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home and when it comes to the big social media as well like students craving more stringent discipline facebook has tentatively welcomed the plan for great said government oversight with a caveat or two these are complex issues to get right and we'll look forward to working with the government and parliament to ensure new regulations are effective the u.k. government says it wants to be a trailblazer but the question is how to implement strictest safety measures without restricting freedom of the internet. i have you k. could be set for a lengthy bragg's a delay even diplomats have been locked in talks ahead of wednesday's emergency summit in brussels and have signaled that they do not believe a short extension to the withdrawal period will help break the current outlook earlier on tuesday the british prime minister met with german chancellor angela merkel in berlin to try and secure support for short delay until the thirtieth of june theresa may then jetted off to paris where she met with the french president
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of the diplomatic dash comes after m.p.'s in westminster passed a bill requiring the pm to seek yet another extension to the deadline to leave the european union. it's been almost three years since the budget referendum and many in the u.k. have changed their mind on whether they should leave the union after all the town of boston which is about one hundred kilometers north of london is home to thousands of migrants from eastern european countries voted overwhelmingly to leave the e.u. we want to see the pendulum is now. the people. we have to vote we do so much and they stick to it. and that's get out. price. menu today they want he has this like it that is now we have no tradition that we're not even set up right still for case to pay paul. respect this town you know to drink from the.
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time if you integrate in the community it's. to pay your taxes so you try to get along with the others i think there shouldn't be any problems because we have people of the world that we all put on we belong to each other we should help each other instead of like there's that right that does it for me i will be back with headlines in let's say twenty eight minutes.
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troops. didn't really get it right when. i started out as a very conservative republican like every person in my army community and upstate new york in the fifty's. my father was a member of the john birch society he was very opposed to the new deal labor unions catholics jews i thought. he was actually not that unusual and my dad for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and
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a good boy scout of my time i was really proud of. in one thousand sixty-six as the u.s. military began ramping up its forces in vietnam brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force for a four year program to go into the army as an induction. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure ranger officer. any unit of forty men. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets. problems.
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all the targets were inhabited fishing. shack and they were all i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bomb suspension shop to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burnt finish off i watched as far as i could walk before the bodies were a show thick i could walk any further and look down at my feet. and i saw a young bean means woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are opened her eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister.
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and i looked into his eyes and it was all modern or was a lie and i suspect that everything i had ever been taught was a lie. my life completely radically changed. i do not know why i am here. i was in somebody else's village nine thousand miles from my farming village in upstate new york. oh i don't mean there. are we doing there. i want before more religious that we saw the same scene then i realized i don't need to do this if these are now pct. these are mothers. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in every seat.
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politically. i said i was on the wrong side of. this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong saeed. jalili story an honor society student council. all conference athlete. did everything right. and it was all wrong. for i must this nation. has heard of and its interest and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. we fight because we must fight. if we are to live in a world. where every country can shape its all the best player.
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in the training regime believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep it charged to protect ourselves from you and aids and realize we are the enemy . during brian's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict think recently polarize the american public. on the lord and his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were. he emerged from the military. with a profound sense of. to go to a country to. commit genocide and to still be with our. people
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. much more two of. the officers treated. people one on the fourth of july like brian run kovac received the bronze star for valor and a purple heart after being wounded leading an attack in vietnam. even though i was paralyzed. in many ways i see that it was a blessing in disguise i've been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war of an understanding and compassion respecting the lives of each and every human being how many more bombs are we going to have to drop how many more people are going to have to die we've got a profoundly change i turn in my branch barack took work on art i locked my leg
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and yet now i'm not totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm stuck to what they've got going until i stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop . states wage its own official war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. the start of. i know we were in the course of dropping many times the tonnage of world war two yet i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing than a bloody stalemate vietnam felt the wish should get out of concealment this information for twenty five years has now led to the deaths of fifty thousand americans and several hundred thousand vietnamese in the last few years
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a couple of million over twenty years of this involvement. and i think fifth the odds have been weighted in favor of secrecy the classified department of defense files revealed that since one thousand nine hundred forty five presidents truman eisenhower kennedy and johnson had misled congress and the public about unconstitutional military actions those beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. included secret raids on cambodia laos and north vietnam richard nixon i knew was to sit in the much the same way with continuing the war while presenting to the public that he was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the word. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war. the united states has been at war under
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every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixteen. democratically elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the drivers. millions die in these undeclared wars. years old and i was looking at. pictures in
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a book. i said to myself what a crazy way to try to solve it. and as the years have gone by. even more bent. that seven year old. fear of communism remained at fever pitch in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . common president reagan turned his focus to the resource rich countries of central and south america central america. the effect of security and it will be. and central america is much closer to the united states than many of the trouble spots the concerns we knew. only three months to change the system because for one hundred years two hundred euros.
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three dollars. for every dollar we've invested so it's been tremendous source oh then go for the. for forty years the united states received the first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the us government supported the dictatorship of the some most of dynasty the family used land confiscation and political repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in. one nine hundred seventy nine the samosa was were driven out after a long war waged by the popular sandinista party led by daniel ortega. one thousand nine hundred two in an attempt to thwart president reagan's plans to overthrow the nicaraguan government the congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras in one thousand nine hundred four daniel ortega was
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elected democratically the government implemented new social services for providing free education healthcare and land reform. reagan bens used ortega's socialist policies and economic aid received from the soviet union to start a covert war using the national security council the administration sent secret aid to the mercenary soldiers known as the contras. despite the passage of the boland amendment the arming and support of the contras became the most ambitious paramilitary and political action mounted by the cia since vietnam. ortega's new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help and. we've begun that if it requires them. to bring people down she says look i don't care who you. republicans democrats but we want people to know that.
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their country is the devastating our country. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness. when trying to american foreign policy at its core is it really about furthering national interest is there an ideological foundation that is the driver we're told it's all about democracy or is it really all about power and the purposeful denial agency of others on the international stage.
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i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i want out and i'm serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in iraq about whether they would come home and speak in their churches right up to so on reagan was forced to admit that the u.s. was actively working to overthrow ortega's democratically elected government. to gain political support to the president presented the contras as the people's democratic movement as a condition of our aid i would insist on civilian control over all military forces but no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be rooted out that american aid to go only to those committed to democratic groups is. what i want an egg and i were nineteen eighty six i was a johnny come lately. more than the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper chairs east of west early and killed
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eleven eleven compazine knows. i saw five of those compazine i was coming in on a horse drawn wagons to this to the rest of the cemetery and open caskets and horse drawn wagons. the main contra targets of consistently been civilian homes buses or trucks which has helped destroy any public support they may have had. eight civilians were killed in this truck when ambushed by culture machine gun the sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians have been wounded kidnapped or killed in the country. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adult. who would earlier work as the cia informed the type of war we fight those. three prisoners. i
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discovered really for the first time my fish really understood the pattern. which was to destroy people power movements and i was one of the people i'm not one of the power it is a fact. of the united states of america are you a legal international and domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency is understood by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate a minute shall there any with the people and my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country. and gets fear against. those things. because its main dangers prior country. centuries. in one thousand eighty
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six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in more veteran peace action teams of the past teams walked through nicaragua's war torn diligence gathering proof of human rights violations by the us back home to some. soul who do not need to stay to. bed noting the abstract. who made the station. in central america. anything is going to happen to you it was going to be responsible. well there's only one country that's already in it's united states we are there farming. areas. and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of. the truth.
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me because. i was depressed because your leadership gallery stood up which you're not supposed to do it. and this up to me. and. we both were. totally opposed to the war to talk to me about. charlie. was planning to do a fast death. and opposition to us back contra. before i did the fast i decided that a significant. could be. you know this very prestigious
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medal of water and in protest of u.s. foreign policy and central america. is the most powerful statement that i felt that i could make outside of actually some way give you know your life well then following up on that came the fast brian . fast needs to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that objective of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward. the people. i went to in washington as many did to support the. steps of the capitol. remember the inspiration that i and others think here.
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charlie bryant. charged myself. they were doing something that was born. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing here but it was bigger than the karate purcell south central america and of course himself. and what it meant to those on the receiving. end how this was all being carried out with. this. president class. not. against communism. in the face of justice liberty as the fast thirty five and forty days and that's approaching the time when
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people began dying from fast like this and although they were being monitored they were getting weaker and weaker and we were quite alarmed they were usually you might. think. the question can come up relative to fasting well is is it a human life to take your own life. say i can take my own life or if i want to want to know this my life for a better fast. approaches. which lead to the. best terrorist suspects. identified. five hundred solitary actions around in states
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that were in concert with our. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. organizing violent. actions were. we were additional fasting on. the move to classify the veterans fast as terrorism triggered a reaction from an unlikely source the f.b.i. agent assigned to investigate them twenty two year bureau veteran jack ryan. i was in charge of investigating for the f.b.i. . foreign counterintelligence and i got a lead that says investigate. for their fasting on the steps of the capitol jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for
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a life case files and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out who was this group veterans fast for a life and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statutes. and concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further disappearing years putting them under review the bureau just came down on me when i likened it to. flee with the shotgun yet i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down. to those of you who voted for aid i want to say i have yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than fear bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the. the idea that we were terrorists and. that it. was is ridiculous. in
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a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever trash like i don't see how that can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. we came here where did you work before you came here when you live well. 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 of the death penalty there are some people because of what they did have given up the right to live among us some even proven. through 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.
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early results in israel's general election show incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu leading over his opponent benny gantz exit polls put both candidates in a dead heat with both men claiming victory. president putin dismisses the moeller investigation into the alleged collusion between trump and russia in two thousand and sixteen calling it total nonsense. and of the trumpet ministration fires a fresh salvo at its european allies pledging to hit e.u. goods with tariffs worth as much as eleven billion dollars the u.s. says in the movies in retaliation for subsidies given to boeing that rival airbus. be sure to pay a visit to our two dot com.
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