hello welcome to serbian carillon shevardnadze and i could a government shutdown default threats and. it is a bobber and that has made the world question yet again how all the major mechanisms affecting the global climate to make sure that it's possible. to task and then has it ever been there or has it all a little. governmental.

currency wars strike threats despite as you searches for these conflicts have plagued the world. in times of technical progress and the overproduction of humanity lives in poverty and neglect well the internet is a most powerful and helpful tool it's turned into a global civilians device and another conflict zone what makes good things bad is that completely out of control or is it the meddling of the few who are weaving it to guard their own interests. and our guest today is another national security whistleblower and no it's not edward snowden and i was mark innovates and he joins us from the american city of minneapolis mark it's great to have you on our program today so the drama in washington what was it is a comedy or a tragedy. i tell you what it's really disturbing to refer to what's happening in

washington as a joke and on behalf of all critical clear thinking americans i want to apologize to the rest of the world poor our. circus clown college and congress and only the american congress could pass themselves on the back and break their elbows for kicking the can down the road instead of actually doing their job. and delaying this for another three months on an issue that they should have handled a couple of years ago. there is now of default this time but only for now the root causes are really going away and neither political nor economic dontcha think. well the situation that we're in actually there was a default and we went into default in may and the treasury department actually started dipping into us government pension funds to make up for that deficit so you know all of these things are really scary and i think that you know we would

have to take a look at these issues as if. what would be the consequences for the average person if they were to you know pile up their credit card debt to the point where they can't afford to pay their mortgage and going to get another credit card there has to be some type of resolution to all of this nonsense from an economic perspective because you know i'm i think the first thing you do when you're in the bottom of a hole is stop digging. mark why is that every traffic bill it turns into an axis tensional crisis for a congress i mean beforehand congress was somewhat able to make more pragmatic decisions you know come to an accord but now it's all about life and death struggle . well because the concept of social control being best managed through fear predates christ from a political perspective and so in order for there to be fear so that

one may have social control you have to have a crisis you know people oftentimes refer to me as saying mark you know you're so negative and that's because we have a new crisis every week that we need to deal with and the way that we end up dealing with these crisis is piling them on top of each other and nothing ever gets resolved we need to you know hold our government officials accountable to the rule of law to the constitution and you know and i want to thank russia today for having me on because the media is such a big component of that and tragically americans find themselves the best entertained people on the planet and the least informed but i think that that tide is turning people are starting to understand the use of propaganda and being a little bit more selective i'll be honest with you when i told people that i was

going to do a program on russia today you know people were saying well why would you do that you know you're going to look like a commie and i said tragic you know listen you need to broaden your perspective you need to find a news source or a news service that doesn't just tell you what you want to hear you have to be critical you have to you know think about what they're trying to sell you when they're talking about the news and you know what becomes news here in america is whether teen actress named miley cyrus sticks or tongue out and gets more naked and there's a three hour program on c.n.n. . well thank you very much for being so positive about russia today but talking about narrowing things down or broadening them american democracy is narrowed down to two parties and even then the congress fails to agree on things is there

a better term than democracy to describe it. feudalism i guess. democracy. you know we're the united states of america and we end up coming down to to having a choice between two pre-selected candidates who spend the most money. and look at what use transpired with a with our country and our government with regards to you know every six months. debt limit increase or it's the fiscal cliff or it's a staring any there is always something to be afraid of but at this point in time when we look at the television and see these two teams bickering and fighting back and forth oh you know i'll be candid with you. when i have a mental image of american politics i see two warring factions of chimpanzees

barring their teeth and screaming at each other and waving and flailing their hands about and throwing feces at each other you know that's who bats were at and we've got to get back to being a beacon of freedom a beacon of democracy of beacon of common sense that american debt looks increasingly insane with no improvements or even signs or desire to pay down i mean where wasting us going with it. well you know that's a situation that we are afforded being the having the luxury of being the international reserve currency of the world and what that should become a certain responsibility. and there have been periods of time where. governments have been the international reserve currency of the world that you know pretty world war two is united kingdom before that it was spain it was before it's portugal and you know so the. country being in

a position of holding the international reserve currency is a static thing. and so what we have to take a look at is getting our spending under control eliminating useless and actually severely detrimental you know wars that we're involving ourselves with in relation to support of the military industrial complex and you know be like a responsible adult and you know pay what we owe and live within our means you know the u.s. is printing money enormous amounts to serve its financial purposes it is their national currency of course but it's also international commodity whose consequences resonate throughout every corner of the world including riots and revolts and countries destroyed economists as this is an american exceptionalism at play well. i'm troubled by the fact that president obama mentioned the

word american exceptionalism because i think that god created us all as equals and you know that that's kind of a attacked or a point that i would not have made especially. well assembly. somebody has to do it somebody has to be the international reserve currency there has to be oversight there has to be transparency and that's where the the process or procedural improvements need to be made we have a system that's broken we need to find the best in the brightest people in the united states and internationally that have the resolve to correct the problem we're off the tracks we're off the rails and so we can't go back to continually doing the same thing so you know we need to put a team of objective independent critical thinkers behind the problem and you know

address these concerns but do you personally think america is exceptional well yes i do and i think that you know we have a potential for being exceptional but again i mean do we have problems yes we do but. do we have the capacity to address those problems yes we do i think you know a sense of nationalism is something that's inherent in every society and you know that's a good thing but what we have to do is you know be grownups and understand that not everything we do is in the public best interest and rein in those people that are taking us off to the off the rails is there any valid for us and the wall system and up to this exceptionalism and this forum that we have it as of now. well the people the american people.

and the people of the world you know we we have to look at you know the internet and what you're doing here has changed so much because information is power. and the fact that you know we have so many avenues for information and sharing information and you know the fact that i really have not been allowed or nor has karen hughes nor has many people but allowed to say the types of things were saying . to the american media and so that has to change and you know that's why i think you know russia today for having the opportunity to express this opinion and say that you know. this can no longer be confrontational we're all in the same team and you know we all need to work together this is a crisis of epic proportions if the united states of america goes down you know

tragically we're going to take the rest of the world down with this so we have to look at this is a global concern after the break the life of the whistleblower and is it worth the sacrifice and the banks turned exactly are they. good leverage. was able to build the world's most sophisticated which doesn't sound anything tunes mission to teach you really should look like you should care about you and. this is why you should care. only on the dog.

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welcome back to the show our guest is national security whistleblower mark now bates came our great to have you back now you are a national security whistleblower tell us your story has your story resonated at all well. yes and in fact you know i'd like to lead off with the fact that there's a national security was a blower coalition and a senior academic advisor his name is william weaver actually advises people against being a national security what's a blower that if you do it you will be destroyed your you. go through character assassination you will lose your family you will lose your job you will lose your credibility and that goes back to the way that you can tell a society is in decline as to how they treat their truth tellers now this whole

issue of ed snowden and national security and domestic surveillance and it's basically as everyone knows to say this is international surveillance issues and concerns. i work for a company called teletech holdings which is headquartered in denver colorado. and i was illegally in maliciously sued by this company in federal court now against all odds and unlimited resources of teletext legal coffers and basically pro se i managed to fight teletext illegal in militias accusations and charges against me. when a dismissal with prejudice and i thought at the end of that term that that was a victory and it really wasn't because early on in the situation i was warned by former cia chief information officers at the teletech subsidiary i used to work for

that teletech had the capacity to tape my urge to wiretap my phones and i.s.p. and that they would see to it that i would never work again now this was a company at that at that point in time i had no idea was involved internationally and had a special subsidiary called teletech government solutions and. it was a couple of weeks after that warning that i am. actually my son found two people in the house that i presume to be you know people that were you know setting up to attach wiretaps to the phones now we know that you know they don't need that information now. but what i understood was that teletech had. friends in very high places and they would see to it that i would never work again and tragically you know that was the case in the further along i got i realized that i was on the receiving end of domestic surveillance and that this was

a government contractor and that they seem to be receiving preferential treatment and cover by the government so i did everything the whistleblower is supposed to do i went to the media i went to you know lawyers i went to then my congresspeople. on here and all over a sense am. none whatsoever i mean i handed people a pulitzer prize winning story you know. on a golden platter and i would people in the media would say oh my god i can't believe this you know what you're telling us and you know i came to them with you know everything that i'm going to tell you and everything that i've got is is public record information so everything i have is in the congressional record i'm not telling any top secret information see there's this thing called the internet that if congress and their staffers actually went to they could find

a whole lot of information so when president obama and members of congress say this isn't about spying on american citizens. that is patently untrue. and i'm you know a victim of that. based on information and belief on everything that i've gone through i've been blowing the whistle on the fact that you know the government is going after whistleblowers they're going after journalists they're going after government employees they're going after lawyers and judges and think of the ramifications of all of this if george orwell was alive today he'd do a spit take about what's going on and you know one of the points that i wanted to try to make it was just how long this has been going on and i sent you some member information with respect to you know some of the programs that the government has been involved let market goes back into the sixty's mark you're saying you're

saying that no one will hire you if you're being tapped no media will take your story are you reaching your goals is whistleblowing worth that. you know somebody has to do it and if if not me or us. then who and what i advocate this i mean was it my life more or my goal to become a martyr absolutely not i mean i had an unrealistic expectations how i would be treated by you know by the media by government officials i figured that if i went and provided all of this documents and all these information to the government officials about domestic surveillance perpetrated against american citizens that is being covered up and i was essentially told that under the patriot act it's

against the law for the government officials to tell you if you are under surveillance so that in fact my senator al franken recently commented and a c.n.n. op ed and i'm going to paraphrase what he said was that if you basically he if we told the american people what the n.s.a. was doing that congress could face federal charges for leaking information to get back to to whistleblowing do you believe people can fight back their way to know what is going on and to govern the process what needs to happen to make them actually start pushing well you know in the united states who are presumed to have equal access to the courts and equal access to due process of the law. if you can afford it and so you know the way that our i don't call it the justice system the way our legal system works it's

a for profit enterprise and so you know here i went to the majority of the largest local and national associated firms law firms and i laid down my case for them about this hostile abuse and they looked at me and in fact the i took this to the state attorney general and at that time the deputy state attorney general looked at me and said this is one of the most egregious acts of civil injustice that he has ever seen but there was nothing he could do what i want to these the variety of lawyers they looked at this and said oh my god you know this is horrible this was a travesty of justice this is you know this was a lawsuit that was brought against you with no evidentiary support and this was a hostile and malicious you know attack. but they said there's nothing we can do unless you can afford to pay a two hundred fifty thousand dollars upfront retainer you know a corporation the size of teletech is just going to outspend you so you know that's

not a justice system and also you know we have a real big problem with the judiciary. and the rulings of the court so i would think that it would be in the best interest of the united states and the world that if we actually had a whistleblower protection program that was in place that afforded credible national security was a blow or sent financial whistleblowers and that's what i'm also a financial security whistleblower in two thousand and seven and two thousand and nine associated in my case against teletech i found out that there was a hotline into the f.c.c. the security exchange commission to stop or stall investigations and that this had in fact happened to me so what i want to congress and told them first in two thousand and seven. about this hot. and i showed them the evidence you know then we had i warned about the two thousand and eight financial collapse hundreds and thousands of people actually warned about the two thousand and five and nothing

happened because again your earlier conversations about their needing to be a crisis and you know the concept that i think it was a minor rothchild who said that the best time to buy is when there's blood in the streets and so we created this crisis and these bubbles you know and bubbles are built to explode and then you know we start the whole process over again but. what we need to do with whistleblowers and this was a promise that president obama made when he was a senator and when he was a candidate that whistleblowers represent the best of the united states of america and we need to do everything in our in our in our power to protect to a sublime one in fact he has done specifically the opposite and is seemingly attacked was a blowers with the blood lust and keeping things private in secret and then you know that gets back to you can tell we're society is headed towards how they attack

their truth tellers mark i want to talk a little bit about the credit crunch of two thousand and eight and consequences now with same stocks drop bailouts bankruptcies riots most agree the major financial institutions where to blame but nobody really bore responsibility for that can explain to our viewers who you see as to main player some banks tears to talk about . well you know that's the problem everything you're talking about can be fixed and should have been fixed and you know i could take a of an american fifth grader and show to them and demonstrate clearly to them that these financial crisis is were not only preventable it by all appearances look like they were intentional in two thousand and five and again what happens here. impacts the rest of the world economy and so in two thousand and five when when the

mortgage companies and banking institutions and rating agencies kohl lest together into this massive concept of fraud and were pushing these fraudulent mortgages on to people and signing people up for houses that they couldn't afford knowing that you know that this was going to be a big problem and then bundling those packages together and selling them on the international market knowing they were going to default then against the advice that they were giving their customers actually shorting the investment sense of curity is that they were marketing and promoting to their customers that were not in the loop. there was information with respect to fannie mae and the massive and systemic fraud and abuse of fannie mae but to the light i mean the chairman of fannie mae at the time was a guy named franklin raines and he ended up getting a two million dollar bonus so again tragically with president obama and.

the attorney general holder who comes from the defense industry protecting white collar criminals. they haven't grasped the concept that crime expands to our willingness to tolerate it and the fact that we're looking here and again this is tim seems to be gamed for the incentive of fraud and corruption and abuse. and until we start putting bankers in jail for their crimes against humanity. you know we're going to continue with these same problems but when we go to our congresspeople when we go to the regulators when you know when we go to the f.b.i. all things of which i have done. you know i would not only shun those people started working against me and that's not the way that the program should work thank you so much for this interesting interview that was all sorts of day we're

talking to national security was the bar mark and that makes kate thanks for being with us and we will see you next time karen sophie. splits to the syrian opposition takes a close look at the rebel group is just a few kilometers from the capital damascus it is like a state within a state free syrian army patrol in. the syrian military and. reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territory. syrian rebels.

took the sucker of the global financial system is complicate time to rebuild something better something less corrupt perhaps in fact this three architecting in the global financial system is happening right now as i speak these words doesn't matter whether you like it or not it is happening why the recent well the former french prime minister dominique de villepin recently. said the u.s. has used its three phenomenal privileges to put the financial stability of the whole world at risk. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for

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and a man spike radiation levels fuels fears of the fukushima nuclear plant as readings in a storage tank rise six and a half thousand times higher in two days. inspired by spock as a long time chief of america's embattled national security agency says he'll step down after spending months struggling with the fallout from the edward snowden leaks. was inside a syrian rebellion was rival armed brigades and civilians feeling the siege r.t. gets a unique perspective from within an opposition controlled area. just eighty kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state. where if a national say here is for.