On a city street. Or so you would see. This is. Great. Systemic deception. Which. Is the case whenever you see like you know reports come back from the u. S. Government is opposed to like on the ground watch dogs would be always be this huge discrepancy but boy this is really nuts and bolts of why it doesnt work absolutely i think that this was one of lot of people already thought when it comes to our military and the amount of information that we just dont know and in many cases purposely so as it appears here the big thing that bothers me i think is that we know what the rules of war are and proportionality as well as discrimination discrimination and this is actually a good thing meaning that you are only attacking those who are responsible for the previous attack on you so youre only attacking combatants youre not purposely going after or not purposely going after those who are civilians and i think that you know not being able to measure civilian casualties are not actually going in to investigate the civilian casualties is a huge problem one because it totally. A nation but also if were going to continue carrying around this democracy everywhere all the time banner as a leader its going to be extremely problematic for people to follow along and actually us in that when were literally going in places not only creating braves but also literally maiming and. Killing a lot of people women children all these individuals who have absolutely nothing to do with the wars that we are actually taking part well and to me its also one of those selfperpetuating pigs like if you dont properly investigate and hold accountable for one civilians are killed in a manner that is you know flip it for lack of a better word worse kind of like well so what theyre the mission took priority so some civilians were killed that just creates another generation of people who dont like you and when youre out there fighting supposedly a war on terror well thats a great recruitment tool and guess what the u. S. Blew up your brother exactly and i think that thats you know more of the long range view because youre also thinking about the individuals who are left behind so its the families that are still surviving who have lost their children the families who are still surviving who have lost people who had absolutely nothing to do with the conflict they were in and it again it raises the ire of those individuals but now you have generations that are upset with you because youve been literally taking out whole families and in many cases nothing is ever done about in these people arent even acknowledged exactly i mean a little like this in 2070 New York New York times magazine investigation of nearly 150. 00 u. S. Led Coalition Airstrikes targeting isis in just iraq just iraq they found that one in 5 of the Coalition Strikes resulted in civilian deaths that was a rate that was 30 times more than what was acknowledged by the coalition now thats a big discrepancy and i understand why this report was put together because its like when you see discrepancies like that thats not like clerical errors that you know where you got 31 times its just the New York Times thats a big difference absolutely and in this case i would even call that a discrepancy like there are certain things are just flat out lies and i think that when you have a number that is that large and so different from what was originally reported it showcases a few things one lack of honesty and integrity in the reporting process but also it raises the ire of the fact that youre trying to hide something because any time when you know that the count is so much larger i think that it tells us something about what our military forces actually. Feel is required for us to know. That when these numbers come out and when you see these huge differences you also have people that start to question the mission you have people that start to question the reality and you have people who start to question whether or not youre actually going in for the things that you said you were going in for especially if it was a mistake sometimes casualties do happen in war it happens more often than we would like to admit to but on that same token when they do happen for you to act as though they didnt or to diminish that amount i think is extremely wrong we often like to pretend. Capable of killing anything but the enemy and thats ludicrous to think a smart bomb isnt actually about smart its still dropping a missile on a building in the city theres going to be casualties especially when youre fighting the wars that we fight and you know in the skirmishes that we choose to put ourselves in at the end of the day ive always about making money they dont want to know the civilian cost of casualties because event that actually gets in the way of the profiteering that you see in war and why a lot of these wars are started in the 1st place and increases the level of protest the level of people who are actually interested in the people who advocate against it because most people cannot stand on the sidelines when they know that innocent people are dying. They cannot. Cut because the food stamps housing medicaid welfare and Social Security are all parts of trump and the republicans were on the poor whether those on the right are creating work requirements literally taking food from the mouths of babies by attacking the program or creating script work wireman and mounds of id documentation just to maintain eligibility for public assistance its clear being poor in trumps america is your fault and the government is not here to support you in any way. Despite the truck administrations braggadocios rants about the strength of the economy there are still thousands of working poor living from paycheck to paycheck trumps answer figured out unless youre an american former President Trump routinely flies in to rescue the farming industry meanwhile demonizing the working poor and families on public assistance ask yourselves why why is welfare bad for families but good for farmers after labeling obama the welfare and food Stamp President a title laden with class and grace a new window its no surprise trump implied harsh penalties for those already suffering but if youre going to be a hateful grinch at least be consistent President Trump routinely flies in to rescue the farming industry and hes demonizing the poor and families on public assistance. And a long list of policy blunders trump the tasking levied billions on foreign products specifically goods from china the boomerang effect hit American Farmers hard they raise holy hell and in states trump needs to win to secure the presidency in 2020 trump responded by giving direct payments to farmers truck farm aid is larger than the auto bailout during the Great Recession the total package comes to 28000000000. 00 with a b. Meanwhile the president continues to nickel and dime public assistance programs while republicans keep amplifying the false welfare queen narrative and reserving their classes hatred towards low income people of color they have conveniently found a form of welfare they love and the white faces to go along with this movement thats powerful thats part thats interesting because to me this looks like one of those things at least 2 words like its clearly you know hey im right and i want these people to vote for me i want to i want to brag about these regions im helping so guess what im going to dump a bunch of money into those regions and as we were talking about earlier today were not talking about poor mom and pop farmers out there struggling to get by the. The. Systems youre talking about the money is pouring into these areas were talking a big corporate farming absolutely and i think that thats a very important thing to know there are a lot of people self included who do feel for the individuals who are running family farms and we know what happens with a lot of the Environmental Issues that have caused their crops not to yield and it totally devastated entire communities those arent the farms that this president is saving hes saving large corporate farms and to the tune of billions of dollars because when we think about this in context of president obama working to bring back the Automobile Industry this is a lot higher in terms of the human than the form that we saw in that and that time frame the other thing is this president continues to demonize the poor specifically poor minorities but with that he does not often talk about the actual Budget Allocation that goes towards the social Welfare Program it is less than 8 percent of the overall federal budget while he continues to slash left right and sideways this is not really you know alleviating anything in terms of our budget crisis when were looking at how much we spend on military spending which i think that you talked about several times but also just ensuring that our people who are the working poor people who are in between jobs people who are working multiple jobs in the good economy they are able to stay afloat it does not make sense that we would have a president who continues to make sure that he is taking everything away from them at the same time a president who stands by and supports tries to win rhetoric motherhood but takes food out of the mouths of babies when he destroys the wic program i want to you know when you look at like this kind of corporate. Welfare but when youre pumping all this money into the big corporate farming industry isnt the basically welfare thats exactly what it is these are taxpayer dollars this is government assistance and for a Republican Party and for conservatives who largely stand on the government should not help people who are going through troubles with situations this is a very. Interesting turn to take if youre going to have that stance where we help no one because we dont really care pull yourself up by the bootstraps were not telling that to the large corporate farmers and i think that it goes back to the fact that a lot of those corporate farms are in areas where the president president definitely needs to win in 2020 hes making sure that the lobbyist of those large corporate farms and the elected officials already there have been backing and he has by and large created this echo chamber that says it is ok to funnel money into these farms meanwhile neglecting many of the individuals who are also on stamps medicaid in those same areas so these are just like any any normal every day politician that he was supposedly ran against all those years ago because to me when you describe that that sounds like every other like corporate sponsor politician ive heard you know give money to the you know give a bunch of payouts and hand out some money to other people to get me elected the people who spend money on my campaigns and then ignore the people that cant which is kind of the m. O. That weve seen in u. S. Politics over the years the interesting thing about this too is the farmers the shes giving this to these big corporations theyre now becoming super dependent on these handouts nearly 40 percent of projected farm profits last year came from the trade deal 40 percent of their profits are making that up i mean what are they going to do that ends that means they just lost 40 percent of their business exactly and theres absolutely no way the president can keep it going about when the only reason that a huge influx came was on the back of something that he created himself in terms of the tariff buy with china so he decided that now hes going to shovel this money back in because there was so much pushback like they were threatening to not they were threatening to actually not take part in his Reelection Campaign and not to vote for him and i think that at that point he decided to dial it back see what he could do when he was willing to write checks and this is this is an example of gross welfare this is one that i dont think was it was a necessity this is something thats not me that they are going to be fine again these are large corporate farms this is not the same as your mom and pop farm and. By and large when were taking this into context of a party and of a leader of a party who has demonize welfare in so many ways and even extending it to Social Security disability these are literally people who have been injured or people who have Mental Health and lots of people who have a lot of other issues who arent able to work every day and the flashing that budget to slash that budget to pay off the big corporate guys of course every time every time art as we go to break walk watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the profits to come of our social media and be sure to check out watching all of the podcast available on spotify apple music and everywhere it was your favorite play the part you can also start watching the hawks on the map with a brand new portable to the apple billboard smartphones and google play and at the Apple App Store by searching horrible coming up environmental journals to joins us to discuss the latest moves to beef up the oil output oh yes the controversial because the access pipeline i dont want to stay tuned to watch. This number you know the mood but in your circles want to see. You know. So many much the clues a little bit more about your. Whining good sort of when youre already in the sims but you know it may seem strange. That. I 1st heard about wiki leaks. From the helicopter footage in iraq. I think it down to the people who do you mean and i mean us military who have never forgiven him for it this guys a traitor and treasonous and and he has broken every law the United States illegally shoot some of us really historic to have. Independent journalist a guy with his computer to see him to see who is what crimes and to a global audience. The idea of developing an anonymous digital truck bombs and applying it to a Media Organization is what he makes that was the 1st. I didnt the toy anticipate that he would be for a short while world right and wrong one of the worlds most powerful news organizations clearing a standard for founder julian a song in the sun over the sun and there was a great deal of jealous in the mainstream towards him particularly why wont he be more like off the bat you seem. Sneering feces on the walls. We have giuliani in solitary confinement in the prison for terrorists away team that has a life in person the person. I dont want to see him die in a prison. And i think thats what hes facing. Ok. Ok ok. Ok wait. Wait. It looks like our old nemesis the Dakota Access pipeline is back in the headlines again hawk watchers yes and lending in our news feeds like a bad case of got robbed for beating 2 day old white castle hamburgers Energy Transfer partners the dallas texas based owner of the over 1100 mile long underground oil pipeline is now hoping to get this to double the capacity of the pipeline to as much as 1100000 barrels daily to meet the growing demand for Oil Shipments from north dakota and is seeking permission for additional pump stations and not only dakota but i want to illinois to do it and they believe that they can do all this using the they Just Trust Us itll be foreign technique of environmental safety testing. I heard that b. P. Used that same technique back in the Gulf Oil Spill this comes on the heels of a new white house proposal to revamp and rollback the National Environmental policy act or napa which generally requires environmental reviews when industries decide to discharge potential pollutants into the air or water or for major proposed projects like highways or pipelines pipelines you say joining us now to discuss these stories and more is environmental journalist extraordinary steve horn steve thank you as always. Good to be back thanks for having me so to break it down what is Energy Transfer partners up to now regarding the Dakota Access pipeline that we saw so many protests and so much controversy over the last time it was getting lines. Yes so this news all got a little bit buried because 29000. 00 was so much about introducing the American Public to the president ial candidates and all of that hoopla around that but as that happened in the middle of 2019 and a chance or partners announced as you introduced that whole notion of doubling the capacity of the pipeline they call it quote unquote optimization and so that will be as you said 1100000 Barrels Per Day of oil moving through that pipeline and just to talk about how significant that is in the dock in shall where that oil comes from in north dakota right now its producing 1500000. 00 Barrels Per Day so were talking about over 2 thirds of the capacity of that field would go through that single pipeline and you also mention it but thats an interesting side note its not clear if the federal government will make this company go through another need for review are not right now all thats happening is at the state level in those various states to the pump stations its going through a similar process through the different Public Utilities commission and i will say that its not for lack of trying that activists try to get this on their radar and for example i was my piece pointed out 18 different candidates were approached about their thoughts in the Democratic Party about the code access assem is a sion and you know what if they thought this is something or important what optimization if they thought this something i should go through the candidates all responded in various ways what happened though is that video was really picked up by very much of the broadcast media and so in my piece that is sort of reviewed that and also the big find of my piece is that look this pipeline is 1st and foremost an export pipeline and thats pretty clear from looking at the documentary record well. And the pipeline crosses over 4 different states the dakotas i was an illinois whats been the reaction to this proposal from the state governments in their constituency. Well its still under review in all of the states except for one of i think its i believe its south dakota which gave it the green light and so in iowa in particular whats interesting is the county in which the pump station pump stations i should say are based that that county basically said look if this is a completely new proposal you had to come back and explain the totality of the impact of this could have the what the whats interesting is any chance of progress came to that county called story county iowa and they said were just notifying you that this thing could go through there as a courtesy they use that word in their letter with their attorney saying there doesnt need to be any further review or letting you know as a courtesy the county county turned around and said actually there has to be a holistic review of this thats a big Sticking Point right now in iowa and i think that hopefully my piece will be informative and in regards to talking about hey this is an export pipeline right now theyre in discussions with the Maritime Administration through the trump ministration theyre also lobbying at the disclosure show and are talking about in their investor calls that this is definitely an export project in the making and i think that has all kinds of. Things going different from what we were sold about this pipeline at the beginning correct that there wasnt supposed to be an export pipeline in the in the sense that theyre you they want to use it now. Right except for you know the thing that was interesting the timing the Dakota Access pipeline of course even the original one is it came one year after the Obama Administration did the export ban on oil and of course even the original one it connects to the Dakota Access connect another pipe on that brings it all the way to the gulf coast very close to where exports could take place so. I think already exports are happening there although a lot of is being refined down in the gulf coast where by the way theres all kinds of Environmental Justice and pacs for refining that are whaling those frontline communities so its already happening a little bit i think but i think what analyses show is look at the documents is the rest of the oil that would go to this pipeline would be 4 x. 4 and the way that they sell it is the new narrative for the industry is that they used to say Energy Independence now for Example Energy has a partners calls it quote unquote Energy Security so they dont even i dont even know like what how what that means for exports and but i think there were talking about it this is for theres all kinds of geo political purposes for the oil above and beyond just what you speak all the energy and the time that the of the moment youre human you call something security that everyone gets on board who keeps a safe you know. I want to talk about this netbook thing in regards to the National Environmental policy act what exactly is the trumpet ministrations seeking to change and how how was the trip of solution suddenly able to accomplish this you know kind of out of the blue zones are going to was quite expecting them to do so we jump in and say our role in this back. Yeah well that was a nice 50 fiftieths anniversary of need to celebrate the birthday of this bedrock environmental law the tribe of ministration said were gonna basically this straight the law and get rid of analyses of climate impacts of different projects like potentially the one that were talking about right now or as you mentioned highways other pipelines and right now this month theyre already last week was hearing in denver in which many environmentalists showed up climate activists showed up and voiced their concerns about that and then next week in washington d. C. On tuesday the 25th there will be another hearing and those are the 2 hearings that are scheduled to kind of for people to engage in this actually the reason why theyre able to engage on this ruling. Because of need in evolves a public hearing process but potentially there will be a lot less of these public hearings in Public Outreach on projects Going Forward if this real proposal by jump on this ration goes through but instead i think theres still a long way to go and there could still be court Court Challenges to it and all of that so its still a long way from coming to fruition and steve how would these changes affect communities here in the u. S. And is there any opposition in congress. Yeah well i think that thats really crucial so underneath one big component of it is an Environmental Justice review and its as a source told me for some reporting that im doing sometimes its the only chance for poor communities or people of color to really engage with the federal government on the impacts that projects could have and sort of without this this is just a key avenue that we no longer exist maybe they can still go to congress and voice their concerns about it but in terms of in terms of the regulatory apparatus provides that one avenue where both through Public Comments theyre written and through public hearings that people of color and all kinds of people people impacted by projects can come forward voice their concerns and those concerns under federal law under under that law have to be taken under consideration as the regulatory process plays itself out well steve i got to say thank you so much for being diligent in your reporting on these issues because without people like you would never even know about them and they just keep rolling through thank you so much for coming on and illuminating our audiences to these to these issues always a pleasure. 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