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greetings and sal you take. i firmly believe without a shadow of a doubt that in order to define the future you must study the past guess what even confucius agrees with me on that but what happens if the history of art today truthfully never gets recorded or archived you see it appears that the united states national archives the agency that keeps a permanent historical record of the of all of the business of our government its hundreds upon hundreds and hundreds of agencies and departments has run out of room and that many major u.s. government agencies from i use to the state department are no longer keeping their paper trails intact or even submitting many of their documents to that archive. tech dirty reports that the archive has no more room to store paper documents and has demanded bedroll agencies only send the digital records going forward except

that federal agencies are being given extra funds or staff to convert existing paper documents and the national archives and seen its budget cut by congress for 3 straight years. this is the spite the fact that since 1905 the amount of incoming material to the archives has tripled but filing documents and housekeeping isn't even the worst of it according to dr matthew connelly a history professor at columbia university back in 2017 a records were tensions schedule revealed that archivists had agreed that officials from immigrations and customs enforcement could delete or destroy documents detailing the sexual abuse and death of undocumented immigrants that's pretty important thing to delete so no ask you why is this important well napoleon always said history is a set of lies that people have agreed upon and my friends it's a whole lot easier to agree to the lie if the documented truth was never saved and

that is why we are watching the homes. what's going on in a city the streets. are so you'd like to see that this is your state and city. great city displays systemic dissent says so which. brings up the bill as. well as we're going to watch from dogs i am tyro been turned joining me today to discuss the current state or lack of state of the national archives is political analyst and democratic strategist a mish across to me always a pleasure wow so this recent news piggybacks you know that recent controversy the couple months back we found out that the national archives a did that big picture display of the women's margin them were conveniently editing and doctoring the photos now they claim like ok well these photos didn't actually

go in the archive but of care apparently not much goes on in the archive at this point absolutely i think that this speaks to another part of this administration that is looking forward to erasing the history in the act that they have they have done while. president trump was in office particularly with because about ice there's so many things that ice has done they've been documented cases of abuse towards children documented cases cases of abuse towards those who have been separated at the border and we know that a lot of those are medical records we know that a lot of those for instance are the women that were subjected to cavity checks and things and checks to make sure that they that if they were pregnant that they were not allowed to have abortions and things like that we know that there been so many detrimental things that have been done to women and children at the borders specifically and that this white house doesn't want those documents to be able to come to light and this poses a real difficulty and it goes beyond just the preservation of documents it actually speaks to many of the legal cases that a lot of human rights organizations have and rightfully so against this white house

yeah because of their not if they can't get it through the freedom of information act and then you know 10 years from now they need to go back and dig that up and it's just there than it just doesn't exist and therefore the case has no evidence to it exactly the technological issue is one thing but the bigger thing here is the fact that they have they have known this more while technology didn't just erupt last year or during the course of this administration at some point we're going to run out of room for all of these paper based documents my bigger question is why were these documents gone into a digital format a long time ago we could have done this over a decade ago which a lot of organizations have across this country it's frustrating that now the excuse is that we're going to get rid of these documents because we have no way of preserving the kind of we're just allowing agencies to decide what is historical and what's not historical i mean as you mentioned it didn't start with the trump administration in fact dr connally's piece new york times holiday alone had an estimated 160000000 pages of paper records as of the late ninety's when i graduated

high school you know i'm not old and since his release less than 10 percent since the late ninety's fewer and fewer every year 160000000 pages supposed to go into the national archives turned personal but you know you've worked. inside federal government and who worked inside local government why is keeping these paper trails in archiving documents no matter what the agency is so important and vital for this country it's important for having an eye on what our government is doing it's important for making sure that when abuses do happen we are able to track those is important so that individuals every day individuals don't have their rights taken advantage of it's important because not only do we need that historical relevance historical relevance but also as we move forward it's important to learn from our mistakes what happens when you race all of these things is that you give government credence to do things and take advantage of people without having any type of checks on them and i don't think that that's something that our nation was designed to do no and i don't want to i don't want our history i look at the national archives it was always have a little bit of trouble with me now and then i mean look they're the ones who came

forward and said hey we lost kennedy's brain at one point you know some kind of slaves they're not perfect but you need that because that is that is. that's the that is the the papers in the documents that you need so that the years 100 years from now when people look back at this moment in time they can say what were they thinking what were they doing let's actually follow the paper trail plus at the end of the day most taxpayers we pay for all of that that goes in there is all things that belong to us because we're paying for them at the end of the day i want to ask you do you why haven't i mean it's suddenly in the in the doing research on this of the head of the national archives hasn't even been brought in from the congress in like 5 years and they've consistently cut and cut and cut and i'm sure that trumps new budget that he's proposing it's not going to just give a bunch of money to the national archives why isn't congress paying attention to this is just that kind of easy thing to forget i think it is an easy thing to forget and because there hasn't really been a focus on it in media which is what alerts a lot of regular regular individuals and voters every day no one knew what was

going on with the national archives until it until now and i think that even with the most recent information about it mainstream media isn't picking up on it and i think that it's very hard to really have a campaign around what this actually means to society when people are. if we don't know what's going on that's a great point i want to thank you so much that's that's good good good point all right. moving on to world politics in a shocking move the president of the philippines when we go to detroit they announced this week about he is tearing up the bilateral visiting forces agreement between the united states and the philippines this decision marks a significant and drastic new direction for the military alliance between the 2 countries that dates all the way back to the 1950 s. r t america's parent bronzer goes more. the united states was given a warning roughly 3 weeks ago by philippines president to terra today that if the u.s. didn't reinstate the country's national police chief's visa he would end the visiting forces agreement known as the v.f. a which allows american forces to train in the country and washington reportedly

cancelled the u.s. visa of 2 territories loyal ally senator ronald taylor rossa after he was linked to human rights violations when he 1st enforce the president's anti-drug crackdown at the u.s. other western governments and human rights groups were alerted that thousands of mostly poor suspects were killed under this anti-drug crackdown launched by the terror today when it took office back in 2016 at a charity said the president did try to save the agreement but he rejected the idea adding that he's tired of the united states getting involved in the philippine affairs and very dangerous to the us that's a bus out of state. because of it we were under the everybody else for 50 years so . if you if i think they're not getting a canadian border. posts to get married. they can get it from the us and the. journey to the. chinese government is to be close

to the space be so good in the. weeks of married. he's only 30. now isn't gay. independence from the u.s. back in 1986 the philippines has been one of america's strongest allies in the southeast asian region but since coming to power in 2016 the territory has publicly criticize the us and recently accused american forces of secret activities in his country now as for today's decision to end the u.s. security agreement the u.s. embassy in manila has responded writing this this is a serious step with significant implications for the u.s. philippines alliance our 2 countries enjoy a warm relationship deeply rooted in history we remain committed to the friendship between our 2 peoples now what does all of this going to affect well as far as the timeline here's what the president's spokesman had to say about that today the voters of their nations with. the event would be added

a few days from thursday to use to go observe some of these. so there you have 180 days now some philippine senators believe this decision by the charity which the senate did ratify should have had the chambers consent with the country's foreign secretary saying this terminating the v.f. a will negatively impact the philippine security and defense arrangements as well as the overall bilateral relations of the philippines with the us and perhaps even on the sub regional level our contribution to regional defense is anchored on our military alliance with the world's last superpower now according to the department of defense american forces have provided intelligence training and aid that help the philippines to deal with human trafficking cyber attacks illegal drugs and even terrorism the us military also helps filipino forces stop a siege by an islamic state group aligned militants back in 2017 for watching the hawks i'm fair in front back. this was surprising the search it took me by surprise i was expecting this it seems like we're seeing all the time in different

relationships and old allies now everything to be removed from rex that everything's getting tossed to. what we really have a president who is dead set on an isolationist government who doesn't believe in. the importance of allies who doesn't really understand that we need these people not only across multiple regions too for security purposes purposes but also for that knowledge base because the more that we remain in our own silo in this under this make america great again marsha the more that we distance ourselves from the from the global perspective and i think that it's extremely important for us to continue having those partnerships and having those alliances and we've seen that since 2016 many of our strongest ones are no longer looking to us for anything that's very true those words i mean now granted i don't think many people want to sit back and say well i want to be aligned with especially given his policies you know within his own country in terms of you know what he's done to lead drug addicts and things like that and the violence is committed there. you know and look

we have the you know i remember my dad told me that back you know in vietnam subic bay was a huge base there before going to close down and so you have that kind of base you know most people there we only see you as weapons of war we don't see you as people soul and if you're going to help them get out i don't know maybe it's time to rethink our relationships at the same time understand what you're saying that you know we need allies at this time but you know exam one of the i think it's harder with you because of that because of his hostile approach to his own people but also because he came into the philippines with a very different type of policy strategy than what we've seen previously and i think that no matter who we had as president of the united states at the time there would still be somewhat of a complex relationship there we've seen him jail a lot of into individual reason him mistreat several of his own people we've seen the rates of poverty increase there's a lot going on philippines right now that could use in all honesty that's the strength of our previous relationship with interesting interesting why i want to say thank you so much for coming by the image always a pleasure and an absolutely all right as we go to break off watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered on our social media be

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oh. all right like a welcome back everyone headlines headlines were made back in the spring of 2019 when a small group of u.s. citizens upset with the united states government's efforts to oust the sitting president of venezuela nicolas maduro from office they took the drastic unprecedented action to occupy the venezuelan embassy here in washington d.c. calling themselves the embassy protectors collective these 4 activists with the permission of the material government took over the embassy after the trumpet ministration revoked the diplomatic status of the bet as we little pistols were

working there in an effort to further legitimize one wydow self-made claim to the bet as wayland presidency before protesters occupied the embassy for more than a month before they were arrested and removed now in february 11th 2020 their trial has begun charged with get this interfering with the protective functions of the u.s. state department the 4 activists potentially face one year in jail and up to $100000.00 in fines for their protest 2 of the embassy protectors standing trial adrian pyne and david paul joined me earlier to discuss the trial and what they faced inside that embassy. you're part of the 4 venezuelan embassy protect your protesters who were there you're now facing trial for a 11 if you are convicted let's say the government wins you would face if i'm got this right about 100 $1000.00 fines each each one of the 4 and a year in jail what i'll ask you this right now is you're facing this trial was the

protest worth the potential punishments that you're now facing was sitting in there and doing what you did and standing up for what you believe in was it worth the potential punishment. absolutely for me when i look at what my. my friends in venezuela and hundreds where i've done research for over 2 decades are suffering at the hands of u.s. imperialism and you know i mean i've got a very dear friend edwina spinella who was jailed for 19 months in a u.s. run basically u.s. run u.s. bill maximum security prison in honduras for protesting a stolen election that put into power a narco dictator that's only in power because the u.s. supported it. you know a year you know maximum year prison sentences is nothing if if my

standing my putting my body in the way of imperialism can have any impact whatsoever then it's worth it it's worth it it's. most of these these interventions in other countries in these illegal coercive measures sabotaging other people's economies that are which is basic to our foreign policy gets away with it by the propaganda in this country the media is just a tool for the foreign policy the ministration and if we can have any voice and we've been told that some success in that of changing the narrative on what's happening with venezuela in this country and also in that makes it worth it and also the people in venezuela we've heard from the people who are struggling we often said the. respectfully that the events of the embassy were kind of a microcosm of what's happening to the whole country venezuela cutting off food and medicines and access to many things that if it gives any inspiration at all

to them that there's people who support them and care about that what's happening to them and which i think it has that all makes it worth it as well. it's i think people need to understand too is that not only did you have permission from the venezuelan government to be there you were allowed on the property but you were also at the end of the day exercising your 1st amendment rights as u.s. citizens and you were there in protest protesting our government's actions with the permission of the venezuelan government to be that there's no denying that there's no you know no one can dispute that yet despite all of that why do you believe the u.s. government is pursuing these charges against you and not just kind of giving you the hey we're unhappy you did this maybe a slap on the wrist you can you know here's the door thank you very much for you know for your time why are they so aggressively trying to charge before you well i think you know 1st of all i'm not opposed to breaking laws when laws are on just that in this case we didn't break any law we were there completely legal it was the

u.s. government that broke international law. violated the vienna convention by by. letting the sovereign space of a foreign country it's them. they want to make an example of us because the united states government and i mean what we found in our court room apparently we've learned this and since we were arrested us federal law says that the president donald trump if he says he can whoever he says is president of another country is president of that country and in the eyes of u.s. federal law so if donald trump says mickey mouse is the president of france then mickey mouse's the president of france so where there's a sort of absurd situation that we're confronting where there's a fantasy world in the courtroom that is completely different from everything outside of that courtroom the united states government and the state department in particular want to make sure that people in the united states will not ever again

stand up to their fantasy world that allows them to impose whatever dictators they want on sovereign nations and so they're making they're trying to make an example of us but frankly you know it's not going to work because we're proud of what we did even if we are found guilty even if we are sentenced so literally withdrew from through this whole proceeding is that because donald trump in the u.s. state department said well. it's whoever we decide that seems so ridiculous to anyone it's not actually the decision of the other countries well it's it's a law in it's been in the books for years that a lot of people were unaware that i was in a repressive. legal residence but it holds holds legal weight i guess but it's it kind of goes along with this myth of exceptionalism that the united states public and government tries to promote in the in the public in general holds that well when we do it it's not wrong we're sort of above the law and that's sort

of how we act in the world kind of like a gangster with our mob in mobster in chief now in charge. pushing people around and denying people their rights but we expect to be treated and have those rights that we deny to other people so. the legal system. the government's actions are all set up with this superiority above the law kind of attitude so that's what we're dealing with when you when you were in there in the me you were there for a good few weeks pretty symbols or month over month what was what was that experience like just as as as people they taking out the activism taking out the you know all the issues that you were facing potential jail time of the what was that like just being in this place on a beta day basis for all of us who weren't able to be inside. and with it was pretty intense i mean on april 30th there was this attempted coup where pompei i

know that you know these tropic ministration had this fantasy again that they that the ranks of the venezuelan military were going to rise up in support of go i don't know and of course it failed miserably because they are loyal to the bolivarian revolution but what happened at that attempted coup was that there was a coordinated effort with right wing really fascist venezuelans around the world to try to take over embassies in the countries where these venezuelan ex-pats were so that they could claim that there had been a success so the taking over the embassies was a central part of the coup which was why it became so important to protect the embassy and why we were so grateful that the mature and ministration gave us permission to do that as us citizens but what happened then was these right wing incredibly violent racist homophobic transphobia mob of

people surrounded the embassy and that was when we were blockaded inside we could leave but no. preventing anybody from coming in and they tried really hard to prevent food from coming in and so you know we were basically surrounded by people a lot of them had military clearance they had they had high level government security clearance we did research on some of them they're very dangerous people so it was there was a lot of tension you know and of course we were nervous about getting food in and thanks to david in part we did it we had a really good plan for you know we started rationing we saved up on water so we were prepared to go along much longer time by the end of it but but it was stressful on a day to day basis and of course to cut off the electricity and then and then the water as well i mean in the beginning we were holding educational for films people going in and out. inviting there were $200.00 people almost being over night and

then when the when the coup failed that she mentioned a mob formed under the watch of the police in cooperation with the police so it was it was a new situation for most of us of being hungry and having all this hateful people threatening you on the outside trying to break in always watchful doing shifts of security because few people did break breaking doors with sledgehammers and breaking windows to get in we were simply there peacefully with the permission of the government of venezuela trying to protect ability so it was stressful but what gave us resolve is we've all felt and said was what was going on in venezuela what they were going through and that we were we were some inspiration to them and we got inspiration from other supporters from the outside who were suffering more directly the attacks of this opposition mob but it was stressful but that knowing

we were doing the right thing. and that we we feel we were there legally. that kept us going. mysterious radio signals from beyond our solar system are one thing but what about when they are beyond our galaxy and have a repeating cycle who yes a major breakthrough researchers recently discovered a fast radio burst or f.r.b. from beyond our galaxy the repeats once every 16 days the f.r.b. use were discovered using these brand new radio telescopes in canada now look while the actual astrophysical of bad that causes up arby's are still a known to us earthlings this repeating pattern does help us better solve the riddle of their origins and while they don't you know scientists don't rule out any alien civilization most scientists agree that the power acquirements to send a signal that far is unlikely but possible but still very unlikely but still very

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