this is james evan pilato of mediamonarchy com and this is james corbett of corbettreport com and we'd like to welcome you back to the new world next week and i'd like to apologize for last week when there was no episode of this video series because i was sick in bed with food poisoning so you'll forgive me for taking a week off but at any rate we're back and ready to go and of course you can not only get new world next week from newworldnextweek com but now there's also another way to get new world next week for those people living in europe who have access to the sky satellite well you can now watch new world next week as well as my sunday update series and other videos from corbettreport com on sky channel two hundred and one thanks to the efforts of paradigmshift tv so people who want more information about how to tune into that please go to paradigmshift tv and there is a link from corbettreport com so now there are even more ways to watch this program and to get your weekly fix of news and speaking of the weekly fix of news james what stories do we have up to today there of course is so much to go over and i think you know we should tell folks that this show can by no means be a comprehensive rundown on everything that's going on the world and i would say sometimes just because we may not cover what would seem to be maybe an obvious or big story it's not because we don't want cover something or we're covering something up it's just i think we try and put together three stories within the fifteen minutes that kind of help paint a broader picture so james there's a story going quite large here in the states and its february th to me here in portland oregon cbs reporter lara logan assaulted in cairo and this still comes around all the egyptian events that we've seen around the world that of course seems like a domino effect but there've also been commentators nir rosen and bill maher and people have resigned and fired and it's turning into a tabloid story but we want to use that salacious story and disgusting as it is to i think draw attention to something that needs more coverage so we'll take it from voice of america and yes they are rumored to be intelligence connected but we'll  take news from all around the world and as we always say with these things you know do more research for yourself pentagon sued for allegedly mishandling sexual assault complaints more than a dozen current and former members of the us military filed a lawsuit tuesday in washington claiming the us defense department mishandled their claims of being sexually harassed assaulted and raped by fellow servicemembers while on active duty the alleged victims want the pentagon to change the way it handles such sexual assault cases in a class action lawsuit a group of more than a dozen current and former us military service members mostly female say they were raped or abused by their comrades they claim when incidents were reported military commanders repeatedly failed to act and they were ordered to continue to serve with tho allegedly abused them myla haider who served in the army says she was raped by a fellow soldier in korea in two thousand and two and the horror stories just go on and on but we'll cut to the chase and also mention that the lawsuit claims the alleged abuse ranged from obscene verbal abuse to even gang rape the case names defense secretary robert gates and his predecessor the defender of the constitution donald rumsfeld as defendants claiming they did nothing to handle such complaints and concerns james before i throw it back to you i think this shines a light on regardless of what you think of the war and support the troops and the politics of should we be where we are if you can't even take care of the people once they come back if they make it back through the meat grinder what does that tell you about the overall structure right i mean that's a good point and especially i mean if they make it through the meat grinder and think of all the different ways that the troops are exposed to harm and even actively harmed by the military from the experimental vaccines that they're shot up with to all the tests the project shad's and other things that they do on them and then to add to that this type of degradation and abuse i mean it's absolutely i certainly hope that the people involved can get justice but um to a certain extent if you sign up for the us military well if you sign up for military you are going to be subjecting yourself to all sorts of horrible things and of course we don't want to see the happen to anyone but this actually this story reminds me of the sexual abuse of blackwater employees that was alleged a couple of years ago but i don't really remember what happened with that story do you have follow up for that um i don't off the top of my head and that's the unfortunate thing so many of these things go just kind of go down the memory hole i think we can probably close up this coverage with the somewhat apocryphal quote from kissinger who was alleged to have said military men are dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy so james we'll move to our second story and this was one that i was really interested in and we were gonna cover it last week fcc announces nationwide presidential emergency alerts to be tested and we'll take the text from emergencymgmt com the fcc has made it official it's released an order that requires participants in the emergency alert system the eas namely broadcasters cable operators and certain satellite providers to participate in the first ever national test of the eas the test will differ starkly from the monthly eas tests the public know so well and folks here in the states know them from listening to the radio and probably all around the world as well the erg erg erg in this case the white house will actually activate the test as if the president wanted to take over the airwaves to address the nation although eas type capabilities have of course existed since the early s no president has ever used it now we're going to find out how well it actually works the fcc order which we do have a link to the pdf for lays out how the test will be conducted it will use what many emergency managers know as the ean code that's emergency alert notification the code reserved for the president to activate the eas this gets into other acronyms and things james that we don't have to dive into but of course it involves fema and the fcc and something called primary entry point stations pep and i'll mention to folks in my most recent episode two  media monarchy podcast i go into a little greater detail of this and my experiences at an fm radio station on the morning of and how some of these events work so of course there's always been a system set up for the president to address the nation but now they're taking it a step further in these sort of unprecedented moves of having what many reports have just explicitly said oh yeah it's basically going to be the obamessiah appearing on your what's your take on this winston yeah well very good question i mean that's exactly i mean exactly what comes to my mind can you get any more big brother ish than having big brother himself appearing on your telescreen to give you commands  mean it is quite scary and i think when i was listening to the latest media monarchy one of the things that struck me that was kind of scary about all of this is the fact that we're really moving into the age in which an event can be completely and totally digitally  engineered and made out of nothing it reminds me of the running man and it's been a long time since i that watched that movie based on the stephen king story but basically they made a character completely up and it was just a during the confusion i mean imagine the kind of things that they could pull off in the confusion so to me this is just a really terrifying idea and people have to be smart about what's going on and  se their own head media literacy to say the very least but again this is something that you know i find extremely fascinating orson welles i'm a huge orson welles fan and of course he of war of the worlds and  you know the most amazing mass psyop we've seen in the states probably and you're exactly right these kind of events and call it project bluebeam or a psyop or any of these things could you're absolutely right be invented and i even think of something you know a lot of my favorite films and shows usually have involved breaking through that encroaching system so you know films like pump up the volume or even in things like v for vendetta which i would not say is one of my favorites but seizing the media to break through that wall and that's always just kind of been i think a recurring theme so this is just really intrinsically important to me but i digress james our third story relates quite well i would say computer crushes competition on jeopardy the computer brained its human competition in game one of the man versus machine competition on jeopardy on the thirty question gameboard veteran jeopardy champ ken jennings and brad rutter managed only five correct responses during the double jeopardy round watson their ibm supercomputer nemesis emerged from the final jeopardy round with thirty five thousand seven hundred and thirty four dollars james what are we talking about here ibm has created a super computer and is going up against the long time i think all time jeopardy champions and the computer is named watson so you can also bring to and at first bit was just from the associated press watson crashed quite often during these jeopardy tapings and it's noted watching ibm's watson make spaghetti bolognese out of the silent lambs of humanity former jeopardy kings jennings and rutter was a troubling experience however i've awoken to a little hope for the imperfect species they revealed that watson's performance wasn't quite as slick as it might've appeared in the precious few minutes of screen time we're offered he crashed a bunch of times it took over four hours to tape the show most of the delays were due to the crashes now there was a letter to the newspaper and i can't recall if it was in our own oregonian here or if i saw it in the new york times but somebody made the comparison that well yeah of course the supercomputer is probably gonna win but it's like being impressed that a nascar could beat a cheetah that essentially these supercomputers  who is unnecessarily hating on technology because it is an incredible accomplishment and to program something to be able to respond to these types of answers and questions i mean it truly is a technological feat and you know  say that this is came up in conversation at work the other day this jeopardy ibm series going on and it was a great opportunity to mention to folks that hey you know ibm hollerith punchcards the serial number they helped automate holocaust they helped make it happen the final solutions company and just mention you know ibm and the holocaust the work of edwin black that's i think one of the great ways that you can use these kind of water cooler pop culture kind of stories to get taken down but they're back up so wethepeoplewillnotbechipped com is back up and it's a great resource on this topic specifically okay so james we're just about out of time but we'll throw in one little bonus note as a follow up to our previous episode's mention of rumsfeld getting the award as a defender of the constitution um we just had the obamessiah honoring former president george hw bush and the whole bush crime family was there rubbing elbows with jasper johns and maya angelou and warren buffett so there you go thanks for the update from the ministry of truth winston exactly thanks for all your help again this week thank you alright i appreciate it take care