for down the pentagon's chimney this year well for starters they awarded the pentagon twenty six point one billion more dollars than even president donald trump asked for back in the spring bringing the sum total of our tax dollars being mainlined into the veins of the war department to a staggering seven hundred billion dollars so what that number sink in for a minute seven hundred billion dollars i magine just how many schools could be built teachers hired homeless sped housed and saved how many and when student loan debt could be wiped out clears are made for that kind of money seven hundred billion but you know who needs peace or good health when you've got a hungry war machine to be citizens against government waste writes while the twenty eight thousand n.d.a. certainly had improvements for information technology and procurement and procurement process reform it continues to irresponsibly grow defense spending and double down and completely wasteful initiatives so with kemo friday deals too good

to pass up the military industrial congressional complex has once again condemned the united states to another year of putting peace on hold and lives at risk which means it's time for us to start watching honks. as it gets to the bottom. that i got. this. week. well that was the hawks i am and i roll with her and have a lot of the lead as it is camel friday what happened to just having a cab. the n.b.a.

is passed we are ready we are given deals away to the pentagon all of our tax money seven hundred billion dollars worth of good stuff to do do you does it ever seem odd to the people on capitol hill that they're up there arguing about you know ten thousand dollars here half a million dollars here while they just. read seven hundred billion dollars about of good will ensure a good workmanship to the pentagon lots of goodwill and sure we're dumb bombs and yeah the lot of people but it's something we gives back i'm saying it's on an investment and i think it really pays to come about one time use by right and this is this is one thing after another after another that is let's i think we should go through some of the brilliant holiday deals the pentagon is getting for the next year with our money and with this our money seven hundred billion dollars of our u.s. citizen tax dollars sixty five point eight billion in additional funding for what's called the overseas contingency operation account now the osa goal was created in two thousand and one to fund u.s. military engagements abroad that's a fancy way of saying or it was intended to be

a one time a merge and see like supplemental income you know quick all we need some cash for however much of the squinting in recent years has been used for emergency related items that could reasonably be incorporated into the regular budget but see they don't do that because since the passage over the past seven years congress and the executive branch of utilize the o c o to basically bypass spending limits were imposed by the budget control act of two thousand and eleven c. got a workaround got to keep the military industrial complex speed of the budget control actually i did overhear a listers in our emergency fund and see accounting to give the military industrial complex more money as much as they want without any question and just keep giving us time and it's and you wonder why we have a deficit that keeps getting bigger and less people get said. it's weird how the lessons of the stock and well obviously our own fate our old favorite the f. thirty five so the joint just thirty five joint strike fighters. j.f.

program is currently six years behind schedule what a winner approximately one hundred seventy billion with a b. over budget you got twenty eighteen and. a authorizes ten point one billion to work here ninety j. s.f. aircraft an increase of two point six billion and twenty aircraft above the administration's request so yeah great so apparently how it works in the military industrial complex is if you're really bad at your job if you aren't good at staying anywhere near a budget and you can just spend as much as american taxpayer dollars possible you get the contract and maybe the jet works maybe a dozen well i mean where does it end. speaking of torture we love hardware we love toys right well you know this one point one billion brown nosers syria don't want to have one abrams tanks talk about toys one point five billion for literal combat ships might not be probes correctly but these ships are so bad that

even john mccain the war monger i'm so sad that this was a waste filled military project basically because this is ships are riddled with costs over and over over across the chemical is your design flaws and others to keep the serbs from being effective and basically will become not operational but there was another billion on the barbie. a. while and then there's also jeff bezos oh said tacitly this twenty. and v.a. also provides for the d. c. years if this makes any sense to anybody commercial e-commerce portals to help story line the acquisition process i don't know i guess you can you know buy on line missiles now so the idea is the acquisition process through this use of competitive and simplified online markets which would be you know your ninety three billion dollars market to e-commerce portal. you know hey amazon is bruce sponsible for

about half of all e-commerce sales so great jeff bezos gets even more money. so if the washington post. a drunk driving related death and okinawa has resurrected long held objections to the united states military base there just before dawn on sunday november nineteenth a twenty one year old u.s. marine allegedly ran a red light and struck the vehicle of a sixty one year old japanese man killing him with a marine only suffering minor injuries while the official cause of the crash has not been determined a representative from the okinawa police department doesn't he go. confirm to the u.s. government funded voice of america the marines blood alcohol content was three times the legal limit when he was arrested now the u.s. military is confined all u.s. service people in japan to their residences and they are not allowed to buy or consume alcohol on or off the base this comes less than a year after u.s. department of defense funded stars and stripes reported on the drugged and drunk

driving awareness and prevention campaign which was signed in december of two thousand and sixteen by marine corps lieutenant general lawrence nicholson running for three months last year it sought to fix the problem of excessive alcohol use on and off the military base but drinking and socializing with locals is sadly a major part of having a military base in a foreign country so toshio. local bar gallery owner as well as the chairman of the can town bar owners association noted that u.s. service members are an integral part of can town's nightlife when no records are around in the entertainment district there are no japanese either a good community relationship may be important for the military but we do need americans in our community so we must work together and work together we must because if we can't respect ourselves enough to refrain from driving while intoxicated while a guest in someone else's country how can we expect others to respect so. good

question good good good question you know good sperry curious about this case and binge drinking in the military in general is that it's increased thirty five percent since the one nine hundred ninety eight it started thirty five percent. it's gone from zero in ten years it went from forty seven percent plus a twelve point increase in a decade and a lot of them the military and that's just in the military and they always run higher than average so they were. the one half of the military between ninety nine and two thousand what what little things may have led to this excessive binge drinking that we're seeing. well i mean we have a lot of stuff is sort of post work crimes of an hour or so the national institute sorry there was data from local government and police and what they said was that between may of ninety nine nine hundred seventy two and twenty sixteen oka now has

had a total of just five hundred and said this is from last year five hundred seventy six what they call heinous crimes this is murder rape robbery these are things were violence was has occurred they were all committed by u.s. military personnel sort of or a six hundred of these crimes and twenty sixteen some of those and some of you may have heard of these on this show we talked about a little bit for me twenty seven twenty sixteen you had navy seaman apprentice just aghast auto's pleaded guilty to raping a japanese woman he found passed out in the hallway of his hotel he got two and a half years of hard labor. and one of the before we go there was another case which is going on right now it's a thirty three year old former marine and civilian worker at the base who is now on trial right now for the rape and murder of a twenty year old a japanese woman in okinawa in april twenty sixth that there were protests. because of the severity i mean really a severe hurt by. she was stabbed it was beaten and then he sort of hid the bodies

tragedy all around it seems like one or another is like while they were in mourning for that one another one happened this is a major issue and i feel like it just it goes back to this week a merit a time when it was war and we were what i do and you see this happening all around the world with these bases yeah you know and things that alcoholism is prostitution it's human and i've got slime in the sort of related crime when you see binge drinking. you know twelve points in a ten year period and then you ask yourself what happened in that period you know one must step back and say oh look we suddenly went into all these false wars right now we're suddenly having people look. good reason you know and you've got all this p.t.s.d. plus you have that inherent culture of heavy drinking that you see next to military bases and parties on central around military bases a lot of sex trafficking and other things happen like that and especially in japan you know where it we're an occupying force right to world war two as you pointed

out there's a thousand there's about fifty thousand troops and band u.s. troops and half of them are in okinawa while and that's i mean because i'm a lot everyone across the whole island so fifty thousand troops there and what because the russians are going to come in. well. as we go to break. we're going to let us know what you think about topics we've covered through paste work on twitter see our poll shows at our dot com coming up i sat down with legendary journalist john pilger the scope of the rising tensions between the united states russia the us asia pivot policy stay till the whole. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the navy seals is actually just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to run you know what it is

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week u.s. president donald trump announced that he's putting north korea back on the list the state sponsors of terrorism list that is and the move that will most certainly continue to turn the heat up between the two nuclear powers and with tensions between moscow and washington d.c. continuing to simmer right along and the new cold war over the alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen president's election it is important to my journalistic voices in the world who are going to give you the honest truth as they see it and are not going to go along to get along and that's just what watching the hostile venter i was looking for when he sat down with iconic journalist documentary filmmaker john pilger to discuss his latest documentary on the united states pivot policy and just how close we are to a war of nuclear catastrophe. do you see this becoming. a cold war as in terms of was with you know the u.s.

and the soviets or is this going to turn. i'm not a futurist to realize you can make those predictions about one only has to go to the people who study. say the panel headed by general james cartwright some years ago who spoke of a window of decision making and when people. with the responsibility for strategic nuclear weapons have to make a decision and that window has close to something between eight and ten minutes so miscalculation mistake and accident. they the the the the the the progeny of of of of the kind of provocation that we're seeing at the moment they're also they're also. continue in that analogy is that the offspring of propaganda. propaganda or

uncensored ship is the real problem here you know we have now putting aside fox news but we have now the major so-called respectable organs of the media in this country who've given up real journalism i've been a reporter for quite a while. my work has been acknowledged i've never known a time when basic on osprey porting has been so abandoned when the new york times the other day could run. a lone so-called investigation by someone cole scott shray who was a apparently a reporter that about about these russian trolls that subverting the great american bureaucracy democracy one of these polls is

a sixty six year old. person in the midwest though someone who believes that hillary clinton was a war monger while she was a warmonger but that apparently qualifies this person as some sort of russian troll the absurdity it's it's worthy of joseph heller of catch twenty two of any other kind of satire but unfortunately. we're not speaking about satire we're speaking about a campaign of war mongering aimed at what is a day and that it's aimed really at eventually breaking up the russian federation. the enemy is independence all states that are independent they do not follow an american diktats iran used to be. libya used to

be iraq syria is how long. russia and china big crime is their independence. and to see the media as such an obvious extension of power emanating out of washington. and yet and yet so full of its own sense of importance as a bastion of free speech. i think i've never known that kind of censorship in the united states even at the height of the great wars and china mentioned earlier that kind of eight to ten minute. you know window and the fear of nuclear war and you you wrote recently an article that referenced the classic novel and film on the beach which the star gregory peck is wonderful film i like the very much it tells the story of kind of the world in

a in a post nuclear exchange and you know i have to ask you as a how how close are we to that beach right now you know from being on that beach. look we are close there's no question about whether that that final gap will close is i don't know as i say i think. the. the point made in by never shooter in his book and of course in the film was that the it. there was that it wasn't there there was there was one where they were all sitting around near the end say half of the still not involved russia or china and the united states and i think held by an a or something and no one knew no one was sure how to actually stop what triggered it well that's if nuclear war does start. i think the same will be true i don't believe although there are some truly.

disturbing and possibly insane people. in charge of strategic weapons i don't believe that any of them wants to blow themselves up yeah. i mean north korea no doubt is following a very clear strategy that it's only by having nuclear weapons but we will not be attacked it's the madden it's the mad theory of war that has become the madman the survey of all yes but there's a lot to that are we poking him to kind of poking north korean can join room to justify that encircled moment of china you know to give it that kind of prieto we have to worry about north korea and at the meantime so nobody knows that we're kind of moving this military machine to china's doorstep to potentially choke tried off

of resources to put them in their place so to speak you know are they you think they're using north korea as that excuse to kind of put these chess pieces in place . they could well be that's what you just described is rational. and is a real a real possibility there's no doubt about it and there is it is a strange combination in my experience of a logik a rational but then the rationale ceases and there is a kind of ideological i do logical impetus. to move it forward and you get this in. certain public officials like obama's secretary of defense ash ash carter was probably the most aggressive of his read now have. yeah well

you got the three you can get the three matters and all of them you've got three generals but it it's. there's no doubt that north korea is used to assert america's dominance that the world needs america to protected from madmen. like the leader of north korea but that's the message to all this japan needs the united states asia needs it of course if you go actually go to asia certainly to china and to japan as well. that's the last thing they need the whole island of okinawa which has twenty eight u.s. military bases on. where they are almost as i showed in my film almost where the order was given to five nuclear missiles at china and russia. they

want none of this the people in the region want none of this and what has been demonstrated ninety ninety two ninety ninety four there were agreements between the south and the north and denuclearizing korea there was what was called a framework agreement but even george w. bush. agreed to lay off north korea if the if the north koreans would stop their development nuclear development and they agreed. that clinton actually were correct that clinton to begin with if they went into the george w. bush period and was torn up north. so we've had plenty of examples of. the united states the region in the world coming to us

with a country whose history explains why it is like it is always one try to finish on a positive note because i think that's important in this world so i ask you you know do you do you see hope in all of this and one of the things that struck me in your documentary was the people standing up to the base in okinawa for that for a result example and so i think the there is still hope to kind of roll this back and keep others from happening but it's a very good example and if you want her to know the corrupt version of her that is become a campaign slogan. promoted but i think there is real hope. in a place like where since the second world war people. almost the entire island is united in wanting to be a piece peace with its with its region. the same is true in korea

and they had to cross the waters the island of jeju which. has been. demonstrating its its need for pays for many years. i think all around the world there is no question it's almost a given it's not who. it's it's who would want to invite or broken nuclear war particularly into the region those who stand up to it are really i think the heroes felt time it is making their voices heard and so is that so many others of us here of them and join with them as has been done in the postie in this city in new york in the nine. you know it's a million people fools the streets of manhattan in the freeze movement and that was to freeze the stationing of nuclear weapons in europe we now have

according to nato documents circulating in germany. the intermediate range nuclear treaty is about to be torn off that means they'll be able to. base. intermediate range nuclear weapons across europe. harborough society practically mandates that you one load your scorn and ridicule on the people who put up christmas lights and reindeer the day after all we but according to recent signs these social misfits are actually on to something as it turns out putting up christmas decorations directly affects your happiness and emotional wellbeing by showering you with happiness memories and connecting you with your childhood and not only our early decorators emotionally well adjusted stars new studies also show their offbeat timing may help them make friends in the neighborhood because as claimed in the journalism environmental psychology over the

top holiday decorations tend to communicate accessibility and friendliness in the community so hot water is next time you throw shade at that one house that has rudolph and an army of gingerbread men out weeks before thanksgiving or that one house ties house decided to put up at nine point five foot spider to celebrate how we think again at the end of the day these people like mr ventura may just in from the gate to take a holiday cheer love yeah that was a lot of. that i put up there was a pretty cool spider always it turns out you are just going to observe there it was it was really a little kid. now i got a drone i'm scary about not that i'm a fighter. well not very real but i'm nine foot you know santa claus are i remember dressed up the spider asked me to process clothes i remember going in this world

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merkel now says that she would prefer snap elections to forming a minority government that is after coalition talks between merkel's party and the democrats break down over irreconcilable differences. google is planning to filter r.t. and sputnik out of its news feeds by artificially deal ranking their stories. today the united states is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorists and president trump who raises the stakes over north korea officially branding pyongyang as a backer of terrorism. so full newscast heading your way in about an hour's time with my colleague. it is now time though for cross talk on our team to national but if you're in the u.k. i.