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join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport i'm sure i'll see them. again a pentagon analyst claims he's been stripped of his security clearance up to complain about astronomical payments to private contracts related to that of questionable connections he goes down off scot more. pentagon contracts are among the best ways to make big bucks and fast but even within the agency with a multi-billion dollar budget some deals stood out as outrageous for adam love

injure an analyst turned whistleblower he reported them to his bosses and believes was punished for doing so by having his pay cut and security clearances revoked there's a lot of players and entities in the story so try to bear with me here adam levin joe worked for the office of net assessment a small but evidently important department at the pentagon. in twenty sixteen loven to complain to the management about two contractors one is stephan helper and the other is a company called long term strategy group will begin untangling this with a helper the pentagon tasked him with writing up policy sheets for problematic regions at least from the u.s.

standpoint like russia or china or india this fact alone raised red flags for the whistleblower since the department of defense as employees tasked with just that while how her was an outsider what made things more suspicious is that helper was paid astronomically more than others. nobody in the office seem to know what hope or was doing for his money contracted out a good chunk of it to other academics he would compile them all and then collect the balance of his fee as a middleman that was very unusual for this type of work the pentagon reimbursed helper with more than a million dollars in the span of just under six years and a stranger doesn't get this kind of money in washington allegations of undercover spy games around help or they'd back all the way to the reagan years while more recently he was outed as an f.b.i. informant scooping for dirt on the trump campaign working against the current us

president makes helper trumps enemy and anyone who's a trumps enemy is hillary clinton's friend and clinton's name weaves into this story and nother contract to love and your flag the long term strategy group to him the company's stood out for an obvious reason see the head of this group and hillary clinton's daughter chelsea. jackie and i are still best friends she was in my wedding and i was in her leaked emails from hillary clinton server indicate the then secretary of state actively promoted the interests of the long term strategy group with a deal d. d. a secretary clinton thank you again for all you encourage meant and how to deal we had a productive discussion about iran and developments in that and asia but also discuss going to the eagles and that doubt what we need to do so that you can go to work

love injure wanted his bosses not only to look into the likely conflict of interest there but you also question the quality of the job done. on the issue of quality more than once i have heard our contractor studies labeled derivative college level and based heavily on secondary sources one of our contractors studies was literally cut and pasted from a world bank report but i just happened to have read the week before even the font was the same long term strategy group and the pentagon both denying that clinton's involvement had anything to do with the contracts the same people in the pentagon who compensated how the group had to have been just clearances and the pay reduced to nothing months after his complaints citing official reasons that have nothing to do with the whistleblower your lover injure is doubtless his downfall is retrieve buescher for crossing the wrong people you have to think about what actually happens to whistleblowers in the u.s.

because they've had a really rough time those coming out of the intelligence agencies over the last decade and the americans say they have this procedure where whistleblowers can can raise their concerns and they will be properly addressed and yet we see time and time again that they're not so i think we need also to consider what might be the best part for whistleblowers to have confidence that if they have concerns about crime or about corruption they will be heard they deemed the investigation will occur those who might be needed to be held to account will be held to account but the whistleblower will not be penalized and it appears from this case the whistleblower yet again has been penalized lover just lawyer national security the lawyer sean bigley branded the case an example of deep state corruption he believes his clients yet another victim of an internal war against the trumpet ministration . in mr love injurious case those weaponize ing the security clearance process or quietly usurping presidential prerogatives through

a litany of seemingly small but slowly compounding abuses of bureaucratic power their efforts evidence a philosophy that laws and rules are not static boundaries of societal norms but flexible tools of the administrative state. they are spending under partner justice to comment on mr levin just case and his allegations will bring you the reply as and when we get it big diff agrees today finally after all these years it's exit the bailout program brought in over the country's huge debt crisis under the rescue package put together by the e.u. and the international monetary fund greece received more than three hundred billion euro but it had a huge impact to the country's economy more than four hundred thousand people have moved abroad pensions taxes are up and athens is still expected to be repaying those loans until twenty sixty the crisis provoked serious tensions between greece and the e.u. along the way as well they picked in twenty fifteen when brussels demanded greater austerity measures to deal with the debt mountain most greek she may recall voted

against those measures in a referendum and yet the government was pressured nonetheless by the e.u. into implementing them as a result of the e.u. approved a key eighty six billion euro tranche of aid the bailouts triggered numerous protests over the years to. i was. was in or turn it it would have been the drastic reduction of the debt to make it sustainable in two thousand and ten it wouldn't require

a lot of restructuring in order to make the deck sustainable debt but at that time neither europe nor the united states or the world economy was ready to deal with their debts effectively and that's why people view laura's date with some relief in the sense that they would not be under the same stranglehold as they were in the past eight years on the other hand greece will still have to continue with in our sterrett year ashima which is going to make life difficult for the majority of us. which is shown as part of her story starts about half an hour ago with developing news story from spain police in barcelona shot a man the smalling who tried to attack officers with a knife that happened outside a police station in the canal a district in the city of comedia claims the assailant is reportedly a twenty nine year old man of algerian origin who show to god is great in arabic as

he tried to attack but it looks like the situation's under control at the moment for getting more that you know you can follow breaking news stories of course online as they happen at r.t. dot com and on our up straight to mobile device for now for me kevin owen in the r t news room in h.q. thanks for watching. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would

prefer and it be the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying there's just no really hasn't been that we want even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. we've been through this this isn't the way.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle the democratic party is in big trouble the party has not come to terms with the outcome of the two thousand and sixteen election they have a leadership out of touch with its base millennial are fleeing so is their slogan now no party for white men. across talking the trials and tribulations of the left i'm joined by my guest so i color in seattle he's a writer activist and progressive you tube or in west hartford we have julio rivera he is editorial director for reactionary times and a newsmax columnist and here in moscow we have don de bar he's an anti-war activist and host of a daily radio program origin. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate soccer let me go to you first in seattle

because you get up at the earliest for this program and it's much appreciated i mean i suppose you came. came across as walk away a movement that is taken a bit of. a flash on the on the internet here i found that to be very curious because i think i instinctively everyone on this panel and a lot of people in the in the in the country already know this and and be the inclusive eighty of the democrats is what they say but in fact they're actually actively excluding people of all kinds of people different stripes and attitudes and outlooks how do you reflect upon that zach go ahead. because it's going. you know this year i saw a lot of this thing in twenty six. well basically that's sort of what happened in the twenty sixteen election it's lots and lots and lots of democrats used to be

very active voters active in their community completely left the party for a number of reasons not a whole lot this changed sixteen but you know at least this viral video made us open more and also. as you know i think it's a very good thing that the democratic party ok i want to go back to why you think it is later in the program who you know basically the same thing to you because i mean i've been very very critical of the identity politics but it seems to me that since two thousand it did more to do thousand sixteen and it's not working now but they've doubled down on it i mean it just you know if that's the definition of stupidity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome ok i find it really breathtakingly stupid to be honest go ahead julio and wes hardy exactly it's a definition of insanity and they're going to continue to do it because they have hope for and quite frankly are right on i mean they can't really criticize the

results of the truck because for the traditional democratic governor graphics the last two you know those the blocked unemployment has been you know at historic lows or near historic lows the entire time and i think that people the of color and you know women and some of those other demographics right now or feel that they're being insulted in a sense it is intellectually insulting for democrats to make the assumption that all these groups are supposed to just you know coalesce only with the democrats you know it should be about our policy it should be about the color of your skin it should be about which party will bring the best result for you economically and otherwise who they are but let me go to don i thought that what the democratic party used to do exactly what julio just sad go ahead don politics is supposed to be the field in which public policy is to term and and a day. craddock society which people refer to the united states as they've been doing it my whole life referring to it that those decisions policy decisions are

supposed to be made democratically when you have that determination is a policy made at the beginning of the process by you know big money basically whether it's democrats or republicans who are the politicians that will implement those policies the job becomes then selling policy that the people don't want so people buy madison avenue techniques which is where you get identity politics we are going to do things that are good for big banks we're going to do things that are good for the military industrial complex we're going to do things that are good for the prison industrial complex we have to sell it to black folks this way hispanic folks this way so white working class folks this way etc in other words these divisions quote unquote that are you know things that are like in the madison avenue playbook or the things that have to be excited because it's determined already what's going to happen and all they're doing is trying to temper your response to it and so at the end of the day when people don't feel anything

actualize through public policy discussions debates elections of cetera they become frustrated and they start walking away and what we're seeing happen with the democratic party is the logical conclusion of this process and i think it's terminal yeah i mean if you look i mean it with the advent of barack obama what are the fortunes of the democratic party in congress in the white house gubernatorial races i mean really it doesn't work i don't understand why they keep doing it so i'm going to go to you because i find it i'm really insulted by politicians that pigeonhole me ok you know because of my appearance number one or some of my preferences that doesn't determine my political outlook and they insult the and the electorate by for example if you're a gay person oh you must be a democrat really why i never understood that everyone has the right to determine what they think and express what they think in public without being pigeonholed and

to be dated to vote to pull the to go along with the party line go ahead zack. you know you're exactly right and you know i don't know and that's exactly what after twenty six minutes people just assume you're voting democrat and so you get well wait in my late and all the sudden the democrats like deserve my vote you know obviously bill clinton is the longest possible for two it's a gay federal bills while he was president you know find a president that's the more alarmed the gay community than the clintons you know so it's like it was always the. only people only allowed. i think only the you that supporting this or if there's this very early the candidates are greeted sermon by the influence and then fair and put it on the you know voter group and it just assumes that every single gay person has the same thing in every single black person the same it's completely insulting it's completely

a little bit racist assume that you're both are mitt will not do more of a. political or serve. anyone or a certain earth if they have to go in certain ways one of. the things that will warm it's insulting but it's insulting because they take you for granted i mean and that's the worst thing a politician can do take you for granted you're the only one of the things that really are the big bugs with this the new a quarter point appointment in there is a a woman who happens to be a counselor can has a large family and it seems to me when i look at the liberal media they're more terrified that trump will point out woman he's not supposed to do that he's oh my saadoun is you know all their fuses start blowing up i actually find it very amusing to watch it's like watching adolescence ok it's it gets is it they

portray every single value they claim to hold on. go ahead julio exactly it's almost like when you know the whole foreign policy thing with north korea started you know improving people were like you know that it's almost like liberals wanted there to be the constant get out of north korea because that would somehow prove it that donald trump was doing a terrible job from a foreign policy perspective you know and just to kind of expand on the whole walkaway thing i think that a lot of people did this all long time ago i mean you have to look at the result of the elections in two thousand and ten when the tea party rose up when you look at twenty fourteen where there was a big republican revolution where a lot of house seats were gained and the senate was retaken by the by the republicans rather and the twenty sixth do you know election result you know this party has nothing to offer i can't say that enough i mean what's their platform going to be we're going to increase your taxes and they think that the economy in american the working class americans are going to gravitate towards that this way

that supposedly is coming is nonexistent in my opinion you know you know don you know one of the things i find really tragic what's going on the democratic party because they used to traditionally support the working class people and i think that was that was admirable ok i do like having a adversarial political system because you get the best out of it's renegotiation and debate and all of that that's one that's ok and i actually miss traditional liberals in it because they actually had a genuine concern for the working class people for for the everyday people if i can use that term anymore why have they i mean we see it all through the clinton campaign is that don't worry about white men you know do a lost cause that you know when you don't that's not even part of their electoral calculus which is in the end of the day that's what made donald trump the president i mean how did they miss this and how do they keep missing it don. but. i don't

know how they keep missing it again the problem is the a priori decisions are you know policy decisions are made that way at the beginning we're doing this and it gets done now the politicians go out and argue over whether it was a good thing or not although the mechanism by which this thing happened there are very small group of people who are big very big policy decisions that transfer a large amounts of wealth into their bank accounts and make the rest of us basically have more problems in our daily lives so the outcome you know among the population is going to be you know decision another basis for us being dissatisfied this is bad for me to have to work longer hours or have as much money of in foreclosure or being a victim you know across there are millions of people that are in all kinds of distress in the united states this has been growing since the one nine hundred seventy s. really and unabated since the mid late eighty's and there's no remedy offered in the political system so when politicians come out and start talking about division

for example you're talking about an adversarial process because normally we're trained to think like in courts an adversarial process is how you do your you know find truth in this case there is that the adversary is between the people who are making policy and the rest of this but to have us at each other's throats arguing over what is or isn't true while all of us are having our wealth transferred to a very small group of people who make those decisions it's a public relations game really it's not a place where well obviously is made and that's the problem but it's what's really interesting is that we have had a series revolts we've had the tea party revolt we had the we had the occupy we had occupy and we're going to go to a short break here but i want to talk about alexander alexandria. to ten is when we come back gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the trials and tribulations of the left state with our.

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