h. g. wells in 1917. without doubt wells has altered the air we breathe and made a conscious fact in the excellence that revives in certain men, an odious and is that resides in others. wells located in the rockefeller institute, carnegie and russell sage foundation, the endowed universities and bureaus of research, the future church he hoped that would govern all of america. what he was hoping for was clerisy. semi secular but in some sense religious group whose underlying values would define the country. i won't get into it today but if you think about the members of lbj's cabinet, how many of them are ph.d.s out of the university's, there's a famous moment when john gardner supposedly jokingly began a cabinet meeting with welcome, faculty. because that is what it was. literally, not just metaphorically. the book by wells, let me try this with the same two people again, the book by wells that had the most influence was not the time machine which is what he talked to teddy roosevelt about, becoming the be

h. g. wells. you would not be well aware of this because little has been written about it but h. g. wells was a great admirer about the utopian socialist experiment. new harmony for instance was something he studied closely. in upstate new york, he studied closely, h. g. wells's socialism derived in part from the american utopian socialists. welfare -- his father was a cricket here who never made a real living, the family thought about moving to america and new the did so. hd will always thought he had one leg in america. toqueville was unknown to these people. had he been read he would have been seen as hopeless. there is a great short essay by d. h. lawrence, how beastly the. what --bougois. all about how they are subhuman, not metaphorically. it is this attitude that gets picked up and sometimes in the case of h.l. mencken literally. >> i had trouble fitting what i thought was my understanding of liberalism or progressivism in with what you said. at one point you used the phrase some of these people had the sense america was the worst of all possible places. if you think of what h

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experiment an automated facial recognition was aimed well not just at existing targets but at everybody investigative journalist tony goldwyn believes g c h q might as well just make itself right at home in your living room. well this is got nothing to do with counterterrorism has it because this is just yet another great day to trawl but there are very good reasons why this the people who have committed this actually should be or are criminals i'm talking about those that have authorized government level and n.g.c. h.q. and the individual operators who are collecting this data we've heard about spyware being put on viruses being put on our computers our computers being stopped on the way to our homes to have spyware this kind of thing put on it we've also had denial of service attacks but this is actually the most creepy so far i think getting into these webcams is it's like an intruder in your living room and it's not just happening to people who are counterterrorism it's this is everybody they're after here two million users. to israel now where the conflict with the palestinian takes up the lion's share of its security efforts and its

h-e-n-a-i-g-n-s. shenanigans. got it now? yap. well, we do have to put our differences aside.ve to stop all of this. port jeff. and they asked me to do this, i thought, well, i was a little bit nervous. i was uncomfortable. and then i found out that it was against this guy. i thought, if i can't improve my haunts against a guy named flake then i'm not slake. you know, jeff, actually won a spelling bee when i was in, like a muppet trade. this is really bad. so sorry about that. i actually like jeff blake. we traveled together to cuba years ago. he knows that i have pictures of him. apparently he likes to show myself from the waist up and more all the time. and i did not use any of those pictures deceiving because we are like family. we are colleagues. and just like family sometimes we get a little tired of each other. isn't that right, center, we get a little tired of each other, but it does not matter because there are times and we still find time to work together. and when i say together, i mean in a commercial kind of worry. you know what i'm saying. right about midnight we

well newly released documents from the edward snowden leaks reveal that the n.s.a. and its british counterpart the g c h q work together to spy on activist groups one of the people kind of the n.s.a.'s spying web what wiki leaks founder julian assange onj now according to the documents the g c h q also kept track of people who visited the wiki leaks website by tapping into fiber optic cables and collecting the ip addresses of computers in real time glenn greenwald's latest exposé is featured in the intercept and it claims that a two thousand and ten document shows that julian assange just name was added on to a man hunting target list now that list also features the names of al qaeda members in response to songe told democracy now reporters quote it is strange to see your name in that context with people who are suspected of serious criminal acts of terrorism clearly that is a massive overstep wiki leaks also put out a statement criticizing the u.s. for even considering adding the publishing sites name to its list of foreign malicious actors part of that statement reads quote wiki leaks strongly condemn

g c h q that's how it's been intercepting web cam images from millions of yahoo customers including some pretty private material as well that's coming your way here on the program. also israel's organized crime thrives its police find their hands tied in trying to battle it details just around the corner . now here on our team international police have quashed yet another government protest this time over accusations a detainee was tortured to death the twenty three year old man at the center of the route died in custody while being held on suspicion of smuggling weapons campaigners claim he was refused a vital medical treatment something or deny on the former president described to us what it's like serving time. according to what we heard from so many different victims that those people when ever they get arrested they will be subject to queue ssion they will be blindfolded for days they will be put in called rooms they will they will face every kind of torture that no one could imagine me as a victim of torture and beheading in which i served my time there i know what it means to be in those and i know what it means

g c h q in your sheets. thanks very much indeed for that. live in london and we'll be talking more about that revolution a little later in the next hour here on our team well look at downing street and tea with the queen it was a full british charm offensive for the german chancellor on her one day visit but all the pomp and circumstance wasn't enough to persuade angela merkel to get behind prime minister david cameron's push to reform the e.u. she said she doesn't support widespread change but urged britain to stay in the union to help strengthen in any way to cilia reports. for german chancellor angela merkel's visit to london it's a red carpet welcome fit for a queen dubbed by foreign secretary william hague as britain's most important partner on seeking e.u. reform and the first german chancellor to address both houses of parliament starkly different to british prime minister david cameron's low key pub lunch with his french counterpart last month all bets seem to be placed on getting the backing of europe's economic powerhouse in redrawing love his relationship with brussels after all. it's not of course in this europe but incentives on both sides to

britain's g c h q it's been intercepting that web images for millions of yahoo customers including some pretty private material stories coming up for you here on r.t. international. as is this one as well israel's organized crime thriving its police find their hands are tied in trying to battle it details just around the corner. from now on the program police have quashed yet another government protest this time of accusations that a detainee was tortured to death the twenty three year old man at the center of the wral died in custody while being held on suspicion of smuggling weapons campaigners claim he was refused a vital medical treatment something the earth already is deny and one former prisoner describes to us what it's like serving time. according to what we heard from so many different victims that those people when ever they get arrested they will be subject to kulish in they will be blindfolded for days they will be put in cold ones they wouldn't they would face. every kind of torture that no one could imagine me as a victim of torture and beheading in my time there i know what it means to be in growth and you know what it. is for them that we can care so. you will be leavin