Through issues. Some issues that propelled them in in the first place. It provides kind of the support that daniel talked about. A family, a community, that kind of support that is not there to say you are horrible because you believe these things. Let me share my experience and how i got beyond that, finding that common ground. Encounteredou ever anyone that was radicalized by what they had read . Normally high functioning, but had consumed a lot of hate literature or is there always Something Else underlying it . Angela every case is different. Some of the information we are finding now is that not every person suffered trauma, abuse, or has Mental Health issues. Some people came from perfectly stable, loving homes. For some reason felt the need to belong in that way. It is different. Some individuals, a small percentage, were raised in an extremist environment, were. Aught violence there were individuals raised in a prejudice household, taught racism as children. Some will grow up a
Let me just add one clarifying d before we take the first volunteer on these questions. And, again, framing the discussion today, as youre aware, weve got an active secretary, assistant secretary. Weve got a former comptroller, and we have other people who are brainstorming. And so youre hearing different ideas in different veins, and i just want to underscore that point. I think that was something that alice was driving at earlier, and ill make start with her if you wish to begin with either of those questions. Well, let me certainly, one of the problems is theres political opposition to anything that looks like a benefit reduction to anyone, and that applies to military, to military retirees, to Medicare Beneficiaries, and its one of the reasons i think for looking at these changes across the whole system at the same time. And its certainly possible that medicare, which is at the moment having some success in holding down costs as is the military Health System can survive over the lo
I think the crisis above all else is a clarion call for changing our relationship with one another and the planet earth. Why is the extinction crisis in the clarion call . Because it is loud and clear, as all clearing call clarion calls must be. For those willing to listen, it is almost deafening. With each passing there is a celestial bell that rings endlessly in the heavens marking the passage of the another miracle. It is certainly clear it provides clear evidence, unequivocal evidence, that something is amiss. Sweep,ful, over the long billions of years of multicellular life, there been five events that rivaled the extinction crisis that we are in today. If that is not evidence that something is amiss, i dont know what amiss means. We understand the cause of the extinction crisis. It is humaninduced habitat degradation, modification, invasion of species, overexploitation, and over the last few decades, Climate Change. Now for a portion of the the American Noble Energy Institute Summ
Arizona. Uranium mining is resuming of the grand canyon, and you have heard of tar sands in alberta, canada. Utah is pushing to expand tar sands mining right here in the United States. Today we look at the winners and losers behind the latest push to extract Natural Resources from the west. Then we remember british parliamentarian and antiwar activist tony benn. He died at the age of 88. You have got to judge a country by whether its needs are met, not just by whether some people make a profit. I never met mr. Dow jones and im sure he works very, very hard with his averages which you get every hour, but i dont think the happiness of civilization is decided by wall street. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The standoff between russia and the west over ukraine is intensifying head of a referendum on secession in ukraines crimea region. Crimea residents are set to vote sunday on whether to secede from ukrai
A year ago. With columbia is newly sworn that president browns the u. S. Warrant brooklyns policy complete failure on pleasures to criminalize certain narcotics. Later in the program, we have a lively positive discussion on that controversial initiative. Im the new leader with wherever youre catching the program from today across the world. Welcome to the global use ronda up in r t. My names union. We begin with the latest from the front line in don boss, the Russian Defense ministry, se ukrainian brigade has lost more than 2000 troops in the past 24 hours. The fighting happen near a city in the done yet republic. The m o. D. All so says another brigade lost 70 percent of its troops on one ukrainian. The battalion was said to have refused to fight altogether and retreated from the battle on a High Precision missiles strike. Also killed up to 100 ukrainian nationalists. But it comes as Russian Troops continue to make advances in that and yet peoples republic, they are not pushing toward