This is piano yes a recent study found 2000000 Americans often in poor and minority communities lack access to clean water that's a huge issue for the model home nation in spite of long standing water rights in an area where those are precious study closing the water access gap says while the Navajo tribe owns water rights 30 percent of the more than $330000.00 residents on the reservation must drive for up to 4 hours to haul barrels of water to their homes Sarah porter with the Kyle center for water policy says a lack of resources along with an action by the federal government keeps many Navajo from access to clean water funding for infrastructure so that they can actually benefit from that water it doesn't do any good to have a giant water right if you don't have the things you need to take advantage of the Ark The studies produced by the group dig deep and the u.s. Water Alliance the Indian Health Service estimates that it would cost $200000000.00 to provide basic water and sanitation access to all Navajo homes Mark Richardson reporting it's a nagging or maybe we could say lagging problem in many rural areas poor internet service Idaho for example ranks 43rd in connectivity but one boy's The c.e.o. Says there is a co-operative model similar to municipal nonprofit broadband or rural electrification that could help c.e.o. Of edge spectrum in Boise Tata Killie's says the state has a light touch regulatory environment leaving the private sector with little competition and not much incentive to invest in hard to reach areas but Achilles believes the state already has a framework to improve this century of public irrigation districts and nonprofit irrigation companies proves this model works well it's modernize it for data packets and Internet protocol and use that to become an world class in Prime Minister assures we are in the acceptor Achilles knows that there are benefits for families high school graduation rates and middle school reading and math scores are higher North Dakota also could be a model in the 1990. State's telecom provider began selling off parts of its network to local co-ops in rural companies Achille says that removed profit incentives and the telecom infrastructure took off North Dakota now ranks 17th in tentative $84.00 public news service America take it off for sick coral reefs one trick might be to fake it till you make it the Washington Post reports that researchers used underwater speakers to broadcast the sound of healthy coral colonies in 6 parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef for 6 weeks they say twice as many fish came to those areas and spots without the speakers which could help counteract the reste climb as one researcher said it turns out a healthy reef is a noisy place juvenile fish looking for where to settle home in on the crackle of snapping shrimp and the hoops and grunts of other fish I'm Dan Harmon for public new service member and listener supported and online at Public News Service dot org . This is the. Program. At a welcome back on the line with us is our old buddy Medea Benjamin activist co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange and author of multiple books or her latest kingdom of the un just behind the u.s. Saudi connection code pink dot org Of course the Web site and Global Exchange dot org And you can Twitter at Medea Benjamin the deal walking back to the program. Yeah. Thanks for having me my pleasure so you were just in Bolivia and were you know we've been hearing these bizarre stories about what's going on there the whole morale is the 1st indigenous president of I believe any country in this hemisphere. Was elected and years ago he's been very very progressive and basically the billionaires hate him now and the story that I've been reading is that you know this was a right wing coup funded by the very wealthiest people in Bolivia the victim from the country is is that what you saw when you were there. Absolutely I don't know how poor it in the mainstream press because that was there but what you saw was a premeditated. To rebirth just about all of the gains that had been made be able morale is key in here in the presidency that it brought out the economic situation of millions of people and believed in the power of the Indigenous community to not only the presidential palace but into the national assembly and all over the country and his time in office was really seen as a. Huge benefit not only to be Indigenous community in Bolivia but all over Latin America so it was sort of like as if right after f.d.r. Of office Ronald Reagan came in and just started reversing everything doing away with all security and you know as Asian and that kind of is that is the is that what has happened the new government is literally undoing the social welfare programs. No not yet. That is not have been new government has. 1st come in with very racist people who have a history of disrespecting Indigenous communities and culture is giving a green light for a lot of that races including the burning of the indigenous flag that we polish and then the giving a green light to the military and the police to use wars to quote pacify the country which led to 2 massacres one near Cochabamba and the other outside of love. And then it also meant that this new government that was only supposed to set the stage for a transition to new elections actually change the entire cabin and change the international relationships to cut off ties with Venezuela kick out over $700.00 Cuban doctors who are providing the only health care in the poorest rural areas. Stablish good ties with the right wing governments of also narrow in Brazil and do came Colombia and then also cement ties with the us to trump it ministration and there are other examples of what they are doing that goes far beyond the setting of the foundations for new elections but so far they haven't touched the social welfare programs did our government or any of our oligarchy our billionaires here in the United States play any role in the screw and Bolivian would you call it a coup we had the foreign minister a former former foreign minister of Ecuador on the program the week that it happened was a couple weeks ago and he said this is a coup I there's no other word to describe it is consistent with your observations . Well absolutely because. If you look at the way it have been when a bomber Alice was told by the Organization of American States that there were irregularities in the elections he said All right let's call for new elections the opposition would hear none of that and said no we want him out and force him out through very. Care is kind of tactics his sister's home was burned down number of the leaders of his party were kidnapped threatened we also met with the union leader for example whose wife and daughter had been kidnapped so this kind of fear that spread quickly throughout the leadership of every Morales and his allies was the reason that he left the country to avoid more bloodshed and save the lives of. People in his party and it's also the reason why the well another another element of all of this is that they bribed the military and the police with money and had them turned against a home or Alice and turned on the people so when the military tells a leader that he should leave the country and then takes over with an unelected government and the new president her party only got 4 percent of the vote and her position was supposed to be approved by the Congress but it never was I think you could call that a coup Tom Yeah it certainly sounds like and how do you see those things point out but do you. It's well now it seems that the international community has come back quickly and said that this is too much and the new government realised that it was not going to be able to rule by force because the indigenous community was fighting back very fiercely so there have been some compromises she is sense of military back to their barracks are some of the arrested leaders who have been let go the legislation has been passed for new elections within the next 3 months it will not allow every bar Alice who runs but certainly the mosque party can put somebody exposed and already the right wing cool leader Luis come out you know has announced that he's running a rumor Alice is number one live all Carlos says says that he is going to run but the question is will there be the conditions for a free and fair elections is this racist supremacy. European descendents group that is in power or will they let in cesky elections in an open transparent way and if monsoons them will they allow them to take over those are some key questions Mosby in the party of able Morales the progressive party Yes that's right movement towards socialism his party especially And so. Wow I mean we're so we see a certain amount of this in the here in the United States where Republican Rob Ryan counted in Georgia you know for a quarter 1000000 people of the voting rolls and then win the election 550000 votes and. You know Stacy Abrams is doing a great job of documenting that he's preparing to do it again. Is if they do voter suppression and Bolivia will it be that subtle or will it be. I mean also you know camp also shut down polling places in black neighborhoods which is another strategy that the Republican governors use all across the United States how how if if they if they're if they're disenfranchising Bolivian voters how would they do it. Well I don't know Tom I think that one of the key things is going to be. Conditions there where people will not fear going out to vote because in some of these rural communities they have been out the mayors they have tied up some of the heads of community radio stations and that's an important thing to talk about time we haven't talked about the role of the media and it is just remarkable to see how quickly literally in the question a week how this cool government took over the state run t.v. . Canceled took off the air community run radio stations took over the print media and it turned into a real propaganda. Press and to what people have been hearing is that these massacres were not done by the military they were just clashes between these violent protesters and they talk about enabling his party as being narco traffickers. It's they have really really a history of the last 14 years and they are only giving the side of the coup leaders so can you call that free and fair elections so there's that issue there's this there's this fear factor who knows it so it's amazing video thank you so much A rock a back Philip and Colton Oregon a fillip what's on your mind at all or are your I am there on Medicare since the sounds are in by. Bradsher burger infected occupiers and bugs that occurred through my employer insurance but after a while I'm going to learn to care and on Medicare as they had both rotator cuff surgeries Well one of. The Lapeer just vanished. I think I think your phone just croaked but I guess I'm guessing the bottom line what celibacy saying is that Medicare works just fine for him thank you very much and he likes it Paul England side Pennsylvania Paul thanks for watching free speech on Iraq who box was so. High time I wanted to talk about some of the other costs that are going to go away with Medicare for all Ok all about the right my auto insurance policy premium and I pay every 6 months one of the line that is on there is medical coverage right and you know you think that I mean I haven't been in any god awful accidents can you see it seem on the news every night. The car is worth less than the hospital bill for a family you know 2 or 3 or 4 people in the car even if they just go in you know for 24 hours or they have a broken arm which is bad but you know it could be a lot worse for you if you had a little fatter bender and you were concerned that maybe you had whiplash an issue find out right away yeah and you know what happens is when you go in there and they want to know what your insurance you insurance company will need to say well you were in a car accident we're not going to cover it your auto insurance and then you get into a battle you know between your Kark insurance company and your Blue Cross or you know whoever you had the other thing was and you're a small businessman I know I was to. About 30 years ago I have a small health food store and restaurant and I have people who worked as cooks I had to write a check for $25000.00 for worker's comp and I was back in 1991 I don't even want to think about what it is today. Again if you get hurt and you present the bill the insurance company would wants to know that you have heard it work we want a car at the big 3 This means sort of a means test these are ways these are seclusion area these are 3 hairy gotchas basically. Yeah and oh it's burden of health care is a jump seat in your automobile policy because you know it's not a big portion of it but it's in there that doesn't really need to do you mean if you have a major health insurance policy why are you getting those junk seeing your automobile policy it's ridiculous for the workers comp it's the same thing most people if you're going to get hurt early in life you're either going to be in an auto accident or you're going to get her to work and I mean most people aren't dying of cancer 25 or have back problems by then so that comes later on the life of it you know that's a good little ant So the health insurance companies of they succeeded with Medicare in getting rid of the cost of caring for people over 65 that was a very expensive population that was o.b.j. Sales pitch to the health insurance companies support us on this and so they got rid of the older people who are less profitable for them and you're pointing out that through by by shifting workman's comp and and medical insurance where they've got a car accidents there they've also got rid of the 2 major things that injure young people which is their most profitable market so they get to keep all the profits when I was younger people to actually yeah you're absolutely right Paul is a civil trial mostly of a ton of money with Medicare for all getting rid of those Joe you're absolutely right and it's amazing how they've just got a scheme to work the system over the years when you think about it it's just it's pretty remarkable thanks a lot for the call and thanks for watching us on free speech t.v. Very well we'll be right back. It was just put up a new video for supporters of our program you can find it over Thom Hartmann dot com talking about the relationship between Fox News report Murdoch and basically the whole right wing hate agenda on Hispanics by and large saying that Hispanics are changing our culture really. This is a European culture I mean you know the Mayans and asked x. Got replaced by the Spaniards are members there mostly can mostly Catholic. I told the cultural difference here. And also pointing out that Kevin Rudd the former prime minister of Australia calls out Rupert Murdoch and so as you know he's he's quote a cancer on Australian democracy Well apparently a cancer American democracy as well so you can check out this new video for a Tom Hartman dot com and system available to people who are you know members of supporters of our program. Back to our in here with you and George in Portland Hey George what's on your mind that I. Thought I wanted to talk about the neo liberalism issue that you were mentioning earlier. A lot of you like a lot of times when people on the left say you know Democrats Republicans are becoming all the same even without naming new liberalism pretty sure without the general sense that they were getting with. Clinton and even Obama as you said they both trade deals you know there are actually quite a little trade deals. You know I'm feeling that Bernie Sanders is the one that sort of shifted the paradigm by yes again maybe not calling him out specifically like you know you did on the air and little bit you know but. Leaking a lot of people up to that and happy people think about it in research it and understand it a little bit more and the next question is how do we fight it I mean it we really believe that. It's really are the people right type people to help us fight it help us get rid of this bill the one thing that I know politicians generally speaking is that they want to be with the rest of the parade they want to be where everybody else is now that. You could argue and say that was the case in American politics for the 1st 200 years of our existence but over the last 40 years that has changed when the Supreme Court legalized bribery of politicians in 70 $6.78 with the Buckley and 1st National Bank decisions and then double down on it was Citizens United and then more recently with McDonnell in Virginia governor who took over $100000.00 in bribes from a guy who owned a. Over the counter drug company it wasn't prescription drugs there was stuff you could buy the drugs you know or the car health food stores and things and the governor actually endorse this for this guy in a t.v. Ad and took like you know $100000.00 in bribes for it and was convicted you know Bob and I was convicted in the Virginia court system and he appealed to all the way up to the Supreme Court the Supreme Court said no no that's fine you can bribe politicians so now you've got some politicians virtually all of the Republicans who are willing and probably about half the Democratic Party who are willing to defy or ignore the 'd 'd desires of the majority of their of their people that they represent their constituents and because they know that the 2 in that they really have to dance to is the tune of their don't. And that's just not a good thing it's just not a good thing will in Broomfield Colorado says you want to disagree with a house house so. Like this downtown because they agree with you a virtually everything but you could probably talk about the grief model about Democrats and their candidates and a logical model that makes sense but there is one great big flaw in it which you yourself have brought up in the past about the whole set up. Ok. Republicans cheat and and so when we talk about we have a bad candidate well we don't have a bad candidate Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3000000 votes John Kerry was a strong candidate they both had great credentials but we were really where the opposition candidates who kept screaming at them Have you stopped beating your wife you yourself said Republicans haven't legitimately won a presidential election since Dwight Eisenhower since you 6 and so the whole notion of over dealing with grief with a bad candidate you're not taken into account or you least not publicly taken into account the fact that. Well you can buy Uncle Joe when the mad yes and the net effect you know you know your point is well taken Well you know I can't disagree with that but I guess my point my counterpoint to that would be that if you look at the huge majorities by which f.d.r. Won and and and substantial majorities that. L.b.j. Won you know when he ran for reelection 64 and the Democrats basically held out his representatives from 133-2994 or 9095. That had the Democratic Party not going near a liberal in $92.00 I think the majority you know if we just got an extra one percent you would never have had George Bush in the president in the you know we have what you got close enough for him to steal my make and sense well. I would fall. For that. But. That's. Ok good point good point well thank you for the call I have to offer part of. Their thoughts and mine right after this. You. Listening to the Thom Hartmann program called 202808 minute I want to. 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