their government it's a private company the kind of acts as a hub for all things like defense and security and israel is this guy we do on has been sounding off on the potential saudis really nuclear partnership citing a report by iran be twenty one the middle east monitor reports that iran expressed concern over the nuclear moves stating quote this information should shock us as we see the world is changing for the worse following the race for the possession of nuclear weapons that passed right over our heads in the middle east and he also went on to say one of the big reasons that israel is suddenly stepping up to share nuclear information with saudi arabia is because they are fearful of like saudi arabia doing business with pakistan to get all pakistan's nukes. as if they were by some how israel thinks or israeli politicians to be clear. that israeli politicians are doing the same to think if you if you sell someone a weapon they magically can't use it against you right isn't that amazing how they

oh wait they have never figured out how to make weapons only at the people that you want and this is a thing that you know you've seen all of the seven it's so easy this is why it's so easy for a media east west north south it doesn't matter to shape these stories and it's all or nothing or here's the bad guy here's the good guy i've read things great this will help more weapons well that's how you can get progressives to vote for more war so how do you get liberals to go away i mean this is one bob that's about how you do it right that's howard's done. yeah you know what's interesting is what's going on no like saudi threatening cutter right so you have these are which is going through all of this up here and suddenly you know they're the bad now they're the bad boy everyone's got to watch out for them or whatever so qatar qatar is former minister foreign minister mohammad bin abdulla. told the media that quote the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision that no country has anything to do with its. unfortunate that

they see this as destabilization because qatar does not represent a threat to saudis so saudi arabia bahrain egypt in the united arab emirates have all severed diplomatic and economic ties with qatar last year. supporting terrorism which it denies and cars are and russia have signed an agreement on military and technical cooperation last year because of your friend your friend of your friend or your enemy is my enemy is friends buddies next door neighbors brothers sisters. kids and their kids and guess guess who doesn't win everybody who lives in qatar and saudi arabia anybody who doesn't isn't able to make that decision and israel just putting people at risk and it's disgusting for a few a few dollars of death machines true true it's just after. the criminal case of former dean of michigan state university's college of osteopathic medicine william strand begins this week seven year olds travel faces

for criminal counts including fourth degree sexual assault misconduct by a public official and willful neglect of duty related to accusations that he did quote harass discriminate didn't mean sexually proposition and sexually assault female students in addition michigan state university health physicist fifty one year old joseph allen hattie was charged with committing acts of b.c. ality and sodomy against a dog michigan state university spokesperson emily grant told local news that quote how the was immediately put on administrative suspension pending the investigation the university has been and will continue to cooperate with law enforcement officials on this matter and this u.p.d. is providing digital forensics support in the investigation. you know when this kind of swift action and support of victims would have been helpful. any time during the decades that larry nasser was able to sexually abuse and assault over

three hundred young female athletes because emmis you ignored report after report after report after report of his actions even williams trampled the latest in what seems like a long line of predators that m.s.e. you as alleged to have helped cover up masters abuse maybe next time we can start taking the sexual abuse of assault of women just a little more seriously and swiftly you know like we do for dogs. you know you are exactly right i mean look let's say it out loud like this let's put it on the line and say let's just take sexual abuse of assault seriously across the board when there is woman or animal or whatever it may be maybe let's actually just take sexual abuse seriously and actually have swift justice and actually you know investigate try it out bring it to trial do all it treat it as something serious as opposed to you know we've got to protect the students or all we're going to protect the sanctity of the institution right or whatever the next player

sandusky and everybody else i don't care you can break down every single every single statue of anybody who helps cover up the sexual assault of abuse of men women children i don't care if you did it anyone anything to do with it you're done i don't care you're over by and nothing to do with more of the my opinion strebel places a number of charges for his role in the cover up of this you know of the decades of sexual assault abuse by larry nasser you don't have to the twenty fourteen investigation it was who was asked to make sure the protocols were in place to insert in the house or complied with the you know the protocols the her place to make sure he did hurting anyone and this was after he was initially cleared in the title nine investigation you know it's interesting because strong poll allegedly never made sure that these protocols were put in place which allowed masseur to

sexually abuse at least twenty more young athletes because this guy sat on his hands who now are coming to find out oh he was a little he would say i got it through yeah he was sitting on his hands he was using them for something and the thing is they're able to get away with it because people make excuses that same thing sexual assault rape abuse domestic violence these things are reported as much as they should. because people feel they won't be believed and in the case of these young athletes it's even more insidious because you have very young kids who are put into the is sports programs this were going to the olympics all this and from childhood they are grown in a certain way groaned in a certain way to win and the adults around them are a little bit blind to another thing i didn't understand this week last week and this week there are hearings on the senate judiciary committee as having hearings for the protecting young victims from sexual abuse act which i don't think we

should have to have a whole new bill just enforce the laws already have but beside the point senator grassley asked ed olson who is a prosecutor in fact for county virginia why adults don't come forward when they suspect abuse of young athletes here's what he had to say that. that's a bold wrinkle water right there. i think there's a lot of different reasons adults don't want to believe that's the first thing adults just don't want to believe in. i think there's a responsibility the details have a place in their children in this situation and if it's true that they've placed children in a situation they were abused or exploited or if they have oversight of a situation that permits that that reflects on them and that fear of exposure and so they don't want to believe it and i'm not talking about the abusers i'm talking about the good hearted adults who whose heart is in the right place that upon hearing incidents or words suspecting abuse don't immediately report it and it's

not that they're bad people they've made a bad decision and i wish i knew the answer to why they made that bad decision but i think it's wrapped up certainly in sports in the goal being achievement and a focus on that final goal and in so many cases the athletes are secondary to that goal. just think about there are good people good people on both sides yeah they're heard from the right place their head is up their backside there is no excuse for that kind of thing in my in my opinion i get that you feel bad that you might be responsible but you are responsible and you should feel bad if you didn't report something you know why and are also aware that this kind of tired old excuse of why didn't know it could happen in this place i mean with from the catholic church to these universities to every you know every time we've heard about these kind of. sexual misconduct allegations and charges and eventually convictions you know we've

got to get really good take the blinders off and think it's can happen here it can happen in the good ways and we have to be more aware of it i mean look i've read reports now you've got a guy who's like an open pedophile running for office now in the united states yet in those interviews old enough to join yet another example i mean how are we allowing this to happen this is salute the ridiculousness we have to face if there's anything say something when you say something say it scream it pound on the walls don't don't victims need our help we have to stop it from happening again that's our responsibility as a monster. i was going to break court watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we cover the facebook and twitter so our poll shows at our teeth dot com coming up to the black cats in the candles as sean stone delves into the occult and politics with author gary laughlin and it appears there will be some major changes coming to miss america stay tuned for the whole.

you. can say anything he wants to say. you can't fire you know it won't be another election until twenty twenty and he's gliding into twenty eighteen probably won't even list many representatives of support in this election and this year.

when one thinks of modern age politics with all its technology pomp and circumstance the esoteric the bizarre the are called is usually the first thing that comes to mind but you just might be surprised by how much of what many would deem a cult style practices and techniques have actually found their way into the modern political routine in speech and that's just what author historian and founding member of blondie gary locke men discovers in his new book dark star rising magic and power in the age of trump well no one sacrificing rabbits or drawing pentagrams in the white house basement well hopefully as our own john stone discovers just there on that rabbit hole goes as he sat down with the recent inductee into the us rock and hall of fame to discuss this new book. gary thank you so much for joining me today i want to talk about your new book the dark star rising and it's very

difficult to surmise i think for the general population but it just in your own words how would you describe the book and what its intention is. well the title is dark star rising magic and power in the age of trump. centrally it's about what seems to be a rise of a cold politics. certain sorts of techniques magic positive thinking mental science things of that sort involved in trump's campaign. his election his victory. and as i looked into it it's also something that reaches out over to russia as well people in sort of the mill year let's say around putin similarly are interested in these sort of magical techniques and so there does seem to be a kind of sudden insurgence of a sort of a cold politics going on and as i followed the trail that exactly turned out to be

the case. well we'll talk about that but first i want to ask why is this different then if i think back on recent presidencies like george bush's and i recall his you know the people around him talking about the idea of creating realities basically we create the reality and we we basically we dictate you know what is truth i remember this coming out of i think rove or one of the people around him and similarly with the obama administration there was a certain magical thinking about this savior complex that he was sort of this savior that was going to come in and change and give hope to american inspiration and so i was curious and i think if you go back further throughout time there's many mythological figures in american history in a sense going back to george washington himself was there a fight in a certain sense in many statues why is why is it now that you believe that the occult politics are so prevalent. well i mean i was actually asked to write the

book because of current events i mean ten years ago i did a book oh politics in the occult and it was about more or less a sort of overview of the history of the relationship between politics and you come from one of the things i wanted to do in that book was to sort of dispel the myth that any sort of political element in the occult tends to be on the. the far right this is something that was propagated by people like umberto eco and some other writers and this isn't to say that there isn't a connection between far right politics and the occult but there is also a sort of progressive occultism that you can find in people like manapul vats and further back in the sort of row secretions in the early sixteenth century so i mean i sort of looked at it in an overview there but the real sort of trigger for this book for dark store was something that was in the news and it was what happened at the meeting of the national policy institute very soon after trump selection and

richard spencer who is also the founder of the authorized alternative right he addressed the crowd for the meeting they are saying you know hell trump you know our hero things along this line but any went on to say we made this happen we will trump and into office more or less and this was picked up by a fellow named harvey bishop who is a new thought blogger and i should say that new thought is a sort of generic term for a variety of different sort of mental science techniques in which exactly what you're saying you can you can sort of use thought to create reality but generally speaking at least some bishops point of view people that are involved in new thought of positive thinking you know tend to be let's say you know using for the spiritual so the aims and the idea that the alternative right was somehow using new thought techniques to trump into office. obviously bishop was someone who didn't particularly care for terms of he thought this was particularly positive and other

things were happening at the same time and seemed a lot of things that were on the fringe suddenly became sort of center stage one of the things that for me. sort of marked a real change was the new york times running an article about steve bannon and a talk you gave to. a group in the vatican known as the human dignity institute and amidst all the usual thing he was talking about the global tea party movement things like that he name checked fillin in julius evelyn now if you know who julius evill is you know that he was a twentieth century esoteric thinker he's rather controversial is a brilliant mind but he also had very far right extreme political views and he tried to curry favor first with miscellany and then with the national socialism and after the war when his attempts to somehow create a kind of absolute fascism through either misleading fascism and national socialism

he became a kind of eminence crease in the background sort of intellectual. kind of mentor for a variety of new right groups that were rising up in italy and so forth he lived and he died nine hundred seventy four his works now been picked up by the altar right and people of of that sort so it struck me that you know to have first place to name checked in the new york times was strange enough but to have that be done in the in the context of you know the new president of the united states and steve benen at the time was still on board you know he was still part of the bench there so and again the odd thing again all these things seem to link him to something else the other odd thing about all of that was that the context in which he was named checking julius what was an allusion to dougan who is another terry political thinker who has links with the traditionalism julius several of the so she added with and he too depending on which sources you. use has had some

effect and some influence on some of the ideas or themes that are informing the sort of search for a new identity in russia so everything seems to sort of link suddenly into place and whereas yes there is a long history in different ways of the occult having an influence on. politics this for me seemed different because it suddenly seemed to be center stage one from the fringe to the mainstream. but are we seeing any implications of you know again this sort of cult thought magical thinking in the actual presidency of trump . what trump himself we know is a devotee of positive thinking. you know he was a great reader of norman vincent peale not only a reader he went to his sermons in new york at the mobile commute to church and he was going there since he was young and his father was

a. respected not been some people a great deal and if you know. various different self-help books like the art of the deal and other ones the whole positive thinking so the theme is involved in there so i think we can say and positive thinking comes out of new thought new thought itself has roots in one thousand century occultism so it may not be i'm not saying trump is casting spells or anything like that but it does seem that he has. a great deal of his ethos and his worldview and the way he approaches things steeped in new thought and strangely enough. the way in which are the techniques in which the all right we're supposed to have dreamed or wished trump into office or an offshoot of something is known as chaos magic or they use the internet and they employ something that's come to be known as mean magic and this is something that grows out of as i said chaos magic and chaos magic is simply to define it is something

it's an approach to using sort of magic that doesn't rely on the traditional techniques you basically use whatever's at hand it's kind of like an art you know the idea of object truth there is something that you pick up in one context and put it in another but so you have supposedly all right chaos magicians are using the internet to help try and get into office and this leads into a new thought ideas. trump himself is a devotee of a sort of branch of new thought positive thinking and i would say that the one where that would characterize you know trumps presidency so for i would say it's chaos and so he seems to have a natural inclination in many ways his m.o. the way that he operates seem to suggest to me as i looked into this more and more to be sort of a natural play into this the whole idea that reality being something that you play with beliefs is something that you pick up and put down and you know adopt and and dismiss whenever it's necessary for you things of that sort different identities this kind of thing so rather than saying that you know there's a direct link with

a direct line you probably never heard the term before or perhaps you know you may now mean something made to him about the book about it but just says the way he approached things naturally seem to line up with it and then the other strange thing the thing that seemed to link in the set both positive thinking and chaos magic or results driven very interested in making things happen there must be some kind of real effect in the real world out there to be sort of you know the real thing and both of them are into that so again it seemed sort of as i looked into this the ripples of sort of connection and comparison similarities seem to grow and grow and grow. the miss america pageant is celebrating its entrance into the twenty first century of this because they announced the pageant will now be called the competition and will no longer include a swimsuit competition and while many will claim that there's a huge move toward equality for women i'm going to have to disagree on this one here is that miss america is in fact

a beauty competition that is so antiquated creepy that women's magazines like a war can't even figure out who's bread and butter pretty much is making women judge their own looks and the looks of other women can't figure out who's watching with the event every year so look we can take away both but the day of having. human beings parade themselves about like cattle so others may judge their beauty and her or outer is probably not ever going to be the empowering experiment and feminism that's somewhat like really sorry. not empowering. i mean are they going to think like the physics they're going to do it and i mean even to go. back and start a chauffeur is going to remember everyone in those world we are told the real love with love so it's all you all i love you i am a robot for an archaeologist keep watching those hawks in the great thing about

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for the u.s. led coalition in syria and iraq say it's impossible to know how many civilians died during the rocket campaign follows honesty international's reports accusing the coalition of course the war crimes. sanctions and the energy supply is top the agenda as blanda may putin visits the end up on his first foreign trip since starting his fourth term as president. and america's ambassador to israel gives some less than diplomatic feedback to journalists covering the i.d.f. so used of extreme force against palestinian protesters in gaza. it's.

a very warm welcome you're watching us international with me thank you aaron now our top story this hour the spokesman for the u.s. led coalition against eisel says that accurate figures for civilians killed and rocca will never be known. as far as how do we know how many civilians were killed i'm just being honest no one will ever know anyone who claims they all know is lying this comes off to amnesty international accused the us led coalition of committing potential war crimes during last year's operation to liberate the syrian city of raka from islamic state more now from others to see if. this amnesty international report dubbed war of the hill lation devastating tolls on civilians in iraq or syria is a very highly critical analysis of the airstrikes that were carried out by the u.s. led coalition that involved britain and france on the city of raka from june to

october twenty seventeen in their fight against isis and this amnesty international report talks of decimated families and neighborhoods says that not enough was done to protect civilians and that some of the attacks resulted in violation of international humanitarian law and indeed talks of potential war crimes as a result of the these strikes the report finds that hundreds of people died and thousands were injured despite the coalition saying they did everything they could to minimize casualties. we did everything we could in our intelligence assessment in our planning to minimize to the maximum degree possible any chance of civilian casualties the coalition's claims that it's precision air campaigns allowed to bump islamic state out of iraq while causing very few civilian casualties do not stand up to scrutiny on the ground in iraq we witnessed a level of destruction comparable to anything we've seen in decades of covering the

impact of wars you know when you're fighting an enemy. uses noncombatants as collateral damage you know it's very difficult when the when you fight it we like that to completely avoid. any casualties of war like that but i can tell you we have a process that we go through. to minimize you know civilian casualties at all costs well amnesty international interviewed one hundred twelve civilians in as many as forty two locations of airstrikes for this report and some of their focus was specifically on four families who had lost very big numbers of family members in these airstrikes they look at one family that lost as many as eight members and one airstrike another lost sixteen another family lost eighteen and a fourth family that lost as many as thirty nine people in those airstrikes and of course while we know the coalition says that in this case as others they did all

they can to minimize casualties and in these kinds of scenarios according to them this is inevitable according to amnesty international that is just not good enough and they have called for investigations and justice for the victims of those strikes we spoke to international law attorney jennifer breeden and richard becker of the antiwar ansa coalition they told us washington's investigations into civilian casualties have been inadequate. i do think that this is one comment that should have been really unfolded more there should have been given in more detail on how is that how is that that we can't count the victims why wouldn't we be able to what is happening that we can't count the victims when you've seen an air strike up in close in person can level a house and these are these are very serious airstrikes and so there might be bodies that aren't found there might be people that aren't found and even of the limbs or bodies are parts they are found and of course this is very unfortunate and difficult especially during a time of war but it is a very disconcerting statement if he doesn't explain the meaning of that the fact

that they're not going to know how to identify what they found in the rubble where airstrikes of that magnitude are concerned i remember in the first u.s. war on a rare that after the war was over our collin powell who was then the chief of staff i believe of the u.s. military was asked what about civilian casualties you said that's not a number we're interested in that isn't fair to confession of walk work crimes and they're saying again well we'll never be able to know what they don't want to know that's why they're not able to know they don't make any effort and they cover up what is obvious to the rest of the world that in fact the vast majority of the civilian casualties are being caused by their bomb and u.s. britain france and other allies of ours he was in syria while the u.s. led campaign to liberate iraq who was ongoing these are some of the reports filed by our correspondent on the extent of the devastation and how rough because reza.