in the movement titled the world is my country and the director arthur canal guest is here to speak with me about it plus family care of bonnie will bring us the weekly offensive and correspondent andrew giulini breaks down the lies about the new labor bill called the pro act but 1st here now is my interview with the director of the world is my country arthur connecticut thanks for taking the sound of a arthur really appreciate it i enjoyed being here with you so i just watch a new documentary the world is my country the story of gary davis who unfortunately passed away in 2013 but honestly it's a wonderful and inspirational story i'm ashamed to say i didn't know much about him before the movie but before i watched it but he was an extraordinary life in which he tried to unite the world by eliminating nation states and thereby eliminating war and after he saw the horrors of world war 2 he declared he was simply a citizen of the world so how did you 1st end up working with gary davis or getting

to know his work well actually i had known gary for some years because of the world asked or event that interested me and i and i actually was working with this time around so it's on balance trying to get some grounding for feature film to transport people into a problem here and isn't going to want to do it and i'm about to use your or actually read my dad's book my countries the world and i read the book. here it's a phenomenal story and it's just an action drama this is make it right movie and so i got a story of life story rights we 1st a screenplay which sony pictures loved and they actually made them for a half hour but it was too expensive it was like black poster size but i did you know airplanes i mean he was shot down bomber planes production numbers so we probably went to the doctor and we just incredibly amazing. as in

that spirit you know you've seen her then right now in your story in a riveting. joyous way that the audience was just going crazy over and then mostly after he passed we got to see the rock i wrote this but it just so thrilled about a story we finally get out of the world but then he started all the research and oh my god we found a credible cargoes and we're going to every step of this incredible journey with eleanor roosevelt and our and our commute and our nice albert einstein said this is the guy he said he grasped he knew the way that humanity would die by his own hands or continue to exist and einstein said he was going to vote the rest of his life at that period trying to the only way that we can love him and i was talking about and the areas i write not this hour were a lot of it you know the new and the world order and he's going to. do the work of our allies i'm. sorry but he really isn't and that is better by

the great people power but just a backup for a minute for people to don't know the story in the 1940 s. and fifty's after being a bomber in world war 2 harry gave us renounces american citizenship declared he was a citizen of the world and it then created a lot of problems for him such as the kind of incredible to mind when he was trapped on the line between germany and france neither country letting him in but it also starts in the international kind of movement of to follow his lead can you talk a little about that movement and what it meant. yes i 1st of all i want to say jerry actually gave something precious his american citizenship he didn't consider it now so that is a legal term you use when you when you we're here when you get about your national citizenship to come or also to the other world to. the embassy that they said there's no such thing so there is now but he officially gave up national

citizenship and he said it's an act of love for america because he cares about america and he wants a raise and sovereignty the higher level you want to follow what america's founders when they raised their sovereignty from virginia and maryland and so i'm a great united states he said we have to raise our sovereignty to the local level that doesn't mean you eliminate maryland and virginia and all that you know we will still have our countries in our rich cultures that even think we're protected we all have our incredible diversity having them protection a lot of illegal at the lower level you know it's an incredible fact and realized when he was in this bomber plane and he was killing civilians on the ground and his own brother was you know and it was her and say why am i telling these people because they're on the wrong side of some invisible alliance. people and then you realize she said why wasn't i arrested for killing those people why weren't the people who killed my brother arrested and you're right just because there is no law

outside of nations it's not illegal to kill people every single country says illegal what happened the last time paterson asked for an official get this in ship and france said you know what you can. leave the nobody can be here without papers well the u.n. does meeting in paris that year and so they had to clear the polling station at a local international territory for the duration of the u.n. session so you're right there you kept out of. there well as. best. as look at this point. there you will be. back so very likely go with humor and and joy as he did this it credible mission that with i think sparked such a you know albert albert schweitzer advocate movie john called.

and he always. french intellectuals bases. and 20000 people rallied as the bell in december night. demanding that the u.n. recognize the rights of humanity and the very next day december 10th the soviets who had been added to the blocking eleanor roosevelt universal declaration of human crisis think this is an illegal the tunisian our sovereignty and so i stepped aside a stain and then it gets passed unanimously and that is kind of documenting the beginning to develop a law that we're going to stick to environmental laws there and so on and we've got to give them the teeth has to be not guns and. people 'd kind of enforcing it with our consumer power our economic power our recognition a lot you know you don't you know you don't run stop signs because. it's illegal you can get killed and so i missed the law you just knew except as part of

a pattern you don't need in every place you need to accept a system the law it's standards that we all live by and once we have this kind of system. we the people can solve all in this problem facing our planet credibly invented species and we can solve the all environmental problems by the the tools and mechanisms to do it and we're locked out of that fight being locked in these boxes called nation states why don't why is everybody in your opinion cling to these ideas that they just is just so important and you know if someone is born across that low. fine then they're completely different than me and i should have no problem with dropping bombs on them even babies and elderly because they were born on that other side of the line like is it is it is it a fear of what we're trying to deal with me or is it mr recht that anger towards problems and people's lives why do so many people cling to our imaginary nation national lines. well i i think it all starts with you know 1st of all given

that we get together with larger and larger units you get together with our plan that gives us more security than just being alone we get together our plans get together for a tribe or more or more states try to form a nation that we're more safe the problem is we haven't stepped up to the next level. and we're all we're all safe with that so we're still stuck at that worsened by the level i was you know back in 7076 it was incredible invention to send people by or somebody to a distant city to to represent us and both president create a democratic system but kerry says in the movie that now 5. we can all be in the same room the globe we don't want the same thing we want a safe use your kids we want clean. we want to be secure we want to be able to practice to have our beliefs and not have others forced theirs upon and this long

as our belief and focusing on others and then destroying others are violating the world law which is to say you know you can't be oppressing others but as long as you're just then your community having your different types of questions that should be protected and that's of course what the you were raised in human rights says and that's what i was hoping you can inspire the world to realize today and that's why i do hope people will come to. that world is my country. that it's like they're fine now it's just on public broadcasting stations all over the country you can click there and find out what is being shown your area or it's not shown you can get to t.v. and it'll tell you how you can get into your area and that's anything to watch the film right there the world is my country. to wait for it 'd to come on your p.b.s. station i'm here. so we're in this amazing story and for those who are interested you can also still get

a world power. as for which gary davis helped create you held it up earlier the world passport so anyone can apply for one of these and millions of people there and there it is and millions of people of have done so over the years to talk about the world past for program and how it's helped people through the decades. well the interesting thing about the past 4 is that it has spanned stamped by a 100 and over i'm going to 80 of the world's 186 nations in the us and so on and almost all nations but most of that was in the past don't happen so it really depends on the border guard it used to be much more i think widely accepted then after 911 when there's been much tougher controls and even with many national travel to other places and and and it's much more much more restricted that was do it does 2 things 3 things 1st of all gives you

a chance to identify with humanity as a whole secondly it's an dedication document you know if you don't have an identity and so many places and even getting medical care your kids can tend to school so it's one thing for sure that the document and now they're working on making it a digital identity even more power working with people that the ballot that because we've seen so much need for. the 1000000 stateless people need this need some identity and they can't get it and you see how countries change you know used to be you know a member of this union and that probably maybe your country now doesn't have a passport are you know i met with land last spring yes who left the singer evolution that he was the 1st person they had a. mania and he said gary world passport 2 weeks after he left and he was so thrilled because you know yet it's so good that we're not a passport independent and that we. were.

also all. over the story and by the way so the people all over have used this passport. around the world so it's a great great way to identify. now these are all just step outside the borders because really at heart when we do stuff. that's when we are you know you. think it's still important you've done for so many people like you said helping them get married or. get their kids registered so many things that that that document is been important for sell it really is a powerful powerful movement a powerful idea this film is incredible the world is my country dot com is where people can get it and i can't thank you enough for the time really appreciate it

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welcome back i'm still a camp and now here's naomi scherr vonnie with the weekly offense. only all companies are getting enthusiastic about stopping climate change a little too enthusiastic exxon announce it has a low carbon strategy unit does that mean they're going to retire their oil rigs no no no they found a way to keep pumping instead exxon is offering to clean our air shell and exxon are looking to profit from capturing customers carbon emissions which sounds

a lot like if chipotle a monetized diarrhea the technology they're using to clean up their mess is called carbon capture and storage it's a process in which carbon is removed from the air and stored in the ground which on its face seems like a sisyphean task to pump out carbon from the ground release it into the air suck it out of the air and then return it to the ground but fossil fuel companies see it another way it's an honorable burial for oil returning it to its home however this technology is not very cost effective when you compare it to another carbon capturing technology trees. but don't worry you can still pay money to have c o $2.00 removed from the air in your name you'll just pay $5.00 times more for it again believe it they even sold the trees marketing plan. while exxon hopes to profit eventually they're asking for a little help to get their little project off the ground and in the air exxon

proposed a giant 100000000000 dollar hub to capture carbon dioxide emissions along the u.s. gulf coast and sexist but warned that government funding would be required to pay for and develop it so if i understand correctly carbon capture is a highly technical yet earth friendly way for the fossil fuel industry to capture our wallets some people call it a vacuum for the air but it's so much more than that it's like one of those dyson vacuums that has all these unnecessary attachments end up on your floor and become fatal hazards for you and your children and carbon removal pilot studies air pollution increased because of the fuel required to power the technology so carbon capture is doing its job just as well as this high tech garbage truck amazing i mean it works kind of. just to give you a sense of where we are with c

o 2 sucking technology the high priest of innovation even on musk announced he was going to give $100000000.00 to inventors that can come up with a new way to capture carbon so to be clear we're in the bear for billionaires sweepstakes phase of this science it's not even a serious enough ensure for shoes some scientists call it unicorn technology because it doesn't even exist yet on a large scale yet we're relying upon it this is just like open couples who rely on the fiction that there is tons of bisexual unicorns who are just so happy and super chill about being a 3rd there's maybe one or 2 in your metropolitan area let's be serious environmentalists say that the faith in hoovering the air technology will only serve to distract from cheaper proven and faster ways of reducing carbon emissions like wind solar or not turning the amazon rain forest into a tennis court transitioning energy infrastructure away from fossil fuels as well as planting trees and reducing deforestation is

a much better way to address carbon emissions says a stanford university professor sign does agree that while projects like $100000000000.01 exxon is proposing have proved to be expensive failures but carbon capture can be useful on a small scale to prevent emissions at the source of heavy industry of like steel or cement making carbon capture technologies can scrub c o 2 out of polluters emissions so that it doesn't enter the atmosphere in the 1st place it's not new technology it's been around since the 1970 s. because to scrubbing can be an effective way to increase oil production which scientists now advise against so what's the best use of c o 2 or no well it's to actually pump the c o 2 in an oil well to make the oil less dense or a little float to the top of the oil will be more productive so this is called enhanced oil recovery the oil. companies love this because they actually can then take the c o 2 and then increase their oil production which means we'll burn even more c

o 2 burn more oil for transportation and other uses that will result in even more air pollution and global warming so all we got from promoting deaker position through c o 2 capture was more oil exactly what we didn't need when the push to decarbonise started in 2008 well companies like exxon $100.00 of millions of dollars in tax breaks for simply making their business more efficient however we're not even sure they've been capturing and keeping the carbon underground because the government probes found companies claiming carbon capture tax credits didn't follow the e.p.a. requirements so we know at least oil companies have the dishonest about carbon capturing this honest about the effects of climate change this honest in the misinformation campaigns they've waged over the years against climate science knowing it was true and now were supposed to trust them with $100000000000.00

i mean how do they have the gall to ask do they think we're stupid. you know what they're probably right exxon could probably sell us a green technology in the form of a bundle of sage the size of the washington monument and after it burns would be like the air feels so clean now retrofitting coal fired plants to have carbon capture technology seems like a good solution in the short term but it locks us in with an industry that has not only been polluting but lying about it we don't have to totally abandon the 2nd ology it could prove to be useful in the future but we don't have to help the fossil fuel industry stay in business with it so if you google the new labor bill the pro act the 1st to link is an ad that will tell you the pro act will

destroy american labor laws the 2nd link is from n.p.r. telling you the pro act will protect workers' rights to join a union and actually fight back against our corporate rulers they don't use those words i'm so stone the truth so dig into it here is our very own intelligence failure correspondent and early. roughly one 3rd of americans do good work as either their primary or secondary job one of the advantages of this kind of work touted by companies like and greg is flexibility when you work for one of these apps you have the flexibility to work a minimum wage job take care of your crying baby make it to bankruptcy court on time pick up your car before it gets repossessed and squeeze in 2 hours of making deliveries that mostly consist of you sitting around waiting to get aside enough orders to hit $7.00 on your check next week but soon all of this could change the

pro-west which stands for protecting the right to organize and much to my dismay not pick aling rarified octopi is a bill that recently passed the house of representatives it would assure in several huge changes to labor law in america the bill would effectively end anti-union right to work laws institute financial penalties on employers that retaliate against workers who were going to is prohibited employers captive audience meetings and bar employers from permanently replacing strikers if the senate isn't careful workers in the united states could end up having the same rights and standard of living as they do and just about every other 1st world country senators can only do so much delay and that's why american capitalists are fast at work pulling their levers in the news industry and social media trying to convince the public that the pro act will cause a recession mass unemployment and make millions of people lose their health care as if those things are in already happening anyway now normally bosses would be laying

on the red baiting anti-union propaganda think that's gotten harder to do especially during the pandemic. that's why the ruling class is trying a new strategy appealing to freelancers are you a noob or driver a writer a musician a new driver likes to call himself a writer slash musician will look out because the pro act is coming for. your livelihood the outrage has been directed at the pro x. a.b.c. test which legally defines what a freelancer it sounds simple enough simple as a.b.c. but if you ask concern journalists on the freelance beat like those salt of the earth folks over at forbes magazine this provision would be a disaster just listen to university of illinois professor michael arroyo who says that the law would possibly limit work for women retirees college students and other similar demographics if companies are forced to turn independent contractors into official employees with official benefits will just hire less people in the

1st place sounds bad in that context but something tells me there might be a little bit more to lurie's point than forbes lets on turns out in the subsequent interview he says that the forbes column misrepresents his views when an employer is unionized they typically don't start hiring more people he says in other words it is employers who threaten jobs he explains not the program doesn't it just feel great to live in a country where companies get to hold the economy hostage the 2nd they're asked to treat workers with a shred of dignity the truth is though none of that actually applies to the pro act since it would not in fact change the employment status of freelancers the only thing the law would alter is whether freelancers engaged in concerned activity are protected by the national labor relations act protections that tend $99.00 workers currently lack right now would freelancers want to unionize or go on strike current

labor law leaves them seriously at risk they can even get charged with price tricks . freelance strikes can have a serious impact and just remember the graphic design shortage of 2002 thousands of business cards had to stay blank if too many independent contractors find out about this in join groups like freelancers for the proactive it will be very bad news for the scores of millionaires billionaires corporate lobbies and coke funded astroturf organizations trying like hell to make sure this bill never becomes law and that the labor movement never rises again that's why they're pumping rules of money into a misinformation campaign to deceive and divide the working class in the words of the great scholars in the offspring they got to keep them separate perfect record i mean or sleep with her back into the us and i'm still a show but we have a new redacted tonight tomorrow and since we're heavily surprised online the best way to keep up with our new content is to join our free email list just text the

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