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it was known for decades that roundup could cause cancer wisen or went on to note that this verdict sends a message to monsanto that it's years of deception regarding roundup is over and that they should put consumer safety first over profits but will be bayer own corporate behemoths listen literally listen only time will tell but this jury's decision does prove how important it is to always be watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the bottom. like you that i got. with. this. because i. welcome everybody to watching the harks i
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have tyrone jesse ventura and with a wallace move so yeah i mean we had obviously talk about this we talked about this a long time as one of the things that's been covered a lot is months said it's not just. many if that month and that we can talk about but specifically round up and its use and what they are legally obligated to tell people about this i mean this is what is that's the stage is that there needs to be better consumer protections yes whoever that might end up being so this financial award includes past and and future economic losses and punitive damages woman punitive damages tacked on right extra hundred millions i think the lawyers originally asked for like thirty nine million number of the you know lost wages last season i got like a year or two to live oh they're saying according to his doctors johnson has possibly months to live and he may have a live. really just used has lost
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a bit of life left on him to fight the people who may have said. but yeah it looks like he had told reporters after the verdict he said i'm glad to be here to be able to help in a cause that's way bigger than me so we're talking about someone who literally has probably months to live and stood up and fought to make sure this made in the courts and you know we watch this with johnson and johnson and the baby powder verdict going on and they still plan time and you don't see reams through the media saying oh my gosh the stuff you're putting on your lawn could give you cancer oh my gosh your baby powder could give you cancer even though courts are saying it though there are a lot of love to go out to the activists groups and alternative media because they've been the ones really bringing the dinner bell so to speak for quite a long time and it is a win for environmental cook the president of the environmental working group sudden a statement like this from some don't live round up the oxy pesticides and the addiction and damage they caused have come home to roost and addiction to round up
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and like all of this not in the place i will take it personally sense but we are addicted as a society if not a world to using this type of pesticide yes the united states is like many things we're addicted to things the most and i mean twenty percent of the world's life as they use is is right here in the united states which amounts to about two hundred eighty million pounds per year of just the guy to say which is probably the world's most widely used herbicide one that has been considered a carcinogen and has been banned in many european countries and eastern european countries on around the world and that is this is the open the floodgates this is because there's another round of cancer trial trial believed that was in the way st louis yeah thousands board of school start in st louis and four thousand four thousand similar cases are waiting to go against our good friends at monsanto.
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residents were on the edge here in washington d.c. with news of a massive gathering of white nationalist and those who opposed them was set to hit the streets this weekend in the nation's capital on the anniversary of the tragedy of it took place in charlottesville virginia last year the last time these two groups met in protest of the unite the right to the stage was set the police law enforcement were ready even the skies were set to turn dark with thunderstorms but what was supposed to be a hurricane turned out to be a whimper as just a smattering of the night the writers turned out for the protests instead of those rallying against white nationalism of fascism turned out in force with music chants and signage far dwindling that of their opposition and with fascism the buzzword of the day we talked with some of the protesters and speakers who turned out to stand against unite the right on sunday and ask them about what has been emboldening the all right why it's important to counter protest and most importantly where the political side stems from let's take a listen. but i didn't have the may folks feel like they have leeway to behave in
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the way that they have been behaving for somebody to say that it's ok to ram a car into a group of people and kill someone who can so protest. shows that there's a feeling of i can get away with this and i think that's why it's important that we are here in lafayette park to say actually you know you're not going to get away with it and it's not just today this has been going on since the history and and inception of america as we know it when they first landed here and claimed to discover a nation that already had indigenous folks and there's always been resistance and we're just carrying on that tradition and what do you say to the people who are saying that meeting them head on is not ok and that we should be meeting them with love and and unity and hold hands with them and be patient quote unquote with them we cannot sit down with full sue don't intend to sit down with us because they don't view us as human and we're dealing with people who don't value us and don't
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hold us to any dignity and i'm not just talking about black lives talk as queer phones transfer as gnc false us folks who are different religion other the anglo christian religion and people who are brown who don't fit into this anglo-saxon blue-eyed white orientation that they have created and continue to spew as fact. we're not saying that we're not meeting each other with love what we're saying is is that we have to organize our community and worry about folks who are ready to work to counter that we don't want to keep tapping in hating walls when we have people here who are ready to move on here to stand up against the fascist forces that are moving in the city right now and i think it's important not to just ignore them and to make sure that there are people here who don't want that nurses and it's important you know history the good in the land a lot of that but it's hard to move forward politically if we don't understand what came before so i think american fascism. is age old it's been here is honest and
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erica has been here. but a lot of other beautiful things have been here as well and so i think it's about. solidarity with other people who don't feel fascism and coming together and making something different. and i also think it's about. getting over our addiction to capitalism which keeps keeps fascism in place because it's good for capitalism and people are divided fascism has been part of our country ever since its founding and i don't think it's going away anytime soon unless we do something about it do you feel like the the hate in vitriol on the right and on the other side is is mr rectitude and that there there may be mad about other things and pointing in the wrong direction i mean couple is the fix everyone. and is it mr recht that yes but is that division useful to the system yet so they're doing the work that they're intending to do in our work is to organize each other not just bash want to tell you that we can only afford fairness if we make the group smaller so you get rid of
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everybody who is not way in their gut and that's just not true we have plenty of wealth for everybody in this country so there's a way to distribute it more fairly. through but those incredible lot of really interesting you know you see a lot of intelligence and thought behind what those people's political beliefs are that's very that's very cool to see but you know tab you know the reason all this happened though right oh i can imagine watch the mainstream news media you know the reason behind all this and of course it's russia russia russia yes it's all russians follow all of the political bias in the united states and racial divide all in all russia's fault and look i mean how can you not believe republican representative tom garrett who's a member of a host of homeland security and for what has he told me on saturday before the big protests the quote i sat may close session briefing probably two months ago about charlottesville with the director of the f.b.i. among others and asked if russian inter meddling had to do with fermenting the flames of what happened in charlottesville i was told yes it did. you know what
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republicans have done. to so racial division and they love a good da whistle the old do it i'm tired of hearing about cyc the russians obviously they didn't the russians i don't know where the russians were. only there was like you know they were really like little to no wonder they were there and somebody is really the amount of people who are out there for the unite the right on that side of the you know we're going to call it the white nationalist site all that there wasn't many of her. really i mean you have to imagine you know lafayette square from freedom plaza lafayette square the march went along and you know almost took a big chunk of of lafayette square and you have to understand it was thousands no matter what i read tells you it was thousands of people you know at least a few thousand if not more who gathered walked up there and when you looked across it was. it was quite literally so hard to even see them well it ended up
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being around five it was supposed to start at five and by about five really it was just like it was like twenty four neo nazis just coming out all together under a tree with like waiting for a castle or to speak and he pretty much was learned well those will alarm or and those are those how they go much money i didn't love but everybody really was like there were people literally going i feel bad for them like this is really embarrassing but i'm not saying what's interesting though is that you got a chance also the six of them really amazing took place there and amidst the calls the shame and the readiness to sort of keep neo nazis from the following our city many protesters took a slightly different approach and one of those was dancing to the electric slide in the wobble and generally bringing this joy to our streets instead of hate now celebrating this culture along with that was one woman who marched right in front of me from freedom plaza to lafayette square with her walker and the minute the
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dancing started she left her walker and joined the celebration showing us all that fight means drowning out the hate with love of a little life and the electric slide. yes we united they were those were pretty court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on facebook and twitter and see our full shows that are dot com coming up shortly so it's a brave new documentary on the congo all of this stuff stay true.
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with all of them. why is it that some countries seem to be continually mired in cyclical wars political instability and economic crisis well that is the central question behind the film this is congo a new documentary featuring an in-depth look at a part of the world not often talked about in a western corporate news media starting and twenty twelve the film focuses on four different individuals over a three year period a whistleblower a patriotic military commander a mineral dealer and it displaced taylor and how they live under rebellion resource exploitation colonialism and the other major issues and problems affecting the region johnstone sat down with a photo journalist behind the documentary daniel mccabe to delve deeper into the
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story of his film and the congo let's take a listen. america's always been involved in africa in one way or another not colonial. in the form of coal in the situation. but in terms of mineral interest sure it's hard to really see america inside of all this. they're hidden in terms of their involvement but the influence is huge you know how we kind of approach there the conflicts there whether it's through backing and support through the un or humanitarian organizations or through different bills we passed like the dodd frank bill where it's our attempt to try to clean up the conflict mineral chain but. the reality is it's just as a mention for you know when we're trying crew bring our solutions our idea of solutions that often just don't match with. with the reality of a grown so so we're often left with
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a problem that's bigger than it was with where it started. we'll certainly have the problem again going back to the economic situation we have these minerals that are very valuable and they're being utilized by us every day essentially right to say that we know that the various minerals that we're talking about they end up in our plants as our electronics. you know diamonds and gold obviously are have value so essentially we are playing into the conflict without being aware of playing into the conflict. yeah i mean that's true and i think a hot topic is you know we can use the electronics like colton is it's largely mined in the congo and that's inside of our cell phones so i think we. we often look at end user responsibility how involved are we can can is buying a and i phone is that impacting things on the ground in congo and i think it becomes a little more confusing because you know if we go in and train and decipher between
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a conflict mineral and conflict free mineral really all that means is a government controlled mining area or a rebel controlled money or. then when you have a government as corrupt as it is in a in a national army as corrupt as it is where is the conflict mineral you know you can make an argument that maybe a rebel controlled mine is more conflict free or or vice versa it's very murky and at the end of the day when you cut off those conflict minerals the miners are really the ones that suffer so you have people in total communities based around this trade which has been going on for decades and decades and then they're out of work and it's really hard to try and clean up that chain and and make it more honest without profoundly impacting the people on the ground so it's a conundrum. that the solution is an elusive point. and i mean given your experience there you spent how many how many years for them about four
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years filming there but for this film but they're working there since two thousand and eight yeah but so you're you know you being on the ground for years there spending time with with people you have a sense. you know how intractable are the problems a century how much do you know tribal issues and various ethnic issues that have become embedded in the culture and you know they have you know obviously that you know it's written with with organic situations that are that are moving and changing at all times but you know how much of what the actual like on the ground situation to you that you feel could be solved if it was left into the hands of the people as opposed to trying to impose from government perspectives it's a tricky question i mean i think taking a step back helps can text or was it a bit more where when we look at the different types of issues on the ground aside from the resources and the obvious reason why people want to get out them you know you have ethnic divisions that are used as manipulation devices in the same way religion can be used to these these systems. these african systems
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of of. governess that are happening on the ground don't mesh with with the democratic style of which the country has developed or we're trying to help impose . so so it's almost impossible to start you know separating these things are. often the the population is chewed up in the process and when you look at the country as a whole it's it's the story about two thirds the size of western europe and they only have about five hundred miles of paved road so there's no infrastructure the education system is heavily you know depressed and. you know we have people dying from skeeter bites so these are these are problems that i don't think we often consider but when that's the reality of the grown what you do the decisions as a congolese as somebody living those areas have everything to do with those
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realities. in terms of i mean it's can you touch upon a here when you talk about how these some of these are contrived some of these situations of ethnic and religious diversity and that are being utilized to basically put people at odds with each other but when i look at africa i mean i've spent some time in with save the children and another n.g.o.s that are trying to do positive it does really begin with a fundamental lack of infrastructure and a lot of this is controlled as we know from i.m.f. and world bank this is where you have the american influence right controlling the purse strings so that should these think these funds are being utilized to actually build up your infrastructure for markets to thrive or you can end up with you know basically commerce and people coming together and having education and having awareness of values so when you look at these situations being depressed who do you think is really behind this sort of mental manipulation of these situations to make sure that there is an ongoing conflict to make sure that basically uganda and
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rwanda and congo are at odds with each other's throats and that the various ethnicities and culture. are fighting internal civil wars continuously in places like congo sure sure i mean it's like what do we find when we pull the curtains back who's who's you know playing with the the million that strings. you know it's it's tricky and i think overall when you have a government as corrupt as congo's is it's individuals that are behind it and whether it's you know we want to point a finger at the president which is newsy thing to do because he's holding on to power and and he got there by kind of questionable means. it's. again it's we have to we have to step back it's i think one of them pujas components of the continuing conflict in the congo is not being able to put our finger hey this is why this is why we can say the resources we can see the corrupt government in all the armed groups that the foreign interests international mining
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interests all these things these components that are that are in there that create this foggy mill once the fog is there this creates real opportunity for these types of nefarious actions to increase so there's no consequence if if if a million dollars is given to repair roads in the east maybe only three hundred thousand of them actually arrives on the ground and it's not enough to complete a job and because of that it just truncates on itself and i think this kind of scenario continues to unfold on everything whether it's delivering humanitarian aid or trying to get the lections in order or trying to build infrastructure or you know foreign humanitarian groups coming in to do it often they're met with with opposition just from either the people on the ground or the government and it's because of these kids and decades of. you know. instability.
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what was the then for you with the intention ultimately the purpose of making a documentary this is congo is it just to wake people up as to there is a civil war civil slash ongoing confrontation and war and in congo that people have forgotten about or is there an actual you know some lucian that you're trying to propose or just you know basically getting people in the direction of a solution and an actionable solution. well you know. this conflict is so confusing that i think often the way we receive information about the congo are in these little three minute bites that are horrific it's either about mass rape or when a war happens or in a bowl outbreak or something like this. when we hear about it we will swipe you know or will change the channel and i think this is a huge contributing factor to to the mystification of this conflict the movie don't understand it we kind of turn it off so the hope of this film is that through being able for through
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a viewer being able to identify with the different characters in the film the characters that are being impacted by this conflict. it will not necessarily provide you with answers or solutions but the viewer will walk away with a thirst to know more they have a bit of a foothold so they understand a bit more about the context the history of the country how things are kind of going this direction but the hope is that the next time something pops up on the airwaves that the viewer can say oh wait i want to dig a bit deeper male don't read a book around look up another you know new source or i'll not change the channel yeah so education is going to be the foundation of the solutions to these issues. at least this is the device we're trying to use deet did you find in terms of your analysis that there was an intentional mr action or manipulation that was evident from the media portrayal of the conflict when say mr direction but you
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know the media is a business you know we need to fill the very say with myself and to what we're trying to fill these slots with information. and especially the way things are operating today when when the morning's news is dominated by tweets sometimes it's almost impossible for congo in. congress conflict in a real way to get in there so we can understand it you know you can't sum up things into a three minute report. so i think that's that's a huge contributing factor and it speaks to. the shortcomings of the media system itself. the nelson firing california tore through over two thousand acres before being declared one hundred percent contained this weekend however when the wildfires rage right towards the salon account a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals that they can fill police department stepped up and as you can see from this body cam footage officers quite
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literally ran into the building housing about sixty cats and dogs and one by one managed to save them all as well as one volunteer who had crossed the fire line illegally to save the animals and the first place now while the animals are safe there is a lot of work ahead for the ass pca sauna county as they lost much of their refrigerated medications and vaccines in the fire which will all need to be replaced along with bedding and general cleanup so here's to the vacant hill police volunteers for reminding us what community actually mean it's great that's really nice to see and i'm glad to see this is the good thing when the cops actually leave the body yes but that's not the kind of footage that you actually did though that was beautiful that's really commendable to them to run the safe. and so when you watch it it really does the sort of gets your heart that they really were i think that's the thing as we all sort of work together and make sure that we're sticking out for one another and that's protecting and serving yes that's the idea behind all the
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community policing it's supposed to be. not the other things that save puppies and kittens and people already people and that's where the so prove that remember everyone in this world we are the told to love them so i tell you all i love you i am a robot and on top of the all the people i'm watching those talks about what they're doing in that. america was never great was founded on the rape and murder. nothing changed so we said in. response to these situations that we do in the ways.
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people get sad every day she is just sad people kill each other blacks are killing children. there was just no way that people were going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. we have no idea what's a fuse doing on the vacation but she will be back on air in september.
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when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it's meaningless to the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no way that doesn't mean that we're even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep to get pell here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.
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