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and i think that he has been trying but the change that he promised the hope that people had i think it's living on life support at this point he came into office with vast majority of people behind him and he had built such a sense of expectation and i think people's hopes many of them are really dashed because he started on such a high pedestal what do you think it means for him in the next presidential election well let's hope we don't focus on the next presidential election for the next two years because that's what happens in american politics we've got a lot more important things to do and you kind of wish for a president that wasn't about getting reelected that was really about making the change that he thinks the country needs instead of trying to guarantee his return to the white house but for sure i mean one of the challenges this administration has and this president has is to keep in gauged space because it's only because of grassroots organizing for the obama presidency ever came about so his biggest challenge i think these next two years is to try to keep them in some way engaged when he sold out most of the signature pledges that he made to them in two thousand
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and eight why is that is it because there were too many challenges is that because the change that he promised was a change that was too big for america at the time well i mean it's a long list but i think you've got a very very troubled democracy in the united states where corporate influence is run amok and he came into office on the back of a lot of campaign contributions first and foremost from wall street so in some sense if he wants to get reelected and keep friendly with those that brought him into office on the financial side well then he's going to be nervous about chomping down on the hand that feeds and he's going to be nervous about abandoning some of those folks whose contributions he took so you've got to trouble democracy you've got people in trouble i mean we've got an economy that was in crisis when he came into office still in crisis the only difference now is that we're being told that the recession is over we're being told that a recovery is taking place for most americans it's really not so i mean the challenge that he faced was overwhelming there's no question and eight years of bush left this country in a disastrous state but the nature of our democracy. i think is what he's up against
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his own hands being tied by the people that brought him this far and of course the state of all our congressional system where you have this insane filibuster rule that enables the senate didn't able the senate in the senate the republicans in the senate to basically shut down any initiative coming out of the democrats they said we're not going to take any any action on anything and that's basically what they did and i think that surprisingly it came as a shock to barack obama now you mentioned the hand that feeds how do you describe the relationship between washington and wall street right now and well it's very complicated i mean barack obama received more money from wall street firms when he was running for office than any other candidate and yet he comes in of the progressive candidate make sense of that i don't see how we can keep having elections when anonymous sources they don't even have to reveal who they are pouring billions of dollars as they did into this midterm race over four billion dollars almost as much as was spent on the presidential race in two thousand and eight into midterm races where little congress people who've never really had
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a fight for reelection suddenly found themselves up against a huge money machine that they couldn't fight back that's not democracy that's something else now we're talking more about the recession. we've seen corporations be saved by the government so apparently washington had enough money to save the corporations and yet millions of people are essentially not being saved by you know by any means at this point millions are jobless people don't have homes how come the government just doesn't print that money like they did essentially for corporations and it's well it's you know it's an excellent question because you've got now with i don't know the latest numbers that came out as we're speaking show that the five biggest banks goldman sachs morgan stanley citibank and bank of america have seen their biggest revenues ever and you've got in general the financial sector bouncing back to conditions of profit and bonuses that haven't been seen in decades in many cases the highest on record. somehow this country's
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been persuaded that the first and foremost important thing to do is to help the super wealthy and then somehow it will trickle down on the rest well we've known that was bunk for forty years but there hasn't been i don't think a loud enough argument coming from the left to explain how that money that's pumped into the top stands tends to remain spent you've got one point eight trillion dollars sitting in private bank accounts untouched by the government keeps giving money to private employers but they keep not employing anyone and banks are sitting on that cash. when you by contrast plug the money pour the money into the lowest part of the economy then you have a much better chance of stimulating the economy that's the argument that hasn't been made loudly enough where the money being pumped into defense is it essentially worth it to be spending billions and billions of dollars of dollars on warfare and . you know what or what are these endless efforts for well it's been very interesting in the wiki leaks documents that have been released over the last few weeks as we've seen the american power is evident not just in how many
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weapons this country has but in the pressure it's able to bear on just about every embassy around the world to do its bidding the u.s. arms race to become by far the most weaponized nation on earth is an asset when it comes to the state department bullying other countries and undermining their democracy to get what they want and you've seen tremendous power come to the united states but you've come to see i think the cost as our economy probables where does this kind of right to bully other countries stem from and why do other countries allow that to happen when i think i see about really really about powerful well i think the other i think other countries might be about to fight back in europe we're seeing a very big explosion of fury in spain and germany as the cables reveal the degree to which the state department has tried to bully those governments in the spanish case to actually stop an investigation of u.s. terror. tactics in the german case again to not bring
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a lawsuit against cia agents who lifted. german civilian off the streets and sent them to a so-called black site for interrogation i mean this stuff is getting a response elsewhere it's just here in the united states the public's being told oh there's nothing much in this in these document releases it's all old stuff it's not now another thing that many common americans might not be aware of is that the u.s. involvement in afghanistan has actually now been longer than its involvement in the second world war and i'm sure many people when they hear this would say while that means it's a really long time why profits and is there really a win outcome for the united states well i think it's obvious that there's not and again to go back to these wiki leaks releases you've got the bastard in pakistan telling the state department this is not working we're seeing an increase in taliban strength almost in almost all across afghanistan we're certainly seeing a growth in the mountainous regions between afghanistan and pakistan we are spending millions of dollars in pouring in aid into afghanistan and then we're
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seeing it going again according to these cables the vice president of afghanistan showing up in abu dhabi with fifty two million dollars in some cases a huge asset flight from an already devastated lead poor country of afghanistan i don't think the american population is going to stand for that the question is whether they get to hear about it they know they're not winning no nobody gets we need in afghanistan the russians knew that the british knew that it's not an easy thing to win and when we pull out as pull out we will be unsatisfied ape if we talk more about that money being pumped into afghanistan does it mean that this money these billions of dollars will essentially end up being washed down the drain when the us pulls out i think we're going to see them at the gambling tables of abu dhabi by the sound of it i mean this is not situation where the money is going to be traceable and the irony of these cables is that you'll seeing the state department saying we know we are giving money to allies who are corrupt the trick we have now is the society and i think it's happening in europe.
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and as well as in the united states and has happened in the past in latin america it is happening now is that the populace is realizing that government isn't really working in their interests is really not listening to them and not only is they is their information being withheld by the government but the government is lying to the people flat out to their face. we're getting a sense of that now i think on both the economic front and the foreign policy front and the question is when will there be a coherent response more and more information keeps being revealed about where this money is going you know corrupt forces machinery that doesn't work different operations being built in afghanistan that are just not sustainable and the money is basically disappearing you know it's still going on how come it's not much money and how come it's still going on the united states had nine billion and then a little bit later another nine billion that simply went missing in iraq so you know this is old stuff that money disappears and it's old stuff that money that's put into the pentagon in this country can become part of
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a so-called black budget that we never really get to see much about i mean one of the reasons i work in independent media is you know we can't be reliant on military contractors gee to bring us our news about the war any more than we can be reliant upon television networks that are run by disney to bring us the truth about what's happening in our economy there is a poll out recently which said that fifty seven percent of americans gallup polled don't trust the media anymore i mean what does that say to us isn't it time for some sort of change well i mean the media get to line up behind the president of the congress and the local politicians american people i think a very unclear about who they can trust we've got a state of distrust and you put your finger on a very important element of american society right now a level of distrust that i think is very dangerous and we need some new relationships between people and the politicians and yeah between people in their press talking about your latest book at the tea party what stages. america at right
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now with this huge level of distrust towards the media with a certain level of distrust towards politician in washington politicians in washington d.c. and now this huge movement appearing that some people take as a joke all their stake very seriously what does especially essentially mean where where will this end up taking that well it goes back to that trouble democracy and those people in trouble you know we have a democracy that is being undermined by corporate influence and the ability of one large megaphone to get behind the loudest voice and shut all the others out these are the same folks we've seen around for decades the christian right the militia movements the gun rights as the anti-tax people the anti immigrant people the libertarians but they have a new face of the tea party reframed as an economic movement and frankly they're taking advantage of media power that they never had in the kind of one most on the liberal side that used to used to be more fight laura flanders thank you very much for your time a.
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girl the fictional a good girl how would international house flood to change every green lol he told. our g.'s top stories agreements on nuclear power and trade deals worth billions of dollars have been strong presidents need to visit india the leaders of the conference say their ties are pro salt for global stability. the severe crackdown on opposition protesters in bello roots comes under fire around the world hundreds were beaten and arrested after incumbent president alexander lucas sankoh claimed to another victory with almost eighty percent. of life returns to normal on south korea's border island after the north said it would not retaliate against souls of war games there had warned that new drills could aggravate tensions on.
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time now to update you on all the sports highlights joins us next. hello welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me and other top stories weather champions russia finished the china one cup has been winners after crashing finland six two. keeping up a ten man rail madrid pizzeria one meltdown within two points of law legal leaders . flying high a stunning late comeback in the philadelphia eagles against a victory i think new york giants. lets out with ice hockey where russia and china one cup in style to get us off because men secured the trophy with victory over the czechs on saturday and finished the tournament by beating the finns six two on sunday to keep their one hundred percent record intact robert onion records. the
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found celebrate as the trophy comes back home the title was secure and certainly the russia claimed their second victory winning the joan one cup a game early although the hosts still had some unfinished business on sunday. last year's tournament winners finland had recently proved to be one of the toughest opponents overages love biggest man but this time it turned out to be different story ten minutes in an alexander a duel of score the opener to send the pack nigga sports arena wild. and muster peace with the playing again and again. the visitors and made it look forward back and their furious british and will sooner war that make up euro billing at home in front of russia's gold and leveling matters one one. over the home side soon restore their lead in
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a pulp league team russia's first line making it to one early in the second period and that's when the show started the red machine geared up to team the home crowd with a variety of goals tonight judy will finishing his teammates efforts with now than we shot three one soon and there's a duel and sergei mazak an easily downed these two in one chance to go for one. and the golf has continued to move by those six one by the second intermission. fillin finally managed to get on the scoresheet in the final period but to no avail as russia rolled out six two winners concern for her none of this in the first two games but his widow freddie fulfilled on main task of taking the title we just loosened up so today we could just produce the best game especially after we scored
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the first two goals you know the first period was a bit tough for us as the game had started pretty early so we needed some time to wake up hello in the second period we had the age and scored five goals i'm sure the spectators enjoyed the way we played after their olympic dreams was shared and to disappoint. the world championships was drunk and the noise was a nice dear presence edition fans robert byrd thirty. so just trying to type a look for the tournament russia had three wins puns three and maximum points the czechs finished in second spot after they did sweden four one in that final time on sunday last year's business finished playing up the ria with just a point. as most of football and ahead of the winter break round madrid cut bosler his lead at the top of the leader to two points after one nil home when i was severe despite playing last half an hour with ten men rails recalled a call value was given a second yellow card with
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a clash of heads without doubt and today though however that way out still took the lead in the seventy seventh minute and out demetria just about kept playing along for to the keeper and scored from a tight angle to the go each day's way out by fifteen only in a row so there was also refused to ten men in stoppage time amadou diallo was given a straight red card and brutal challenge in that area severe we called it that fist consecutive defeat. while assassinate pedro and david fish struck a brace of pieces bosler the tried five want to espanyol the cats one dog had ripened off to ninety minutes the skull set up by leaning messy and shouty added a second into existence next to you by the interval also not pep guardiola side further extending that lead to. the time ses shot the head right picked up a rebound to make it through. however espanyol quickly pulled a goal back as
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a white stripe up and down you responded. but also responded messi this time getting out of the. need to pull one to the disease. and with six minutes to go the net and now. to make it five one on the night pass a finish we had two points clear at the top end as most of the league this season i say sis. over in america and in the n.f.l. there was a showdown for first place in the n.f.c. east as philadelphia took all the new york giants with the eagles winning in dramatic fashion falling a punt return on the final play of the game the final score was thirty eight thirty one to philadelphia but it was a game that swung massively john squads they need to bring in line manning and marion manning and thirty on a touchdown and they were thirteen three up that way through the second quarter and the wide receiver yet again. the quarterback had four touchdown passes on the night
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in his side with thirty one turned up in a field in the eagle stakes that incredible comeback they tied the game at thirty one of these in general nothing doesn't mean much to michael vick he's been right at the death of sean jackson to use this time to turn down sing along to the end zone why shotguns to zero five going in and lots of cripple the giants try to fix. while iranis elder brother peyton through two touchdown passes with the indianapolis colts to victory a beach the jacksonville jaguars thirty four twenty four the lucas oil stadium austin collie collected both touchdowns phrase for the colts for linebacker taiwan but less so often like this fight back to the school at twenty seven twenty four the spring to forty one yards for touchdown single the win for the colts and i might believe me it's sad that someone. had
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us around some of the dolphins playoff hopes were dealt a blow by the buffalo bills while the detroit lions ended the longest losing streak on the road in n.f.l. history that when i've attended a snap a twenty six game losing run that it spanned philly is also the falcons wrapped up best fought in the close season especially. eighteen way over the seattle seahawks while the jets closed in on a playoff spot to win over the steelers who still secured the season place. there's no place like home for any else who won the south african open championship for a fifth time after holding off a late challenge forty foose and two rounds were played on the final day after a rain that almost the entire first round but the soggy conditions didn't prevent some great moments on the fairways this was a holy month trial for so something for him to say that even though he finished seven shots back the players out in front of a horse and else person finishing on twenty four under par overall one hundred
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parts here for birdie. couldn't match else beat them to the title by a single shot this eagle from him on the fourteenth was the highlight of this match . for tucking in victory on the eighteenth. now russia's top female boxer and italia goes and has announced the date of the next fight the super middleweight will end her long injury layoff with a fight in june twenty seventh in the eastern city of katherine borg the thirty four year old has an excellent career record having won all of her twenty two fights she lost that into the ring in december two thousand and nine when she beat probably a london also new cutting board but then she picked up a leg injury. with a son because of his next opponent hasn't been announced yet her management has a few possible candidates the undefeated champion also said she will go back to go into the ring in london at the twenty twelve olympics. you know what i mean she's
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got. it's always been my dream to win goal of the paralympics and i'm ready to step into the ring with a. professional boxer without her it's very much harder than it is completely different amateur level so have to think twice about it. in winter sports american lindsey vonn time test second straight world cup victory by were. in the soup and bind race of all desire in france the olympic champion put together a great performance in the same to me and i'm sure it's long run to win by just on the back office second to all spins elizabeth go as nicole fawcett and second and third respectively the three time world cup champion also seen the overall rate in relation to germany who finished fifth. fall over nicely taking a beating extended this domination in iraq a try and see all of our winning his third straight raced take the euro standings the american finished fourteen hundred for the second edifies it's a parish on another french are not completed the podium.
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and finally politicians artists and former sportsman attended a gala ceremony here in moscow to celebrate the achievements of a charity called under the flag of good the organization raises money for children who need medical treatment by holding various sporting events as president meant that if they'd. explains why it was just the sixth year of the sheriff's event turned out to be very successful with finances and medical support we helped two hundred children over those six years it's difficult more than a thousand children this is our modest but i suppose really worth your contribution to developing a churchie work in the country and of course the main result is the happy faces of the children who've grown to live there a little wife's body and they're very grateful to everyone who took part in the advantage. that's nice of this bill as i think.
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more. nuclear power and billion dollar trade deals as the russian president needs the indian prime minister in new delhi. and defense is also taken so the speech of the gear greenwood has been signed telling me god i'm seeing from new delhi in a few moments. and life returns to normal on south korea's border island after the north saturday when natalee again souls wargames there are many wonder if it's just the calm before the storm. and moscow unveils a world war two memorial after georgia blew up a similar one killing two people right here ago. the morning one
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to most of the orders of the georgian authorities is a rebuild in moscow with the help of georgian people for more join me next on a boy here in a few moments. it's three pm here in moscow this is. r t coming to you live with me and he said now wait thanks for being with us first up this hour military and trade deals worth billions of dollars have been struck on president dmitry medvedev his visit to india moscow and new delhi also seal the number of agreements on nuclear power to meet the energy needs of the world's second fastest growing major economy our current thing is following the leaders talks in the indian capital they've been focusing clearly on energy and on defense they signed a dozen agreements to be.
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