you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month so food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'd like i got so many i mean at such an early age that i'm. really not. the. worst for delivering the life out of it. i. want. to have you never seen anything like this until. everyone has a break in the sudden i'm having martin so last week i went to the largest protest against climate change in this nation's history forty thousand people gathered at

the national mall in d.c. to protest the government and the action in saying no to the construction of the controversial keystone pipeline the rally ended with a march all the way the white house to set a clear signal to obama despite his words action is needed to halt this project however obama wasn't there to listen because that's same day he was out golfing yes he was hundreds of miles away enjoying a long long journey is golf game on a sunny day in florida but it wasn't just any golf game it was a very special afternoon being spent with his two buddies jim crane and milton coral paired texans who also happen to be key oil and gas pipeline players that's right the same time tens of thousands of people were at the doorstep of obama's house he was buddying up with gas and oil tycoons who are pushing for the pipeline moon doesn't take a genius to see where his priorities lay and this is exactly the kind of news that turns an optimist into

a cynic so let's break the sets. let's talk about campaign finance laws shall we i know you're thinking in the most boring topic in the world but bear with me please it's very important that we understand one of the biggest reasons why the politics are such a mess today the supreme court announced this week that they'll be taking on a case regarding the limits on how much money a person can contribute directly to a political candidate or party. the case is called mccutcheon the federal election commission the plaintiffs in the case are challenging the federal election campaign act on the limitations of individual contributions arguing that this limitation is quote unconstitutionally low right because we can all relate how hot money gets when it's burning through our pockets the plaintiffs are implying that by limiting

how much money you can give you are limiting free speech yes it's the whole money equals speech argument again yes the now infamous citizens united case made the same argument this one however is a bit different because it takes citizens united to all whole new level so they go back in time for you a little bit. in two thousand and ten the supreme court ruled five to four in a case called citizens united v federal election commission the result of which remove limits on how much corporations can contribute to groups that are not directly affiliated with political candidates or national political parties this landmark ruling that made it ok for corporations to spend whatever their little corporate heart's desire to convince people to vote for or against a candidate the end product is a super pac an organization that acts as a middleman except in limited amounts of money from individual donors and corporations and using that money to influence the outcome of an election now you

might remember the absolute uproar over this court decision and fact it was one of the main focal points of the occupy wall street movement overturn citizens united take money out of politics you know common sense ideas that everyone agrees with look there's a reason why campaign finance laws exist in the first place and limits the amount of political influence the super wealthy elite have in this country guys it's called leveling the playing field giving every voice in the political spectrum a chance to be heard oh but that would mean giving third parties a chance in the game and we all know that the two party dictatorship doesn't play well with others. folks limiting campaign spending is nothing new in one hundred four after president roosevelt's election charges were made against him for accepting corporate contributions and to quote the public's concern over the matter he said this he said all contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be barred for a bid in by a law that in

a probation of this kind would be as far as it went and effective method of stopping the evils and corrupt practices. what resulted was the first banning of corporations from funding federal campaigns under the one thousand no seven tillman act and that ruling stood until citizens united and in fact was actually reinforced when challenge in one nine hundred seventy one with buckley v vallejo where the supreme court not only upheld limits on campaign contributions but also required full disclosure of all campaign expenditures however in recent years we've been introduced to a foreign notion that money is speech and the more you have of it the more you'll be heard but there was still a been very thin glimmer of hope after citizens united which brings us to this most recent case. the federal election commission the case can eliminate that hope to represent the last in line of limitations against the corporatization of america

according to law as it stands today remains illegal for individual donors to contribute more than one hundred twenty three thousand dollars during a two year alexion cycle and no more than twenty six hundred dollars to an individual candidate according to federal election commission. u.s. court of appeals ruled in favor of applauding the spending limits this however could go all out the window now that the supreme court has agreed to hear the case the plaintiffs when campaign spending limits are gone probably forever so ask yourself are you willing to sit idly by as your voice is forever silenced by someone else's screed. there's nothing more unnerving than seeing the collusion of the us military and our leading edge acute educational institutions and no i'm not talking about programs like the r o t c i'm talking about something that's

a much more pervasive and disturbing this spring yale university will welcome a brand new training center on its campus. that according to the yale daily news will coach u.s. special forces on interrogation tactics you heard me right yeah i was going to host a campus center to teach military personnel how to detect lies and as disturbing as that is it gets worse because guess who the guinea pigs are in this experiment immigrants. and why the chiefs like high interest head in the project so that he hopes that by having soldiers practice this interrogation technique unquote someone they can't necessarily identify with that they'd be better prepared for the real thing so how does a partnership like this even form in the first place and what larger problems does that pose to talk about all that and more i'm joined by our t.v. producer rachel curtis thank you for coming on so rachel you were actually in correspondence with themselves so you've been kind of investigating talk about what

exactly this project in the hills really briefly yes sure so dr charles morgan is a psychiatrist as well as a professor at yale and he essentially asked for a grant from the dia de that was received it's a one point eight million dollars grant that's going to establish what's called the center of it for excellence of operational neuroscience and essentially what that means is that they're using something called modified cognitive interviewing so instead of torture and it is much better than torture uses psychiatry techniques to essentially trying to draw out of people things that would be useful for military intelligence so let me give you an idea of what that's like it's essentially using these people skills so the idea is to make someone feel really comfortable you might ask them about their memory and then in order to determine whether that's actually an accurate. they're telling you you would say oh if you if you heard that gunfire for instance what did it sound like you know kind of use people's senses to draw out exactly what their memories are to determine whether or not they're

telling the truth so even though this sounds much better in again it's better than torture i think something that's very telling about it is that this program is going to use different it's kind of like an interdisciplinary program in some ways for these green berets better than torture why is this going to university i mean to use these methods great good for you that's a question anything's better than torture but at the same time i mean first of all let's talk about the immigrant because this is really shocking to me i mean this is this kind of an insult to an already vulnerable the community to use them as pawns in a military experience so. there are two things there the first one is that dr morgan very much defends and he says that essentially i have a great relationship with the immigrant community this is what he told me and the people who are taking part in it are volunteers no that's true these people would be paid for their you say you actually get paid more if they end up tricking the green berets than they do if they you know are the person telling the truth or if they don't trick them i think that the bigger question here is the idea that you

know just because they're brown or because they're different they're somehow analogous to people you would find everywhere else around the world and this isn't an idea that was also brought up in the yale daily news editorial the idea like just because they're not white and first of all that's making the assumption that all of the all of the soldiers are white and then all of the other people or others you're saying that oh all these people live the same way like if you if you meet say in el salvadorian man and learn how he lies suddenly you know how an afghan man lies it's it's a bit reductive and insulting though i do see why someone would say listen a culture that's different from your own it's valuable to communicate with them but that doesn't mean just because it's a. little out and certainly is and you don't know i mean there's been a lot of issues in new haven it already in terms. you know town gown relationships and there's there's no saying it could exacerbate it it certainly insults a lot of people and let's get back to the point at the beginning which is you know

yes it's not torture it's a different method but this is happening on a campus i mean this is a university and the global university right that's where you top ten universities in the world so first of all has it been a any opposition to this on the campus and whether or not you're pro or anti military does this raise questions about the purpose of the universe in the first place we have a minute i totally i totally think that it does and this is what a lot of students have been concerned about they're saying listen you would never allow you know the brazilian military to train on their campus why are they allowing the u.s. military there aligning themselves with the u.s. military taking money from them and essentially training them this is something that's concerning if you look at things and something that some yale students brought up with listen military intelligence no matter how you get it is used toward strategic global ends and these are things that we don't essentially know what we're getting into beforehand so immediately say yeah with the u.s. because we happen to be on u.s. soil and we're getting nearly two million dollars from the u.s. military we're with that i think that a lot of people are concerned about that there's certainly been

a few petitions to say going to at least let's talk about it a little more yeah i mean the much transparency about the issue so people are saying whoa whoa you're just going to have there's enough indoctrination as it is going on at universities and for this to this project going to lend itself the u.s. military for those and goals is definitely there called a question thank you for investigating and bringing the subject to light ritual perseus aren't you producer you so much. so if you like we see so far check us out at hulu dot com. there you can watch the latest episode like yesterday's show which features. realities scroll through and watch every show since the middle of december so favor us comment on how we're doing on blue dot com breaking their take a break from my pre-teen but stay tuned here with the latest from the next.

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trying to hope for a shelter today. let me let me i want to know what all let me ask you a question from. here on this network is where we're having a debate we have our knives out. but if you give this right to spank staying there again we're in a situation where b. and i don't agree to talk about surveillance me. much too much to do so if you just received anything like just cut. cut cut cut. just last week when most americans were happily celebrating valentine's day were mourning and an uproar over

the death of a sixteen year old hussein. who was killed by security forces in a protest that marked the two year anniversary of the uprising that according to the center for human rights al-jazeera is just the latest victim in a harsh crackdown invoked by the monarchy the centers newest report titled two years of death and tensions reveals a significant uptick in death by excessive force in the government by methods of tear gas direct shootings and torture and beating. believe it or not since the arab spring erupted bahrain has seen one of the most visceral and brutal government responses to protests but you wouldn't know it by watching the corporate media as this issue has been largely omitted despite the u.s. has said commitment to democracy in the middle east so what's the story we're not getting and might the crackdown undermine the proposed negotiations between the

government and the opposition talk about all that and more i'm joined by brian cooley director of the human rights defenders program at human rights first thank you so much for coming on brian thank you for having me so you've been on the ground multiple times and behind since the uprising talk about what you've seen is the situation getting worse this is direction is not getting better i mean the real intensity of crackdown was february march i personally thousand and eleven but since then the protests haven't stopped and nor has the violence the government response the government is still not held any senior. member of his of the cabinet responsible held accountable for the torture in the killings that have gone on the police are still using excessive force and political trials are still carrying on now there are other human rights violations but these three key things really haven't changed and really need to change if there's going to be some sort of political settlement and let's talk about a aspect of that which i mentioned earlier the tear gas is shockingly the number one that may. that of death how is that i mean can you elaborate on on the brutal

tactics that are being used so typically what happens is that there is a protest in one of the villages outlying the the capital and these go on most weeks and sometimes several times a week the police appear not to be guarded or controlled by any limitations on how much they can use or even how much to or where they can use it and so you have to toss of death one is directed from a take us canister where the police get so close to people and fire the tickets kind of this that the impact of the the culture itself can kill people and in other cases of course just by breathing in in a confined space people can die from that it's very difficult to determine the exact numbers of people who have died from tear gas because people maybe have an underlying respect three problem babies very zero people but certainly we've seen dozens of deaths which are attributable to tear gas and there seems to be no regulation about how the police use it we've seen the police far into people's cars into homes when tear gas can be used if used properly accompany used legally but

really in a in a wide open space to disperse rights is not to be fought in some people's houses were to be fought in such a short ride to kill somebody out right length range i mean let's talk about the opposition that is forming in the house formed arab spring or is it fragmented unify what kind of groups are we looking at here that are protesting the king so there are several groups and one of the. largest one of the fact is a political society and it along with some of the others has gone into a new dialogue with the with the ruling family and with other parts of the. political scene in bahrain the problem is that several of the key leaders are not at the table there it was president obama in two thousand and eleven in may two thousand and eleven he says you can't he told the bahraini government you can't have a real dialogue when parts of the peaceful opposition are in jail and those parts of the peaceful opposition still remain in jail. and i'm not at the negotiation table so it be too early to dismiss the dog as. see or is not producing anything

but it's very difficult to see how it's going to produce a solution when so many people in bahrain really have allegiance to and follow people who are not at the negotiating table. and what is the king done so far i mean yes he's reaching out to negotiate now i mean has he done anything to appease people in the last two years so in july two thousand and eleven there was an attempt at a dialogue it looks worryingly similar to what we're saying now in that it was a lot of talk but really nothing emerged from it he did appoint a commission all five independent human rights experts to look into what happened in the early part of two thousand and eleven headed barney gyptian international human rights expert sharif press uni and. at the end of two thousand and eleven in november these commissioners produced a report publicly to the king and said look what you human rights organizations like human rights for the others were saying is by speech true your security

service is arrested thousands of people hundreds and hundreds of them killed several of them and you need to do something about it. the king and the ruling family promised they would do something about it but they really haven't done very much they've been some paper reforms there's a new police code of conduct we've seen some agreements. with the international committee of the red cross allowing them into prison but the fundamental things that i spoke about before holding government ministers responsible for what happened before at a senior level dropping politically motivated charges getting control of the place and stopping and using excessive force those things really haven't changed and of course accountability will be will breed the trust necessary to really get this country back on track i wanted to talk about kind of a bizarre story that was when a fire in the alternative media but behind the government paying p.r. firms for favorable coverage could this be a part of the reason why we're not seeing more about bahrain on the corporate media . the growing government certainly hire as many expensive p.r.

firms to put its point across i actually think that it's not doing. much of a great job if. the bahraini government would be looking for a refund from the p.r. firms because you asked people who don't know much about bahrain. or what they know is a country which targeted and tortured its top doctors because they treated protesters hold international media the truth about it in fact some of the the western media text me very good about this the new york times in the washington post have covered bahrain pretty consistently and pretty credibly so i think that yes of course he deserves more attention that it's getting hasn't been totally neglected i don't think that despite all the money that people have any government has given to the p.r. firms they really get their money's worth let's talk about the government because yes even though it's eating out. and some of the media really certainly absent from the political dialogue with our government amidst the talk of spreading democracy in the middle east i mean it looks like we're behind is on a map because i don't think a lot of people realize how it's maktab in the middle sorry arabia iraq iran

a really tiny country oil does flow through it it's also home to the u.s. navy's fifth fleet how much does its geography and oil play a role in this. it plays a role although it's very difficult to i'm sorry you happened to live in the wrong in the wrong country where you live is so critically sensitive that you can't expect the same rights as people who live somewhere else in the world either your insights is the same human rights as people in other countries or we all know and to say well it's just a bit sensitive you'll be unlucky in even the place which hosts the fifth fleet or you live in a place which is so class the saudi and seemingly threatened by it on we call do much to support you all calls for democracy where as we can in egypt or in libya or in syria or elsewhere. is obviously double standards and people in bahrain see that so either the us is consistent about human rights across the region across the world or picks favorites and the problem is over the last two years the u.s. is being seen to have been taken some favorites and really hasn't pushed for

democracy and human rights in bahrain as it has in some of those other similar countries will doesn't be interesting to see what unfolds if the opposition does indeed grow thank you so much brian toohey director of human rights defenders program for human rights first and. you know i was having a pretty great day yesterday and i saw this concert video from general dynamics one of the leading defense contractors in the u.s. about their new micro drones that are about to hit the market. might grow in their vehicles or. who play an important future war for the urban battle. calls for tools to increase the war fighters situational awareness you can pass city to engage rapidly precisely and with minimal collateral damage and they will be integrated into future air force layered sensing systems these systems may be

air dropped for hand launched depending on the mission requirements. i'm sorry that that plane just shoot out a bunch of little tiny drones terrifying really there are by and so these micro air vehicles are m a vs are designed to deal with urban battlefields with the rapid precision the question is what urban battles are military fighting that they need this kind of creepy technology and for not shooting these things down there about this big. small sons of him a beast allows them to be hidden in plain sight once in place and then they be taken into a low powered extended surveillance mode for missions lasting days or weeks this may require the end maybe to harvest energy from environmental sources such as some light or wind or from manmade sources such as power lines and vibrating machinery.

hidden in plain sight on missions that could last two weeks powered by the sun or power lines and deduce that will terminator look in pigeon my god or what would be rolling in his grave if we can figure absurdly dystopic reality we're about to be living in their small size is not just to linger undetected outdoors it's also gain access inside. small size an agile flight will enable lemay bees to covertly enter locations inaccessible by traditional means of aerial surveillance multiple way maybe each equipped with small sensors will work together to survey a large area the information from these sensors will be combined providing this swarm of them a bees with a big picture point of view. maybe these places are not conducive to traditional surveillance methods because it's supposed to be illegal to surveil people's homes without a warrant and also how frightening is it to think of a swarm of these little robots coming out you in

a dark hallway nowhere to run nowhere to hide they see all they communicate together offering this big picture image to whoever sitting on the other end of the screen can anyone say minority report because this is literally what this country's turn into and if that isn't chilling enough sit tight it's about to get worse. something maybe is maybe securely for this will come as others may be used for target or tech sensitive. individual and maybe these may perform direct attack missions to be equipped with the capacity to chemically combustible payload explosive says. wow so if the surveillance fails then these many robots can and will set up explosives chemical agents and even as fascinating human beings i've used to reckon

obama the same person who has targeted the execution of a sixteen year old without due process genie that's comforting but does it make you feel safer knowing that this technology will soon be in the hands of our military and defense contractors the same defense contractors that rape and kill with impunity but will these any of these really be used everywhere in the future of warfare. maybe peace will become a vital element in the ever changing more fighting environment and will help ensure success on the battlefield of the future unobtrusive pervasive lethal micro air vehicles and capabilities of the future war fighter unobtrusive pervasive and a lethal so welcome to the brave new world kids and watch out for bugs because the next time you try to kill a fly at my kill you first. well

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