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a decade ago. back now to washington for part two of the alona shows stay with us here on r.t. . i shine for tonight's tool time award and we're giving it to former minnesota governor tim pawlenty he's running for president next year and while he hasn't officially announced his plan based on his travel schedule media appearances and a new book he's going to be a candidate in two thousand and twelve in fact his new book called courage to stand was released earlier this month and according to nielsen book scan he's sold a grand total of four thousand seven hundred sixty five copies that's right the first week on the market the book couldn't even break the five thousand copies sold mark furman who was governor of minnesota for two terms and being heralded as a top g.o.p. candidate for president and his people say that they're pleased with the number of

books sold book on other rivals for the g.o.p. nomination have racked up huge numbers for their books thanks sarah palin so tim paul and his people decided to put out an ad for his book and i'm telling you this is more like a movie trailer take a look. i. i . pretty dramatic right and that's only thirty seconds of the ninety second at but after watching that spot you feel the urge to say the pledge of allegiance start humming the national anthem and then some very creative work by the production team the put it together almost make him valenti interesting inspiring but in reality

most political analysts say that symbology is as exciting as watching grass grow the man as boring as hell and now we know why his team put the ad together for this book to make it look like he can be an invigorating leader so nice try to valenti but you're still tonight's tool time winner. now this must be hard for u.s. military officials to admit but apparently they can't make any direct connections between the army private accused of leaking secret documents bradley manning and wiki leaks founder julian assange much but apartment of justice has reportedly been working very hard to find a link between the two men in efforts to put together a criminal case and b c news reported that officials had determined that manning unlawfully downloaded tens of thousands of documents onto his own computer then passed them on to an authorized person but investigators can't find a direct link to a songe and i'm betting that that's really pissing off attorney general eric holder

right now as well as all those politicians have been calling for the arrest the execution of a songe after the state department cables released last year or those who are trying to pretend like it's totally ok to be holding bradley manning. and solitary confinement and of course we know the u.s. hyped the cable release saying that would cause harm to u.s. interests around the world and put people in jane sure but it turns out that wasn't true either the u.s. government played the mainstream media to hype the danger just so they could pursue possible charges against a sausage and told m s n b c last month the wiki leaks wasn't even sure if bradley manning was the source of those documents leaked his site because that's the way the site works people submit these leaks anonymously so what's the deal jay going to do now that they cannot connect manning to his so much well let's hope that they don't try and hype another story in false connection only to make us look like fools and in the meantime i do hope that they stop their incredibly inhumane

treatment of manning. how are things looking up in afghanistan now according to the military they always are apparently during a regular daily conference last week general david petraeus made the following comment he said we got our teeth in the enemy's juggler now and we're not going to let go so does that mean that the military has actually been having success with its missions recently or is this just betrays his way of saying we're not letting go aka we're not leaving you see it betray us coin a letter to troops to outline what he expects of them for the rest of this year and in this letter the general praises the troops for adapting to trained changing strategies for creating a security bubble that was extremely effective in protecting areas like kabul but it also talks about all the hard work that lies ahead in two thousand and eleven what changes troops should expect but they were also out there notice how this letter is missing a very important piece of information a very important change something like the troop withdrawal you know the one where

obama promised to start removing troops by july of two thousand and eleven. taken together these additional american and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to afghan forces and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of afghanistan in july of two thousand and eleven. so i guess petraeus has a little letter here means that the original transition of power to afghan forces has either been seriously delayed or it has gone out the window altogether but it is no secret the one for trey's took charge the u.s. involvement changed in afghanistan there were more air strikes more night raids by special forces evidence of entire afghan towns being destroyed by explosives but apparently the general's mission doesn't follow that of obama's go figure and it's become very clear that he plans to stay on the track the way he sees it through two thousand and eleven so here you have another glaring example of our overpowering

military doing whatever it pleases so i guess this is just another sign that we can disregard any hopes of ending our war in afghanistan anytime soon great. well boy do we have the story for you last year the new york times disclosed a private spying operation that was tapped by the military to gather intelligence in afghanistan and pakistan because apparently they weren't really thrilled with what the cia was giving them and that spying operation was led by doing claridge and his eclipse group now dewey is a former cia agent who was forced to resign more than two decades ago because of his role in the iran contra scandal last may the u.s. military cut off claridge's funding for the private spying operation but get this reports are now saying that they knew to private donors the operation is still alive and well they're seeking to discredit homemade karzai and his half brother who's allegedly on the cia payroll they're taking it as far as hoping to collect

beard trimmings of d. or other d.n.a. samples from hamid karzai to prove that the afghan president is a heroin addict and claridge apparently believes that karzai is will ultimately sell out the u.s. to the iranians to the pakistanis so his private spy ring wants to interfere now they also when the military won't listen past their dispatches on to certain media figures so what we make of these private operations interfering in war zones is a new practice that we're going to start seeing more of joining me to discuss it is marcy wheeler blogger for firedoglake marci thank you so much for joining us now first of all let's talk about do we this character he's seventy eight years old i believe but what intentions do you think that he has because on one hand he sells it like he's trying to root out corruption in afghanistan and he's doing this for america's own good so that we don't get sold out but he's doing this despite what the military or the president necessarily want him to do and he believes that

american intervention is always ok whenever we feel like it he's a war hawk. i mean i wouldn't have as big of a problem with prince as i do if it weren't for his around concord history because of course back then he was doing what congress said specifically said not to do and he's old style he's one of those old style intelligence guys he says are you know everything's ok we you know we're kind of cowboys out here in the middle of nowhere who can do a lot and so between that past iran contra one of the journalists that he's passing these. rumors through to the north so you know get the old game back together in iran contra but in addition we have no idea who's funding him so we have no idea whether you know it's dissidents within the united states it's neo cons again where there are it's the same kind of people who are funding iran contra and those two things i think are the really concerning issues about it doesn't appear to be ego. but it also appears to be designed to pressure the

administration and the government to do things kind of in the same way that i'm a challenge it was well i was totally with you there on that i think that the most interesting part of this is who are these private donors after the government cut off their six million dollars contract last may all the reports say is that he has private donors but whose interest could really be in to keep funding this private operation but i think that that makes us question you know how these types of private operations could really start affecting our wars or our foreign policy when you know some private individual can start interfering. right and i think the analogy some have made with blackwater is right on the money because of course our prince says has. reportedly sold his interest in blackwater and move to by. arab emirates. but his entities are still on the ground in places like somalia and nobody knows again who's paying him and where there are what he's doing is in the

interest of the united states or contrary to the interest of the united states. or more likely in my own mind in the interest of partisans within the united states who don't particularly buy off on what our country's policies currently are but do you think of this also highlights the fact that our intelligence agencies that the cia the perhaps even military intelligence aren't all that good if they had even reached out to claridge and this private spying operation to begin with. i am not sure i would go that far and i am not sure that we have the expertise of afghan and pakistani culture that we need. but that isn't that's as much about american culture as it does about anything else i'm not sure that do it claridge knows anything more about our afghan and pakistani cult culture than anybody we have in the cia but what i think it does say is that everything about our policy right there is sort of. you know at the mercy of our

a lack of information our inability to get good information. and i'm not sure that we're going to meet you we're talking about this earlier i'm richer we're going to fix any of the problems we have in afghanistan and that information is just one of them and it's clear that when the military or when you know kind of cowboys within the military went to claridge's in the first place to get involved intelligence they thought they were getting what they wanted but that doesn't necessarily mean they weren't getting that information it means they weren't getting what they want you know and so i think i you know i think it's you know in the in the absence of having really good information which i don't think we have we're going to continue to just be kind of at the whim of whoever wants to feed us information or whoever has the biggest megaphone to do so in claridge's knows how to get on t.v. and now we know what kind of impact do you think about is going to have on german journalism because we already know that claridge does pass on some of these

dispatches you know even if the military the government doesn't want them that he has other journalistic sources who we think of them to people that appear on glenn beck's program all the time. well you know i made the analogy to i'm a child we were of course as. it was in iraq was very instrumental in getting getting us into the iraq war and he in the same way i was able to get what he wanted to conservative media outlets through both legitimate and not you know one kind of creep. you're journalists and that forced people to be still with his viewpoints and i think that's sort of what's going on here and i wouldn't be surprised if we see some of the same players involved do you think this is something that people are going to start i mean lading or we're going to see some copycat operations i mean the looks like clearly if there is private donors the want to get involved third journalists are going to eat up the information it looks like there is a market out there for it especially with the way that you know we're fighting today's wars with the presence of so many private contractors at every level. yeah

but i mean again i think the example of childish shows that this is been going on for some time our media likes controversy we have a very strong conservative media that is very willing to pitch the party line and if people insert messages into that medium it's not clear that it's i mean it's going to get picked up because we all know that it drives runs you know a.b.c.'s world it runs them being stream new year's world in the morning so i think it's it's it's special around for a while i think it's just not as much about our media right now as it says about anything else but it does also say you know we're out here having these imperial adventures on the other side of the world we're just not equipped really with a cultural of relationship to be able to deal with this and be able to sort through you i think yeah the fact that we aren't really sure what's going on and have no

idea definitely is discouraging but an interesting story here marcy thank you so much for joining us thanks for having me. well still to come tonight we have a story that raised a few eyebrows in our morning meeting today a hooker proclaims that a lot of women are really envious of her career we'll have more on that we come back and then a liftoff for space how much will it cost for a trip that's out of this world we're going to speak with commercial space entrepreneur jeffrey manber about flights in the space be getting from twenty thirteen. wealthy british soil the sun. the time to explain the.

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received the tons of fan mail where females across the u.s. write in to tell her that they want her life but here's the thing about charlotte chain she is a call girl and she says that she's kept a blog over the past three years to share her experiences minus all the glitz and glam to give a real account of what it's like to be an escort and chain says that she was quite surprised by the number of females between the ages of seventeen and twenty five who admired her profession so why are there so many fans of prostitutes out there could be a society has taught females that sure education is a good idea but it will get you anywhere unless you're attractive and have a sex drive and call girls who seem to have both made in the past we've told you how women would be willing to make a sex tape it would advance their career now remember of course how teenage actress taylor momsen flashed the audience at one of her concerts.

so are these girls bored are they just trying to get attention or could they just be having a good time it's clear the outside of boredom women definitely feel the pressure of the hyper sexualized society we live it maybe they see a call girls some in body image of that who knows now i'm sure the ladies who wrote to charlotte shane are somewhat misunderstanding the realities of being a call girl which are certainly not as glamorous for most as they were made to be or made to seem by ashley dupree but the bottom line here is that we can't know the motivations of these women and it's high time that this country had a real and same conversation about sexuality and what women can and can't do with it. now what would you do with one hundred and fifty million dollars would you feed the poor would you clothed children who need it or would you take a trip to the moon or take a space that sort of trip into space excuse me that circles that moon this month

space adventures a u.s. company based in virginia which arranges space tourism said that it came to an agreement with russia to expand flight opportunities starting in two thousand and thirteen first up are three seats available for a flight to the international space station once russia has its rocket ready to go but they're also claiming that starting in twenty fifteen they'll be offering a lunar boomerang trip with a hefty price of one hundred fifty million dollars per take it sounds like space tourism is entering a new phase but is it really or at the cash so here discussing with me is commercial space entrepreneur jeffrey manber jeffrey thanks so much for being here now one hundred and fifty million dollars to take a little boomerang trip you don't get to land on the moon you don't get to walk around you just fly around and look out the window that's a lot of money are you buying this here do you think that space adventures you know really has some takers or are they just trying to get some p.r. where you're asking two questions question is the price ok and the question is is

people buying the ticket first thing is i got to tell you one hundred fifty million to go around the moon is dirt cheap i mean think of. what we spent as a nation thirty years ago forty years ago it's ago when apollo and think of what the soviet union spirit and if you are telling me that a commercial venture and space adventures is more broke or they just so the tickets so if you're telling me that the russian companies like a nerd gear which i used to work with can offer safely to send people around the moon four hundred fifty million you're thinking there's a space tourist i'm thinking a scientist from a country that doesn't want to spend billions and yet for her. and fifty million they can send a citizen of their country around them but do you think that's really going to happen are we going to see countries paying one hundred fifty million dollars for scientists going to space are we going to see more people like richard branson or you know the man who owns cirque du soleil a and just the incredibly wealthy going on

a little joyride i actually think it's going to be the start of a of another era we talk a lot about all the space tourists who go when people are spread cirque du soleil and reporters and software people spending twenty million roughly to go i think one hundred fifty million two hundred million to go around the moon we're going to see a new era starting and that is all the nation is doing commercial space programs but you never know i mean when when we did dennis tito and when the japanese reporter went for twelve million everybody laughed so here we are but maybe in three years some make a billionaire with his with his or her internet billions will save one hundred fifty million dollars and i'll be famous i'll be history to be the first private citizen to go around the moon question i have is one hundred fifty million to go around the moon what would it cost to land me i mean if i have that kind of money i might be thinking ok for three hundred million could i land on the moon what's next

and then what's next and also you have to think about should nasa be spending the money to return to the moon if we can engage russian companies to send astronauts to the moon for a few hundred million more so it's actually a very interesting moment when the technology costs are coming down commercial sectors opening up so it's exciting if a couple was to go in maybe they'd have a kid while circling the moon i mean you know you start to think about the possibilities and for some people it might be worth the money i have with you there and that it's exciting and i'm sure that it will give a lot of people you know perhaps a ticket to fame but then you think about the other people that are billionaires out there you know think about the bill gates in the warren buffett of the world who have donated half of their money into a visionary you know a rat. with an honor now taking a little joyride but let's move on. let's talk about the fact that space adventures just announced that they do have this new deal with russia in terms of just sending tourists to the space station the last time a sense of money was in two thousand and nine right now in two thousand and eleven they won't send them until two thousand and thirteen at least why has there been

this large gap interesting reason it's funny you should ask it's an interesting reason the reason is apparently not demand there is enough to me and for business folks who have money to travel to the international space station which i think is one default absolutely wonderful the problem was nasa is crowding out the seats and master came in with the shuttle we've spoken to have the shuttle program is ending this year and so nasa went out and bought a lot of seats as of the european space agency but nasa is really the new player and our astronauts are going up and down on the russians so use big crowd out there willing to pay more. right now the space tourists are willing to pay so that crowded out the market so apparently with space adventures is done with the russian space agency and within the year the store used manufacture is said ok we'll build we'll pay you to build the only. it will have a pilot a russian or pilot it was sent to tourists and so that's what's happening and it's

again one to focus you're talking about commercial rocket commercial missions going to the space station what is pretty cool because while we're talking about this hundred fifty million dollar trip that is completely out of reach for our average people i know there are other options out there version is apparently going to allow you to take a two hour suborbital flight for only two hundred thousand dollars a barrel you can take as zero gravity flights for ten five or ten thousand dollars for thirty seconds so. we've got a little more access or anything else that i missed in terms of obvious appearance here's me virgin galactic has competition with a company called x. core which might actually be their first and their craft looks something like the jetsons from the fifty's it. just be two people just be the pilot and the passenger and they're saying you can go to the edge of space for sixty thousand so if you don't have the two hundred thousand to go with branson's virgin you can go for sixty thousand with xcor or you can get a brief balance of microgravity on a plane we call that the vomit comet in the business because most people throw up

but it's still a wonderful experience and so you can do the russian you can do that in france you can do that here and so slowly each time step by step more and more of us are experiencing space less and less the government gets a great big wide def i like to do one day but i'll carry that you're waiting until it's cheaper thanks for joining us here oh i'm sure we go tonight we have our tweet of the day house majority leader eric cantor invited nor any leader nancy pelosi to sit with him tonight at the state of the union address but it seems like the former speaker already had a date to the event she'll be sitting with the maryland republican congressman so since can turn palosi of kind of bit of a rocky relationship we thought she would tweet it to him first rule of asking a girl to the prom as make sure she isn't already going with someone else you know a little common sense from cantor's office that would have saved him a lot of ridicule on twitter say well that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back tomorrow i'll be covering the world economic forum in davos where

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