greetings and sal you take us previously on watching the hawks we discussed the rather mysterious shipment of guns radios and i phone that was confiscated by venezuelan the forty's allegedly the guns were being smuggled into the country via chartered cargo plane out of miami in order to arm u.s. backed opposition groups looking to unseat sitting president in the white house's latest super villain nicolas maduro well now as they say is where the plot thickens because according to a recent mcclatchy news investigation into twenty one the air the u.s. air cargo company at the center of this mysterious arms shipment two of their

executives including majority owner and chairman moreno have either coincidentally or direct ties to gemini air cargo a company that amnesty international described in a two thousand and six report as being among more than thirty air charter service is believed to have taken part in a cia program of rendition. yes the good old cia rendition program raises its ugly head again you remember that wonderful program value that was the whole plot where the cia contract didn't use private airlines to transport individuals they abducted who were suspected of being terrorists to secret black sites around the world where then they experience that most lovely of u.s. exports enhanced interrogations or torture for us laymen. for its part both twenty want to air on the company responsible for chartering the plane to venezuela g.p.s. or have denied any accusations of gun running the bene's wailing for the us government

stays out of my message and a manager a g.p.s. the squits said quote the cargo doesn't belong to twenty one air it doesn't belong to g.p.s. air quote naturally would be controversial elliott abrams of iran contra fame skulking around d.c. sitting at the forefront of current us foreign policy operations in venezuela this whole flights and all of that has raised many eyebrows and concerns which is why we need to be watching the hawks. to. get the. real deal with. the bottom. like you that i got. with that we. would.

welcome everyone the watching the hearts i am tyrone been. alive and i have not shipped any guns to menace way lately but if. it's not. that's not normal for every american but everyone i didn't realize i'm not everyone here in america can claim they have not sent our mr venezuela there that this is a fascinating story because it's just kind of like it keeps getting more and more layers to it and kudos for mcclatchy and other outlets for the beginning of this and following you know you've been out there just like you said there's no no one there's no direct ties and no one's said oh the cia is coretta handed bringing guns into venezuela there's a lot of accusations and counter-accusations so we don't really know what's going on we just know that it's it's interesting to see how you were running guns i would assume that they wouldn't have any direct connection showing out and everything you know would hope i would hope you never did so what it was a lawyer for twenty one erin said friday that the company was never formally

notified by the country venezuela or any of their people that. of any arms and seizure but they make a point to say they had no knowledge of the cargo that was aboard the plane because it was chartered by g.p.s. their. g.p.s. error also denies ever putting guns on the plane so so who so you charted it be you who sent it right so miraculously at some point this plane that took off from miami and then the up and as well i just magically got guns on board and somebody guns unself and i found you know which i'm you know you could some that anywhere in the united states and they've been out of the other interesting thing the other accusation flying out from those saying that there was no guns in this place was that it's completely a snow job like everyone is there but as long as making it up from the top down because more rain now has connections well that's what's interesting about all this season a very shady business is where well yeah it's interesting because it's like you

know he's the chairman of twenty one air and set up at least fourteen other companies registered in florida of the past two decades a businessman twenty one the air director at the twenty one i was director of quality control michael stone key was brought on back when the company was formed. twenty fourteen both men according mcclatchy appear to have either coincidental or direct ties to gemma air cargo that gemini air cargo was a business tied to the cia renditions moreno registered to businesses out of address and was miami that was later used by a subsidiary of german air cargo and starting to work for german air gemini air cargo from one thousand nine hundred six to one thousand nine hundred seven this was before the rendition program is said to have started which is probably why they were there once the iran contra staff had to quiet down and they had come into another business then they came in to weigh in running things and events. i mean was why people are so concerned that elliott abrams is this envoy charge of the

administration certain that a swale a polyp policy so as those at home going to remember this. clearly a gentle soul that is elliott abrams. he was in charge of he was very instrumental in delivering weapons to the nicaraguan contras during the iran contra affair and that he did he did that specifically he was charged with those of hiding those weapons and humanitarian aid shipments so abrams have to sell himself he can cry all he wants about how mean it is to remember people remember this but he admitted to funneling weapons and testimony after the scandal broke no you know what there's too many connections i rather be safer isn't sorry. for. us president donald trump recently declared a national emergency to secure the billions he needed to fund his great southern border wall the pentagon hundreds of billions of dollars thrown at them every year

despite some of the worst accounting practices this side of the joys the mob and have surprisingly with all this money being thrown around we're rapidly running out of money for the victims of nine eleven yes the nine eleven victim compensation fund is officially running out of money and is now forced to cut back the amount if you give out in compensation in new york city r.t. america strain travis has a story. officials are saying they may be cutting up to seventy percent of future payments now this fund pays victims who are sick or dying from toxic exposure potentially linked to the september eleventh attacks so during this time thousands of construction workers first responders and others spend long periods of time working in the area when the world trade center came crashing down. the collapse released more than two tons of hazardous dust into the air therefore all those in the area work supposed to a multitude of toxic chemicals and over seventeen years later many are still feeling the damaging effects on their health i spoke to some of the first

responders from that fateful day and they shared some of their heartbreaking health conditions that you see on my wrist here this is part of my list was taken out in a new tongue was rebuilt and then julio graham nor to be removed from my love for my wrist to my elbow implanted the ought to be into my neck to resupply the neutrons and to make sure the cancer didn't spread i had a second action to remove the. node you see if the cancer spread i realized that when i got debris in my eyes and i knew something wasn't right and you know when i was escorting the remains of it because one of the firefighters out of the pile. i was in the patrol car and i said this is not helping i had my eyes were you know it was cheering up and they were they were red and i was feeling like discomfort i said this is not right this is this is not right something's not right it is this could be a long term help but you know i knew a couple days later you smell that you smell the new you smell death and yeah and

they're just a few of the victims who i spoke to one of the thousands of people who continue to suffer to this day nearly forty thousand people have applied to the federal fund with illness potentially related to the world trade site but according to reports today only about two billion dollars of the seven point eight billion dollar fund remains about by billion dollars has been paid out to roughly twenty one. thousand claimants but there are still over nine hundred thousand unpaid claims therefore future payments will have to be cut up to seventy percent officials say this was the fairest way they could come up with a program officials said in the statement i am painfully aware of the inequity of the situation i also deeply regret that i cannot honor my intention to spare any claim submitted prior to this announcement from any reductions made due to determination of funding insufficiency but the stark reality of the data leaves me no choice if there had been a different option available to me i assure you i would have taken it meanwhile

members of congress responded to the announcement by valley to re also rise the compensation fund democratic reps jerry nadler carolyn maloney and republican peter king said in a statement this is devastating news to the thousands of sick and injured nine eleven responders and survivors who were promised and have been counting on being fully compensated for the losses they have suffered they also said they would introduce legislation to make the compensation fund permanent and to compensate all legitimate claim it's democrat senator chuck schumer also weighing in saying that the chance that the fund may not have enough resources to take care of our heroes is simply unacceptable reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . yeah i mean we've. heard that we have to have this conversation. and you have to wonder where did that money go where did all of where where is the hope for these people it's not as if these things magically go away and the truth is japan is still paying out to people

who were victims of the bombings of hiroshima and. nagasaki and and the war is their imperialist words they are involved and there are people they still take care of it that's the hard part so the seven point three billion fund has already paid us about five billion to twenty one thousand claimants now the number of claims one . the things is that it's a job. and those are people who have to because a number of people have passed away and a loss here is because of illness as he was talking numbers of cancers and. lymphoma etc etc that were linked to the nine eleven attacks so in two thousand and fifteen december twenty fifteen there was a two hundred thirty five percent increase in claims for your time by people who have lived through almost twenty years probably developed cancer has developed these things and now it's there is no reason don't don't tell people to be heroes and tell them come work for us so you know keep everybody safe and then

treat them and their families like this at the end it's not right it isn't right it isn't right at all it isn't right and they knew it wasn't safe no they didn't they didn't believe they knew it wasn't safe at all this all falls on the backs and i don't care what people want to twisted or politics or the world it all falls on the backs of the george bush administration in particular christine todd whitman who was the head of the e.p.a. . quote a week after the attack she said quote i'm glad to reassure the people of new york that there are safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink she said three days after the attacks use about a week up to the attacked by the tragedy of it is a lawsuit brought by new york residents against whitman was brought that year. federal appeals court ruled that women could not be held liable for the health problems caused by the air or ground zero yes but you know what you're you can be held liable in the court of public opinion you said those people in there to work and breathe the air you were in the bush administration and that's where the blame falls and this is a topic that hopefully we won't have to cover good because they'll get their money

and these people can get paid but i was going to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics with a couple of facebook or twitter to see our poll shows at our team dot com coming up we celebrate black history month with an all star panel discussion on the meaning of the mug and what a celebration of black history is stay tuned to watch. on the plus lead you see a little biased because of the slow force new focus on domestic abuse that they.

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room sick. really. really really. harriet tubman wrote every great dream begins with a dream are always remember you have with the news the strength the patience the passion to reach for the stars to change the world so we sat down with three dreamers changing the world to discuss the power and purpose of black history month here is part one of our black history month panel with nafta free men writer and activist from black alliance for peace lady day in figaro. black trans writer artist smacks of s. and author and curator kelsey clarke we began by asking them who they thought had been marginalized in history and why it's important to expand the inclusiveness of this history. i started by saying i would love to see so many people including

history in a variety of different ways i think that from my perspective i love to see people who don't maybe have certain and certain things on their resume who do whatever work they do whether it's tied to profit or not i think would be an important thing to see about gordie for i think one of the things missing from history in terms of how as how it's generally taught our people and organizations that have formed resistance to the impressions that we face and i think those are very instructive histories and usually even when we talk about the general ones that you know the maybe stereotypical ones like frederick douglass or whatever most of the time we're not really understanding what these people stood for what are the organizational accomplishments of the world and they formed. in terms of again their insights in terms of the struggles that they dealt with this very superficial surface

depictions and i think things that have to do with the resistance can actually help us do with the. times right now. everybody or persons or organizations if you leave should be zero as i mean i'm a black chance woman so it's like every black turns woman every history that lucy anderson here and i want to be john. brown. and you know i grew up in the very back to wax museum in baltimore so like i literally was a little child and i. around the museum and i saw monuments to blackness that that transcended that was before we were brought here isn't slave to africa. to back to. you know if. they continue to statues and helped to shape my life and hope to. make me really love my blackness and a way that took. a little longer because we live in

a system that particularly targets the. black and brown people's history that is not a mistake that is intentional and so the reason why it's so super important for us to really expand the ways in which we teach history within our education system it's because it will help the hearts the minds the souls of black babies period. and there's a woman i mean that's the thing about being a woman is that we kind of and learning that from two separate you know it's like women's history month though we go month yay and then you have to put on a lot of being a black woman there's so much more to face and i feel like as as a white woman i think we need to work better at finding a better way to sort of bridge that and really be more supportive of that as we black history month for women i think as white feminists we have to go hey i need to learn more about this and i need to understand my sisters in that struggle of

sisterhood better and understand their specific struggle absolutely there wouldn't be any white women as them unless a black woman first chose to stand up and fight against the patriarchy i mean black women black and brown women were the first to do it and then why women were like oh ok i guess we're tired of being old grandma or man. you know we're you should know what exactly. was going on in there if there were all of. this or it's a little things that can make such a difference that that you know for those of us you know they were white america needs to understand from black history month. enough i want to ask you in two thousand. six you wrote an article on black history month and one of the points that you made how the month as a month has been commercialized and made into what you said a means to advertise commodity is i want to ask you and then the panel does does

the month still seem to be commercialized does it still seem to have a negative impact on the celebration of what it says yes then it's not just black history month anything we create that challenges the status quo if they can't stomp it out altogether they're going to find a way to make some money off this just the way it is and so it still does and i think that you can always you can still see commercials and things like that to talk about black history month is really just a means to sell something and so it's always going to be a challenge and it's not just about black history month is just the nature of capitalist system a system dominated by profit motive and all those kind of things and so yeah that's the short answer. and i think the virtue signaling is always just is going to be the bottom line for companies anything public facing they want to make sure that they're making the right impression on the right people personally i would love to

see if it was possible for a situation to emerge where we're able to lift up in companies that actually are involved in communities with these groups of people who try to speak to you know the more tunes of ways so what it looks like in these commercials super bowl whatever big show is happening what it looks like in terms of follow you know you say you stand for these things you have these types of folks and you commercials but what actually happens after is there any involvement or you actually helping these people tangibly with the money you make from us in different ways. and that's yeah that's always the thing right it's not like us being consumers and you wanting us to can see. your product is not the same as you caring about our lives and we can see that in the n.f.l. o'brien that. put us to watch their games they want us to go to their games they want to have our black men play for that and get entered for them but they also

don't want to actually stand up for black and so capitalism actually was never designed to see black people at all any of us really know somebody just. dry until there's nothing left that's pretty much a cowboy with. tragically it's interesting when i was growing up. there and you know minnesota and there's always that weird criticism especially out of like the white community of what it will why isn't there a white history month you know that ridiculous kind of like idea words you know even at a young child i was going to leave well that's everybody that was one of those you know. but others would you know another say you know kind of having black history month is just kind of like it relegates it's kind of what crumb was being kind of thrown out like hey you know here's this month it's the shortest day of you know shortest month of the year you know like back of the. what i think is really fascinating you know is that is that is is having it just be this month out of the

year is that a problem ultimately the we are kind of like it's kind of putting a band-aid or kind of putting a cute picture you know hey here's a month to now go be quiet you know is that kind of what we're hearing well i mean i think we got to everything has a history even black history month itself and so when people ask that question why analyze you know whatever it's almost like it's a presumption that it was something given to us and not something that emerged out of the struggle of african people that we created it in full for it and there's also intersects with a whole lot of other things still no it's not crumbs and we actually if you look at it there's a trajectory to it was actually negro history week when it began and one nine hundred twenty six by carter g. woodson and now is black history month expanded to. we identify we're struggling with identification and struggle with i did benefit teaching here in this country one because the history even card you would some with not really necessarily i guess meaning to do it he he identify with being an american being american but we

can't just start our history at the middle you know the middle passes in the transatlantic slave three week that's a historical byzantine to help us understand the situation we're in or know what's in common or not in common with other people of african descent so will it so now we actually have had if we do study it there's a pan african movement where people have cooperated and built transcontinental projects and programs and different things have happened decolonization and all those kind of stuff and so. so it's not a problem that it's only a month it's up to us to expand it to something else and give us an opportunity to draw in the month to do something else it doesn't preclude us doing something else the rest of the year it gives us opportunity to actually talk about some of the things we don't talk about and to examine it from a historical point of view where emerged from where it itself emerged from one of the other things that have emerged that we need to understand so that's. going to be a bow and i think it can be we can have black history month because we. people got

very very angry guy has a birthday right now this is if i we're going to have black history month and also our schools need to do better our schools need to understand that black history is american history right and beyond. because we were here before. just back oh no you don't you don't think we were black when we were. saying what i don't know by agree with their part just a black history is american history that's confines it would be more accurate to me to say that american history has components or has met with african or black history because we're all over the world black people you know and so and. i think that's actually deliberate attempts to disconnect us from the rest of the world combines our struggle and i mean this is going to do with it because i'm the child of an immigrant. you know what i mean so i guess that like because my identity is

global that i also when i say black our understand blackness and it's global. context my dad is nigerian and my mother is cuban an indigenous which is a black woman she identifies black i am black i am all of those things and so yes i am a child of niger i am a child of here i am a child of where my ancestors come from so i guess for me when i say black history is american history i mean there is no america without black people period. of all the things that humans will need to take with them to mars from oxygen to snacks humor is probably the most critical at least according to anthropologist jeffrey johnson of the university of florida is working with nasa to study the best ways to keep morale booster during those necessary but ridiculously long space flights turns out research is showing that having a prankster or an adjuster on the team going to mars could keep everyone a little have happier and a little healthier johnson and his team are starting how isolation has affected an arctic explorers and scientist alaskan fisherman going back as far back to looking

at diaries from one thousand and describing jolly cooks brought along the team so when that eight month long one hundred forty million mile long trip to the red planet launches don't disappear as if there's a kick me sign or what because that involved first science you told her go on. if they need the practical jokes oh oh oh i'm here for you all right everybody about us are sober today remember everyone in this world your love told the story to tell you all. i'm tired falling asleep watching those hawks another great night everybody. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution two to crush the demonstration going to be relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is

always spontaneous or is it you know or here i mean your list put me in the new bill is that i'm new school in need of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took vote had invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. where would they say something quite remarkable in the night twenty nineteen where watching a country testbed in a nineteenth century bubble brayley for. almost two hundred years they're going to crash into the twenty first century as if they're just being teleported into the twenty first time. we came here where did you work before you came here when you live. in many us states capital punishment

is still practiced convicted prisoners can spend years waiting for execution but most of the time the victims' families they are very much in favor the death penalty there are some people because of what they did they have given up the right to live among us some even proven innocent of two years on death row and how many more exonerations is it going to take before we as a society realize that this is not working and we actually do something about. one.

of. the aussie lingo online media company caught up in a facebook crackdown the think media release to update its information on the plot fold and is now waiting for the social media giant to lift its suspension. facebook's decision to suspend the accounts as being on busted as an ox of censorship by the head of the international federation of journalists. those feeling discords the german chancellor causes our wage month adjusting outside influences behind a wave of student launches protesting climate change also ahead. for every official who. might be are risking their seat.