really will these theater operations consist of well because if there was one thing we know watchers you do not move massive amounts of ammunition unless there is a massive amount of fighting on the horizon could it be syria iran ukraine africa take your pick of the us military machine is latest propped a bogeyman and you could make a legitimate argument for how these latest arms shipments could be used for member former prime british prime minister david lloyd george once famously declared you are not going to get to peace with millions of armed men the chariot of peace cannot a band still road littered with cannons see pieces not found my friends through fire superiority contrary what the bumper stickers may say peace can only be found if you start watching the hawks. what would you. like real with this would. be the plot of.

what they like you know what i got. was that we. would. welcome everyone to watching the harks i am tyrone ventura and i'm south while it's . well it's really it's what is the theater operation to take a wild guess it's not a production about probably probably be impending or expected or feared conflicts in ukraine and syria as you said possibly with russia i've been sort of you know bullet saber rattling we're going to follow the those kind of things tab that when you see these headlines they seem real innocuous to first leisure oh you know big shipment of military hardware what to wear but as

we've seen through history it's always that big you know you've got to watch the movements of arms in order to figure out what is going to be on the horizon why do you need these many arms over so much because they can move from one place to the next to the next not so you end up with world war two ends well where do all these tanks go from for the korean war because they were over there and they moved them and fletcher prouty a believer wasn't talked about that like you know seeing all the invasion military hardware that was going to use the japan suddenly mysteriously shipped off to life or korea vietnam all these places where they were using a lot of. those for it's interesting because master sergeant arthur mirrored the eighty six mission squadron supply chief of the stockpile of ramstein would be added to the air force. war reserve material in europe and would support this is an interesting phrase european deterrence the european deterrence

initiative now the e d i was previously known as the european reassurance initiative and that's funded military projects in europe suits the russian intervention in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen so you already see the groundwork my will is over and crimea. let me but i feel that over it there it's interesting good mothers also remember that we're looking at places africa is another and i think people forget exactly how many bullets are actually made and how much munition would be needed for all of those things the eighty six munitions squadrons fight chief which is master sergeant arthur myrick actually said we're major airlift for u.s. air forces in europe air forces africa so these are real world munitions to fulfill real world objective about the reason we're downloading these things to make sure we have the capability to move the fight forward if need be so what they're saying is that we need the for conflicts in wherever mostly

africa. i and europe and if we need to push those even farther and more more. terror disgustingly and mar destructively we want to make sure we have enough bullets to do it. and that's the thing you know that's the thing that gets me with stuff like this because it's like when you read lives like push the fight forward right you know right now i care ok we're what fighting you know like water we'd like that's the biggest thing and we're going to follow the story we'll keep following the story just to kind of do you know what it is we got to watch where the stuff goes because of the most important thing you can do when you're watching the hawks yet is you've got to follow not just the money but the military hardware right and one of the things i think people should know about as well. basis for oh yeah base this rump state not the bay and the american military base that's in germany it was opened back in fifty three and there's

essentially the headquarters of the us air force in europe and africa nato is allied air command the base is like the rural part of south was germany and it made little america because it has something like fifty thousand u.s. military personnel and civilians it makes it the largest such community outside of the u. this is like one of the this is the major all of us lack of a better term imperialism committed don't you see fifty thousand soldiers and civilians of one bases were because it was ridiculous and well we have like i have to say we have a dozen or more wars going on so somebody has got to organize the. crude oil for. the american society of civil engineers infrastructure report card of twenty seven thousand give the vital infrastructure of the united states of america a lovely d. plus a being the best being well failures so deep plus which is also the grade the several

civil engineers gave america's hazardous waste programs and infrastructure a d. plus so isn't any surprise that recently folks here were greeted to headlines of panic and problems that they hand for inside a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the us government on the beautiful columbia river in washington well here is r t america strain child goes with more. one of the largest nuclear plants in the united states is telling r.t. it's back to business after steam escaped from a tunnel containing radioactive waste employees were told to take cover for several hours employees received this text message friday morning telling them that the site isn't take cover to go to the closest take cover facility and to avoid eating or drinking anything until further notice i spoke to a rep for the company and. he said there was a browning operation under way which was giving off heat and the steam was a result from the heat mixed with the cold air outside that caused the vapor for

the past few weeks workers have been filling the tunnel with grout to guard against the tunnel from collapsing the tunnel still houses several railcards that are filled with radioactive plutonium the u.s. department of energy later said inspections revealed that no evidence was found that any radioactive material was released the company said in a statement lights and cameras placed inside the tunnel to support stabilization efforts in the tunnel resulting from the curing of the engineered grout recently placed in the tunnel to stabilize it the curing process generates heat and moisture when the warm air left the tunnel and interacted with the cool early morning hours fear steam was visible and sort of fishel said the building where the steam was spotted houses appointment designed to move a massive door used to access the tunnel and that rail cars containing contaminated equipment were lost placed here in one thousand nine hundred six work in the area returned to normal operations just after the precautionary take was lifted the

company did say that surveys continued throughout the weekend verify that there was no release of hans or vista material and they are now using the term water vapor as opposed to steam the latest incident comes more than a year after a twenty foot section of another tunnel caved in no major injuries were reported to him for nuclear sites which has been decommissioned employs about nine thousand workers whose main object is to clean up the toxic waste reported in new york trade each of us r.t. . between steam and water vapor the growth here biology is true that there have been trying to figure out the difference three moves to. you so one of the things you know about this is that it was a plutonium manufacturing site so the first nuclear bomb tested at the tribute the site. was put on your list from there as well as the plutonium that went into which would be the that was the nuclear bomb detonated over nagasaki japan. three

years ago this is one of the i mean thankfully no one was hurt thankfully you know apparently they're saying that no radioactive. materials or energy was released into the air or out of her you know but cars have to go i understand on a side i'm not really right now by and after everything we've seen over the years i understand the six skepticism look i mean the united states has over ninety thousand metric tons of nuclear waste that requires disposal the u.s. commercial power history alone has generated more ways than any other country with nearly eighty thousand troops the spent nuclear fuel is enough to build a football field about twenty meters deep. and according to the department of energy the u.s. government's nuclear weapons program is generate about fourteen thousand metric tons that is a lot of nucular waste and a d. plus impulse structure to handle it yeah and the one of the biggest problems is

that the waste is stored where it's made so you've got about eighty sites in thirty five different states which covers a lot so the amount of waste is expected to go up about one hundred forty or forty thousand metric tons over the next couple of decades obviously if the new nuclear war brave whatever it is goes on that will be more because the more that is produced and the more weapons produce the more waste we will have and the worst thing to talk about earlier today is that we don't like you mentioning most nuclear will store at these sites say it right across the country as opposed to even just one site contains a we don't even have one so you know i mean there's the yucca mountain site in the about a but that. hasn't. so. they don't know it's going to be. you know but don't worry we have made sure that you know servers full of all of

our information that's stuffed up there somewhere in caps trade or maybe just put it where the there's a big them up at the t.v. or you're going to prepare a clock watcher of oprah good to let us know what you think of the topics recover to facebook and twitter see our poll shows at our t.v. dot com coming up author and human rights lawyer dan koval what joins us to discuss the recent brazilian presidential election the controversial cover the. role and then we will look at the human kindness that can come out of tragedy stay tuned to watching the whole. thing.

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have to try to cross the survival before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the water as in the house. question. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten like colored prime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be called for rich feet point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one. one you know for to me one and we.

thank. you liberalism used policies like fiscal austerity financial deregulation free trade and the privatization of public assets in order to shrink the size and reach of government as a whole but while you liberalism has had some success in other countries brazil is not one of them and fact neoliberal policies caused massive debilitating inflation when implemented in the one nine hundred ninety s. by two thousand and fifteen the majority state owned oil company petro bras was mired in a scandal so big it's called the largest corruption scandal in brazilian history in the end then president dilma rousseff was impeached and removed from office and twenty sixteen since then many have wondered what direction the latin american

country would take and with the election of what many are describing as a far right now. naro to the presidency many wonder if a swing in the opposite direction is the answer vote her and brazilian citizen carlos alberto does silva told the atlantic quote i don't think he's great but i want to see if he could change things because we are to do something about security and about education and the economy to me every tries to install a dictatorship the senate and everyone else would stop them right now joining us now to help us understand the future and brazil's past is author of human rights attorney dan koval like whose new book the plot to control the world how the u.s. spent billions to change the outcomes of elections around the world has shelves this november welcome dan. thank you very much to do and always a pleasure to have you on the show and i want to start by saying look like most politicians you know brazilian president joe you know made a lot of promises bold statements. the funding some of his wealth the least we can

say is in some commons during the election and kind of use the same excuse trumpton well it's all just talk blah blah blah blah blah is balsam. as dangerous is he dangerous to democracy in brazil from what you've seen and what you've studied down there. well i believe he is i believe he's a threat to democracy in the entire region. he's been very open about the fact that he supported. the one nine hundred sixty four d'etat which was a military coup against a democratically elected president i should describe this in my book the us was very much behind that coup and we see echoes of that coup today in fact it has to be pointed out that while an arrow was democratically elected as you know in terms of the vote. right now that there were two preconditions to his even being you know

in the ballpark to run and that was the impeachment of president dilma and the jailing of former president lula da silva. both of those were many of us believe were improper. amounted to soft to say that were supported very directly by the united states by the way and had little of the sylvan up in jail had they been able to run. for office he would have won with about eighty percent of the vote and so this was really a coup by the right wing. and they are now in control of the government in brazil and i think are very open about the fact they're willing to use the military to exert their will in their country. well some of the polls in brazil are showing that only about about twenty at least twenty five percent of people who voted for

both did it not because they supported his vision but to punish the sort of politics as usual in fact example exit polls actually said that because you know it's mandatory or compulsory voting there that thirty percent of voters cast either blank votes or abstained completely is this more of what we've seen from the brecht vote the election of trump in the u.s. and and showed that these votes are about really the system is broken these governments are broken and not about sort of turning back the clock to these days earlier days of social. horribleness come up with a better term. yeah i think that's a fair statement i don't think that most people were intentionally voting for fascism in brazil and i think many people will rue the day that they spoiled their ballots or voted for both scenario but again i think it's important to note that

they do see a system that broken ironically though it's the right wing that's now in power they broke it. by their attack against il ma and lula disengaged and it's strange that they were rewarded for that. by this vote but yeah i do think that there's going to be a lot of buyer's remorse amongst the population and you're going to see that very quickly you know it's interesting when you look at like the you know when governments are leaders kind of want to push something the the populace doesn't necessarily want one of those controversial ideas that you know expand gun ownership in brazil to combat crime but polls show that most people there don't support that you know when will it matter at the other day when it seems that the left and the right voting blocks in brazil want something done about the crime rates but you know their leaders are going to do the exact opposite of what they

ultimately want and we see that across the border around the world you know why is there such a detachment here do you think even in countries like brazil from like the leadership to the people and what the people ultimately want. well again under under the presidency of louis silva brazil actually did a very good job of combat ing inequality combat in poverty. it did make inroads into combating crime did a lot to protect the environment so actually there was a lot of progress towards what people wanted under lula's terms in office and in fact time magazine several years ago to lula da silva is the most influential leader in the world he is now sitting in jail. illegally in fact noam chomsky just went to visit him. a few weeks ago so again i think that that context just has to be out there and people have to realize that in fact brazilians goals were being

met under lula and he now rots in jail and there's been almost no protest in the western media or by western governments about that fact about this very popular leader sitting in jail as a fascist comes to power in brazil one of the things i thought was really interesting is in your new book the plot to control the world you did talk about you know they nine hundred sixty four crew that you know the one that it was all of boston are saying like a big right we could go back to that that coup was literally a u.s. backed government coup. do you consider these votes for someone like him to be kind of the backlash to u.s. interference as an elections. well what i see it as more of as again in addition to the there popular leader being sidelined they also see the

vote as desperation you know we the let's face it world capitalism is now in huge crisis throughout the world and the sad thing is that in other times in fairly recent history there was a choice you could move towards the left. to try to solve those problems of capitals crisis or you could choose the right the problem is right now the right is much better we're going to throughout the world than the left again that's true brazil in large part because of what the right wing did to undermine the left there and will continue to do but in general after the collapse of the soviet union to put a finer point on it. you know a lot of people saw their only protest against you know neo liberalism was

ultra right wing ism and i think to combat that the left needs to reorganize in brazil and in the united states to give people an alternative to to an economic system that is failing them. well let me ask you a real quick i don't want it you know we've got a caravan of of refugees that are coming from central america obviously up through mexico at the united states what we have a couple minutes left what are your thoughts on that and do you think this is you know that that is part of an organized effort to sort of show you know is this a protest or is this just literally be a fact of interfering in the drug war is than or and elections and all of that we got a couple minutes left and just like you yes i think it's all the above first of all and again i do happen to mention this in my book most of the refugees are from honduras and they are fleeing a very repressive government that again the u.s.

very much helped to bring to power in two thousand and nine with the two against president and well the lie of others are coming from lot of on which the u.s. interfered in for many decades supporting very brutal military dictatorships there . so yes what we're seeing is the results of very. negative interference by the u.s. in these countries. people are i believe in this caravan as it's being called one to protest but also yes to legitimately flee unliveable situations in countries that we have made on livable not only by political and military intervention but by global warming which is making it. impossible for many farmers to grow food in these countries and again the u.s. has been historically the biggest contributor to global warming and so we see the

effects of u.s. policies of failed us policies in this caravan the snow now coming to the border and i fear what the u.s. might do to prevent them from entering the u.s. i could but you know i think we're all a little scared of what's going to happen there especially when you're suddenly sudden you know troops to meet people coming to the border ben i got to say thank you so much for coming on to him to day which is going to new books coming out the plot to control the world how the u.s. but billions to change the outcome of elections or old world who chose works week thank you so much jim for coming on. thank you. the qur'an says that the equal not equal are the good deed and the bad and the case of this weekend's shooting at a pittsburgh synagogue that left eleven dead the good deeds that came and the tragedies way were much more powerful than the bad man's actions within twenty four

hours of the shooting the muslim american community of pittsburgh had raised twenty five thousand dollars for the victims' families in forty eight hours they had increased and surpassed a new goal of seventy five thousand dollars increasing at a rate of two thousand dollars an hour it is now sitting around one hundred forty thousand with a no new goal of one hundred fifty thousand dollars and initially organized by celebrate mercy and m. power change the campaign hopes to help provide for the immediate and short term needs of the injured victims and their grieving families and all the campaign is open to all faiths nearly seventy percent of the contributors are coming from those of muslim faith may the losses of daniel stein choice feinberg richard godfried roy smiling or jerry rubin to cecil and david rosenthal bernier's and so. and simon melvin wax and irving younger bring about more love than the hate that made it possible made their communities become stronger in their struggle may our

love always be much more valuable than our hate. beautiful stuff to see if there's like a possible solution for just a bit. like a sub my goodness come come from tragedy and we need more goodness that we need the tragedy of that part of our body that is our show for today remember of all of this world we are not told to love them up so i tell you all i love you i am i rolled winter up and on top of the lawless keep on watching those talks about the great day and night it would put. in this us. and.

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