you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean the town i know that i'm still the same really knows. the all over it so personally. it's a little worse if you're going to go right out to the. radio guy for a minute. what. did you never seen anything like the old. guy's welcome to bring that all those fat cat bankers who made headlines again for all the wrong reasons again see five former bank of america employees recently came

forward in federal court to say that they were instructed to mislead customers who are on the verge of foreclosure they said that they were ordered to give bad advice and to stall applications for loan modifications of course b. of a is the nih that claim up and down but forgive me if i have trouble believing that after all bank of america is the worst of the worst when it comes to helping people keep a roof over their heads from a robust robo signers controversy where b. of a employees sign a false affidavit is to speed up the foreclosure process yep one former employee to receptor loans even admitted that workers were encouraged to deceive borrowers about their loan status is she told c.n.n. b c quote a collector who placed ten or more accounts at a foreclosure in a given month received a five hundred dollar bonus b. of a also gave employees a gift cards to retail stores as a reward for placing accounts in the foreclosure b. of a collectors and other employees who did not meet their quotas were subject to terminations let me repeat that. bank workers were fired if they didn't push enough

families out into the streets that bank of america's true nature and the fat cats are getting away with it scot free because nobody here in washington gives a damn this day not a single banker involve in the foreclosure crisis and put behind bars until they are i'll be right here in the set. it's hard to find the real news when you're drowning in the noise of the mainstream chatter joining me to get a quick update on the top stories that should be on your radar this week b.t.s. producer amir david what you have for us today hi abbi first to iraq where the surge in sectarian violence continues since april alone two thousand people have been killed in ethnic clashes between sunni and shiites to break it down really quickly and april there were seven hundred twelve people killed this according to numbers put out by the u.n. last month in may that number rose to one thousand and forty five people now abbie that made it the deadliest month since the height of violence during the u.s.

occupation in two thousand and six and so far for this month three hundred and thirty three civilian casualties have been reported by the iraq body count project you know completely astounding amount of casualties and deaths going on in that region a mere totally under report of the corporate press do you think that it could be fair to be called a civil war at this point well what's interesting abbi is that the u.n. envoy in iraq martin kobler has really been sounding off the alarm on this saying that he believes this systemic violence is ready to explode at any moment back in may coulter said that the situation was on to acceptable saying that quote small children are burned alive in cars worshipers are cut down outside of their mosques but abby this doesn't quite seem to be getting much traction in the u.s. with the administration and the media choosing to focus more on the civil war that's taking root in syria instead well i'm not surprised at all considering that the administration will probably have to admit their role in destabilizing the country for the last ten years of course they don't want to talk about it but i mean are the tensions really. similar between the two countries well yes i mean

keep in mind that iraq and syria share of very large border with song referring to it as the fault line each country has factions that are quarrelling over very similar issues of course in both iraq and syria you have shiite leaders at the helm there are very much opposed by their sunday populations so many analysts right now are saying that this is becoming a regional conflict and that a full scale serious civil war could break out in iraq over the next year wow a lot of tensions hostilities going on the whole region america i understand you also have an update about the n.s.a. leaks yes so as you know abbi obama has been repeating the point over and over that the administration does not spy on the public without a warrant but new documents released by snowden outlined the top secret rules that allow the n.s.a. to use our data without any search warrant whatsoever it's because of the foreign intelligence surveillance act which allows for the warrantless searches on foreign individuals thought to be involved in terrorist activities but because it's

difficult to decipher between whether a phone call is foreign or domestic the n.s.a. has the authority to gather information on anyone until they can distinguish that that person is not foreign so what's the distinguishing factor for the n.s.a. to determine this while the n.s.a. has something called minimisation procedures that is supposed to make it so that if a target is confirmed to be within the u.s. the interception has to stop immediately however if the n.s.a. inadvertently comes across information on criminal activity threat to harm people or properties then that information will be kept and is fair game for the n.s.a. to store and use so basically within a. store and track anything that they deem criminal or suspicious we never know what factors are determining that at all you know what amir the administration actually just said the other day obama said himself that were supposed to trust him let's hear that. you can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust

congress and don't trust. federal judges to make sure that we're buying by the constitution due process and rule of law then we're going to have some problems you know what america we do have some big big problems there because i don't trust him at all thank you for giving us that i've been to the course savvy. or she's going to be like. what if i told you that the most powerful banking entity in the world was longer in money and that its corporate bureaucrats go to great lengths to make sure that their legal activities are never discovered or right now you're probably thinking that's not news but stay with me here the world bank is an international financial institution that's designated to help developing countries by providing loans on the name of quote reducing global poverty however the banking giant has been

accused of actually increasing poverty and keeping the third world of debt and in servitude to the first world but aside from its obvious critiques there is also blatant criminal corruption taking place at the highest levels of the financial institution one woman has risked everything to shed light on this truth as expose information that reveals the extent of the collusion between financial groups and foreign governments her name is karen hughes is she was senior counsel to world bank for twelve years before blowing the whistle is joining me now to talk about her experience and what it all means for the rest of us i'm joined by karen has thank you so much for coming on karen thanks for having me so could you briefly explain what the impetus was for you to speak out what did you see i was a lawyer and i saw securities fraud i saw financial information that was not being disclosed to one hundred eighty billion dollars worth of bond holders it was my job to make sure that the financial statements were correct so first i report. it up the corporate ladder to the audit committee when that didn't work i went to the u.s. treasury department and when that didn't work i went to the u.s.

congress senator lugar wrote three letters to the world bank saying don't fire this lady and they promptly fired me this means that the u.s. congress does not have the information that it needs so they stuck with the problem after i was fired three senators asked for a g.a.o. inquiry into the corruption that i was reporting at the world bank senators lugar leahy and by. walk us through what exactly you know where was this money being laundered to whom the money was going every which way because anybody that reported misconduct was fired so in one case the borrowers were being over overcharged in another case i was reporting corruption in the philippines nine hundred million dollars worth of money that should have gone to fight poverty in the philippines instead went to a corrupt man lucio tahn who was in default on his loans philippine national bank

went into default there was a run on the bank philippine that. the investment company tried to bail out the bank for five hundred million dollars and then the board was lied to and my story is about trying to uncover the cover up the cover up went all the way to congress and then it went to one hundred eighty eight. ministers of finance so this is corruption in the entire world and until it's set straight what we're going to have is we're going to have a currency war. so you think that this was just a microcosm of what's happening across the entire institution you just saw one aspect of this kind of longer it wasn't just me there's a group of world bank whistleblowers there's one of us from the united kingdom there's one of us from mexico there's one of us from india there's one of us from ethiopia and we're all reporting the same thing corruption from top to bottom of that institution that money is going every which way but where it needs to go to

fight poverty and so you said that you were kind of stifled and you went to the government and you had a couple senators on your side congresspeople what if the corporate press you said that you continuously tried to go to them with the story to cover it and you were shunned as well absolutely and the reason why i found out it's because the corporate press is own by one mega conglomerate all of the financial institutions in the world just about are part of this scheme to rip off everybody every single citizen on this planet that's what i'm talking about and it's not just my idea there was a very accurate report on this from the federal institute of technology in zurich switzerland three mathematicians looked at accurate corporate data on forty three thousand transnational companies and they reported that through very clever interlocking corporate directors these groups managed to grab ten times the power than they otherwise had in their finances so they own forty percent of the assets

of all of the companies traded on the capital markets of the world and they own sixty percent of the earnings for every year this means that the central banks for the world are issuing paper money with absolutely no accountability to the people who are using this money and pretty soon in a matter probably of weeks. whole system is going to come to a screeching halt with something called gold backwardation well let's back up a little bit because i mean basically there's no oversight over these institutions aside from laundering money plainly they're also laundering money offshore hidden in these bank accounts offshore bank accounts i want to talk about how much power the banking system really has over geopolitics i mean you just broke down that all these people are kind of interlocking would you say that they control the government as well absolutely what i have documented is state capture i tried to have information go to the voters before the presidential elections because robert

selleck was mitt romney's national security transition planning chief c.b.s. wouldn't report it if the voters don't know who they're voting for i ask c.b.s. to have a question on international corruption they figured the american public didn't need to know so if the if the public doesn't know what's really going on then you don't have you don't have a democracy and that's what we're talking about can you name any names of who you think are the real power players here because i know that you know if a little bit of digging can really reveal who these people are they're kind of pulling the strings here what you need to do is you need to look at the ownership of these corporations they're the ones that we hear about all the time goldman sachs you were talking about bank of america. they are actually all one day that's what happened when we saw the library crisis these institutions are one

big conglomerate that think they control the world and they think they're above the law and they're not. what are the guys of the i.m.f. and world bank kind of looking back since you served as so long into this institution what do you think about kind of what they present and sell themselves to be entire world i mean the whole structural drosnin policies keeping the third world perpetually in debt i mean dude that's just an entire ruse to maintain their profit structure i think these are institutions that if they're cleaned up can do a lot of good they can provide a basis for a peaceful transition it's very clear that we need we need to have some regularity in our international financial system we need to we what we certainly don't need is a currency war and that's what we're on track for unless and until we start to get to the bottom of this corruption and it's very simple actually to do because most of the people know that the corporate media seventy percent of the americans in

a recent gallup poll distrust their media because it's owned by these bandits care and direct of why do you think that whistleblowers such as yourself obviously exposing this matter of massive corruption within these financial institutions are not incurring the full wrath of the state as we see it some more like out of word snowden r r bradley manning. that's a very interesting question i think it's because we have the people behind us and enough people know about us and because we're working together but i have to say that i'm very curious as to why the media is now covering erik snowden i'm worried that this is to get people riled up when what they really need to know is that i have told all of the ministers of finance i have told all of the governors i have told all of the state attorneys general i bought a bond and i had a lawsuit one hundred eighty eight ministers of finance settled my lawsuit it's eric holder who's holding up the settlement of my case all i want tonight that we have some criminals in their government karen thank you so much for coming on we'll

definitely follow in your case and and covering as it did. hopes karen he does former senior counsel at the world bank created thanks for having. print take a quick break right now but stay tuned to find out why people in brazil are really protesting if you hint more than just bus fares. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charging welcome to the big picture. i was a new alert animation scripts scare me

a little bit. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news into. alexander's family cry tears of joy at a great thing that has ever read at a court of law around alive is a story made for a movie is playing out in real life.

at least one death a dozen injuries have been reported in connection to a string of protests that have erupted and spread to over one hundred cities across brazil what began with just a few hundred peaceful protesters marching against a price hike to public transportation has evolved to a greater call for government reform as the mits of well over one million people have now taken to the streets in a groundswell of unrest of the country hasn't seen in over twenty years as a response brazilian president dilma rousseff has called off the proposed

transportation hikes but so far the move hasn't called the dissent despite the fact of the vast majority of demonstrators are average citizens unsurprisingly news reports and only paint a picture of angry mobs violence and police crackdown so what exactly is happening in brazil one activist group another name change brazil put out a video countering that narrative. usually international news outlets like to report what is happening down here they might do so the same way the national media is doing it now they might to trade the protesters as criminals and many of those in the us it is of extreme importance and the truth reaches you before the age of the recent uprising this story in brazil is not an act of one lawrence of violence and it is not a virtue of his name so this is the result of what happens when the society is forced to put up with the ludicrous no since a call last night are created only to benefit the law makers themselves what ludicrous laws is he talking about while one has a proposed law that would limit the oversight of the primal that i buno fedorov the

country's highest court which could severely hinder the state's checks and balances however the main source of the frustration seem to stem from the fact that much of the bill for the upcoming olympics and world cup will be fronted by the public purse yes the country is preparing to build twelve new stadiums one of which will be the largest ever built for such a tournament its price tag alone is expected to cost one point two billion dollars . in a country with a high as well as brazil a growing number of citizens are lashing out against the government for using taxpayer dollars for a one time sporting event instead of things like education and health care and while we're on the subject of stadium construction check this out reports of surfaced about people in slums and low income neighborhoods near stadium build sites being forced out and having their homes demolished sometimes with no notice of the question at all in fact up to one point five million families could be losing their homes before the world cup kicks off next year so it's becoming more and more clear that the unrest is not just about bus hikes that the government

helping the brazilian people not brazil's image. of veterans right now in the u.s. is bleak nearly one in three homeless people are veterans of the promise education and a post military career three percent of iraq and afghanistan veterans actually graduate college but most disturbingly although less and less troops are actually deployed there shockingly still dying in droves by taking their own lives yes veterans suicide is now an epidemic at the rate now surpassing those dying combat could endure report released by the department of veterans affairs earlier this year a veteran now kills himself every sixty five minutes on average so what factors are contributing to the exponential growth of military suicides to explore just that i'm joined by michelle cornett subject matter expert on military suicide at the

center for deployment psychology thank you so much for coming on michelle thank you so what main factors do you think are attributing to this increase in suicide. well it's a very complicated issue and we have to remember that service members and veterans are also civilians and in some respects that the risk factors are similar. so you know. things such as being a single person being childless i'm having other sorts of precipitating life stressors also put service members at risk. one of the phenomena that i think has been a little bit under addressed is the fact that we now know that most individuals who die by suicide have not been deployed and furthermore of course have not had combat history and so there are other factors at play and we're still learning what some of those are do you think that that might be building measure because i was talking to a veteran who said that the military has not admitted that they contract the combined numbers of active duty is reserve national guard and veterans who have left military service so how can that be measured about that more who are killing

themselves have never been deployed is that an accurate measurement well this is the source that i'm citing right now is specific to active duty service members having said that we now also have additional data. on veterans i can't speak necessarily to their deployment status or not indicating that veterans are at roughly twice the risk of death by suicide that was a very based on a large scale epidemiological study do you think that this speaks at all to the climate of recruiting people into the military kind of preying on people who have a propensity for mental illness who are kind of facing this desperation where they really don't have a choice maybe have bad family homes lives already and they really join the military because of that well we certainly do know that people join the military for a whole host of reasons very wide ranging some do join the military because. of a desire to get support with college or to escape a bad living situation but it's extremely wide ranging we do know there is data out

there suggesting that actually service members at baseline are healthier than civilians at baseline the other possibility of course is that or the other factor i guess is that we can't necessarily assume that service members are being honest with us when they're screened you know if someone really wants a career in the military or they really want to be deployed they may not be entirely forthcoming about the mental health history. i would imagine also just the stress that goes along with maybe thinking when you're about to go to war seeing your friends who maybe train alongside of coming back badly burned or with limbs lost maybe that could attribute as well below one of the p.t.s.d. obviously a main factor that leads to suicide do you think that p.t.s.d. is beautifully actively addressed right now. i think a lot of resources are going to the p.t.s.d. and we actually had our center i have my subject matter expertise in suicide not p.t.s.d. but there have been a lot of resources both in the v.a. system and in the d.o.d. and i can tell you that at the center for deployment psychology we have specific

evidence base that could therapy training is devoted to military mental health providers specifically on evidence based treatment for both suicide and p.t.s.d. i want to pull up a salon article from last year that reported that army officials were actually under pressure to not diagnose p.t.s.d. in an effort to save money do you think that that's a rarity you do have about a common occurrence here save money in what respect i'm not sure i mean that's what the army official is saying to save resources for the military to maybe you know administer help or medication or there would be. you know i really don't think that's probably in my experience i was actually with the v.a. prior to coming to c.d.p. and in my experience. i didn't find a lot of support for that i'm not sure what the article is based upon i can tell you that there are other factors that made lead individuals to say under-report or providers under-diagnosed say for example in a combat setting when you said before you mentioned that you know there's other factors of just civilian life of just

a normal average citizen maybe you know single families or divorce rates or or children problems about do you have a stat that compares the suicide rate within the military to just people in this country or you get a better understanding yes and so actually historically we've known that that with respect to active duty military folks relative to civilians they've actually had a lower suicide rate over time that changed in about two thousand and nine and for the first time the active duty suicide rate exceeded the civilian suicide rate and i want to play one clip from an army veteran discussing what happened when he tried to reach out for help while he was deployed his name to the mccord. was going to get made fun of. but i didn't expect for. i mean just the out right like. i hate my way. anyway he laughed at me in. said i tell you what if you go to mental health you're going to get charged with. and. layering. so i'm not trying to

i'm not trying to get out of my job i just need to go and need to go talk to somebody. and. somebody call your wife talk your wife. go to mental health you can be charged with get the sand out here. and soldier on. you know this is a huge problem as i understand of people who are already to harass i mean can you speak to this kind of culture that prevents people from really wanting to reach out and seek help this was an active duty service member yeah i mean that's what we just observe i think is very unfortunate and unfortunately does happen sometimes i do think that the military culture overall is shifting relatives to say what it was twenty and thirty years ago but obviously there are still examples of leadership and commands who are still working to get on board. i mean i can't i can't speak to that shift and if it should be doing it favorably then how come we're seeing the suicides increase i mean what's being done right now to address the epidemic many

things have been done to address the epidemic particularly since two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and so i was actually with the v.a. system at that time with both v.a. and essentially initiated a large scale program to address suicide in the military and among veterans and so for example in the v.a. system there are no suicide prevention cord meters and whole clinical teams at every v.a. in the country the other. piece that's happened which is i think particularly exciting is now the one eight hundred crisis line for suicide has a particular option for service members and veterans and so by pressing one they get tree to someone at the candidate i was invited over where they are immediately around maybe they could have speak to someone outside of their room exactly outside of their chain of command and then they actually can get connected with services in their local area if they're felt to need that and want that there actually are quite a number of things that have gone on and again as i mentioned at the center for

deployment psychology which has been around since two thousand and six we have been in the business of training both military and civilian mental health providers who provide mental health treatment to service members and it's really quickly i just wanted to say you know do you think it could be just a lowering of morale just because of the wars have shifted i mean now we're kind of fighting wars in a different. the way the enemy is not really definite we have about twenty seconds left yeah that's certainly one possibility and i have heard people talk about the nature of the mission changing and the mission becoming less clear and higher is starting to rotate your mind sergeant said that they gave so much of a shot i appreciate your time ok thank you thank so much you guys that wrap it up here in d.c. have a great weekend we'll see you back on monday. well

joe over to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture we've just learned that the u.s. is officially charged edward snowden with espionage but what does that mean for the twenty nine year old who's allen hamilton analyst who still had not hong kong really actually been prosecuted or could he receive asylum in iceland about this and more tonight the big picture rubble and with no end in sight for global climate change what can we do to prepare our communities for disasters as dr michael mcdonald in tonight's conversation.