Kindness and empathy arc watchers but tragically sometimes it seems that we also have an almost primal instinct towards selfdestruction or at the very least we can be pretty cavalier with our own safety both personally and mouse from the kid on the escalator acting the fool to our National Leaders and their strange pingers on the bottom of the bottom. Today we are going to start this party my friends with a bang a nuclear bang in the form of a New Princeton based video simulation currently making the rounds on social media but proves there was no such thing as a limited small Tactical Nuclear war called plan aids researchers at Princeton University science and Global Security lab created the form of the animation to show the potentially catastrophic consequences of current u. S. And Russian Nuclear war plans according to the researchers the simulation is based on an actual independent assessments of current u. S. And Russian Force postures and Nuclear Weapon targets in total after all the birds of launched as you can see here in the video yet the estimates more than 91000000 people in russia the United States and nato allied countries might be killed or injured within 3 hours following a single Nuclear Warning shot 91000000 people and that doesnt even take into account the deaths from Nuclear Fallout and all the other Long Term Health and environmental effects from a full on nucular exchange its sobering videos and statistics like these that remind us that it isnt duck and cover that will keep us safe. Its watching the hawks. What is. The. Real thing its like. As the plot of. The day like you that i got. With. This. Well they were going to watching the hawks i am tired robot and im happy to watch this. Dramatic video aerobatic pretty well then we will forget just how big these like air strikes like its nice to sit and say in your in your comfy house your comfy apartment and say well you know i just think we should bomb iran i mean whats the big deal anguish totally newcome newcome up i mean weve heard people weve had people say that this doesnt say yes that is a great idea with that theres that next day after its great that you get your little bit of revenge and you feel a little bit righteous about it but. Theres the day after theres the week after theres the years after and then go to her ocean and talk to us which you know you dont theres nothing until you talk to someone whos been a direct victim of a Nuclear Blast and theres only a couple places you can do that i just dont think that people really understand that thats the plan thats plan a yeah yeah thats what you see in this video is that you will see exactly how the plans will play out if followed as the both votaries russian made oh the u. S. Of all those military plans were to be put in place and there was go time up of one strike this is exactly what youd see happen theres the u. S. Rockets flying through the air then youre see russians coming up then you see natos thats all Nuclear Weapons thats. Everywhere would hit according to plan essentially russia launched 300. 00 Nuclear Warheads with the goal of wiping out nato Nato Response of 180. 00 nukes of its own the us launches its smorgasbord of nukes and that is the whole show bang 90000000 people wiped out in a span of 3 hours if were not careful its cooler heads dont prevail well and thats the problem is that you have a system set in place in which cooler heads arent supposed to the media doesnt want most news doesnt happen saying theyre thinking about this theyre thinking about this and we saw the release of those pentagon documents about how wed handle Nuclear Weapons what the current plans are in case this happened just earlier this year the doctrine for joint Nuclear Operations on the. Joint chiefs of staff website back in june there was this interesting. Note from that read document which said integration of Nuclear Weapons employment with conventional and special Operations Forces is essential to the success of any Mission Operation also according to the document the us doesnt have a no 1st use policy so we dont technically have a policy of saying we wont nuke 1st shocking i know weve only done it before there are sort of prepared to use that men anyway thats thats conventional nonconventional which i think goes back to the point of you know were looking at entire generation of soldiers that were in iraq who have either are suffering with cancer or died of cancer because of burn pads what do you think theyre going to come home with if you drop a nuke and then say ok you guys gone in there and finish the job and they would what do you think happens whats the Environmental Impact how many vets are going to come home. I mean you talk about Climate Change you know well there you go you know and thats the thing that nobody takes into consideration this whole d simulation was based on the idea of that thats been put forward numerous times in the last few years of or we can use Nuclear Weapons and like conventional small little places like we can drop like one tactical move and that somehow thats ok thats you know this is where the doctrine for live regular bombs dont just kill people right there is there that sort of understand a Nuclear Weapon obliterate the whole area makes a place on lovable for a large amount of time. If it were not in defense of american of them if not its barely a weapon its a toy for psycho this is it truly is whats more frightening too is because of the Way Technology and launch technologies and it has been approved and built upon in an article for war in the rocky rocks out im loath. To argue that given the technical bensons made since the cold war in the 1st Strike Technology that it may be no asserted to develop a system based on Artificial Intelligence with breed of terminal response decisions that detects decides and direct strict. Forces with such speed that the attack Time Compression challenge does not place the United States in an impossible position in other words what theyre arguing is ai. And everything over to ai they can strike quicker if someone launches at us 1st which is essentially the plot of terminator 2 i was going to survey we want that i mean it seems there are. Us pilots flight attendants Nuclear Power plant operators and railroad bus drivers operate under very restrictive schedules to avoid things like sleep deprivation and judgment lapses as well as fatigue and psychosis however while you are in the sky there is one member of the flight crew not protected by those guidelines among others and the result is being called a crisis federal air marshals part of the t. S. A. Consists of about 3000 covert armed guards who are deployed on commercial passenger jets to protect the crew d and passengers from acts of criminal or terrorist advice lives while in the air however a series of reports government investigations and a month long a. B. C. News investigation uncovered that this elite force of sharpshooting sky cops has been a major increase in suicides murder suicides psychotic episodes fatal Health Issues and severe depression in recent years the president of the air Marshall National councils Sonia Hightower the bosco told a. B. C. News that the crisis is here its an epidemic if we dont try and stop this im in fear that the next time i turn on the t. V. Its going to be an airplane taken down even more disturbing is the fact that the t. S. A. The Transportation Safety administration has made a habit of destroying the careers and lives of air marshals who choose to blow the whistle on waste fraud mismanagement and abuse so the question remains who is looking out for the people who look out for the rest of us. To understand is that we just have to put all of our trust and faith in those people they know better the government always knows better the government doesnt mistreat any of that some. Lawyers there theyre happy all the time and are never stressed and they never do d anything wrong ever how patriotic and it is isnt it but thats the mentality they try to sell you like dont whistle whistle blow whats going to air marshals there theyre super human rights i mean well here look ill give you the t. S. A. He. Responded to the report saying that quote but no one heard marginals bams are a critical and successful part of the us as a layered approach to transportation security the health and welfare of every man and woman who serves in the fams as t. S. A. Is highest priority t. S. A. And federal air marshal leadership take the care of every federal air marshal very seriously vigorously and dispute any indication otherwise. Yes because a. B. C. News and all these people are making this up theyre not overworked theyre not overstressed and their job is nothing but sunshine and flowers obviously im glad you and. Wow accept or i dont know the ts is required by law or policy to keep a record of these suicides by air marshals but those estimates that there are somewhere between 3 to 5 are your right so remember a couple weeks ago the n. Y. P. D. About a week or so ago when the air or the officer who who murdered eric garner losses was officially lost his job and they were all kind of talking about this this how many suicides there was this you know complaint that it was a strike in a number of suicide suzanne there isnt something again or talk about a huge difference of a number see you about 3000 federal air marshals and then when you look at the n. Y. P. D. Which is Something Like 91. 00 ill say its a large when you go there yes like 96000. 00 people it would be the equivalent of them having 30 to 50 suicides in a year. If you look at them like hardly so they had 9 this year of 90 some odd 1000 Police Officers the n. Y. P. D. 3000 of these specially trained highly trained sharpshooters on a plane never quite understood that but this is a person whos now not being looked after is going through a very stressful and or they dont really have a union you know so were kind of looking at a thing where theyre not protected in that way. There was a congressional report entitled urgent reforms needed at t. S. A. From september of 20 team Eliza Cummings in congress to part of it said that the report revealed a pattern of mismanagement at t. S. A. And v. H. S. Including arbitrary and retaliatory Personnel Practices for lack of uniform Civil Service protections has led to numerous deviations from agency and deployment policy and from government once standers. Which has which in turn has chilled whistleblowers harmed morale and negatively affected Agency Operations heres where this is the thing you can sit in have your oh they should be tougher oh well its a tough job oh well we do the best we can thats not ok you cannot treat people are supposed to be like the elite of our country and these people and tell us were keeping them safe its the same thing with cops dont sit there and tell me that when youre when youre doing everything you can to punish anybody who finds wrongdoing and wants to make things better you know the whistleblowers are there especially in those businesses theyre there to try to make things better theyre there to say hey the system isnt working correctly stop major things from happening and plus meant to say i the air marshals job has got to be garbage think about that we have to work on a plane what are the top 12 hours a day and you cant fall asleep you cant read a book youve got to be actually going to reading and youre armed boy thats the person i want in a stressful situation the 1000 feet right and i know there are you bodies ever understood why the solution to our safety as some of the gone on other than id like to rethink that whole idea so our screwed what are right on that note we will go to break our watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics weve covered on our social media be sure to watch your dog the podcast which is now available on spotify apple does it everywhere you will see the podcast coming up we discuss the release of Edward Snowden this leg who we discuss aebersold his legacy and his new memoir permanent record with investigative journalist ben swan weve stayed till the want to miss this. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military and the decision. Every thing came to a complete. The day that i was raped. You know told to shut up or theyd kill me and i see how destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me with his birthing curia if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished dont be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or woman. One else truths seem wrong. Why dont we all just dont hold. Any old yet to shape out these days to come to advocate and engage with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart when she still looks for common ground. For some may 20th 2013 was just another day like any other in our lives but for one young n. S. A. Contractor that is a day that would forever change not only a future of his life but that of the free world as well you see may 20th was the day that n. S. A. Contractor Edward Snowden at just 30 years old 1st arrived in hong kong with a cache of top secret documents that he would later use to reveal that the free world was not as free as our leaders promised us it was now 6 years later Edward Snowden a surveillance state whistleblower heard around the world has released a memoir of his life entitled permanent record the book not only delves into the events and circumstances that made him a permanent figure in our collective history books but it also fits into a record his deep love and respect for another onsite hero in this string his wife lindsay mills and speaking about the release of the book snowden told guardian journalist Ewen Macaskill who was one of the original journalists he met in hong kong back in 2012 that quote you have to be ready to stand for something if you want to change that is what i hope this book will help people come to decide for themselves and her stage right our good friends in the United States government to risk mind us all that snowden is still public enemy number one with the announcement that the u. S. Justice department has filed a civil lawsuit against snowden at this publisher over permanent record joining us now to discuss Edward Snowdens new book his legacy and the Justice Departments no lawsuit is investigative journalist and spawn thanks for joining us then you have thanks for having me on. First lets get into this lawsuit and why is the u. S. Justice department suing Edward Snowden and one of the even remotely hope to get from the lawsuit. Its kind of comical on some levels if it wasnt so bizarre but essentially what theyve done is they filed a lawsuit to say that they know they cant stop the publication of the book because the 1st amendment was in the constitution so instead what theyre done is theyve gone to a judge and said he should not be allowed to profit off of this book so theyre asking the court to essentially allow the government to seize all of the money that is made from the book itself and for the government to be able to keep that money and not only that but to go a step further and to also file on for the court to essentially put out an injunction that will say that snowden can give no speeches in any locations around the world about the book or the contents of the books of thats what theyre asking the court to do while. Its not of like freedom and its just going to add in this really quick whats really interesting about this is the other major whistleblower Chelsea Manning she is now getting fined 1000. 00 a day every day that shes shes being held in jail Edward Snowden theyre going after his money thats an interesting kind of tactic that the governments taking now lets go after their money and lets cut their source of funds lets not let them earn a living and that kind of attitude that thats really frightening really frightening. What are the apology as a lost audio here for its like oh its ok oh well moving on to your response of the lawsuit snowden had tweeted today this is the book the government does not want you to read obviously the Justice Department went hold my beer and said yeah obviously. Did did the Justice Department hand Edward Snowden the biggest free pub less than a for a buck ever in the history of anything ever. Right right but they obviously have it i mean the idea that the Justice Department is essentially giving some attention to the book is one thing but i think whats kind of interesting about the book itself is the way its been laid out an opportunity i guess for snowden to try to explain to the world his position in all of this it feels a little bit like its a bit of a p. R. Campaign to go around and maybe i dont want to rewrite history i dont think its trying to do that but certainly to give his side of the story on many levels here you have to figure that still needs to give his side of the story because hes never really been given the war for the opportunity to do that its been very difficult for him because media controls a lot of what is said about his book and about essentially what he ultimately did in the 1st place so i think thats fairly interesting the other thing that i think is kind of interesting about what all has come out of this is this discussion essentially about the fact that snowden initially wanted to go to wiki leaks and he wanted to have you know a song to put everything out but because of the rules for wiki leaks where they do not edit information they dont control the information they simply publish the whole thing and put it all out there snowden didnt go through that channel and thats why instead he went to the guardian and to walk oh so ultimately put out the story in the 1st place because assad would have demanded complete transparency and he wasnt willing to give that complete transparency thats interesting to me of other new revelations from the book have been able to kind of dispel some of the rumor. And you when those surrounding snowdens actions i mean i know i know that hes kind of come out now and said you know very clearly a no china no russia no one was pushing me to do this he lays that out in the book and you know what what are some of the things weve seen in the book or or some of the conversations happening around it that we just didnt know 6 years ago. Yeah well i think one of the things we didnt know before at least i didnt know this before is that you know snowden talked about the fact that theres been a lot made of the fact that he wound up you know 1st going to hong kong and then ultimately to russia of course he didnt plan to be in russia he didnt plan to stay there it was actually the state department the pentagon that canceled his passport so he couldnt leave once he landed in russia but one of the things he said was that he actually destroyed a lot of those files that he took with him before he left hong kong so when he originally landed in hong kong and he gave this 1st round of interviews you know sat down with Glenn Greenwald and laura betrayers and and it kind of laid out the story in the beginning before he left hong kong he destroyed what he had with him he did not want to take that with him because he says he did not know where he was going to ultimately wind up which i think is a pretty interesting way of viewing it especially when again the accusations that have been made against him for so long are that well you know you snowden was. An operative of russia he was trying to do this to harm the United States he was trying to give information to the enemies of the United States thats been the what the Intelligence Community has claimed about him for a very long time and i think one of the things that you start to see if these things are true is that stone had a very different idea in mind for what he was trying to do he says and has said that he was not trying to break or destroy the n. S. A. He was trying to reform the n. S. A. He was trying to change those practices and he himself has said that in the past because this book a lot has a lot to do with kind of his own personal beliefs and his own history that in the past he had a very different view of things and that view has obviously changed once he got inside and began to see what that surveillance apparatus looked like and i think a large part of that also within the book and what you understand now is that he was this pretty conservative guy was all about like whats classified as classified and this is all of this and it seems that you know part of that was his now wife and part of his that journey of learning mess other its like when you suddenly are on 2 different sides of the aisle. You come together and you sort of have an eye opening experience and i think now looking back were 6 years removed from the snowden leaks then what do you think are is the biggest impact that they have had on the public and the u. S. Government. Well its a good question i mean ultimately i mean the biggest impact is just knowledge for a lot of people who had you told them 6 years ago that this was happening but have said its absolutely not happening the governments not reading all of our emails theyre not capturing all of our Text Messages they are not conducting this broad vast surveillance today 6 years later every single american not only knows that to be true but completely understands that is what our government does the negative of that is nothings really changed the positive is the awareness but the negative is whats actually changed from it i mean we did have this law passed in 2015 under president obama that essentially said were going to change the way we do surveillance but they didnt lessen surveillance it actually increased surveillance on many Different Levels so that was a huge problem obviously continues to be so there are some positives of what we know now compared to what we didnt know but in terms of what is that knowledge done about changing the world or changing our reality it hasnt necessarily changed you know snowden i think in some of the interviews roman is a book of sub very strongly that in order its not just about giving getting government to change policy but i think its also so that its up to us to kind of really start standing up for the things that we want to change and with the surveillance state in reference to having sort of so massive now in every country around the world and in private industry but he says its going to take Something Like the same reaction were having the Climate Change its going to take kind of a global protest of people standing up saying i dont want to be tracked everywhere i bring my cell phone i dont want to have those people involved in our lives like this i still believe very strongly and ill always say this i think theres a hero. Whether hes a whistleblower and i think its good that he put this book out your butt is one thank you so much for coming on and having this conversation with us today. Wildly regarded as the one of the founding mothers of National Public radio mary Martha Curran morrison claiborne boggs more commonly known as Cokie Roberts passed away this to say at the age of 75. 00 she not only made a name for herself at a time when very few women were presenting or shaping the news but also along with Susan StambergNina Totenberg and linda one timer created the very concept of what n. P. R. Has become in her expansive 4 decade career Cokie Roberts won 3 emmys wrote 6 books mainly about the women history forgets was a clear Living Legend by the library of congress and was regularly known to file stories for 4 different shows on 2 Different Networks in a single day Cokie Roberts revolutionize the world in which i report to you today and i leave you with her advice for young women entering this still somewhat male dominated industry and world she said dont get all involved in the politics of your institution or competition in your Institution Just do your work and get it on the air and then people will see if youre good heres to Cokie Roberts who told us all told us all to be brave be bold and please trails wherever you may go. Runnable job as you said. Putting in like 4 stories of the day to 2 different sets of serious work it was she was. She was working both at n. P. R. And at a. B. C. News for a long time and she was you know she was a congressional budget reporter you know this is a time like when she started n. P. R. And radio she was a Foreign Correspondent in greece and i think when you look at what she came up in that time and who have shaped what upon. Our entire public n. P. R. Public radio which i think is one of the most important institutions it media should be protected she was at the core of it with a group of women who in 197879 were literally shaping the world we are now and i would and i hope that we can look back to those those one men and those people who made those kinds of decisions and shaped those things and see the next generation of women shaping how. We really do all right everybody that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are the love i tell you i love you i am. Watching dogs never a great day and. Again we stand on the brink of war we should not be surprised if he. 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