rex grossman still pens tear jerking poetry. nora's. we post only what really matters at r.t. to your facebook u. street. what's really good folks i'm an old up alone filling in for abby martin and this is breaking the set so four hundred billion dollars can sure buy a lot of things these days right like feeding every school kid in america fighting every global humanitarian crisis and rebuilding this country's entire infrastructure but apparently one thing it can't buy is a funk it's a fully functional fighter jet ski for the last eight years u.s. taxpayers have spent a whopping three hundred ninety eight billion dollars on a fleet of f. thirty five joint strike fighters the next generation of lethal military planes the only problem however is that over the years the development and construction of

this plane has turned into the poster child for military waste not only is the program seven years behind schedule but it's basically ins and billions of dollars over budget and is now expected to cost over one trillion dollars over the course of the next five decades but hey at least we have a plane that will spread american freedom across the world skies right actually no it turns out the department of defense still has isn't sure if the heap of metal is even safe to fly so the f. thirty five was supposed to make its long awaited debut at the former international air show in england this week but thanks to a mysterious engine fire last month the plane was grounded now just today officials did clear the plane for flight although the cause of the engine fire is still unknown and the plane will not be airborne in time for the show. think progress still only points out that with the amount of money the military has spent on this outrageous boondoggle taxpayers could have bought a six hundred and sixty four thousand dollar house for every homeless person in the

country but hey since this plane's natural habitat is the ground maybe we can turn these f. thirty five thousand homeless shelters instead now well it's just a thought let's break this up. it was a. very hard to take a. look. at how exactly would that hurt their look. at least. as the crisis on the us

mexico border continues to garner media attention more and more people are asking what will happen to the more than fifty thousand unaccompanied children who have crossed into the u.s. since october of last year and while the media along with our elected officials continue the debate the federal government estimates that the number of child migrants will surpass ninety thousand by fall of this year. what's worse is that we're talking about children kids who have been separated from their families running away from conditions in their respective countries that threaten their very right to reach adulthood most of them are coming from us in guatemala these three countries make up what's known as the northern triangle a region of the world that's facing one of the grave this humanitarian crises on the planet i was born in honduras and am myself an immigrant i can attest to the fact that if these kids had a choice they would stay in their country with their families instead of risking

their lives traveling over a thousand miles facing the threat of human trafficking kidnapping death or worse to try to make it across the border but they don't have that choice see aside from the record poverty that ranks honduras among the poorest nations in the world a combination of political instability gang violence and the war on drugs have turned honduras into the most violent country on the planet journalist darlin reported recently that in honduras today a person is more likely to be killed than if they lived in iraq during the height of the insurgency and today the murder rate in honduras stands at just over ninety homicides per one hundred thousand people that's more than twenty two thousand times the rate in the united states and just this week the very first immigration charter flight full of deportees landed in some pivotal the most violent city in the world outside of of war zone sadly the message this sends is that children crossing into the u.s. even if they are trying to escape persecution will not be given protective refugee

status but there has been one positive outcome thanks to the added media attention placed on the plight of these children the situation on the border is now being viewed as a humanitarian crisis meaning that we're finally moving away from treating all of this like a political issue and more and more public figures are green some even facing arrest in the process pulitzer prize winning journalist jose antonio vargas who revealed in two thousand and eleven that he is an undocumented immigrant. while traveling to the mexico border in support of refugee children vargas was detained and has and now remains in federal custody and hell even glenn beck glenn beck has had a change of heart and his pledge to bring food and supplies to your refugees in texas glenn beck. so it seems like americans from across the political divide are waking up to the reality of this crisis and recognizing that it is in fact a question of human rights it's far past time that the government does the same i

did in america the growing influence of massive corporations and special interest groups the poor millions of dollars into the political landscape have transformed our representative democracy into a system utterly dominated by two parties and if you don't fit into one of these two manufactured political sides then you're likely labelled french standing a little to no chance to compete within the multi-billion dollar do awfully but has access to more information has flourished more people are opening their eyes to this reality and as a result grassroots challengers to the status quo are beginning to make their voices heard one such voice is geoffrey carson a military veteran and congressional candidate for virginia's eighth district jeffries a self described libertarian and his views on everything from immigration reform to u.s. foreign policy set him aside from your average candidate jeff joins me now to talk

about his campaign and what leveling the political playing field could do for american democracy jeff thank you so much for taking the time thanks for having me the sense or best you can be here today and i apologise and i'm not better looking but let's talk about the campaign why run as a as a libertarian why not run within within the party within the democratic party or even the g.o.p. . you know it's a great question i get obviously just about every day from voters and the simple answer is. as many americans believe that the two party system is the strangle that they have in this country and this is obviously not healthy it's not helping and it's not helping us move the right direction so. you know i i got into this side i want to run because i. botch i couldn't stand idly by and just watch my country go down the tubes so to speak so i decided i wanted to run. and one of the main reason i'm running as a libertarian is frankly because i think the two major parties are part of the

problem not the solution right in i think that even within the political establishment right now being a libertarian being a progressive there's a lot of commonality there but there's still a lot of differences in between what do you think it would take to bridge that gap well i think in a lot of ways it's already been bridged i mean if you look at a guy like ron paul for example you know he worked across the aisle quite a bit with counterparts on the left you know with me i think if any of anyone that's leading to the left or the liberal you know if you look at my policies i think we've got a lot in common and i try to tell that to voters all the time obviously my my district is heavily democratic so whether you're looking at immigration policy whether you're looking at ending the drug war whether you're looking at my noninterventionist foreign policy you know obviously i would be to your rights and i could go on but there's a lot that we have in common and i think to be successful we just have to focus on what we have in common as opposed to focusing on what we don't and then we don't get anywhere right i mean it's the political game that's reshaping the narrative in this country i think that that's part of the bigger problem you you know is looking

into you earlier in your campaign and tell your platform and i wanted to talk about it a couple of the specifics about it you're very well traveled i mean you've been across asia you've traveled through africa you've traveled to latin america how do you think your worldview is influenced kind of the way that you think the u.s. the role the u.s. should play in international crises. well i think it's you know i've been fortunate and i've been very fortunate i grew up as a military brat you know i served my country mostly overseas in the army you know i served in the middle east and then as an example one of those places i travel to was one of the middle east with a backpack as a civilian years later but whether it was middle east or southeast asia or africa or anywhere else you know bottom line is we're all. human beings you know and all the people i talk to and learn from and all the culture cultural experiences that i was fortunate to experience it taught me that you know we're all instigator i know it sounds cliche but it's true and for us to think that you know the hubris that we

have is in this. you know it makes any sense right or that we can dictate to the rest of the world how to live their lives or their affairs. and just backwards thinking you know i mean in traditionally kind of the libertarian approach is more of a hands off approach is what i understand but i mean the us do you do you feel as though the united states has a responsibility to you to intervene in certain situations you know hot bush button issue right now it's the crisis in israel palestine how would you like to see congress act on it i would like to see them not act on that. you know that's that's the hard truth that nobody wants to hear but that's the hard truth right i've i've you know and i in the service i served alongside i.d.f. forces israeli defense forces helping them set up a missile defense systems right that was what i did for a few years working based out of germany but our primary mission was to support defend israel anything went down so i worked alongside those guys right i understand that viewpoint where it's you know security first we just want to defend the right to exist you know we've defended ourselves in three different wars forty

eight sixty seven seventy three i get it right and it's difficult to argue with that perspective but i made a point that i understand at the time i was only getting one side of the story so i made a point to go back as a civilian and not just travel in israel and other parts middle east but actually go to the west bank and see what it was like you know to try to see what it's like as a palestinian. and when you see it from both sides you know the bottom line is nobody's innocent. you know everybody is seemingly in the right as crazy as that sounds and for us to pick sides right where for us to dictate to both parties how to solve their internal issues it's a it's not gotten us anywhere obviously and it's hard to pick a side when you're disproportionately funding and supporting one side of the argument that's very true another issue that you've been very outspoken about is the war on drugs but where do you where do you see that as the biggest failure do you see as being the biggest failure in the one great guest yeah but it's a massive failure let's look at measurable data points that anyone objective would say over the last forty years this is what we wanted to achieve right how about

lowering supply what didn't happen how about lowering demand well it didn't happen about lowering diction rates well that didn't happen how about lowering accident deaths that didn't happen right usage rates you know initially kind of went down but then shot right back up so within any measurable success that you look at the war on drugs obviously it's unconstitutional and it's affects our civil liberties no question but it's been a drastic failure and there's no question and we've spent untold hundreds of billions of dollars well over a trillion dollars today since the early seventy's to affect this war prosecute this one where we don't it doesn't make any sense and we're running out of time but i did want to ask you you know as i mentioned earlier it's amazing amount of money that's kind of corrupting the political landscape of america right now how would what changes do we need to see to campaign finance laws do you think how would how would you address your how long i mean you have less than a minute. you know the first. as crazy as it sounds i don't think you can get money out of politics without really infringing on constitutional rights and to be fair i'm a third party candidate right so if there was anyone that wanted to get money out

of politics and go a different route it would be me right because it would obviously give me a leg up. but if you know the day just because that would be convenient for a position to take i can't do it i mean the constitution comes first and foremost to me so what we have today this frankenstein set of laws with citizens united in with super pacs and pacs and unlimited donations of corporations being treated as people i mean it's all nuts right so in a nutshell simplify it right and level the playing field as best as possible but i don't think you get money out of politics and fortune and jeff i really wish that we had more time on immigration reform there's so much more that we can talk about but jeff carson congressional candidate for virgin is eighth district right across the river hope to have you get some time thank you so much for that all right guys coming up a feature exclusive interview with theoretical physicists in all around genius dr michio kaku states. on air and in the financial world. can't stop exams only take. a life.

the studio in washington this. is being released now isn't the media candidate for the doctor so you are going to do that actually back to you and doesn't do too much for ad revenue biotech agriculture giant teeth on a seventy six year old american farmer in the studio how much fallout do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a race for so long to stick but it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to the status quo but what might be real alternatives to the point and working toward the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real causes.

although medical science has achieved amazing things in its short life one of the final frontiers of human biology exists in the depths of the human mind field of neuro neuro science has made tremendous advances in understanding our consciousness from mapping the human brain to creating devices that can even take snapshots of our thoughts and this research is opening up new possibilities that were once thought to exist only in the realm of science fiction one of which is the concept of uploading our memories experiences and thoughts to a digital platform it was a premise of a recent film called transcendence where mr johnny depp's mind was uploaded into a supercomputer which possessed the collective knowledge of all of humanity but digital consciousness is also the topic of the book the future of the mind by author and renowned theoretical physicist michio kaku

a few months ago i sat down with dr kaku when i first asked him how far we really are from achieving this reality check out. just last year for the first time in world history a memory was recorded we can actually tape recorder memory and insert it back into an animal and it remembers this is amazing wake forest university also in los angeles they took a mouse train the mouse to sip water recorded the memory in the hippocampus right here small organ that process this memory the most leader forgot that then they shot the memory back into the mouse and bingo the mouse got it the first try next will be primates perhaps a monkey eating a banana will record that memory and inserted it back him and the short term goal is to create a brain pacemaker for alzheimer's patients in the future we're going to have millions of people who forget where they live wander around why not have a button you push the button and you're meeting remember where you live who you are

who your kids are and beyond that who knows maybe will upload a vacation that you never had it just it seems so mind blowing to me to consider that that memory which is not a static thing it's always changing it's evolving depending on our on our experiences can be digitized just so it's really mind blowing but i want to ask you about something else that you mention in the book the ability for telepathy and you've actually said in the past that in the future humans will be able to mentally contact anybody we want see whatever image we want and do and if we don't like it we can just turn it off that's really in the future in fact today we can get it so that you walk into a room we'll put on a headset such that you can control the lights turn on the t.v. call for your car tell your car where to go type dictate documents without ever touching a computer screen and our children will wonder how could you possibly live in a world where you had to touch the screen and he had a mouse and he had the type everybody does things and types makes documents

controls cars it's fascinating where we're headed in. and it seems like it really is inevitable and i think a lot is taken for granted over the things that we're already able to do now i mean you were just referring to to these sensors in the brain that can capture images inside the brain what are what are some of the other practical applications of these things could have well this will replace the internet it will become a brain that will record emotions thoughts patterns of behavior and send it on the internet teenagers will love it can imagine facebook you said emotions your first date your first kiss your first. all of the internet teenagers already put a little light happy faces on their e-mails right we're going to be able to record thoughts and the movies are going to be replaced by the brain net movies today or a flat screen with sound that's the movies right in the future perhaps emotions and feelings will also be conveyed this is called total immersion intertainment that

it's amazing and actually that reminds me of this new movie that's coming out now this johnny depp movie called transcendence weird kind of takes that premise as well you know taking your consciousness and uploading it digitally but i wanted to ask you i mean you make it sound like it's going to be a lot of fun but it also there's aspects that i think are a little bit terrifying and i wanted to ask you about is this new pill that's being developed can slow down a person's perception of time and what's being said is that you know this could be applied to prisoners and given you they'll take a pill little it'll slow down the perception of time so that eighty eight hours could feel like a thousand years a thousand year sentence how would this work and why does the future sound so terrifying well we are getting corinne with the brain itself for example people who have traumatic memories of war sometimes they're paralyzed with these horrible memories of a rape an act that in warfare we can create

a forgetful drug that actually takes the edge of many of our most vile. and oppressive memories however the president's commission of bioethics recommended against marketing the forgetful drug because they said that even unpleasant memories are useful we learn from them but personally i think that sometimes some memories are so disastrously awful that they paralyze you they prevent you from becoming a normal person and i think we should allow forgetful drugs to be marketed also drugs and therapies which can perhaps even increase intelligence are now being talked about will have perhaps memories that we can upload into the mind perhaps memories of a job they were not trained for or perhaps a college student will upload a course that they flunked in college we can perhaps increase our intelligence and now we're also investigating super intelligence photographic memory people who memorize everything they hear a concert they see

a landscape they can draw the landscape they can we reproduce the entire concert on one try how is it possible the people of that mine we know believe that the mind records but the mind also forgets deliberately these people forget mechanism is broken they never forget they have a photographic memory and we think there's some great scientists of the past had this ability the ability to have access to powers of the mind that we cannot as mortals right and it and this is nothing new this is this is something that that you know can date back for a very long time people that have those photographic memories and you've actually said that right now the time that we're living in is the golden age for learning about the mind that we've learned more in the last fifteen years than in all of prior human history why what took so long because only recently have we had the physics the instruments like the m.r.i. scans that are sensitive enough to see the blood flow of the thinking brain down to

like a tenth of a millimeter and now we have supercomputers that can actually read these thoughts and control. i'm pewters by thinking so by thinking we can now control mechanical arms mechanical legs we can type we can control thermostats turn on the web to not change the channel on a t.v. set turn on the toaster all of it just mentally and at the next international soccer games in brazil scientists at duke university want to take someone who's totally paralyzed. outfitted with an actual skull of him and he will introduce the international soccer games in brazil that's amazing and actually one of the things that i've always enjoyed about your work is you're very gifted in taking these complex theories and making them easier easier to understand i wanted to ask you about this recent discovery about the gravitational waves that are essentially remnants of the big bang can you explain why this is such an amazing discovery well we think that the instead of the big bang gravity waves the waves that we've never

seen before dominated the big bang and how we see them with our with our detectors in the south pole i'm just line predicted this ninety eight years ago and it took ninety eight years for us to see that at the instant of creation there were in fact gravity waves now this is very incredible because it means that the big bang was a quantum event meaning that there's a probability it could happen again and again and again creating a multi-verse of parallel universes so our universe may not be the only universe this result has philosophical theological implications if the big bang happened once as a quantum event it can happen again it's a subject that's so almost impossible for the human mind at least mind to even fathom but you bring up a good point which is another subject that very interesting that you discuss is god . you describe yourself as a pantheist and i was hoping that for our viewers that don't know what pantheism

means you could explain that and how that ties into your work in theoretical physics well i'm still and was asked a question about god and he says there are really two kinds of god first is the personal god the god that answers your prayers that smites your enemies in the philistines but he didn't believe in that god he believed in the god of spinoza the god of harmony beauties simplicity you know the universe could have been ugly it could have been random it could have been chaotic and yet here we are in that orderly universe that obeys very simple. laws you can put all the laws of physics on one sheet of paper that's simplicity and elegance and that's the god of einstein the god of spinoza the god of harmony and that's the god that i lean toward that is the universe is self is so gorgeous and it didn't have to be that way i think that's something we could all get behind i want to i'd love to continue to talk about. caught in the universe and everything i want to talk about something a little bit more earthly something a little bit closer to home that you've been outspoken about as well which is

fukushima and the nuclear crisis in japan there's so much dissin from ation out there how. what is the severity of the crisis right now as you see it the crisis is much more severe they were led to believe documents have been coming out over the last two years showing how the utility and the government deliberately suppressed vital information did you know that even as the acts it was progressing and they said don't worry everything's under control they were contemplating evacuating tokyo evacuating tokyo i mean mind boggling but that's how severe the accident was now right now we have three melted reactors it will take forty years by their estimate to clean up this disastrous accident and it could start again anytime soon a small earthquake could tip it over and the accident starts all over again i mean that's it really is insanity nuclear nuclear insanity really like i said before the

break and as you mentioned you know that sounds like a conservative estimate forty years for the clean up there's so many conflicting reports are coming out the seafood safety e.o. no it's not the radiation is going to hit the west coast and other scientists will disagree what will be the the long term impacts is this an ever ever lasting crisis it's not an everlasting crisis but there are dead zones dead zones around the reactors that will be dead zones for decades to come and all of us have a piece of focus shima in you i can figure geiger counter right to your body and detect some of the radiation from the reactor however is minimal so i don't think that everything is going to be radioactive here in the united states it's not that way food you can eat however we have to monitor the food very carefully because we do know that radioactive cesium with a half life about thirty years leaked into the ocean and it's water soluble and it did get into the fish and sea life around fukushima but the government does monitor these things and so far as we know the food supply is safe while i mean. i hope so

i hope that we get that we can eat this food and i did want to ask you you know given the. the crisis like you said another minor earthquake could could trigger another melt another tipping point exactly and this there are so many different reactors all over the so many here in the united states do you think that as a result of you know what we've learned from chernobyl that in the future will eventually do away with nuclear energy do you see us moving beyond that well germany has already thrown in the towel germany says never again they saw what happened net focus the disaster in germany could literally wipe out germany as a nation and so they're phasing out nuclear entirely switzerland follow suit italy is sort of teetering right now and even japan is teetering on the on the brink they have a national debate as to whether or not to go nuclear or not see after world war two japan made the faustine bargain foulest with the legendary figure who sold his soul to the double for unlimited pop or that's the. bargain that japan made after the

war and now they're going to have to really analyze whether it's worth it to sell your soul to the devil well that's the future of nuclear energy as opposed dr michio kaku i want to thank you so much for taking the time to join us theoretical physicist author of the future of the mind it's number one right now really check it out thank you so much thank you. argos that's our show piece. i'm the bad. side. i'm big corporation kind of can. do i'm the banker i take all that all about money and i'm

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