i thought about various investigative reporters that i would try and contact once i put the phone down i was pretty confident that my life would never be quite the same and i mean at the end of the day right you mean to make a decision like this if you're not prepared to have the worst happen and really these people face a terrifying situation thomas drake accused of leaking classified information agents raiding his home and how eighteen agents some of them in body armor have been banging on our front door anytime anyone takes a step like that you know that they probably got something important to say because they're basically wiping away their career there are close to a million people who have top secret clearance the obama administration is crackdown on whistleblowers and they have indicted more people for violating secrecy than  all the previous administrations put together the number of people who indicated to us they wish they could talk but they can't because they're so afraid of what could happen to them it's a terrible thing for our democracy so speaking truth to power is now a criminal a you know a country to do it we are aligned with quite regularly they're our best friends who are our allies will give them the most money of any country in the world and they're two things for them that we wouldn't do for other countries so let me just see what you show you what is going on here in this country here and we're going to get over here to this one right about now here hopefully it's playing ok there is a huge gap between us jews in our enemies not just in ability but in morality culture sanctity of life and conscience they are our neighbors here but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away there are people who do not when we have settled the land all the arabs will be able to do about it is to scurry around like drug cockroaches in a bottle rafael a time chief of staff of the israeli defense forces new york times fourteenth april nine there is no such thing as palestinians that never existed golda my israeli prime minister june fifteenth nineteen sixty nine the danger of genocide was hanging over us in june nineteenth sixty seven and that israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff which was born and developed after the war every time we do something you tell me america will do this and will do that i want to tell you something very clear don't worry about the american pressure on israel we the jewish people control america and the that israeli prime minister ariel sharon october two thousand and one to shimon peres as reported on cold israel radio how about that folks that's  different philosophy or a different religion of course that's reason to call him animals and if it's in so that's not very pleasant i'm very sorry about the showing that i really don't like to show that kind of stuff but we've got to know what's going on here in the country and the world here so screen here and you have some questions about peter joseph too but here's what here's a this is culture in decline about baby goes boom then at two fifty pm more than half the runners were through the first bomb explodes breaking news from canada police say they've broken up an al qaeda linked terrorist attack that was aimed to disrupt a major north american transportation room sharp new warning of all out war for the first time the mysterious and secretive nation has threatened a preemptive nuclear strike against the u s staying in europe spain is also feeling the economic pinch one and four are now currently unemployed in that country and the e u expects that number to climb even higher china and neighboring countries are mobilizing resources to fight off a new strain of bird flu hospitals in a race against time to contain nightmare super bacteria before it spreads from the hospital out in the world s but hey i guess that's ok right i mean if you watch the news these days there seems to be a lot to be concerned about nuclear war and terrorism mass shootings city bombings corporate fraud bird flu bank failures  contamination gangs general crime and depending on your temperament and conditioning perhaps you've already armed yourself to the teeth and are watching this show from an underground bunker somewhere waiting for the end of civilization well whatever the concern the idea of protection or security from such ever pervasive prisons police sharon's warranties protection agencies military and domestic armament airport groping in government surveillance and the like reveals a culture of fear if you will on many levels not to mention that the modern trends of such security risks are certainly fascinating for example before the one nine hundred eighty s the thought of someone going into their work please you know wipe out a couple people was a relatively remote concept today we repeatedly see these acts of seemingly random violence not only in businesses but schools churches movie theaters malls sporting events and other common institutions and as unfortunate as the stark reality of our human capacity is it's perhaps not as unfortunate as the archaic methods we as a civilization have concocted in our attempt to counter such problems for instance in the wake of growing us gun violence the national rifle association will tell you that the problem is a lack of armed security at every turn and if we only would just you know what harm everybody like the wild west problems of social violence  while the other extreme folks will tell you that the problem is rather to do than ease of access to simple to get weaponry and the removal of this easy access is now the correct whoever do either of these address them real issue the source of the behavioral problem at hand where is the national discussion about say motivation and the sociological condition itself to which these acts are right i point this out because in a technological age where people can now perhaps we need to rethink our sense of causality here for unless you intend to outlaw scientific progress and self regulation isn't going to amount to a damn thing in the long run streets likewise come to think of it maybe we also need to step back and reframe what a viable threat to our safety really is and how it measures up to other threats you know when april fifteenth twenty thirteen bombs exploded during the boston marathon in the united states killing three people gaining global attention almost like it was another nine eleven yet in iraq on the exact same monday bombs exploded killing twenty times as many people yet no one in the mainstream media seem to care much about that you see if you pay attention you might notice that the true quantifiable magnitude of a threat or the actual toll of violence really doesn't mean much in the establishment perception it's the idea the context the political spectacle that matters and this might explain why america has spent almost five trillion dollars on so called terrorism when the us citizens today and statistically have always been more likely to die of a peanut allergy or in the bath tub than in a terrorist attack so as the following episode will argue the security fear industry stretching from the ever exploitive news media to the military industrial complex to the criminal justice system not only s distortion burst out of the very fabric of our deprivations scarcity driven social order and now appears to be accelerated in a vicious cycle and i don't know about you but given all of this i'm again suspect that maybe prison from the dark dungeons of the middle ages to our modern industrial mass incarceration correctional facilities the prison system is a signature edifice of society today the united states the land of the free now has the highest inmate population in the world incarcerating over two point three million in fact the us has locked up more people than any other country on the planet boastfully housing twenty five percent of the entire world's prison population with an eight hundred percent increase in incarceration in the past thirty years alone based partly on the need to remove active threats from society coupled with an undertone of retribution and respond to punitive negative reinforcement tradition common to our justice system is now being challenged by some very basic realizations in the human sciences we often forget that when it comes to human conduct true behavioral causality as a storage we've been ignored with the focus rather on superstitious forces such as good as well as convenient as such ambiguous metaphysical assumptions our modern social science places so called criminal or antisocial acts in the context of public with real solutions resting in the arena of preventive medicine not mere punishment of course as with most rational perspectives in the world this is rather an adjective for it shatters the glorified free will morally empirical traditional assumptions our entire criminal justice system is built upon however let's put that aside for now and point out the fact that while most naturally do fear prison it's effect as a deterrent is actually quite we considering us trends we've seen a massive increase in incarceration over time so with this basic observation the punitive threat of prison clearly isn't working statistically likewise prison is supposed to be some form of rehabilitation center right so does this system work to be forms of human behavior taking in so called criminals and help putting mentally healthy law abiding citizens in the united states two thirds of the prisoners released we offend within three years often with a more serious and violent offense dr james gilligan former director of the center for the study of violence at harvard medical school actually refers to prisons as graduate schools for crime and violence so given all of this perhaps we need to step back a bit shake off the shackles of common perception and ask ourselves what other roles the judicial and prison system really have or if incarceration isn't statistically working as a deterrent and those who get out of prison  more often worse than they were when they went in something is clearly wrong what else is going on here you know all the justification of incarceration is certainly viable with respect to true social threats no different than the medical need to quarantine somebody who is a threat to society because of a contagious disease the evolution of the prison tradition reveals some very dark truths and the best way to think about it is from a store perspective considering race conflict class conflict in the context of economic and political expedience the first thing to understand is that political power like economic power is sour social in other words politicians need something to fight and to a certain degree the more problems a society has the more the citizens tend to feel the need to give up their power to government control with the most proven political saying that political unity is achieved by defining a common enemy the nazis did this with the jewish culture the early us did this with the native american culture and so on the trick is to push the idea that some this is a platform it's three dimensional is the base yeah i know it's not very good fuck off don't don't make me shoot you again though it sorry but that you see the greatest threat to any political establishment is any challenge to its underlying economic foundation as all political platforms are rooted in an economic bias one way or another that you can brainwash the public into say viewing the failures of capitalism as instead of rooted in the poor moral virtue of a trouble causing subsection of the population rather than a built in consequence of perhaps capitalism is a leader just psychology and scarcity driven structure you can maintain control and this is where the common enemy scapegoat scam comes into play it's not that bad we simply demonize the victims of this system shifting blame away from the more relevant environmental causal social condition itself and in the context of the justice system the war on crime is a perfect tool all the war on crime is is a war on the poor and economically irrelevant and if a society is conditioned to believe that a person breaking into their car to steal property is simply an amoral abomination with all the life choices in the world otherwise to make ends meet then the causal shift is a success but the reality however is that most of those incarcerated today are there almost always d crimes born from deprivation deprivation which can be generalized into forms relative and absolute absolute deprivation is when a person's most basic needs are simply not met and poverty is the least so the spectrum of disorder that arises from poverty is vast from drug dealing theft and prostitution in areas lacking employment opportunities to emotional neuroses and illegal self medication leading to complex and elusive chain reactions which can result in destructive anti social behavior today one out of every fifteen african american kids in the united states have at least one parent in prison usually the father it's bad more likely to be imprisoned as adults and if you combine poverty with emotional deprivation you have the perfect recipe for not only the manifestation of socially aberrant behavior but the perpetuation of such distortion across generational time relative deprivation on the other hand is when our sense of worth and self respect is associated to our cultural perception of success while absolute deprivation is measured by basic health concerns expressing the ever important need for society to work to efficiently meet our immutable human needs for sanity and true security relative deprivation exists in the realm of subjective comparison and resulting and likely the greatest example of this negative pressure is the state of class in balance in the world while it is true that the formally classified the poor of the west today actually live in material terms better than the upper class a thousand years ago the dehumanizing wealth stratification occurring today continues to create complex the stabilizing psycho social problems long considered an incentive for social progress class difference and wealth the balance has turned out to be a powerful public health issue generating massive psychological and sociological distortion want to be intellectually honest the issues raised here have more to do with commerce than they do with the second amendment a lot of people make a lot of money selling firearms and ammunition the national rifle association has said the solution is to have armed security guards at every school certainly you know every piece of security we engage in can be helpful but it's you know foolish to think that only security is what we need in the great challenges here can we prevent these tragedies i'm sorry to interrupt chief but since you've just brought up this notion of prevention which is of course the real issue here right i'm curious when this conversation is going to move to more relevance social science you know i see we have for example the n r a here yet we don't have anyone from the pharmaceutical industry isn't it true that most of the mass shootings that have commenced have been done by people who are under the influence of psychologically mood altering medications or better yet where's the drug czar of this country since the war on drugs is commenced there has been a massive increase in gun related drug violence we're just going to ignore this causality as well or better yet i almost forgot i have here about one hundred years of data on the relationship between economic imbalance specifically wealth  balance and violence you know the stats have become very clear now that the gap between the rich and the poor creates more violence the more gap the more violence and crime on the home which might explain by the way about the united states  largest income gap in the world also has the most violence and worst public health of any first world nation is this not worth a congressional discussion i mean with all due respect you people can't possibly be naive enough t of certain guns as the left suggests or the increase in armed security in public places as the right suggests is really going to have a long term effect on such deeply rooted sociological problems right  problem clearly rooted in structure dehumanization and economic deprivation it's inherent to our social system you know is it not of some viable consideration to address this  no and then we have the so called war on drugs when richard nixon declared the drug war in one nine hundred seventy one he asked for an initial eighty four million dollars in two thousand and thirteen the national drug control budget requested twenty five point six billion with about a trillion dollars spent in total and the result over time has been more drugs easier access increased potency and more users today almost half of the federal prison population are nonviolent drug offenders often mere users in fact clearly a mental health issue rather than a punitive one draconian mandatory sentencing laws today and send kids to prison for decades for a mere possession and it is no secret that this criminalized subculture has been mostly born out of the prohibitive underground economies necessarily sprouted in poor areas of the country largely occupied by minorities as an aside we often forget how deeply racist the united states has been historically assuming vast improvement and yet today there are more african americans behind bars than were slaves before the american civil war after segregation the black community was strategically isolated into low income inner city ghettos which systematically rob them of economic opportunity and as the national culture mature with racism slowly dissipating through the civil rights movement the economic oppression set in motion at that time remained pretty powerful cycle ever since today one out of every three black men are expected to go to prison at some point in their lives and in effect the real oppressive mechanism in the world today is no longer race but economic class and the punch line is brutal not only are the poor in forgotten of our society conveniently turned into criminals rather than clear examples of the failure of our social model capitalist ingenuity prevails once again transforming these people into pure saleable commodities creating a massive profit industry out of an otherwise economically useless social class from thriving income generation b of fines tickets bail posting a lawyer fees to the now massive network of servicing the millions of inmates via health care food production security hiring parole officers in the like the prison and security industrial complex in the west is a thriving business enterprise and positive factor on economic  growth the cost to imprison one person for one year in the state of california is about forty seven thousand dollars extrapolating that to the total us two thousand and thirteen prison population of about two point three million the incarceration service alone amounts to over one hundred billion dollars a year in income and this isn't counting the other five million currently being serviced on parole today the corrections corporation of america g four s wacken huts and other private for profit security and prison firms benefit their investors and shareholders when incarceration rates increase not to mention the now extremely common labor use or slave labor use i should say of the prisoners themselves and yes we might feel some moral outrage when a pennsylvania and judge gets caught sending kids to private detention centers for cash kickbacks but then again are we really surprised there are even small towns in the midwest where the majority are employed by the local prison and if they don't have crime in prisoners their towns economy is in the toilet not to mention that most police departments derive enormous funding from drug arrests and seizures if the drug war stopped the police today us and the european banks launder about one trillion dollars in criminal mostly drug money each year drug money has actually become a very relevant parts of the wall street machines even just recently h c bank of caught moving about a billion dollars in drug money did the criminal executives get sent to jail of course not why because the legal system is mostly there to control the poor not regulate the rich h s b c paid a fine and moved on likely working to reposition themselves again like the dozen or so other major banks that continue to launder drug money each year date anyway returning to our main point this now highly capitalized blame game common enemy approach is not just there to dismiss the resulting poor it is ubiquitous at every turn whether common crime terrorism mass murders or anything the stabilising we see the mainstream media and even many in the so called activist community completely missing the point buried under the propaganda of in the box a stablish meant self preservation to one degree or another and you know what bill moyers solution to that is let nonviolent criminals out like heroin dealers yeah that's non violent you're a genius bill so how the universal got it right just wait that's an important point i am listening for some reason wayne la pierre is not making so you're going to have to hear it from me universal background check waynes universal registration universal registration universal confiscation universal extermination you know it's like god is saying to us look you've got to work with me on this you've got to work with me on this i've given you a brain i've given you the second amendment to your constitution i given you weapons now why don't you use them the tyrants did it hitler took the guns stalin took the guns mounted took the guns that all castro took the guns and hugo chavez took the guns and i'm going to tell you seventeen seventy six will comm take our firearms and the twenty first century culture in decline belligerent right wing freak show wars goes to  we interrupt this broadcast for an emergency announcement it's an emergency because we say this just in u s airports remain on high alert at this time due to a pronounced terror threat according to the f b i and new sophisticated form of terrorist technology has surface which is now forcing graphic new revisions of t s a airport security procedures that's correct summer on the heels of the two thousand and six liquid bomb threat in two thousand and nine underwear bomber this obscure new approach was revealed to authorities in a videotape allegedly found in an outhouse in willy wonka stand while the date of the video is unknown along with no clear understanding of who made the use of machetes had dresses and arabic language was enough for federal authorities to declare it is indeed al  under fifty two ounces must be sealed in a see through plastic bag most people don't realize but the earth has been slowing for many years and were it not for these huge and expense of fans behind me we would have ground to a complete day and night hauled and every word out of my mouth is true do you know why because you heard  we live in a social model based upon scarcity and inefficiency this means that the more a society solves problems meets human needs and stabilize itself by recognizing the potentials and limits of natural law the less economically viable it is in the monetary economy there's a reason why dr martin luther king jr is finally pursued was a guaranteed income system in the united states for he knew that racism was in many ways an extension of classism and  existence of poverty and deprivation in a world that can create in abundance to meet everyone's needs was nothing more than structural oppression coming from a failed in a leader just social system an impression that in fact generates crime and destabilization and a vicious cycle you want to see a decline in prohibitive economies for drug sales prostitution and black market festering you want to see societies stop its enorm use of self medicating drugs both legal and illegal you want to see an end of national war and improvement of our social infrastructure so disease and accidents can be dropped to a relative fraction of what we have now or perhaps you want to see the end of school shootings gun violence and acts of terrorism both in the context of state funded black ops a real blow back street it's time the human family recognize its global potential to achieve a post scarcity reality work to strategically share our resources were to meet human needs to regularly and focus collaborative energy on interests for true collective human betterment and removing the inherent worth air unnecessarily built into our  disease and those who appoint themselves to assist its operation or the tumors and lesions voting with ballots or assuming what you choose to spend money on is going to change the way this world works is delusion it's going to take a new approach i uprising of power to shift the tide and whether we are aware of it or not this is happening slowly right now around us in the world and the question is where are you in this interest and do you even care if not well welcome to the culture in decline in this show should be as it is is going to keep running if so all wraps maybe this terrible reality show may come to an end faster than we think tell that happens rest assured i'll be here arrogantly pointing in two thousand and seven on a hot summer day in baghdad a reuters photographer unami and his assistant saeed leave their office for a report it's about one o'clock in the afternoon an extremely hot about an hour ago gunfire was heard from a nearby street but now it's almost quite nothing is heard but a helicopter hovering over the region suddenly shooting breaks out in the neighborhood it's a confusing situation people are running in different directions to keep themselves safe and out of their range of the thirty millimeter cannon bullets fired from the  he's already wounded to keep firing on him i don't think there was necessary he was already  have it's more along the lines of the geneva convention if you don't have a red crescent or a red cross on your your vehicle and you go picking up the bodies you can be fired on just for the simple fact that can be picking up the bodies and the weapons as well flown is that right i don't think so because this clearly this guy is just trying to be a good samaritan i mean he has his children in the van with them and they're still even though they just said that the vans disabled they're still firing on it and we're going to come up on the scene from up here it's about one o'clock in the afternoon everyone else is dead this is not a combat situation and just before was also not a combat situation and then sees him that's the boy yeah the girl was the first one the boy was the second one right there i'm talking to him that's that's not showing them there are soldiers on the ground around the corner with the helicopter that was shown so that you know militarily speaking people in showing his emotions i think they could've done it a little bit more responsibly wiki leaks the way they did it and just the title collateral murder is a little a little hard to swallow but and their video you see that they make sure to point out cameras but they don't point out the weapons as well and this is not black and white there's a lot of gray area in it and you know it still makes me sick to my stomach and the more we looked the worst became  region have a different story they feel guilty in their own consciences when manders orders such ruthless operations and for big even wounded children to be taken to the hospital two soldiers decide to do something to compensate their and the answer was no so i got to the point where i said you know i can't keep doing this to other people i wouldn't want to say i'm being i ever do otherwise when i think that so i kind of struggled with how to actually attacks constantly occur in iraq and afghanistan that people in these two countries do not consider the presence of u s troops as forces helping or bringing freedom and democracy but us forces occupying their land when i talk to a little teary audiences and they say how come nobody of the prince of the paper a picture of american soldiers passing out candy i said i don't have the answer to that question but let me take a step farther what is that child likely to remember more of the burned out house of his next door neighbors with the charred bodies on it or the fact that somebody gave him a piece of candy you go to walter reed and you ask so soldiers you know if they're proud do what they did and most of them are going to say hell yeah because it's hard to admit to yourself that you sacrificed so much whether it was your friends your limbs your eyesight's your sanity or innocence and tell yourself that it was all for crap you don't want to do that probably the last thing that keeps you sane is to hold on to the idea that it was the no one right thing to do that you help people  in iraq and afghanistan are now well aware that reason why the youngest countries is to preserve the wealth of the capitalists and one saint they know that not only have they had no role in the development and freedom of these two countries but that people still have had no positive effect on preserving and guarding the security of the us we are having bases in over one hundred countries around the world where people don't want us so i think one of the measures of our security is to take a look and see does having the largest military many times over of all the world does having all of these bases around the world actually make us less safe rather than more say the children were often barefoot running through open waste water in the streets because you know at the time i still didn't understand why that was the way it was but due to u s bombings during the gulf war and  no no no s forces raids on people's homes in iraq and afghanistan and a growing number of civilian casualties have triggered a wave of anger and hatred against the inhuman accepted u s government both in this region and around the world union after the soviet union was defeated they cut and run without taking care of the people of afghanistan and gave up and left the country to osama