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know what will . number nine i can't watch nbc. i am up at your watch and artsy. ali was rented to unravel the undercover world that the nsa surveillance the belief by former contractor adverts noting that a major us tech firms have written an open letter to president obama pushing for more restrictions on government surveillance. this was a more open internet the latter means that the balance in many countries
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has tipped too far in favor of the states and away from the rights of the individual rights that are enshrined in our constitution is undermines the freedoms we all cherish. it's time for change. hey allow apple face a two goal lead and microsoft twitter and up and signed the letter and created a website listing find areas for improvement. meanwhile more revelations are out this week about that the government agency is and what they are doing with their surveillance tools from a nap that we turn to samson this may look like your typical battle between alliance and board members in the virtual world of warcraft but she didn't say this could also be a secret gathering. today pro are reported that the nsa british spies had ample traded online gaming platforms like world of warcraft and second life looking for terrorists that's without wind and internal and it's a document
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which by the torch noting that focuses on games and virtual worlds. the essay notes as virtual worlds become more popular pervasive and sophisticated city tool opportunities to exploit them also james provide attractive communications channels for groups and sympathizers because in game conversations often are difficult or impossible to monitor and james can supplement hill training by familiarize your crit with the tactics weaponry and skills needed to conduct operations. you know like when terrorists exploit the use of giant evil rabbits peter singer with the brookings institute and yes this concerns laughable telling pro a games are built and operated by companies looking to make money so the player's identity and activity is track for terror groups looking to keep their communication secret. there are far more effective and easier ways to do so than putting on a troll abbott are this is no documents provide
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zero counter terror success is coming from the agencies online gaming surveillance books ordered the nsa or the fbi could dig a little deeper when they could not only tractor world of warcraft tactics but also track exactly what you're doing what you're playing world of warcraft by hacking the right in your computer camera. as the washington post reported. this guy's been able to cope or reactivated computer's camera without triggering the light that let users know is reporting for several years that the fbi can watch you as you do whatever you do in front of your computer from playing world of warcraft. to reading the news and drinking your coffee. to watching shocking viral videos off too well. use your imagination to go. in april of this year a judge in texas rejected in fbi request a hacking us suspects computer and use their web cam to take
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pictures of them. the judge argued that tactic was extremely interested in could violate the rights of others caught in front of that same camera. the fbi is actually borrowing a tactic used by hackers for years to spy on women through their weapons this latest revelation shed more light on the fbi and nsa counter terror tactics topics that appeared just as intrusive as they are absurd in considering previous nsa documents reveal an agency struggling to deal with the problem of ingesting too much donna. the mini code repositories with the latest ct gold style with white images of all people are doing in front of their computers. is it the way to go. in washington said socks are too. so what exactly does the government have to gain from journeying through the southern airlines with that one for that site a surprise its finances then turned to peter ludlow professor of philosophy at northwestern university. a
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lot i don't think so and that the danger that thing is that you know i know a lot of people that role play as different. you know military groups. and i do know some people will play at. as the annals of the book will play at the park and father of modern arab world played as terrorists and their intellect and in a mafia group and so forth. so if they're in they're looking for terrorists than you have these people. we're in guy herbs and running around this part of their role play. you know doing that. you know the role player when intermission it is kind of scary. and her son james and do in fact i can play the cell. obviously a lot of people play these games when he understands when it comes to world of warcraft or other digital video games is that there's a lot of other people and you can talk them you don't always necessarily know who they are on. don't take video games very seriously. big deal that these games were
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being served mailed at all well it's a big deal in love with that one way that i think we should really be thinking about it than what it means is that they're now survey link and every single part of our lives that this when it's ninety s are communicating in business and so forth and international communication. but it's actually the stuff we do when we are role playing having fun and they wanna know what that's about i mean really there was no way to get in during and or psychology of understanding rights. i guess what makes this fake diplomas deeper level the country's biggest tech tech companies have sent out a letter calling for better alaska and they said the surveillance is the intentions of all those companies to protect customers or to protect their own engine your opinion the way to protect their own image. because of the doubt about that. if you know one
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thing that is somewhat disturbing here is that in this particular case. i was second last one to keep technology officer of second life korean drink actually went to fort meade and had a brown bag lunch with. with the nsa people. and um i mean do you know i know cory is a friend of mine he's a great guy but this was in the right thing to do and that you may say well let's just get live up to the second live there but i think he's working at facebook now so the question is. now that he's looking at facebook is instilled in the brown bag lunches with the people at the fsa and the only natural that you have requested that someone should be asking so i had company is calling for anything in specific anything that could better protect your online digital privacy rights. when i haven't heard of anything that they actually do it all occurred so far is the complaining eighth in a way it is the most by a crocodile tears because his guru like facebook and all the stuff and basically expose
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everything we do is gather this information and then all of a sudden they are shocked when they get into the wrong hands or when they find out that's when they find out that the nsa has access to a new member a little while ago with the ceo of google earth and well if you are doing anything wrong what you care he has completely changed it to twenty five doubt that the nfa with tapping into the goal though. strange though. what i know i haven't seen any. the proposal coming to check if the latter. like gnashing of teeth in and am complaining haven't seen a single cause of the proposal the interesting thing that i do wanna raise the point that i won a race is that assists the nsa scandal broke became pretty clear that the director of national intelligence. jamie clapham contains clap or actually lying to congress take a look at them. does the nsa collect any type of data at all. and
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millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no storm. he does not. not willingly. now really unfair of the pastry bag congressman james sensenbrenner is calling for a clever to be prosecuted for lying to congress what you think about those efforts you think they'll actually go anywhere. it didn't go anywhere i mean clearly he lied to me with contempt of congress. but people in that position go get put on trial they go in a league in the past and he probably knew that going in and out why people keep alive and you know there's no cost to lying to congress that you are in the state is national defense industry support. thank you so much for lying and all things an essay funeral of a professor of philosophy at northwestern university million the documents by the secret spilling organization wiki links revealed just how whiny the division is between
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the twelve nation is currently participating in the trans pacific partnership house. the us memos that the us government's case against eleven other nations on a number of issues from intellectual property ip corporate empowerment. here's a look at some of the biggest disagreement. when it comes to investments in the us and it can support the proposal while the rest express their objections to the proposal the us has shown no signs of flexibility when dealing with sanitary and site of sanitary standards. the us has also reopened several disciplines of the chapter in the direction of decreasing its level of ambition. this is concerning because the us is not demonstrating flexibility on financial service is the positions are still caroline's united states shows that zero flexibility on agricultural export subsidies on ctv countries except the us commits to eliminate them now a spokesman for the office of u s trade representative said he had no
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idea of these documents that were there or where they came from it can be said that there are they are older versions of the deal currently being negotiated american officials hoped negotiations when he reached out by the end of this the air. however the more information that comes down to the were difficult years think that these twelve nations will be up to finalize negotiations when it comes to the script the newspaper investigation has exposed how agents with the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms use mentally to say a big men to help promote their undercover sting operations the four of dressing them and charging reporters for the milwaukee journal sentinel sifted through thousands of pages of court records and found numerous cases of the agency's abuse and failure. one case twenty eight year old john c wright was hired to hand out flyers to promote the fake store. i tend iq in the mid fifties which is considered extremely low. agents can write with
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cigarettes of merchandise and money. eventually convinced him to dream and drums and guns off the streets alone later he was arrested and charged. he now faces up to light in prison. swansea rights relatives say that the agents unknowingly took advantage of a mentally disabled man and once in awhile. there are at least four other instances for atf agents he's mentally disabled man before a blessing that now congress the department of justice when it starts to talk about some of the other findings from this investigation has joined earlier by john key's wrecked his reporter with the milwaukee journal sentinel was investigating this story when first asked him to walk us through some of the other arm rests of people who assisted the atm we started living entity being here in milwaukee that had all kinds of problems including steam engine at the outset that meant we did in normandy news to promote the operation. we've been
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investigating it on here and what we found a demonstration at the beach and that the nominee to lead the team and we get to get mentally gifted people in several locations around the country to promote the storefront and then turned around and charge them. at the end. i want to talk about some of the other discoveries in your investigation and things like losing lap and things like damaging buildings can you walk this earth and all the points that year investigation found. sure it to begin in europe are too lucky. when was the shocking findings in an initial investigation said atf agent themselves lost their guns in the team can't use of weapons including a fully man. rifles stolen police car which part to the coffeeshop that machine has not been recovered to date on there also was in this happen in other cities as well. when the buildings were damaged in the chair for him compete for the damage after it ran out i didn't really go over
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plainclothes cop province things of that nature and the landlord that you can actually hear him rocky. but also the pensacola and portland. the bill. and i discover all of this was going on. one of the nation what the operation and content from the landlord enough money pours into words and images contained in a peacock in the neighborhood people who are going to knock the door and into opening them and think of that nature on the date at the beginning we urge the beginning that he did what they told congress that the right to live in today and i've not seen. outside of walking the picket line in a bid by this technique is to say what he didn't start the head of a storefront on to helping the clothes being
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or an aunt to two parlors are things of that nature. what you're really interested in buying guns and drugs in the data in each operation and to vote on it the problems of the parading across the country that would just walk in. they require to my shoe leather in terms of looking for recruits mother placed it on anything and he kept it nice talk about or provide a list of all the way to compete in an interesting tone made it without pressure the two teams in the ultimate sources were numbered each other. things were the employee be pro active to turn. and the understanding of their investigation you'll also discover that not only did they allow felons who have done their possessions to leave the stars. they allowed thank you to smoke marijuana. they also provided alcohol as i understand it to you. you thi that you areorting cldesul iei dedor the people that were menta dab w helped the atf in thend. when feat that only we are the people that we wrote about the party that
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each and every bench indicated that they make it into the print and or probation in the case with each one individually in contention at the outset that they used to them and t table. the epf encourage and teach. trent. mentally disabled man in a frantic action on the next morning the store front in which he judged it to him too eighteen months in prison he didrder that he can keep it a rule that kept you up but at this point. i've been keeping up on healing and high quality surveillance video that etf has been the storefront of the old never go to trial. you may need to click to complete conviction in federal. due to substantial time even if you don't have occurred. i went back i didn't think he did not have very violent background on and actually with the atf is an extended
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mission to get in on the island to ten years people who are at the top of either organization to think of that nature talking to all the experts with a kicking tee it updon't you. now as you mentioned this isn't just a few isolated incidents. you are and destination has uncovered a number of them so if negligence on the part of the atf or is there something more nefarious going on. you know and those are questions to give to others. they interacted with what i can't hate you and you know you. across the country will be fine in theory similar tactics of the print command in wichita was paid to ride his bike around. but to promote the operation that is very similar to what happened was he a man in charge the right thing in her new bike and he knocked up flyers in repeating to correct cash and merchandise and in which it was key in direct cash and merchandise
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and he brokered deal done deal and um interim feel odd duck and other important for the event in in wichita and in both of those key to it or you could really use the traditional confidential informant that he took it up because of their iq which are both in the mid fifties they had no idea what was going on and to not only do they face significant federal time at the end of this the altar in great jeopardy because everyone in t think they were the informant the thing that they got the deal were complete yet and when he kept coughing and breathing appointment on wednesday it rained and it really that undercut the whole point of knowing what to do and taking on risk that comes with that one of the twenty three walking in the fridge to get it. and i like the second period wherein contingent of
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law in the morning to come and gone into the trap travel into traffic or chanting clicking into mexico where individuals were killed we're locked walk in this case in some cases. etf that for a felon working for the etf on as an informant to meet the new office on time i'm encouraged individuals to take shots that were not cut down to sa top shot inside the store with shotguns go insolvent saw them down and ending in one of those cases even to call back in and featured it in a sock down to the agent suggested walk on sunday my ears. very interesting wing of the atf has apparent that fitting at the doj for that they might have inspector general and acting and congress have demanded answers a lot save anything actually comes of that. john dietrich reporter with a mile walk the journal sentinel thank you so much. they do well it's back to work for us. congrats on the docket today it would be upping the national defense authorization act. something that congress has easily win you over the past fifty the air as partisan bickering has done the better part of the bill for the past couple of months. today the senate
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and house armed services committees took up a new version of the indy a bell for twenty fourteen deadline for a final agreement if one has to be reached by the end of this here is friday the bill to be passed in time and the full senate will not be able to debate the hundreds of amendments that were passed on to regional defense bill back in november. no one is that how about the nba from being signed within a minute aiming to revamp the military isn't sexual assault policy. hudson and whenever strike and a commander's authority to overturn a jury conviction in cases of sexual assault acquiring this honorable discharge. for those who were convicted. authorizing the nda is so important because it finds the provisions of the military like he raises for employees as well as some six hundred billion dollars in defense spending which tells us to build chris warren our national security could be in jeopardy. well in
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the aftermath of the two longest wars in american htory. still suffering the physical and emotional scars that were left from their days oversee its the department of veteran affairs estimates that twenty two best friends take their lives each day where about one every sixty five minutes a number of others deal with cosmetic stresses or are you or to cope with the physical and mental pain. doctors often times prescribe powerful pain medications to these entrants with things like oxycontin for instance but over prescription of often leads to life threatening addiction. rt is a curie and barring reports the good news an overdose has taken so many lies in america that the white house classifies it as an epidemic sadly our nation's veterans are some of them. i'm becoming addicted to prescription drugs. veterans like makes the fun of it. i got discharged honorably discharged from the marine
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corps in two thousand six all in one a key moment when i started using tools everybody talks to god oxycontin is the latest tried to treat severe acute or chronic pain. veterans hospitals are increasingly prescribing the drug to people with chronic pain the la salle had poster matic stress disorder it. on its shores. to that of a flood of disorders that you come back from the mayor with immediately. mental illness can increase a person's risk of addiction. so that addiction turned to snow balled and spiral out of control on to the point where i lost everything. it's the monday got so caught up in his addiction he was ultimately rested for writing fraudulent acts to buy drugs illegally. oxycontin is an opiate like an addict appeal and killer that resulted in over sixteen thousand deaths in two thousand and eight that number has been increasing over the past eleven years. this despite the highly addictive nature and the number of appeal in
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discussions over and i'd be a hazard risen by over two hundred eighty seven percent during nineteen eighty nine and two thousand while in two thousand while alone in the bhp in over fifty thousand veterans issues associated with opie lead use many of which moreover to this. according to the study by the bsa veterans with post traffic stress disorder are more than one is as likely to be prescribed opie leads to the painkiller. at the same time the lights can have a toxic reactions of other common ptsd medications but is it safe to give up the lights to people who have ptsd. i asked for new farm and the leading parties are about the kind about this and they told me the lady can we fix our important part of treating veterans who suffer from chronic pain. there use to be closely monitored at all times especially in combination with other medications but for dale has a history of misleading the in two thousand and seven the company putting guilty to criminal charges and branding than what it would be wise
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and misleading doctors patients and regulators about the rest of the product yet to be a contest to prescribe the drug which is pretty arm as pascal the painkiller account for eighty percent of the total revenues. octagon sales increased three hundred percent between two thousand and one in two thousand and eleven. purdue has sold over twenty seven billion dollars worth of the store since nineteen eighty six. that's more than the entire gross domestic product of north korea and jamaica to mind. we all know we can't deny they're making a ton of money on its duties but trustee of the veterans treatment court judge in michigan were looking at dramatically increasing rates and debt financing different for our parents. she believes the criminal justice system can be successful at screen prescription drug addiction the body found in south bend veterans treatment court program after his arrest he was court ordered to report to and i didn't attend treatment sessions for each year. he said the program received the program a person
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first half to get a rest and a larger policy question is how the da can avoid contributing to the addiction problem in the first place the rate of recovery from opiate dependence is less than one percent typically so it's even much less. it's really addictive. that all financial costs of the iraq and afghanistan wars are estimated to be between four to six million dollars. cover we can put a price tag on the over six thousand casualties from these wars sadly many veterans and to make it home find themselves fighting another battle of prescription drugs washington d c here in boring parts. john has been to d c federal appeals court questioned the need for genital searches of guantanamo bay detainees who wanted as a facility to me with their lawyer its lawyers for the men currently being held said the search began after the camp staff move the conference location twelve building outside of the detention facility. they allege it was meant to discourage these men from
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meeting with their lawyer is no attorney david reid has told rt back in may the genital circus started right after the mess hall were strike in the facility began. there was a way to punish the prisoners were starving themselves. your daydreams talking about home in base and the searchers are i think that this would be objectionable. from a westerner standpoint outrageous for a plate of western standpoint. but for devout muslim and i think it is. the while one of the worst forms of humiliation there could be and for that reason if they don't want to leave their camp up because of the searches. they end up not being able to meet two more years not being able to have telephones with their telephone calls with their lawyers not being able to have telephone calls with their families. during the trial this afternoon us department of justice lawyers argued that the searches were
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introduced to combat security concerns after a detainee is were discovered with contraband and after one of them committed suicide in two thousand twelve after importing medications attorneys say they are concerned that the back of detainees could pick up things like nails on the ground and no saying this could be used as weapons while outside of their residence and it's the justice department says that the judges don't have jurisdiction to hear the case because it centers on issues that can finance lawyers for the detainee is instead argue that they need to protect the rights of their plants and access to counsel. today government lawyers compare the practice to a tsa searched at the airport and said quote it's not as bad as that sounds fun to see if it kills the court agrees well offended if late to vote on a bill today that would ban the plastic guns for another decade was locked and loaded the date has been in a teasing three d printer technology is against national security fence that
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comes to guns are on detectable by a metal detectors and x ray machines i was at six i on tuesday but looks like it will be brand new. the prohibition of plastic guns think and act and during the outbreak in administration has been renewed every decade since now it's time the band has been on supported by both republicans as well as the national rifle association and some senate democrats led by chuck schumer were working on an ex nfl to take anti plastic gun legislation one step further by forcing out all guns with plastic components to have the actual metal parts. but republican and the nra are against such legislation. now this issue of plastic guns is perhaps the least contentious when it comes to the gun debate currently going on in this country where quickly approaching the one year anniversary of the new town shootings and cries for gun control are growing louder tune in to rt this friday
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december thirteen for our special coverage of the issue of gun control in this country. this enabled the unlike anything you've ever seen covered and we are going to talk about the way back up this issue with gun expert on both sides so and so to speak with people who have been personally affected by gun violence and tune in december thirteen from five to six pm for that special coverage. the mega not the end of that for me as the redbacks your eight pm. i should. yours. you knew long
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