be more than just apo research because everybody does that and really how bad it scares me and how would you like to be under investigation by the f.b.i. what the f.b.i. agents are texting to each other this guy's in eighty eight we have to have an insurance policy against him winning and i mean come on great that's a great point steve malzberg always a pleasure to have you on and talk with you and. soon my pleasure thank you as we go to break lock watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are c dot com coming up filmmaker cory rowe enters the hawk's nest to discuss his new documentary film on p.t.s.d. and us military veterans mile mark you don't want to miss this stay tuned to watch and all.

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witnessed the construction living you need to transport. that will help out of crimea. faster most of those you know won't go cold more familiar with it a bit but. no mantras ubiquitous in american politics as support our troops from the yellow ribbons lining suburban streets to the widespread memorial day parades and remembered ceremonies in our nation's seems to surprisingly focused on commemorating respecting and remembering while running circles around the actual point of helping veterans returning home from combat or injured in battle perhaps the months long months long waits at v.a. facilities is a giveaway of our government's glaring oversight of the real issues affecting

veterans or perhaps it's the complete lack of discourse about the startling number of homeless veterans at our cities and the fact that over twenty veterans a day commit suicide nationwide that is why korey rowe the producer and director of the famed nine eleven documentary loose change is now moved on to his next project mile marker he joins us now on the show for a preview of his latest documentary thank you for coming on cory thanks for having me on man hey i want to ask and you know you're a veteran you served two tours i got to ask why did you set out to make mile marker what what what is your objective with this documentary. my objective with this documentary is to let other veterans with p.t.s.d. know that they're not alone it's been fifteen years since my unit invaded afghanistan and iraq and my fellow battle buddies are struggling they're struggling with drug addiction legal problems family problems depression overmedicated just really being run through the gamut they're just being attacked like a four pronged attack for veterans or being overprescribed medication they're not

getting into treatment so there's a lot of things that veterans need help with and as you said there's this kind of feeling in america where we need to thank them and and we need to remember them but not actually help them and so i wanted to raise awareness for veteran issues in america and hopefully get these veterans who need it some real and actual help you as a veteran why why do you feel that there's that disconnect between you know society here and i especially our government works like oh we're going to parade everybody we're going to you know memorials and things like that at football games and fly jets over but we're not actually going to do the work to help why is there that disconnect. americans love their soldiers to go and fight their wars but they don't care what happens once they get out of the service and it's unfortunate but it's a true reality and i really want to bring to the forefront what they're going through i mean as i traveled across the country from los angeles to remonde and back i traveled over seven thousand miles and interviewed over twenty two individuals with specific ties to the p.t.s.d. world and what people don't know about this is quite incredible there's some

significant issues going on with veterans and in till we get some real help for these guys it's only going to get worse and it's systemic it's systemic from the d o d to the v.a. and into the soldiers personal lives we have so many things that we can address and fix for these guys and we need to start the conversation so that's what i'm hoping to do i'm hoping to start the conversation at least pushed into the forefront around this memorial day season good good for you i like that and you've spoken to college was about as you said you're traveling across the country twenty two veterans and making mile marker and like i mentioned yourself or a veteran but what's curious what really interesting is what was the most. surprising thing that you learned to realize that in the process of making this documentary. one of the most unfortunate things that i learned through this process is that guys who get a bad conduct discharge guys who come home from war who served honorably in combat and transition poorly into garrison life they can easily be discharged from the military under an other than honorable or bad conduct discharge because of their

behavior in garrison what this translates to is a complete removal of their benefits they and some cases also have to repay their bonuses upwards of twenty thousand dollars these guys then have the same rights as felons and struggle to get a job and provide for their families this is a huge issue that americans are not aware of and we need to fix it immediately and some of the most common reasons that these guys are getting kicked out is for the use of cannabis which if you really look at it is actually them attempting to treat the p.t.s.d. which is already gone untreated and so the third act of this movie focuses heavily on cannabis and its positive effects for veterans over the choice of pharmaceuticals because as i said the v.a. the standard model is this ship you know garbage bags full of pills to these guys and we're talking opiates barbiturates massive psychoactive drugs that can represent p.t.s.d. like symptoms we need to remove these guys from these these really powerful drugs and get them on something more natural and at the same time get them into actual treatment so that they can understand the triggers that are happening in their mind

and understand what p.t.s.d. really is because again that's another really confusing thing that a lot of people don't understand is how p.t.s.d. manifests and what it looks like inside of our soldiers and in mile marker you see this time and again you see all these stories of all these different veterans in different ways showing that there are p.t.s.d. manifesting and it's something that not a lot of people are used to and when these guys have these problems in their society instead of being labeled as someone with p.t.s.d. they're simply labeled as a problem and i was one of these people i struggled after a loose change my p.t.s.d. hit me really hard and i went through some really bad years and it took years. treatment and effort for me to get back on the straight and narrow and and to get my life in a positive direction and that's what i'm really trying to do is just share my story in the story of other veterans in america how how does a veterans p.t.s.d. usually manifest you know if you have someone in a family who's a veteran or if your friend is there things like that you know what what what should what signs should people be looking for and then what can they do to best

help. absolutely and so i'll give you an example of my own p.t.s.d. and how it manifests i moved here to l.a. and everybody knows that l.a. traffic is is pretty famous and for me as someone who served in afghanistan and iraq i was ambushed several times during my deployments so for me when i get stuck in traffic that's a trigger and what happens is my body and my adrenaline starts pumping and i start to fear for what's going to happen in that situation and i start to get aggravated and agitated and else you know honk the horn or all yell at people are all try to cut around traffic and if you don't know what p.t.s.d. is you don't know how to identify the signals because veterans are adrenaline level is already three to four times higher than the normal person walking down the street so in this situation is my adrenaline gets pumping because i'm stuck in traffic in my p.t.s.d. starts to kick in i'm having what's known as a fight or flight response my body is telling me and my brain is telling me you're trained that this situation is unsafe you need to remove yourself from the situation as fast as possible and get back to your or your assembly area which is

your home and so for someone who's not treated with p.t.s.d. they don't know how to identify this is a trigger and they don't know what's happening in their mind furthermore if someone's in the car with them and witnessing this person go through this kind of episode they're just they're labeled a problem like i was and their family doesn't even want to get in the car with them so it takes a lot of education for soldiers to understand and families understand what a p.t.s.d. trigger is what your personal p.t.s.d. triggers are and how you can do a threat assessment and work that down and so at the end of the day what mile marker is really hoping to do is i'm selling treatment i want to get veterans into treatment because i want to give them a mission veterans need a mission and that mission is to live a better life that's brilliant you know i think a great example as we were talking earlier about you know the politicians and society says one thing and does another you know donald trump for you know ever there would dawdle he ran on a very clear cut promise to take care of the veterans reform the v.a. even in working with the veterans across the country and doing the research into those things has there been any slight improvement since since donald took on. no i

mean i haven't seen any dramatic improvements i'll be honest i'm pretty disconnected from my government at this point i don't feel that they have a large impact on my life and everything that you were discussing in the piece before this seems very disconnected to me and doesn't really seem to really get here to anybody that i'm working with on a day to day level so i'm haven't seen any problems all i've seen is a lot of noise or any solutions for that matter i've just seen a lot of noise and a lot of arguing and and at the same time veterans are still dying every single day and so you know i'm getting out there we stood on hollywood boulevard this past weekend with a fifteen foot long sign and all it read was it's estimated that every day twenty two u.s. veterans take their own life and you should have seen the shock and awe on on just every day persons faces as they read this and kind of watch them you know calculate that statistic in their head and if you really think about that twenty two veterans a day estimated i mean just think about the action of someone taking their life so commonly is is heartbreaking to say the least. of their value of it is that when

you realize you have the numbers or you talk about how many homeless veterans are in this country and all that it truly is staggering and it breaks your heart in the process of creating mile marker did was there any cooperation whatsoever from the military or the v.a. or anything like that. sure yes i did get a chance to interview dr paul who is the executive director of the national center for p.t.s.d. and white river junction vermont she essentially writes the book on how the v.a. treats veterans with their p.c. and they've rolled out some pretty significant new new studies that work very well and i was actually a part of one of those studies it was premiered down here in long beach california i was actually paid for my involvement and went through twelve very intense psychoactive therapies that had a dramatic effect on me the v.a. is doing what they can and dr politian are is a wonderful woman and i really appreciated her time issue explain things to me from her perspective but in a lot of cases the v.a.'s hands are tied by bureaucratic red tape our oversized

government is just really holding a lot of things back and we need to remove that and really maybe start to introduce maybe some private industry into how to fix this because as we've seen time and again our government just is not capable of handling something of this magnitude and as you see other private industries raising up to fill the footprint where government is lacking i think that might be a possible solution that's of that's a really interesting viewpoint i mean i really like that in every community better solutions of the government can do it and the other entity can do with them people in the neighborhood people in those communities and people care about those of others they've got to pick up the slack and do it themselves and and so of that leaves the next question i ask you what what are some easy commonsense solutions as best they can be given it's a complicated subject that people can get behind or advocate for that would be important and easy to implement and deliver some real results for these for these poor souls suffering from p.t.s.d. or trapped in the v.a. system sure thing is

a great question and one of the first and foremost things we can do is education with all things like mile marker is is designed to be a conversation starter it's in hopes to educate people and then after that activate them because there's so many people out there that care about veterans but they might not know how to actually help them so mile marker shows you a lot of different options on how soldiers. try to fight with these issues and fail and where you can step in and really have a conversation communication is key you have to communicate with your veterans you have to try to understand what's going on in their head and you have to get it out of their head so that really leads us to treatment which is first and foremost one of the most important things we can do in treatment doesn't have to be between a veteran and a doctor a treatment can be between two vets having a beer watching the sunset and talking about what they went through one of the most striking things that i learned in the differences from previous wars such as world war two to today is that during those wars soldiers were returned on a ship as a unit over a lengthy period of time several weeks in which after that they were given

mustering pay and there was kind of a decompression period and they returned as units together today you can be in combat for breakfast being mortar attacked and home with your family for dinner and that is an extremely jarring transition and without proper d.-o. d. systems in place and classes in place for people to understand how that transition's going to affect them mentally maybe not today but maybe a few years down the line they need to understand that because there's a huge mindset among veterans that they don't want anything from the v.a. or the d.o.d. and they don't want treatment and there's a stigma associated with p.t.s.d. they're going to take my guns and all that and that's why i really like the use of bring in the community and do it cora got a thank you for coming on the very quickly where can people see the movie. you can check it out right now exclusively on i tunes for the rest of this month and then we'll expand to the rest of the outlets and d.v.d. and june so i really appreciate you having me on today check out mile marker film dot com you can file some follow us on social media reach out if you're a veteran and need help i'd be happy to talk to you thank you very much sir for having me on thank you very much a nice day. you got

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we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it will work out there's a church is a very substantial chance that it won't work don't try and casts doubt on next month's planned meeting with the leader of north korea saying the historic talks may be delayed or may not take place at all. meanwhile north korea is reportedly dismantling its only nuclear site as part of a bargain with the u.s. we have access to the area and our correspondent will be reporting on his journey there as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here goes through to north korea. the german government admits that almost two thousand far right extremists in the country may be in legal possession of the firearm.

and after eighteen years google quietly drops its don't be evil slogan the change is only noticed a month after it took effect company employees are also protesting against involvement with the u.s. military. a very warm welcome in ten am here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me they care and good to have you with us. donald trump says his much anticipated summit with north korea on the twelfth of june might not happen the comments came during a meeting with the south korean president in the u.s. capital both washington and pyongyang have previously suggested they may not be willing to hold talks unless certain conditions are met samir khan reports from

washington well according to trump the summit could take place or it might not even take place but the president has never really been one hundred percent sure we are working on something and you know there's a chance that it'll work out there's a chance it's a very substantial chance that it won't work out that doesn't mean it won't work out over a period of time but it may not work out for june twelfth i think it will be verging sessile but as i always say who knows what's going to happen you know i often say who knows who knows but you know the words they give you everything can be scuttled everything can be settled but speaking of mixed messages on one hand a special coin is being produced just ahead of the summit depicting the two leaders meeting and all smiles then there's trouble guaranteeing kim safety and promising that north korea will be a rich country we make a deal i think kim jong il is going to be very very happy and he'll get protections that will be very strong his country would be very rich then on the other hand

trump's threatening the libya scenario the model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total decimation we went in there to beat him now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely but let's quickly remind ourselves what happened in libya in two thousand and three i gadhafi renounced his nuclear program but despite that he was overthrown in a meta led campaign years later so not a fairy tale ending for gadhafi but it's not just rhetoric that could be jeopardizing diplomacy there's also joint military drills being held the tween the u.s. and. south korea on north korea's doorstep but thankfully some are questioning the need to provoke the young at especially considering the historic meeting that took place last month between the north and south and this also comes at a very special time just as the u.s. is going back on its word to adhere to the iran deal pulling out of it entirely now it is interesting to see how trump and this is top advisors seem to be at odds with

each other i don't know if his management style is to create chaos and so you have some order comes from what or what in fact may be his style problem is that washington confuses the idea of negotiation with the idea of surrender the meeting for trump and him in singapore should have been the beginning of a dialogue of a process instead john bolton others of lay down the law here's what you've got to do i think bolton said tell us where we should send our planes to pick up your stuff and take it away i mean if i would north korea particularly watching it how the u.s. tour of your own agreement if you have any mind at all you would be very very skeptical it's very important that people understand that president moon of south korea is really the most important president here not trump i know trump thinks it's always all about him but president moon of south korea i believe is the one who's really in the driver's seat here and they are playing a very important role both in terms of south north korea relations but also bringing united states along it is possible that north and south korea could continue to build their relations there are

a lot of economic issues that they could work on diplomatic issues rediff occasion of families that have been separated. to meet its end of the bargain north korea is reportedly preparing to dismantle its nuclear test site in the countries with its northeast there have been six nuclear bomb tests that since two thousand and six which were carried out inside a mountain is the well the last officially active nuclear test site north korea released an official statement describing how the sites will be dismantled is says that will be a. cold explosion to collapse all the tunnels this will result in the entrance points being blocked as well off so that the above ground facilities will be destroyed and some changes have already been observed by experts on satellite images shot in april and may buildings have been demolished it together with a rail line is one of the few news channels that's been invited to witness how

north korea is fulfilling its end of the bargain a cost on the us has this report we're in the beijing international airport and as you can see beyond me we're being greeted like celebrities here those who go to north korea we've been here for the past couple of days and all john the spots of distress to it have been amassed in the chinese capital because that's where we got our visas that's when we where we got our tickets and now we will be proceeding to check in to our flights that those are the windows that we're waiting for the personnel and so i'll be signing off to you hopefully greeting you from north korea itself next time so this is the air coryell our flights we will be taking to get inside north korea thing is we aren't even exactly sure as to where exactly we're headed because according to our media to documents we're going to the southern port city of one sound but according to our boarding passes we're headed to the north korean capital pyongyang so i guess the north the world can but to find out on

board of the plane. it's hard it's easy to do you know you're going to feel young what you want to. look at once and ok thank you so there are probably twenty john that's here on this plane so we're going to one son i just want to give glimpse of what's going on on board would be even though to press pieces like this one for example the pyongyang time it's mostly about politics but also features pieces like a recipe for this right since he was so we've been given this very very kind of colorful ok. read a magazine which features everything from the latest one has to what's been going on like in the life of putin on the supreme leader of north korea you will soon find out if you just kind of rama's old young and the like two pieces like the ones for example of how we speak to all of the automobile be speaking. so you will counsel a what's the first thing you expect to see the bustling crowd people pushing and

shoving it's a taxi drivers all for an event often overpriced services won't check this out nothing will distort here it's just an empty parking lot and three buses that will take us to the city we will be taking an eleven hour train to get there and then we will be writing for four more hours by car and hiking for another hour but we're being told that the spectacle is well worth it the whole site will be razed to the ground technical buildings reduced to rubble tunnels in the mountains also blown up right now we don't know when this strip or when this is going to happen exactly but definitely in the upcoming days and for more details on pictures from north korea you can follow those journey to the nuclear test site on his twitter page. the german government has admitted that around two thousand far right extremists

are in illegal possession of at least one weapon according to media reports the country's green party says the government is sweeping the problem under the carpet party's pay to all of it takes up the story. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as far right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous reich citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war value more constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed hitler to take power well today's reich citizen

groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to why the neo nazi groups of far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various right wing extremist currents and right wing extremists among right citizens use those connections to cause confusion to provoke authorities and to create a social platform for right wing ideology it's estimated that there's around eighteen thousand of these right citizens in germany some are allegedly preparing for a day when they'll rise up and take their country back but these are just hollow empty threats eighteen months ago a policeman in bavaria was killed during a shootout between officers and a member of one of the sorites citizens' groups the number of people in significantly significantly increased violence.