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how lots of fish. so after reading trash for life and a stick in the in if you are going through. invited us factory for the twenty fifth anniversary of the founding of the episode. on october fifth or in the past this plane were shot down in a car for the poor play dropping. corporate terrorists that reagan had funded a train. and there was one crew member the parachuted to shake the. usual price made of of them for its. minute wisconsin cure me after we arrived in. the nick unarmored your dish or tripe you know it takes us of course out of the crash site and asked us to events we wanted to go on
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a helicopter with our supplies to the crash site house and a shock to us about all the flights you've been on all these covert flights of army air corps and he would course angry because he had been abandoned by the reagan administration he was basically a covert operator mercenary he was proud of. his capture would reveal a complex web of covert operations run by us colonel oliver north reagan's administration had bypassed congressional control and funded the country insurgents through drug trafficking and secret arms sales to be ron. paul secret but the house in a shoot down blew out into the open to make a mistake it's really hard to say wrong sir no and i'm not taking any more french and say it's just a second i'm going to ask a journey general meese to brief you on what we presently know what he has found. in the united states why. some of. the revelations of the iran
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contra affair gave new momentum to the work of the peace activists. evidence showed that the weapons were coming from the largest pentagon arms depot on the west coast california's concord naval weapons station. and i went out just to check out the situation. and discovered that on one side of the road. were literally hundreds of bloggers with all these weapons. there's a train track from these bunkers that came out and crossed the highway and then went out to the pier is where these balls were loaded on to the ships.
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we had a press conference in which that are in store planning to start a forty day fast. of our hearts conscience is what we were doing and why my son was there he is fourteen years old. brian and duncan murphy and david duncan. placed themselves on the tracks. automat brain. jane not a pretty sure thing you know we just go out there and we stand and then the train slows down and stops. said a couple of people lost the road and went over to the front gate of the no one to the station inform them that we were getting walk in and there was already a train that we could see. how a box cars were going to show they had to. run to be sure that it did. engineer
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knew there was a dog or something on the rocks or gets out. to the police would probably come at some point to remove them before they could move the train. we deliver the letter to the person at the base. that person or someone else we understand there's going to be violence here today. and we said no no we're told people are not going to be doing any well. and then they start walking back and they say. walking back the freight and start a little bit. was obviously the main way faster than you'd ever observe a train that stayed. if
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i turned around. ran over bryan and i saw him play put a few fly out. ryan body roll it back and forth in there that frame i watched listening to my son screaming they killed my dad they killed my dad. and i had medical training they even had i.v. equipment on my car because i was on a midwife and i asked for someone to go get the idea that card nine one one we had to wait at least seventeen minutes after the first ambulance arrived he says baby used to take him to the hospital and they said now is not our jurisdiction and then we have to call another ambulance. on. this is this your. true. good in
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this room before you go to the. body this is the with. brian's action it really opened up a lot of people to. what was going on there and why he was there and how much he had sacrifice in order to save. the day because her table at the station remained in the national spotlight as protesters of past and present rallied on behalf of the conference but the nickel occupy. protesters tore up the section of blood stained cracks were moved from the ground run over by a train. set it back this morning. one to two a. few minutes we're going to be there with. which. we will watch it. with you if. for me it's
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a little bit. big and i just wanted to get out of this. ryan immediately wanted to get out into the right back to the track see in the surgeon that's in his heart immediately his compassion for the spotters on the train and doctors of the train he got it right away for other people even expressed anything like that no doubt they were given an order just like they were given orders and vietnam to bomb diligence. in one nine hundred eighty eight or take those government recognized by him sacrifice come to his service to the people of nicaragua to receive the nation's highest honor feel good stories says our son.
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this is a theory. this. wasn't. just. the train attack drew attention to the u.s. military's involvement in the legal wars highlighting its role in training secret armies from other countries most of the covert training took place in fort benning georgia at the notorious school of the americas. there's more good. as we gather today the main
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gate of fort benning. into portfolios the point of the many this is there a sacred moment is this the moment. cannot go about the business of killing without . the changed we cannot come back from vietnam afghanistan and iraq and all those wars and go on with our lives as before. you know all these suicides the p.t.s.d. that we reading so much about our. message is clear we are not. and this is our asteroid star. i realize something that made by the writer and all of you. plainly understand all that you know or are now as it were all while we're all. right there is a bit silly. no just because i was ordered to do it so i don't.
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be disobedient. five hundred twenty five salvadoran soldiers arrived at fort benning georgia to start training there in combat a small group of us went in to say not in our name. and what we found through the freedom of information act was a schooner assassins as we are and it's well known in latin america a school for dictators a school march. washington calls front page long to figure. out a very big article that the torture and. there were a few news at the school of the americas techniques of torture is says serious. crimes against humanity here. and it was time. to put out the word.
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that. who went to latin america simply to request that this stops and in the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries major cities just pull out. those countries to be in argentina uruguay and venice away a lot. he went to ecuador where you met with president rafael correa and at that meeting he announced that ecuador it was going on at the school of the americas simply said something very important prison according to say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less this the east. so let's face it. you can
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make your sick. peaceful efforts to disarm the iraqi regime have failed because we are not dealing with peaceful man. intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt. that the iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. i went downstairs i was leaving the pentagon and the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq pull up a piece of paper off his desk i just got this memo from the start that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and there we're going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo. yes sir i said well don't.
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get for people that can't. be empire can. safe house they don't have to talk about what they go through with. her daughter katie was diagnosed with a very sensitive condition if i get sunburned i hear she does patients when they have problems with that i want to talk to some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside the skull gets taken in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles down to the bone. there's no relief. not to sure this is going to stop.
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donald trump going doubts of a meeting with vladimir putin doesn't seem like a big deal given the already polls states of affairs between the two you can. trees of the manner in which it was counseled over twitter may sting the kremlin more than the consolation itself is the mythical trump truth in a bromance finally over the. new chick or sony. m one no but i think. they will one book one is real body.
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they. should have and this. put them to a little more or less money as well and mission into that hole to get out of the little room he could feel that he had a chicken does he play in a neighborhood a holdover that you know enough to both plot of the. brian lost his legs trying to stop a train from going to central america to finance the same kind of war that we were engaged in in iraq the same kind of war what's being wasted against a nigger i want to be when i was growing up in nicaragua as
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a young immigrant community had joined the u.s. military in part to pay for college education through the g.i. bill i was a very political i read the new i didn't really question things i had been in the military almost a year. i was about to graduate from college i didn't want to put anything in jeopardy. so i said to myself i'll just go in this war. because maybe we will just scare saddam hussein out of power and come back in no time i'll go back to school and everything is fine. my units first mission was to run a prisoner of war camp in al assad air base and there we used fear tactics that amounted to torture in order to keep prisoners to get the right. to be interrogated.
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in the city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not interested in helping people. they were not interested in the well being of their own soldiers either. we started engaging their persistence in combat. which was basically hit and run operation for them. in order to retaliate since we were dealing with those then and we were going after the people were killing. the situation was very intense we were being hit with mortar rounds improvised explosive devices rocket propelled grenades were moving targets which made it very difficult for anybody to question the morality of the war and. so i lost my my moral compass you could say i was too afraid to question i was so afraid to take a stand. until i went home on
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a tour with farlow and then surely became clear to me that i could not in good conscience continue to be a part of the war at that point i became the first combat veteran to publicly refuse to go back to war based on morality. based. my own assertion that the war was driven. after five months area of being on the ground and being a wall and put in to gather a conscientious objector claim. i decided to surrender to the military. that made my case very political to the military commander. on the military installation. i was very scared of what the military would would do to me if i spoke out against a war and surrender. you may not know or maybe you do know that they still
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have the death penalty for the service in a time of war so i was really afraid of buck and i had no idea what would happen. so i made it is. so far as you it was authorized other national under the treaties which we have. of the french that which we are so selfish have to take for if you want to be a direction shadi and find obedience to authority. you she didn't order it illegal intervene in order to commit a crime don't do it. quickly found guilt the. assertion and given up by bad conduct discharge the motion to stop sergeant the private. sector of my pay and twelve months of incarceration in a military jail. there i became
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a prisoner of conscience. for nine months i was released early because of good. and then i became an anti-war activist thank you do we stand for the immediate withdrawal of all us or. when i got out of jail one of the first places that i visited what's called a foreigner where brian was leaving not the time from that moment on my association with brian began to open my eyes some ways that i had never imagined possible i began to meet so many people that helped me understand so many different pieces of the web of. what has been us intervention throughout latin america and the world. there are over one million american military personnel stationed in one hundred seventy five countries the u.s. government has increased its military budget plan nearly ninety percent since two thousand and one that budget now stands at seven hundred billion dollars per year.
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in health costs plus interest from more than one point five million veterans and the us is paying one trillion dollars per year for war and preparation. our government spends ten times more per cent a sum on average for military costs than most other industrialized nations. this increased military spending has not made the us more secure home or abroad. well you know let's face it the weapons corporations in america always love the new enemy and they always log new instability because they're able to sell more weapons that way the pentagon says that our role in america under corporate globalization will be security exploit which means endless war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil stracke minerals from africa or whatever that our job in america is
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going to be making weapons fighting wars and so increasingly we see communities addicted to military spending cutting the military budget just a tiny little bit of corporations and say. don't do that because we're going to lay off hundreds of thousands of people right before the next election will punish us if you try to cut the military budget so we're now held hostage people do you think well we have to have a military in the world and say hey we're not trying to in tonight there is danger but we're also trying to point out that the way we conduct ourselves in the world makes us a lot of enemies and one thing that i think is important about militarism is that it values military power above all else. in april two thousand and ten army private manning sent to wiki leaks the iraq air strikes video collateral murder which shows a u.s.
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helicopter gun being down eleven on our journalists can sniff each. item off. for leaking the classified video in the related documents manning was charged with espionage and abetting the enemy the symptoms it was thirty five years in the military prison. where all those state department documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor who want to have a democracy with even some democratic influence on foreign policy after which will there's an interest in that will always be at risk because the government will always try to deter anyone from following their example. during sentencing manning apologized to the. i'm sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions i made these decisions i believed i was going to help people not.
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to make too much functionally to get the information we need whistleblowers who expose the truth that personally british. people who will risk their reelection using their power. their powers are corporations to pull shit. at dawn every sunday since february two thousand and four a temporary military cemetery appears on santa monica beach in california it is an improvised protest to remind people of the cost and consequences. as an instrument of american foreign. three families right there see those three. over there you can see two here those are just those are images of all basic
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wounded american and iraqi like children it's a people that's the first thing they see and i think you touch something is touched that your i show because nobody is paying for the war they think that they. have to pay for the record. and they're not paying with the threat of. being devastated child been taken in there is this is an effort to convey to him and shoots. would enable people to feel something. about the cost of war and kill me but. with the blood. and the sound of the crowd. let's put it takes to remember. when you know sixteen it people.
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and it countries did. it on the. news then the. modern please. read it. and so is. everybody has a greater role to play the role they're playing right now people who are afraid to write right start out with a two paragraph letter to the editor and you'll see the words will start flowing people who are afraid to speak gallic start by convincing a friend and then those speaking in a church and then you'll find your voice you can do it with a measure of fear because it can be very frightening but it's equally when it's cold and you've confronted your worst fears and you call the shots and you said i love you enough to risk your wrath by opposing me and i didn't harm anyone
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if we don't willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for our then surely we can risk some discomfort for. for pete's. or depending on our suffering other teens who are worth more. then the question is how can you justify continuing to live as if other people don't. own the please. present the same with this illness are close enough.
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don't know trump firing shots of a meeting with vladimir putin doesn't seem like a big deal given the already pole state of affairs between the two countries most of the manner in which it was cancelled over twitter may sting the kremlin more than the consolation itself is the missing currency in a bromance finally. he's finding this out the need. arise how. to employ him to go to break. the most the most. difficult to get the law has a funny. right on the bank for the right guy based walker chemical lies and this is going to go he
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