the. protesters hit the streets calling for wall street to pay up but other cries falling on deaf ears with the u.s. deficit reaching a whopping two hundred twenty three billion dollars in february it seems that there's only more pain in store for u.s. taxpayers. and as u.s. workers continue to fight for their rights fox news seems to be battling fact with well let's call it creative fiction but wait there's that palm trees i've seen about brown in wisconsin. and promoting democracy or is it really regime

change the case of one u.s. contractor convicted in cuba is shedding light on how your tax dollars are being spent abroad and exposing the darker side of us meddling under the guise of human rights. you can't believe you can not speak for someone who should get it but what full well you got to know that it's there first we're going to take it's just some of the most secretive places in new york the ones that the government would rather you not know about the news starts now. now when someone screws you over it's pretty normal to want revenge right but a new campaign called making wall street pay is taking to the streets literally people are angry with big banks and they say the taxpayer money has been wasted and that wall street is to blame for sinking the american economy but will their shots fall on deaf ears. and will those responsible for the financial mess ever be held

accountable but joining me now from more is jordan as deval organizer with the national people's action and didn't let me get the pronounce ation again as the state has rested i thought about that so let's let's talk about this let's talk about the financial situation here in washington we know that this month or not investment in february the u.s. deficit for that month reach a staggering two hundred twenty three billion dollars obviously we're in a financial mess it doesn't take a genius to figure that out and yet when you look at the rhetoric coming out of washington by the politicians no one is asking the big corporations to pay it seems that somehow the taxpayers are going to have to make more sacrifices to get us out of this what's wrong with the picture or the picture there what's wrong with the picture is that the tax payers that are expected to foot the bill for this are ordinary taxpayers like yourself and myself who are you know. not of modest incomes whereas the big banks large corporations are continually pushing and getting bigger

and bigger tax breaks and you know even though it's the financial industry i just say that it was at the at the root of the financial crisis that we that we that we find ourselves and there's still posting record profits record paying themselves record bonuses. and meanwhile pushing for for for bigger and bigger tax cuts for themselves but not for. you know what we're saying is that this is not you know we're not in the middle of a budget crisis we're not in the middle of a spending crisis we're in the middle of a revenue crisis are spending less and less on programs that help the working class and poor people in america we're spending less and less on teachers' salaries and less and less on police and essential services and you know meanwhile the banks have both the ability and the responsibility to make up the budget gap well i think we have a graphic of some of these band of these as we like to call in the big banks that are are not exactly paying their fair share of what we have bank of america. we

have wells fargo citi bank goldman sachs all of these companies that have managed to sort of convince the regulators in washington that having a lower corporate tax rate is going to somehow trickle down to the rest of us right now and they talk about how maybe if we do this then suddenly there will be more job creation and you know to be fair it does seem like these banks these big companies have helped with job creation it's just that the job creation has been in india mexico china and abroad so how do you account for the sort of the trickle down effect has clearly not worked so far and we have no reason to expect that to start working in the future bank of america last year got a six hundred sixty six million dollars tax rebate on top of the twenty two thousand and nine tax rebate of three point five billion dollars you know and you can see how how that helped us in terms of job creation it did not help us in terms of job creation in the united states. you know we. what we are calling for is a few things one that the banks need to stop fighting reforms that would actually

keep people in their homes which would in turn stabilize the economy second we're calling for the government to pass financial speculation tax which would do a couple of things one. it's estimated this would generate up to one hundred fifty billion dollars annually in additional revenue that would solve the crisis second it would actually discourage the kind of wild speculation that caused this kind of this crisis to happen in the first place. and so those are those though those are the main things that people that we talk to on a daily basis and you see taking to the streets and protest that's what that's what but let's be honest here i mean it's nice that i guess people can get motivated enough for a cause to take it out to the streets but you know three hundred people in front of john boehner sells i don't see him coming out and saying all right we're going to change our policies here i mean is it really going to do you any good well you know we still live in a democracy and you were a. against some really powerful corporate interests with deep pocket rocket books

that they have no problem spending to you know to finance this campaign or another but at the end of the day this is still you know this is still a democracy we believe in people power and you know every. everything in this country that that helps workers but helps ordinary people has been fought for by organized groups of citizens like ourselves and we do believe that we will win this at the end of the day because the majority of our side that was jordan asked about campaign director of the national people's action now the actions of the last three have triggered the economic crisis making states struggle with budget gaps all over the united states and one such state wisconsin has seen people rise up to resist having to pay for the mistakes that they themselves did not make but as them stray sions have been raging on the fox news channel wells has been trying to vilify the teachers and the students as chaotic animals are to correspondent honesty a churkin i takes

a look at how one news network claiming to be fair and balanced has been spinning their facts to get across its own political agenda. these are some of the faces of the wisconsin protests mothers teachers and students but according to fox news the people protesting i'm sure i'll get a flurry of e-mails calling for me to apologize for any mean them exam bullies but they are and i won't apologize for it but that's what they are in reality there was no bullying going on that was certainly the case when our team was on the ground in february as the protests were peaking even though people. what i'm going there in. chaotic rioting actually not using. their might. and their rights as workers that has remained the case for those we have closely followed events i know for a fact that there has been no violence whatsoever in wisconsin i mean you know i

mean aside from people stepping on each other's toes accidentally there's just hasn't been a police even issue to thank you statement to protesters for being peaceful but according to fox news channel the demonstrators have been an uncontrollable mob not a terribly civil or classy group of people for offended evil garrity and pretty vile behavior and these are nothing but in both ways the nonexistent violence was taken to an extreme with a spin of an alleged attack on a fox reporter ok let me show you what you know who seem to have seen it coming they hate that you have administrators you see it and they're the utter lack of civility civility and harassment of reporters there from a video posted online it became clear that nothing close to harassment have taken place but it was too late to stop the infamous faux spandex they're pushing him here showing him apparently one even him pushing it even further the so called

police came out to protest in appalled snowy winter a more violent protest video featured by bill o'reilly. palm trees in the background turning the channel into a cartoon show brazenly true of this propaganda introject ninety percent of fox viewers will have no idea it was free and they will think that it was true in another field trip close to reverse polling numbers to support the party line the channel six percent in favor and meaning teachers one had to teach school part of the fight for their own rights liars that is no excuse but is no excuse for lying to children it's good to ones doing the lying or actually the piece is an american t.v. screens since the show must go on and they told me she hates me to make sure. that's what you know you're right marching hand in hand with the lies go on and on and on and started archie new york. for more i'm joined by harriet blair she is one

of the response and protest organizers and the face of this middle class revolution thank you so much for joining us i think last time we just have you on the phones it's exciting to see your face but i just wanna get right to the point i mean according to fox news you and your fellow protesters are a bunch of dangerous bugs should i be afraid and i don't think so and i don't think anyone that was actually there without a fox news microphone and even those people actually felt and he's tape of the year . honestly the most emotional thing that i saw people walking into the hallways full of donated food and crying because it was so beautiful how does it make you feel though i mean it seems it's such an unprecedented situation at least in recent years for the labor movement for actually result in these numbers of people on the streets and not just in wisconsin i mean we've seen this spread to other states how does it make you feel to see something so unique and so new to this to this country

in recent years be hijacked essentially by these corporate media outlets are painting. and us from violence dangerous our pricing yeah well i guess i was lucky enough to be inside the capitol for all seventeen days which made it really hard for you need to even watch the news so i know it was it wasn't something that was on my mind a lot when i was there or any of the people who were actually there but i think mostly it's just a sense of dismissiveness i mean people know that fox news are going to spin anything we do and so to kind of take it is a joke fox news at this point is entertainment and not news and people one of the funniest things i saw was people the day after that video with the palm trees came out people brought inflatable palm trees and they were all over the outside of the capitol just to make it to make it fun again well i'm sure the fox news crews had noticed that they would have labeled it as some sort of terror terrorist weapons right or something along those lines but you know it's really rare these days i

think it's fair to say to see people such as yourself really taking action for something that they believe in what made you go out and join up with this movement i mean you were really one of the first people who came out of this. yeah i mean it it started i don't think i expected it to be this way and most people who got involved at the beginning also did not expect it to go this far it started out with there was being a call for people to go and testify in front of the legislature and that's why i went and that was why we spent the first night is because the testimony lasted all night and people need to be there to have their voices heard and then it just kind of evolved from there and it eventually turned into at least the people staying inside the capitol were staying because we no longer felt that it was assured that we would be allowed to return back i mean the doors were closed and there was a one for one policy so anyone who left was really not going to be able to come back for a few days and so people felt very very strongly that we needed to stay to keep

that as our house but also felt just as strongly that we needed to be respectful to you know the police officers who were there and to each other and to have a really strong sense of community and i think if you look at what's happening around the world i mean it really does feel like there's something in the air or some sort of change i mean we are seeing uprisings in the middle east and north africa all really all across the world how much inspiration of protocol did you get from seeing the movements in the middle east. i was very inspired by that and i think a lot of people were i mean i i am interested in the middle east to begin with it's one of the things i study in school and i speak arabic i'm learning arabic and so i told fox news that they might get a little scared that you know i was watching the news almost twenty four seven for the two weeks before this protest started and was really inspired to see that a group of people without any kind of formal leadership could get together and work together and be effective in changing their situation and changing their country

and in bringing about a more democratic world so i was very inspired by that and i think that kind of translated into our movement as well being that there was not a lot of formal leadership and it was just a lot of individuals talking to each other about what we wanted to do for instance the night that we all walked out of the capitol we had about it to our town hall meeting where everyone talked about how they felt about what was going on to make sure that everyone felt comfortable leaving that we so you know did it as united front. and it was funny because the news cameras were all there waiting for some dramatic thing to happen and we all kind of just sat around and talked for a while and then he walked out together all right well look since it's inspiring to see young people such as yourself really standing up with what they believe in thank you so much harriet and i wrote on protest organizer thank you now still ahead in this half hour spreading democracy through usa id so where exactly is that

money going. plus book for julian assange and wiki leaks there was gong young co-founder of cryptome straight ahead come along for a tour of new york a secret one that the u.s. government does not want you to know about. let me get that we are going to break. i think the on the oil. we never got that says they're going to be safe and get ready because their freedom

. now each year the united states gives more than forty million dollars to usa id this in hopes of quote spreading democracy abroad because the government really know exactly where that money is going here the case of an american contractor who's been convicted of working to destabilize cuba's government try to mean for more on this case assault landrieu he's the author filmmaker and a professor at california state university of kimono professor thank you so much for joining us now are we have this green dough right alan gross who is running around cuba given alex satellite phones to the jewish community there give me give me some background on this case and why it's so strange well you could call it

grows. i don't know what else to say about the united states congress which i think the whole world recognizes now as the absolute best that money can buy. declares that once to help build a civil society to destabilize the government of cuba and to do this it will require them to improve their id their communications and one of they put it to the jewish community which is were loaded with communications equipment and i can testify that i've been to the senate guard and i have to are some of the jewish leaders there so they send in a man and after all they id doesn't do this by itself it's part of the state department so it has contract building a company name d n a r a gets the beer and then they say well look at doing this stuff handled satellite phones and teach people how to set them up and operate them but all that it was al and he's done this in other countries so now he's spanish

but yeah well no big deal he speaks year yeah or maybe he does it doesn't matter he goes into cuba under eight tourist visa now the same he's entering puberty as a tourist and not as a contract agent of the united states government we need to cubans have him as a lawyer say and a primer facia crime against immigration because like once he gets to cuba he doesn't bring the satellite equipment and with him because the cubans x.-ray everybody has baggage so he must pick it up somewhere to work if i had to guess i would guess he picks it up at the us interests section which is the embassy without formal recognition. then he goes and he hits the jewish community which as i say is laden with goods and has been a real favorite of both presidents for a few dull and. the minute he gets to the jewish synagogue and he's read it out to cuban state security and they follow him everywhere he goes they don't have the

names and addresses of course they perhaps phone from his hotel so they know all about and the aim of this according to the law itself is they help the stabilize the cuban government by building a roads of society and yet you have secretary of state hillary clinton talking about this as if that's some poor innocent jewish guy who you know went out there to do some good has been unjustly captured and held by cuban authorities there is a little bit of a double standard and her partner say they're going to say i mean we're contracting out our foreign policy essentially by using these groups these subcontractors and then when someone gets caught redhanded al qaeda that forbid we we had at knowledge that they're actually taking care of our u.s. foreign policy for a surprise but i think the best one could say about alan gross is the word schmuck which i will translate loosely as jerk but as he didn't realize what he was walking into. the cubans have consistently penetrated all of the u.s.

attempts to run this civil society nonsense just recently the head of the independent journalists surface as the cuban state security more. dumbass and black women and way we're going to demonstrate it to abandon service the. state security agents previously he was arrested seventy five so-called dissidents at their trial twelve cuban state security agents posing as dissidents service to testify against them and say how the united states government was giving them money services goods and a whole variety of other things. so don't we ever get it of money that congress as well ok to the stabilize. the cuban government is going into the treasury of the cuban government one secondly. how stupid can you get you know nobody

ever asks the question what you would do to us again. you know although all of your loons are hard to hear i guess we're still are still living in an age that doesn't necessarily exist i mean but what do you say about those broader trend of you know essentially over relying on these contractors and not really being able to stand accountable for how that money is being spent well the congress allocated this money and they id is the agency through widget goes and the congress declared all of its what was the. its object was to create a civil society and your book or of course a simple society already exists and the lack of intelligence the lack of information that the u.s. government should have but doesn't is really at this point all of it and that's what i call the gross gross alan gross is just a symbol of a lot of the problem to me solid and i don't mean to interrupt is that there's

nothing wrong with a u.s. ideals the ideals of democracy no one is criticizing that the problem is when you have these programs that are essentially regime change programs but they're being marketed as if under the guise of some sort of in a spreading democracy abroad i mean you it undermines the u.s. world standing it hurts us more to be doing these kinds of covert actions that doesn't match up with our actual rhetoric about democracy and changing and changing society as a broad doesn't this hurt our world standing well it does hurt our world then you go worse than it is that recently had a trial at least posada cutler's who was a cuban american who was accused by the u.s. government of lying. two of us immigration the u.s. government has exposed some rather the ending facts one is a very wealthy industrialist from miami was giving money to bomb targets in cuba and the same industrialist by the way was making substantial campaign contributions

to cuban american members of congress all of them are in favor of this very program so our ideal of democracy is once again we have the best congress money can buy and we would like cuba obviously to help us and what. all right well it doesn't seem like there's a lot of money for the working people here but at least there's a i well bought congress here in the united states sol landau is author a filmmaker and professor at the california state university in kimono all right he's got julius on in fact he tries away from the word dissidents because he's heard it all too many times before especially lately nevertheless the co-founder of cryptome dot org john young has been exposing government secrets on his website for about fifteen years and archie is lauren lyster follows him out work as he'd be cripps the strip the streets of new york city. a winter's day rendezvous with an unusual tour guide and cryptic critic we are here with john young he started the

website or he got to the game about ten years before wiki leaks did write releasing classified and secret documents of governments from all over the world on his site and another thing that he does is he goes all over photographing what you call sensitive sites right here where we're near some right now you go to graph them and put them on his website for the world to see and he's willing to tag along and he's going to show us new york city through his eyes we begin outside the federal courthouse where terrorism suspects are tried otoh is john is published in places like this as well as the police and judicial headquarters known as the ring of steel where he's taking us now have led the f.b.i. to visit him and critics to say he's putting national security at risk in the contrary is that should true sure there's a risk to our society this is the third incident or the troops are killed you notice all the barriers here john says post nine eleven america has amounted to a buildup of secrecy seen all over areas like this in which he calls security

theatre and said. look you know there's an officer around every corner that wants to know what we're doing they can go under through this it will trip john opposes the fortress looking buildup like this secured entrance outside the prosecutor's offices but he also thinks in this particular case it could be quoi i go there to prosecutors are going on. john is an architect by trade so he reads buildings like books and the biggest pain he sees coming out of this area is the money being made these are huge. they call them government operation but they're huge because they should have got huge contracts. which is just down the street this federal building houses the f.b.i. into this underground driveway. page the perp when they pick him up but john has discovered it's not. all is for medical as it seems. anyone and

you know despite all of these discoveries there is one place john hasn't found the cia office next stop wall street the first purportedly the world's largest repository of gold yes even more than fort knox house mostly for other countries this wall of the new york federal reserve a food concrete there's nothing for someone to get it but much gold and filming around the financial center of arguably the world we are not was skepticism the third officer of the day. nonetheless the tour goes on wall street brings a cobblestone pavement to make it look more and more security if you get into it you see that a lot of security you show because not much financial action truly happens here anymore john says the point of seeing the security firsthand though is to question more. just when he enters the operation which i'm trying to do the the hyperbole about this threat. to try to not simply read all the information is out

there lauren mr r.t. new york. today all over the world people are celebrating international women's day but here in the u.s. they may not be all that much to celebrate r.t. correspondent caleb ford has more on how this superpower is leaving its women behind this kind of just you know. the rhetoric is familiar specially word of we're going to always make a difference in every election but this year your voice your people will be the deciding factor in forging a new future for ever but the reality stands in stark contrast for all the talk of female empowerment women in america are losing ground two thousand and nine was a record year for women in congress but it only seventeen percent the u.s. still trails countries like a rapper twenty five percent of the parliament must be female the u.s. is one of five countries with no guaranteed maternity leave benefits women can legally be fired for becoming pregnant the standard is two weeks of paid leave

after giving birth compared to three months to a year in other countries. any birds three children were born in guatemala where women are guaranteed three months paid maternity leave and free preschool but here in d.c. she enjoys neither woman who are earning minimum wage or anything close to right. there are not empowered there's a big gap you have mothers who are professionals good salaries can pay you know fifteen hundred dollars a month per child for child care a lot of mothers have to pay. for actually all of put their salary would be in order to get child care and irony bird struggles with as a woman fighting for women's rights it's a human rights violation really for women and. not for children to. being able to. to work to support the

family in the way that they need to be. compared to other developed countries the u.s. spends one third less an early childhood education and doesn't have universal public preschool there's a big problem with. congress deciding. not prioritizing basic social programs and fundamental human rights but instead of. you know catering to the interests of corporations who are more interested in. building up the military with women accounting for two thirds of minimum wage workers in the us the economic crisis has forced many women here to choose between feeding their families and caring for their children ill informed r t washington d.c. well that does it for now for more on the stories that we've covered go to our team got com slash us.