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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the death. or inmate in the shallow. greetings in salutation this week 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 of democracy looks like here in the land of the free after 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 responsible. 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 2 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 timing the action that is crucial for survival. you know i almost 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 the hawks. on a city street. let us. see this as this. state . great city displays systemic deceptions so much. so that you'll. 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 on the critically better 6 major extinction is now scientifically. undeniable unless we do something by the end. to this decade not 2050 not 2040 books board 2030 so the reinvigoration the paris 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 said no no there that's why they say they're kind of changing the language in these papers to really reflect saying look we can have scientists any more pull punches we can't be nice about this 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 made 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 thought that they happened to be so i think that changing that language and showing people just what's happening is something that we definitely have to do what's interesting that you're you can see that chart there avoid how you know where this 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 jurisdictions and 33 countries that equals out to about 820000000 people nearly a 1000000000 but when you look at 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 the way we talked about this earlier i think from places where you see like in california where it's the while flying by. blatantly you're seeing 9 you know the flint water crisis for instance where you have this dirty water that people can 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 will 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 with all born a lot of people sort of well let's try to scaring the hell out of people with the truth just but maybe it'll work. we've learned a bit more about the 2014 flint michigan water crisis former governor rick snyder and other excellent officials may be indicted on criminal charges for their wools 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 and flynt 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 while the nature of the charges are unknown at this time a sniper'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 it streaking water source from the detroit misapply 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 outbreak of legionnaires' disease that left 12 dead and sickened others it was snyders 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. is hurting and the other is the criminal side which is being led by the solicitor

general and special prosecutor reporter going to work trinity chavez r.t. . or war boy criminal and civil there are no golden. governors has 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 water 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 here because they were low income communities of color so i think that you know it is high time. him as well as those staffers that he had and other elected officials to see to see this through to see what actually happens when you can get punished even when you leave office that's how 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 what the president trumped in the impeachment but 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 koch is to me flint represents a lot of the problems of american capsulated 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 predominately 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 have a thing to do with their donors and they're willing to sacrifice lives and make people sick just for the sake of their own selves and pursing if no one is held accountable and flynn of snyder's 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 that you know flint for a lot of for lack of better term is kind of a canary in a coal mine it really shows the how just how dangerous. our environment is because we have so much greed nor corporations and so much what you say blogs a attitude about that 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. putting it on

on this case we're going to see that punishments do happen in these people and you can follow through with these things even after they're out of office because the crimes 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 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 that you can also start watching the hawks on demand through the brand new portable t.v. app which is available on all platforms as you can see here definitely pick that up coming up it appears that 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 we delve into that story next you don't want to miss of state so we're watching the whole.

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there is. something the demon. must protect its own existence or existence. the. outgoing u.s. president donald trump is continuing to stay in america day by day on monday his administration really designated cuba as a state sponsor of terror i wanted considering this was just days after a domestic terrorism attack led by trump laid siege at the nation's capitol. the

latest round of sanctions on cuba though will no doubt be felt war over they present wo blocks for the incoming bitit ministration pledge to renew relations with cuba secretary mike pompei o announced the latest wrinkle in u.s. cuba 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 malicious. though there is no formidable evidence that would place cuba at the height of the anti-terrorism efforts to trumpet ministration 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. 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 to the trumpet ministration continues to move forward cuban foreign minister bruno rodriguez condemned the u.s. action. the us political opportunism is recognized by those who are honestly concerned about the storage 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 human leadership 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. capitol 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 in the new cuba

a close up view of change has plenty welcome. what other than trying to stick it to the obama era policy what do you think is driving the top administration's binal our push to label cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism and apply heavy thinking and what does this mean for the future of cuban american diplomatic relations. very good questions deferred into question will tell you is the most important of this issue these late meaning this issue of the drug administration is this report that they have received from extreme right wing excited in southern florida that's basically in foreign policy made to a lot should then people look. if it goes as reported to be that way but does the way he did it drop on mideast region has taken the usual. foreign policy to pull

h.q. what. little this brought out of people who are there for seems to have been in the past in this difficult question about whether will have been ripped out will be some of the possibilities. i think depends a lot on by the. league it therefore it seemed to be should not do is to normalize what the has been they basically are the last minute we're after is meant to launch an attack on government to the use of all these. in the in the destruction they didn't state it make sure it didn't secure what the house and. i think

if i did the city has only the interests of the us he said to give dore gold we will preview of the alleles until evening. sure so meeting going to 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'd really want to i think the idea of the white house all go to these dogs would be diminished and. it's not just needed immediately. of god's children oh so here thank you bill bill that is growing for literally blue can. you know i want to bring you the united states as i think but actually the biggest perpetrator of terror on the island of cuba in the last 40 or 5060 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 did 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 constantly 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 most of my from the east. and i would pick you up almost. this year because of the. well next year. i think there are many people housed biggles but this is in a moment chill in the foot in the. frankly when we should just don't we both externally should all people who live in peace have d.v.d.'s

or don't think it's the ones who really need it. see that obama put it in just who are these tell you this or we're not we but i love its innards. of the past but bill and he basically still it if we treat their presidency old so people don't have meeting won't even actions know who he was going to. get in the united states i'm basing that one who need to get a unity love it until it is really these each and into the other 90 it. was the probably doing to the united states or the president obama was for him to be's and they do were i think he's a lot but it depends a little on what biting us through as opposed. to ones that still fit

a lot of. even these not just taken the list and we don't ask a big ugly boy and doug that us go are in the can all. live needs is cheap or we didn't usually your cheap i'm proud of indeed going to be a researcher and even. simulating a not that we are united right it. was like. this all of it to bring people. together many complaints in. stores of who want to. eat when out of there will be a great group indeed for in religion not over unimpeded make sure but you see after president obama the prison the girls are all almost no the beast not in the

north but only orderly to achieve this it is here that in another hour or. and historically we know that america took a much more stronger approach to cuba following the missile crisis than the communist regime but help 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. with the support of. who we. are about what is or is a more a good russian. i think. one in which it was. 6 or 8 year olds who read the room.

they were. there you missed the go on with the work or. even running we. were just. a nice. big. gains let's. all move to the. group. it's who did. it war out. to which one. was right because we were getting ready more or more stupid i think it's just. we're used. to war if you. will just as he said it's going to be there it's only see

the good it has its heart beat up but we're an equal and we're going to. mr brazier group is really truly truly a bully it is not always true nor do we really need to waste your time looking. into. the 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 deserve good are good people and they are neighbors thank you so much for coming on and enlightening our audience today sir. and that everybody is our show for you today remember in this world we are definitely not told we love the stuff so i tell you all i love you i am i robot and i will keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and let everybody.

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