welcome to breaking the sets i'm abby hire a lawyer one's waiting on pins and needles to wait to see if us attacks syria and on the death toll resulting from america's previous middle eastern this adventure continues to rise from yesterday we think hundred seventy rocky citizens were killed after multiple car bombings tore through central baghdad and you know what most of you probably didn't even bat an eye at that number because in the aftermath of america's imperialist experiment that's just a regular tuesday in iraq we're only four days into september and already one

hundred sixty rockets have been killed by car bombs gun fire suicide bombers or i e d's according to rock body count dot org and this past july the country saw its deadliest month since the height of u.s. occupation with more than one thousand iraqis losing their lives month after month incessant violence has relegated each individual death into a sea of statistical anonymity to be forever forgotten by the country most responsible and the best part well we're getting ready to do it all over again tired of this vicious cycle yet we come to the right place to go break the set. the please please take it very hard to take. the trip. lightly that he ever had sex with her right there no.

such. utter utter utter. to me. that. i've talked a lot on the show about the emerging technologies that have contributed to the overblown surveillance state we now live and everything from are if i do chips and made these to miniature flying drones that mimic insects there are too many innovative spying technologies to count they're being employed by a whole host of government agencies and corporations but there's any glimmer of hope it's from looking at the other side of the coin the counter surveillance technologies that are being created to reverse this trend is a mere david explored just that by taking

a look at how it is surveillance might just be taking fashion by storm take a look. when some people think of anti surveillance gear they might think of this the one and only tin foil hat headgear was thought by some to be a shield from electromagnetic fields a tool that could prevent the government from reading their minds but even though the tinfoil hat concept didn't quite pan out it hasn't stopped a desire to find new ways of shielding the public from the government's ever expanding i. just take stealth where a new line of apparel that implements anti drone technology. into clothing the collection boasts three garments each designed with a metal eyes fabric that protects against the same thermal imaging surveillance used by you a.v.'s it's a technology creator adam harvey says will revolutionize the way we think about what we wear. something that opens the door to bringing

counter-surveillance into fashion. trying to create the future of fashion that i would like to see that's right anti surveillance meets fashion a collaboration that's starting to gain widespread attention with another harvey creation going well beyond clothing it's called c.v. dazzle and it's camouflage from computer vision it works by combining makeup and hair styling to throw off facial recognition software they show recognition software typically focuses on a small triangular area starting above the eyes going down to the chin which means to thwart any camera you probably have to look something like. this is an innovative idea that's caught the eye of one miami artist who's using you tube to teach the public just how it can be done we all know that cameras are monitoring us at all times so i wanted to get you this make up to tauriel as i get to teach you how to avoid being facially recognized. but it's not only

camouflage makeup taking root other face hiding techniques are trending on the runways just take a look at some of the world's top fashion designers benon who recently used turkish inspired disguises for his collection or martin mars yellow who displayed full out ahead in casing masks in his designs it's an emerging fashion that's no surprise to a nice upon of it who says it's all over salt of the country's growing surveillance apparatus people are looking for ways to get around having their rights violated having their lives kind of films twenty four seven so it's a natural extension to move from this very privacy invasive technology to privacy friendly solutions specifically in the commercial market so with the government only expanding its use of visual surveillance this fashionable privacy gear might be in heavy use sooner than you think amir and david r t washington. talk

a little bit more about these emerging technologies and where the demand is coming from i'm joined by b.t.s. producer amir david a mere i'm a little bit surprised to see so many this technology is being developed right now why now why is there no one really drones are going to be over here not a couple more your people are just starting to see the surveillance apparatus grow you know we've seen it grow ten fold obviously we know at this point by the year two thousand and twenty we should expect to see thirty thousand drones flying above head that's a kind of crazy number to grapple with drones are just so commonplace these days in fact they're so common we have little gadgets that they're selling at you know sharper image and brookstone that people can just fly for is like a household gap. and facial recognition software both in the you know. by the government and being used in the private sector on top of that you have companies like google who are creating google glass this is basically giving you a third eye that you know with the sole purpose of spying and recording everything that's in plain sight and people that are on the other end of that have no idea

that they're being recorded so i think that people are really learning about these technologies and starting to wake up to the fact that it's it's going to challenge their civil liberties yes and i think it's awesome as the n.s.a. becomes more of the public conversation the public dialogue and that's really great that we're seeing people who wouldn't normally be involved in the public discourse be taking the initiative with as you mentioned special surveillance make up which i thought was really all you put on them. but people who are interested in getting super glammed up with make it. a little too funky for the majority of americans but it's not in the united states yet but in japan the national institute for informatics has basically developed this new privacy visor and it's still in the beginning stages but it basically works by emitting near infrared infrared lights that confuse facial recognition software the cool thing about it is that they're easy to put on right there so excessive will just throw money your face there's not a lot of work and the like we can show this is actually this is actually the

recognition i touch on in the story but the goggles are super cool because the light doesn't affect the vision of the person wearing them and also it's only disguise disguises the face from cameras not from people so to the human eye you're going to look the same so it's kind of a cool device and. there are no really really crazy futuristic looking besides what you can wear though i also heard you talking about a device called off pocket yes this is a new accessory and it's supposed to launch next month and it's made by the same person that wants to see the dazzle and the where is adam harvey and basically. it works by using specialized metal fabric that blocks pretty much everything a box phone signals a box wife i have blocks a g.p.s. all internet connections i mean i don't think that people realize that your phone is trackable it's traceable and even if you turn it off there are little methods the government can use to still sort of track you so this is the way you just throw it in this little pocket and then it's off the radar completely and this is i think

going to actually really gain a lot of traction that's amazing usually want to have more access more you know ability to get on wife i am. not trying to block it but in the age of surveillance the i mean it's amazing do you think that we're really going to start to see people really integrating these technologies that with everyday wear because it seems like there's still a little bit out there it does right now and i think for the sort of the majority of americans they think this is not going to gain traction but i think it is though the reality is that you know as drones are becoming more pervasive security cameras they're growing by the thousands in multiple cities you know social networking is sort of starting to incorporate facial recognition software so as these sort of technologies become more sophisticated so will the counter products to them and so i think they're going to become more popular in the and in the coming and as it becomes more fashionable to be buying and the surveillance and process of liberty and hope we will see that taking it by storm and really

infiltrating the mainstream thank you so much david really appreciate it so we. can see the headlines now nobel peace prize winning president jumpstart to world war three now in case you have no idea what i'm talking about here's just a taste of the incessant propaganda that's being forced down our throats. we believe very strongly with high confidence that in fact chemical weapons were used and that mr assad was the source we cannot afford for hezbollah or any terrorist group determined to strike the united states have incentives to acquire or use chemical weapons. the syrian regime's actions risk eroding the nearly century old international norm against the use of chemical weapons from a national security standpoint to send

a very clear message to those who have weapons of mass destruction of any variety. that. forget about using them you know i feel like i'm having deja vu because there's something about this a record that just feels so from here it's almost like i've heard it before. it is up to iraq to show exactly where it is hiding its banned weapons lay those weapons out for the world to see and destroy them as directed. nothing like this has happened we have first hand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails in a matter of months they can produce a quantity of biological poison equal to the entire amount that iraq claimed to have produced in the years prior to the gulf war there is no doubt that saddam hussein now has weapons of mass destruction there is no doubt that he is amassing

them to use against our friends yes apparently of the establishment things that were so stupid that will just lap up the exact same talking points used for the iraq war well they could have just replaced the word iraq with syria and called it a day however now the stakes are much higher iranian leadership has already said that a u.s. strike on syria would result in a counterattack against israel and israel while they have a huge stake in toppling assad as a way to destroy hezbollah and hamas thus further weakening the wrongs influence in the region as first obama seemed to happy to attack syria without any rational pro bowl but now after some outcry is administration is putting up the sham of placating the people there by going through the democratic motions. even though kerry said obama has the right to attack regardless of how congress votes so this week was the beginning of the charade of deliberation on the helm. really happy to hear that some of those fervent war hawks took the debate seriously enough to put

away their video games. but no one has been beating the war drums harder than secretary of state john kerry being the best propagandist he can be kerry's given more to pull impassioned speeches about assad's chemical weapons arsenal. and i believe as president obama does that it is also important to discuss this directly with the american people. that's our responsibility to talk with the citizens who have been trusted all of us in the administration in the congress with responsibility for their security you know mr secretary i agree with what you're saying but that's not what you guys are doing at all see right now support for intervention in syria is actually less popular than congress which says a lot when you consider unpopular congress actually is but i guess having one hundred percent support from the defense industry trumps that news the nine percent support from the american people and what about the syrians well sadly the bloody

civil war has so far claimed over one hundred thousand lives but suddenly the time to act is after an arbitrary red line has been drawn in the sand. with our own eyes we have seen the thousands of reports from eleven separate sites in the damascus suburbs all of them show and report victims with breathing difficulties. people twitching with spasms coughing rapid heart beat spotting at the mouth unconsciousness and death this is the indiscriminate inconceivable horror of chemical weapons this is what does appeal to emotion much you know for a second there i thought kerry was describing the horrors of the night raid in afghanistan or drone bombing in yemen because really what's the difference in how your innocent child dies so according to kerry there are thousands of reports

proving the assad regime used chemical weapons reports of course that we can't see but what about the reports that i have seen that say the complete opposite like how the u.n. said that the rebels were previously using chemical weapons or that the saudi intelligence community sold the rebels chemical weapons so forgive me if i don't believe your good word at face value mr secretary but i think it's more than fair that you present the hard evidence you claim you have the american public have for all we're the ones paying for the cruise missiles you plan to drop over damascus but that's right all this evidence you have is classified i mean really the bush administration at least cared enough about us to present falsified evidence to the u.n. so what else did kerry have to say. so the primary question is really no longer what do we know the question is whether we we collective what are we in the world

going to do about it it matters that nearly one hundred years ago in direct response to the utter horror in the humanity of world war one. that the civilized world agreed that chemical weapons should never be used again and it matters deeply to the credibility and the future interests of the united states of america and our allies you know man kerry you just don't seem to get it the you wes uses chemical weapons route taken lightly and modern warfare whether it be white phosphorus or depleted uranium in full lucia so what gives this country the moral authority to be the world's policeman on the matter. and you're asking what the international community is going to do about it let's do a quick call shall we the u.k. america's partner in crime which together doctored intelligence to invade iraq doesn't even want anything to do with this war they you when you said yes to the

libya debacle has said it would be illegal to strike without approval by the security council and wouldn't you know it france seems to be the only country backing unilateral action so i'm confused if freedom fries are french fries again what are we going to start boycotting fish and chips. but seriously we're waiting for people that don't represent us to vote to kill syrians to show the syrian regime that killing syrians is wrong. look eyes one thing is clear this war is not about terrorism if it were this country wouldn't be financially backing al qaeda to topple assad it's certainly not about chemical weapons or humanitarianism. is that really just a coincidence that there always seems to be manna tarion crisis in countries at the us military and its corporate darks have yet to conquer. you tell me.

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dot com. if. well that is the beating of war drums about syria's conveniently distracted us from the n.s.a. spying scandals going on right here in the u.s. thanks to whistleblower edward snowden we're learning more and more about the back door policies being employed in the name of national security just last week the colossal intelligence gathering apparatus was exposed showing an overblown system that has grown astronomically since nine eleven in fact those documents also

revealed an enormous black budget that fit fifty three billion dollars and most notably the n.s.a.'s operations have grown by over fifty percent since two thousand and four what is really going on here why is a government that claims to be broke continuing to bolster its intelligence apparatus and provide some insight on this i'm joined by the man who sparked national controversy back in two thousand and five when he exposed the n.s.a. was engaging unconstitutional wiretaps of american citizens the original as a whistleblower rest his thank you so much for coming back on thanks for having me so russ the last time you're on you gave extremely explosive allegations that i have so far not heard picked up by the corporate media about that you had in your hand orders to wiretap then senator barack obama just as the leos senator feinstein you've also speculated the wiretapping orders came from vice president dick cheney former vice president cheney why do you think that he would be ordering those wiretaps. well initially it probably had something to do with politics at that

point or whatever they wanted to do with their adventures in iraq or whatever else they were doing. but it sort of trend sort of moved at that point into you know not only democrats were being wiretapped but republicans were being watched and then i even saw. the president's own house secretary. scott mcclellan i think was his name so it seemed to just sort of germinate into something much more and then ultimately i don't know for sure but it would almost seen that it got to a grand scale. it was not just a political you know sort of venture or something that would be used against a political opponent do you think that he was vetting candidates at all that would inherit the policies do you think that anyone in the bush administration is still kind of working behind the scenes or as you said has it just morphed into something so much greater entirety. so i think when i saw justice alito. type information i

think because that was i if i recall that was kind of late two thousand and five and that was towards the end of when i had access towards this information i think that was the vetting candidates and apparently judge alito was one of the candidates obviously when he was because he became the justice to be chosen so in that respect yes the fact that barack obama was wiretapped literally before he became a u.s. senator. kind of gives me the indication that apparently because of his speech at the democratic convention in two thousand and four that they realize he was an up and coming up and comer in the in the democratic party and decided to go after him i always thought was really interesting how he was barely anything and all the sudden he's just skyrocketing now being the president and states basically having absolutely no political history really in the senate. you've talked quite a lot about the potential blackmail here does anyone else agree with you that that has working the n.s.a. and you seen any evidence at all to back up the fact that this is indeed the case.

well i mean i still have friends that work inside of n.s.a. and we've talked over the years and i don't think any of us are at a high enough pay great to determine that so it's speculation on our part i was told by a very senior person in that essay that originally the wiretapping was directed by the vice president vice president cheney. after two thousand and five we really didn't have much access after that point because things started getting really crazy with us and the justice department you know the what. china did us a and i had them on me twenty four seven for quite some time after that so it was very difficult so i really i can't keep a definite answer on all speculations going after someone who's worked with in the industry for so long run you've also said that you speculate the intelligence community is really running the show here based on what you found out and seen are you suggesting that it's clapper alexander who's really running the country i mean

who really do politicians answer to. well politicians are supposed to answer to their constituency in the people that's not the case. but let's suppose that happened. but if we have a if we have an instance where the intelligence community can basically have dirt on whoever they want. they can basically back the candidate that they have the ability to have sway over and like i said i don't know that that's happening for sure but we saw barack obama as candidate obama say a whole lot of things that he was going to clean up the intelligence community that certainly didn't happen and it seems to me the intelligence community has gotten whatever it wanted from barack obama do you think they're answering to. themselves in the intelligence community. if if it was the intelligence community would be the upper echelon of the intelligence community it would be the clappers and the alexanders formerly the hayden's and the power brokers inside the intelligence

community would be pulling the strings at that point. why isn't the n.s.a. being held accountable for anything and you just said that they're you know they are running the show of course that's obvious but you know you wrote some really interesting today talking about how the corporate media fits into all of this and why the n.s.a. is on able to hold itself accountable just want you to elaborate on the corporate media you know if you look at who owns different corporate entities or the media it's quite often these corporations have a lot of business that they do with the government and i've also come out and. and said that the media and journalists the news organizations were also spied upon by n.s.a. . i knew one of the reporters that i was initially talking to james runs and i knew when i was talking to him that his phones were tapped so it meant that i had to be very careful what i said. so i remember that's at the point where n.s.a. tried to put the crazy stamp on my forehead so that no one would believe anything

that i said they did that on purpose so are you suggesting that the n.s.a. is also potentially blackmailing members of the corporate media in order for them to have access that they do. i think i don't i can't say that for sure but i think journalists now and if you were to ask james rise and he were to answer that he would journalists have to be concerned about what they're doing and then alternately being hauled in front of a grand jury to give up sources or themselves go to jail that is something that's happening right now so and then you have news organizations that are corporate entities ultimately control what they will or will not cover and it's scary to see them centrally echoing the political establishment line and when they're supposedly you know these independent corporations. let's talk about why you you said that the n.s.a. and the f.b.i. were kind of on your back when you were coming out and initially why is it that you

have not been charged with espionage. well i was very careful. when i communicate with my sources we have a no electron policy so we don't use phones we don't use computers we don't do any of that sort of thing and the documentation we have we review and we destroy immediately so. we don't go to some canadian you know encryption site to try to communicate with whoever because we know that's very dangerous as thomas drake so it was so we know what to watch out for we know what we're doing and we know that they cannot make the nexus between me or my sources and unfortunately that's the way we all need to act right now with this retroactive prosecution and the blackmail thing as i really terrifying concept russ thank you so much for coming on breaking down a little bit more of your story russ tice former n.s.a. intelligence sounds my pleasure. i think you guys thanks everyone at home for tuning in and billy's come back to break this all over again in my.

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