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Fire at a chevron refinery plant in richmond, california, the oil tont spending 3 million oust its latest city officials who pushed to hold the company accountable. If chevron china trying to buy the City Government . We will speak with our going ring party mayor Gayle Mclaughlin and go across the country to speak to another Green Party Candidate, howie hawkins, who is challenging new york Governor Andrew Cuomo. Im running for governor to go to the work for the 99 of us, the working class, middle class people who are overtaxed, underserved, and underpaid by government that has been run by for1 with a big campaign divisions. Then the nazis next door how america became a safe haven for hitlers men. Pulitzer prizewinning New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau and how the cia, fbi and military put hitlers minions to work as spies, intelligence assets command leading scientists and engineers whitewashing their history. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Israel has reopened the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalems old city after its closure sparked protests and calls to reopen from countries including the United States. Muslim men under the age of 50 are barred from praying today over supposed security concerns. Israel shut down the compound thursday for the first time in years following the shooting of farright activist yehuda glick. Hours after glick was shot and wounded, Israeli Forces shot and killed a palestinian man suspected in the shooting, accusing him of opening fire when they sought to arrest him. But the Palestinian Maan news agency gave a different account, citing eyewitnesses. They report the suspect, mutaz hijazi, was shot and injured but still alive when Israeli Soldiers entered his home and went to the rooftop, where they dropped a water tank on him, killing him. The Fatah Movement in jerusalem has called for a day of protest today over the killing. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry has publicly blasted the unnamed Senior Obama Administration official who recently called israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a chickenst. Speaking to the atlantic magazine, the official said netanyahu wont do anything to reach an accommodation with the palestinians or with the sunni arab states. Kerry called the remarks disgraceful. I think we need to work quietly and effectively and we condemn anybody who uses language such as was used in this article, it does not respect reflect a president or me. It is disgraceful, unacceptable, think neitheri have everobama nor i heard that word around me or the white house. I dont know who these anonymous people are they keep hitting quoted in things. They make life much more difficult. In iraq, bodies of 150 members of a sunni tribe which battled the Islamic State have reportedly been found in mass graves. Officials told reuters the militants took the men from their villages to the city of ramadi, killed them and buried them. The discovery came as u. S. Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, called for the expansion of a u. S. Training and Advisory Mission into anbar province, but said the Iraqi Government would first need to arm the sunni tribes. Meanwhile in syria, the wave of first Iraqi Kurdish troops have passed through turkey to aid in the defensive against isis militants in the besieged city of kobani. A Monitoring Group says bombings by the regime of stern president Bashar Alassad has killed more than 200 civilians over the past 10 days alone. On thursday, u. S. Defense secretary chuck hagel acknowledged u. S. Airstrikes in syria may be aiding the alassad regime. As we in the coalition go sfter isil, to help the iraqi suit secure the government and also the middle east, assad derives some benefit of that, of course, but what were talking about is a longerterm strategy that is effective in doing what we think and the people of the middle east as to what is required to stabilize and secure that part of the world ineffective in inclusive governments. The United Nations is warning foreign fighters are flocking to militant groups in iraq and syria on a unprecedented scale. A u. N. Report obtained by the guardian finds 15,000 people from more than 80 countries have are fighting alongside the Islamic State and similar groups. In egypt, the mother and daughter of a prodemocracy activist are on Hunger Strike to demand his release and the , release of his imprisoned sister. Laila soueif and mona seif have been on a partial Hunger Strike since september. They stopped eating and Drinking Water on monday when Alaa Abdel Fattah was detained yet again for breaking an antiprotest law. Fattah has been imprisoned multiple times since egypts 2011 revolution, missing the birth of his child, and more recently, the death of his father. His sister sanaa has been sentenced to three years in prison for violating the same antiprotest law. She has been on Hunger Strike in prison for over 60 days. Kaci hickox, the nurse who was quarantined in new jersey after returning from treating ebola patients in sierra leone, has violated state quarantine rules in maine. After hickox went on a bike ride with her boyfriend, maine Governor Paul Lepage vowed to use the full extent of his authority allowable by law to keep her in her home. Well talk more about kaci hickox after headlines. In nigeria, the Islamist Militant Group boko haram has captured the northeastern town of mubi, forcing thousands to flee. Reuters reports the militants burned down the main market and killed dozens of people, including a University Lecturer and his entire family. Protesters opposed to the president s 27 year rule have gathered in the capital a day after setting parliament ablaze. The protests erupted over a plan by president Blaise Compaore to extend his rule. The military opened fire on demonstrators and up to 30 people have been reported killed in the unrest. President compaore has agreed not to seek reelection, but he has defied calls to step down. A military spokesperson announced the current government would be dissolved and a curfew imposed overnight thursday. The National Assembly has dissolved. The government is dissolved. The transitional body will be set up in consultation with all the forces of the nation in order to prepare for the return to normal Constitutional Order within a. Of 12 months of the latest. A curfew is in place across the country starting today from 7 00 p. M. To 6 00 a. M. To preserve the safety of persons and property. Plans toy has canceled tax internet use after tens of thousands of hungary ands took to the streets in protest. Estimate stations began sunday when demonstrators flung computer parts at the headquarters of hungarys ruling rty. Russia, ukraine and the European Union have reached a deal to resume the flow of russian gas to ukraine. The 4. 6 billion accord secures gas supplies until march, both for ukraine and European Countries on the receiving end of its pipelines. The gas will be paid for with help from the International Monetary fund and what the European Commission called unprecedented levels of aid from the European Union. The deal comes amidst escalating tensions as prorussian separatists plan to hold elections sunday in eastern ukraine. Lawmakers in argentina have passed legislation to attract foreign oil and gas companies. Argentina has the Third Largest deposits of shale oil and natural gas in the world. The measure provides longer contracts and other incentives for multinationals to exploit those reserves. In related news, Mexicos Supreme Court has rejected a request to hold a National Referendum on reforms passed earlier this year that opened mexicos oil and gas sector to private multinationals for the first time in 76 years. Three american siblings who went missing in the mexican state of tamaulipas nearly three weeks ago have been confirmed dead after their bodies were identified. Witnesses reported seeing the victims being abused and then seized by members of a local police unit called hercules, which provides security to officials in the city of matamoros. A new probe finds federal officials severely botched the investigation of a suspected arms smuggler and allowed him to funnel grenade parts into mexico. The probe by the Justice Department Inspector General involved the phoenix, Arizona Division of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives the same unit involved in the botched gunsting operation fast and furious. In this case, federal agents intercepted shipments of grenade parts, but allowed them to be delivered to alleged smuggler Jean Baptiste kingery. Some of the parts later turned up at a crime scene in mexico. The fbi is quietly seeking a broad expansion of its power to hack into, spy on, and control computers in the United States and around the world. The guardian reports the Justice Department is seeking the change before an obscure regulatory body called the Advisory Committee on criminal rules. Civil liberties groups say the change, which is being sought without congressional approval or public debate, would effectively give the fbi a green light to hack into computers anywhere in the world. In pennsylvania, prosecutors say they will seek the Death Penalty against a survivalist who has been on the run for seven weeks after ambushing state troopers, killing one of them. Eric frein was captured by police on thursday. South Carolina Republican senator Lindsay Graham is facing controversy over remarks he made at allmale dinner at a private club. Cnn played an audio recording of grahams comments earlier this month. Help you withto hack your tax statuses. [blee[p] senator grahams Campaign Said the statement about helping white men was a joke that was taken out of context. Graham is seeking reelection to a third term on tuesday. Apple ceo tim cook has come out publicly as gay. In an article for bloomberg businessweek, cook wrote im proud to be gay, and i consider being gay among the greatest gifts god has given me. A top lobbyist has been caught on tape Encouraging Oil and gas industry executives to dig up embarassing details about environmentalists and to exploit emotions like fear. An executive gave the New York Times a secret recording of the speech by richard berman, a lobbyist who creates nonprofits, then covertly uses them to advance a range of corporate agendas. Berman made the speech in june as he raised millions to fund an ad campaign called big green radicals, which has run profracking ads in colorado and pennsylvania. And warren anderson, who was ceo of Union Carbide during one of the worst industrial disasters in history, has died at the age of 92. On december 3, 1984, about 40 metric tons of toxic gases leaked from a Union Carbide plant in bhopal, india. While the official death toll is nearly 4,000, campaigners say its closer to 25,000 with many still suffering. Anderson never faced trial for the disaster although india tried multiple times to extradite him. In 2012, activists rallied in new york to call for anderson to go to india to face charges. Twelveyearold akash viswanath mehta of the group kids for a Better Future addressed anderson directly. I would like today to appeal to warren andersons conscious, his tilt and grief and asked him to stand beside me. If used truly haunted by the disaster that happened on his watch, which destroyed an entire community, i ask them to come forward and make a moral statement about what thright thing is. Directing us to do. Warren anderson died in september at a nursing home in vero beach, florida. His family did not announce his death and it nearly went unnoticed until the New York Times noticed an obituary in the weekly newspaper in vero beach. The headline was, warren anderson, 93, dies here in obscurity. And those are some of the headlines, this is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman with juan gonzalez. Welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. Before we move onto our first segment, you wrote an interesting piece in the New York Daily News quarantined nurse kaci hickox. Interviewed yesterday norm siegel, the attorney for kaci hickox, one of the two attorneys, and he told me the story basically of how she suddenly contacted him on saturday afternoon, which was in forcedolation isolation and newark hospital, after reading a, tn made on a times the new york website. First her boyfriend called her and then she called him and asked for his help in trying to make get out of the forced isolation new Jersey Governor Chris Christie had put her in. A longtime civil rights attorney here in new york city. He remembers precisely the same kind of panic that occurred back in the mid1980s when he took over the new York Civil Liberties Union and that was over aids and the demands of Many Americans that aids patients be quarantined. So hes very familiar with this kind of hysteria or panic, and he immediately offered to go out threatennew jersey and the state of new jersey with a lawsuit. Of course, Chris Christie back down and released kaci hickox so she could go home to maine and new yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo then backed off a little bit on his own quarantine saying people returning Health Workers from west africa could be quarantined at home. But the reality is, these two governors are still insisting that even know you may not have symptoms, you can be quarantined under their powers in new york state and new jersey, and now the governor in maine for the tea party candidate, facing a tough reelection on tuesday, has also insisted that she be quarantined. And shes continuing to defy the quarantine and basically, welcoming a lawsuit, which norm siegel feels she is a very good chance, there is a lawsuit ,iled, to get her to maintain that he believes he can win. Kaci hickox went back to maine and Chris Christie also went to maine that same day the campaign for lepage. There are many Health Workers who have just gone home in the United States, and she is tested negative for ebola. Not only that, Governor Cuomo admitted in an interview this week that as many as 30 to 50 people are entering jfk Health Workers from west africa every day, but the governor refuses to say how many of those he has also insisted he put on home quarantine. It is basically politicians who know nothing about Public Health interfering in what the cdc, doctors without borders, and even the new england journal of medicine said should be the proper policy. Lets go to kaci hickox, just wrapping up the segment, which he made headlines thursday as she took a bike ride with her boyfriend. Several journalists attended to interview her while she rode. Going out on a bike ride while the state police are here. Actione is no legal against me, so i free to go on a bike ride. What does it say of the court order . When you find out, you tell me. How does it feel to be on the road . It feels amazing. Did you talk about taking the step last night . Know, just this morning. Something you do often . Yes. Thank you. I have to go speak with the Health Department out. Looks these reporters were following as she rode the bike. Troopers,y, the federal authorities, are also there, not clear well, they did not tackle her when she went out. Her bravery going into west africa to treat ebola patients, but now also standing up eloquently to the bullying of some of these politicians. Richmond,w to california where chevron is being accused of buying the government. The comedy has spent one and 3 million to back a slate of pro candidates. According to a report in the los angeles times, chevron has paid for tv attack ads, purchase based on virtually every billboard in town, funded a