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ones that were doing the harm because they were afraid that it would have backlash on their career to me now. i don't have respect for those people that didn't stand by and take a stand in support the ones that were actually being harmed but along the way there were some silent people that came up to me and said that this person had done that to them that this person had done this to them and so people opened up along the way but they wouldn't take it as far as i did in actually report although i must say it was because of a senior master sergeant that i finally confided in he's the one that finally convinced me to report the four individuals to the commander jennifer we're going to take a short break right now and while we're back we'll continue talking with jennifer norris u.s. air force veteran talking about the epidemic of rape in the u.s. military and what happens to those dare to speak out against it.
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you know world big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the past and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred
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to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. pranking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year girl with trucks so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in the mountains
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and the slowdown so much they lost their jobs. the american dream has changed that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality to deal. with this manufactured and sentenced to public will. when the ruling class is a project. with the flaming. lips and be the one person. in the middle of the room sit. in the. room. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy from day shouldn't let it be an arms race is also a spearing dramatic development is only really going to exist i don't see how that
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strategy will be successful very critical. to sit. in. our back with jennifer norreys sarah for especially her and military rape survivor sharing the story of her or dale and how she found the strength to move on though jennifer iraq that's her and chan talent hannah berry says she was less scared of enemy fire than the men she served with sure a call she would like drink less water to avoid going to the bathroom in night time the show so terrified of being harassed so why do women even join the army despite
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hearing all this horrific stories. i think that it boils down to people don't think that it's going to happen to them and that's typical of i think just society you just don't think that bad things are going to happen to you i had the same mentality before i joe joined too so you know they want to follow their dreams and they want to do what they want to do in in some of us our dreams was to be in the military and retire and and do great things in move women forward so i think that's normal that's ok you know eight nations is speaking out about this the problem of sexual assault in the u.s. military and it's saying that it needs to ensure affective prosecution of offenders is going to make any difference absolutely right now the prosecution rate for sexual assault is less than ten percent compared to the civilian world which is at least forty percent that's what we're trying to say is that if if people are raped
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or assaulted and then report we would like for these cases to be taken seriously right now like i spoke to you earlier you have to report the crime to your commander they are not a legal professional they are not special victims unit they do not understand how these things work and what we want is to be able to report to a police department or a law enforcement professional someone that understands how these people work and can't be manipulated by them so three years activists and lawmakers in the united states have tried to change this product all right but leaders in the military are against bringing civilians into bases to investigate alleged assaults why are they against it and what are they winning this debate wide why do you think the military is winning this debate. because they're able to protect their institution if they're able to keep everything in-house and that's exactly what they do they want to stomp it out before it gets out to the public whereas we want it out in the
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public so people know who these offenders are and can be on alert they don't just offend people in the military they're offending people in our communities as well their wives their children so it's not just a military issue it's a societal issue and i think it would be way more effective if everyone reported to a police department where all the crime data was kept in one place i think in completely removing sexual assault cases from the military chain of command that would actually solve the problem i think standardising the justice process in general to have it in sync with the civilian society meaning databases connected and you know whether it's the civilians that try the perpetrator or it's the military that tries the perp perpetrator everyone should be talking so that we can connect the dots on who's doing what where because it makes it a little bit more complicated with
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a military personnel who can transfer all over the country and to different parts of the world we need all the data collection to be put into a system so we can actually track with these people have done through the course of time and be able to move forward with with cases that may win as opposed to a he said she said incident so jennifer what i'm thinking is that maybe there should be more women in the u.s. military in high ranking positions that way they would take more positions and maybe kick some butt especially regarding the men who are potential salters what do you think should there be more women in the u.s. military. that be ideal although we have to take into account that over half of the victims in the military actually fifty three percent of them are males so this isn't an female issue necessarily we are at higher risk because we're seen as the weaker sex but predators do not discriminate they are harming both men and women in
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the military and a lot of media have been trying to cover the issue we just have not been able to get any footing with it but people need to know that more than half the victims are men in the military here's another crazy number according to the human rights watch only five percent of sexual assault cases in the u.s. military really two convictions of the perpetrators what happened to the man who assaulted you see punished yes the recruiter skipped town after i threatened to report him to the commander unfortunately so we couldn't do anything with that case the technical instructor that assaulted me at keesler mississippi we had no jurisdiction over because he was active duty and i was considered national guard and then the other two who were both national guard members that work with me we were able to move forward with cases but by the time it went up the chain of command it minimized from sexual assault to sexual harassment they both retired
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with full benefits after twenty years of service pentagon keeps saying that programs are implemented changes are being made the problem is being solved as if. i lie i don't think it's all a lie but i definitely think that they sway the media to see things a certain way so for example although the numbers may have gone down from twenty six thousand or roughly nineteen thousand in the last couple of years and they're bragging about a thirty percent increase in reporting it means nothing in the civilian world doesn't understand that in the military you can report a crime. i'm under two different guys is either restricted or unrestricted if it's restricted that means nobody's supposed to know about it including your commander so you can go forward and get some help if it's unrestricted then it turns into a full blown investigation if in fact your commander agrees to move forward with
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the case which is another sticking point so people need to realize that although the reporting has gone up it's been restricted reporting which is not helping us catch these criminals they're they're still not being reported you might be able to get help but they're still moving along in their careers assaulting other people while the latest victim is just getting help you now work with those who went through this same problem as you did are you seeing more cases away men speaking out has to situation gotten any better i think awareness has definitely got better around the issue and there's way more talk about it within the military and outside in the veteran community to address getting help for after someone's been traumatized by an incident like this so that in fact is has improved i've actually benefited greatly from the programs that have come as a result of our advocacy with military sexual assault so for that i'm thankful as
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far as the military justice system goes and policy goal goes it's it's the same thing it's always been nothing has changed whatsoever as far as the core issues that we're trying to to address which is taking a commander out of the decision making process as far as whether or not you're going to move forward with a case we just want law enforcement professionals and detectives and investigators to deal with these cases not a commander who's great at war but has absolutely no idea how the legal process works and what sexual assault is what do you do for the victims how are you now helping. and my boss what i do is i empower them when i did work for as an advocate i actually would help them kind of deal with their cases as they were moving along in the process and i noticed the same patterns over and over and over so now what i do because that was really hard to take until we can change things is
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focus on helping them to heal despite not being able to get justice so trying to find a place of comfort in yourself to know that you didn't do anything wrong it's just that the system is not working well and it needs to be changed and we there's nothing we can do about it right now except to take care of ourselves and hope for the best in the future. so you just mentioned earlier that it's not just a man woman problem that fifty one percent the ones who are being assaulted are being are men and i read this trace and survey also by american psychological association that's us that number of men facing sexual assaults in the military is fifteen times higher than reported by the pentagon that would mean up to two hundred thousand men or assaulted in one ear is that number correct is the right call. and do you help man and no you know yes whoever
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needs help when they come to me i will assist him and as best i can that actually that study from american psychological association was retracted they had used. not a very good way to determine those numbers it was it wasn't correct so it was retracted it's not actually that high what he didn't really matter it's still high enough where it should be a concern the actual numbers what i shared with you it's roughly fifty three percent of the victims of military sexual assault are males. this is not a female soldier issue this is a predator issue and that's what we're trying to tell people jennifer thank you so much for sharing this story with us thank you so much for empowering women who went through the same thing as you they thank you so much for being so brave and outspoken in the hope that you really when you win over
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a pentagon thank you we're talking to jennifer a nor'easter retired air force sergeant now activist with the military rape crisis center speaking about sexual assaults in the u.s. military issues share of the story also her ordeal and her five for justice that's it for this edition so i'll see you next. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping
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each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be culled from rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand in the ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only buddha. four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four have different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row
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there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not share around a corner. with no make this manufacture consent instead of public wealth. when the room in clusters and protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick news. tonight around anymore unions. tracking gave americans. a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as
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a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year in trucks so i chose to drive a truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent it was like a gold rush it is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here in the slowdown so much they lost their jobs got laid off and the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. it's a tough reality to deal with. you're . life. your current. through.
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through. time like the grief the more i have swedish i do swedes will be a minority in our own country within two or three decades migration policy dominates campaigning ahead of sunday's general election and sweep plenty of people from the population on a foreign origin to gauge the mood in stockholm. an american police officer acquitted of killing an unarmed black man faces a backlash for conducting a course on how to cope with the after effects victim's family a furious. you don't eat plants and how does the mind the aftermath of the. the serve and protect that you want to remain calm. to make sure that you treat everybody equal under the color of. fresh accusations in
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a rush of collusion saugor it's now touted that from nodded approval of the proposed meeting with president putin in twenty six days. if you were watching i'm calling brain moscow with the world news it's not a on monday the third of september first off for you campaigning in sweden is ramping up for the general election this coming sunday the polls show the populist movements are gaining traction propelled by anti immigration sentiment reporting from stockholm his maria for national. the swedes will be a minority in our own country within two or three decades even if to stop all immigration now we will become a minority that's the demography journalist in good carlquist has been branded
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a racist by many she's calling for the borders to be closed and all immigrants to be sent away nowadays when people call me a racist i say ok fine let's. say that i'm a racist can we now go on to discuss the facts the fact is the ones one of the most homogenous populations in europe almost a quarter of all swedish people today have a foreign background and some parts of society really aren't happy with that reality sweden is not swedish anymore i mean this is still the change here used to be a small little shop where you could buy drugs now it's sort of a sure you never find any swedish anymore but then as i ask out. there speaking english. is just here. all the science arena rap being. all you know order nor is owner of
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a no no no no let me wrong for me to believe you sure don't expect actually the usual. i'm very sad that sweden is not swedish country anymore it makes me want to cry don't you regularize my own country if you like growing cloyd in the nation. we don't become so used to that all swedes say oh we love immigration we love all you are come here so they get really you know they're not used to us we say what i say that's what they get oh what while we continue to walk with the camera more and more people come up. most of them to argue. to complain. but good luck so you see even immigrants think that we are a meek country that if we don't have good laws adam tells us he's been an asylum seeker in sweden for almost fifteen years with no my work permit and no id so
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how do you get your money when you get one of the migration you. but. who pays their money. you know who pays migration swedish taxpayers you know how much money how much we were and how much taxes we pay i don't understand how this can go on for fifteen years was finished we did ask a swedish migration agency and immigration minister and ministry of justice and social democrat party without getting any clear answer yet we look up on the agency's website twice he was denied asylum in two thousand and four and two thousand and seven his third application is currently pending according to swedish law an asylum seeker can appeal against the decision if there placation is refused today fifty thousand immigrants remain in sweden illegally have to failed asylum
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cases another seventy five thousand are still waiting on the migration board's decision including. for the third time in fourteen years. i'm like a dog really. wish i didn't. until to morrow comes holds a so-called l m a card very fine him as an asylum seeker he can legally stay in the country and receives the equivalent of iran and seven euros in swedish crowns every day and other social benefits but he's banned from studying or working here maybe i should give a paper i don't need to take his money if two thousand two hundred it's not money is right but give me a job and i bet bucks like her help an enema. it's not just refugees here question the system's efficiency but the locals and base size of the political spectrum people have a sensation of that this is. slowly deteriorating everything is going the wrong way
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you cannot ignore also the fact that we have nine hundred eighty given approval for two three point three million people from other countries to live here and seven percent of them have been refugees according to the united nations and the rest have come here for for many other reasons. and this does contain breeds fear and anger where you can't immigration immigration don't give him paper. he need to do that. is example like hello wake up is it me or not. is it me boy i do what i can do to make like for you cause you not give me paper. from sweden. a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in oklahoma in the us is now teaching officers how to deal with anti police groups initiative sparked protests
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and a petition to bamba course officer betty shelby came to public attention in twenty sixteen after she was tried for shooting terrence trotter while on patrol she was later acquitted of first degree manslaughter which she's now launched a course called surviving the aftermath of a critical incident for officers accused of shooting an unarmed suspect a warning that a video to show you does contain disturbing images now in shelby's case she was among several officers who confronted terrance crutcher when they discovered his broken down car in the middle of a road she says that crutch a failed to respond request to raise his hand one officer used a taser while shelby shot crutcher hitting him in the lung and she claims that in the months following the incident she received death threats and was victimized by anti police groups this inspired her to help other officers through similar. true ations but terrence crouch a sister thinks that the course is only teach police how to get away with murder. the sheriff and the leadership of tulsa should really be ashamed of themselves to
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allow. the officer who killed my brother who had his hands in the air who didn't have the weapon he was on aren't to have this officer teach other law enforcement officers after such a controversy or verdict we feel again that he got away with murder and we feel that the title was how to get away with murder and it's wrong law enforcement should focus on our quest to step through then what's going on all over the united states of america and then the killing of unarmed black men deescalating or deescalation course courses are necessary despite the protests the tulsa county sheriff's office did not cancel the class they said it was not related to the shooting itself but rather to the potential consequences arising from a similar incident here's why officer shelby thinks the course is necessary i faced many challenges that i was unprepared for such as friends to my life by activist
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groups to last so be my classes to help others by sharing some of the skill say used to cope with the stress of make critical incident you don't need a class on how to survive the aftermath your soon to serve and protect as you're sworn to remain calm you're sworn to make sure that you treat everybody equal under the color of them are for officers shelby to play the victim and. say that she's being bullied in tormented by. the media and activist groups and groups who are simply voicing their concerns groups who are fighting for justice for the killing of unarmed men by law enforcement groups who have experienced loss and pain in for her to turn
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this around in make this about herself my family is grieving parents the children will never have their father around is antithetical to the oath that she took as a police officer police in oklahoma wrote a tract of negative headlines before statistics show that african-americans could be up to five times more likely to be subjected to forcible policing than any other ethnic minority mark lewis who's the founder of the activist platform we the people i play home says officers racially profile african-americans claims that the police deny this is a smack in the face of the african-american community here in tulsa why is it that they are parading a person around the state and saying that she is their hero this is what they're doing while we have to deal with the asked about her killing an african-american male there is a huge outcry because she had no we're gone.
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