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here's where it gets crazy you can turn
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back now or learn the stuff they don't
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want you to know hi I'm Ben and I'm Matt
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and this is stuff they don't want you to
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know this week we are looking at NGOs or
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non-governmental organizations you've
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heard of these before you've probably
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associated them with charities or
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political causes like conservation it's
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like the Red Cross or Human Rights Watch
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but what exactly is an NGO well
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according to the UN it's any nonprofit
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voluntary citizens group which is
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organized on a local national or
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international level
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yeah that's pretty vague but that
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definition is necessarily open-ended
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because different countries have
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different opinions about what exactly an
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NGO is or what it's supposed to do
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NGOs are popular across the planet with
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around 1.5 million in the US alone but
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all these organizations aren't treated
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equally some are more effective
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well-regarded and some are more
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trustworthy than others and not everyone
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believes that NGOs are on the up-and-up
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to begin with you talking about who I
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think you're talking about oh yeah Luton
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that's right Vladimir Putin the number
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one man in Russia believes that many
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us-based NGOs are actually fronts for
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intelligence agencies working to disable
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eyes parts of the Russian sphere of
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influence yes so a sphere of influence
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this will be places like Ukraine Georgia
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Kazakhstan and so on according to Putin
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many of the pro-democracy uprisings in
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and around Russia have been orchestrated
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by foreign powers and several of the
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NGOs operating inside the country aren't
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trying to help make things better
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they're trying to intervene in domestic
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politics which depending on what that
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means isn't especially crazy
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international NGOs work to change policy
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and government all the time especially
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regarding things like environmental law
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LGBT rights labor conditions but what
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Putin seems to be more concerned about
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is that the CIA mi6 NATO and other
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groups are using the pretense of
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democracy in human rights to potentially
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overthrow the current status quo in
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Russia now in the West this news sounds
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like a crazy conspiracy theory and they
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point out that Maduro in Venezuela along
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with other so-called dictators
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made similar statements so what if these
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leaders are just crying conspiracy to
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deal Ajith amis the political protests
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it's a good question
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but it's also true that if an
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intelligence agency is using an NGO as a
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front it wouldn't be the first time
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often a government might attach an
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operative as a part of an NGO team
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allowing that agent to work undercover
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in circumventing various registration
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laws and to this end Russia approved a
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foreign agents act in 2012 compelling
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all NGOs conducting political activities
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to register with Moscow prosecutors came
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down hard on organizations as well as
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individual leaders and the u.s. was not
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happy no or the NGOs for that matter so
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is this a defensive move against
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encroaching foreign spy powers or is it
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a repressive move against human rights
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like we said other governments have done
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similar things in the u.s. in fact a
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recent law requires all NGOs receiving
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government funding to be investigated
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for any links to terrorism and it's true
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that governments and non-state actors
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like this will always have a potentially
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dangerous relationship but you know
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enough about us what do you think was
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Russia right to crackdown on NGOs or was
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this just a rationalization for stamping
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out pro-democracy uprisings and how many
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of these uprisings actually came from
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the people how many were instigated by a
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foreign power let us know in the
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