did notice because as the tribune reports the mayor's office has said it is up to homeowners not the city to decide if it is worth replacing the lead pipes at their own expense. meanwhile across the country in greeley colorado mother jones is reporting that the colorado oil and gas conservation committee commission is now being sued by environmentalists and civil rights groups for allowing a company to build twenty four twenty four l. and gas wells by a public school in a low income area after the same company tossed its original plans to build near a charter school serving mostly white middle class families. i guess for sure cargo clean drinking water isn't a precious enough commodity to merit a line in the city budget and in colorado well kids are only precious apparently if they have the right sized bank account and skin color now let's start watching the hawks. to. get the.

real deal with. the bottom. like you that i got. with. this. week. well remember watching the hawks i am i robot and i'm tapped wallace and i feel a kid and i have days of about having deja vu all over again that a lot of it is business apparently that happens quite a bit. i find it strange that you know we were kids growing up in that same part of the country in the midwest there was you know discussions about radon there was discussions about lead in paint there was discussions about you know all of these things as best us and buildings and there were steps taken both to remediate those

things that were a risk and to put things in place to stop it from happening and or make sure that when there are children in a home where there's lead paint these things how do you water how did our water supply in the very pipes that our water somehow get overlapped because these things cost money and no one wants to take responsibility so what happens well this is all basically the reason like rahm emanuel's tell all these people who have like you know lead pipes and potentially the water that's causing i want to get sick it is out of the cities plumbing code individual property owners are responsible for maintaining service lines so like the connect up there you see about right there are cargo and you see the lead levels that exceed the five you know parts per billion that like a little the red right there is ridiculous. so you see it affects a lot of people know what it is that. their plumbing code says that owners have to be responsible for the pipes that connect from there and all of the city's street

rifle racks but but. this is despite the fact that until nineteen eighty six that is not. the same ordinance mandated the use of lead pipes to bring water into the homes from the city like rags so the regulations that they had that homeowners had to abide by was they had to put these pipes and just tell me and nine hundred eighty six that the chicago didn't understand that you know ledwith bad you probably shouldn't put your water through my pants at that point we all do that's why i'm confused how did chicago be our chicago that far behind you know that's the question that we've got that that's the question the citizens of chicago need to say look you guys screwed up in the past you made this an issue for us today putting it on our financial backs is absolutely ridiculous it's very no it's not cool and rahm emanuel is this progressive or he came out of the obama administration he was supposed to be the guy who is going to clean up chicago.

chemicals policy director of the nonprofit environmental defense fund chicago could be a leader and they should would solutions to this problem but instead they appear to be sticking their heads in the sand speaking of people sticking their heads in the sand let's talk about good old colorado so what happened was according according to mother jones and twenty thirteen originally extraction oil and gas had wanted to and then mineral resources picked up a site close to what was called frontier work it was called frontier academy it's majority white charter school in greeley colorado and originally they had a site that was near that school that they wanted to put this. fracking wells. so at that school seventy seven percent of the students were white most families there were middle class only about twenty percent of them qualified for things like free lunch money that well that got close they probe the kids protest at everything else and so eric huber his attorney for the sierra club's

environmental law program told them that when they are looking for another so when they were looking. for another site away from frontier academy where does it wind up in the hispanic community by of the hispanic school we think that decision was made unfortunately because up to the community doesn't have the resources to fight it so the new school is below romero kick academy in schools about eighty seven percent latino are hispanic african-american or other people of color and more than ninety percent of the students at bell over america five for free and reduced lunch here's the deal you don't get to poison kids just because they're poor and their parents have to work seven jobs so they can't go and protest that's not right it's gross and i'm sorry but at some point you can have all the bank account you were in the world but you're going to have to look yourself in the mirror that you did that that you you put that into place and you made sure to protect someone's pocket book and not children it's amazing that it was you know who it's amazing how you see them get away with it over and over and over again push it on the backs of the poor people are those that look different from the rich people. just like they did

a year ago videos and images of syrian children and rebel controlled stronghold went viral online by way of mainstream media prompting president trump and western leaders to retaliate against the syrian government with their air strikes and unequivocal condemnation but aside from the arguments over how exactly is the use of chemical weapons to kill civilians any different morally from doing the same with conventional weapons say in yemen there is a debate over the actual evidence beyond the graphically disturbing but medically inconclusive videos that would implicate bush are all assad's government in conducting gas attacks on the town of duma you see as much as neoconservatives and regime change proponents like to denigrate the search for truth as treasonous propaganda it is probably worth answering that vital question before we were starting world war three yulia shop a full of reports on some of those efforts. eleven year old and his father gave their account of how events actually unfolded

in do you pull the seven. the u.s. and many european countries accused the syrian government of using a toxic agent back the boy sat he recalled punning but not to gas a time. where in the basement my mother told me that we had run out of food and wouldn't have anything to eat until tomorrow i heard noises outside somebody was shot in that you had to go to the hospital so when there when i came in some people grabbed me started pouring water or my had. and that's me in the video that's me but the fact that i'm a gonna. try to work yes. i went to the hospitals with stands and found my wife and children i asked them what had happened and they said people outside was shouting about some smiled and told them to go to the hospital at the hospital they gave dates and cookies to the kids. meanwhile just days after denouncing the white helmets the co-founder of the legend iran group pink floyd has revealed the

controversial rescue group has been trying to lobby his support for travolta exposed email correspondence with representatives of the white helmets asking him for financial donations he conducted his own investigation white helmet sixty's and here's what he have to say why comments i think. both my station and. create propaganda. should cherish should we put this to the proper congress the point so much in all this we would be encouraged to encourage or a couple of months to go and start dropping. syria. after the white helmet shed that these are showing the alleged chemical attack near damascus u.s. british and french forces hit syria with and strikes in retaliation time dissing a number of facilities which they claimed were related to chemical weapons production and development meanwhile in the eastern ghouta region around do you much over a thousand people have returned to their homes in the past twenty four hours alone

particular attention is now focused. when did mining there when bomb disposal unit finished their work locals can restore infrastructure repairing well to pipes piling lines and hospitals. lot packed into the brilliant report that she put together but you know what i want to store one place to have the really irks me that i've seen over and over again why is it the if you are other people who look at the situation of syria and say we don't want to see world war three we look at a lot of the justifications and are reminded of the w m b fiasco or the babies in incubators we go on and on and on there is even our generation's got there two of the it turned out that there were immediately a called apologists for or whatever you want to label us you know traitors apologists owner must be on the side of the terrorists or on the side of the dictator or whatever may be i'm sorry i don't like dictators i don't like anybody who mistreats the people of the or anything like that but at the same time i also don't want world war three right i can't these two things can happen simultaneously

you can't question what what is being done supposedly in the name of human rights you can do that and i think you know there's there's a lot of debates there's a lot of things going on but you know and of course now it's literally trees a mess according to people to point out that everything just gets quickly assume and it's sort of brushed over by it once you know details start getting asked for you know you have scripts all you have all these answer is russia and meddling all of those and the minute you start asking for actual evidence it's. well i go way big because they have to talk for three hours about what was in cohen's office how many porn stars he either paid or who somebody had an affair with and the truth is it doesn't this you can't actually investigate human rights in a situation like in syria during a war of course there are human rights violations it's a war it's

a war that's how it works that's the other thing too is everyone has this like magical idea that somehow like whatever side you want to side with only does no wrong whatsoever the u.s. gives people access to our military walks in with sandwiches and allowing everything else and says please and fags that not just because i'm a smart bombs don't occur only barrel bombs it's really a bomb is a bomb if you're if you're gassing people are dropping a bomb on somebody it's no different everyone's going to die at the end of the day you know so there's really no different and it's interesting when you look at what just happened as you had award winning journalist robert spencer who was one of the few people who got to actually interview us some of in-law that's true yeah and he hardly just some guy yeah he. shed some light on what happened in doma and the you know then that it were a doctor witness the famous video being shot said that the video was genuine but the victims in it weren't experiencing the aftereffects of a gas attack but rather a lack of oxygen you know with the remaining civilians and rebel soldiers look like

hiding out in fragile underground tunnels and everything else that makes sense to me a bomb drops you lose oxygen tunnel there's dust crazy all of that and then when people come rushing in to ospital start yelling everyone panics and that's what you saw in the videos that's just as logical and we should be asking questions about that i don't understand where we lost the ability to ask questions that if i raise my hand and say hey this just just convinced me still a little bit more before we have to go kill people that want to know what that's about our military stuff that's our intelligence community i don't understand why that's a bad thing. all right as we go to break caught watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of a tough it's recovered our facebook and twitter pages see our full shows at our teeth dot com coming up we talk to it surprises and kendrick lamar with author b. watkins so stay humble and stay tuned to watching the hawks.

four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. it was president donald trump says he wants american troops to leave syria what are exactly washington's goals in syria partition war for war sake or a means to sticking it to iran in russia all or poorly thought out options. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone was signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people i've seen stuff that was

nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam will 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 berm pits would really literally send a v.a. growth and they don't want to pay it so the waiting and the decades old. those soldiers will die in time and they will. get the thing. these are. delayed in the hope you get.

on monday while the world was just racked up by syrian air strikes f.b.i. raids and trying hannity and amazing thing happened on the way to this year's pulitzer prize awards for the first time a pulitzer prize history a hip hop artist was given the legendary award for his me a work in music this year the artist was they have pop virtuous so out of compton california kendrick lamar for his twenty seventeen out album titled quite simply and poignantly dale and trust me when i say that they don't get more culturally historic than the signal is meant by the award committee for country sport because this whip marks the very first time in pulitzers over one hundred year history that the award was given to a musician working outside of the classical or jazz john writes what else can one say but to. this is quite the cultural game changer but as the thirty year old himself stated in his song high power build your own parents write your own hieroglyphs to help us break down the historic and important when for both have

a black culture is author teacher and lecturer do you. welcome what you guys there are about good good deal was a pleasure to have you back and i think i want to start first to you know many questions and really important conversation to have about this because it's such a game changer because it's kind of reshaped culture in my opinion is did you first did you ever imagine a world work and what mars suddenly appear would surprise wedding musician and for those that don't understand you know why is kendricks were so important so i have i have mixed feelings about it. once i was so happy that he got into work because people were finally starting to give him the recognition it deserves on the other side of the spectrum just like the secrets out there like you know because one of the cool things about hip hop is that the language is so fast it's all to code in the form of so much that the critics the people in these places are they not really

able to decode them so they don't really know what we're talking about what we have going on but i think it's extremely important because the album is brilliant he's a brilliant person and it's great to see a person like kindred get it was right you can still smell them yeah yeah it's very interesting and i think there's there's been a cultural shift happening for a while now you've had l.l. cool j. getting. honored by the kennedy center. jay z. inducted in the sunrise and now black panther is now the third highest grossing film of all time inside the united states is this truly can we now say that there is there's a black renaissance and culture and art happening. it is a black a renaissance i mean to mainstream yeah and this was like you know happened in sas it's been clicking on for years like there's been brilliant albums put out every year what this moment what i would really really really like a lot of people to do is to you know especially people who. who go out and read

about the journalism when these prizes or read about the art there's a listen to the classical music. composers will get this to work i want them to sit back and digest this album because he said the heavy stuff about mental illness about depression about the black experience about so many different things that capture an american experience that a lot of people don't understand he has one song right when he talks about how his dad worked at a chicken shack and a guy who owns the record label that he works for was robbing a chicken shack. when the guy with the route of the chicken shack. the only reason why he didn't shoot the cashier who was kids instead of the son is because he used to throw extra biscuits so the song is he says if anthony killed ducky his father. if anthony killed the top dog would be serving life while i grew up without a father and probably die in a gun fight like it's heavy it's like langston is bad exactly i think certainly

important people have that disconnect between music and poetry but the words and how much those words mean especially with have pop and i think it's it even now you even look at like the doors and you look at the poetry of those words and not separate so easy to see it and how powerful it is and that's i think what a lot of us are drawn to for is how much the message of it and it's nice to see that that actually coming to get recognized get it right and like you said it's kind of it is the feeling of who the secret's out now because for a lot of our generation white black whatever we grew up with hip hop you know we saw it explode in the ninety's and and one thing that's interesting about this win is there's been some heavyweights before kendrick you know you talk you know the tories b.i.g. . to park jay z. . rock you know. there's plenty of people that go back to where you can say like. you know. they equally could have won this you know so

why do you think it was kendrick who kind of broke this ceiling and tore down this wall why you know it was his time in history it's what's going on right now like you know there. was in the beginning you know you have you know jay z. going to songwriters hall of fame these these these places are starting to accept us war and it's just this time i think if we could go back some of those same albums like the tour is life after death is you know straight up you know it might just i'm dirty you to come into this but it's better that everything we book i've ever read. it's better like but it's his time is just his time so i think you know we've got to capitalize on this moment to utilize the power of music to connect this because even captures it captures a certain american experience is something that all of us can relate to and it's heavy it's so heavy. one of my favorite tracks is where they talk about what he

talks about he has a friend who comes to him and acts him to pray for because. his child was killed just like you know i'm not praying i'm ready to go to war like who's rational in a situation like that and why we even tell him people that you know as a metaphor for life why are we telling people that ok something really bad happened to you but you know you're just going to be ok like you'll get a chance to process that in the process date or react or act out on it you know that's a part of it i think is what. you know kids growing up in the midwest when we get out in the in the. growing up and coming of age in the eighty's and hearing that music and understanding that our lives were different and really having that connection that i think is so important with music and culture of every kind. amanda crew set in the new york and the new yorker that normally in pulitzer history disruptive john riser often only raw. actively knowledged usually decades

after their commercial and creative scene at the country club are want to pulitzer prize in an era which rap music is alive and as pervasive as of as an adverb and what does this mean. moving forward that it's it's one of the rare times in history where john and artists are finally being recognized while they're making the music not fifty years later when they're ninety because we're yeah you know who was a. bob dylan didn't get recognized until like a couple years back my pilates or for all the work that he's done over the years it's happier game and i just would be recognized for a while it's happening you know to me it means with next. to me because smart people young progressive people are starting to get these positions and somebody was in a rut like no you need to listen to this and somebody in a room went to the gatekeeper who's probably sitting there with like accident of his or her and almost want to go to

a less leg and they went up to them and they said look you need to listen to what his guy is saying it's never been like this before now was the time we need to seize this moment in the world will be better it will be able to sit back and say you know what we did it you know it's interesting that i just thought of this as an author as someone you know you you put your life out there with through words and expression and all of that disruptive person that you're going to get when you're not let and you've been you know you've been a claim for the work of the books you've written them and i think like with kendrick not that you can speak for him but you know i think it's important value this is a lot of pressure now on him you win an award like this now suddenly your next album better be fire you know you feel you don't you got it right but i also feel like i also felt like the pressure was already on because he has been propelled to the king of rap like this a lot of people are making great music he he came out of a great class he has j. cole and he has

a. you know. you would cringe and i try to get all these different people coming out of his class who should be free really soon but he has these people coming out of his class and like he's propelled to the top of all of them like nobody nobody's touching them sort of pressure was already there. and now he's going to pressure from like journalists and writers and commentators like that because he has the will or thoughts of the connection with certain things and the people he's worked with and the songs that have come out that he's been on it's almost like if you see country them are on a song with say or somebody you know what it's going to be real and why you know it's kind of here's one thing is i love seeing hip hop do this because it does it does it's a unifier it does bring everybody together i think at the end of the bay and that's the most important thing why in your mind do you think hip hop's reached the world the way it has i think. because so many people around the world i live in these oppressed. you know.

of the old press this you know hip hop astray from the blues you know this defined in a beauty that we have amongst ourselves when you can do nothing but have fun over like a fifty cent box of cards you know and then it's also talking about their pain from the neighbor to experience any type of social mobility and then on top of all of it to be hypnotized and you know you go a seven and clubs and you see people das and then they can be like it's two o'clock you've got to go and eat it bring it into the park or not like it it doesn't really stop so i think i think it's the hip hop is made up of so many other different elements and types of music samples from every john really from country to reagan. and you know and it's assessable when you wanted to be one of the you said it listen to it it's assessable to our wants us you have made a kid the midwest you can be used to say thank you so much brilliant analysis is always do walking and he's author and lecturer. there are many monday and human

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pink floyd star roger waters reveals the white helmets activist group to try to not meet his support in the syrian war after the singer had slammed them as propagandists. somebody in the tree had to go to the hospital to run there when i came in and some people grabbed me started pouring water on my had . a russian t.v. channel interviews a syrian boy from a white helmets video that claims to show the aftermath of the chemical attack in duma the child and his father give their account of what happened. clashes break out on the streets of paris as transport strikes continue over president micros labor reforms.