mina terry and assistance or. and coupled with that would be human rights advocacy and insistence upon that and in any assistance that we give. does that mean that we're going to go ahead and shoot it into people's heads again so this is a. her elevation like this raises some important questions as to just to what extent foreign policy or foreign assistance will be used as a foreign policy weapon as opposed to give an absolute assistance in the future. many thanks for joining us now a nazi and snatched all the salad back in 90 minutes with the latest see them.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront a shouldn't let it be an arms race is on all sides very dramatic development the only and dangerous disease i don't see that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. greetings and salutation this will make here in the united states of america our congressional house of representatives voted for the impeachment of our very own brand name in chief the one and only us president donald trump they do this as the streets of washington d.c. are now closed off from the national guard stands in front of all of our government

buildings and on our street corners with rifles in hand. i guess this is what the law democracy looks like here in the land of the free for the events of january 6th watching our 2 parties backed by their money donors and cheered on by their news channels as they fight over the scraps of our republic while at the same time refusing to take responsibility for their own actions that these actions that actually destroyed our republic i am reminded of the other great self-inflicted destruction of our time i'm talking. of course about the environmental destruction of our small blue planet you know that little thing that gets in the way of watching t.v. buying things we don't need and. you know breathing you see while we quibble over the illusion of control we continue to ignore and destroy the environment around us and a new paper published in the front years of conservation science environmental scientists appear to be pulling no punches writing humanity is causing

a rapid loss of biodiversity and with the earth's ability to support complex life but the mainstream is having difficulty grasping the magnitude of this loss despite the steady erosion of the fabric of human civilization lead author of the paper cory bradshaw of australia's flinders university he follows up that statements without hesitation writing in fact the scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its life forms is so great that it is difficult to grasp or even well informed experts. the problem is combine compounded by ignorance and short term self-interest with the pursuit of wealth and political interests stymie the action that is crucial for survival. you know i almost i almost you can almost hear r.e.m. ringing in your ears it's the end of the world as you know it but you know what i

don't feel fine about that it's time to start watching this. on a cd. player so let's see this is this joyce state . great. displays systemic deceptions show which. brings up. the welcome everyone the watching the hawks. and i'm obese across boy oh boy. too big papers kind of got lost in the shuffle of all the news of the fall elections and all that and that is the fact the boy a boy are planted despite lack of like you know despite not a lot of human beings moving around this past year due to covert is still a sensually on a collision course with the 6 the mass extinction so you mean a call out in southend weep on how well we were doing we're all and why oh well

you know i should probably. speculate so i could come up with a better excuse i mean it's really bad i mean the paper claims that while suggested solutions about the current scale of the implementation of these solutions does not match the relentless progression of biodiversity loss and other existential threats tied to the continuous expansion of the human empires i mean the authors state unequivocally that a 6th major extinction is now scientifically undeniable undeniable unless we do something by the end. to this decade not 2050 not 2040 but board 2030 so the reinvigoration the parents the climate agreement i am looking into the green new deal and all these other things that we've seen not only in america but globally specifically from nations who have managed their environmental awareness and precautions a lot stronger than us it seems like we are on

a crash course unless we adopt the thing soon and full throated that we're not going to be able to and we say no no there that's why they say they're kind of changing the language in these papers to really reflect they're saying look at we can have signs of something more pull punches we can't be nice about this if if we're going to survive as a species we have to actually sound you know we have to make it dangerous sounding because it is that dangerous approach and people make fun of it when we heard on the democratic debate stage the primary stage the extension for it and there was so much laughter from republicans and you know voters but also republicans were at large and even some democrats didn't really understand or don't elevate environmental issues as the threat that they happen to be so i think that changing that language and showing people just what's happening is something that we definitely have to do and what's so interesting that you know you can see that chart there avoid how you know where it is kind of damaged beyond repair and one of

the interesting things that you find is in the last 2 years 10 percent of the world's population has actually come forward and declared that it's a climate emergency actually can board say we're treating this like an emergency only 10 percent that's $859.00 jurisdictions and $33.00 countries that equals out to about $820000000.00 people nearly a 1000000000 but when you would get the u.s. it's 10 percent of the u.s. when it comes to like jurisdiction cities states you know whatever you have you could actually say hey we're in a crisis 90 percent still say not so much not officially that way we talked about this earlier i think from places where you see like in california where things are saying why are while buyers. blame we're seeing you know the flight water crisis for instance where you have this dirty water that people can't drink can't bathe in and things like that there has to be these large scale effects that people see in their daily lives before they fully recognize the problem i would also argue that the more of those climate deniers the big case for them is that if you change certain things then all of a sudden jobs so they have done

a very effective job of getting rid of people who would actually care about the environment because they're scared that the economy is going to tank or they won't be employable if we are to you know move in a certain direction and then moving in that direction is getting off of fossil fuels will stop industrial missions and some of the jobs as we know will really it's not the green economy is there to fill in those jobs and that's one of the big problems that i've been democrats about is that they don't know how to communicate without boring the hell out of people well let's try to scaring the hell out of people with the truth. just maybe it'll work. we've learned a bit more about the $24.00 to flint michigan water crisis former governor rick snyder and other excellent officials may be indicted on criminal charges for their walls in connection with the crisis this could happen as soon as thursday party is trying to show that is has the latest on this story. the flint michigan water crisis may have started in 2014 but still many continue to deal with the impacts of

that disaster to this day and now more than 6 years later a new investigation may lead to the arrests of several former state officials people work for me that let us all down today former michigan governor rick snyder and other exhibitions are facing possible state criminal charges in connection with the flint water scandal according to the associated press 2 people with knowledge of the plan prosecution said the attorney general's office has informed defense lawyers about the indictments in flint and told them to expect initial court appearances as soon as thursday night or a republican who has been out of office for years would be charged by the state attorney general's office along with several others including former health director nick lyon well the nature of the charges are unknown at this time a snyder's attorney calls the report a smear campaign in a written statement he said quote it is outrageous to think any criminal charges would be filed against governor snyder any charges would be meritless since water

problems began back in 2014 when city and state officials switched its drinking water source from the detroit minister pull system into the toxic waters of the flint river all in an effort to save money the tragedy only revealed after the general motors engine plant noticed corrosion caused by high levels of chloride in the water coming from the flint river the decision to switch the water source eventually exposed residents in the most block in lower income communities to high levels of blood and prompted more than a dozen lawsuits against those involved at the same time bacteria in the water was blamed for an hour. of legionnaires' disease that left 12 and others it was snyder's administration who was in charge during that water crisis now i spoke to michigan's attorney general's office and while they aren't releasing anything at this time they did tell me they are working diligently on 2 types of investigations one is the civil side which the a.g.'s effort and the other is the criminal side which is being led by the solicitor general and a special prosecutor reporter going to york trinity child as r.t.

. or a boy a boy criminal and civil they're not holding back on the governor's been a long time coming governor snyder not only be he divert interest when it came to a lot of the questions involving the flint wider crisis originally but we also know that he took some kickbacks from a lot of private sector organizations particularly looking at the automotive industry that had water diverted so that they would actually have clean water out of body else did not and he knew the effects early on of what was going to happen to specific communities of color and did not care because they were low income communities of color so i think that you know it is high time for him as well as those staffers that he had other elected officials to see to see this through to see what actually happens when you can get punished even when you leave office it works yes well you know we you hear a lot the this week everyone's talking about you know we have to punish that we don't see this repeated in the future and you know we're talking about the present

in the impeachment like when you look at a case like flint it's gone far too long without any kind of real punishment and if you're going to hold people crocus to me flint represents a lot of the problems of american cops living in the one spot you get the economic depression from corporate greed you've got the race issues and things like that from under-representation and like what we just don't care about this because it's predominantly poor and black and then you also have the you know the greed in the mess a politician's and how they just don't care because it doesn't anything to do with their donors and they're willing to sacrifice lives and make people sick just for the sake of their own selves. personally if no one is held accountable and flynn of snyder is not held accountable then like we just go away the whole system at that point and i give credit to the community organizers and the folks on the ground who held to the fire years now on this because it fell out of major media fell out of almost every every media outlet it after was no longer front page news and i think that it goes to show what happens when communities actually get together and continue to make noise even when it has been pushed to the sidelines by so many

other events because there isn't an air erin brockovich coming to say what's happening in flint there are black people who are going to have to fight for the black people who still cannot drink that water today and flint uncover a big problem the it's not like isolated to just the city of flint the issue of lead in the issue of poisons in our waters in our soil and elsewhere around us that's across the country when you see lead levels in california in los angeles there are obscene louisiana obscene you know this isn't a problem with flint for a lot of the larger but a term is kind of a canary in a coal mine it really showed us the how just how dangerous our environment is because we have so much greed nor corporations and so much what you say was a attitude about in our politicians absolutely and i think that to your point about what's going on with the president right now but also you know it. putting it on on this case we're going to see that punishments do happen in these people if you can

follow through with these things even after they're out of office because the crimes that they committed are so heinous people died people are now living with these life threatening and long term health issues that are going to go away any time soon and someone needs to be held accountable but in this case it's going to be former governor rick snyder can't wait i can't wait to see him squirm in that courtroom. all right as we go to break remember you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t.v. which is available on all platforms as you can see here definitely picked up coming up it appears on the way out the door of the trumpet ministration has. decided to throw one last shot at tearing apart good relations between the united states of america and cuba if we delve into that story next you don't want to miss of states to watch your local. vet talk about

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outgoing u.s. president donald trump is continuing to stay in america day by day on monday his administration re designating cuba as a state sponsor of terror. ironic considering this was just days after a domestic terrorism attack led by trump laid siege at the nation's capital. the latest round of sanctions on cuba though will no doubt be felt moreover they present whoa blocks for the incoming bitit ministration that pledge to renew relations with cuba secretary mike pompei you announced the latest wrinkle in u.s. cuban relations citing that cuba harbors u.s. fugitives refused to extradite guerrilla commanders and painted in the overall picture of the island nation as one of terrorists sympathizers in

a breeding ground for militias. though there is no formidable evidence that would place cuba at the height of the anti-terrorism efforts the truck administration continues to pursue them in fact destroying relations with cuba made their outgoing to do list not because of any significant threat to cuba poses but because president obama made it a policy goal to bring cuba back into the fold president elect joe biden plan to carry out what obama started in restoring full diplomatic relations with cuba but trump the ever so anxious isolationists draw a line in the sand with cuba unfortunately on the wrong side trump has a habit of reversing obama era decisions we saw this with iran and now cuba is the next target even though few u.s. allies believe cuba is a terrorist threat the trumpet ministration continues to move forward cuban foreign minister bruno rodriguez condemned the u.s. action. the u.s. political opportunism is recognized by those who are honestly concerned about the sport of terrorism and its victims he said on twitter and rodriguez isn't alone

u.s. representative gregory meeks the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee echoes cuban leadership week said this is a nation of cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism with less than a week to go in his presidency and after he incited a domestic terror attack on the u.s. capital that's hypocrisy. so what will cuba american relations actually look like can we establish a fresh start here tell us more is professor of politics and international ations at holy names university and author of raul castro and the new cuba a close up view of change lopez leddy welcome. it's a pleasure. well other than trying to stick it to the obama era policy what do you think is driving the top administration's final our push to label cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism and apply heavy sanctions and what does this mean for the future of cuban american diplomatic relations. deferred

indeed question. they lived in board of this issue laid this issue all of the drug administration is this border that they have received from extreme right we started in shoulder through the it's basically 40 bully c b one low should they be able to be those are supposed to be the great but that's the way he didn't grow up on the street you must take you there. is sort of bullies for each. little. rule of people who. seems to have been in the past mystical question about whether we would have been ripped out with. new possibilities open the door duty station i think it depends a lot on buckley and if. you could lead to it

therefore it seemed the big should not do is to normalise well the house but they basically the last minute we're after. launch an attack to the huge oldies a city in the in the structure made the nation state it made sure it didn't secure up the house and. i think if i did the city has only one thing difference to us he said it did give dore gold little preview of the young ladies until he blinked in chile so meeting there may be sure to do well in release on release a student and then there are conditions all they can do well out of the least by the latest if you really want to i think the idea of the white house all of

these will to be diminished and peace in lots of meaning in the. in god's children are old so here thank you bill bill that is growing for literally blue can. you know i want to bring the united states as i think but actually the biggest perpetrator of terror on the island of cuba in the last 405060 years than cuba could ever dream of possibly doing to the united states i want to ask you you know what what are the you know obviously you're not there but what are the expectations of the of the cuban people when they look at the by the ministration coming in especially in light of what trump just did is there any hope monks the cuban people or most of the leadership in cuba that maybe we can kind of change this moving forward or after 60 years of facing the united states constantly breathing down their throat and cons. only you know for lack of a better term laying siege to that island nation. do you believe the cuban

leadership and the people have hope of a change in policy in the future. i think you know i am not there but what of my family is doing better. than i would 2 q. were almost surely i have learned this year because of. a well last year. i think that many people house because president obama chill and different enough. frankly with the deal with issues such as the don't we both externally should all people involved in that or be some d.v.d.'s or don't think it's the ones who rejected it president obama but it's invoked us to these tell you this or we're you know we'd better let it in and we get into the woods of the past but bill you know and you basically spill it if the truth there but it's impure people

don't have meaning won't it actions you was going to reject it in the states i'm basing that one will need to get a unity love of it until it is really these each and into the early days it. was not happen to be doing to the united states or the president obama was for him to beat and they do or i think it is a lot but it bends a lot on what by us rulers wants. it to once all that stuff with a lot of it would be even better we said it with these not the house they can be looked at we don't ask a big ugly boy in the us go in the can is all it will be. is cheap only be achieved. going to be a producer and you can. simulate the. united right it

. was like. this played out there too with people. who want to. do you went out of there quickly a great group and the sort of guy who really should not overrunning beauty and make sure but you see after bridget obama he is the girl over almost no. no if. you want. to secure the underground ranch. and historically we know that america took a much more stronger approach to cuba following the missile crisis than the communist regime but al pastor oh but as you just spoke of under president obama we started to take a different turn the tide was changing and recognizing how far cuba has come in

working towards stronger relations in your view what are the reasons that former president obama and president elect biden sought to actually restore those ties. or groups because these are. who we. are about what is or is a minority in russia. i think. one in which it was. 6 weeks each year. we had a room. but. we were. there you missed the go with the work people. in. the room we. were just. but he's right it's big. we're not against.

all of the house or 9. group but it's who did. it war. which. was so right because we were going to be more or more stupid i think it's just released we're used to it we want to be getting it wrong just as it's going to be there it's only fair that it is beat up by a plane when it will be and it will again it is your risk your group is built on the you wait a plane is not always true nor. do you waste your time looking. into it or that he you know donald is that a lot to set us back but i hope moving forward we can find

a much better relationship with the cuban people because our good are good people and they are neighbors thank you so much for coming on and lightning our audience today sir. and that everybody is our show for you today remember in this world we are definitely not told me i love the stuff so i tell you all i love you i am a robot and i will keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and let. i got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to 65 plays damascus. oh don't don't do. it i've watched it many times

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