so happen to be america's partners in crime none other than the u.k. canada australia and new zealand otherwise known as the five eyes for the countries that the u.s. is explicitly working with to carry out planetary surveillance i don't know about you but i'm outraged that spies have been given carte blanche to turn global society into a system of the watched and the watchers and let's break those five guys. the league. games they are larry are to take a. look. at how to act with that hurt their little. league.

remember the world without facebook where you can go to get to know somebody by sitting face to face with them prejudging them based on their likes or snippets of the personality they choose to project now we may think that the social media site is open the world to limitless friends and information but in many ways it's close us off from each other and from ourselves in fact according to a study from the university of michigan people who go on facebook actually leave the web site leaving less happy and less satisfied with their lives no doubt facebook has changed the way people communicate to live in interact for better or for worse and this type of emotional manipulation is just a name to how social media operates but it's facebook's natural function isn't

disturbing enough turns out our psychology on the site is also being intentionally manipulated by the people behind the code and a recent study of almost seven hundred thousand facebook users a social media giant conducted a far reaching psychological experiment by altering news feeds and observing the emotional responses of its users the findings when short facebook is capable infecting its users with emotional shifts. on a massive level in other words the web site can make you feel happy or sad by simply making a few subtle changes to what shows up in your news feed and facebook is able to do this through an entirely automated system that sorts through social media communications that identifies words that are positive or negative then alters the content to fit the desired result. where have i seen that before. you're going to feel the next it's going to cost you. your.

dollars. so you. can see. now although minority report is of course fiction the technology to create personalized marketing opportunities is very very real and already been used on all of us every time we go online in fact according to a class action lawsuit filed against facebook last year the site is systematically violated its users privacy rights by not only selling personal data to companies but also scanning the private messages of their users without consent not to mention the fact that facebook routinely violates users' rights back tracking their browsing history after they log out on any sites that also feature facebook content but this experimentation story is actually far worse than the fact that your information is being auctioned off to the highest bidder as it turns out these seven hundred thousand facebook users were being tested on entirely without their

consent to one of the authors of the social media study that testing was done within the parameters of facebook's data use policy for their investigation found that this wasn't the case in fact in the study was conducted in two thousand and twelve there was no mention facebook's data use policy that users could be subject to any sort of social experimentation look i know that in this day and technological age people been conditioned into thinking that. all your information online is just up for grabs on these sites but this is not ok what facebook did was violate one of the cardinal rules of experimentation on human subjects all the companies private and not subject to government restrictions on human based testing the fact that the company is a good leaf and gleefully manipulating its users emotions should raise a red flag for us all. look one could argue that we are choosing to use this service and it is true that all of us have the option to not sign up for facebook but the fact remains that millions of individuals and businesses unfortunately now

depend on the site for their livelihood and the ability to freely disseminate information not asking everyone to disconnect from facebook but instead recognize the platform it gives us and tell the social media to stop treating us like an eighth grade science experiment. outrage over how many equality in this country has reached us and added levels and for good reason take a look at this chart showing that the poorest twenty three million americans earn forty seven billion dollars in two thousand and thirteen while the richest three thousand americans are in a whopping sixty four billion but even though the discussion over income inequality has become more mainstream it's rare to actually hear from the top point one zero percent said it right about their take on the subject let alone a multi-billionaire that's extremely critical of the system that allowed him to thrive that's exactly what a venture capital snickometer outlined in

a recent piece for politico entitled the pitch forks are coming for us plutocrats here to discuss manners peace as well as his love for plutocrats are producer tyrrell ventura what's going on a man. so i think i just said that wrong but obviously i'm at the point zero one percent and i'm glad to he made this differentiation because i think that that was a really big flaw in occupy wall street as we had this one versus the ninety nine when really we're not talking about just rich people making six no we're not talking about you know we're not talking about your average you know good story of a guy who's make six figures gets a high paying job you know we're talking about the elite of the elite we're talking about the cream of the crop the kind of you know they call them the shadow rich you know the ones who are above the wall. the one percent zachary the ruling oligarch i want to read a quote really quickly from this article is this if we don't do something to fix the glaring inequalities in this common country the picture works are coming for us no society can sustain this kind of rising inequality in fact there is no damper on

human history or wealth accumulated like this in the pit for it's done eventually come out you show me a highly unequal society and i'll show you a police state or an uprising there are no counter-examples none if not if it's one tyrrel even though i agree with them i feel like we're already living in a police state is because of the place they were maybe not seen this uprising what do you think why a guy i agree with that statement but i think that we've been living in a judicial police state for a long time i think only recently you know through actions of the swat team the amount of militarization of police abuse is it suddenly kind of looking a little bit more like on every street corner but i think this article in politico is is spot on because the wider that gap gets the much quicker in order to control the populace are either going to see a police state or the populace is going to rise up and say enough is enough you know inflation is extreme we can't afford to eat we can't afford to provide for our families so we're going to go after the people that put us here we're going to go after the people that have everything and that are taking away from us it's very you know absolutely and i think he also you know he kind of foreshadows and he says

that there can be a tipping point where the masses are going to be you know this relatively crappy status quo for the masses to basically dangerous levels of uncertainty and i don't think that it's completely unpredictable one that's going to happen it is yeah i mean you can see the writing on the wall i mean you can see it in other countries and like he very clearly stated you could see a drop history and i think the u.s. is at a very dangerous tipping point right now this is my opinion but as i look around you know occupy didn't go away and occupy is very good things very peaceful you know protests but eventually even the most peaceful approaches can suddenly turn violent vicious even though people like you and i saw you know in myself we don't want to see violent shudder we don't believe in that but in situations throughout history france or french revolution things like that one the gap between the rich and. for good so why eventually people take to the streets and j.f.k. said it when you make peaceful revolution impossible violent revolutions and navigable tyrell one also talks of the failure of trickle down economics i love the talk about this because it really is an abysmal failure and he talks about

something called the middle out economics his main tenant is actually raising the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour and he says that that will actually alleviate a lot of this inequality that we see do you agree with that i do actually you know and i'm not an economics but i'm a common sense guy and when when when a populous has money to spend to me that keeps the economy going you know yes it's important to save but realistically when you look at like henry ford and you mentioned in the article and reform when they were creating the model t. he realized i have to pay my employees who create this car enough to be able to buy the car they're creating because that keeps the circle of life going that keeps people you know buying and spending which i think is what any good capitalist economy thrives upon is buying and spending not saving savings important right but realistically we have to keep spending in and look when you're the super rich what more can you buy at a certain you want ford yeah you horrid and then you know look you're only going to buy a x. amount of pence you're not going to be there's no super risk i'm going to keep the

economy going so you have to give some back and i think we've seen that the trickle down system doesn't work because it just sits at the top we need to grow it from the middle low that's very important and yeah and you can look at wal-mart you know having all of their costs subsidized by taxpayers and he says the thing about us business people that we love our customers original employees who are and i wanted to just wrap this up by saying you and i know how hard it is to broach this kind of topic without being marginalized as an idiotic socialist but really what i love about this guy's articles here he is the top point one percent or top zero one percent are and he's saying i'm a capitalist plutocrat and i'm also advocating for a socialist policy of raising the minimum wage i mean what do you think but his point that this will be good for capitalism of course raising the minimum wage is good and i don't think it's a so. list issue look at the end of the day you have to look at how you can take care of people you know just taking care of people is not like a right or left thing it's a it's a thing you should be trying to do in your heart as a society as a as

a good whether big government or business you should be looking at society saying how can i make some money but at the same time take care of people so you know if these businesses and these people who don't want government involved don't want government taking care of people great well then let's have businesses step up and do that maybe if they close their tax loopholes and and actually charge them though and actually pay their fair share of taxes that we wouldn't have to take from other areas or fix the you know in order to raise the outrage right and wrong not let up in the right thank you so much tyrrell benatar amazing to have you on as always coming up i'll talk with a guardian journalist now he's on mad about why pentagon is so interested in protest movements stay tuned. i marinate join me. for to get impartial and financial reporting commentary

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right the settlers were strong. and i think the church. on a regular split. the military industrial complex has guaranteed the pentagon is heavily involved in many

if not most of this country's major economic and political decisions but you might not know that the defense department's also have only interested in cultural and sociological aspects of the world too in fact in two thousand and eight the dio deal launched the minerva research initiative multimillion dollar program to quote improve d.o.d.'s basic understanding of the social cultural behavioral and global forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the u.s. but according to a recent article written by guardian journalist sofie's ahmed the pentagon is working in conjunction with a major us universities to militarize social science and prepare for global civil breakdown or enough is join me to discuss the minerva initiative and i started by asking about one particular. study that set out to discover why protesters don't become terrorists. this is a really interesting study because this is where they really did blur the boundaries a lot so that really the study was supposed to be focused on looking out what are

what are the things that kind of stop peace activists who support so-called radical causes to quote the project what was stops them from getting involved in kind of crossing that line and becoming involved in some part of terrorist activity or some kind of political violence so the idea was that what they would do is is analyze normal every day kind of social movements peaceful n.g.o.s to try and understand what is what is it that stops them from becoming involved in political violence but what was really interesting and disturbing about that project is that even though they kind of said that that was the point of the research when they actually categorized these activists that they were studying they specifically categorized peaceful activists as supporters of political violence so even if you are not engaged in what might be described as to the violence if you were a member of a group that is somehow questioning the status quo or or calling into question

government policy or you know being active on the environment or calling into question corporate policies then you could be seen as a supporter of political violence so this is really what was really disturbing about this was the way in which the boundaries between activism. social movements and kind of radical causes were somehow being equated with terrorist activity or threat to national security which is really worrying and there's absolutely no grounds for that kind of conclusion to be drawn when we look at who is i've seen involved in terrorist activity what in your mind of the biggest dangers and weaponize in social science and cultural anthropological studies well i think one of the biggest dangers of course is that by absorbing civilian institute. yes into what is actually a very narrow parochial military agenda what is happening is that objective independent social science scholarship is you know on these issues is being

prevented instead what so then we have this kind of experience this myself and my colleagues in social science have experienced it where there is now this you know there's there's people or academics like anybody independent media anyone activists are you know they need money they need funding for their research now all the big money is coming from the security industry in the defense industry so you have the defense industry in effect controlling the discourse controlling the discourse and counter-terrorism on security studies on international politics these are crucial subject areas that students are going into their learning from and the idea really is that we want our students to be getting an independent and impartial understanding which can input in a meaningful way into policy which can give policy makers good tools to really understand the way the world works and make good decisions instead what's happening is we have these this very narrow agenda which is co-opting that discourse co-opting that research really you know kind of constraining it and that's where we

have this very orwellian trajectory towards controlling information and essentially determining what is what kind of truth is legitimate and what kind of truth is illegitimate right it's using these studies to exploit the cultures that you want to seize upon. the minerva program has also been used as a method for studying societal breakdowns due to climate change this is extremely fascinating considering that the pentagon is the largest polluting institution in the world why do you think defense officials are suddenly so interested in studying the societal impact of climate change well that against a very good question because as we know in terms of meaningful action to address climate change scientists across the board have been have been telling us that you know even our current emissions reductions targets are just not enough and they will. guarantee disaster not even you know even the administration's recent measures which are most welcome are still again within that danger trajectory at the same time however we've got the pentagon funding this kind of research which is

really about trying to track what are the consequences when climate change does happen how's it going to make societies kind of more vulnerable. you know the kind of extreme weather events that we've been seeing of the last few years how is that going to make them more vulnerable and what kind of planning do we need to put in place to ensure that western interests u.s. interests on damage and this takes me back to the minister your friends research so i was talking about which of course is in a very very insulated with the pentagon you know we have a special relationship here with the u.s. and the u.k. and that research is looking very much of how we need to maintain the functioning of the global economy and access to distant resources access to potentially endangered supply chains in the context of climate change in the context of all of these other kind of. uncertainties such as energy depletion or economic crisis so

this is really about how do we maintain business as usual how do we keep the system going when costs are increasing when dangers are increasing how do we also of course when that's making more and more people angry and upset and they want change how do we keep things going and how can be a proper would be aware of where those things are going to hit and where those vulnerabilities are going to hit in the future so can we can be prepared for this is actually again about empowering the existing system which is actually creating these crises rather than transforming that system so that we can somehow prevent all mitigate those crises in that city and maybe transform things for the benefit of of most of the people on the planet instead this is about really unfair and in effect this is that this is a defense manifesto for the one percent right right now exactly and on the other. when you see the establishment actively suppressing information about climate change this is highly disturbing not because you wrote an article about the i.p.c.c. which is the united nations' intergovernmental panel that releases the most comprehensive reports on climate change but according to your article these reports

actually been diluted thanks to pressure from the world's superpower countries talk specifically about how these reports are diluted and what evidence there is that this is happening so there's been a number of reports talking about how the various elements of the i.p.c.c. some summaries for policymakers have been diluted so that doesn't apply to the large body of technical reports which is like goes into thousands of pages that's not what we're talking about here what we're talking about is the summary documents which are presented to policymakers and that's supposed to obviously determine the policies that have been decided and you know what we need to mitigate climate change etc the problem is that the policymakers themselves appear to be actually influencing what they're being presented in those summaries so what we're what's been happening and yeah and this goes across the i mean there's been a lot of debate about the mitigation reports but less attention has been paid to

the out sure scientific assessments for the impacts of climate change so the article that i wrote was looking at the information that i got from a guy called david was tall who was a previously a review of the i.p.c.c. in two thousand and seven and this time around he had contact with a number of leading scientists who were involved in that process where the working groups were. with policy makers to finalize the summary and in that he said. he gave quite a lot of detail about seeing how a number of leading most very powerful countries who happen to be the countries that were most responsible for greenhouse gases and he said this with the united states china saudi arabia interestingly he said saudi arabia. actually led to the kind of push to really water down these summaries and he said that what they were trying to do was dilute the extent to which the impacts of climate change was seen to be. leading to drastic consequences in terms of the need for greenhouse gas

reductions so that was the upshot and they actually asked for the diagrams to be removed and they called for diagrams of projecting emissions to the missions trajectory over the last over the next couple of decades there they wanted that to be watered down and they also wanted detailed. data on the nature of greenhouse gas reductions that were required over the next few decades to be watered down as well so this was very very worrying and a lot of independent academics who were members of these working groups and who were giving advice that many stages of these processes actually came on the record in a number of publications. not just the guardian and actually confirmed that this was happening and they were very worried that there was a real effort here by the most powerful polluters in the wild suit essentially

watered down the kind of. policy prescriptions that might be asked upon them in order to avoid dangerous climate change it's just unbelievable that we can't even trust the u.n. to provide the severity and scope of the problem here and i feel as i know that you responded to russell brand's call for revolution i want to get wrap this up by kind of getting your assessment on what the hell we can do is it just a matter of completely operating outside the system at this point nothing is i recently interviewed a very interesting guy by the name of robert steel who has an exemplary record in the intelligence community he's a former cia case officer and he also co-founded the u.s. marine intelligence command which is one of the major u.s. intelligence agencies and this guy. basically is a pioneer of what what we what is known as open source intelligence which is effectively not gaining intelligence through through secret methods but gaining intelligence through public information public sources whether it's open research

universities or research that is how would it in some form in the public domain and using not so informed decisions and what he's argued is that most of the intelligence that is gained from secret methods is actually lost a useless as he says only three to four percent of it is actually operationally useful so most information it's asked for useful for decisions government level is actually open source and he's been campaigning for this for a lifetime and in in his interview with me he actually said that he believes that the preconditions for revolution and by that he meant a complete overhaul of the existing system is actually present in the united states and in britain and in many western countries and he based this on his graduate thesis that he did in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight he produced a very interesting kind of matrix on the on the preconditions of revolution which you can find on my guardian article which is available online and he basically said

that he believes that all we need really is a trigger effectively for you know something like lock out version of a tunisian fruit seller the trigger that's going to really catalyze people to take action but i also i asked him you know what's to prevent this from becoming you know something which is which is quite regressive and violent and you know as we've seen in the arab spring things haven't exactly gone very well over there in fact things are in many ways going backwards and he said well you know there's no guarantee of that caucus or thing but he said there's a lot of reason to hope if we look at a lot of the developments that are happening in politics and economy in ideology and information he's talked he's been highlighting to real life changes that are going on now where we've seen participatory methods opening up and a whole new. new innovations in how so organize ourselves socially how to mobilize and social media how so basically develop the kind of new ways of doing things economically whether it's big client with his bus or car and sees whether it's

using the internet to communicate with each other he's pointed to a whole range of really exciting new paradigms that are currently in budging i think he's dead on and so are you not fees you're constantly writing these mind line articles for the guardian everyone check it out now fees ahmed thank you so so much for sharing your insight on the world. that's our show thanks for watching you guys be sure to follow me on twitter and i'll be martin coming on to my going to break the set all over again. i marinate join me. in that impartial and financial reporting and carry on for

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