oh ok i'm having martin this is breaking this start the show today i want to highlight a story that's making waves in portland oregon take a look. while trial is set to begin today in downtown portland the trial of terror suspect mohammad mohammad the jury selection begins in the trial of the man accused of trying to blow up the christmas tree lighting ceremony in portland in two thousand and ten authorities for the twenty one year old claim he was entrapped by the f.b.i. prosecutors say mohamed atta was predisposed to committing a terrorist act predisposed to committing a terrorist act for it by predisposed you mean subject to criminal entrapment by the f.b.i. then yes i absolutely agree but this case is just one in the list of many high profile f.b.i. sting operations carried out in the wake of the nine eleven attacks and once again it raises a question about the real threat of terrorism facing us today the people involved in these cases that no actual capacity to commit the crimes for which they are

being prosecuted without the f.b.i. is abundant resources paving the way he can any impressionable thanks to written teenager under the wing of an undercover federal agent be turned into a terrorist when the when they're provided the means and the encouragement can you say manufactured from hurt anyone anyway we've got lots of ground to cover so let's break this up. the world never seen anything like. do you ever wonder why the u.s. has such a strong relationship with israel a relationship that president obama himself has referred to as quote an unbreakable bond one of the reasons the connection between these two countries is so close because of a powerful lobbying effort apac the american israel public affairs committee itself described as the most important organization affecting the u.s.

relationship with israel the lobby has tens of thousands of members and its annual annual policy conference is one of washington's largest gathering of lawmakers exceeded only by the state of the union address which is why republican senator chuck hagel two thousand and six jurors such heavy criticism over his views on the lobbies influence he said quote the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i mean united states senator i'm not an israeli senator now that hagel has been tapped for a spot as defense secretary the mainstream media has been very quick to pick up on those past criticisms but why has the questioning of this lobby become so taboo to talk about this unbreakable bond and what it all means for u.s. foreign policy i'm joined by mark radomsky publisher of middle east dot work so much for coming on marc thank you so obviously hate those comments blew up in the mainstream media not surprising at all first of all why is it so taboo to admit

that this lobby has influence and secondly why is it so taboo to say that first and foremost if you're a public servant that your allegiance is for this country and that of israel. you know the idea that mentioning the israeli lobby the jewish lobby i've called it the israeli jewish lobby in print for a long time for those of us that have followed this for decades we're looking and we're kind of laughing everybody knows there's this powerful lobby just like everybody knows they're global warming but there are certain things you can't really deal with in washington they're third rails or to do subjects it's not the mention of them that's not the. it's the standing up to them it's not letting them all was dominate it's voting against them it's speaking against them journalists are ostracized presidents are ostracized remember how what was president carter how he had to pull back when they were insisting on american policies being what they

wanted and not what president carter want to think to the chairman of the foreign relations committee bill fulbright was pushed out of chuck percy was pushed out of town so there's a long history to this problem is not that he mentioned the subject problem is that he occasionally stood up to the. unfortunate really that this is this is the situation but you know when he was a senator he signed an aid package forty billion dollars worth of aid to israel the same time israel is violating international law i mean it's pretty pro israel to me what it really stipulates not being pro israel and no. look let's just call it straight i've been in washington a long time my first job when i first came here right out of grad school was to represent the world jewish congress but it wasn't today's world jewish congress it was the world jewish congress of the internationalist of dr not goldman so i've been involved in this for a long time. they rely on intimidation they rely on blackmail they

rely on letting people know that if you cross them your career is in jeopardy they do it with journalists they do it with politicians. and they've been extremely successful because it's not just a pac apac is just the tip that's just the public you've got the presidents conference of major american jewish organizations you've got the american jewish congress the american jewish committee you've got commentary magazine you've got two think tanks one with the republicans and the hardliners the near east institute the other the institute with the democrats it's a whole range of interlocking and inter working organizations but where did it start from it started from the holocaust it's starting from jewish impotence in the thirty's and forty's and what happened to the jewish people in europe and then the fight in the forty's over whether or not the u.s. would support the creation of a jewish state everybody's forgotten the to the biggest person in foreign policy

general marshall opposed it he even told president truman that if you're president truman support the creation of a jewish state it will be unending war in the middle east it will be against american interests and i your secretary of state i'm going to resign and he threatened to resign over this so this fights been going on for a long time but how to evolve to become so powerful and strong people tell me all the time the jewish lobby is really the ones running the show and washington how can you give us a sense on how much influence they really wield on washington politics and actual policies that are implemented. a lot of people will find this hard to believe but to answer your question honestly as i've come to experience it when it comes to matters relating to israel matters relating to the middle east their influence is almost total they have such a way is manipulating the press and. politicians forcing people and they've got

many fallback position sometimes it appears they don't get their first goal but they've got two or three or four or five other goals that are all acceptable to them and it's not just american jews by the way goofy christians united for israel which apac helped organize seven years ago is an extremely powerful force in this country and their convention is even larger than a convention when they hold it at the washington convention center these years well you just reminded me of philip zelikow in two thousand and four when you're speaking to a pack of former foreign intelligence advisory of course under bush who said why would iraq attack america or use nuclear weapons against us i'll tell you what i think the real threat is and actually has been since the one nine hundred ninety it's the threat to israel so here we have zelikow you know meeting i mean this is outrageous i mean how much of our foreign policy is dictated by just protecting israel how much of the middle eastern wars these perpetual wars are to protect

israel instead of this country. it's hard for foreigners to understand how can the great superpower of the united states be pushed around by the little country of israel but it has to do with jewish history it has to do what you wish influence both of the parties are very happy with jewish zionist supporters politicians have learned over the years if they cross a pack a pack doesn't forget their life in washington is going to be much more difficult so i think back to the book the israel lobby by walt and mearsheimer you'll find a passage in there where they say these are two of our best political scientists that had it not been for the influence of the israeli lobby in a pack they hate in their judgment don't believe the iraq invasion would have taken place that's how powerful this lobby is but we're not dealing with the past we're dealing with the present in the future this is about iraq this is about hezbollah this is about hamas this. palestinian state what's really going on is

a battle for control of the region and the israelis know they've got the americans on their side and anybody who threatens that is going to be intimidated and pushed out of washington sharon. about ten years ago he was in a cabinet meeting with peres and peres said something about we have to be careful you know because the americans you know they're kind to us and they know we're pushing them around and they have their own national interests and sharon said don't worry about that i can take care of the americans we have our agents there so you peres don't worry about that. you know i never really seen a head of state making the circuit rounds on corporate media and america kind of offering to his pledge for president presidential candidate which was what netanyahu was doing or for romney aside that it was really fascinating that here we have a foreign leader kind of pleading to the u.s. you know this is my opinion of who you should vote for that area but let's remember how obama was forced to genuflect which is what's going to happen to him he will

may have his views but after they get through with these hearings they're going to turn the hearings into a propaganda fest for them because they're going to force hagel to mouth all of their slogans and all of their positions of course he doesn't really believe them and of course the president doesn't really want to be pushed in this direction but in a sense they're more powerful than these temporary politicians they've been here for forty or fifty years obama made in june of two thousand and eight at a critical time when people were deciding between hillary and obama he had a private meeting in a hotel right here in washington with none other than the board of directors of a pac. that day three hours after the meeting ended a man by the name of rahm emanuel gave a press conference because rahm had taken obama to the meeting with apec and it was on that day. with apacs ok that rock switched his allegiance from the clinton's to

obama that was for those of us who followed the slings and intensely that was the day we knew that that a pact and the israeli lobby had decided to back obama unbelievable secret really in the new orleans but not so secret actually as you look deeper marc and you know unfortunately our title legions with israel as debilitating peace in the middle east really inhibiting a lot of progress there as we continue to align ourselves with a country that practices lawlessness apartheid and many other things it is tragic and hopefully your work and other people speaking out and standing up to the lobby will definitely be the first step mark brzezinski publisher middle east org thank you so much for coming on thank you so much. but if you like what you see so far go to our youtube channel at youtube dot coms like breaking the set and. or check out of sound who as well who dot com slash breaking dash dash check out our facebook page at facebook dot com breaking the set everyone heard about what i'm doing when

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it's an entire collection of garments that makes the wearer nearly invisible to surveillance with its thermal heat detection originally harvey was a photographer but in a post nine eleven world he realized that cameras were beginning to take on a new meaning they stopped becoming art making tools and instead became enablers of surveillance society according to him it was at that time that he started to experiment with how to use medians to deflect the surveillance state he first began playing around with household makeup and attempt to block facial recognition technology but in the process he began inspired to take on a whole nother tactic of control drones this is the first year that drones will be flown domestically in the united states for surveillance purposes in fact the number flying overhead is estimated to be as large as thirty thousand by two thousand and twenty while i'm sold work and i've had a close but i do want to know how does it actually work when the clothing is made with materials designed to sports thermal imaging and would shield the type of x.

rays that drones used to zero in on targets it's something that harvey says made him feel liberated when worn he says quote when i first modified my pants with signal to name fabric or that it felt odd to be unplugged it was as if i had blocked out part of the world covered my ears or close my eyes but then i adjusted and realized that i had just opened them once again. wow and must truly be an exhilarating experience to free yourself from the spying grid harvey knows like so many others know why doing this is so important he said quote data and privacy are increasingly valuable personal assets and it doesn't make sense to not protect them you're absolutely right it doesn't make sense not to protect them and if we don't take the initiative who will so thank you thank you for showing us a creative way to do so and that is why you adam harvey are my hero today which

brings me to my villain of the day so many of you have probably heard of al-jazeera as five hundred million dollar buyout of current t.v. and news station that airs across america on cable the pioneer of which is none other than former vice president al gore you know the man who claims to invented the internet i did i get so why is this interesting well because gore the world's leading spokesperson for global warming just got a cut of seventy million dollars from one of the most oil rich nations in the world guitar case you didn't know guitars a middle eastern monarchy that bankrolled the entire al-jazeera news network so we have an x. politician who makes tens of millions of dollars every year in private jets wasting massive amounts of fuel to give speeches all around the world about the danger of fossil fuels and the need for energy efficiency in the face of the looming threat of global warming furthermore this twenty room mansion wastes more than twenty

times the amount of energy as the average u.s. household does. seems like making the big bucks is more important than living true to his message in fact this apocrypha is nothing new when you learn about al gore's backdoor wheelings and dealings you know after i saw gore's documentary an inconvenient truth when i was in college i love the theater thinking oh my god we only have ten years left to live on earth but then i looked a little deeper and i learned that al gore might have a stake in the theory he was propagating according to a two thousand and nine new york times report gore invested a whopping seventy five million dollars a little company named silver spring networks which produces the hardware and software that makes the electricity grid more efficient and surprisingly the deal paid off in a big way when not too far down the road the u.s. government announced that it would spend three point four billion dollars in smart grid grants and five hundred sixty million dollars of which would then ding ding go

directly to al gore's investment company silver springs networks or how about the fact that mr gore's partnership with a startup software company harra whose profit motive set off the cap and trade legislation allowed the company to tap into a two point five billion dollar market as corporations try to reduce their carbon footprint the very same cap and trade legislation that mr gore himself rallies behind everywhere is the way to prevent us from falling off the quote climate cliff according to new york times mr gore is poised to become the world's first carbon billionaire profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in so ho mr gore for epitomizing the very revolving door politics that have made so many of us lose complete faith in the system you are my villain.

so let's talk about a subject that i covered extensively on the show surveillance although many of us might consider eavesdropping technology is a product of the noumenal and the m spine has always been a way for governments to keep tabs not only of potential enemies but the loyalty and attitudes of its own citizens surveillance today takes on many forms everything from hidden cameras are if i did chips g.p.s. tracking devices to perhaps most ominously the rise of the surveillance drone which are set to start flying over u.s. airspace this year it was congressman ed markey who hopes to limit their use said in a recent news release that quote many drones are designed to carry surveillance equipment including video cameras infrared thermal imagers radar and wireless networks sniffers but the capability of collecting sensitive information from the skies

above. congress however has ordered the f.b.i. to ease restrictions to allow domestic drones to proliferate without any of the necessary laws to protect privacy oh talk about how privacy can be protected and the dawning of the drones i'm joined now by amy's tapan of the legal counsel of the electronic privacy information center or epic thank you so much amy for coming in thank you for having me so it really seems like two thousand and thirteen as i said is shaping up to be the year of the drones flying over the u.s. i mean living here in d.c. can we expect drones to be flying over on inauguration day well the funny thing is is you probably can't because there are limits about what germs can be used in d.c. but if you look at anywhere else where people gather any other time that they're you know gathering together to protest or to do anything that's against the government you probably are going to see a drone there in the near future band simply being used by local law enforcement by d.h. . i think our lando recently orlando florida just bought two new drones to add to

its local law enforcement arsenal in order to conduct surveillance isn't secure and these are all shapes and sizes too i mean it can come in the form of something very small or or you know a large man the type flying abroad i mean some of these drones have pretty terrifying names i mean who was brave and reaper predator i mean these are all the models that are currently flying on us guys of a lot of people are used to just talking about drones abroad. and talk about you know shooting targets abroad but what are the capabilities of these drones here well they have incredibly advanced surveillance technology drones are built to conduct surveillance so they have the most sophisticated cameras available they can zoom in to just to see incredible amount of detail the numbers on your watch from flying above they have thermal imaging they have motion sensors heat sensors they have what's called automated target prioritization which means the drone itself can actually choose who to surveil it doesn't need the operator to do that just make

that decision for. it's so they they're incredibly advanced surveillance tools they may be the most certain advance surveillance tools we've ever seen in this country wow and i want to talk about what the aerospace forecasts fiscal cliff years the report online it says from two thousand and ten to two thousand and thirty states like i said before thirty thousand drones could potentially be flying overhead in this country operated from everything to police military public health corporations and the general public i mean. it's terrifying as it is to realize the capabilities of drones as they exist now i mean how do we safeguard thirty thousand flying robots potentially could be capable of something even greater scarier i think we really need what we need right now before those thirty thousand germs are launched they're going to be up in the air later this year and in the coming years we need really comprehensive privacy legislation and regulations to tell operators

what they can and cannot do and then we need a private right of action so if operators go beyond that if somebody is conducting surveillance of somebody outside the law without a warrant a corporation is using it to follow an individual or another person is using it to stock somebody that there is a way for that person the victim to go to court and say you have harm to me and i deserve to get justice against you so we need to put these safeguards in place right now before the harm takes place in the problem is is that too often we don't do that we wait and we wait with drones we have a chance to really come out ahead and i think that's what everybody's pushing for in the privacy and in the civil liberties community of course of the privacy and civil liberties what about people in the government it just seems like barely anyone is speaking out and saying hold on we need to really safeguard our privacy here i mean it's just really shocking and you know other than good you know war it just seems like the reasonable expectation of privacy is pretty much all on board at this point with the rampant surveillance online it's just like if you're just

using the internet then you can expect to be spied upon and i just feel like drones are kind of taking that out of the realm of the internet and putting them just kind of in the physical realm where now it doesn't it's just going to be everywhere i mean why are we seeing more people who are legislators fighting for privacy they know who import this is one of the great things that's going to come with the drone revolution as you may call it i'm not that may be too positive a spin on the you've got to drive over there you go you've heard technologist robotics experts say that when you take these tracking. tools that as you've said have been normally used online and you put them into the physical world where people can see them and know that they're being surveilled and they're kind of up in the air following them around that maybe there will be a privacy renaissance maybe people all the sudden realize how much they're being surveilled and how much they're being tracked and will push to reinstate that reasonable expectation of privacy we're really hoping that this is what happens as surveillance in the physical world increases and increases and we have certainly seen i mean when the drone bill was first passed that's going to allow these drones

to be up in the air the drone industry bragged that it was passed almost verbatim as they proposed it it passed right through committee nobody looked at it congress signed off on it and went into law now some legislators are starting to come back and say that shouldn't have happened do you see a few bills being proposed a couple bills in congress even more. it's more often happening at the state level state representatives in florida north dakota missouri have all proposed legislation to protect the state citizens drone monitoring so it's it's happening it's just happening very slowly and like i said we really need to get ahead of this now so we're hoping it starts to pick up because we all can't wear infrared to close the door you know we have giant lasers that could but laser. that mean obviously we do need them to really take action we have only about a minute left but i mean what you've got john brennan the guy who pioneered drone work for a broader really pioneered the bush wiretapping has kind of overseen that whole thing and really combining the two i mean how do you see the next four years with

him as cia director well one of the big problems is going to be we as a country have spoken out against other countries that conduct pervasive surveillance countries like china egypt tunisia that really are heavy into the surveillance of their citizens and it's really going to be a question of does the united states have any place to stand when they're using drones to surveil their own citizens to surveil people in the united states not only drones but fusion centers all of these other programs we're losing credibility in are against these the truths of programs and we really need to. use the bondage from thank you so much for coming thank you. so i think about it in the coming years they'll be tens of thousands of these robots of all shapes and sizes in our skies shaping an ever more welly in society so are we just going to roll over and accept our fate. better think.

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