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it's time for tonight's tool time award and it goes to a repeat winner who also learned earned this award last week donald trump is making a lot of noise about a possible twenty twelve presidential bid lately he's done this before and most people think that he is just seeking publicity again because we all know that this man loves the spotlight but in the meantime he sure is giving us a lot to talk about this morning of the donald called into fox news to discuss the u.s. military actions in libya and one of the hosts asked what makes him qualified to be president he made this claim i've been interacting with leaders of countries or leaders of business all over the world or my life and i think you guys know that probably better than anybody i think i probably have more experience at anybody. so trump has more experience than anyone else i mean yes i'm sure that he has made a lot of international business deals and i can definitely help but then again his

business empire has had to file for bankruptcy protection several times time not quite sure that that sounds like a man that's been president trump then went on to talk about his experience in dealing with world leaders including moammar gadhafi. i can tell you sucker girl shot i don't want to get our feet. you don't leave. me. we were. pretty sure there are two ways but old europe for two years i don't usually and that's what we should be doing. got ego much donald donald trump didn't tell you there was that yes he made a lot of money off of renting that land to get off it but at the time when the deal was made he didn't even know who the renter was it was only one area residents and local officials complained that it was the libyan leader staying in the area then donald trump stepped in and i guess you could say screwed over their firms a pretty sloppy business deal to me poor management you don't even know who you're

making deals with and then whoever you hired obviously is agave all of passing that information on you either so the donald is now just making stuff up to boost his ego and spread false information i thought so he is and that's why he's tonight's trial time where. it now seems as if sarah palin has gone globe trotting after taking a private trip to india the former alaskan governor made a stop in israel and has plans to meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu this evening as anyone else out there find it a little troubling that sarah pailin actually has the clout to meet with the head of state because i'm sure you now on her trip she's made the typical pro israel comments we've come to expect such as i'm very thankful to know that the israeli and american link will grow in strength and we seek peace. along with you however i think we all know that peace is the last thing that sarah palin is seeking she supported bombing iran she criticized obama even on this trip for not bombing libya

sooner but anyway should we call this a random vacation baylen or is this her way of brushing up on foreign policy before announcing her run for the presidency think the visit just adds more fuel to the speculation that she is planning for running in two thousand and twelve and it seems as if many other g.o.p. hopefuls probably on the exact same thing paling is the most recent politician to visit israel but visits from mitt romney mike huckabee and haley barbour have made many analysts wonder if this is the new path to the white house perhaps the neo-cons held some kind of a secret seminar telling any of the potential republican contenders the what they need to do to win the g.o.p. what they need to do to win the g.o.p. ticket and we don't know for sure but i think this is how we see the republican hopefuls traveling the first stop is israel their efforts to strengthen u.s. ties with the country obviously remain a top priority booster foreign policy trumps all proving your allegiance to israel then you had back to the united states where new hampshire usually ends up in the spotlight and sure this is looking ahead but it seems that

a candidate if they can do well in the primaries in new hampshire and they've got a good chance how about i what they do well with new hampshire and iowa a new crop of primaries in the bag so first stop israel next up in primaries it's the road to the white house straight through tell of the and pale in huckabee and darker all seem to be making that trek. yesterday hundreds gathered quantico marine base in virginia to peacefully protest the abusive treatment of bradley manning they were met with hundreds of police in riot gear and the arrest and detain that have over thirty people artie's kalen ford reports. ok in photos he's a smiling twenty three year old army private. but for two hundred and ninety nine days bradley manning has been behind bars accused of passing top secret cables war logs and videos to whistle blowing web site wiki

be. here in quantico hundreds of activists and veterans have gathered outside of the military base where bradley manning is being held in solitary confinement twenty three hours a day they say he's being tortured to call for his immediate release although president obama says otherwise i have actually asked the pentagon whether or not. the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards they sure they are state department spokesman p.j. crowley called manning's treatment quote ridiculous counterproductive and stupid and was forced to resign. well meaning scott or denounce the pentagon for stripping his son of his clothing and forcing him to stand at attention naked i mean it's shocking enough that i would. come on you know our silence as

a family and say you know now then this you know you crossed the line this is wrong protesters here denounced obama and say guantanamo bay has been brought to virginia they say the president can do better than simply trusting manning's jailers i've been seeing bradley in a confinement and i can tell you probably is not to me as well but if i could see really getting a part of a proper apology going to whistleblower daniel ellsberg responsible for leaking the vietnam war logs known as the pentagon papers called manning a hero what is your courage for other people and the more that other people realize . the descriptions which are bond together service the world trade or. have you know the truth. or appreciate it but everybody that we recall. having done the right before being arrested it with thirty five others for refusing to move from the entrance to quantico. also but not everyone in this

base town felt bradley had done the right thing knowing. that this man who these people are protesting puir my husband has been strengths lives in danger it's just . frustrating and denied that he was being tortured were tortured to do it to give him stale bread i mean come. on he's not being tortured even as amnesty international and other human rights groups say his conditions are quote degrading and bring back memories of. the pentagon has not set a trial date for manning who faces twenty two charges including aiding the enemy which could carry the death penalty but activists here and around the world say they won't back down until he's free killing ford artsy triangle virginia. so as hundreds of protesters rallied at quantico this weekend in support of bradley manning i have to ask if that means that america is finally beginning to pay attention to his treatment or if this couple hundred are the only ones listening

joining me from our studio in new york is michael whitney with firedoglake dot com michael thanks so much for joining us tonight now i know that you were there at the protest yesterday quantico and from all the video that i have seen it looks like a peaceful event but how many police came out there in riot gear whole lot of protest of the police the protests came out in full riot gear with shields and there was probably about a half dozen army officers who were had full machine guns as well as tear gas canisters and gas masks it was probably about even between the protesters and the police force and it was really a completely unnecessary show of force by the virginia state police as well as by the corner base that was completely unnecessary given the largely peaceful protests that happened it was

a whole bunch of people who were singing songs and changing who wanted to torture bradley manning to stop immediately and i know that about thirty people there were arrested including daniel ellsberg who also got arrested on saturday actually while protesting in front of the white house and then got arrested a second time on sunday but i'm just curious dan ellsberg who is on this program on friday he's an eighty year old man how many cops did it take the arrest daniel ellsberg. it was actually really creepy how they sort of the rest and people it was a little like the body snatchers there was a whole line of riot police that was approaching the group of about thirty people who were sitting on the ground in front of the marine base and the riot police line inched up and would open up for about a split second and three other riot police would jump in and haul one person away at a time the line we closed back up that person would be arrested put into a prison or a bus and it would just go again it was actually

a very slow process but on average to take about three riot police to arrest one of the peaceful protesters we're not talking about thugs that were out there trying to cause trouble among the protesters we're talking to a whole bunch of other lead people and students who were upset that they were denied access to the you would you memorial in front of quantico marine base where they had an agreement with the marine corps to lay flowers on that memorial in honor of fallen marines the police are in a bit on their part of the deal at the last minute and forced daniel ellsberg and four other people to put their flowers through. these bars that were wrecked blocking not just the protesters but the entire public from the you would you morial at quantico and that was enough for colonel and right and daniel ellsberg who on the way back from putting the flowers decided to sit down in front of the marine base in civil disobedience against the really raw deal that was cut

by the virginia state police and base on definitely doesn't sound like much of a deal or at all representation of your first amendment rights but i also want to ask you so there is one hundred a couple hundred people there yesterday do you think that finally this means that people are starting to wake up to the story of bradley manning we've been covering it on the show here from months but you know last week after p.j. crowley after barack obama spoke about it finally the new york times decided to editorialize it finally people have decided that it's really going on but is it still just a couple hundred people that really care enough to come out and protest only. it's not all on our own at firedoglake we've organized more than fifty thousand people in support of bradley manning and there are tens of thousands more across the globe more than thirty cities around the world held rallies for bradley manning yesterday in show solidarity and what we're seeing now is quite different than when you first

started covering this story back in december when very few people actually knew let alone cared about the conditions in which bradley manning was being very unjustly held in which he is continued to be held we're seeing now something that is that is waking up and that frankly for bradley manning's abusers as well as president obama who with one phone call could stop this torture it's too late for them to contain this the momentum is building and it's a matter of time for this to really pick up a lot momentum that it already has but in the last week the new york times l.a. times san francisco chronicle the guardian the economist have all editorialized against the torture of bradley manning and it's up to president obama now to take action to make the phone call and stop the torture of bradley manning and i think you're right and you say the cat's out of the bag and there's not a threat for the obama administration michael thank you so much for joining us

thanks for having me. now we're taking a short break go return pastor terry jones finally got to burn the koran that he's been telling for but this time he held a mock trial first and then police all over the united states are being trained to fight terrorism but wait until you hear about the so-called experts that are changing. the lead. a charmer in her broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture a. new website with twenty four seven live streaming news towns what to do about the

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our guys it's time for show and tell on tonight's program and last thursday we just go up discuss the global impact of the nuclear disaster in japan and we asked you what help does globalization make us more vulnerable the chain reactions if disaster strikes in japan and does it affect us all and here's what some of you have to say there are a lot responded on facebook and said i think the news media is hyping the earthquake and tsunami in japan yes we need to know what's going on there but on

the flip side there are more problems here with us greg miller says if there's no environmental global impact the situation in japan is having an impact on our domestic policy and opinion geno rebus rosa's gave us her feedback now that we're living in a global village will be directly affected in an economical and geopolitical way no way to avoid that miles lacey said the united states often doesn't appreciate the disasters in places like new zealand and japan can impact the u.s. because it takes time before the full impact of a disaster takes effect and as always we appreciate your feedback and here's our next topic of discussion we've spoken about the u.s. involvement in libya and today's show president obama swears that this is an effort by the coalition many doubt those statements wondering if this really are the first steps towards another war for the u.s. but if you remember then presidential candidate obama vowed not to be like his predecessor. so has he left let his supporters down going against his own promise for the campaign trail so let us know what you think has obama be trade voters by

starting his own military conflict overwrought if you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. over the weekend a small church in gainesville florida burned a copy of the koran how does that sound vaguely familiar to you remember back in september of last year when pastor terry jones of that same church originally planned on burning a pile of korans of september eleventh we had a rare opportunity to speak with jones about his radical approach to dealing with islam. well we believe it is our culture to show why you stand up and say your opinion of course it is or what it will tell you to do what we believe. and we believe it is law and the koran is that dangerous a really bad rash or necessary. after receiving a lot of hate mail even a request from robert gates the defense secretary himself pastor jones called off

the burning of the koran thankfully that is until now for another pastor of the exact same church wayne sapp carried out the burning of a koran during a service but the really crazy part of all this is that according to reports of the church held a trial and after deliberating for about eight minutes it was decided that the koran was guilty of what we don't know but then he was sentenced to death pastor sapp then took a copy of the koran which had been soaking in kerosene and then lit on fire with a barbecue lighter so why did the church go back on its word apparently jones had given a muslim community a chance to defend their book but says that he didn't receive any response how shocking of the muslim community didn't feel the need to explain itself to a psychopath let's not forget that there actually was quite a response to pastor jones the first time around how about the initial outcry from muslims when they learned that their holy book of the dead. secret people took to the streets burning the american flag calling out the us for its obvious display of

islamophobia and to me this just looks like pastor jones and his church were desperately searching for an excuse to burn that qur'an after all and performing a fake trial would be their way of defending those actions anything to draw attention to their hateful world view i'm certainly not shocked the pastor jones and back on his promise he has he and his buddy pastor are back in full force spreading islamophobia and destroying the koran some people i guess will never change the lure of spreading hate is just too strong and that's why we as a country have to fight back on that hateful intolerance of people like terry jones and wayne sapp now violently or by burning anything just say something please. and two weeks ago representative peter king began hearings on radicalization within the american muslim community on capitol hill where he claimed that there wasn't enough cooperation by the muslim community with law enforcement agencies in reality seventy percent of recent terror plots in the u.s. have been foiled thanks to muslim americans maybe the more important question to

ask is how law enforcement is being trained to find these threats since nine eleven federal money has been pouring into programs to bring local police forces into national counterterrorism efforts and experts have been hired to train police on the fundamental fundamentals of his law and how to spot a terrorist if you take a deep look into these training courses the picture is pretty you see poor oversight questionable accreditation practices and experts with no background in his law or counterterrorism who would teach our cops but all muslims want to take over america joining me from southern sudan is journalist joshua craze joshua thanks so much for joining us now you know in reading this piece here it doesn't really seem like it takes all that much to become one of these experts in terms of your background or accreditation to teach the police as it. no in fact it can be pretty easy one of the difficulties a lot of the people who train the police clinics are being built and black are still in the cia and it's very difficult to get

a credit sation of the sort of qualifications so a lot of the people training and their claims of being in the marines or a lot of them including one person very active in florida are over simply was from the middle east and because after nine eleven there was such a demand for trade opportunities in america anyone who had some sense of authenticity like some curb could establish themselves in a career and we know how much federal money has actually been flowing into these programs i know that obviously since nine eleven this has been initiated and that the demand is only going to continue to increase. we don't know exactly how much it's been these programs because it comes to so many different sources so some states might get money a priest points for reinforcing the thing that they didn't choose to spend on getting these kind of terrorism training in police again and again good wearing a head down. right now because we have something called in that the nationals are

suspicious activities reporting initiative i'm not asking to call the police to compile a list of terrorist activity that they were going to get into data since now initially when they put up the first draft of this they were asked to walk and look for suspicious activity like taking photographs of the culture which unfortunately is almost. so you have to use these these to put the pieces on the street you know who are behind this is which is that since you can train people and we teaching them to head back movements wearing headphones or at least people when it comes to must want to be blasphemous. and i kind of you know black and white approach and oversimplification only saw you know also from a number of other of these experts and trainers that you highlighted where they say that islam is overall goal is just to dominate civilization or to dominate america that can't be good for law enforcement as a whole they can't be good for counterterrorism efforts and they have officials on the highest ranks even spoken out against these practices.

of human rights issues it's going to. be really a whole series of those reports that would be going to waste time. so what you have. to check down with how that money was actually used and because. they were. both work. so we have federal money going to states where the federal government can actually track where there are very shoddy accreditation practices and now these people are training the police why don't you why why do you think we don't hear more of these local police officers speaking out somebody has to realize hey i don't think this guy's an expert i don't think the world is that simple. what we found were in one of these

terminals when a couple of experiments with. a fair amount of the piece of stews were suspicious but just speaking out might get your department in trouble it might get you in trouble don't let me seem ungrateful little the interim about getting ahead in your career you just take for granted that some of the truth is going to be bad but what we did find it was a lot of people who loved it straight and thought they were wonderful and part of the problem there is that if previously you're doing a training mission. you can see if you're if you've been a good teacher who was a good shot it's a very simple system of valuation in the end at least in this consumer the conflict in the market but the problem when you're teaching someone about islam is they don't know anything about it is it legal for the guy who makes you laugh so many humans share some of the saddest things that we came across when researching this investigation with people who said you know joshua i never realized that islam was a trip until i was in this training but now i know and now i know to watch out for

those killed so a whole bunch of people who didn't previously fear islam or about it but we became motivated towards becoming a community. i want to thank you very much for joining us joshua that definitely doesn't make me feel comfortable about the way that law enforcement is conducting our counterterrorism operations here thanks so much. thank you very much. now before we go tonight it's time far from today president obama promised americans today the u.s. military operation in libya would take a matter of days not weeks and be handed off to coalition partners to take the lead so what would the american people tweet to president obama about we've heard that one before and now is it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in to make sure to come back tomorrow happy hours from here early this week we'll have a special guest reasons michael going to have you are and i want to visit in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of the night's show or any other nights you can always catch all the you tube dot com slash the a lot of show where we post the interviews as well as the show in its entirety

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