at the recent findings by student loan planner dot com which has discovered that one in fifteen student loan borrowers surveyed have considered suicide due to their student loans in fact the survey data suggests the one in eleven deaths by suicide among young professionals were partly due to student loans. my friends this truly is a national crisis that must be addressed but the question is whatever can we do democratic presidential hopeful was born and others have suggested a massive government funded student loan debt cancellation program now naturally many of cried where oh where will we ever get the money to pay for such a thing we can't be doing this oh my goodness where oh where oh yeah you know what maybe we maybe this is going out on a limb here maybe we could start with some of the pentagon's lobster and crab money yes according to open books dot com report on the u.s. government's annual end of the year for school end of the fiscal year spending

spree the department of defense spend two point three million dollars on crab snow crab alaskan king crab and crab legs and claws and another two point three million on lobster tail additionally age other agencies spend over two hundred close to three hundred thousand dollars on steak rib eye top sir law and flank so today my friends with so many citizens getting crushed under debt i think it's a good time to crunch the numbers and see just what the government splurge is our money on when they scrambled to spend out their annual budgets as we start watching the hawks. get the. real deal it's what. they like you know that i got. was a. welcome

one watching arks i am tyrone winter and i'm happy. you know i love third grammy and revise i not not on and not on the taxpayers' dime. you know there is a good argument to be made for that good argument to be made for that i mean and this all look this is all coming down the what kind of use it or lose that idea of spending it's every year congress you know they they give them each federal agency a certain amount of money that they can spend on outside contractors for that this school year. these kind of spending splurge of these user lose that spending splurge is comes from the worry that if an agency hits september the end of the fiscal year and they haven't spent all of what congress allocated to congress might not get them that much the next time around you know they might say hey you didn't hit the ten we gave you last year so we're only going to give you this year so what

do they do they go crazy and splurge spend and you know all over the place and this is how you get weird reports that say you know the pentagon is buying lobsters and crabs meat right you know and all this kind of craziness you know when you look at it the idea is that oh it's usually not we just bought a bunch of lobster and had a party it's usually like oh what was used as a you know as a. gift to service your it was we gave these things here's the problem with that if you really want to do this like we had a lobster dinner for you know people at a base a we have this it was part of here you know your thanksgiving or whatever then that should have been spent a lot earlier and should have been already taken care of thank you i don't have a problem with you by mistake and some crab me for crab legs for people who are serving their country or public servants or anything and and upping their normal especially if you're in a situation where you're feeding them as america services but i don't think that

you should do it this way because it's pretty obvious you just want to make sure your contractor bodies get get what they're got. and you get the same and i'm sure got it under your contract if you want to kick the big trucks out in september eyes are some serious size trucks yet so the federal agency spent one of the twenty eight hundred that's the splurge they spent five hundred forty four point one billion on contracts in twenty years so almost ninety seven billion of that ninety seven billion dollars was spent in september of twenty nine final months of the fiscal year included in one of them was fifty three point. three billion in the last seven days of the month to put this into perspective in august the fed spent just. forty seven in the whole month one month later they suddenly are spending ninety seven billion dollars that's a serious amount of money. so let's let's take this take that you mentioned student

loan debt right let's look at this a minute now and just break this down is the news in the crab example four million dollars is right though what how does four million dollars in class crowd exactly turn into student loan debt maybe if they didn't spend that they could kick it over into student loan or run if you don't meet your marker for the end of the year then take that extra money and move it over into student loan debt help you know that kind of thing so let's take a look at this all right let's see our folks forty four million student loan debt sits right now today's forty four million have student debt today's that's at about one point five one point six trillion right the d.o.d. spent four point six million. meant to the average amount per owed for borrowers about thirty six thousand dollars they're in the hole thirty six thousand dollars and you put all those numbers together now the d.o.d. spent four point six million dollars of lobster crab and other food items in september alone now when you crunch those numbers this order could relieve. one hundred twenty seven people of that debt. when you add in the thirty six out of the

four point six million eight hundred twenty seven people could have no debt. was just a small amount until you realize what what could be done with those one hundred twenty seven people and that's just with what one agency in one area and one contract on a lobster a crab imagine if they pulled that like whatever's left over that you don't use goes into student that really every time we do that we're building our economy this is how you stimulate an economy it goes back to things like food stamps people complain about this but for every dollar of food stamps that are so. rent or you know your snap food assistance for every dollar that's spent you create an extra dollar fifty into the economy surrounding us so the view as the sun money to get money made so one of the other thing is twenty fifth since twenty fifteen this idea of use it or lose it last minute spending by federal agencies has gotten worse and

worse between twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen federal spending during the final month of the fiscal year increased get this by thirty nine percent. that's a lot on purpose to people that is not oh well we just didn't know that you know it that is though that means we know didn't need that much money to operate all year and so we had september two quick let's blow we will have more of them rose we can fix water we can fix these things we can't give people an education for our future that's a good point that. from out of control government spending to out of control sex slave cults yes the sex trafficking racketeering trial against keith read a new leader of the group called mixi i'm open this week in new york city and expected to be a headline grabbing affair and as prosecutors lay out their case against the self help so-called self-help guru our to america straight shot

a story. the trial against former self-help guru keith for near is underway here in new york prosecutors calling him a predator who preyed on young women making them his own personal sex slaves their pain and humiliation he's a former leader of an upstate new york group called nexium which has been compared to a colt now keeper near facing criminal charges including racketeering and sex trafficking after allegations that the one time leader of a self-improvement group groomed women for sex according to federal prosecutors are in years guilty of subjecting women to shame and humiliation and threatening to expose their deepest and darkest secrets if they didn't comply assistant u.s. attorney tanya jar said in u.s. district court in brooklyn the defendant took advantage of them emotionally and sexually he sold himself as the smartest most ethical person in the world he compared himself to einstein and to gandhi but the defense told jurors that all the women joined nexium voluntarily and that rainier was merely a tough taskmaster not an abusive criminal mastermind according to court documents

ring years accused of recruiting women to join his group and then exercising total control over them forcing them to have sex with him restricting their diets and branding them with his initials the prosecutor alleged that ron year even had sex with a fifteen year old girl and took nude photos of her that were here has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking child pornography and other crimes meanwhile some of his alleged sex slaves are expected to testify along with other members of his inner circle in the coming weeks reporting in new york ten of the charges are to. move the trial is going to be going to be a barber and i mean it's frightening when you look at the amount of people you know we're part of back group and how susceptible people are to you know about that cult like idea of where you know join us where your family will take care of you yeah but i think people don't realize is that really how the cult works i mean nexium was this kind of. low rent scientology where it was branded as once

again it's this idea much like scientology rather like executive training program where we can help you with a career and just take these classes and take this one workshop it's two thousand dollars a month so it's sort of like slowly you slowly work into giving them tons and tons of money in the case of nexium there was this recruitment drive by a number of women as we've seen. that were either connected to people in hollywood or trying to get more and more people involved in that and that's kind of what brought this out in the open sadly if it had just been i think run of the mill people it probably would have gotten as much attention this case got a lot of attention because allison mack who you see in this video leaving this was a couple weeks ago of her leaving her guilty plea. from the cruise the groom to see her in there and to have a number of people with

a lot of money who are very high in society and there was a lot of the oxenberg her daughter. katherine i believe her daughter was involved and that's how the a lot of this came out and it's sad to me that there's so many other people that were being used as slave labor as they were. these charges told me he's guilty this is pretty heinous actually sort of sleeping with a fifteen year old person threatening people with pornographic images of mailing on blackmail that serious serious. guilty what's interesting is that like his inner circle of all military can please do your work and be his inner circle man brought them all of them they also i think you expect them to kind of basically be like you know i will stand with them and i'll tell you why because he is absolutely a cult leader he is a narcissist this is a man you can see through his videos through all of it is you know much like miscavige and scientology or you know one of the. people there are these very

enigmatic very charismatic people but at the end of the day they really do believe that these people are going to always be there for him that these women were going to always stand with them but as you said that's not going to happen he's going to try to say he did this for the good of the organization he did it because he's so apical and the truth is yet i don't have kiddy porn if you're an ethical trying to help people better themselves and quite frankly i think we're going to see him go down pretty hard on that funny when you mention like charismatic leaders and subservient followers i just keep thinking of words that democrats and republicans are why these things says that i don't join cults or political party all right i'm going to break our crotches don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics with. that r t v dot com coming up we get the latest on the standoff between the anti-war activists and take up residence inside but as we went embassy and the probe weibo activists contesting outside as cold pigs would be

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as soon as. their plastic. stay in your own special projects funded. on the line you guessed that is the end of it for the teat of fun now the mountains of moist only grow higher. on january twenty seventh or twenty fourth of this year as well and president nicolas maduro responded to the u.s. government's recognition of venezuelan opposition leader at the national assembly one white go as president by closing the mess with an embassy here in washington d.c. since then relations between the current venezuelan government run by my door and the united states have soured to say the least within the borders of the united states of america the fight for democracy in venezuela is happening in and around that very embassy in order to keep big. why do appointed ambassador out of the

building anti-war group code pink joined forces with other activists to create the embassy protection collective and since april tenth of this year the embassy protection collective and code pink have a sensibly occupied the embassy at the invitation of the venezuelan government joining us now to discuss the embassy production collective and the crisis in venezuela is the co-founder of code pink and icon of the antiwar movement medea benjamin and joining like oh my. god of war movement very. good i really have to say first what this is an incredible because i've never made kirchner from wrong i've never heard of anyone. actually taking over an embassy. maybe in some other countries but not this is the first like a wild crazy scene that i you know i wake up in the morning like in washington d.c. is this really happening here and you were you were right there with everyone when

when you first went in to kind of protest and keep the girls or not but there was a big why don't people from entering the numbers don't know that's well you know it started it started out that why do those people have taken over the military attache building in the new york city consulate and they announced they were going to take the embassy so we went to the venezuelan government and said oh i think they're going to take this embassy can we stay here and just kind of protection for us and they said yes and we were there for weeks totally quiet i mean nobody bothered us we went in an hour to every day we would take shifts and no problem at all and i always keep wondering how come there's none of these folks that are coming around here and all the sudden at the on the last day of april which was supposed to coincide with the big uprising in venezuela that never happened they just descended on the place so it's only been in the last week that the craziness has been there otherwise before that it was

a very very. peaceful presence with interesting i think probably the most fascinating part of this wholes situation with venezuela and the us government and governments around the world is how bipartisan support of it is and. you have democrats and republicans alike supporting regime change or not at least not calling out against it. only the most progressive dems have actually stood up and said this is wrong and they've gotten a lot of heat for it but one one person i thought was odd because there aren't many republicans but one republican this morning tuesday morning on the floor of the u.s. house of representatives matt gates of florida who opposes military intervention on various specific grounds and i want to take a listen to what he had to say. it is no surprise to any in this chamber many in the trump administration that there remains some latent resentment within pockets of latin america regarding u.s.

intervention in regime change in nation building and at a time when we are seeing democratic successes in government stood up that are beginning to provide for their citizens it would be deeply only watches to stoke any anti-american resentment with ill advised conflict. yes so gates says we shouldn't go out of military conflict the idea being that it will give matter all this power because it's just the well pocket and in found trail in south america you know well. it's just pockets because you know it's very interesting that he would speak up being from florida because i see a lot of what's the u.s. policy of venezuela is about florida and the elections coming up and there's about two hundred thousand venezuelan americans cuban americans very vociferous you know conservative foo for this is this is their issue and so the republicans want to be able to snatch them up but the democrats also want to be able to get some of them

so they're vying in florida especially south florida and the two senators to see who can be the toughest on the dural so this is very interesting to see a republican from florida come up and say oh i you know maybe it's not such a great idea for the u.s. to intervene you know it's interesting because you've you know like you said in the last week or so there's been a ton of pushback from you know kind of program protesters to the take you know to for you guys presence in the numbers in fact the opposition even of a sign at one point with a picture of one of the embassy protectors claiming that she was profiling some part of his mob and they were all insults and all these things that goes how they're. going in there and borrowing we've got the window today packages my question is how do you respond to their their criticism that look the protests the protesters in. venezuela most of them are venezuelan and because you're good for your group and others shouldn't be interviewing that this is a venezuelan issue so why are you in a in a in

a building in this well couple of things one is that we worry that if this embassy is taken over by well i don't know then my dear oh government's going to say i guess we better take over the u.s. embassy in caracas and then the u.s. could say that's an act of war reason to go in. that's one reason the other is there were about one hundred venezuelans working in that embassy in till the u.s. in venezuela relations and we would like there to be some kind of agreement if it's not going to be the madeira government comes in and takes over the embassy at least to say let's have a third country be like a protectorate that's happened around iran where the pakistani government is the protectorate of their what's called interest section the u.s. embassy the u.s. government is talking to this switzerland about being the protectorate in caracas so we want them to work out a diplomatic agreement and so we feel we're there just as the placeholders intil that agreement can be worked out where both of those embassies are preserved and

hopefully that kind of agreement could allow this administration to walk back a little bit its untenable position recognize things somebody why do who has no power in venezuela who couldn't run an embassy a meeting couldn't issue one passport one visa anything and maybe also to rethink these crippling sanctions that are heard in hurting ordinary venezuelan people whether they are pro or anti minder reports one of the things that sort of come up to is in watching a lot of the coverage in the videos around it is at least i noticed in the video we noticed that there were a lot of secret service people there. and they were allowing those supporters to either you know physically get in contact with other supporters they allowed them to get up to the door is. what is the place you feel like that the secret service people where what side are they on are they really trying to because it

didn't seem like they were very very well organized for the idea of having different two sides to this or any of it maybe it's in a very coldly unfair they are totally on the side of the why don't people it is extraordinary when we tried to get food up first of all they they say on their recording you get food in when you want and then we say come there and try i call on anybody who's watching that's come to the embassy and try to bring in a package of pasta you will not be able to get it in and the secret service does nothing to part the ways to allow us to bring food and medicines inside the other thing is that when we try to do exactly what the program people are doing we get arrested they have about fifteen tents all around the embassy we tried to put one tent up my partner tighe barry got arrested on friday for that and he was kept in prison in till yesterday had to go back today and he's got a whole process and perhaps facing a year in prison for trying to do exactly what they did which was put up

a tent we got our people got arrested for trying to put food in an empty ramp so that the people inside could come out and get it we are constantly being harassed and hit and when we're hit there people don't get arrested so it's one sided totally it's unfair they are not applying the law and they are allowing the why don't people to get away with things we would never be able to get away with how does this all play out what we're do you hope those players you know and we're don't know you've always been a huge boost. to so how does this peacefully play out just with the embassy like what it was to happen for everyone to leave in a room to go home and then we're going to play all of mexico but a minute well that's what i mention which is there would be a third party that would come in and say ok we will be the protectorate of this we leave the place empty while things are being worked out on a larger scale of relations between the u.s. and then. well and the same thing would happen in caracas and then what we hope is

there would be some mediation of this entire conflict you know that mexico the vatican have put themselves forward and say let's talk we keep trying to talk to the people there at the at the embassy to say come on the u.s. is talking to the taliban is my guru like worst of the taliban you know let's you have to talk the u.s. is talking to the north korean chairman talks are always better than fighting let's negotiate stuff and when most of when to be abundant always a pleasure having you on thank you so much for coming down and illustrated what's going on there with those who think you. about two thousand years ago in the central american nation of guatemala sculptors created what are known as the belly sculptures because of their rotunda pictures of what are believed to be ancient cine sheeps they've been known to have magnetic areas scientists thought were just anomalies you know places where the rock was hit by lightning however a team from harvard university recently discovered that the magnetized anomalies on

the cheek or on the cheeks and belly buttons of ten of eleven statues actually sort of align with each other meaning all of the magnetic areas where the cheeks or the belly button and they're on almost all of these statues what this suggests is that the sculptors knew the areas where magnetic and purposely carved images to incorporate them and while we still don't know why those specific body parts were chosen it does signify a sort of inch and mezzo american belief in the power of the human body and the importance of the continuity of their ancestral history. school and that is really fascinating because i know that like trying to originally the idea of when we first discovered magnetism and all that was like in china were twenty twenty seven hundred years ago and this is fascinating to see them using and what would rocks and using magma in its own someone's back then who are that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we're not told that we're most of the sort

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the modern civilization of america. headlining this hour on artsy iran partially suspends the twenty fifty nuclear agreement gives the signatories to it sixty days to steal the country from u.s. sanctions as washington reiterates its threat to hit e.u. companies working with iran with financial penalties. the biggest election in decades in south africa polls show the incumbent ruling party is set to hold power up we look at the implications the vote could have on the country. lanka toughens its immigration controls expelling around six hundred foreign nationals a third of whom are islamic religious leaders whose visas have expired critics fair is.