in the stories that help shape the week just gone jude in a song given citizenship but the u.k. refuses to give him diplomatic immunity to leave the ecuadorian embassy in london we'll tell you all about that up to the pentagon we heard seeks to expand its presence in cyberspace and develop software that can interact with foreigners on social media in target countries. from social office outburst the u.s. president faces a global backlash over offensive remarks he allegedly made he denies it but immigrants from africa el salvador and haiti.

by their early sunday evening here in moscow a warm welcome to it kevin owen here with the live at r.t. h.q. with the weekly now round of the big stories of the last seven days the first on thursday it was revealed wiki leaks founder julian assange should become an ecuadorian citizen he's been holed up of course in the country's london embassy for over five years now after seeking political asylum there but the u.k. believes the only change of address he deserves right now is one of the courtroom laura smith recaps the week's developments. billionaire son's post is a photograph of himself in an ecuadorian football shirt which gave rise to a lot of speculation about what that could mean he generally doesn't do things unless they mean something and then we saw reports surfacing from quito which said that he had received a national identity number so he's been entered into the tax register essentially which is something that will only happen to citizens of ecuador this follows a statement earlier this week from the foreign minister of ecuador saying that the

situation of our son's living here in the embassy is unsustainable and asking for the first time for a third party mediator either another country or another person to see if they could help to resolve this issue with a person can't live in those conditions or rather. we considering the option of mediation. don't have said that could be done virus third country or individual no solution is possible without international corporations and it's no wonder that she wants a resolution because of course it's been five and a half years since i first went into the embassy behind me cause there have been developments in his case along the line most notably possibly last year we didn't drop the investigation into sex allegations against him but the u.k. authorities still say that if he sets foot outside this embassy they will arrest him because he of course jumped bail when he went into the embassy and wiki leaks

still fears and onward extradition to the united states so what we're seeing ecuador making moves quite concerted moves to try and resolve the situation but the u.k. government still remains intractable on the issue even after all this time it's very unclear when and what will be the ending of this saga. and u.s. officials refuse to comment on the matter too but there is still smoke elation that if assad does step all over the embassy and is arrested the u.s. may request his extradition for revelations made by wiki leaks we are some people are not quote or than if you supported the government's action. the medical system of war. the most vital to continue negotiating the situation is difficult being incarcerated for several years is dangerous to health we all know that the objective behind the trials has nothing to do with the son's or wiki leaks there's a real possibility of extradition to the us. your. opinion i think you so much was

treated inhumanely during the entire trial process a prisoner without a fixed sentence and with rights to defense i mean violated you've got the opinion to two particular activists on what they thought could happen to julia sanj now and they were very optimistic either the basis on which the the u.k. authorities would arrest him apparently is for breaking bad conditions so the charges in terms of the case in sweden have now been dropped. maybe there will be an extradition attempt and various kind of international bodies have found when they've looked into it the chance of getting a free and fair trial in the u.s. of minimal i think that this is really a continuation of a very dangerous and wrongheaded policy to target whistleblowers julian is one of the biggest international whistleblowers and i think that they really want to stand up latter it's the worst kept secret in washington that julian is likely sleeted to

begin working his way through the u.s. judicial process if you ever leave the embassy so how does he occupies time when they will despite being holed up in that embassy for five years of you saying it may be that he's found a new way to entertain himself cryptic tweet seem to be a new favorite pastime.

i'm no genius but reading the chess board i think. the black pieces are the bad guys. let's just say the bad guys. progress but. something very different next this came out in the week. to acquire apparently software capable of interacting with social media users in other countries the bots it says must be adept at understanding colloquial language and generating responses

to people's posts as well as gauging public sentiment in the way trying to talk me through the pentagon's drive to expand its online operations. the classic bonds have been out there for ages and we know what they're usually used for that is sending out spam messages in some cases performing hacking attacks but it seems that uncle sam is after something much more sophisticated here if you go online and check out the us federal business opportunities website you will come across a pentagon request from earlier this week and this was something that really caught our attention well the us army wants right now is a software system that will be able to translate between languages most notably russian korean farsi and arabic and we all know which countries these languages are spoken in the tool is meant to understand and know how to use correctly dialects slag and even a mode g.'s plus it must be

a tool that is capable of analysis all these millions of posts comments and replies and we all that these things can be really dodgy are to be at a loss for emotion and sentiment key question is again it's probably overused but what's it going to be used for potentially they want the software to be able to communicate with users online maybe not one hundred percent like a human being but somewhat close to that just take this requirement that i have printed out right here it is the ability to generate at least three or up to ten unique statements derived from the original social media statement while retaining the meaning and the tone of the original again the software monitor and adeline as its own impact from the messages that it sends then adjust plus it also needs to be self taught in a way that it can learn from its own mistakes and then improve an upgrade which

provides potentially unprecedented opportunities for influencing opinion on life in a company you're going to notice the irony of this big plan is that saw on the heels of the us leaders complaining of all the. about online interference from other parties other countries really worst kevin in the case when russian troll farms and bots they're all over the media news about that some experts have already told us that it's part of a u.s. campaign could be to expand their online influencing capabilities something that they have been up to for years but really the sophistication of this new project machines being able to analyze the emotions and the sentiment of comments online that is something alarming in a patrol exploded a bit more what we contacted the pentagon for clarification they did get but as we said with not much they said that the two will be helpful to them given the huge amount of data to handle online and we discussed the push to develop advanced bots

with n.s.a. whistleblower william binney who joined us and also former m i five agent any mashaal they outline some of the implications and they saw it what they really want to do is be able to monitor royce communications or any kind of communications text and be able to assess it and. check it for other threats or things like that or even. from some of the manipulation programs even respond. and try to manipulate the other person at the other end so i mean our intelligence agencies had this is one of their objectives white papers are generally circulated among contractors who do business with the government so it is a little unusual to see these things out in the public as far as i know the most obvious interpretation would be that this is a pushback against the allegations that have been made consistently for the last eighteen months about so-called russian troll farms influencing elections across

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