that is the question at hand as we grab ringside seats to the oldest ongoing by human history the habs versus the have nots the kings purses the serbs the cold shivering masses versus the warm and gilded few as we start watching. what. the. real deal with. the bottom. like you that i got. this. week. was ever going to watch a dark side i'm tired robot and on top of the law and examine yeah there are but i'll just and this is something that we've talked about this with wal-mart

for years as we have and we talk about it mcdonald's actually telling their employees like giving them hints about here you should get food stamps of. your income or here's the budget and now what we see is that amazon this huge employer that makes all of this money and gets lots of corporate welfare. and here they are here they are again here they are again they're relying on taxpayers to cover their employees living expenses essential that sort of breaks down to you know rather than pay these employees a living wage where these people can you know afford food without the help of the government well now it's not paying that much let's just let the government fill in the blanks that we won't because we want to make more more more more money because jeff needs to buy a car and then i don't know like you know what more can he buy with that much more than two hundred. the center of legislation is essentially

a one hundred project so we you know what it is and you home the centers of such and such a one hundred percent tax on large employers that's equal to the amount of federal benefits received by their low wage workers it breaks down like this if an amazon worker let's say receives three hundred dollars in food stamps amazon the company would then be taxed three hundred dollars essentially making up the spend by the government worker and this tax would actually apply to all companies with five hundred or more employees so it's really aimed at your larger stablished you know conglomerates and corporations it's not after like the mom and pop shop no you know very few mom and pop shops are sitting around with you know five eight hundred thousand employees you know and so that's basically it's kind of forcing them if passed would force them to pay their employees a living wage right and this and they have the end of the day no one should who have what you know in serious fall time job at amazon or any employed by them and

any capacity should qualify for public benefits that's ludicrous that that's even a possibility and i would argue a company of that size making that much money where its owner is the richest man in the world yeah hundred fifty billion come on even if they're a part time worker they should be paid about that. but what's really crazy is when you look at like the individual states where they. right this research yeah well one of the leaders that we didn't have they didn't have sex on every single stage but one of them and so they looked at was arizona and what's really those according to the new food a company that just in the state of arizona amazon was awarded roughly four million in subsidies for million in subsidies and the company employs about six thousand people in the save more than eight hundred of those employees were on food stamps and twenty seven thousand that's one in three one in three employees of amazon in arizona has to have public assistance in order to have enough food to eat well you

literally own grown entire grocery chain you literally tote yourselves is the great i. know they have a response they have a response amazon spokeswoman melanie edges told the media the figures were misleading because they only include people who only work for amazon for a short period of time and or who chose to work part time we have hundreds of full time roles available however some prefer part time for the flexibility or other personal reasons that the average hourly wage for full time workers and us warehouses more than fifteen dollars an hour when stock instead of both this is of course factored in yeah and one other thing before we go on we have to remember is that amazon actually just started taking snap online so you can buy groceries so i guess if you get a discount boy or an amazon employee might make up for them or pay paul. well moving on the u.s. military applied what they called tactical use chemicals on foliage during the

vietnam war it was all part of a mission called operation ranch hand in which herbicides and defoliants were sprayed on rural areas in south vietnam to deprive the viet cong of cover and food these weaponized tactical chemicals were called rainbow herbicides it because they included agent green agent purple and well the most well known and most dangerous agent orange according to our website documentation the united states department of veterans affairs has recognized certain cancers and other health problems as presumption of diseases associated to exposure to agent orange or other herbicides during military service some of the diseases they said they are presumed to be caused by agent orange and other herbicides include but are not limited to chronic b. cell leukemia hodgkin's disease non hodgkins lymphoma parkinson's disease prostate cancer and respiratory cancers including lung cancer in addition the v.a. presumed certain birth defects in children of vietnam and korea veterans are

associated with the veterans exposure to agent orange meaning the v.a. recognizes that birth defects in u.s. veterans children were caused by exposure to agent orange monsanto one of the nine makers of the agent orange for the u.s. government during the vietnam war claims they're not responsible for the effects of the product on veterans or the many many innocent being to me is in korean stating but the government said the prospects of occasions for making agent orange and determined when and where and how it was made agent orange were only produced for and used by the us government however the recent verdict in the us courts found finding monsanto legally responsible for the cancer causing a fax of its pesticide roundup were and were ordered to pay two hundred eighty one million dollars to one of their victims which has led the nation of vietnam's foreign minister to repeat a longstanding demand that monsanto and eight other companies that made agent orange. compensate should compensate vietnamese victims so is it time that

companies like monsanto are held responsible for the damage their products have caused or will they be able to hide behind the us government we've been victims without any justice yes by all means they should be held accountable man put put yes take it to court take it to court international court what are we going to do take them to court and find out that's right that's my opinion and it looked agent orange was devastated yeah and you can hide behind well the government asked us to do it but if you knew it was dangerous you should have spoken up at the time right and that's a leg we didn't even know how to make it was just awesome dow chemical and we just didn't have a clue about how to make it they told us yeah i mean look the us military sprayed over twenty million gallons of herbicides like agent orange in to be at cambodia laos from sixty one to seven to ten years of this stuff age in order contains the chemical dioxin put in on the hat here now and explain how this works which

accumulates in the fatty tissues this part of mammals me and was found by the world health organization to be get this highly toxic and can cause reproductive and developmental bama developmental problems damage the immune system interferes with hormones and also cause cancer wow more than thirteen million gallons of agent orange were used were used which amounted to almost two thirds of the total amount of herbicides used during the entire vietnam war all of that poisoned dumped on a country of people right and like just in vietnam just in vietnam is thirteen million gallons and you're talking about cambodia and laos and their people nor north korea. still that's you would still feel the effects and of course they have no go back to the worst of all they are then i believe their twisting kind of international star to go to rome being held responsible for this yeah so there's a moral moral quandary it's just a moral. in two thousand and four the vietnam association for the victims of agent

orange filed a lawsuit against dow chemical and thirty manufacturers or all the manufacturers of agent orange in their various pieces so while the court agreed with the plaintiffs that the herbicide campaign that the agent orange spraying campaign was controversial it didn't technically support the contention that the use of agent orange violated universally accepted norms and i explain how this works whoa this is because the norms such as those would go against international law or war crime don't necessarily prohibit the deployment of materials that are only secondarily harmful to humans so here's the point essentially what they said was that the herbicide was meant to kill plants and food it was not meant to cause death and disease to be innocent people so technically because it wasn't intended.

so i've heard it better soldiers it's not a violation of international law right now that's like using the excuse the wall hey i'm sorry i shot you in the head you were standing in front of the other guy i was trying to shoot right like that's ridiculous like this is the worst excuse i've ever heard i was learning down the house to get rid of the ants not you understand you just happened to be there and get burned alive my bad you know it's interesting too is that there was also a major lie attached to all this because chemical companies claimed they had no way of making it safer for humans that's what they claim yet in-house memos show that they did have a way to make agent orange safer much safer for humans but in case you haven't guessed that they didn't because it would be a slight reduction in profit profits over people all right as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered a facebook or twitter see our poll shows that r.t. dot com coming up artie's sarah bumpus the orca brings us the latest in the good

life debate legal wars and then sean stone sits down with a libertarian socialist who's running for office in michigan going to miss this state so watching the whole. pretty. good. move. when all child's seemed wrong on one old rule just all. the world is yet to shape our disdain you can stick out to it and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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the town also i don't know topping the my life. i seen my own have to die. with months and are now facing down the sins of it's agent orange past let's take a look at its go ice of a lawsuit filled present after san francisco jury recent two hundred eighty nine million dollar ruling against the corporate giant and the recent discovery of life as a possible carcinogen main ingredient of months and those best selling round up being found in many breakfast cereals the question on everyone's mind is just what does the future hold for the bear owned agro chemical giant and its marquee product r.t. sara montecito oka has been following this story since it first made headlines and

is the latest on the round up on the latest developments in the ongoing saga. in a california verdict earlier this month monsanto was ordered to pay two hundred eighty nine million dollars to doing johnson who developed non hodgkin's lymphoma after using the weed killer according to a national university at resort study in argentina roundup is linked to several types of cancers including breast prostate and lung cancers and in a previous study researchers found that when parents were exposed around during the two years prior to the child's birth the risk of the child being born with brain cancer is significantly higher there is now global momentum to band to say in two thousand and ten doctors from across latin america formed an organization doctors of human data towns to speak out against a wave killer and a documentary released this year the filmmaker highlights the social and environmental concerns in these agricultural toxins now the national conference held in argentina dr. pediatrician specializing in environmental health explained

his concerns we've gone from a pretty healthy population to one with the high rate of cancer birth defects and illnesses seldom seen before what we have complained about for years was confirmed and especially would doctor say about the spray towns in areas affected by industrial agriculture cancer cases are multiplying as never before in areas with massive use of pesticides and in the last few years more than four hundred cities and towns in argentina have banned by the state since in a recent study scientists found that regions in argentina where the herbicide is still commonly used have seen miscarriages and birth defects that are twice the national average outside latin america a french farmer whose prostate cancer may have been caused by roundup has now taken legal action against monsanto and helping his case the government of france has vowed to banned life estate and welcome the recent california verdict in the u.s. as well pending legal cases against monsanto have surged with eight thousand

lawsuits now up in the air. meanwhile the e w g who released the report to say in serials is encouraging parents to come forward as a reminder these cereals may be found in your kitchen cabinet and include several children's breakfast food such as cheerios and lucky charms in a recent statement they said what can parents do demand that the food companies provide products that don't have toxic pesticides in them and when possible we encourage families to purchase organic products as a favor and healthier choice and it looks like some day care centers in chicago are ready being proactive one chicago area locations stop serving cheerios in response to the report perhaps this is just the start of the market pulling back on products containing the cancer causing herbicide in washington fairmont to r.t. . in the world of food many things just do not go together but oh how much we wish they would show we care about what we're peanut butter soup you know.

many would argue the same can be said for political ideologies you're not going to see a very liberal minded conservative or a capital capitalism having communist these ideologies like a pig in the middle just don't mix or do that recently our own sean stone sat down with matt koval one of the founders of the libertarian socialist caucus the libertarian party yes you heard me right a libertarian socialist and he is currently running for a seat in the michigan house of representatives. structure so. exploration really interesting political ideology. in two thousand and sixteen where i felt i could make a difference in support. candidates in political action it was gary johnson that brought me in and. coming in and there wasn't any infrastructure of nobody in

the area that i live in a mccollum county there was supporting his campaign we had to and one of the biggest counties in michigan i had to help build up an affiliate and the entire time i got told gary johnson wasn't a libertarian he didn't belong in the party i don't belong in the party and i've been fighting that mentality that you know exclusionary practice that i think is limited to the libertarian party but i think it's very detrimental to trying to build a successful political movement. right but from my understanding libertarianism is sort of the greatest advocates of privatization people would argue for privatization of you know milton friedman style privatization of education privatization of just about everything and limiting the government to a very small government so doesn't that go completely against socialism and even some of your ideas which i understand you're for example against the idea of

private property. yes and you know what drew me into the party was really you know it's stances on anti-war you know eliminating victimless crime laws though those are issues that i'm passionate about. and i think those are the biggest issues that we are facing the privatization everything that came after and never really took to it the libertarian socialist ideals do flip that script a little bit when it comes to especially private property we make a distinction between private property and personal property you know absent. giving title owner. for absentee owners letting natural resources be privatized in the hands of the few we see this as authority. opposed to libertarian principles so what we advocate for is more worker control unionization you know we don't want to see people subjected to landlords and renting we want to

see everybody not only have property rights but be able to exercise those property rights. certainly if so but as a libertarian do you advocate fundamentally that there should be. more private sector control more corporate control in decision making than is currently decided that obviously in our country we have a tremendous amount of government interference when it comes to everything from land rights to taxation you know all the private sector there seems to be a very strong marriage between the corporations and the government the big corporations that is so if in terms of the libertarian agenda would you want to see corporations also taking the role of creating socialist parameters would the government be taking that job or society basically how does it play out to the small and medium sized businesses have more stake and have more influence in our

government and your. agenda. yeah as far as we're concerned i mean socialism and democracy go hand in hand when it comes to libertarian socialism we don't want to see a state having control of what we want to see you know individual communities having autonomy forming democracy. built by working class people. we do want to see you know things like infrastructure and organization and that's the tool democracy is the tool that you would use to build those up i am completely against privatization. again i think privatisation it requires that requires a central planner and that's essentially what you have in private organizations private companies that are built on a capitalist model you have you know very few select people making all the decisions. we make a distinction between you know a big deal and

a small d democracy and that distinction would be the emphasis on individual liberty one's rights to have control over their own life as well as free association which is you know. you know if you're not able to revoke consent then it's then its authority and that's that's where we draw a distinction. so it seemed to me that you would be a big proponent for example of cryptocurrency use an alternative currency used to basically shatter the strength of a centralized monetary economy which we currently have with central banking. cryptocurrency is that would allow for more potentially community created economies . definitely i think i think it's pretty interesting market right now is just if you like gambling to a degree much like the stock market but i think it has a lot of potential. candidate here running for mayor of detroit she was running on

a platform of. universal basic income using a crypto currency for the city one that private organizations or landholders would be contributing to and distributing it to the community for them to. have access to the services. and what would be on the universal basic income would you want to implement that if you were in a position of power. you know we can look at it incrementally even with cryptocurrency like that idealistic. identify as an anarcho commie communist i do believe that now more than ever we are able to advance and to post scarcity we have new technology automation artificial intelligence three d. printing. we're at a point where i believe scarcity is is manufactured it's artificial so i'd like to

move past that u.b.i. being supported by capitalist mostly you have. and richard branson recently came out favor of it mark zuckerberg these are people who own mass amounts of capital and u.b.i. would be a way for them to somewhat quell the dissent of. impoverishing the working class that are getting fed up with being taken advantage of it's kind of a band-aid it may be a step in the right direction and depending on how it's implemented i may support it as a as a reform but it's not necessarily our ideals. speaking of figures that you would respect. or you a friend of bernie sanders throughout the campaign. you know he voting for him in the primary he did win michigan. but he's definitely not my ideal candidate. but you know often in politics we're not giving we're not given our

ideal choices. on aug thirteenth and sam louis arizona just over the border from mexico a car was pulled over leaving a vacant k.f.c. restaurant now this set off drugs ticket sniffing dogs which led to the discovery over a million dollars worth of cocaine methamphetamine era when and then deadly fenton and while this story should end there and horribly did out horribly dangerous drugs off the street it was how these drugs got us that made this story a little different see when the building was searched the police made the discovery of a twenty foot deep nearly five hundred ninety foot long tunnel that started at a trap door in the k.f.c. and led to a home and sonora mexico. and what seems like a scene from breaking bad the man in the car was the building's owner who had picked up the building on the cheap to be used for drug trafficking it's the fifth tunnel like this found in the region since two thousand and seven and one of over

two hundred found in the border patrol's history well good thing we're getting that walled stuff out the scourge of drug tunnels. boy all the great tunnels i got to say the work in there and yeah i mean a lot of what i want to hire these contractors that's an amazing time under k.f.c. too i don't like when. i don't starve so for the it is very breaking bad as are the neighbors so it's sort of that if there is a member of one in this world we are told we are above does not tell you all i love you i am a robot and i have a lot less keep watching those office now the great thing about it.

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