Building accounts it would boost Missile Defense systems in california and alaska and deliver about 1400000000 for the c 130 transport planes and f. 35 fighters manufactured by the good folks at lockheed martin. And as journalists and activists around the us begin to uncover this latest 1000000000. 00 defense contractor gift basket they are being labeled as adversary by the pentagon politico is now reporting that a new mandatory pentagon Training Course aimed at preventing leaks refers to protestors and journalists as adversaries in a fictional scenario designed to teach Defense Department personnel how to better protect Sensitive Information adversary is the term they use yes those working on the front lines of the 1st amendment to our constitution protestors and journalists are now considered adversaries and pentagon Training Camps but are we really all that shocked i mean after all we are living in a country where roughly a month ago the United States secretary of defense mark asper
Isnt that amazing those are just some of the images that are still coming in as we speak from beirut and we now have a team there on the ground and the videos that they are gathering that theyre going to be sharing with you in just a little bit there are stunning and theyre heartbreaking to watch but were going to begin with the u. S. Economy but july unemployment numbers are in and as we predicted yesterday the u. S. Gained 1800000 jobs last month is that good well its again but not really not when you consider that the month prior we gained 5000000 jobs so 5000001800000 thats a vast difference right that means the recovery is. Looking like that its looking like that right i mean its starting to go up but its not shooting up in other words its oh you not a v by the way the Unemployment Rate remains at 10. 2 percent which is worse than what we experienced during the worst of the meltdown back in 2009 now were going to get right into it with economics professor richard were going to do
Pozzi mean you know the associate director of amazon watch paul thanks for joining me thank you so i have a lot of things i want to talk about lets start with the court case the digits in ecuador want to big court case some years back against chevron who had destroyed their land filled with toxic chemicals refused to ever pay for the cleanup many have died from chevrons intentional negligence theyve now spent years running away from ever paying the billions of dollars that theyve been ordered to pay and now theyve even succeeded in getting the lawyer who won the case for the indigenous even dons ago they have gotten him locked up on house arrest by using a corrupt judge in new york city so im wondering is this all as insane as it sounds and being aware does the case stand now. Its more insane than it sounds. Because thats thats the surface right and all of the unbelievable dirty tricks corruption lies bribery to mitigation and you could write volumes about the tactics that chevron has
With the suggestion of this potential scenario because 2 World Leaders are coming out and saying that it is what they think could happen and these are leaders who know the region the Asian Pacific both men are all straight and both have held the position of Prime Minister let me take you through it 1st its the former Prime Minister and china scholar there is thats kevin rudd who has just penned an editorial in Foreign Affairs journal where he says the risk of Armed Conflict between the United States and china in the next 3 months was especially high then as you might expect australias current Prime Minister Scott Morrison was asked to comment on his predecessors statement and surprisingly he basically agreed. Morrison said that the hot war between the u. S. And china was quote previously inconceivable not considered even possible or likely but not anymore to australian Prime Ministers one former one present sounding an alarm they seem to want the whole world to hear should we heed the
And the potential Foreign Policy differences under a biden ministration will also talk about how many major American Cities are on track to receive an influx of federal Law Enforcement even after seeing protesters getting shelled into secret police vans. First here is anders lees interview with Norman Finkelstein mr vogelstein thank you for joining us here on q. For having me but i want to begin by asking about recent developments or non developments if you will in israel at the start of the summer Prime Minister netanyahu would plan to annex a large portion of the occupied west bank beginning on july 1st but so far israel has been executed on this why do you think that is. And figure 2 reasons number one. Those are d the minutes to go its not one so even those who are destructive Prime Minister who are he its time to. Crack incidents or his legal problems got swarms are there. That there is a chase pending in the International Criminal court regarding. Crimes in the west bank and gaza