Lives and that. Was your headline so for more of those stories you can head to our team dot com stay with us this is r. T. International. Hello and welcome to redact of the knight v. I. P. League camp today i talk with the associate director of the Organization Amazon watch paul pozzi mean you know well talk about the fires raging through the amazon the risks the indigenous are facing and a massive successful lawsuit against chevron for causing immense just drugs in the amazon but they have sworn they will never pay what they owe also coming up well go to naomi cara vonnie with some other redacted. Stories and anders link for mind blowing old news about our National Anthem but 1st heres my interview with paul pozzi mean yo the associate director of amazon watch paul thanks for joining me thank you so i have a lot of things i want to talk about lets start with the court case the indigenous in ecuador want to big court case some years back against chevron who had destroyed their land filled it with toxic chemicals refused to ever pay for the cleanup many have died from chevron intentional negligence theyve now spent years running away from ever paying the billions of dollars that theyve been ordered to pay and now theyve even succeeded at getting the lawyer who won the case for the indigenous even dons a good theyve gotten him locked up on house arrest by using a corrupt judge in new york city so im wondering is this all as insane as it sounds and big where does the case stand now. Its more insane than it sounds because thats the surface. And all of the unbelievable dirty tricks corruption lies bribery intimidation and you could write volumes about the tactic that chevron has used all to try to escape from pain for what he didnt need it to deliberately doing in the 1st place in the m. And lets be clear this is a perfect example of environmental racism theres no way they would get away with doing that to white people in california but in units around people in ecuador they can deliberately poison them and never pay and turn around and blame them and that is the expert definition these people are suffering because chevron profit and what happened was in 2009 before the judgment was handed down in ecuador after years of legal battle already the company said our strategy is going to be demonized and they knew. That the evidence was so hard against them it was irrefutable it was still so voluminous that they could never run on the merits and their only strategy was lets target the new york lawyer and make this about some guy trying to get rich because they figured they could sell that story so they began over a decade ago trying to build a case to destroy Stephen Johns here and and wipe away any credibility of the case in the United States by saying you know this isnt ecuador the entire judicial system is corrupt all these people are just trying to get rich they were nippy later by this lawyer and they found a judge lewis kaplan in the Southern District of new york who was willing to play ball with them and helped chevron build a case that its a classic slapp suit and the only reason chevron is doing what theyre doing now is because they fear that there was still be forced to pay right otherwise theres no reason for them to spend money on lawyers to try to distort to destroy the singer because steven along with allies like amazon watch and others are seeking to enforce that judgment outside the United States and because they continue to do their work sharon wants to silence him and people who work with him and thats why hes on house arrest so what it says to all of those who believe one you should try to work within the system is that even when you do large corporations like chevron are going to escape justice or denied justice by by simply ignoring it and to if you push to do that to go beyond that dealt theyll shut down your life permanent well theyve frozen his Bank Accounts they put him on house arrest for now hes going on 11 months and theyve scared or intimidated people from working with him for from doing anything yeah it really does make a mockery of our legal system and shows how its rigged for the incredibly wealthy corporations if its becoming a common tactic for corporations to go after the lawyers who win the cases against them. Yeah yes it is and thats actually why hundreds of lawyers around the world are signing statements of support of steven dancing or because they see the writing on the wall this is a this is a very scary tactic for anyone working within the legal system to confront Corporate Power theres a group called the protect the protest coalition its a its a group of environmental and human rights organizations that came together after greenpeace was sued because of the Dakota Access i plan protests and the same firm that worked for the trump ministrations sued them and you know made up this entire conspiracy about Climate Change saying that that these groups were conspiring to affect their business and they slapped them and they ultimately they won that case most of theyre still one charge and theyre fighting but all those groups looked at each other and said we need to have each others backs because corporations are using this tactic more and more often to stop dissent to silence protest and to stop working is a system work yeah corruption all the way down. Explained briefly what chevron did in ecuador i guess it was texaco then and now its owned by chevron bought touch or go explain exactly what they did in ecuador and i know that the c. E. O. Or the former c. E. O. Said it would be the hell would have to freeze over before they would ever pay the billions that they owe but they really did turn the amazon into held in the. Yeah so texaco was the very 1st welcome to true to drill in the amazon for oil it went there and then in the early 1960 s. They found that there was oil and there were during amazon they had it there was a very friendly u. S. Friendly friendly government in power at the time and they signed an agreement to exploit and troll for oil there they then spent over almost 2 decades drilling and deliberately dumping toxic drilling waters into the amazon the current the practice of the time in the United States by law and anywhere else. Is when you extract drilling waters before you get to the crude you have to put it in storage tanks and then reinjected into the earth because its got carcinogens other heavy metals and its destructive to the environment and human health because there was no law at the time this is the 1st oil company to drill they simply dug pits in the ground in the rain forest didnt even bother to wind them and dumped toxic waste there and they created almost a 1000 of those hits over the course of a couple decades they dumped 16000000000 gallons of toxic waste by far the largest oil related disaster in history about the size of manhattan and they left it there and then in 1902 when their consortium and texaco washed its hands up and said were out now they signed a 40000000. 00 agreement with the very favorable government at the time saying oh well clean up a portion of these pits that we left behind and then what they did was they spent 40000000. 00 to push dirt over top of them run tell people that it was to live there and then they left and since that time theyve been saying this isnt our problem its the government of actors problem we didnt we didnt do anything wrong and we took care of everything we did and thats whats been poisoning people and well over a 1000 people died from cancer and other illnesses since that time the have been in the dirt over the pits reminds me of whatever you know exxon or or shell as an oil spill and i put the paper towels out because that the industrial paper towels that all that will solve the oil spill. To slightly slightly shift gears here weve heard a lot about the fires burning in the amazon it actually became a Mainstream Media story for one last year and its in brazil and other countries as well but amazon watch as said the vast majority of the fires are intentional can you explain. Yes thats right so the process for what they call the fire season in brazil is a very this is a deliberate fire season this isnt because the Climate Changes and its hot and things catch fire fires happen because of arson and thats a process of the forest station in order to graze cattle to gross or to de forest land for agricultural business so but so narrow the current president he encouraged and make a huge increase in deforestation in the amazon prior to last fire season and thats why the fires there were almost an 80 percent rise in fires last year and he has continued to do so and were expecting that unfortunately are going to be worse this season and its because large corporations are profiting from the commodities their beer that are being extracted and many of the fires since votes tomorrow took place are being set deliberately on it didnt hysteric tories as well which is that huge difference from prior years this is demarcated supposedly protected territory but he has been encouraging people to go onto those Indigenous Lands and set fires and balsam are basically gutted the brazilian version of the e. P. A. So theres nobody there to oversee and monitor illegal activity when it comes to setting fires and forcing lance because it gives an 8 or 9 percent reduction in capacity from for not and so that means no ones there to stop them from doing it and theyre encouraged to do more so were were terrified actually that the fires this year are going to be even worse than last year and last year 11000000 hectares were burnt between brazil and bolivia because the fires also spread west into bolivia as well there was quite a lot of territory that was burned in those fires as well you know really is repulsive its. You know destroying our future to exploit something for the next couple years of it really is just sad and as you said it is environmental racism because as you say me here in the us they often turn. To put the pipelines or the corporate sacrifice zones in the areas of people that are not white that are poor and they tend to have less political power so they can fight back. What are the tactics that you guys and others are using to to try and fight back and help the indigenous fight back in the amazon. Well in the case of brazil impulse in our own in the fire season what weve done is partner directly with a p. D. Which is a National Indigenous organization in brazil and then weve been issuing reports identifying whos really complicit in this destruction who are the corporations and the governments behind wilson are rose extractive and the profit that hes making many of them are in europe some of them are like jane vs. Beef and there are other corporations and banks so what weve done is issue reports both in english from fortys and then weve in the past when we could travel weve brought indigenous allies to confront directly main main in europe corporations and governments and ask them to prevent trade with brazil until they stop illegal before station or ask corporations to divest or not support extractive so there are Financial Institutions behind it large banks j. P. Morgan chase and then large Financial Institutions like blackrock that are investing in the companies that are extracting commodities theyre the ones who are pushing the forestation and the burning boats america has as in a way hes made it easy for some because like tromping so outward with his racist attacks and and the kind of vitriol that he spews that Indigenous People makes it easy for people who are i guess on the fence to say right we clearly dont have to do with this guy hes essentially involved in the genocide of Indigenous Peoples who are our hope is that one hes isolated himself so much and that to the world attention to the fires last season will actually reach. Really spurred more action this year from those financial backers to back off and not support the forestation thats leading to the fires in the western amazon were talking about mining and Oil Extraction ecuador just suffered the Worst Oil Spill in the coca river that its had in in over a decade and its still polluting that river and youve got communities that are isolated because the virus they cant fish because their waters have been polluted by oil spill and yet they cant leave in order to get food and many communities are facing starvation so weve been supporting emergency relief efforts to get communities the kind of support they need to be able to ride out the cleanup of the spill and push the government to actually take action to do it and then again same thing identify who are the financial backers behind this Oil Extraction a lot of it is china there are chinese or companies that have been striking that western amazon while china tries to present it has a good image on climate reducing coal its center its been expanding oil drilling in the western amazon for years and then there are other Oil Companies thats welsh laine Oil Companies that are drilling in peru so we identify those companies and then whos investing them wacky because in the in that comes up once again they are the largest financer of Climate Change really on the planet and theyve made some lip they pay its a lip service to change your name policies to adapt to climate and to Pay Attention to the climate effects but its just the beginning so we need to continue pushing them to actually make some real changes and i think it is starting to hurt chevrons brand. Case in ecuador i mean i really do see it everywhere so hopefully that will eventually get to the point that they back off because you know no one sees this chevron brandon and thinks oh yeah wonderful how much theyve done for us lets hope we can see that day. For people that want to help out or be a part of fighting back for the amazon is amazon. Watch dot org the best place to go. And i once got oregon on the chevron case theres a site called make chevron clean up dot com where you can take an action right now directed at the u. S. Congress and the Justice Department specifically the related to what theyre doing that even done the are because this persecution of human rights lawyer is it is a dangerous precedent for anyone whos fighting or are whether chevron or black are in the other group so we really need to rally together to protect his rights in order to protect all of our rights to fight back absolutely thank you so much paul thank you for if you go to a quick break but really fast i want to let you know that the full redacted tonight episodes are available on the free streaming apps portable t. V. That portable dot t. V. Slash download all of the segments of our shows will still be available if you do god complex redacted tonight but for the full episode and special content go to portable t. V. Also you can join our free email list by texting the were redacted to 33777 all right im going to be right back a lot more. Yours yours. We go to work so straight home. Is anyone safe in that area ok. Conservatives are the fun form to monetise then shout those were the easy ones now the mob is turning on its own long thing demands conformity and does not dissent is freedom of speech. For the. Welcome back i am still leaking now we go to correspondent naomi grove on a 1st a more redacted story still lane maxwell the name that launched a 1000 lawsuits the alleged coconspirator of Jeffrey Epstein and the potential person we will say didnt kill herself was arrested after a year in hiding where did these diligent investigators find her brazil bora bora monaco centering no the f. B. I. Arrested her in a new wave 0 hamp she ray. Officers are said to have broken down the front door at the 156 acre property which is called tucked away in New Hampshire how did she find that place through a travel service just for wanted rich people like on the run being a hide anywhere with the literal go to ways we service to Osama Bin Laden and saddam hussein. The sex trafficking case would ordinarily be staffed out of whats known as the violent and organized crime unit but its stamped out of the public corruption meaning a public official past or present is involved in at least some capacity reportedly the procuress maxwell whos facing a minimum of 35 years behind bars is ready to cooperate with the f. B. I. And name some names so many powerful people showed up to epsteins island of ill repute where he kept underage teens trapped by ghislaine Prince Andrew Leslie Wexner bill gates bill clinton and more the will of the president the list goes on i wouldnt be surprised if we learned elmo was there. I mean plus i always see him at parties for children so the network of elites must even be bigger than what we already think to be true googling it appeared at the u. N. Not one but 9 times to speak on behalf of or charity connected to the Clinton Foundation terram are the world is divided into an area that we know well that has laws and regulations and an entire 45 percent of the planet that has basically no rules it is effectively like the wild west a place that has some rules conflicting rules and no rules she is going to the un lecturing people about the rules what the actual. At least shes not talking about saving the children to save the children the un. Jerram are her charity hope to create a global Ocean Community basically it was social media for the sea did the atlantic need a twitter account i think if it did she would say i dont normally get political on here but if we could stick to calling it the triangle trade instead of the Transatlantic Slave Trade i would really appreciate it so what did harem are actually do according to tax filings from 2013 to 2017 the organization gave out no money and grants carom are helped organize a march wrote a newsletter and launched a campaign to reduce cigarette butts that my friends is saving the world americas favorite lawyer Alan Dershowitz has been defending her and wrote an article titled the glowing i know hes been also tweeting about his innocence in a very peculiar way literally hoping their child porn out there there have been suggestions that epstein made super videos of all men who had sex in his houses in plains i hope he does and they are revealed because they will prove i am not among them since you dont have the videos you can get dershowitz his book guilt by accusation the challenge of proving innocence in the age of need to you know if that sounds like some light Summer Reading that exonerates dershowitz but also tells you how much work it was for him to do it. Another disappointment about the case is that the indictment only covers crimes committed between 1904 to 1970 meaning many powerful people including dershowitz will not even be involved in the case so yes he is doing this for no reason or maybe hoping that glenn wont throw him under the bus while there might be some taste of justice coming theres other disappointments in the case maxwell isnt being charged with rape or assault as the accusers allege it only covers trafficking in girls as young as 14 a judge ruled that warriors must destroy epsteins files that maybe incriminate maxwell and many other powerful people who are waiting for these documents everyones waiting for the documents dershowitz to weigh in for the documents. You know up by the time we get these v. H. S. Tapes ive a feeling theres going to be no v. C. R. Left on earth to play them. Now everybody wants to see this evidence as it comes out were seeing confirmations that epstein had connections to Israeli Intelligence theres the sex crimes of the elites and were going to find out if epstein did in fact kill himself finally the world could catch up to reddit say and finally today lets take a minute to learn about where our National Anthem really came from correspondent anders really has the mind blowing old news. For india has changed the way americans celebrate the 4th of july this year but weve still tried to keep our traditions intact this past week and millions of families celebrated view zoom call sharing indoor grill tips living room firework displays and rockets digital renditions of our National Anthem the starspangled banner is undeniably catching the tune after all was lifted from a british drinking song or as its known in britain a song but few people know its for Historical Context contrary to popular belief it was not written during the American Revolution but the slightly less heroic and noble war of 812. 00 america claimed to declare that war in retaliation for britains trade blockade historians however have speculated that it had more to do with our desire to conquer canada years earlier Thomas Jefferson had remarked that taking over britains call of duty to the north would be a mere matter of marching unfortunately for jefferson successor president James Madison the canadians didnt live up to their friendly stereotype and lay down their arms before regaling us troops with the maple flavored most instead the American Military was exposed as a vastly unprepared the state militias tasked with spearheading the invasion of canada fared poorly in unfamiliar territory their g. P. S. Back then was just a raccoon they fed opium to by 814 the british had taken washing. D. C. A century and a half before jimmy carter put solar panels on the white house roof the redcoats tried a lower tech version. A few weeks later in the battle of baltimore which inspired Francis Scott key is lyrics after he saw an American Flag still waving strong after a night of bombardment there is a verse in the original star spangled banner which we no longer sing no refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave thats because the British Military in line with their mission to destroy the us economy decided to accept any slave man woman or child in guarantee they would not be handed back to their owner this was especially offensive to Francis Scott key an avid abolitionist who owned slaves and reveled in watching them die after of a is seaside betrayed him and that big star spangled flag of his seems like we should leave that verse in to show the kind of guy Francis Scott key really was. Slaverys legacy isnt really the trend in American Music these days. Freed slaves werent the only oppressed people in north america that the british made fairweather alliance with. The shanty leader shared a goal with the crown in establishing a cross tribal confederation in the Great Lakes Region to coom so wanted independence from white settlers while the brits wanted a buffer between the u. S. And canada it was a match made in hell for the americans who were defeated by this alliance before they could even get a shot off in the siege of detroit you may not have gotten every tribe on board but to coom said did build up a confederacy of 32 tribes and more than 10000 people during the war of 1812 but in 813 at the battle of the tames in ontario after a lackluster performance from his british comrades to refuse to retreat and died in combat and his dream of an independent pay an Indian Nation went with it the auto a leader named wish who had stood with summed it up grimly since our great chief has been killed we do not listen to one another we do not rise together we hurt ourselves by well never know what society would be like to live to make his vision reality but historians speculate that it would look Something Like this. The army that killed the koom so was under the command of his arch nemesis William Henry Harrison Harrison was ferociously inhumane towards natives in his time in the military and as indiana governor but he did go on to have the best relationship with indigenous americans at of any other president of the United States thats mostly because he died a month after taking office was a great month come to think of it William Henry harrison is probably the best president of all time and next National Anthem should be about him. Mindblowing old news im in or sleep with redacted and thats the show 6 watch out for a brand new episode of redacted tonight tomorrow night also to get full episodes of redacted anytime you want to grab the free app portable t. V. Also you can check out my free stand up comedy special at least camp american dot com 78000 people have already beat you to it goodnight and keep fighting. Join me everything. Immediately you think you need. You dont need. Music. You have just to get it. When you are. Actually i think. Needs to be tracked. If youre born into a poor family. Family if youre born into a family. That really constrained. By every day you meet your needs and the needs of your family. This is. Boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss in washington coming up chinas industrial output bounce back in q 2 but how do other sectors of its economy fare we analyze how the Global Economy is handling the consequences of the corona virus pandemic plus the price of copper popper recently driving optimism for the Global Economy moving forward well bring you indepth analysis we have a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with Economic Data out of the worlds 2 largest economies as the globe continues to grapple with the copen 1000. 00 pandemic lets start in china officials are reporting the countrys g. D. P. Grew by 3. 2 percent in the 2nd quarter of 2020 compared to the same period last year now the Economic Growth was a sharp rebound after the worlds 2nd
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