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November 22 – To Cut Or Not To Cut; Will The Pentagon Take a Hit?; Robocops on Campus

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 We begin with an analysis of the so-called sequestration or trigger that has now been pulled to cut 1.2 trillion in federal spending across the board. We speak with Nicole Woo, the Director of Domestic Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research about these proposed cuts, 600 billion of which will come out of discretionary spending that was already cut recently by 900 billion dollars. nicole woo

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Then we examine whether or not the Pentagon will take a hit from the automatic budget cuts that are currently in place but will not come into effect for a year. Pentagon Watchdog Dina Rasor, the Chief Investigator for the Follow the Money Project, joins us to discuss the likelihood of cuts being renegotiated and the hysterical overreaction by defense hawks to the proposed cuts that, if enacted, would still leave us with a military budget higher than Cold War levels when we actually had a real enemy.

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 Then finally we speak with Bob Ostertag who is professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at UC Davis where some of his students were recently pepper-sprayed by police, widely seen in video that has gone viral provoking outrage around the world. We discuss how such an over-reaction was justified by campus authorities and why U.C. police are so heavily armed, while police at private universities are mostly unarmed. bob ostertag
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