Weeks. Of the watch of the hawks i robot and im having a while and then joining us today to discuss the arms business in syria is former pentagon analyst Michael Maloof thanks for joining us pleasure always a pleasure so michael let walk us through this how exactly in your expertise in your belief do you believe these weapons and that up in the hands of isis what do you know they told us that they are being are the syrians and then they ended up at isis house what do you think happened well it was a very clandestine program to obtain from Eastern Europe a lot of the weapons that syrian. Opposition forces were very good half million with. A k forty seven zero r. P. G. Where do you get them from Eastern Europe and the you still have surplus is there today youre very familiar with those weapons by contractors and nobel waco. But is it still in gauging that activity happens also in afghanistan where ever you have this kind of activity you have clandestine programs principally run by the agency cia and it goes on and on and on and the way it probably happened in a number of ways is that they really captured or they went to opposition fighters who may have joined isis but in many some of them were actually mislaid when they were parachuted in either of those approaches and in the one case when isis initially took over mosul back in two thousand and fourteen. They took incredible amounts of weaponry from the iraqi fighters. And then mosul fill this up so they were theyve been able to get these weapons theyve been able to. Actually modify it to to suit their purposes and and be able to just launch tubes for example so that they can comply with. The weapon systems itself so the isis engineers if you will were very very clever and in and showed a lot of ingenuity and this is part of this also is that the original suppliers who sold them to the u. S. Or saudi arabia were was it kind of turning around and clandestinely feeding them to syria that was against the original buying agreements a lot of these case sure youre always going to have a no re export without permission cluster but that that was just but when youre doing a clandestine program such as this you go through the state department for example itll go to an innocuous in this case lets say like romania to the u. S. Ok then then they go off on a special aircraft and and wind up over there and through jordan or what have you see i had a program and then it was just this year. President trump said no more bye bye then you know they they. They have an arsenal and they still have it and you dont know where a lot of these stocks are hidden you have bunkers probably still filled somewhere where they can retrieve them and i know they would be clever enough to do Something Like that and its its hard for me to look at it and understand why you know why a lot in the me a lot of people in the in the Mainstream Media and the Corporate News seem surprised by this when weve seen if you look through history as soon as one war ends those things are being shipped to the next place and we saw that you know weapons that were in japan at the end of World War Two got shipped to korea and when there was anything left over at the end of that war got shipped to vietnam and just everything gets around and this idea of having rebels or arming people the considering that the United States is essentially the largest arms dealer in the world is it naive of Mainstream Media or any media to be surprised by this are they that naive or is there a level of we have to protect certain things well that theres a good reason for these some of these programs its a combination i think they have to protect it because they and its a clandestine Program Number one but number two there was no focus on it. I know when i was at the pentagon we. Went up when i was in kazakhstan uzbekistan training Border Guards at the those areas we would come across tremendous surpluses of these weapons that were left over from the old when the cold war had ended and we were trying to get our defense and other shows to scoop them up because in that region we were very concerned even back then of islamic islamist terror terrorist groups and getting their hands of ninetys or this was early two thousand well you know what this is is there any kind of what we know about like ok we have the cia of what had become a voice following of these in these operations over you know secret operations by the way weapons of the public side of things did they worry about this. Prevention or precautions that they take or is a kind of way we know what theyre doing well just look the other way well i think it was they were very aware where these weapons were going and they the. Pentagon was very much involved in these type of programs. After all they were they were being supplied to elements that we were training and given advice to so that and it was directed that clearly shown that rather than us weapons which they didnt know how to operate get these other weapons from Eastern Europe because there was so much so many available and the ammunition was so plentiful and that way you also had deniability laws of all denial were they get them from Eastern Europe but not mention the fact that it was all orchestrated by the United States policies how how dangerous is that the idea of sort of using these well these weapons are here these weapons are here when were looking in war zones who are trying to see who is supplying what how dangerous it that we just has seemed to have an innumerable number amount of of arms just wandering around in the middle east and Eastern Europe and africa the fact that isis is just isis alone has metastasized in thirty countries and those weapons whether its their weapons of choice the a k forty seven its all these all these types of. Weapons that were talking about today and theyre very very plentiful theyre not going to go away and theyre going to be and theyre probably bunkers storehouses for future use and and theyre in plentiful supply theyre not going to and i think it was was it was a former pentagon that as it was what youre probably at one point i think a lot of time was really use these weapons like you had mentioned to parallel it or after World War Two but a lot of times we use the weapons to kind of flood the area to kind of. You know create the war. On something that we saw here regards to this new information with isis that a kind of you need the enemy to be armed in order to justify the fight against the other well there is some element of that because we we. We we want to be able to in many cases we were actually arming the at that time the. Opposition which was against assad now that then the then the focus shifted to going after isis and and those same weapons and then began to be used against our folks and the people we were training so its it was again its the monster we created coming back to bite us and i was out of the because of what we talk about forty sevens and sort of small small arms ammunition and things like that what about things like surface to air missiles because senator john mccain once stated in regard to the syrian conflict specifically quote i might do what we did in afghanistan many years ago to give those guys the ability to shoot down those planes that equipment is available to Free Syrian Army would just like the afghans shoot down the russians now according to this report we kind of did just what john mccain advised except the rockets ended up in isis hands within two months of them arriving in syria so how susceptible to blow back is this kind of sort of gusto Foreign Policy of saying im going to give these guys guns to shoot these guys and well its very very serious and they are going to be the fact that they have them. And they can be used at another time in fact. Some of our some of our Defense Activities in the air is assumes that theyve got surface to air missiles down there and you just dont know if theyre going to be using them or not they probably dont use them because they dont want to reveal that they that they have their positions and where it is but the fact is they do have and theyve captured them and they could be used for another time the major concern is not im not on the battlefield so much but i can civilian right very point is there every day is that one of those things where we. We need to look very concerned to civilians out of a very concerned about a lot of these weapons were flowing out of north africa libya particularly which then makes all of aircraft flying commercial aircraft flying in Southern Europe very very vulnerable very vulnerable its interesting too because the day that the media is covering these reports coming out you also have u. S. Ambassador vicky haley showcasing in condemning the what the u. S. Claimed was evidence of iranian weapons being used by the hutus in yemen. How do we balance the u. S. Balance that kind of hypocritical nature of that like ok were condemning the iranians for supply you know allegedly supplying the hutus with rockets and weapons but at the same time that reports of us you know essentially isis ending up with weapons that we plug it into syria how to balance it on who who the bad guy is who the big guy isnt and whos talking yet both sides contribute you know you have iranian weapons that have come in the is says to. The shiite forces in iraq certainly and theres been weapons that transfers without we know of that have gone to the east. And again and again its its not just one side doing it all sides are doing it yeah and its all everybody starts that down and says ok you know what were not going to give were not just going to indiscriminately give or anything giving weapons to anybody in an area thats i dont think they can i dont think they can control it any more i dont think its a question any longer we will or will not give weapons there are so many out there right now great that theyre going to be available whenever and for whatever group that wants to take over there because the report will bite will thank you always for coming on obstructing us on that today all right as we go to break off watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics weve covered on facebook and twitter see our poll shows that r. T. G. Dot com coming up partys david miller enters the wild world of the slaughter of mets neutrality that took place earlier and how but wallace asked why wall street has mr. 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It would seem the more they push to have the president removed from office the more we learn about the media in such the f. B. I. How they really work to date the investigation. Has revealed precious little we are learning there was elsewhere. Well it was. You. Know going to move this oh there were those who you. Know go oh that is. The f. C. C. Made it overturn that neutrality regulations was a blast politically and in a terrifying turn of events almost physically as an unknown person called a bomb threat resulting in a ten minute break to bring in bomb sniffing dogs but after all the chaos and settled the commissioners took the vote everyone had been expecting and many feared will change consumer access to the internet forever though the practice wasnt prevalent prior to Net Neutrality rules many activists are concerned that Internet Service providers may use the new opportunity to throttle web traffic based on content and charging different prices to acts like access to different websites we now turn to our teens david miller for the latest on the critical vote and the protests weve seen throughout the day. In a three two vote down party lines this morning the f. C. C. Voted in favor of the first. Net neutrality regulations we can as you can see behind me there American People have gathered to protest said decision the agencys republican majority approved a plan to scrap the rules preventing internet providers like comcast and eighteen c. From blocking or slowing web traffic the f. C. C. Today voted three two along party lines to repeal the obama era net new. Regulations handing a victory to Telecom Providers over the objections of Tech Companies including Netflix Reddit and todays vote was delayed for a brief time by an apparent bomb threat but that did not stop the f. C. C. From moving forward to what some call the death of the internet as you can see behind me many flowers have been laid in from the f. C. C. Is building as if a memorial for the internet dozens of democrats in at least one republican are the f. C. C. To cancel todays vote but the chairman did bow to move forward with the plan ironically the same democratic commissioners fighting for freedom of speech for the internet refused interview with myself because im with r t america while doing interviews for every other network out here also news today as many as two million Net Neutrality comments many of which were negative were filed to the f. C. C. Were fake according to the new York AttorneyGenerals Office several tanis general and democrats urged an investigation into the comments ahead of todays vote as a protest wrapped up earlier today we heard a number of concerns including concerns over the right to free speech corporations gaining larger and getting richer and also many Health ConcernsEnvironmental Concerns also but the main concern is that this fight is not going to stop that they continue to pursue actions against the f. C. C. Not to take away these protections reporting from washington d. C. David miller r t america. Well weve been covering it for a long time and it was that fateful day yeah neutrality was struck down thanks to former arise a lawyer a little corporate actor picked it up assistant commissioner. Hey you know what. I mean its true but you know one of the point one of the interesting things i dont know if i didnt understand that this at least a decade so im fight and truthfully after ten years i think most people just under. And what Net Neutrality meant but i think honestly just people just didnt see how important it was but. But the point is not over because. You can see that the congress is probably every i think a lot of a lot of republicans surprisingly in congress have said oh wait a minute whether we should be overturning the trial because we know it probably i dont see probably someone just lation down the line to kind of fill in the gaps that were created today are one of the interesting things to. Kind of ironic about the whole debate is that many of the big internet platforms that were now advocating for neutrality like you know dont shred it. Well were kind of already in gauging and censorship that weve seen over and over when theyre ordering it or i mean he you know you tube the monetizing of hiding politically of subversive videos or social Media Companies partnering with governments to build road alternative new sources so you kind of see that happening everything that they were complaining against doesnt just want to drag you down that neutrality obviously but its a little hypocrisy going on there yes i think one of the things that we have to understand is that theyve been theyve been paying to do this for a long time if you think that you tube magically like. Didnt take extra money on advertising wasnt well put yourself to the top. And if you believe the google didnt do the same youre and i and if you didnt think that everybody has been figuring out ways to cheat the system and that that system is there the reason that things like google and facebook and you tube exist is to sell ads without a middleman period and thats all weve heard over and over and that is what theyre there for theyre theyre not there to give you free speech they are not a platform for democracy their entire purpose is to sell ads to people or corporations at the end of the day to yes so it can and i think the thing about. Areas this you know republican appointed head of the f. C. C. And obviously im no fan of his political opinions because i think its a little too close to a little too close to Corporate America but if anybody got to see us and we can show the. But he this is a guy who gets outrage for not taking his job seriously and then he does this daily caller video making fun of anybody whos fighting or being. Like you can still post selfies the mediums that is there with the puppy dog and i have to say. Grow up honestly good point like everybody on the hello serious theres a point where you just need to grow up because you have people the people who are really hurt by this are the people at the very bottom theyre not the people with Million Dollar you tube channels theyre the person with a small website whos trying to sell a product and trying to make a living thats making less than fifty thousand dollars a year probably and those are the people that really get hurt and long term and we know the Cable Companies are going to do the internet provided Cable Companies are going to do this a benchley theyre going to parcel out the internet for you know x. Amount of low in dollars you get slow simple Internet Service and these websites but for high end dollars you get all the actual stuff you need right they do that now this point if you live a basic plan it doesnt work right now and so no sir i dont its only going to hurt people who dont have access to money isnt going to notice lance who dont use that and at the end of the day the internet is a utility you cant get a public good its a utility at this point we were too dependent on it without i think were ten years from a Free Internet home so. Sexual abuse and harassment are no stranger to the wolves of wall street and while the brothers of finance are apparently way more into here crystals and gurus than cocaine and export x. Test scores it seems that women are still struggling to succeed and be safe in the workplace the Government Accountability office recently released a new report finding among other things that women influence make up only twenty nine percent of senior jobs at banks trusts insurance and securities firms and of the women who did rise to the top of the National Bureau of Economic Research recently concluded that following an incidence of misconduct the male advisors are twenty percent more likely to lose their jobs and thirty percent less likely to find new jobs relative to male advisers joni hersch a professor at Vanderbilt Law School told the intercept the problem with these industries is that the prize is so big at the top if you successfully compete and vamps. The payoff is huge and that keeps people motivated to keep putting out and complain about the working conditions theres a huge story that you told me about today and youve been following all day long. Yeah it is the thing of not understanding i keep being i guess this whole thing weve had the movement this year and its hit really close to home for you because its so Many Industries that i have worked in that i have seen Sexual Harassment abuse assaults ive seen it all and now i sort of see this idea as if wall street has never had a problem as if wall streets never had an issue and its amazing that no one like it is going to you see it when youre in a restaurant you see it in hollywood you see is. Wall street but youre really silent and with those vaguely remind me of something yes please tell me the. Reminiscences of this is true taking it back to the night as we love to do. With our president we like sick of x. The end isnt in the ninetys there were a number of lawsuits the biggest one was known as the boom boom room scam of the ninety as it was when smith barney as we know for the fabulous Thailand Party we do things the Old Fashioned way we earn it move money the Old Fashioned way we earn it was sued by twenty five female coke workers and curb brokers for Sexual Harassment and assault the actually the accusations that were in this just just to name one tiny one was Branch Managers asking female employees to take their shirts off for money and then that was the existence of the infamous boom boom room which is a room in their new york office of smith barney that was strictly for escorts and strippers and if any were female workers were brought in there a number of them said they were assaulted they had tongues shoved down their throats not that in that case the arbitration process many many women were saddled with was called out and. In the in the lawsuit that ended up with smith barney they actually agreed after a lot of fighting to let the arbitration go and to settle for a fairly large was about one hundred fifty Million Dollars and rewards and theyve even put a cap on it they were saying over twenty thousand women come forward so was a huge lawsuit it was a huge thing but even at that time they said look if we dont fix these things if we dont fix the arbitration process or these things its not and i get in the arbitration process is a big problem here because you know we saw you know Gretchen Carlson thankfully got around her arbitration process by when she was suing roger ailes you know c. E. O. Chairman of fox former c. E. O. Job to fox news you know anita hill said that you know yes that he did well but you know who now works as an antidiscrimination professor at Brandeis University told Time Magazine last year mandatory arbitration clauses in negotiating away the civil rights of an individual are just playing a bad idea what were talking about here with harassment is a civil rights violation you know our policy is driven from the point of view of the people the men who are more powerful engaging in abusive behavior women are skeptical skeptical coming forward because they dont trust the procedures and i think they are. Absolutely right the better for seizures yes we need better procedures and i dont have that. Feeling that wall street bubble is going to pop the bubble not the money bubble but the me too bubble thats going to pop up im going to see more and i i hope so i hope thats not the case but come on really at the end of the day you know. Since mankind first looked to the heavens weve asked the most universal of question are we alone in the search for the answer to that question continues to this very day and now its being asked of a mysterious quarter mile long cigar shaped interstellar object currently hurdling through our solar system at a speed of almost two hundred. Thousand Miles Per Hour called the oh mama which is why im for a messenger or Scout Stephen hawking and other scientists have theorized that the object could be a something as great as an alien pro or just simply another spacecraft lucky enough to be on a very rare interstellar journey to find out scientists working on the breakthrough listen project point of the massive Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to listen for any potential alien communications or signals being emitted from the four hundred metre long object as of thursday its found the sound of silence but dont give up hope its an awfully big sky out of the. 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