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ya soon guys i'm abby martin this is breaking the set while there is seemingly no shortage of disturbing news coming out of the pentagon these days the latest that would be the announcement that the do you know d. is creating a new medal of honor a medal that honors those brave men and women who get behind their videogame like consuls and assassinate suspected terrorists from their air conditioned offices yet the drone king is now warning his drone operator minions for their outs danding valor it's called the distinguished warfare medal it will be awarded to individuals for their extraordinary achievement related to military operations that have occurred since nine eleven i'm thinking that it should look a little bit like this. because we all know what it cheaper and it is to lazy sit behind a computer screen and kill kids with the touch of a button right but at this this is the first combat related award created since the bronze star and nineteen forty four and for that matter it will stand higher in a ranking than the traditional bronze star medal you know one that you actually have to
ya soon guys i'm abby martin this is breaking the set while there is seemingly no shortage of disturbing news coming out of the pentagon these days the latest that would be the announcement that the do you know d. is creating a new medal of honor a medal that honors those brave men and women who get behind their videogame like consuls and assassinate suspected terrorists from their air conditioned offices yet the drone king is now warning his drone operator minions for their outs danding valor...
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gets out and i mean martin and this is breaking set the record of the commerce department u.s. g.d.p. you drop point one percent last quarter making it the weakest since the recession add this to the fact that the bureau of labor statistics is reporting more than twelve million americans remain unemployed while well surely the white house is feeling the economic squeeze actually not so much the economy shrinking and unemployment persistent the obama administration is the sighted to shut down its job council. well done obama well done way to move america forward in this time of need despite the fact the council met a measly four times in a two year existence i guess i'd rather have seen a commitment to the other huge in the white house was actually working on the economy and sort of a blatant surrender if you're with me let's break the set. of the total number of users you've never seen anything like the trouble. you may remember that earlier this month i highlighted a man who's been under siege by the u.s. government for blowing the whistle. torture referring to former cia anal
gets out and i mean martin and this is breaking set the record of the commerce department u.s. g.d.p. you drop point one percent last quarter making it the weakest since the recession add this to the fact that the bureau of labor statistics is reporting more than twelve million americans remain unemployed while well surely the white house is feeling the economic squeeze actually not so much the economy shrinking and unemployment persistent the obama administration is the sighted to shut down...
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you all the time abby martin and this brings that so today i want to talk about a very disturbing story the reason mouth our county new york will not be pursuing charges against the gang rape of a fifteen year old manhattan girl that occurred last year a reason well officials at the martin de porres academy a school for special needs kids asked police to drop the case we should read and get this a spokesperson for the police department said quote it was more of a consensual situation with their mental capabilities so basically the gang rape of a fifteen year old girl was consensual because the attackers and the victim had low i.q. is how this stuff is that thankfully the girl's family has filed a lawsuit against the school for their callous indifference and right rightfully so interestingly one of the kids involved was found competent enough by the police to be convicted for robbery yet somehow wasn't deemed mentally fit to be convicted for sexual assault if this story is crazy stick around because you ain't seen nothing yet. another large number of good for your job or seem anything li
you all the time abby martin and this brings that so today i want to talk about a very disturbing story the reason mouth our county new york will not be pursuing charges against the gang rape of a fifteen year old manhattan girl that occurred last year a reason well officials at the martin de porres academy a school for special needs kids asked police to drop the case we should read and get this a spokesperson for the police department said quote it was more of a consensual situation with their...
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it's actually for the embassy in mexico city and steve martin who is the system director of the office is information and intelligence kind of two most interesting testimonials and there is a good you know said it was absolutely do. this is that your. quote unquote a perfect storm of idiocy in terms of how the fast and furious program actually eric what he was most upset at was the fact that it was really these are producer fortunately directly in the hands of that you are cartel in fact steve martin testified that i want point when the weapons were number enough over a thousand they were one hundred percent in the hands of the singapore cartel now the tie in to the somebody to chase is that somebody in that same month actually is defense attorneys came out with some details of the unity agreement misusing the d f having happy with it and those details unsurprisingly included the fast and furious program as being one of the benefits for the arrangement that he had with e.a. and some other at each else interesting ones related to that case to add especially with some bata is that there
it's actually for the embassy in mexico city and steve martin who is the system director of the office is information and intelligence kind of two most interesting testimonials and there is a good you know said it was absolutely do. this is that your. quote unquote a perfect storm of idiocy in terms of how the fast and furious program actually eric what he was most upset at was the fact that it was really these are producer fortunately directly in the hands of that you are cartel in fact steve...
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one hundred thirty days and abby martin and this is breaking the set so you probably are you may have already heard about the league a o.j. document on the obama administration's and big u.s. criteria for what american can be infiltrated by us as well apparently americans are in the dark about the fact that this is even happening in the new poll from public mine shows that forty percent of voters think it's illegal for the government to kill americans abroad. and so cute no way the u.s. could be doing that because it's illegal to put these people probably don't realize that this administration has created illegal for. to make what would normally be illegal and legal what's even more disturbing is that as long as it's not americans who are being executed people don't seem to care all of the same poll seventy five percent of people approve of drone wars to target whatever the us brands as a quote national security threat is the this exact mentality is the problem this blind faith is what led to americans being the targets of assassinations without due process our silence is complicity w
one hundred thirty days and abby martin and this is breaking the set so you probably are you may have already heard about the league a o.j. document on the obama administration's and big u.s. criteria for what american can be infiltrated by us as well apparently americans are in the dark about the fact that this is even happening in the new poll from public mine shows that forty percent of voters think it's illegal for the government to kill americans abroad. and so cute no way the u.s. could...
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happy monday guys are having martin and this is breaking the set so today began the long awaited trial of british petroleum or b.p. to where the largest offshore oil spills in history and now of course the u.s. government blaming the corporation for the disaster that killed eleven rig workers and dumped four million barrels of crude oil into the gulf of mexico you know with even more interest in even though the government is so quick to pass the buck and place the blame on b.p. now they weren't so willing to do that immediately following the disaster in fact they issued to the company even more oil and gas contracts and further solidify their but in love with the corporation you asked me saw this in giant charade. one bloke scream after the other culpable let's break this up. coming from the largest military empire in the world it's a wonder how little the establishment discusses the implications of war the downtrodden economy has taken center stage in the discussion of us foreign policy has waned into a mere afterthought this is pose a challenge for many antiwar activists who've been
happy monday guys are having martin and this is breaking the set so today began the long awaited trial of british petroleum or b.p. to where the largest offshore oil spills in history and now of course the u.s. government blaming the corporation for the disaster that killed eleven rig workers and dumped four million barrels of crude oil into the gulf of mexico you know with even more interest in even though the government is so quick to pass the buck and place the blame on b.p. now they weren't...
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breaking the setting of your one about what i'm doing on twitter verse follow me on twitter abby martin if you can break my preaching for now let's say to hear about the great pacific garbage trash patch next. wealthy british style. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. download the official publication yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't do so now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anyway. talk some trash otherwise known as the number one product made it right here in america the us produces an absolutely out rageous and out of trash so much so that it's nearly impossible to imagine corn in the e.p.a. on average each one of us will produce four and a half pounds of solid waste today between the three hundred fourteen million of us living in this country by the end of the day will have collectively thrown away around one point four bi
breaking the setting of your one about what i'm doing on twitter verse follow me on twitter abby martin if you can break my preaching for now let's say to hear about the great pacific garbage trash patch next. wealthy british style. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. download the official publication yourself choose your language stream quality...
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watch up guys and i mean martin this is breaking the set you know americans get a lot of flak for being uncultured not well traveled all around isolated from other people and ideas in the world well one former general has offered up a really great solution to the problem reinstate the draft pick up former general stanley mcchrystal the man responsible for the failed troop surge in afghanistan said this in a recent interview with foreign affairs that america suffers right now from the fact that many americans don't meet or deal with anybody outside their social or cultural circle i think mandatory national service would have a huge effect to help us in that direction wow that makes complete sense let's force people to be mindless robots working on behalf of the military industrial complex in order. become cultured crystal the idea of meeting people outside of our cultural circles is forcing the barrel of a gun in their faces and bombing their foreign lands i'm sure that the best way to learn about the world is traveling with the most brainwashed jingoistic attitude of american exceptiona
watch up guys and i mean martin this is breaking the set you know americans get a lot of flak for being uncultured not well traveled all around isolated from other people and ideas in the world well one former general has offered up a really great solution to the problem reinstate the draft pick up former general stanley mcchrystal the man responsible for the failed troop surge in afghanistan said this in a recent interview with foreign affairs that america suffers right now from the fact that...
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greene's earthlings i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so today is secretary of state hillary clinton's last day on the job i know i'm sad to call her farewell happens to fall in the same day a suicide bomber detonated explosive device outside the entrance of the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital amman carra secretary clinton's last month in office or been subjected to scrutiny but the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi last september eleventh an infinite that left four americans dead and the fortunate for us as americans that clinton's last day in office we remembered by yet another terrorist attack against this country's diplomats abroad attacks like this one today speaks volumes about the hatred and resentment so many people still feel toward the government of the united states or resentments that is not founded on shallow sea over our freedoms but on the aggressive military and oppressive economic policies that this. government exports around the world are resentment that will not go away until we make a significant change in this country until that happens i'll be
greene's earthlings i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so today is secretary of state hillary clinton's last day on the job i know i'm sad to call her farewell happens to fall in the same day a suicide bomber detonated explosive device outside the entrance of the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital amman carra secretary clinton's last month in office or been subjected to scrutiny but the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi last september eleventh an infinite that left four...
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the folks i'm abby martin so last week i talked about the newly leaked memo on obama's criteria to target assassinate u.s. citizens abroad it's a terrifying document that's all too reminiscent of the bush era torture memos so it was that surprising to find an op ed written by the torture architect himself john yoo on this very topic in the wall street journal use main problem with the kill list memo that obama is actually granting too much due process i kid you not he writes quote by including terrorists among those afforded constitutional protections the president's policy risks stretching those protections a mile wide and an inch deep weakening them for all americans ok ok so john you actually believe that extending the rights of due process to human beings who are targeted for assassination abroad on mere suspicion somehow diminishes due process right here in america now a man flip that logic on its head because the office it's actually true deny new process to anyone is a dangerous precedent which normalizes and conditions americans to accept the lack of due process as it relates to t
the folks i'm abby martin so last week i talked about the newly leaked memo on obama's criteria to target assassinate u.s. citizens abroad it's a terrifying document that's all too reminiscent of the bush era torture memos so it was that surprising to find an op ed written by the torture architect himself john yoo on this very topic in the wall street journal use main problem with the kill list memo that obama is actually granting too much due process i kid you not he writes quote by including...
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how it pocket i'm abby martin today i want to introduce you to some medicine a palestinian activists who was detained by the israeli army in two thousand and two during israel's offensive operation dubbed operation defensive shield samaras is sentenced to thirty years in prison but under a deal brokered by egypt he was released in october two thousand and eleven along with four hundred seventy six other palestinian prisoners tragically once again samara was detained last year and for the last one hundred and ninety five days he's been on a hunger strike in protest at his detention without charge or trial without help and pressure from the outside he will surely die and prison without a continued outcry from activists and urgent action from world leaders who are not afraid to stand up to the israeli government they will continue to cross every red line so this sort of injustice bothers you too and if you feel freedom and dignity are things worth fighting for and you come to the right place so it's great to set . up. a little bit more of the good of you show her she made me feel like i
how it pocket i'm abby martin today i want to introduce you to some medicine a palestinian activists who was detained by the israeli army in two thousand and two during israel's offensive operation dubbed operation defensive shield samaras is sentenced to thirty years in prison but under a deal brokered by egypt he was released in october two thousand and eleven along with four hundred seventy six other palestinian prisoners tragically once again samara was detained last year and for the last...
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in the tax code they also siphon money away from small businesses just take companies like lockheed martin horizon boeing or coca-cola these giant corporations are among the wealthiest in the country. they're all getting away with millions of dollars in small business contracts contracts that are actually reserved for simple businesses lockheed martin as many of you know is the country's premier defense contractor well they received one hundred ten million dollars in small business contracts just last year because sure hundred forty thousand employees and forty one billion dollars in revenue is really the sign of a small business forget the fact that in order to be awarded this type of contract a company must have less than five hundred employees so the same goes for the other companies on this list almost half of the top hundred fortune five hundred companies are to secretly receiving small business contracts all of which are mounted to about half a billion dollars last year alone but this all goes back to the two tiered justice system if you and i tried to cheat the tax code the iris wou
in the tax code they also siphon money away from small businesses just take companies like lockheed martin horizon boeing or coca-cola these giant corporations are among the wealthiest in the country. they're all getting away with millions of dollars in small business contracts contracts that are actually reserved for simple businesses lockheed martin as many of you know is the country's premier defense contractor well they received one hundred ten million dollars in small business contracts...
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i am having martin and this is breaking the set so thanks to the supreme court the government was just reissued a free pass to spy on us anytime anyplace that's right today the top just says seven the court will not hear a case brought by a group of lawyers journalists and organizations who have contested a provision of the foreign intelligence surveillance act or files that that lets the n.s.a. silently monitor people's e-mails and phone calls and you want to know what the saddest part of all of this is the court wasn't even considering pfizer's constitutionality they were merely determining whether lawyers should be able to file a lawsuit to challenge it in the first place and the court said no no to challenging the system no to privacy and no to the civil liberties are supposed to uniquely characterize this country i don't know about you but i'm tired of being told no when it comes to my freedoms so let's go break the sets. next month will mark the ten year anniversary of the invasion of iraq the day for which many will remember the one million plus lives that were lost along with t
i am having martin and this is breaking the set so thanks to the supreme court the government was just reissued a free pass to spy on us anytime anyplace that's right today the top just says seven the court will not hear a case brought by a group of lawyers journalists and organizations who have contested a provision of the foreign intelligence surveillance act or files that that lets the n.s.a. silently monitor people's e-mails and phone calls and you want to know what the saddest part of all...
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what's up guys looking to break into said my name is man well rob lowe filling in for abby martin so who's ready for the academy awards this weekend i know i couldn't care less what i do care about them is the high stakes u.s. defense department has in this year's oscars yep i'm talking about zero dark thirty the latest film to glamorize war just to help out the government's image hate it's not easy to justify torture it takes some careful planning and in this case a major hollywood movie interesting lee enough twenty eight retired u.s. army generals just sent a letter to the filmmakers encourage them to call for the release of the senate intelligence committee's cia torture report this report would be the most comprehensive study on cia enhanced interrogation and detention since nine eleven but something tells me not to count on the release of those documents any time soon so let's bring. from the leaked list memo of the revelation of obama's disposition matrix and recently john brennan's appointment as the new cia director and one aspect of the ever evolving war on terror that seem
what's up guys looking to break into said my name is man well rob lowe filling in for abby martin so who's ready for the academy awards this weekend i know i couldn't care less what i do care about them is the high stakes u.s. defense department has in this year's oscars yep i'm talking about zero dark thirty the latest film to glamorize war just to help out the government's image hate it's not easy to justify torture it takes some careful planning and in this case a major hollywood movie...
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the load blow and i did martin and this is breaking the set so i don't know you've heard the latest bout of ridiculousness regarding hydraulic fracturing or fracking but colorado governor john hickenlooper recently went to some great lengths to show his commitment to land endorsement of the practice of fracking in his state now because she didn't know fracking is a process of extracting natural gas from shale rock buried deep below the earth's surface and to extract this gas there's a chemical cocktail of fracking fluid come to the ground during the process well the governor wanted to clear the waters if you will about this controversial practice so what do you do looking goes well down some of the talks exclusively for us senate committee to prove its safety wow needless to say i think he can looper is missing the point here sure bro drink whatever you want once and you'll probably be ok this offends our effects are going to hit you immediately anyway plus this is nothing to do with the effects of fracking liquid has once it's combined with natural gas and other minerals in the ground b
the load blow and i did martin and this is breaking the set so i don't know you've heard the latest bout of ridiculousness regarding hydraulic fracturing or fracking but colorado governor john hickenlooper recently went to some great lengths to show his commitment to land endorsement of the practice of fracking in his state now because she didn't know fracking is a process of extracting natural gas from shale rock buried deep below the earth's surface and to extract this gas there's a chemical...
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these folks this is the break in the set and i'm abby martin so today marks a day one thousand private bradley manning has been in jail without a trial you have since been arrested in kuwait's on may twenty sixth two thousand and ten he's been sitting in a cell sometimes in solitary confinement and subject to leg irons for a thousand days today which they brought along two years eight months and twenty four days is without due process so far manning has been one of the many people charged under the archaic espionage act piece of legislation that holds heavy penalties for exposing government corruption was all for the crime of leaking thousands of classified military documents and blowing the whistle on war crimes on the bush administration you know obama refused to prosecute any of the bush cabinet for their criminality because it was more important to look forward but i guess it's fine to look backwards to prosecute in prison those who told the truth about said crimes over the last decade makes sense right now i don't think so that's great. that. was. never seen anything like. yesterd
these folks this is the break in the set and i'm abby martin so today marks a day one thousand private bradley manning has been in jail without a trial you have since been arrested in kuwait's on may twenty sixth two thousand and ten he's been sitting in a cell sometimes in solitary confinement and subject to leg irons for a thousand days today which they brought along two years eight months and twenty four days is without due process so far manning has been one of the many people charged under...
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i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so ten years ago today former secretary of state colin powell laid out his case before the u.n. for an all out war against iraq under the pretext that saddam hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction here's a clip to jog your memory. less than a teaspoon of dry anthrax a little bit about this amount this is just about the amount of a teaspoon less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an envoy shutdown the united states senate iraq declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax but unscom estimates that saddam hussein could have produced twenty five thousand liters it should come as no shock then that since saddam hussein forced out the last inspectors in one thousand nine hundred eighty we have amassed much intelligence indicating that iraq is continuing to make these weapons we know that iraq has at least seven of these mobile biological agent factories what followed this anthrax fear mongering was operation iraqi freedom that cost over eight hundred billion u.s. dollars thousands of american casualties over a million dead iraqis and of c
i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so ten years ago today former secretary of state colin powell laid out his case before the u.n. for an all out war against iraq under the pretext that saddam hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction here's a clip to jog your memory. less than a teaspoon of dry anthrax a little bit about this amount this is just about the amount of a teaspoon less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an envoy shutdown the united states senate iraq declared...
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what's up guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set you have another reason to smile yet today your luck might be about to change because the one thing we can all laugh about is fox's little mainstream blunder check this out this is a marriage call on fox news just posted a couple days ago to be happy we must all admit women and men are equal it's an article all about traditional gender roles women have to play the women roles in men have to play the men roles that the only way marriage could ever be a small problem the happy couple fox chose to gloriously illustrate their take on relationships is actually two lesbians to the a.p. stock image of two alaskan women who married atop the empire state building last year out of love the irony there of course fox quickly realized their big oh and quickly put a more shall i say an ambiguous photo up now you've got the man pants on the female in a dress because they were too nervous to put real humans up just in case they happen to be gay again thanks for the lab now let's break that. remember that bill that had so many activists up in
what's up guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set you have another reason to smile yet today your luck might be about to change because the one thing we can all laugh about is fox's little mainstream blunder check this out this is a marriage call on fox news just posted a couple days ago to be happy we must all admit women and men are equal it's an article all about traditional gender roles women have to play the women roles in men have to play the men roles that the only way marriage...
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though i'm abby martin so today palestinians clashed with israeli soldiers and several demonstrations held in support of some aerosol we political prisoner who's been detained by israeli forces he was initially arrested by the israeli army in two thousand and two and sentenced to thirty years in jail for protesting under a deal brokered with egypt he was released in two thousand and eleven along with four hundred seventy six other prisoners tragically samar was once again detained last year for the crime of entering jerusalem in the last two hundred six days he's been on a hunger strike in protest of being held without charges or trial now he's inching closer to death just look at him this is not about. the hundreds of palestinian prisoners that are being held in israeli jails many for similarly superficial crimes this is about how this times a will to resist occupation and it's about justice samaras life is a symbol of so much and that's why his serve bible is so crucial in fact many are saying his death could even serve as an impetus to another round of fighting and bloodshed so as
though i'm abby martin so today palestinians clashed with israeli soldiers and several demonstrations held in support of some aerosol we political prisoner who's been detained by israeli forces he was initially arrested by the israeli army in two thousand and two and sentenced to thirty years in jail for protesting under a deal brokered with egypt he was released in two thousand and eleven along with four hundred seventy six other prisoners tragically samar was once again detained last year for...
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shout i'm abby martin so last night was a state of the union address which i'll get to later but perhaps the most entertaining part of the night was watching c.n.n. frantically try to cover both the address and the unfolding drama of the dorner manhunt and neely following the speech wolf blitzer had this to say. the following some breaking news out of california right now we're going to get back to the president's state of the union address but authorities are now telling c.n.n. that the fugitive expo least christopher dorner is deg. and while there still is an official confirmation that he is in fact dead the most shocking part of all is how he may have died checking this out in the middle of big bear forest the cabin dorner was allegedly in was set ablaze and left to burn for hours of course at first the speculation was that dorner had set the fire himself as a diversion but then i heard this. ok. we're. going to go. with the plan with the. wanted. like we can't go. anywhere. i think that one parent i don't know. seven burners the ploy to go forward to burn orders tonight is here that
shout i'm abby martin so last night was a state of the union address which i'll get to later but perhaps the most entertaining part of the night was watching c.n.n. frantically try to cover both the address and the unfolding drama of the dorner manhunt and neely following the speech wolf blitzer had this to say. the following some breaking news out of california right now we're going to get back to the president's state of the union address but authorities are now telling c.n.n. that the...