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. it's. worse for to live through the white house or to the. radio guy minestrone. what. we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm selling. stuff you know i'm having money in this is breaking the sets all the inventor of the internet recently spoke some wise words in light of the revelations of the n.s.a.'s rampant online spying and no i'm not talking about al gore who claims he invented the internet i'm talking about certain berners lee proposed and helped develop the concept in one thousand nine hundred nine recently while speaking at a convention for young entrepreneurs he voiced serious concerns about the future of the invention he helped to create we said that the internet is facing

a major threat from government legislation and corporations according to telegraph certain said if you can control the internet if you can start tweaking what people say or intercepting communications it's a very powerful sort of power that if you give to a corrupt government you give them the ability to stay in power forever i agree with certain widespread government surveillance online and threatens the very foundations of a democratic society and as our lives become more and more integrated online we should just submit all of our personal data to the government after all would you trust a complete stranger with that information no then why would you trust a group of power hungry money driven strangers aka the us government or really says a lie. but the man is partly responsible for interconnecting the world would stress how important net neutrality is if we don't have a neutral internet where everyone has fair and free access and it will just turn into another tool for the powerful before i break the said i want to give you an

update on the story of michael hastings the journalist who tragically died in a car crash early tuesday whistleblower organization wiki leaks recently tweeted this michael hastings contacted wiki leaks lawyer jennifer robinson just a few hours before he died saying that the f.b.i. was investigating him all right so before everyone jumps to the conclusion the f.b.i. killed hastings let's take a deep breath. and wait until we get more information about what hastings said and what he knew from my end i'll keep my eyes open for more on that developing story but until then let's get to work and let's break the set. up one of the other she's going to be like. this past weekend iranians went to the polls and voted in a historic election one that brought an unexpected victory to hassan rowhani the

world watched as iran marked an official end of the era of occidental shotted and began a new one by electing a reformer into power as a moderate hassan rouhani was not initially considered one of the top contenders it wasn't backed by the leader of the islamic revolution supreme ayatollah khomeini nor the powerful iranian government elite but still he won decisively and enjoyed a post-election calm that drastically contrast to what was seen just four years prior and as a nine awkward energise when it was heavily disputed at that time thousands of people took to the streets and what was called the green movement marking the largest uprising since the one nine hundred seventy nine iranian revolution so with a new leader at the home what lies ahead for one of the most powerful and controversial countries in the world so i got all that and more i spoke earlier with trita parsi executive director of the national iranian american council i first asked him if he thinks that the latest results have proven that iran's electoral process is indeed fair despite contrary rhetoric and here's his response

. this is what the iran is the marker so what it's proven though is that the path towards peaceful change from within through elections is not closed off had there been the same type of problems and fraud frankly that existed in the two thousand and nine elections that i think a very large segment of the population would have completely lost faith that they have an ability to impact the future of their country through the ballot boxes. confidence in the arts to a certain degree has been restored by the fact that people did vote in two very large extent seventy two percent perspiration they got a result that the majority wanted and that result was not challenged by the establishment and a lot of people are looking at says yes it is a significant change but a lot of are saying wait there's still the ayatollah the supreme leader of the country and there really is no change it's mostly cosmetic would you agree with that i don't think it's cosmetic but there are reasons to be cautious about it because the power structure in iran is not such necessarily that the president does

have that type of an influence so that he can overrule the supreme leader for instance but it's also not true that the supreme leader or the i.r.g.c. are all powerful in fact i think they did quite a lot to try to avoid this result but the people voted overwhelmingly and they could not once again stand against that result so it shows power is far more distributed through the system no one is really all powerful what is a bit frankly paradoxical to be kind of regarding the argument that the president doesn't matter it's all in the hands of the ayatollah is that when the president's name was. shot then it was quite clear that a lot of people really wanted to put focus on after the and really emphasize the importance of the president now when there's a moderate person there certainly the president's position is in significant i would you does it hold how would you describe the position of the ayatollah in terms of influence over the policy i think he's ultimately the final arbiter but he's not all powerful he has to take into consideration the power balance within

the iranian and the and that power balance is affected to a very large extent by how people vote you're going to see now that with rouhani selection you're going to have people from the center who were excluded and marginalized during their years come back into the bureaucracy come back into the decision making processes and that's going to have a significant impact to the variety of views around the decision making table that harmony has to take. it's a consideration is going to change quite significantly so let's talk about rouhani he is a moderate and i think people have a lot of misconceptions about iran as a country what does a moderate look like right now in iran and where and where is the country at so ronnie is a moderate he's a centrist he ran however very clearly on a platform of trying to get the reformist vote and he won because of the reformist vote the reforms were not permitted to put on their own key candidate and one of their kind is that was on the ballots chose to withdraw in order to support rouhani

instead but it's important to understand this is a person that is a little bit more from the center but one because of the reformist votes now what does that mean in that context well i think in the context of what rouhani wants to do he wants to pursue a different approach to the outside world not this type of sloganeering and confrontational approach to what the image out seemed to have preferred there's going to be changes inside the country he is hinting or promising such as breaking the security atmosphere as he said in several of the interviews and debates will he succeed it remains to be seen but one thing i think is very clear the extent to which rouhani can move towards a more pragmatic softer foreign policy on the foreign policy front is very much dependent upon their reaction from the outside world if the outside world and particularly the west plays along i think rouhani can go further but if there is the assumption that rouhani either is no difference or cannot make any change and

we pursue the same policies from the west and as we have during the years than likely rouhani can move that far and you mentioned outwardly toward the west and kind of shift in that hostility what about the west toward iran israel the u.s. how how could things change things can change if there is an openness of realizing that there's an opportunity now we may miss. the opportunity but even worse we made this miss the opportunity by simply in assuming that there's nothing there that this person cannot make any difference that at worst he's actually worse than i mean is going to pursue the same policies but with a smiley face if we depart from those assumptions then we will by the mission not change our own position and then i don't think anything will come of it but if there is an openness a realisation that this may be an opportunity and we have to reassess our approach in order to actualize that opportunity then i think there's a chance for change and i think we've heard

a lot of rhetoric especially and bibi netanyahu is the reelection of the red line that really harsh attitude toward iran's nuclear program do you think there's a chance for more transparency about the nuclear program and also talk about what implications or what is required what is required meant for iran from the u.s. to lift the harsh sanctions on the country. the iranians want to the sanctions lifted they have so far offered to stop twenty percent enrichment hinting at more transparency which really have to mean that iran would implement and ratify the additional protocol that would give the eye for a greater intrusive inspections rights than they currently do that would be a very very significant and positive step forward if that happens so the ball really shifts back to the western court because then the question is can the united states lift the sanctions i have little doubt that there's a desire in the water in the white house to live some of those sanctions in this circus in this scenario in order to be able to get that deal problem is most of the

important sanctions are not passed by the white house or passed by congress and only congress can lift it. is congress as open minded as willing to strike a deal or a just pursuing a much more dogmatic hard line in which frankly there isn't any desire to lift sanctions but rather they want to sanction until there's like a complete defeat or a complete victory. this is going to be a significant test but first there has to be some changes coming from the iranian side that shows a willingness to take some important steps in order to get some concessions or compromises from the west crippling other things right now. the sanctions have had an absolutely devastating effect on the iranian economy most of the pain has been felt by the iranian people not by the regime and i think that is part of the reason why there is a lot of anger on the streets in iran against the sanctions there's a lot of anger against the regime there's a lot of anger against their policies and their policies who have contributed to

the sanctions but there's also a tremendous amount of anger against the sanctions particularly when you have situations in which for instance cancer patients no longer can get the. medicine etc as a result of the sanctions medicine is not sanctioned per se but the financial transactions are essentially been rendered impossible. and it's no surprise there are really secret at all that it was a fierce opponent to western imperialism i mean heaven and chavez were kind of these lone wolves keep battling against the establishment and had germany in the region could you see any backwards trend having this powerful opposition force that was kind of giving a voice to palestine in different regions and in that whole area could there be a backlash or i think the bottom lines of the iranian policy has changed dramatically in the sense that the things that they're looking for such as having a control of the fuel cycle having an option on the nuclear question i don't think

those are changing i don't think the support for hezbollah or do geo political calculations are changing dramatically however they may not be as black and white as they were on the. cover and they're not as cynical or fearful as they were in the past in the sense that perhaps there is a desire and a willingness to take a risk for a potential. when solution in all of this is important because if you're pursuing that type of a block and why its approach it really comes down to only war and peace but you are more inclined to escalate because you are more fearful of taking risks. rouhani is someone who in his talks and in his track record prides himself on his ability to make deals that by definition means compromise win win expand the pie things of that nature again can he deliver remains to be seen but i think it would be quite

a role in years to draw the conclusion that he is no different from what. i was trying to parse the executive director of the national iranian american council. if you like you say so far check this out on hulu. that you can watch the latest episode of the show like yesterday which featured my interview with fellow ghoul the increasing violence plaguing post revolution in libya and also scroll through and watch about every show you can december so favored us some color on how we're doing that through the outcome breaking news that can take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear about our pentagon black budget and how they're spending your money this year. is the united states of america a force for good in the world still the largest economy and on match military critics claim washington's to find you political interests always trump its loudly proclaimed values friends of washington are given a free pass and it means real or imagined to be destroyed and replaced. welcome to

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a portion of pentagon funding that's allocated entirely to activities that we're not allowed to know about the concept started in the one nine hundred forty s. with something called the manhattan project a program designated to build the atomic bomb at that time the u.s. government spent two billion dollars constructing the ultimate weapon in total secrecy since then the budget has grown larger and larger every year in one thousand nine hundred six the budget included an eight million dollar price tag for a mysterious project code named aurora the following year the amount for the same allusive project rose twenty two point three billion dollars right before vanishing completely from the books and although there is no certainty as to what a roar actually was aviation enthusiasts have speculated that it was the predecessor to the s r seventy one blackbird a supersonic plane that spied on america's cold war and it means money being thrown into a black hole in total secrecy. sounds par for the course unfortunately although we'll

never know what these classified programs do and tale we do know how much is supposedly beings bent on them as of this year the pentagon's black budget was cited as fifty one billion dollars the price tag is extremely important because it exposes that the us military is spending more money in secret and what every other country in the world spends on their defense budgets come by in this black budget under the pentagon is the tip of the iceberg you see this bloated budget doesn't even include the budget for the d.o.d. or the cia so. what military toys are taxpayers footing the bill for now over the most secretive of wasteful projects that have been uncovered over the years i'm joined by b.t.s. producer manual it all. good so before we even get into that what you've uncovered over the years the concept of the black budget is so ridiculous because it's vacuum at this black hole we're just throwing our money into it as we just said i mean it's more than all of the defense budgets of the entire countries in the world

combined it's just amazing and we have no idea what's going on what it's been spent on that is a good theory or deity and example is my math and that's the most important point of what you said because i mean we're talking about the pentagon's black budget right that doesn't include how much for spending on the military and the military doesn't accomplish the military and intelligence program which is covert operations that are going on the type of raids that took down bin laden for example and then there's the national intelligence program that overlooks the cia and n.s.a. and there we just uncovered the wiretapping thing so i mean it's really it shows you how widespread it is and how much money goes into it is really the scary part and it dates all the way back to the cold war days and even before that you were talking about the atomic bomb and when this all started i understood i mean russia was comparable in terms of the threat to the u.s. i mean there's mutually assured destruction now there isn't that threat facing us so it's really just bizarre that we continue to grow this bloated budget year after year talk about the pogo sure this is you know we were trying to think of examples

that we could show and i wonder if we have a photograph of the program the program is an experimental aircraft that was designed during the cold war to be able to do a vertical takeoff never designed this was obviously on drugs. i mean this thing it's an airplane but it's shaped like a rocket so the you're sitting kind of facing up in the cockpit you'd have to look over your shoulder to be able to gauge how you're going to land this thing so it's it's a fluid once landed the project was scrapped but you know it was done in complete secrecy we lived you know years later or you know now it's in the national air and space. so you hear about this they wait in line and move on to darpa that no this is the eight hours you are in the hypersonic test vehicle this was last year we learned about this hypersonic vehicle developed by darpa this is under the p.t.s. the prompt global strike program thing is shaped like an arrowhead it's designed to fly at mach twenty that's twenty times the speed of sound each of these little experiments that they did cost three hundred twelve million dollars the second time

that they tried to do an experiment on this the skin that metal skin on it just ripped off in a crash into the pacific ocean into a giant three hundred twelve million dollar splash before her there were just spending hundreds of millions of dollars of our money on stuff like this you would think they want to test it and said you know what once this goes twenty times the speed of light this is going to come off and it's not going to be operable and i think the more important thing is that like we're looking at this black budget which is billions and billions of dollars you think that it would at least be for good you know you're going to you'd fly from new york to l.a. a matter of minutes and it's never for anything anything positive because that's all the empire cares about what is the f. twenty two now kind of morphed in the f. thirty five wasteful fighters or this is the crown jewel of aircraft i mean the united states touted this the f. twenty two the most advanced fighter ever built they said there was no other plane that could match it they spent eighty billion dollars over five years on these aircrafts program has since been canceled each one of these things was worth one hundred forty three million dollars apiece it was never used it's one of those you

know your jewelry your poor your pearls that are too precious to wear that was the f. twenty two it's since morphed into f. thirty five f. thirty five even a bigger waste of money again never use a ton of problems associated with it it is a four hundred billion dollars program it's actually too high profile to be black budget i threw this in there just because it's a big waste of money your government and i we have to save all the pain is what we got then pay as military toys no no no exactly no dick durbin came out just yesterday saying that if we don't cut back on what we're spending on these aircraft the f. thirty five we're looking at a trillion dollar program over the next fifty years and i mean the thing is like how are you going to get this. we're asking the question is it too big to not to big to fail too big to cut because it moves jobs and i think that the military that is the whole argument is that there's this machine and it's growing exponentially by the year and it's just accumulating jobs and wealth for people so people are actually opposed to cutting these programs because they're saying well we're going to go the problem is we need to shift the values in this country to more things that are not weapons and death and killing machines absolutely hundred twenty

billion dollars and even on the space drone yeah i got to space this is that star floating above space space aircrafts can be traced back all the way to the eighty's under the reagan administration remember star wars there was the. independent space program and under the defense department cared about traveling exactly what we care about you're going to space the space for an orbital test vehicle three we've covered this before on the show this thing's in its first mission went into space for you know two hundred twenty five days it's now in its second mission there's absolutely no information as to what it's doing out there and it's under the defense department so you know one point it was a nasa boeing air force project but then in two thousand and six it was handed over to darpa the image of it right here and handed over the to darpa and from that moment on it went completely classified so we had zero information as to what the mission is so that there's declassified documents showing that it actually is hovering over north korea at points i mean what the hell is going on here and that is this is this giant hunk of metal floating this guy we don't know if i don't but

there it is and it costs a lot of money and we put it out there oh well that's great and this isn't even to mention the private contractors and special operations that are going on with what this budget would be the number one wasteful spending is the amount of contractors hundred thousand from last week think we heard they called it like three times more than regular military soldiers thank you so much man or a low yes producer they said it. well guys right now immigration is a hotly debated topic but the bomber's dream act initiative and thousands of latinos were on the streets for amnesty and just this week the senate officially announced a compromise on how the u.s. should secure its southern border it's being dubbed the border surge plan and aims to double the size of u.s. border patrol agents while adding seven hundred miles of border fencing and

a new security plan that would up the number of high tech surveillance drones being used at the border so basically these senators are more interested in keeping people out and dealing with the eleven million undocumented immigrants already here but those senators don't compare to the politicians and influential public figures that are downright terrified of immigrants and they are afraid to show it to thousand and ten when texas congressman louie gohmert said this on the house floor . to arizona and the people the united states to enforce the borders there are people coming into this country who want to destroy our way of life terrorist cells overseas who had figured out how to game our system and it appeared they would have young women who became pregnant would get them into the united states to have a baby they wouldn't have to pay anything for the baby and then they would return

back where they could be raised in coddled as future terrorists yes folks terrorist anchor babies are being smuggled in to the border for free benefits and these unborn fetuses are keen on destroying our way of life i'm serious but shockingly other people actually agree with this insanity this week filmmaker dennis michael lynch joined gohmert on capitol hill for a good old fashioned anti immigrant rally thank you cheers to alert but we should not be giving a chance to. there are people who are coming here who want to come to cut your lawn and have a better life but there are people who want to cut your throat. you know they're working about it now i need to worry about getting shanked by your gardener guys because it's so far fetched to think that people who are immigrating to the us today are doing so for the same reasons that europeans did a hundred or two hundred years ago to have

a better life although it seems completely foreign to rich white elite a better life for many means starting from the very bottom doing jobs most americans would never do but to be fair ted cruz sees a little different things and if you're going to do it follow his dad's example get your paperwork ready and integrate the right way a wait as it turns out ted cruz's dad only got in this country because he bribed a us official damn if that's the right way to do it i hope you've got some spare bing cash on you because i doubt that was cheap but the real gem of the anti immigrant campaign has been congresswoman and mayor of crazy town michele bachmann recently bachmann gave an interview to world net daily where she looked into the future tomorrow's america. we will never again have a republican president ever if amnesty goes into effect we will propel actually have a progressive liberal president probably a democrat and we will probably see the house of representatives go into democrat

hands and the senate will stay in democrat hands so you'll have a permanent liberal progressive democrat class. own ok i get it now michel that's what this is all about it's not about bettering human lives it's about maintaining power and party politics let me give you my own prediction immigration isn't going away at all in fact it's growing so the more you chastise this growing minority the faster you and your party will plummet into irrelevance they. speak the language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p.

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