Good evening and welcome to oblong books and music. Tonight were so pleased to bring you author guy lawson, he is a New York Times best selling author and Award Winning investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone,. Hi latest book arms and the dudes how tree stoners became the most unlikely gun runners in hoyt. Join me in welcoming guy lawson. Thank you. Theres some kids in the crowd so theres going to be a few word that start with the letter f, and i apologize in advance. So please forgive me. Torture, massive illegal government surveillance. The coverup of the purdue of civilians in iraq by american forces. Epic contractor fraud. These are the crimes of the 21st century in socalled global war on terror. Each crime relates to actions taken by the government, policies implemented in secret, without public debate. Each part hoff the voyage the United States took to what dick cheney took called dark side. Who is accountable . Torture, prison garth in abu grade named
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We know what we have to do to avoid irreparable harm. We have to cut Carbon Pollution in our own country to prevent the worst effects of Climate Change. We have to adapt to the impacts that unfortunately we can no longer avoid. We have to Work Together as a Global Community to tackle this threat before it is too late. We cannot condemn our children and their children to a future that is beyond their capacity to repair. Not when we have the means, the technological innovation and scientific imagination to begin the work of repairing it right now. As one of americas governor said, we are the first generation to feel the impacts of Climate Change and the last generation that can do something about it. Today im here personally as leader of the Worlds Largest economy and its secondlargest emitter to say that we have begun to do something about it. The United States have made ambitious investments in clean energy, and reductions in our Carbon Emissions. We now harnessed three times as much f
To understand the nature of the threat were facing from this group and also syria, which is involved with the group, you need to see that his is one of the few times we have watched a different affiliate in the greater Al Qaeda Network in order to carry out a specific threat against the United States. We have other sources we can look at and say, they have been quite grating or coordinating with each other on local issues. There are all sorts of reports of alshabaab members in africa or even in yemen helping out with fights there, and you have also reports of aqim pretty much all over north africa, cord knitting with different grips. This is the first time we have seen a specific plot against the United States where two different groups are coordinating with each other. But this is not the only place we are seeing this. We have also had a threat from both aqim and together to the United States for their attacks on isis. This is again an unprecedented that we have these huge groupings o