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it's yours to use to. strike grand. ships and. while there's still no confirmation that the but here eon boot is being used to transport weapons human rights campaigners are convents that it's being used to ship more guns into the conflict zone in yemen a conflict which has seen more 'd than 100000 people killed since it started in 2015 creating the world's worst humanitarian crisis peter all of our r.t. berlin just on this story we contacted the saudi center for international communications to ask about the vessel's visit any response they're willing to give us we will add to the story line is the way the news turn on a busy which is they do join me again and under half an hour's time for all your latest topics live from moscow this is r.t.
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international. ok next as or as a sort of. looking forward that's going to. this is what happens to pensions in britain delegates are watched as a recurring. greetings and salyut shims we here in the united states my friends we love our super bowls we love our fried foods we love our freedoms and we love our 2nd amendment you know the amendment that gives every u.s. citizen the right to keep and bear arms boy oh boy were those arms being buried in
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the state of kentucky on friday when 2nd amendment advocates took their protests against potential gun control measures in the halls of the capitol building in frankfurt spearheaded by a group calling themselves we are kentucky gun owners usa today reports that the gun rights groups there were protesting against many proposed restrictions on the 2nd amendment including a proposed measure labeled an extreme risk protection order or what's called a red flag law which would allow for the temporary removal of firearms from people deemed in danger of harming themselves or others and while the couple 100 predominately white male populated protest was pretty common among day on the outside it was the images of the gun rights advocates walking the marble halls of kentucky's capitol building holding a kaizen wearing ski masks that has left many a raised eyebrow david hogue the stoneman douglas high school shooting survivor and
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gun control advocate he tweeted out this might be one of the most extreme forms of white privilege i have ever seen. and you know even as someone like me who supports the 2nd amendment i can't say the david is wrong in his observations so today my friends let's dissect the core cassady of us society when it comes to the 2nd amendment as we start watching the hawks. what's going on on a cd you streets. that are so you like to see the prices you always state i'll see you roll so i see great city displays systemic deception is to late show but sure i would be so pleased. welcome our own are watching the hogs. joining me today to discuss this on the other big news of the day is political analyst and democratic strategist across and
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the president of the eagle forum education forum education legal defense fund ed martin whoa man i'm talking it was blown my mind this week it i'm sorry i mean look it's hard to see images of these protesters walking through the hallways of this capitol building hold a r.'s of a case which they have a right to own but where massive look like terror i mean you can't i mean they look like crazy soldiers with guns and arms and schemas frightening. i don't think other groups of them could get away with that i don't think even if it was maybe this is me but i don't think a group of black folks black citizens could be dressed like that even you know if they were protesting for the 2nd amendment could walk those halls or be allowed in that building i don't think you'd see that if there's a latino groups i mean my wrong i absolutely agree with you i think that you know the racial balance of this country have obviously drawn their lines when it comes to who with feet as an american 5th in who is worthy of owning a gun and who is not and who thing as a threat at the end of the day if you're talking about black or brown people when
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there is a gun present or there is a good near them they are automatically considered a threat and even you know we're talking about police brutality the part. thing that officers call out is that they felt like there was a threat or they thought that there may have been a gun even in issues where instances where there was absolutely no weapon present at all i think that this was a very scary scene 1st and foremost because it was in the nation's capital in a capital of a city but also within within the confines of an actual government building at the end of the day when we're thinking about those areas we think about them as protection we don't necessarily think about them as having everyday citizens armed like this which looks like militant groups well look i'm actually for banning masks in public i mean i think that when they were masks they should be banned i think if you're not willing to stand up and have your face exposed and it's outrageous i don't know where you guys are coming i was there attested you have to be white to go i know i mean you're saying that you're saying you're saying that i don't know kentucky i didn't look at all the pictures but i'm reminded of charlottesville where people said in charlottesville it was
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a gathering of white supremacist it wasn't there was lots of people on the side of the white supremacy i'm not i'm not trying to save a bureau that's where that's what that's what the white privilege is is that is the trick box we're down again i think the american people right now are reacting and that's why i think your show is so important to the fact that we saw the f.b.i. be unfair to all americans used to be they were just unfair to martin luther king jr and his family there unfair to all americans we have a problem with the deep state we have a problem with walt law enforcement so when you say you're going to limit my 2nd amendment right none of those people were talked about were arrested for misconduct no no no they weren't in richmond so let's go to chicago and see where they're going so if there was any group of those people are glad it was nobody ever got in through the capitol doors had folks of a different color that's not right that well that this that you know i really have no i don't really i don't know if i'm. going to say i dare you because i am going to actually i don't because i don't want to see anybody getting forgotten who got into the mess that we're going to the next thing all right we are here. by only
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made it yes monday february 3rd 2020 is the day we've all been waiting for because i'm. monday the iron ones get to vote yes the iowa caucus is that hand this is the starting line that we've all been waiting for since the very 1st circus the democratic presidential primary debate you remember the one witness way a long time ago june 2008 you see the iowa caucus get to be the ones who decide which democratic primary candidate gets to take the 1st big step on the road to being named the democratic presidential nominee are to your america's natasha's sweet brings us the lowdown on how bernie joe war and the rest spent their final weekend before i was big voting take a look. well the democrats are getting ready to reload their insults against president trump but there were a few campaign fails on the trail this past weekend but along with the good there was also a bit of success for some of the democratic candidates take a look at this here you can see former vice president joe biden kissing his
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granddaughter on the lips this was in front of a crowd at a campaign event at clark university in iowa she is reportedly the daughter of biden's son hunter 77 year old has been criticized repeatedly for inappropriate touching something that his supporters say is harmless in des moines iowa over the weekend biden focused much of his speech attacking the president as we can turn 4 years of donald trump into an aberration historical aberration but 8 years you'll change the country in a way we can tolerate we need you we need you we need you and if you thought this moment of michael bloomberg trying to paint a dog was awkward his back and forth with president trump was also one for the books this week and the president tweeted that quote many mike is negotiating to stand on boxes or lift during the debates a reporter tweeted that he asked bloomberg about this and his response was that he stands twice as tall on the stage that matters i stand before you today as the granddaughter of an iron ore mine or as the daughter of a teacher in
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a newspaper man as the 1st woman elected to the u.s. senate from the state of minnesota and a candidate for president of the united states. senator amy klobuchar was playing that permitted western roots during a campaign stop in cedar rapids on the eve of the iowa caucuses some believe that biden wins the nomination that close the char has a chance and becoming his running mates before the polls are out ad revenue reveals all candidates are throwing more than $70000000.00 into iowa now the president's tweet about many mike wasn't the only one receiving buzz online president trump also made a comment about the democratic national committee not treating bernie fairly democratic campaign made also opened up about the issue saying that bernie is simply not playing by the rules in los angeles and he just weeks r.t. . goodness gracious so today is the day i just want to throw it to you guys how do we feel you know how much of a an impact will the winner of i will be i was a bigger impact i was always been
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a major impact especially since 2000 with democratic voters specifically it signals who's going to be able to make that fund raising haul further down the line it signals who now should receive the amount of attention from voters i was has pretty much decided in many cases the role of the next few primaries it helps to shape the course of the field a few months ago we thought that judge was in 100 percent and i what everybody had him break a good number one nobody saw bernie even polling in the top 3 and today we're seeing something entirely different we see unworn consistently dip in terms of her race but we've also seen close which are actually get some attention so i think that i was shaping up to be a very very interesting ways of the outsider look at me well 1st of all when i was on the r. and c. for a couple years i watched i was the system is really rigged for money money and consultants so when you see that big money that's one person but look it's bernie's night i can almost guarantee it and that happened because on october 19th a o c endorsed bernie and she and her after us went behind him tonight is the beginning of a civil war in the democrat party and the fact that no one is saying you know we
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just did a segment on guns and you said kentucky's you know got only white people protesting think about what's going to happen you've got. white men at the top of this ticket dominate there's not an african-american in the mix there's not a hispanic in the mix they're all gone and the party thinks as they take on the civil war that they're going to survive tonight is going to be extraordinary to see but the next 3 months are going to be wild in the democrat party but if i was going to clear the field look it's going to end up being 4 or 5 left after tonight. well you guys work we go we've got a little bit of time left in this segment i don't want to ask you to predict who will win because of your lives and worse than anyone can do want to obviously i'll go for it really but nobody's going to win we're going to you know yeah that's why the des moines poll was canceled that's why chris matthews is hitting on bernie this morning on morning joe they can't stand that this happened bernie is going to win i think buta judge is going to come in stronger but by the 2nd and after that it doesn't matter really getting burned by them to judge and i think that that's i think that's pretty solid only mix here that is a little bit strange a thing bernie eclipse to be number one right now in iowa i don't think anything
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else changes in that i'm going forward it's going to be an interesting race because of that starts off with bernie on that are 4 of them you've got new hampshire which is probably going to win the new government data which burden also has a pretty good shot of winning the pressure tonight will be whether the lizabeth warned us so poorly that she pulls out tomorrow i mean because she's going to she's going to this is going to do so poorly so it's fallen off the it's really just absolute when she attacked bernie with that fight that really turned off the elizabeth warren comes in anything lower than 30 think that this is going to signal something being detrimental to our campaign while i want to thank you both for coming on again look see we can all argue both backyard about it you're going to i mean it seems and that is not all going to thank you so much mark mr krause always a pleasure thank you so much as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics recovered over social media be sure to check out watching all of the podcast dissolvable and spotify apple music everywhere you listen to your favorite and as i always say not so very well so you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t.v. smartphones through google play and the apple app store by searching portable
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since the 1st day of 2002012 incarcerated people have died and a host of disturbing social media videos featuring inhuman conditions have surfaced from behind the walls of the mississippi state prison system and at the center is the notorious apartment and attention watching the hawks social media producer and journalist doesn't spring a recently traveled down of the state of mississippi and brought about this brought back this report on the pain of the penitentiary and the protests against it. when you're inside it's totally different from outside people watched movies and they have to take on what prison is like but they don't know. what it is to be
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inside we have to take you inside. to a whole lot of things but we take a few each other to. me and i use today we get out of. here. if you have to make money so you try to figure out which. we have to. take to washing your old clothes on your. show. you put your clothes in a bag. you take to the laundry and. you don't know which. you might. be not good at all. in the prison coming through the wall you bring it to be in the field there. are people.
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and the unit is said to be the newest the most modern unit is still crumbling the infrastructure is crumbling and it's visible to anybody who even walks into the normally when you go to a visit. it's going to be hotter it's going to be cold either it's going to be extremely cold outside or is going to be extremely hot inside normally in temperatures in excess of $100.00 degrees there's no at that there's no air conditioning. in a ventilated area. and in the actual pods in the sales that whole guys they have no circulation at all so what you normally would seeing is that you see. and they're laying on the coal for because you know it's when the man is in made out of cinder block sender box they hold in either cool air they hold it so during the summer
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months they're holding it. so the gas is laid. bare chested on the floor it's not uncommon to see 5 or 6 guys just laid out and in a sale on the floor vironment is visible in the visiting area rats roaches spiders. i'm not talking little fire fighters mosquitoes the size of birds waltz any anything that you want to see have in the corners of the facility and these are areas where the public are allowed. i mean there's nothing new about what's happening in march and i would say in very recent history i think 2 summers ago in august there was basically every other day most of them parchin and in a little bit further back history if we look at the 1970 s. there's this successful suit that they. are sort of people win against the state that leads to the end of the trustee system and that was around cruel and unusual
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punishment so as long as the prison has existed there have been these sort of cruel inhuman conditions and what we're going to continue to see and have seen in the past is these episodic. periods where the state violence is sort of most apparent to us but for people who are incarcerated that state violence every day i would never drink the water or i don't like to wash my hands in the bathroom because when you turned water on it's literally the color of my water fountains when they were the same way they were that come on the water fountains you're too scared to drink the guards will tell you not to drink that guards give me about water because i didn't have any they went to water but my clients want that water out of the water barriers between 2 ways it's either to chlorinate it or it smells like sewage and so all the pipes leak right so the gas had their socks around the leaky pipes and so if that's not so brand. they know not to drink the water if the socks are why
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they know koreans in the water we can wash our clothes and that if you don't enter into water you're going to drink it at that time period if there is a border notice in the area you guys will get by the water there are still forced to drink that water they take their medication what water that smells like sewage they take medication in water that visibly if you put it in a cup and they have the gas will take it they let the water sit and they let all of the soil and all of the particles go to the bottom and then they just drink the water that is clarified on top. conditions that parchment have been this way for. behind me is the mississippi state penitentiary known locally as parchment prison where an astounding 9 individuals have died in the past month alone since the start of the new year reports of everything from fights and fires and suicides to insufficient food and water supplies power outages an individual sleeping on the floors have been reported and
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a mountain of human rights abuses are allegedly going on behind these walls we travelled here today to speak with locals activists politicians celebrities and everyone in between and to try and figure out why these things are happening here parchment and what can be done to fix the problem in order to understand the current crisis inside parchment you have to go way back in history and understand the prisons roots of former governor of mississippi and open my supra mrs james k. vardaman was instrumental in creating the mississippi state prison he believed that the money made from convict leasing and chain gang should go to the state instead of private entities and those of the mississippi state penitentiary was born the prison itself is a reform so parchment prison comes about at the turn of the last century as a as a way to sort of. undo what some people are see as the problems of the comically system and in particular governor the governor at the time james vardaman who is an unapologetic white supremacist actually runs on
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a campaign of white supremacy. believed that the problem with comic leasing was not really the sort of. human rights abuse that it was but rather that he saw it as sort of lining the pockets of the plantation class so he was a white supremacist populist and believe that this sort of state run plantation style prison would instead be a way of sort of socializing african-americans to their place which he saw as. manual labor the reform that led to the establishment of parchment was also white supremacist in its intent. as i mentioned james james vitamins the person who established. parchment and he used to actually incarcerated people on the grounds of parchment with blood for sport so if you think about that kind of context in which this place is born there's really no some training white supremacy.
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an issue with the timeline of me so there were about 4 or 5 it's within 3 or 4 days between december 29th and january 2nd either on january 2nd in the o c issued a statement stating that everything was under control however on january 3rd 2 more people died as a result of the incidents that occurred with. one of the indio see it was still a tease throughout the state we did a timeline breakdown of everything that was occurring once we did that time last week we deployed the article on twitter facebook all of our platforms and certainly it began to go really viral we posted a video image of that was sent of several mean being housed in unit 32 of parchment unit 32 of parchment has been condemned closed down since
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2009 sister 1000 suffered for over 10 years and that was closed down when a.c.l.u. into than agreement with mississippi state prison for parchment to close it down the reason it was closed down was because it was a hellhole the. essential it was it was a place where where 6 of the people that were being housed there it was the death row facility it was the place where where people who were very sick was also being housed but it was also a. a place that was a violent place to say the least essentially the a.c.l.u. decided. this facility should no longer be open so for 10 years this this place had been closed down and this was the place that. these incarcerated people were moved to this facility now is flooded it has black mold in it they have no mattresses it basically has not been maintained in 10 years it was continue to be able to years
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ago but we have video surfaces of these men inside of this facility and we had already told the story that no other new site was telling with regard to those men being in unit 32 nobody else had disclosed because they didn't have the inside information once we got it we shared it and we share the video and the video went viral on twitter it was shared by. many hip hop artists and attain is on twitter and instagram can people like t.i. and david banner and big create i think even so a lot of rappers have really been vocal about it parchment is located at least 2 hours away from many major cities making it difficult for lawyers family members and having kids to visit in recent months incarcerated people have used contraband cell phones to share videos and photos of their conditions on social media. and it's news of course transparency in a deadly situation one of the prison officials allege that prison gangs are to
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blame for the mounting death of the merged many are pushing against that narrative stating that the inhuman conditions are driving people beyond sanity i think now with all of that. technology that now we're going to have people are now going to be able to see inside and i think that's what's threatening to. do the people that are supposed to be in charge of the prisoners now at this point i think this is was threatening to one because you can't you've got so many people and so much of that is around so much controversy and they were going there you can't you can't really control of doubt who word a get richie this from whom and cell is going to continue to leak we're going to teens and no more things that continue to slip because people are getting bold. but now people are also coming up get the main way that presidents have been able to skirt any type of regulation that already around issues involving prisoners and litigation pretty much came out of the night and if i'm in congress passed the
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prison litigation reform act and what that was is that at that time congress was saying in prisons we're seeing a large number of prisoners filing suits about the conditions that they lived in and it was causing a backlog and a backlog. in the system and so congress wanted a way to limit the rights of prisoners to bring federal lawsuits about the conditions that they were being complied and so what the p.l.r. a does is that it basically calls for air prisoners to allow their captors time and knowing is to fix issues that are conditions based basically which you have to do is that you have to say you have to say to the people who are holding you in these conditions hey. this is why artists males like for this water tastes like chlorine and then you have to give those people a reasonable amount of time to address the issue before you can move on. to even
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file a lawsuit against a prisoner. who absolutely powerful stuff you're going to want to definitely check out the 2nd half of the report by watching hawk social media sport and we're about to hear that later this week so thank you all for coming and watching the show today that is all we got for you that is our show remember everyone in this world we are told told we are loved and loved so i tell you wall i will give you a role for a key part of watching all those hawks out there that were great. disarray
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