The investigators discovered that quote the us military has shown it can investigate civilian harm but significant in inconsistent season when and how investigations are conducted has contributed to shortcomings including a failure to investigate incidents when a close look is warranted and missed opportunities to learn from incidents and make future corrections this includes the fact that according to journalist nick turse the Standard Practice is troubling because while u. S. Investigators regularly interview military witnesses they almost totally ignore civilians victims survivors Family Members and bystanders because you know hey well how would i would civilians know anything about civilian casualties in a war zone. I mean its almost my friends its almost like they would rather pretend that civilian casualties dont exist when the u. S. Pulls the trigger which is impossible if you are truly watching the hawks. On a city street. Or so you would see. Joyce. Grays. Systemic deception. Which. Youll. Want to watch. Boy. Suspicion this was 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 the 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 combat 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 or not actually going in to investigate the civilian casualties is a huge problem one because it totally be legitimized. As 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 stand us in that when were literally going in places not only creating graves but also literally maiming and. Killing a lot of people women children all of 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 it is you know flip it for your 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 but 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 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. 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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 the amount i think is extremely wrong we often like to pretend that our hardware soldiers are capable of killing anything but the enemy 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 these skirmishes that we choose to put ourselves in at the end of the day im 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 no 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 and its clearly you know. I want these people to vote for me i want to i want to brag about these regions im helping so thats 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. Assistance youre talking about the money he is pouring into these areas were talking about big corporate farming absolutely 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 are. At the farm 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 on 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. Called 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 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 Trump definitely needs to win in 2020 hes making sure that the lobbyist of those large corporate farms and elected officials are. There had 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 food stamps medicaid in those same areas so hes acting like any any normal every day politician that he was supposedly ran against all those years ago because to me when you describe that sounds like every other like corporate sponsored politician give money to give a bunch of payouts and handouts and money to the people that get me elected the people that spend money on my campaigns and then ignore the people that can which is kind of the m. O. That weve seen in u. S. Politics over the years the interesting thing about this too is that the farmers hes 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 if 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 terrified with china so he decided that now youre 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 they dont think was was a necessity this is something thats not needed 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 and 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 are able to work every day and he slashing their budget to budget to pay off the big corporate. 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From the helicopter footage in iraq. And i think that down to the people who do you mean i mean us military who have never forgiven. This guys a traitor a treasonous and and he has broken every law the United States illegally shoot son of a. Story to have. Independent journalist with his computer exposing you is a lot of crimes and. The idea of developing an anonymous box and applying it to a Media Organization is because. That was the 1st. I didnt good toy interest because he would be for a short while world and one of the worlds most powerful news organizations. Founder Julian Assange in the sun over your son and there was a great deal of jealous in the mainstream towards him particularly why wont he be more like that you seem. Mean feces on the walls. We have julia. In solitary confinement in the prison for terrorists. And we have a lot of history there are. The ones to die in prison. And i think thats what hes facing the elian. It looks like our old nemesis the Dakota Access pipeline is back in the headlines again hog watchers yes and landing in our news feeds like a bad case of got rocked reading today 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 have a Just Trust Us itll be foreign technique of environmental safety testing. I heard b. P. Use 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 netbook which generally requires environmental reviews when industries decide to discharge potential pollutants into the air or water or more 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 an 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 lines. Yes so this news got a little bit buried because 29000. 00 was so much about introducing the American Public to the president ial candidates and of that the hoopla around that but as that happened in the middle of 2019 energy chancer partners and now its 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. 00 Barrels Per Day of oil moving through that pipeline and just to talk about how significant that is. Back in shape our that oil comes from the north dakota right now its producing 1500000. 00 Barrels Per Day so were talking about over 2 thirds of the capacity of that field