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. Wonder what. It looks like. Its like. At the bottom. Of the day like you that i got. With. The. Welcome were going to watching the hawks i am tired robot and im up with a lot less. Dramatic video after about a pretty girl well then we will forget just how big these like air strikes like its nice to sit in say in your in your comfy house or your comfy apartment and say well you know i just think we should bomb iran i mean whats the big deal anguished totally new 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 right righteous about it but. Theres the day after theres the week after theres the years after and then go to her russian and talk to switch you know 1st 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 what you see exactly how the plans will play out if followed as the as both votaries russian made oh 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 there is the u. S. Rockets flying through the air then you 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 a response of 180. 00 nukes of its own the us launches its smorgasbord of nukes and that is the whole bang 90000000 people wiped out in a span of 3 hours if were not careful if if 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 over there thinking about this theyre thinking about this though 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 document which said integration of Nuclear Weapons employment with conventional and special Operations Forces is essential to the success of any mission or operation also according to the document the us doesnt have a no 1st use policy so we dont technically have a policy saying nuke 1st shocking i know weve only done it before theyre prepared to use them in any way 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 burns what do you think theyre going to come home with if you drop a nuke and then say ok guys go on in there and finish the job and what do you think happens whats the Environmental Impact how many vets are going to come home. I mean you talk about Climate Change. And thats something that nobody takes into consideration this whole simulation was based on the idea of the put forward numerous times in the last 2 years ago we can use. Nuclear weapons unlike conventional small little places like we can drop like one tactical move and that somehow thats ok you know this is where the doctrine live regular bombs dont just kill people right there thats an invention a Nuclear Weapon obliterate the whole area and 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 of the low 3rd quarter smooth get them to argue that given the technical bounce made since the cold war in the 1st Strike Technology but it may be no surge to develop a new system based on Artificial Intelligence with breed of German Response decisions that detects decides in direct Strategic Forces with such speed that the attack Time Compression challenge does not place the United States minimum possible position in other words what theyre arguing is a i. Have 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 you know we want that we want. U. S. Pilots flight attendants Nuclear Power plant operators and railroad and bus drivers operate under very restrictive schedules to avoid things like sleep deprivation and judgment lapses as well as 15 again 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 and passengers from acts of criminal or terroristic violence while in the air however a series of reports government investigations and a month long a. B. C. News investigation uncovered that this elites force of. Sharpshooting sky cops has seen a major increase in suicides murder suicides psychotic episodes fatal Health Issues and severe depression in recent years the president of the air Marshal 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 its employees theyre happy all the time and are never stressed and they never do anything wrong ever how patriotic it is and that but thats the mentality they just tell you like dont whistle blow the air marshal their super human rights i mean well here give you 2 years theyve. Responded to the report saying that quote federal air marshals dams are a critical and successful part of layered approach to transportation security the health and welfare of every man and woman who serves in the fans as t. S. A. The highest priority t. S. A. And federal air marshal leadership take care of every federal air marshal very seriously rigorously 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 still its there somewhere between 3 to 5 or youre 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 ill say its a large when you go there yes like maybe 6000 people it would be the equivalent of them having 30 to 50 suicides in a year. If you look at them like currently so they had 9 this year 90 some of 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 20000. 00 allies a 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 the 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 all 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 whistle blowers are there especially in those businesses theyre there to try to make things better theyre there to say hey the system is working correctly stop major things from happening and to do his air marshals job has got to be garbage think about that 5 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 read it and youre armed boy thats the person i want in a stressful situation the 1000 feet right and i know the iraqis 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 and watch the podcast which is now available on spotify up and theres a good everywhere you go to the podcast coming up we discuss the release of Edward Snowden the. Who we discussed aebersold his legacy and his new memoir permanent record with the best going to burgle it but weve stayed till i want to miss this. And then pain years then cross started 10 years and i think its time to shake things up maybe change the branding maybe the format here is what ive been thinking about next season related episodes filmed on an island 10 expert fight about for a trophy what do you think ok a more affordable option 25 packs for. One red rose another suggestion political jeopardy parody no political cookout where we will literally wrote the elites. Late night show its a rare format these days and its cheap all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner but to leave me with one of my girls i can do this and laughter politics gone wild like music. Ok crosstalk is not about hype its about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. Peter if you want to change something why dont we get rid of the bow tie no that is too much. 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 outside hero in this journey 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 the 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 and his publisher over permanent record joining us now to discuss Edward Snowdens new book as legacy and the Justice Departments no lawsuit is investigative journalist and spawn thanks for joining us then you have a for having me on. First lets get into this lawsuit and why is the u. S. Justice department suing Edward Snowden and. And one of they even remotely hoped 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 theyve 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 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 book so thats what theyre asking the court to do wow read them 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 thats really frightening really frightening. What are the apologize a lost audio here for its like oh its ok oh well its moving on as a responsible lawsuit snowden had tweeted today this is the book the government does not want you to read i cant flee the Justice Department went hold my beer and said yeah obviously i did did the Justice Department and 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 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 absolutely 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 is there from the other new revelations from the book have been able to kind of dispel some of the rumors. Or innuendos 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 that you know what what are some of the things weve seen in the book or some of the conversations happened around that 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 befor