when the people or the government and we live in a democracy it's like when you see signs that say u.s. government no trespassing and i'm like. i pay taxes i must citizen why are we here this is one of those things that i mean the child pornography thing aside to sit there and say this once again we're going after people who are trying to show the show the weaknesses and are in what we need this this wasn't i mean if this was really a threat to our national security every time they say this since nine eleven this leak was a threat to national security this could put us and yet. what's happened that's the who is hacking all these banks looking like it's the u.s. government right nobody. you know even says it's this idea it's the same you know it's no different than the scare tactics of anything it's you know my go back things are going to happen you have no want me idea how many terrorists we've saved you from it's always the thing to they always go back to that same thing oh this poor like you said this personally therefore it's going to destroy i mean fire is

going to rain down from the sky the cia as we know it will crumble will never be able to protect our borders whatsoever all because the ground you know because it was a josh was sold to twenty nine year old twenty nine years old gave a massive trove of information to wiki leaks and government and u.s. government hacking tools the only and that's the thing to it was fascinating to read this it was fascinating to know what the cia has as its at its disposal like you know even the n.s.a. that we don't know has or has not or doesn't share our views fascinating where you see all this stuff and it's good because that's what our tax dollars being spent that's our tax dollars being spent and we need to know that a sense of these what it says is that one if the cia is so great why the heck are so many twenty something year old able to walk in with a thumb drive and walk out with this information and get it all the way there and apparently at the same time be keeping stacks of child porn in their house but nobody at the cia knows that is a failure on their part don't tell me you're the intelligence gathering you know

information when you didn't know that this guy had access to this computer took this stuff and sent it away and he was told it could have been anything and then god it's just leaking things that the american people should know about what happens when it's something they shouldn't what happens when it's someone who can see it's so easy and they're going to have this and just say oh you're so weird so weird where are you guys are going right now i mean that's exactly it you know in the end it just it is it's that thing of like look you know everyone uses these things to attack like a. q leaks and things like that again i can't stress this love our money paid for all of this we have a right to know and no soldier was put in harm's way i didn't hear about some platoon getting slaughtered because of shoulder the shoulder he released all this information we never heard of and about the no individual hurt and remember we never actually used any of these right so i'm not sure why so he it was dangerous

and his victims on all these things that happened then and oh my god where do you know how did all these problems he may have caused except go back to when it all came out they went oh that's nothing so it's either nothing or it's an obstruction of justice you have to decide these lawyers to bring a shroff and said back in may that our client was deeply saddened that he might face espionage related charges this week she says that with all the evidence is clear the public will discover what he's hardly the villain of the government tries to make him out to be. which is why i would weigh this the idea of putting him as you know it's always he was with a hooker he might have been you know in the fifty's they called you a homosexual and now it's all of the porn and so i urge people to maybe go about it's a weird thing to bring up in this and suddenly to only come up now again if you people trading kiddie porn working for the cia you have a bigger problem and you need to fix it on your head not. just so people realize like according to the washington post back in twenty twelve the federal government

has a good idea of how much we say is secret the federal government is keeping petabytes that's a million give each of information secret every year that's an awesome amount that's also not a democracy exactly that is a dictatorship by the omission of information by hiding these things you are you are not allowing people to have the knowledge you are not allowing a free democracy you're not allowing free speech you're expecting people to have the correct opinion based on very little information and only the in from a. yeah you can say that you have a properly functioning government if they believe that that much of what they have needs to be secret had a bite petabytes that's absolutely ridiculous art as we go to break don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered and facebook and twitter and see our poll show that r.t. dot com coming up we bring you the second half of job skills interview with a ph d. as well both of our authors of the book the cartels do not exist drug trafficking

culture in mexico state to watch a local. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. after three years of conflict it has been estimated that out of a population of twenty seven point four million twenty two point two million people in yemen are in need of humanitarian assistance so why are the u.s. and u.k. so committed to the saudi u.a.e. war on yemen.

ph d. an authoress while those of the cartels do not exist drug trafficking and culture in mexico is challenging the official narrative surrounding drug cartels and the governments that hunt them down recently sat down with all its cusses new book and the holes it's creating and the official legend surrounding the cartels today we present the second half of that fascinating interview where shannon's avali get into what we know and don't know about the official story surrounding cartel then take a listen. it's a fascinating issue you mentioned chopra really i want to go back to that momentarily you said that basically it seems like you sort of dismiss choppa was far as his influence and power as a sort of drug lord that came up from being a sort of image of the you know his back stories but he was more like a sort of a tough guy within. a kind of like al capone type of guy right who comes up and basically takes over as this major drug lord and then we assume that he was so

feared that he could even break out of jail and pose a serious threat even you know they were talking about you know he could pose a threat to trump for example but you're you're dismissing his ultimate influence and power absolutely and i would not doing so out of pure expect you lation i mean if you if you follow. the main events surrounding his downfall ski's many of his three downfalls at least you know you will find many contradictions between you know the official discourse claiming that he's seen this drug lord in as you mentioned that you know at some point in his organization controlled drug trafficking in more over fifty countries of the world right. and who apparently you know surrounded his skin self constantly with with guards up to three hundred armed guards accompany him everywhere he would go and then he's he's downfall in the most precarious were. the first war the second the second time he was captured in mexico

that happened three days after president obama visited them presley and opinion the don't still current president and to get into and talk and discuss about his policy on national security and almost as if pressing on to get beyond it was telling president obama look we think we can handle this we got this three days later chappell was captured without any gunshots produced and then. the third time in final time he was caught as you as you know. in the most humiliating fashion right after this interview which and actress mexican actress kay that gets to you he was detained. very easily hours before rolling stone published that article so there's a lot to be said about the timing of this captures and if and the e.c. i guess axis that the state to show would whenever it decided to capture it chop wood that's just first the first thing that i would say but the second thing is the

most important argument that i make in my book is that there's simply no money to be found right under his name and for his defense and on his accounts right and that's something that is very puzzling right because a lot of. pundits would say well you know he's very skilled in masking you know the money and they versifying and in hiding it but you can never really then that and the fact that he is extradited completely powerless. and basically vulnerable to whatever u.s. authorities a new his justice would want to do with them so this man who held the most powerful empire in a criminal organization in the world suddenly is without any power extradited in the band and then and then the story gets even more twisted right currently for example the da and u.s. intelligence is now selling the that. still the most powerful organization but also

that school and it wasn't a new generation school card bill it's also in the game also controlling drug trafficking in over ten other countries and then it will set us are still so of course an international organization again controlling drug trafficking in three or four other countries they tell us also that the one that cartel the juarez cartel also have money and movement of money in flows of money and all over the world and what is really interesting to me is is to how to accept that you know the possibility that these organizations can basically distribute the world among themselves and their world of drug trafficking and very peacefully go about their business say for example controlling the drug trade in north africa but they cannot somehow find that peace in mexico and they must fight each other for this very precarious territories in the truck on in the state of get out all right and in places that you know do not matter much if you're controlling say for example the flux of drugs in new york city. so there is it's very it's very difficult to make

peace with what you hear in the news and it's been coming from official discourse in what reality shows you once this drug lords are captured one thing for example that there was no doubt immediately when sean penn did that interview with chappell i don't know if you remember but. using a cell phone answering some of the questions posed and it took him a few days to do that because they couldn't find a translator for the questions written in english into spanish for him to be able to answer so this man who supposedly controlled this men's empire that had a foot in fifty three countries that had a council on their money every they couldn't not have available to himself a translator for the questions of champagne and there's many contradictions we can go on in. on how these characters are made basically official discourse that it's

never been verified the same happens for example with the famous article from forbes magazine claiming that a chopper was one of the richest man's richest men in the world and what you would see in that article is that it's based on pure expect you lation and of course some of the u.s. intelligence you know how many how much money it's made in the directory but of course assuming that somehow he controlled a monopoly on drugs and so that is and that is basically that many and among many others the contradictions that i work on. absolutely and so i mean i get i think the argument you're making is ultimately these cartels can exist without the state ultimately supporting their infrastructure and this is an argument that we've seen from critical journalists across the border saying that look the drug traffic is largely controlled through state apparatus is intelligence agencies are aware of it allow it condone it oftentimes the traffickers and dealers are really the ones who are being escorted across the country whereas the migrants who are maybe caught in

the border trafficking drugs are sort of small time players what is your take on trump's efforts to sort of you know to curtail the immigrant who are draft trafficking in drugs and sort of as he calls them criminal activity what is the purpose behind that rhetoric we see this is the most fascinating thing they the drug trafficking that's a national security threat in mexico at least it's a very recent invention you know before the year two thousand nobody thought or even imagine drug cartels to pose any real danger to civil society. or to the federal or state governments before two thousand what you would see also not only in the media but even in novels and fail in in music in any cultural object being produced about the drug trafficking is that you would have this this organizations were actually very precarious the work cartel was not even in news you know before heavily news before you know they were the year two thousand and

most imagination and most public opinion about them was that they know that they lead very precarious very difficult lives you know that often threatened by the state after two thousand what we see is the root transformation the radical transformation of this discourse and the of the drug cartel that's the national security threat comes directly to the mexican government from the u.s. . in for two reasons and this is what i'm discussing in the book on the one hand you know the first objective is to circulate this military as a gemini you know from the us. into mexico in the very same way they did in colombia and they still do in colombia specially now with the election of and second you know for deprivation of natural resources that we discussed so most of what we think about drug cartels then really comes from this discourse and this t.g. operational. selling of the drug cartels some sort of a national security threat and this of course explains the insistence on the part

of president from to keep talking about this organizations as if they really pose any sort of an immediate threat not only just to mexico but of course to the u.s. border as violence supposedly spills over right and so what i'm arguing here is of course not to deny that director if you can be an issue for especially for social health and for policing purposes but it is not in the it's never been a problem for national security in the field if you would think it is it's only because it's been circulated insistently from the part of our government in mexico and in the u.s. with this two objectives in mind that i discuss. as well to thank you so much for coming on and joining me today really appreciate your insights thank you so much thank you for this time. well you can be snug as a bug in a rug when it comes to smarts bugs always seem to get the short end of the stick or bottom of the shoe for that matter but all that may be changing thanks to an

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elite . it's day seven of the world cup where portugal on morocco get the ball rolling in their second group big game which kicked off just moments ago. that comes after launch not last night's high drama which the russia beating egypt three one even with the return of egypt's star player mohamed salah. and we talked to the former fee for president sepp blatter who announced russia as the host nation back in twenty ten about his impressions of the current tournament . this was the best start ever because it's my eleventh's world cup and when they

are rife yesterday i saw it a little bit this my bow cut. a very warm welcome you're watching r t international with me and he arun the first up let's talk football. special coverage of the world cup continues as teams including the stop playing their second games on wednesday beginning with portugal the moroccan which is just kicked off in the last few minutes trying to hold kids is near moscow's luzhniki stadium where the game is taking place daniel what are the expectations for this clash. certainly high expectations on both sides from

what we fired from the fans today the mood from day one from the opening game really hasn't died down here in moscow has been one comes to policy one constant festival of football suddenly finds you both confidently they kind when we got to speak to some just before the match kicked off. he actually to make sure that's more about who would win this game because it's a do or die so we have to stick to our game hopefully we'll get lucky and this is a beautiful city and the way the organizers this event must go did the great job we have here just saw two thousand of us on the most. fun for the environment to get running through great people everything spectacular amazing and so we like the hospitality infrastructure is amazin and we're sure that morocco is going to win. must win game from morocco hopefully they can prove they can bounce back from the hall break they suffered against the rod conceding a last minute goal and it's up to portugal also to prove them all than

a one man city in the one man of course being christian or now live a star striker forward who many here today have come to watch so far the torment has proved anything can happen we've seen favorites germany brazil argentina and others lose or lose points at least so the moroccans would be feeling optimistic here even against the portuguese who were initially one of the favorites in. certainly a very electrifying atmosphere here a very happy with both sets of fives it bring you updates of course as any goals come in. thanks for that dan we'll be keeping a close eye on that game throughout the next ninety minutes of course well meanwhile russia has been partying all night after the host nation pulled off a stunning victory against egypt beating them three one. it's. it's.

it's it would it was. eighty eight years on their surprise it was pretty noisy in the capital overnight and that's something that prevented some people from getting a decent night's sleep and among them said blatter who served as the feed for president for seventeen years he shared his impressions of the tournament with us earlier. as you arrived last night did you manage to get much sleep with all the revelers out in the streets of moscow you see after the big tree and domestic the big story of russia. until four o'clock in the morning in the hotel was impossible to sleep but after vs could work it was a wonderful to witness at the arrival this second victory of russian team

qualified to for the next round and everything is open now it is actually it's made it a very very open to a very open group a and it's always a good thing isn't it when the host nation as a world cup has such a good start and for me this was the elementary this was the best start ever because it's my eleventh's world cup. and i was in very actively here and i guessed the first match of the organizing committee of the year of the host and that's important and just make it even more and now it's all gold it's all gold needs success ensured for the whole competition and also it benefits the country as a whole doesn't it if he keeps it not only a psychological boost also an economic boost as well absolutely and you know what is important also that this bug russia where they have been the you saw it say. so many doubts about the organisation will the

abilities and so on what will happen it started it started it started there for whom it to and especially in the stadium because of wonderful amen to this a good football is good is not good at the best because in the first round you have to look a little bit that good is a board and you see television audience international rochelle is now in all the world in all the world by television mondal bizzle and this is very important i mean i did the actual an ounce. and in english when it when it came to here is deciding who to host the world cup and i committing a program and striving to you were waiting for the announcement and you did the old life and all those things that were seven and a half years ago can you believe it she think that everything is now going as planned it's going i remember this his second of december two thousand and ten when i took out the the the open the envelope and there was so then russia for

me for me it was the i was together with the executive committee viva obligating to go to the eastern europe and to go to to go to russia and now to realize it is knowledge so many it's a two decades again and this is still there and when i arrived yesterday i saw the little bit is my vote. how i was received here television become aroused to the people of photographs and so on so i am happy to be back here and to witness to a recall of russian built there so we can hear the name of our god sure chanting some of the cossacks around down there to looking at some of the matches so far we've not completed all round matches we've had a few surprises happen way i mean germany music cumbia losing what it would be sort of the first damages you see that in football there always surprises the thing the

big teams who even if they lose to force much maybe come back graeme sure but that this makes the day competition to our tactics because you never know with tottenham and i think this is the match between the mexico and germany it is horses trailer gives it really a spirit this is what people like and now germany has to react to adulthood the the two matches said russia play i have to say. second they have to prove to conform and they did it and they did it well they have south america columbia out there on the last argentina. by the drawing and the little y. had so difficult is it to win against the court and i

think it is it will be it will be. no difficulties against the edge of the local agent and vivid scene of what we've heard will happen thirty of his competition is now on board its own board and have and also is he as you said it's the first world cup in eastern europe we've been to south africa we've been in brazil chasing fee for at least is winning over it its message of spreading football to all the world is actually winning it six years and i have to say that those instrumental to bring the world cup in all continents have to vote together they've had their time president have lost because of the ways of the world cup was already only played in the americas northants also good of so obvious started to go to to asia who will have the job and korea and then there we went to africa and to now we have to go are older on civil and the eastern europe was never in

a new job you have had so many of the clubs the not in eastern europe and this is part of this is the going around of to off to the top in the different continents of their mapping and talking of innovations there's no such technology as well we now have be are and i think you've always had your own particular views about technology how do you think that b.a. are has had an impact on this while competing is a positive thing to think it's a negative thing by same good it is it is not yet totally and ready to be introduced in a vote of. because the we are. would be good if the. knowledge say the referees hit the television referees should always be the same group. because now they change every match and tell you no in a referee. according to their also think game it.