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The majority of peat fires are thought to be deliberately lit. other result of bad farming. in addition to slash and burn practices farmers are also draining peat land to grow palm all trees rendering the soil dry and flammable. for years palm oil cultivation has been the go to means to make a living for farmers and some outre but some are starting to make the switch. this 58 year old farmer got rid of his palm oil trees to grow chile a crop which doesn't degrade the land. or. it is very very fast in the soil because it's mainly organic matter. has some supports the switch to alternative crops...

Fbi. so they were basically faced with the task -- and i think what they did, they did very well. essentially what they tried to do is the traditional defense, which is the witnesses have an overwhelming incentive to lie. doors are going to be opened for them. they've committed all kinds of crimes. they're unbelievable and you can't believe them, and they've tried to couple that traditional defense with these unusual circumstances of fbi misconduct to basically say that if you couple that with the fbi misconduct that's occurred in this case and about that case over decades, you have an untrust...

0 what did you learn listening to the stories about whitey through this trial that either unnerved you or surprised you? >> well, one of the things that was astonishing was that in the opening remarks of his defense lawyer, he said the worst thing an irish-american can be accused of is being an informant, you know, from the troubles in ireland, the ira, et cetera over the years. as an irish-american, i can assure you the worst thing an irish-american can be accused of is being a homicidal killer. so the fact that he seemed to be more worried about the rat title, that he was a rat, and more wor...

Heath did a killer story, an investigative piece, and he found that the justice department had admitted that there are 15,000 confidential informants today in the system. >> wow. >> and in one year, listen to this, in one year they committed 5,658 crimes. >> wow. >> now sanctioned by the government. now we don't know were they just misdemeanors, were they felonies, because it's all in secret. the problem is you sleep -- you get down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. you hang with these guys and you depend on these loathesome characters and they play the fbi characters because they're street w...

Drives to the curb, walks home, drinks a scotch, and is driven to the hospital. >> what a guy. >> wow. what a story. peter, to talk about whitey bulger for a second, because i was in high school the day the news came across the radio. we were coming home, he was on the lam. it wasn't until 16 1/2 years later, like june 2011, that was he was actually caught. the talk all those years as the details of his relationship with the fbi came out was that the fbi really maybe wasn't trying that hard to catch him. maybe they were happier just to kind of let him go. do you think there's anything to that?...