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a group of. people with a separate. readings and sell you take. this week millions of us democrats and even some independents from california to texas and beyond are hitting the ballot boxes while donald trump and health care dominated much of the democratic primary talking points it's climate change and the failing state of our environment that many believe was the most pressing pressing issue of our day namely because the very future of life on earth as we know it is what's at stake when it comes to climate change but with the majority of republicans and even president donald trump himself taking the earth is

flat style approach writing off the science behind climate change is nothing more than a conspiracy theory and a hoax the responsibility for combating climate change falls squarely. under the democrats' shoulders and this my friends is where the green new deal comes in inspired by u.s. president franklin delano roosevelt's sweeping social safety nets and massive infrastructure jobs programs implemented back in the 19th thirties and forties the green new deal is what many democrats are banking on to save the day and keep their party relevant but what exactly is it popular science reports that the deal em's to slash greenhouse gas emissions by switching to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030 while providing a safety net for displaced workers increasing the efficiency of buildings and decarbonizing agriculture and manufacturing it even claims to help low income communities hit by climate crisis through new green energy jobs but unlike any plan

that sounds too good to be true many are now wondering if that's exactly what the green new deal is too good to be true as the institute of development policy at the university of antwerp veejay college of adi observes for the green new deal to work and indeed transform the economy and our lives it must be de colonial it's application must go hand in hand with a constant concerted effort to rethink relationships to land labor and our collective imaginaries from the structural historic injustices of western style development. so this week as the united states decides its democratic party's future let's dig him to the fine print of this green deal that's new and start watching all. you want to know what's going on in the city streets you want to.

do so you'd like to see the prices you always stay on see drone strikes graves suggests least systemic deception is the late show which. brings up the jailed. world remember watching the. in the chicago and joining us today to discuss the many questions surrounding the green deal is watching mark social media producer and journalist your bubble but there's always. we often hear a lot of critiques about the green new deal especially from republicans and conservatives we know those talking points most of them are oil industry talking points but there are many critics of it from other angles that don't get the same amount of press or spotlight put on what are what are some of those well i think that's than is an important distinction to make right when people are critiquing something whether it's an fieri or a piece of history or an industry they're always coming out from a different angle and we often we often hear this sort of right wing anti green new

deal rhetoric but we don't hear from the left what the left is saying about it and i think one of the main sort of disagreements is from the left is what does this mean internationally what does this mean for the global south right our neighbors across the world who are already exploited when it comes to things like energy and resources and minerals right so i think that's one aspect the other aspect of it is is this a green new deal 'd to help the environment or just to create sort of a new phase of capitalism and create a new phase of profit you know what i mean so those are sort of some of the big critiques i think from the left that we get. to your point the green new deal has been seen as. western centric if that's the case then what does it mean for the rest of the world so and this is sort of the heart of the problem i think that when we call something western centric some people can get lost in that jargon what it means is that the the western countries or i like to say former colonies really will be the 1st and foremost people to benefit and profit from something like

a green new deal any actions that are made within this deal will always the primary concern will always be helping the u.s. or the u.k. or france before maybe somewhere like sudan or the congo or nigeria right so when we say it's western century we mean it's not it's not thinking about or really not caring about the implications outside of the west it's you know it's important to point out that like critiquing something doesn't mean this is certainly what you're saying look i'm against you know trying to stop climate change or i'm against that kind of is just saying is this the right way to do it should we be going about it this way or should we be being more inclusive not exclusive in the process are there any specific things in the green new deal minerals in them by extension the countries which supply those minerals that could be exploited like what in the movie green new deal can be used for exploitation that's the biggest question and i like your 1st point that just because i may have critique of the green it doesn't

mean everything is bad in that we shouldn't be doing those things as well and doing better and this minerals part is a very large component of it so we know right now places like the democratic republic of congo are an absolute chaos and violence and and discord because there is this strongly western backed mineral mining industry that creates a lot of that discord that we see there some people would label this as neo colonialism sort of a new form of control in this country for its resources so in the green new deal if these things are implemented for a lesser cars and moving sort of to this electric and solar powered world what would need to happen is massive amounts of lithium and copper would need to be mine so in the congo for example there's roughly. really an untapped minerals already so if the country is already in chaos because of this mineral obsession if you add the need for more minerals that the green new deal is going to create and that's where they come from it's only going to descend into more and more more violence when we think about copper for example 10 times more copper is needed in an electric car

than a regular car because it's it conducts electricity right we can look at coal cobol and cold's hand which are used in i phones and who are often using solar panels we can look at and lithium lithium isn't all batteries and it's going to be especially needed for rechargeable batteries once again for these solar alternatives right so these are the things people aren't necessary taken into consideration that we're going to have to get these minerals from somewhere so we need to write specific language into this green new deal that will protect already exploited countries good point good point. when it comes to the markets that are going to change obviously moving from our current structure to the green new deal means that we're shifting the way our industry is currently focus doesn't that this place a lot of workers and how would those workers be retooled and this is this is like an important question that i think people are afraid to talk about but what it means is we have to have safety nets in place as a society some people would say are we even ready for such a massive industry shift right so if you're thinking you need people to be able to

get a new trade or even go back to school so we need some kind of college or affordable sort of trade plan already in place then you'll have housing and food insecurities i don't come from again a shift of industry a major paradigm shift like that so i think to answer your question it's going to take in order to make it a reality we would need to have safety nets have already been in place for years by now that people know they can go and see but it's not impossible tons of other countries have done this cuba sweden and many other countries have did massive industry shifts and they did it relatively successfully so what you describe is kind of like a phase a project so if we had already started moving towards that transition in terms of skills based learning. and moving people to be retooled to these jobs that absolutely makes it clear what is the timeframe for the green do because when we talk about it and we talk about the climate crisis it always seems to be something that is extremely imminent which at which i would agree with but when we're making these large scale whole scale changes there is an infrastructure and infrastructure

development plan that has to take place over time so what it what would you say that timeframe actually looks like well so that's so the time frame for climate change we've been told in various reports is sometimes it's wrote around 8 years and it's gone up to about 15 to 20 years but that's generally the time frame for the earth you know not even industry but when it comes to switching this sort of massive paradigm shift within the energy and fuel industry and all of that i would say that lots of the infrastructure is actually already there but it's private sector so for example i grew up in kansas and there's miles and miles of wind turbines that already exists in kansas however because the state does not want to pay the private entity for that that supplies us turbines for that when they're just sitting there almost unused right so for in some areas it's actually already there it is not being utilized. i'm going to say thank you so much for kind of breaking down where the green new deal sits right now always a pleasure and if you're sitting here. another day another once

revered wealthy american icon is caught up in the rapture of meet longtime journalist politico and 23 year host of a missing b.c.s. hardball chris matthews signed off on monday night for the very last time he had now says departure in the show's opening monologue walking off and leaving many of you were stunned and matthew's departure is shocking not because you were tired 23 years and millions of dollars later but because he apparently couldn't keep his mouth shut and his flirtatious and out of line comments on women's bodies had finally caught up with him this comes on the heels of matthew's unsavory statements comparing democratic presidential candidate during the same. to the rise of hitler and communism not surprisingly it's a keeper that actually in true american fashion those comments got a lot more media attention than that these repeated improper behavior with women but on this 1st week of women's history month chris matthews departure from image

them b.c. signals a victory for women who have dealt with sexual harassment in the workplace for far too long here to tell us more is r t america's john. chris matthews has left the building he's left 30 rock in midtown manhattan and he is done as the long running host of m s n b c hardball matthews said that he and m s n b c mutually agreed to part ways and m.s.m. b.c. spokesperson said matthews planned to retire anyway and that the events of the past week played a factor in his decision to move that date up while matthews didn't get into the specifics about the comments that he's made and why he's under fire for those comments what he did say was that he was stepping aside to basically make room for the younger generation he also acknowledged that his comments were inappropriate when after a conversation with m s n b c i decided tonight it will be my last hardball so let me tell you why the younger generations out there ready to take the reins a lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other compliments on

a woman's appearance that some men including me might have ones that incorrectly thought were ok were never ok then and certainly not today and for making such comments in the past i'm sorry it will be dramatic after m s n b c went to commercial break following matthew's announcement he did not return to the show and the political analyst for the network who was looking fairly stunned took over instead perhaps that was just for dramatic flair and although most recently as has been reported matthews came under fire for comments that he made on air comparing bernie sanders new hampshire primary win to the nazi takeover of france during world war 2 now he soon apologized under pressure from. network and from viewers matthews has described himself politically as a centrist but some media pundits and analysts contend he's been more of a right leaning talking head particularly on the left leaning m.s.m. b c even saying himself that he voted for george w. bush back in 2000 it's unclear who will take over in matthews time slot and m s n

b c now that hardball has come to an end after more than 2 decades it's been reported that former fox news host shepard smith may be in talks with m.s. n.b.c. to host a news program on the network but that's not confirmed it's just some of the scuttlebutt going around in the industry matthews who is a best selling author says he's working on another book so i think it's safe to say that this is not the last time we will be hearing from chris matthews as we like to say in the business stay tuned for watching the hocks johnny. rumors were going to record watchers don't forget to let us know where you picked up the topics we've covered over social media be sure to sign up for our exclusive news letter at bit dot li slash watching the hawks you can also start catching those hawks on the man of the brand new portable t.v. which is available as more polls through the group through google play on the apple app store by simply searching portable t.v. coming up we delve into the world of animal rights activism with author brittany

michael so you do not want to miss this trust me you stay to watch it will. why do we go to war because. the key to economic growth is oil and energy we go to war is vice president cheney said for the oil that's why they invaded iraq for the oil that's why trump says the one thing we want syria we really don't want to go to war with russia we want to just control the oil. and the

gas and the pipeline through afghanistan so the military is really an extension of controlling a world of energy and oil. yes this is how the.

factory farming the puppy mills to individual cases of the grotesque abuse the treatment of animals by human beings has. a long and very very sad history and tragically much of this abuse remained hidden from the public things to the money and lobbying power of the agricultural industry and other powerful conglomerates they were essentially built on the killing and degradation and torture of the many creatures who share this small blue planet with us but thankfully animal rights activists from all corners of the globe and all walks of life from from the jane goodall's to seek shepherd captain paul watson along with thousands and thousands

of individuals and groups have stood up to help shed light and put a stop to the abuse of animals as anatoly from. until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains on awaken in the new book voices for animal liberation off the author brittany michelson presents the stories voices and backgrounds of those awakened folks both 'd old and new who have made animal rights their passion and they put their careers reputations and even their lives in some cases on the line as a result she joins us now to discuss her new book thank you for joining us brittany . thank you so the birth of your book highlights a wide variety of animal rights activists and all 'd from all different walks of life from military veterans to the founder of p. to even television stars how did you go about selecting whose stories you want to do including feature in your book. it was a difficult decision because there are so many

incredible activists across the globe and so many powerful experiences and stories i really want of the book to be a mix of various stablished voices and newer voices so i was looking to create balance in the book. certain activists i know personally and so i have reached out to them others came about through connection. in the animal rights movement. i wish that i could have had you know a 100 more stories in here because there are just so many and there are so much incredible work being done for animals at this time your book does a good job of humanizing many of the activists we only see on t.v. or making headlines when they're getting arrested what do you think is the biggest misconception people have about animal rights activists and how is that hurt their efforts. one of the biggest misconceptions for

activists who are. engaging in acts of civil disobedience and. quote unquote you know breaking the law is that you know that we are terrorists or we are. you know we're thieves or. you know criminals i mean activists have been have been labeled as criminals and thieves for rescuing animals out of horrific conditions animals who are languishing in confinement and in filth and so i think. a lot of times activists are seen as you know troublemakers are trying to you know mess with people's businesses but the reality is that we have an obligation to take action for the most innocent and vulnerable beings on the planet and whatever that takes is what we're willing to do because it

is 2020 and it's time for humanity to take a stand against the exploitation of non-human animals you know and that's the thing that really strikes me about the stories new book is you see the heart and you see you know a lot of times like why these people chose to do this and put themselves on the water like this and really stand up you know after working on this book and collecting all these stories what do you feel is the biggest threat facing your animals. in regards to their interactions you know with all of us human beings what is the single biggest threat that you see. the biggest threat remains to be what our species is doing to other species and all for profit so whether animals are being used in the food industry closing entertainment or animal testing it just.

it continues to create a myriad of of situations of exploitation because of money and these you know innocent animals are subjected to. lives also that you know humans can advance their business or you know advance their products but we have an obligation to to change. another thing i wanted to mention about misconceptions is that a lot of times people think that animal rights activists only care about animals you know we often get what about human issues or you know let's let's solve human problems 1st and then address animal issues but the thing is is that it's all connected so all forms of oppression are connected at the roots and we are standing up as animal rights activist for justice justice for all justice for nonhuman

animals and for humans so many of the issues in our society and on our planet. are human issues stem from animal issues so there are so many links and connections and it's really about standing up against oppression for everyone for all of us really good point that you get we are all linked on this small blue planet and what happens to the lower screeches of this planet is always going to eventually trickle up or trickle up into all of those and it's that respect i think a lot of people with for years we've seen a lot of more down ag gag laws as unconstitutional these laws are specifically mitt to silence animal rights activists like yourself these are good victories but what do you feel is the most important thing people can do to help in the variety of human society you blix on animals. well as individuals. the most power. or

a full thing as an individual that anybody can do is to lives of the gun lifestyle because when you're living a vegan lifestyle you are rejecting. the exploitation of of animals and you're rejecting speciesism so as as the guns as animal rights activists it's starts with committing to your own personal lifestyle of of not. not supporting the abusive and torturous industries that you know that are doing this to the animals and then standing up as activists and saying not only are we living vegan but we're speaking up about it because the animals they have voices but not in the way that we do and often times more often than not their voices are silenced and so we we need

to be their their voice they can't organize their own protests or marches we need to do that for them you know bringing a woman in putting all of these stories together and hearing all these different voices from you fellow activists was there anything that really surprised you or that you kind of the just surprised you really weren't quite aware of when you kind of put them all together or looked at all of them for what you know what surprised you most about this book together. while i learned a lot about. my contributors i knew bits and pieces of their stories before hand but i learned just how incredible these activists that are featured in in this book and here it is i'll just show you. this is the book and i also i just i learned a lot more about different aspects of the animal rights movement and just again

about about the connections between between all of it between everything on on our planet. there the book touches on you know elements of. you know the environments climate change we're facing a climate crisis a map that's all tied together it's all it's all part of the of the larger picture so it was it was quite a process putting this book together it was a tremendous amount of work but it was incredibly inspiring. to do this i can i can say i mean reading it i mean definitely have their great impact where you read it you know really told those stories well and i want to commend you for putting that together and commending for your work that you're doing like you said it's really important that we have voices for the voiceless and there's no bigger voices than the head of those around us who as you brilliantly pointed out they can organize a protest to say hey stop abusing me in this lab or you know stop you know so i

mean i've been the work you're doing is all aboard good and i want to thank you for writing this book once again voices for animal liberation britney michaelson thank you so much for coming on today and sharing this book and your story with us. thank you very much for having me. this world doesn't ever seem to stop coming at you talk watchers from the constant media drone to the horse race circus in reality t.v. the actrix of modern us politics to the wear and tear aging puts us all pretty sometimes you just want to hit the pause button appalls on life. well while we humans haven't been good out the pause button in african fish. let me introduce you to the african turquoise killer fish whose embryos have the unique ability to not only enter into a state of suspended activity called diet but during that phase they can halt their own development down to a cellular level essential turning the body's natural aging process off scientists

studying this marvel of nature are hoping to discover a new to treat aging related diseases or learn how to preserve human organs for the long term that's a wow that's a cool fish it's just absolutely i mean it turns black don't crack on its head that we got him how he got to this is no and this part of it off like i'm not going to age and i was cool about that too is that a middle we have merely thought of like space travel like you know like the whole like suspended animation being if you can turn off the aging process then you can travel those distance absolutely this also puts you know the botox industry and all these other places out of business if we can stop aging that's amazing and just as our alaska said though don't exploit the killer fish just to just for human vanity come on now all right that is our job you to do what remember in this world we're not told the world about the stuff so i tell you all i love you i am i roll them and i'm in mexico keep on watching all those hawks out there ever great day and night.

time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable pries board sustainability stay number may not be more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless. because. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is again this we don't even and i mean look . this is the mood stimulus and we didn't. seem to me understood

so when. faced off the heralded pace deal with washington the taliban kills over 20 soldiers and police in afghanistan what with us chris paul with asked why. greek border police clashed with asylum seekers at the turkish border at the hour with oncor over refugee depot antti spent the night at the front here thousands of people from around the world to reach the new. troy king out towards the front in the hope of getting a saddle small for what's going to happen as we were trying to build we've stopped this my cameraman being schoolteacher up by well it looks like a military personnel to. me west vice president joe biden scored several big weightlifter.