Democracy Now! 2024-01-30 Tuesday
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for January 30, 2024; Ohio Will Consider Execution by Nitrogen Gas After Alabama Used Method Witness Calls “Horrific”; Sister Helen Prejean: Will Oklahoma Free Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip After SCOTUS Hears Case?; “Monumental Decision”: Biden Pauses Approvals for New LNG Terminals in Victory for Climate Movement; “We’re Dying Here”: Human Rights Watch on the Fight for Life in Louisiana’s Fossil Fuel Cancer Alley; Cost of Doing Business? Amnesty Int’l Documents Health, Environmental Impact of Fossil Fuels in Texas
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to. From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | What we saw was minutes of someone struggling for and forth. We saw minutes of someone heaving back and |
| 0:27.5 | forth. We saw spit. We saw all sorts of stuff from his mouth develop on the mask. |
| 0:35.0 | We saw this mask tied to the gurney and him ripping his head forward over and over again. |
| 0:46.7 | Just days after Alabama became the first state to gas a man to death using nitrogen. |
| 0:54.0 | Ohio considers adopting the same practice which the UN has warned is a form of torture. |
| 1:00.0 | We'll speak with the spiritual advisor for Kenneth Smith about last week's execution. |
| 1:07.0 | Then environment justice and climate activists are praising President Biden for pausing |
| 1:15.2 | approval of new liquefied natural gas projects. |
| 1:19.7 | As the public and someone who lives in Sulfur, Louisiana, a town that is surrounded by |
| 1:26.6 | fossil fuel extractive industry, living here with my six children who suffer from asthma and |
| 1:34.0 | and other respiratory conditions. |
| 1:36.0 | I can say that these facilities are not in the public interest. |
| 1:40.0 | And we applaud the Biden administration |
| 1:42.0 | for listening to frontline communities like mine. |
| 1:45.0 | Plus, we look at a pair of landmark studies by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on how the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries |
| 1:56.1 | are devastating communities from Texas to Cancer Alley in Louisiana. |
| 2:01.3 | I feel like it's a death sentence, it's a lack we're being cremated, but not being burnt, but being polluted, |
| 2:10.0 | dying from the, in healing the industries, going into our the industries going into our bodies going into our nostrils. |
| 2:16.2 | All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:30.0 | In the occupied West Bank Israeli soldiers raided Janine's Ibn |
| 2:34.0 | Hospital earlier today disguised as civilian women and medical staff killing |
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