own version of the shopping holiday let's call it camouflage friday kemo friday as congress sent the twenty eight thousand edition of the n.b.a. the president trumps desk at the end of last week so just what holiday deals that the warmongering fear riddled republicans and democrats deliver 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 imagine just how many schools could be built teachers hired homeless sped housed and saved how many and what student loan debt could be wiped out careers 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 so those things against government waste rights while

the twenty eighteen 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 on completely wasteful initiatives so with kemo friday deals too good to pass up the military industrial congressional complex has once again condemn 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 home. as it were to pull out of it. with the like you that i got. this.

week. well the wife of the hawks i am and i rolled with her and i'm to have a lot of the lead it is it is camel friday it what happened to just having a camel out of 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 work it's good stuff to do do you mean 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 it's brad seven hundred billion dollars a bout of good will and cheer of good will hunting to the credit god lots of good will and sure what it was and yeah it's good to hear from it is something that gives back i'm saying it's on an investment and i think that really pays back because of that one time use by right and this is that this is one thing 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 designer

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 and merge and see like supplemental income you know quick all we need some cash 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 osa go to basically bypass spending limits they were imposed by the budget control act of two thousand and eleven c. got to work around got to keep the military industrial complex we came out of the budget control actually i did overhear a listers in our emergency fund accounting to give the military industrial complex more money as much as they want without any question and just keep giving 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 f program is currently six years behind schedule water when are approximately one hundred seventy billion with a b over budget you got twenty eighteen and da authorizes ten point one billion to burke here ninety j f 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. sibel you get the contract and maybe the jet works maybe it doesn't well i mean the way he does it in. speaking of charger we love hardware we love toys right well you know

it's all about 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 and read it correctly but these ships are so bad that even trying mccain the war monger i'm so scared that this was a waste filled military project basically because this is ships are riddled with costs over and over over across mechanical issue design flaws and others to keep the subs from being effective and basically will become not operational but they was was thought of a billion on the barbie. a. well and then there's also jeff bezos oh fantastically this twenty team and d.n.a. and d.n.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 online

missiles now so the idea is the acquisition process through this use of competitive and simplified online markets which would be you know you're ninety three billion dollars market to e-commerce portals which you know hey amazon is sponsible for about half of all e-commerce sales so great jeff bezos gets even more money you know base was a gracious himself with the cia the washington post. 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 cousin. go go at 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 drug 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 ken town bar owners association noted that u.s. service members are an interval 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 us 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 one thousand nine hundred ninety eight it started thirty five percent . it's gone from ten years it went from forty seven percent of those at twelve percentage point increase of a decade and the other then the military and that's just in the military and they always run higher than average so they're all. over the one half of the military between ninety nine and two thousand and one what little things may have led to this excessive been. drinking that was. well i mean we have a lot of stuff first is sort of post work crimes of an hour or so the national

institute of sorry there was data from local government and police and what they said was that between may of one thousand nine hundred seventy two and twenty sixteen oaken now has had a total of just five hundred and said this is from last year five hundred seventy six heinous 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 spear morris 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 before may twenty seventh and twenty sixteen you had navy seaman apprentice just aghast on those 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. want to make sure 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 there because of the severity i mean really a severe her body she was it was. he sort of hid the body tragedy all room 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 it i feel it just it goes back to this we came there at a time when it was war and we were what i do and you see this happening all the world world with these bases yeah you know and it's alcoholism it's prostitution it's human about a very limited sort of related crime where you see binge drinking joe you know twelve points of the ten year period and then you ask yourself what happened in that period you know one could say oh look we suddenly went into all these false wars right or we're suddenly having people. good reason you know and you go all

this p.t.s.d. plus you have the inherent culture of heavy drinking that you see next to military bases and parties on central around military base a lot of sex trafficking and other things happen like that and especially in japan you know where it we are an occupying force right to world war two as you pointed out fifty 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. 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 facebook and twitter see our poll shows that are. coming up i sat down with legendary journalist john pilger the scope of the rising tensions through that of the u.s. asia pivot policy state to watch the whole.

here's what people have been saying about rejected a night with exactly this belong on the only show i go out of my way to launch you know really what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of party america is doing the same we are apparently better than two thousand and six and see people you never heard of love jack to the night president of the world bank so he doesn't really mean a seriously he sent us an e-mail. to let the fans of democrats they have a problem putting all that happened and to chasing the fake rush again hoax and they're not therefore they don't have the resources to go field new candidates that might have a chance of twenty so if they were. drop the russia gate home and focus on just

finding candidates running for your team they might have a chance but at this rate they don't have a chance which means that they probably won't have a chance in twenty. she'll be a. good observed and most are most. independent those with leaders that they do with. own up but if. they. lose the sort of my limit who speculation to me or the chair we have a one. c. let him make the. 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 hawks tyrell ventre i was looking for when he sat down with iconic journalists and documentary filmmaker john pilger to discuss his latest

documentary on the united states policy and just how close we are to a war of nuclear catastrophe. do you see this becoming a cold war as intense as it was with you know the u.s. and the soviets or is this going to turn. i'm not a futurist are all i can make those predictions about one only has to go to the people who have studied this say the panel headed by general james cartwright some years ago he 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 closed it's something between eight and ten minutes so a miscalculation mistake and accident they be the the the

the the progeny of of of of the kind of provocation but we're seeing at the moment they're also they're also. continue in that analogy 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 osp reporting has been so abandoned when the new york times the other day could run. a lone so-called investigation

by someone called scott shray who was a apparently a reporter that about about these russian troll. 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 ball monger 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 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 them ron used to be. libya used to be iraq. 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 new nuclear war and you wrote recently an article that referenced the classic novel and film on the beach which the star gregory pags wonderful film i like 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. i think 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 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 saying half of the still not involved russia or china and the united states and 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 for yes but there's a lot to that are we poking him to kind of poking north korean can join the room to justify that in circle 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 china 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 probably that's what you just described is rational. and is a real a real possibility there's no doubt about that there is it is a strange combination in my experience of a lot jake irrational but then the rationale ceases and there is a kind of ideological ideological impetus. to move it forward and you get this in. certain public officials like. obama's secretary of defense ash ashcroft it was probably the most the most aggressive of his read now have. yeah well

you've got three you can get through to matters and all of them you've got the 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 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 they 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 of nuclear development and they agreed that clinton actually a clinton to begin with if they went into the george w. bush period and was torn up. 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 want try to finish on

a positive note because i think that's important as 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 result example and so i think the there is still hope to kind of roll this back and this is the path of it but it's a very good example and if you want 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 at peace peace with its with its region. the same is true in korea then they cross the waters the island of jeju which. has been. demonstrating

it's 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 break a 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 so is that so many others of us here the and join with them as has been done in the possed in this city in new york in the nineteen eighties a million people filled 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 up that means they'll be able to. face. into media training and clear weapons across europe. higher brow society practically mandates that you will lose your scorn and ridicule on the people who put up christmas lights and reindeer the day after all weekend 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 who 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 up weeks before thanksgiving or that one house ties house decided to put up a nine put five foot spider to celebrate ha we think again because at the end of the day these people like mr ventura may just have found the key to taking a holiday. love. that was alive. that i put up there was a pretty cool looking for a spider always it turns out you are asking times are tough was already there it was it was three little kids now i got to do and i'm scary about not that i'm for the spider. but a real one and i'm for you know santa claus are the members of the spider ass. in this world we're not all of the above that up so i tell you all that i love you very well but i'm top of the wall and people are watching those who are that big

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