big dog four legged robot that can climb hills or cheetah a robot that can run at twenty nine miles an hour and most lifelike pet man humanoid robot that can move around like a human and detect chemical leaks so what the hell is one of the biggest internet companies in the world doing purchasing these spooky cyborgs all telling me google's keeping tight lipped about its intentions but keep in mind the corporation has a newly created secretive robot division and it's that it will honor the contracts of boston amec previously had with the u.s. military great so i guess the real question here is why should we trust a corporation that holds so much of our personal information to develop absurd war machines for ethical purposes after all we really want private companies and in up with robots that can do this.

i don't know if i'm ready for google to have a private army of iron man and let's break the set. of the police. it was a. very hard. line that are stacked with the terrorists there.

there is absolutely no doubt that there is a mental health epidemic in the u.s. military in fact in two thousand and twelve alone there was a shocking fifteen percent rise in the suicide rate from just the previous year but at least nowadays being neglected by the department of veterans affairs and being pumped full of pharmaceuticals doesn't compare to the insane method of treatment veterans used to receive for p.t.s.d. severino their brain stem yup last week the wall street journal published a stunning report about a world war two era government program and valving mentally ill vets from the late one nine hundred forty s. to the early one nine hundred fifty s. v.a. doctors performed forced the bottom e. nearly two thousand veterans who have been diagnosed as depressed to psychotics and schizophrenia casually on people identified as homosexuals and although this practice was known in small medical circles at the time this dark stain on america's past had been largely forgotten until now according to medical journals that documented these procedures these low bottom use were sometimes used when

soldiers exhibited signs of what today would be called p.t.s.d. these brain operations would often give the veterans seizures and motor function lost every virgin back to small children in some cases even lead to death but as disturbing as the concept of love bottom izing human beings against their will may be this revelation is only a microcosm of this country's gross history of an ethical human experimentation take for example one of the most well known human research projects and cold just a few years at the v.a. performed these veterans the bottom means the cia began a program with the stated goal of influencing and controlling the mind the agency use unwitting us and canadian test subjects to carry out mind control experiments using psychedelic drugs hypnosis sensory deprivation verbal and sexual abuse and torture these experiments took place in the course of two decades and involved the compliance of at least forty four different colleges and universities. or we can

point to the infamous to stevie experiment which involved the us public health service injecting deadly syphilis into role african american men who thought that they were receiving free health care. believe a bully this went on for forty years and wasn't stopped all the way up until the one nine hundred seventy three it took up until one thousand nine hundred seven or for victims of this despicable cruelty to even receive an apology from their own government jump forward to a couple decades of work and rational report issued by sen john rockefeller revealed the department defense had intentionally exposed test subjects to mustard and nerve gas radiation and psycho chemicals for at least thirty years. the list goes on and on from operation paperclip to be intentional spraying of chemicals over communities unfortunately we don't ever learn about these things until much much later so the real question is what sort of human experimentation is going on right now we don't know about and if this is the way our government treats its own

federal what makes you think gives you. a second thought. if you've grown up watching t.v. like me and you already know that diamonds are forever and they're girl's best friend in fact to be hard pressed to find a female doesn't have diamonds doesn't wear diamonds or doesn't want diamonds but the giant diamond corporations look at advertising campaign is masking a horrific and deadly reality of how these diamonds are retrieved from their oftentimes the method of extraction leaves a child slavery mass armed conflict and even death you know calm blood diamonds for nothin but what you're also not hearing is that diamonds are actually not rare at all in the hole would they be remotely expensive if it weren't for companies like the beard. that have

a monopoly on mining and because of this to bear is able to hoard at the rocks and create a completely artificial market the reality is that diamonds are valueless stones have been propagated in the global culture as a rare unless you're buying a certified non-conflict i mean it's almost impossible to know whether or not the worthless rock in your ring was brought to you at the cost of human life that's why the international community has an act of the kimberly process a mechanism aimed at cutting the flow of blood diamonds earlier i was joined by alan martin director of research and partnership africa canada to discuss the current state of the diamond trade i first asked him how the kimberley process came about and if it's doing enough to curb the violence surrounding these gems. are. very valuable they're very small they're very valuable in the very easy to move across borders and that means that they are best friend and she the reason why you . became one of us today is because rebel rebel movements ten years ago fifteen

years ago were. minute nice things often. with companies such as to be yours and mining centers you know who are trading centers and who happened to look even elsewhere they were quite happy to have you start in this without asking many difficult questions. so if you really think about the cost of funding a civil war for example you go to places where there's a movie store there it's asian or even to get you to buy it but maybe forty seven four hundred bucks if you would be if your trading diamonds with a couple million votes that's that's a lot of if you're forty seven if your bio mother was and what countries do you see conflict diamonds being produced the most and what makes these places more susceptible to conflicts funded by mineral extraction. it's important to point out at the onset about how folks like history. or. related to that conflict

ten years ago when he was created it was done largely versus as a response to civil wars and angola with jonas savimbi and also charles taylor and for the same bono period and sort of the oh. these were rebel groups that were funding civil wars with the help of diamonds. now ten years later if you're looking at. bio and the diamonds of i mean what i actually do see either state actors or private security companies who are responsible for those those human rights abuses so one thing that is being calling out for the last several years is this broadening of what the conflict i mean that's an issue that is the kimberly process the united nations considers to be a conflict diamond right now all the some cells with or are abuses perpetrated by a by rebel groups. certainly is something that should be continued to to be part of the definition but i think that it's. you know more responsible thing would to do

would be to actually include. and respond to rights abuses by private security companies and. state security forces good point i think that's something that people take into account when they're looking at the conflicts diamonds are often called the resource curse can you talk about why despite the great economic promise of these resources there usually turn and put into two different uses. so you see this with a lot of lot of minerals not just diamonds gold. for example in them but of all of the farm bill perhaps the biggest the biggest been rushed out of there with the gold you also. things that essentially go into things like buckley's and computers and digital cameras even much anything taking technological they know runs on like old tin tanks maternal and those are all minerals in the. place like clothes

you know see how our state bodies are corporations made to comply or held accountable if it is discovered that their extract in an hour selling conflict minerals aside from the kimberly process that is being very tough actually example to you can be against. countries like brazil which the slope of africa going to is also being made to to bring itself to the concerns but if you are going to like venezuela which is one of oil or some other which is being. under if you review between two thousand and nine and two doesn't happen. the press the worst human rights abuses since the process started. in some i was curious that they have perhaps up to fifteen a pretty percent of the world's. supply by production not all you but by production . and that buys you better. to process it so it's a consensus based organization or initiative so all you need to do is find one

friend to two to be on your side who start a consensus decision on something and bob's your uncle i won't wear diamonds but i know a lot of people really love them and you know this christmas what advice can you give to people to buy them and know that they're not going in a conflict that men. should question i think that a lot of times. the onus is as much on on the consumer as it is on the on the jewelry company itself who you know the jury company has a responsibility to to ask questions and do due diligence on who's supplying it with stones i think the committee process itself is no longer the. kind of guarantee that i think most people most consumers have a ride on since that seems to us in the movie so i think if you're a consumer certainly ask questions about where it's from and what kind of things that the drug. new job to do due diligence thank you so much alan martin director

of research partnerships africa canada appreciate it but you very much. after the break you guys are talking off these i met at the guardian to break down the extent of corporate espionage among global activists stick around. unexplored and talk to go what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. which is why now i only go to the dog show. and enter into. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. i used to be a bureaucrat. so you seriously. want to venture as a way to this mysterious land where do they live want to the east and want to be

actually doing it on top to go. much if your advice is centered around the negative aspects of american food culture sample mindful eating social eating our voiding of snacks how much of an influence do you think these american culture has on the rest of the incredible. succeeded to things with me and the world the psni. the food they did all the countries worldwide the. the . in the post snowden age it's no surprise that governments extensively spy on

activists all around the world. live in a corporatocracy it's not too much of a leap to assume that corporations are conducting their own surveillance on activist communities see a new report by the center for corporate policy has not only confirm this but as expose just how far reaching corporate infiltration of activist groups really is the report also outlines the private public partnership formatter intelligence agencies and state governments to provide legal protection for corporate c.e.o.'s to care and espionage while subverting the democratic process amazingly according to this report as many as one in four activists could be a corporate spy and what these spies do once they get on the inside is unconscionable dirty tricks and crude hacking tapping blackmail and even the undermining of legitimate research and science on behalf of their corporate paymasters. of the crisis on civilization and investigative journalist for the guardian wrote about the recent report in an article titled the war on democracy he

joined me earlier to break down the report and how corporate espionage ties into the potentially cataclysmic environmental crises we face today i first asked him to explain a program called in for guard. which is really interesting because it is this partnership between the f.b.i. . the u.s. department of homeland security and a whole range of very large private companies many of. basically fortune five hundred companies and it's something like i mean the figure in the report was twenty thousand but actually it's. an old figure it's more it's approaching thousands ago thirty thousand to thirty thousand very very large corporations in partnership with the f.b.i. and this partnership basically involves them basically feeding information into the f.b.i. . and what they want the so basically. get involved in. terms of espionage in terms

of intelligence activity so it's no surprise. range of various leaked documents and other kinds of information that has come out of the last year or also shows that the f.b.i. has been systematically spying. and systematically helping corporate entities to spy on. civil society groups occupy wall street activists spied on organizations like greenpeace have been spied on and the pretext unfortunately has been terrorism they've actually used the specter of terrorism to justify some of these operations but there was a an investigation by the office of inspector general in the u.s. department of justice which looked into some of the f.b.i.'s practices over about a five year period in relation to these organizations and they found out that actually there was no justification. in any way resemble terrorism there was no threat of violence there was no criminal activity but in fact this investigation

condemned the f.b.i. and said that they really shouldn't have actually open these investigations and continue these investigations that he again is speaking of justification to how is how is this legal and what does a vacation is the u.s. government using to share classified material with these giant corporations and furthermore what is this kind of partnership doing to the democratic process. well you know this is the thing for the legal justification we hear the same old mantra as you know of national security everything can be justified on the national security but as you know we've kind of become come to realize that nauseum now this justification is no justification it's all in fact what we see is that very very fundamental human rights and civil liberties fundamental laws of the u.s. constitution of being systematically violated in the name of national security but what we're seeing with this kind of corporate espionage is actually national security is not it's. fake it's not it's not the public interest that is being

protected here it's the very narrow vested interests of a large number of very powerful corporate entities which are increasingly encroaching it seems on the authority of the state and interfering with that i mean we've got to the point where cia active cia offices can actually moonlights and sell this overseas to a corporation and if you look at the existing mechanisms of accountability to inspect you know what is the transparency what is the accountability for this process is there really isn't any oversight actually so effectively you've got this situation where hedge funds by corporations can hire these guys and basically get them to do what they want it's truly astounding to say the least that is i mean i don't know i'm surprised it just keeps getting worse and worse and i'm sure corporate c.e.o.'s are inherently evil and i'm sure in their own minds that they're

doing the right thing nothing is how do we get c.e.o.'s in the tangible facts of their policies well i think one of the issues is when you have a complex you know large company which is only goal is essentially maximization of profits and the people working there you know they're just on the job even the c.e.o. is maybe you know he sees this is what his job is his job is to make sure that this company shares go up that the profits of maximizing the revenue goes up and then the next quarter or whatever it is now when you have that kind of incentive it's very very narrow any kind of anything which would challenge that namely you know democrat democratic action by civil society groups which may damage the reputation of the company or expose some of the questionable things the company is doing which is bring to light scrutiny all of these things could be seen as dangers now when you when you have you know this kind of revolving door situation between u.s. corporations and. u.s.

state where you know people who are sitting on boards are also sitting on boards of think tanks and also involved enough to security that's when the lines become very blurred and vested interests you know because. public interest and state interest in this ideology of power begins actually to confuse the two and of course you know you have people who are probably have people who maybe are fairly machiavellian or just doing things for their own interests and don't really care about the public good either and that can create a very toxic mix so i think what's what's necessary here is one you know activists need to become more savvy about what happens when you get involved in activism and the dangers but also there were a number of very interesting recommendations in the report by the sense of across parts of for corporate policy i don't want the world getting congress involved congressman to possible legislation and you know so obviously there needs to be more lobbying to see in that sense but at the same time also i think activists need

to be a lot more aware of security issues and how they can protect themselves against this kind of speed or just kind of intrusion we need to be more tech savvy. more cultures of how we can actually make sure that this kind of activism is not subject to very easily. intelligence agencies all. getting involved in on duty kind of looking at what is going on so i'm glad you brought up kind of how everything's interconnected here because of course the crisis civilization does point out very lucidly and your article the same article that you wrote you also talk about how the same corporations that is conducting this corporate espionage are largely responsible for climate change nothing is that when you write let me grab that quote here just last week the guardian revealed that ninety of some of the biggest corporations generate nearly two thirds of greenhouse gas emissions and are overwhelmingly responsible for climate. change duffy's why is

the burden of this issue on the consumer rather than these and massive corporations absolutely it's it's a major imbalance and i think you know i think i don't think it's right to just kind of say it is just them i mean obviously consumers do play a role we all play a role in this kind of you know in this industrial juggernaut that we live in you know we buy the products we watch the programs you know we are we are complicit in to that extent so we have to acknowledge that but at the same time you know it's doesn't make sense when you look at when you look at the tiny number of corporations who are responsible it's ninety corporations the most powerful corporations in the ward response of. greenhouse gas emissions you know i do it isn't just about consumption is also the fact that those companies are. dominating the airwaves that dominating consumer culture and they are the ones that are making the most benefit out of it so you know there is an imbalance there and even though we should recognize the role of the consumer we also have to acknowledge the

overwhelming role of these companies and that's very worrying because there is recent research that has just come out in the last week which i wrote about today in the guardian which just shows how devastating climate change could be in terms of its impact its social consequences economic consequences. by the national academy of sciences has just put out a range of studies peer reviewed studies which show that the impact of droughts the impacts of water scarcity the impact of agricultural collapse as well as the today makes in diseases and things like that could all be interacting and that they could actually have a worst case scenario global impact which could be very very devastating for societies including. north america the most studies kind of emphasize you know the role of developing countries or poor countries but i see this study says. europe in

north america could be really really badly affected by some of these impacts so that just highlights that you know even if we don't you know even if we kind of just turn a blind eye and say well it's the company's fall in the day you know we're the ones who are going to face to face the brunt of this and it's the these companies are going to continue doing what they're doing so we really do have to start thinking about innovative ways we can challenge these companies in the way that they do things yeah and here we are still arguing about whether or not climate change is a real nazis i mean it's happening right in front of us i just think that there's so many people who think that environmental regulation and vitamin reform will somehow inhibit their personal sovereignty and it's really just beyond that and we really need to start talking about solutions here let's move on to those innovative solutions how can we take back this planet for the benefit of the people of the land and create a system that's harmonious not combative with nature yeah absolutely i mean the people who are skeptical of you know what governments are doing in terms of environmental regulation no i sympathize with them because the reality is is that you know if you look at what president obama for example was pushing through only

is a highly inadequate. but actually you know a lot of those policies do benefit large corporations a lot of those policies are about you know creating a big call them bubble that will benefit you know the energy industry so there is reason to be skeptical of the way in which government and corporations are exploiting climate change for their own interests as well as using it to empower themselves further whereas what we really need is a decentralization of power and we need fundamentally as you mentioned land which is really important we need to really look at who is it that control owns and controls the world the planet's resources and it is these tiny minority of corporations we need to find a way to equalize the situation how can we get to a position where we're actually it's the public that is able to have a stake in how energy how water and how all of these things are used. we have to have to have a fundamental shift. now in our consciousness. of what we what we see

is important in terms of you know what our values as human beings what do we see as important is it basically a life of individualistic materialism or is it actually do we see ourselves as interconnected with other human beings and i see the benefit of others is the same as our benefit and i would do that part of the cultural shift is also very very important thank you so much unfortunately we're out of time there now fees are mad investigative reporter from the guardian really appreciate your insight. before i get out of here you guys let me tell you all about my twitter check out twitter at abby martin if you like what you see you can follow me there you'll find all my tweets linking to all the segments from the show including random thoughts i have throughout the day everyone to check out my interview with phyllis bennis yesterday machine breaks down the true extent of the humanitarian crisis in gaza amid the heavy flooding also please help us get a break in the set. i threw out some hash tags randomly so you can get credit on the twitter sphere like today and turning all the shocking things israel blockades

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