in to be another case of not exactly knowing how to react here but let's get back to this point about you know when you turn on the television and what you see out there some of the chatter i think we have some clips from the different cable networks. we are expecting this coalition of opposition forces to ask the united states to declare enforce a no fly zone. over libya is this what that is meant to counter the idea that libyan planes are are bombing their own cities hundreds of tanks and anti-aircraft artillery pieces have turned the city of two million into a fortress anything of value that they did have was stripped from them at the checkpoints being run by get death these militias when libyan planes bombing their own people as a city turned into a fortress is this the beginning of something and. i mean what do you think of the chatter that's going on why we know more recently secretary of state clinton said that when she is overseas she sometimes watches r t and she finds it very

instructive she said al-jazeera r.t. and the chinese t.v. are really eating our lunch on coverage and she thinks that she's trying to get more money for the state department's propaganda efforts in this respect but i think it's important what she did say though and i hope she's watching this because i think. the problem with the american news coverage they're always looking for the next war movie and we saw that with iraq we saw it with afghanistan and now we see some networks trying to do this with the libyan situation libya is nothing is totally different than these other situations as i said. he was considered almost an ally of the united states in some respects the war against al qaeda we hear we hear he talking about he's under an invasion from al qaeda and hillary said the same thing that libya could be opened up to al qaeda these mixed messages are really making us look foolish in capitals around the especially around the middle east but also around the world. speaking of mixed messages u.s.

lawmakers visiting afghanistan may have been getting something the u.s. army's alleged use of psychological operations on congressman to try to secure more military funding and support for the war that's caused quite a stir here on the story were u.s. lawmakers brainwashed by the military when making key decisions on supporting the escalation of war in afghanistan that's a question posed by rolling stone magazine which alleges lieutenant general william caldwell the man in charge of training in afghanistan ordered psychological operations against visiting senators and congressional delegations to manipulate them into backing more funding and troops for the war there the head of a special unit that conducts psychological operations now termed information support operations said he was told to provide quote deeper and now lasse's of pressure points we could use to leverage the delegation for more funds. my job in

psyops is to play with people's heads to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave and for had been seen from doing that to our own people when you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressmen you're crossing a lying moreover it's illegal to do so according to the defense department's own definition psychological operations imply the use of propaganda and psychological tactics to influence emotions and behavior and are supposed to be used exclusively on hostile foreign groups but instead of fighting afghan insurgents holmes and his team were systematically ordered to use their training to influence u.s. members of congress that is a methodology used for enemy yes this is not something you do without or members of your own government tasked with oversight responsibilities of your operation that's why the senators were there not to be pals not to be partners but to have oversight

over what the pentagon was doing and because the pentagon not wanting that every oversight as much and wanting to extract more resources from the senate to support the mission and use one of the techniques they use against the taliban against the united states senate that's that's incredible the long list of high profile targets included carl levin who's the chairman of the senate armed forces committee steve israel and member of the house appropriations committee senators john mccain and out franken i don't see how this could have affected my positions. in any way. so we'll see what happens but back in january last year steve clemons reported on the sudden shift of some senators use that to their visit to afghanistan was a very big jump and shipped and i felt that there's something i wrote about and i called while this is like a confidence game it's you know you feel as if the military is manipulating people but i didn't know about these things article at the time or about biopsy one example it's. al franken who in january last year went to afghanistan with strong

doubts and criticism but came back quote feeling much better but some say the reported use of psychological influence politicians could be happening not only in afghanistan but here in washington as well. tends to be a belief. they trust let it go leaders behind a war but you can't trust the military leaders who are in a war that's not really if you look there is just. it's own benefit. unfortunately congressman are all to willing to believe now the pentagon is looking into the matter experts say they're going to try and downplay the effect this report within in general caldwell has already good night given such orders but in truth for many it's going to be a further testament to the what will be innocent civilian control over the military in today's america i'm going to check on our key washington d.c.

. well the republican controlled ohio state senate has just passed a measure that would restrict the collective bargaining rights of hundreds of thousands of working workers that we're talking about three hundred fifty thousand teachers university professors firefighters police officers and other public employees the legislation passed on a seventeen to sixteen vote with all yes votes coming from republicans now this is a state like wisconsin we've seen protests and we want to go now to someone on the ground there corey and so is the organizer for the columbus ohio branch of the answer coalition hey corey this news just coming down tell us a little bit about what the mood is like there. well what we've seen recently here especially in the last couple of weeks has been the reactionary right coming to get out against the working class and the working people of ohio not only these protests have we seen thousands of dollars of the union workers coming out against this bill we've also seen other workers on unionized people's students and other

activists we have massive mobilizations coming out to get this and the fact that this bill is passed in my opinion will not mean much i think that people will continue to mobilize against this theory anti worker legislation there's nothing good about it but you know from what i understand your governor there hasn't dorce this measure and says he'll sign it i mean any indication that you're getting from the time you spent there that are there is going to be something done to stop that what i think not only it is protests are we seeing people coming out against senate bill five people are also very opposed to direction the governor case against taking ohio i've got governor case that you know he has his ties to corporations to banks and executives and he's serving the interests of those people he did while he claims that he has to solve the budget crisis in ohio but never once has he talked about taxing the rich or the corporations he just consistently skate go to the working class people of ohio and people will not take it anymore now from what i understand this bill that's just passed actually includes jail time for workers who

strike is this something that people are talking about. i guess you know the multitude of things that are wrong with senate bill five have all been on the table you know we do realize that there are many aspects of this bill that are purely just ridiculous you know if you look at it on paper it's almost absurd to see what this government is attempting to do to the working people of ohio and a massive mobilization of union against you know this is not something popular in ohio this is something that the right is trying to force on the working people of this state and i'm assuming i'm not i have been i recently when i'm assuming that a lot of the talk on the ground there like wisconsin is that a lot of these lawmakers are trying to say that by doing this this will help balance the budget what has been the reaction of people that you've spoken to about that as as a result. it's almost kind of laughable to suggest that there we need to balance the budget by you know harming the people who are the foundation of this country the working class people of this country who make everything are the ones being

scapegoated that's why you know we've consistently been on the ground talking to people working with the unions and everyone there to help fight against this you know the working people of ohio want to budget that meets their needs sides of the protests that talk about you know how we health care education that workers' rights are human rights but the governor is not hearing any of this and that they've been very reluctant to even let people in on the deliberations in the state house the workers had to force their way into the state house and so it just shows that the government here the republican government is disconnected from the working people of this state they really tend to understand where we're coming from and that's obviously shown in this bill now corey i know we've seen a lot of what's going on in wisconsin a little bit less in ohio but let's talk now about the bigger picture here what do you think this means for people in all fifty states in this country that this has passed. well i think it also it means a lot like you said that not only are these protests happening in ohio but also happening across the country and that shows that the struggle of the working class

here is not something that is just it's not something that's just in one city or isolated to one state is something that will span across the entire country and as this legislation tends to come up especially after the elections because these things are being proposed in states across the country and i think the working class and the working people the unions and other activists are going to have to come together to fight this this is not something that anyone can do on their own it's something that we all have to stand up and fight against and i think this is something that we may see a struggle in states across the country as these years computer progress. that was coriander organizer for the columbus branch of the answer coalition talking about the passage by the state senate there of a bill that's very limits the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers the bill now goes to the state house where the g.o.p. holds a fifty nine to forty majority and if it's passed there it does head to the desk of the governor will almost certainly sign it into law. when we previously reported on the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the united states and eye of the

economic crisis well now as food prices continue skyrocketing take a look at how this is playing out in two very different spectrums haves versus the have nots ours is honest answers are going to take a look at the dinner tables of two very different america was a miracle the land of plenty but these days that when tea is only reaching a few with one country split into two planets it's a tale of two americas right now new york city a place where the number of people on food stamps this story at a record three million but it's also a place where one hundred seventy five dollars buys wall street fat cats a burger with black truffles and meanies with. or martini for ten thousand dollars out of exquisite new york hotel at ten thousand dollars a month. because they're crying in space to be buying experience this is you know it's used for recall sight. what makes you. unique and so

special here we're going to order the dessert for staggering one thousand bucks nobody ever heard buyer's remorse that's that's for sure with the forty eight hour advance order this thousand dollars sunday is purchased up to five times a month again with the edible twenty three carat gold still isn't really have a. good it does have a very cool texture so three caviar and i. bill sugar flour which takes eight hours to make and the rarest and most expensive chocolates in the world the ice cream is served in a crystal goblet similar to the one used at the vatican just in the past couple of years people are suffering and they're saying you know why would you have a thousand dollar ice cream well you know why would you have a bentley a short ride across town angry in film a two minute water garlic onion fairly. pale trees like this one where the money

that's from new york to spend on a desert is seen as a water wheel of a thousand dollars over a thousand. over a thousand close to two thousand individual would have gotten new york a fifth of the number of people this place beads among them and the people that came in for food. with over a million people fled here last year and one hundred percent increase in the demand for crude this place knows the face of hunger demand for any available produce simple food such as can't be true and cheese has been skyrocketing of pantries like this one as the gap between rich and poor is at an extreme so is the number of people who need any help they can get to put food on their tables sixty year old said is on disability and a father of three and a family with a ration that couldn't be simpler sweet potato jews. ground beef with

turkey for my family members. or we. will last. a retired single mother of three on a cold floor and i'm going to stay in cabbage on disability after being born in an explosion she struggles as food prices continue to rise produce vegetables iscar high i mean is our wages but ours. for loaf of bread for these people luxuries not even a dream survival is their only priority there's just something amazing about and just in gold they skin was very nice and it gave out we didn't get a hand but i got a big turkey and a lot of food so it's pretty cool and that space giving might not be so lucky for carol and millions of others as experts predict the gap between those with an empty

stomachs. and to those who took an hour or two new york so this tale of two tables it seems to be a tale told time and time again these days and this widening gap between the haves and have nots in america the differences are stark earlier i spoke with frederick kauffman he is the author of this book a short history of the american stomach we don't about this tale of two very different dinner tables as well as some of the causes and effects of this great divide. well what's been happening lately is that these food markets the big grain markets in chicago the chicago mercantile exchange it really been kidnaped to the interests of very large banks in the united states and that's because of a new kind of product called a derivative in other words we've had derivatives and mortgage backed securities we've had all sorts of derivatives that have driven world economy into a tailspin well what's happening now is that there's a food call or it's being caused by very large financial interests taking

increasingly large stakes in the global food supply why are they doing this because there's value in it because increasingly what we're seeing is bit arable land freshwater grain food these are going to be the most valuable things on earth going forward this is what's the next century's wars are going to be fought over christine well here's something interesting for you according to a new article in the washington times this article says that it was not in fact wall street or these big banks or mortgage lenders that led to this economic economic crisis they say it may have been terrorists and that quote outside forces may have launched an economic attack your thoughts on this on people trying to think the blame away from wall street. look you know a circumstance like this where you only see the globe facing sued crisis is over he's a very complicated situation people would like over simplify it people would like

to take whatever bill and they can deliver that we can and put him up there in sac there are issues fly right there's trout there's blood in canada united states argentina china all the world's great producers are under pressure on supply there's demand pressures these issues are overdetermined and of course speculation but wall street plays a tremendous role. let's talk about kind of what we're seeing around the world these days from egypt to libya to even right here in the u.s. and i'm wondering do you think that the un raft at least in part could be caused by the frustration of so many living in poverty and just living in this great divide. well i think what's interesting here is once again we're seeing this kind of bifurcation on the one hand a very rich on the other end a very poor but what's going on in the middle revolutions are really started in spurred by middle class and what we're seeing throughout the middle east is an extraordinarily changed middle class because what's happening is that suit

inflation in those countries at least in egypt in the months before the uprising was at seventeen percent a month in the food sector and so of course the very core it makes no difference to them they're very rich it makes no difference to them but the middle class all of a sudden they can't write milk for their kids they can't buy protein they can't buy fresh vegetables they're going to get very angry so what's a way to deal with as i mean we see this gap getting wider and wider in there anyway to begin to start closing and to start making the great divide a little less so that like you say you know the middle class can actually afford things buy groceries. well there are there are a couple of things that can be done is the situation is over determined by cause there are also all sorts of all sorts of things you can do of course it's complicated it's not once again let's get osama bin ladin and that it will be done with it no in fact that we need to do is we need to figure out a way that there can be a global grain reserve again so that if we're holding grain they can bring it into world markets when needed as opposed to this kind of increase nationalism with

everybody building their own secret grain reserves not letting anybody know and hoarding it and bring it to market to make their own money at the same time as we need to have more regulation and markets throughout the world you know there's a six hundred trillion dollar derivatives market well the united states there's a regulatory agency that's supposed to govern them their budget is just about one hundred million dollars how is one hundred million dollar agency going to regulate a six hundred trillion dollar industry it's impossible a good question now and i'm curious just kind of bigger picture here when you see people in new york living these extraordinary lifestyles. what do you think i'm wondering what you think outside perception is people living in other countries that look and they see you know these pictures on the news of homeless people on the street and then they also see these lavish you know fashion than people leaving one hundred seventy five dollar burners what do you think that does and terms of sort of outside perspective. well are we talking about roman it's carried of

decadence i mean are we talking about from the outside perception i mean clearly people are jealous of this country people of people clearly also our age in this country and so there are all sorts of perception is going on out there whenever you have this kind of widely divergent thing going on i think however most people want to be like america i think most people out there with like the cars would like the meat in their diet and this of course also is part of the problem with the emerging middle class which is that the american lifestyle is just not sustainable over the globe and i'm just curious in your research i mean i know you gave us some solutions and good ideas for how to start closing that gap but what's your prediction i mean is that realistic or do you see it getting even wider well you know i'm sorry christine but i am a pessimist in the hype you believe that. america in particular is it is in a difficult period and it might come out of it but certainly for the next decade or

so america is going to be going through a difficult period in a period in which there are going to be increased any qualities other parts of the world are going to see that inequality gap lessen but here i think we're heading towards some rocky times all right fredricka thanks so much for joining us from new york thank you and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to our t. dot com slash usa check out our you tube page youtube dot com slash r t america. we met in a park. i think. we never got the feds they're going to keep you safe get ready because you're freed

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cause a report on r t. i repeat my. homemade explosives slipped across the atlantic into the hands of the ira. the world's first full scale car bomb or was now ready to begin. and the material to make the bombs was lying around in every farmer's barn in ireland. china o'callahan was a senior ira bomb maker at the time my understanding is the ira was running out of explosives and yet we're here at garrett great difficulty in getting hold of the military commercial explosives and get small amounts that you could steal from quarry you could not can we do not use that net non-truths probably biggest

commercial for the nicer and you are actually going to show the complete benefaction. the british took countermeasures to make it more difficult for the ira to make and for. simply boiling up fertilizer to make explosives no longer works. but the ira also found ways around those restrictions. and ramped up their car bomb or. tommy gorman was one of the ira's top bomb makers in belfast in the one nine hundred seventy s. . tommy's job was to assemble the bombs set the timer before handing over the device to the bomb team who drove the car to its target in the city center. those people who did not take a pet cause they had to stay in are they got someone who was nervous and understocked a pike i think it held up traffic what about women was where i am just as good as

mad so how about are not. one of those women was marion price i mean i didn't i didn't drive at the time i was too young and i didn't have a license but i'd been in a car that was laden with explosives and being brought into belfast and we were stopped by the british army and i thought time we have exposed the door panels a car. in the door for me and i said to. my mates and i got in the car because i knew where in a minute he i think he was more interested in the case than he was with the car and . most of the time the ira called in warnings. that the ira say was economic terrorism buildings not bodies. under their own rules killing civilians was wrong. but planning car bombs is not an exact science. and when the ira messed up people lots of people

died. on the afternoon of the twenty first of july one thousand nine hundred seventy two the ira planted twenty two car bombs in the center of belfast. all time to go off within minutes of each other. bloody friday was the world's first mass car bomb attack. the ira phoned in warnings but one bomb prematurely exploded in oxford street bus station. killing six passengers. many others were horribly mutilated. are you ashamed of what happened on bloody friday. there's no way that the security forces could have cleared. the space for everyone.

but the slaughter on bloody friday did not stop the ira. the bombing campaign accelerated. in one thousand nine hundred seventy two there were one thousand three hundred eighty two explosions. the ira leadership was now ready to bring the car bomb on to the streets of london. it was our job to go and pick the targets and plan the operation. on march the eighth one thousand nine hundred seventy three the ira attacked blind for the first time and planted for. nineteen year old marion price was leader of the bomb team. we went along on the morning that the bombs went off and the driver on the person he was the time they got up at six in the morning.