welcome to the lower show we'll get the real headlines with none of the mercy right here live in washington d.c. now it's able to take a look at how big of a role oil had to play and leading up to the war in libya will analyze the g.o.p. presidential debate from last night and we'll talk to an author who claims that your favorite t.v. shows are all being used by hollywood liberals to shape america in their own leftist image scary i know but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has been devoting their time to instead of

covering the real stories. you know it's not like there's a whole lot going on in this country to be worried about right now right recessions taking a double dip we have over nine percent unemployment and that's just the official number that doesn't include all of those discouraged and underemployed workers housing prices continue to fall millions of americans have lost their homes the middle class is disappearing the top one percent of the nation holds forty percent of the wealth we're fighting three wars one of which has now become the longest in american history and we also have to shadow wars going on and thousands of americans have lost their lives in these wars that have no end in sight and serve no purpose to us thousands more have committed suicide once returning home now thousands more are suffering from physical injuries and from p.t.s.d. congress is in a battle over reducing the deficit in which it seems that we may just deep falls on our debt as a nation if they don't make up their. while defense spending remains untouched in

this budget battle programs that help lower income americans and buy them with heating assistance or help assistance to the young those are being cut so taking all of that into account if you are the chance to sit down with president obama one on one you got to ask him any question do you like where you start economy war education i know it's a really tough choice so it's a good thing that we have professional journalists in this country that have mastered their craft to do that work for us and curry side down with the president in an exclusive one on one interview and she shared tidbits of it with chuck todd this morning on m.s.n. b.c. and here's what chuck todd want to know about first to incur it was it was fascinating to hear him talk about everything in particular his first love reaction i'd say to congressman anthony weiner's indiscretions let's say for a look at what he told you. well obviously. was highly inappropriate

i can tell you that if it was me i would resign and i can tell you house democrats relieved to hear the president say the r word resign i was surprised at how much sound he gave you on we you know it was surprising as well to me. not really we were expecting her to your colleague just sat down with the president during the worst economic recession since the great depression and the first thing you ask about is what he thinks of anthony weiner i mean this is getting out of hand but ok let's move on so you gloss over the interview with the president you take the time out to hear his opinion on wiener gate and what you report next. the cia is expected to start sending armed drones to seek al qaeda targets inside yemen according to the washington post through its military ran all previous covert action in yemen the change is significant because the cia operates under different legal authority than the military the decision reflects fears of

a growing political instability in yemen. that are kind of a big deal you see we're not officially at war with or in yemen but our military has been illegally hitting a place with drone strikes and bombs for the last couple of years something the media never really asks about and now because we want to keep it legally hitting a place with drone strikes the decision has been made to just give that responsibility over the cia so you can expand the entire campaign and there's less publicising about it and so congress doesn't ask any questions and you give them thirty seconds of your coverage we are gay deserve a question from the president but shadow wars being fought on our behalf paid for by our tax dollars and ways without asking anyone not getting rational approval that isn't. that's what i call a mainstream miss. now

let's move on from one non declared war to another today the house of representatives voted on and passed an amendment to the defense appropriations bill to prohibit the use of funds for american military operations in libya and bucking the war powers resolution now aside from the fact that it's about down time they did that the sixty day mark was passed weeks ago it still has to go through the senate and it's probably more of a symbolic show but while congress takes their sweet time let's return to asking why we're in libya to begin with so we can make state department cable as reported by the washington post has shown us of the relationship between major us oil companies and oil market off we have been souring for a time prior to the beginning of the war rafi wanted tougher contract terms higher payments he pressured the oil companies to influence u.s. policies and even threaten to expel u.s. oil and gas companies from the country and it's a lot of homs glenn greenwald really only pointed out what a coincidence it is that we didn't treat bahrain or syria or yemen the same intervention on behalf of their people as we take it off so here to discuss this

with me is john glasser assistant editor and blogger for antiwar dot com john thanks so much for being here tonight there's no of course i think anybody who does real analysis of why we go to war would have said this before obviously you can look at the situation in libya as i said it very soon to bahrain or to syria or to yemen and we know that libya's oil rich country we know that's in our interest but we see something like a wiki leaks cable that shows you know the stuff being written down at the state department about these negotiations about the relationship souring between going off and the oil companies do you think of that as more power of much yeah of course i mean i mean you know it's true of u.s. policy towards the middle east needs to include oil but we sort of forgot about that would we be. for a while. and now these wiki leaks cables show us that not only was the relationship between us corporations in kind. but. there with you the u.s.

department had its eyes on a boiled deal between italian company and a russian company who both wanted a giant stake in libyan oil and it was going to undercut u.s. efforts to do to do the same and so naturally they had their eyes on it and they were literally plotting ways to prevent the deal from going down and then fast forward a little bit and we were in the cables themselves didn't mention anything about war or going to war but since the libyan intervention has started that war has been a deal has been abandoned and so i think it's a legitimate question to be asking ourselves you know did the rebel uprising in libya present the obama administration with the perfect opportunity to go in with force and secure their own oil interests in libya as opposed to waiting around and how much money every time talking about that was already invested at least specifically by u.s. oil companies after the sanctions were lifted in two thousand and four i mean it

wasn't a small chunk there comical philipson marathon and others invested on the order of seven hundred to eight hundred million dollars in libya's order not to mention the fact that after we normalize relations during the bush administration with we were paying him foreign aid on a quarter of about five million dollars a year so yeah there's a giant stakes here you know one of the things too i think that we have to talk about is this isn't the first time that we've seen this happen a lot of people could argue that the war in iraq was for a while too although at the end of the day i guess it wasn't really the u.s. oil companies that got the biggest stake there but how many other times have we seen this exact situation play out where you won't ever hear a politician allow their flocks of oil come into play it's almost hard to pick. because this is actually been the primary driver of u.s. foreign policy for over a century but the most dramatic parallel that i could think of is back in the one nine hundred fifty s. with iran and one nine hundred fifty one the iranian prime minister mohammad most

of that started making calls about nationalization of the oil industry and that was previously dominated by a british company but in response to this in one thousand fifty three the cia orchestrated a coup overthrew the democratically elected government of iran and then installed the shah who gave us priority in terms of business interests the motivations here are the same namely to use force to get money power and influence and more importantly to prevent any other what are called global competitors from gaining any gains that we might want to get we want to maintain our germany and we don't want anyone else stepping on our toes it's it's basically ruling the world through force if somebody else was doing this and maybe on a smaller scale we would call it terrorism but since the u.s. is doing its foreign policy you know one of the things that i think we've noticed from a lot of the wake of these cables that came out is the u.s. government essentially doing the bidding of many corporations out of private business and we just did

a story on this show last week when we can fix cable show they in haiti actually the u.s. government was intervening to keep the factory wages low so companies like levis and haynes and for to leue could all keeping their goods produced there so we can all keep buying our cheap jeans you know and i think it makes you start asking a lot of questions obviously the war in libya doesn't have anything to do with americans who at this point the majority of whom do not support the war effort there doesn't do anything to fix our economy and bring jobs into the mix but why do corporations have so much power over the u.s. economy and you know obviously geopolitics plays a role here you mentioned certain deals like the italian and russian deal if they wanted to take out but a lot of this is about businesses and about companies. yeah i mean the government is the business unto itself. giant interests. it involved they have a giant interest themselves in colluding with them and doing their bidding. us foreign policy the big leg of it is trying to benefit the red sea and corporations

that we see another big leg as i mentioned is to prevent any other global competitors but they work together pretty seriously do you think that has anything to do with why they're going after waking leaks with such fury yeah obviously i mean it's clear especially since this wiki leaks stuff that the government does not keep things secret for national security they keep things secret to hide them from the population because of the population knows about them to be pretty angry it's to protect themselves from their own democratic populations that they keep these things secret so you have that's no surprise how you look at this vote by congress or at least by the house of representatives today they just attach it on to the larger defense appropriations bill and i'm just not really sure if that's going to go anywhere if it's going to get passed the senate i'm going to be kind of neutral on this i could be pessimistic but it's a. step in the right direction as you said better late than never i suppose but yeah you're right they just attached it to the broader military appropriations bill

has still has to be voted upon by the senate still has to be voted upon by the house and so you know we should wait and see but i want to actually take place because in the meantime they've been fighting this war just panic they haven't been going to congress at all so with this actually even if they just keep trying from the pentagon's conference for awhile it wouldn't be the first time in history however given the fact that this war is sort of very much in the headlines and congress has been putting some pressure despite how much i hate congress but some pressure on mr obama today even wrote a sort of strong e-mail letter to president obama to you know. find him so within the war powers resolution very very soon so it could come to a head. within the next couple of weeks you know i don't know not something that we saw a lot of the republican candidates already potential republican candidates saying last night to have a g.o.p. debate was they were all pretty fervently against what was going on in libya right

now but surprisingly i haven't really heard anybody talking about expanding our cia drone campaign in yemen and every time that the media happens to report on it you never hear any legal language as to what world this is allowed and see this is what's amazing to me about the expansion of the drone program in yemen history seems to have presented us with a bit of a controlled experiment we have the libya situation that was had the support of nato had the support of the u.n. was done with the military and then on the other side we have pakistan where there's a secret drone program going on it's headed by the cia now by the military there's no accountability. and so over in libya we have the congress actually has some recourse that actually have some ability to put pressure on the president for some accountability and stop him getting us into all these wars and pakistan that's not the case and pakistan at least you could argue has something to do with the war in afghanistan obviously since we're trying to find is located in pakistan or at least along the border region yemen is

a whole different ballgame i got to wrap it up john thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. all right now let's take a look at the oil situation in libya from another perspective on the ground a fighter fuels about more than just politics so i for one highly sought after an f.f.t. . an archon that tells us how the libyan people have adapted to this oil crisis. its may have some of the largest oil reserves on the planet but these days leave is also god some of the longest queues at his pastoral stations the international sanctions imposed on the embattled colonel's regime the not include a few and. the latest targeting tank laura's is suspected the few might be used by gadhafi is military forces with roads closed factories at a stop and foreign workers losses gone from the war stricken country labor is facing its worst energy prices ever the new realities ordinarily been glad there is no scanned bars to mounds of time queuing for few months ago this became

a common thing. in the country people have been lining up to fill up their cars even days baseline is a little tougher compared to the gas station at the end of this here is women only and barker is a university students and has volunteered here to help organize the process she stamps q russian boots which allow individuals thirty five liters a week she believes it's a great idea to have women on the stations. but women have too many things to do they don't fight each other world queuing and never shoot into the year is now in doing so we're able to serve up to nine hundred cars some don't have to look at me this line is longer others are ruben longer patrols to cheaper than water here just a few cents for a liter it's just that is often in short supply. if there is no fuel we have to

live our cars and return reentry appears it could be days. women only gas stations is one of many innovations supposed to ease people's lives in a country that has their also special problems ambulances and police cars. but the needle surrounded us but we should move on we try to do our best to help people get by if we get up we'll die it's a lot of those seeking to oust colonel gadhafi may have been hoping the hardships will incite people to rise up against their leader but instead it only seems to be fueling people's hatred towards what they feel is western imperialists and. nato damaged our city destroyed our life they told us they want to save people is that the right decision the people tell me this is just a crime. while the warring sides try to find a way out of months of devastating conflict ordinary people looking for

a way to just leave their everyday lives dreaming of all times when they. will be with a distant memory. tripoli. time for a break when we come back a look at a spanish web site that isn't taking isis seizing their domain lying down and all sorts out the good the bad and ugly from last night's presidential debate with a cat named a little. bit of a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else here's some other part of it and realized everything. charge is a big. deal . and yet.

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whenever the governor said if you're safe get ready because freedom. could the u.s. government finally be up against a challenge here for how u.s. immigrations and customs enforcement has been seizing internet domains all the name of combat and piracy that includes porn web sites well it looks like there's one domain that's actually fighting back row who director based in spain has lost a third of its traffic after i sees their entire domain and i don't see you happy about it in fact the rover directors parent company eighty has filed what many think is the first courthouse challenge to quote operation in our sites that's the

official name but for the project that's responsible for seizing all these domains and it turns out this site is not in fact a bit torrent file sharing website it's just a discussion board for the eight hundred sixty five thousand registered users but some users have links to pirated sports streams within the discussion boards so as we told you the past ice considers just linking to pirated material grounds for overtaking internet domains which is absolutely absurd so eighty is fighting to get those two hundred eight domains back because the company says that it hasn't committed any copyright infringement and in their legal filing the government has not shown and cannot show the site ever was used to commit a criminal act much less that it will be in the future by hosting discussion forums and linking to existing material on the internet is not committing copyright infringement let alone criminal copyright infringement and the company goes on to explain the u.s. government took it upon themselves to shut down an entire website over a few arguably very questionable links there were added to it so you know what i

really hope this lawsuit actually gains of national attention because roe director is right the government continues to arbitrarily shut down foreign websites with very little rhyme or reason let alone jurisdiction especially considering the website has been declared illegal in spain where it's from now critics in the us have already cited of problems with the way the government categorizes categorizes a mere link as a reasonable cause to shut down any domain. web sites and that would be a domestic site but you do this on a forum that discussion board where it's open to discussion links and images from about everyone and anyone seems to be crossing the line so let's hope this lawsuit will force the government to rein in isis methods of civil seizure and allow the internet her main a place where people can engage in open discussion of all kinds otherwise a lot of websites you know find themselves in the same screwed up situation as are often direct even if they aren't located here on u.s. soil. well last night we saw seven g.o.p. presidential contenders a face off in a c.n.n.

debate in new hampshire it was less of a faceoff and more of a love fest centered around the one evil in this world president obama and his obama ad the gays in the muslims that is but the majority of the debate did center on the economy and the need to create jobs which for republicans means continuing to lower taxes and getting the government out of the picture on its cars calling it the depression and simple and he said obama has a defeatist and decline is an attitude about our exceptionalism and the prospects for a competitive economic growth but if you're playing a drinking game to the word obama last night something tells me that you got so hammered you just didn't show up to work this morning let's get into what really stood out and what was completely left out and more importantly what this country would look like if any of these seven it did become the president of the united states joining me to discuss it all is politicos and gave a cat need to say thanks so much for being here tonight. oh no these debates are always entertaining gives us a little glimpse into how these presidential contenders really hold themselves did

you was there a winner for you a winner or a loser i think the winner was mitt romney he's the presumptive front runner this is the guy who ran last time a republican seemed to go with the next guy in line as you mentioned nobody went after the guy i thought he was going to take some hits people are going to throw stones at him for for health care for romney care for his past but thoughts on abortion they all basically gave him a pass when he was a winner and showed bachmann pretty. look pretty good i think everybody had to admit yet really was going after mitt romney at the moment it's all obama obama obama i don't know what they're going to start turning on each other but i think there was a loser last night and you know forgive me if i'm being really really mean but good lord john king was just the worst a moderator of all time and he was so awkward you got to understand ed what are you asking everybody why do i say that every second. they have to keep moving i do want to begin i'm going to move a go for it jump it don't just have your voice in the background so i can't hurry

answer and this is what really got me to a little fun segment let's take a look at this quote. elvis or johnny cash oh that's really tough coke or pepsi or coke leno or conan. these are probably leno blackberry or i phone blackberry blackberry it is the fish or thin crust. spicy or miles oh spicy dancing with the stores or american idol american idol maybe we'll have to have an american idol contest something. that would shock me and my kids and they better be a little dessert with your broccoli in your state all right i just heard we had a big debate about this in our editorial meeting this morning where some people thought that it was friday was great it really gave you a look into their personalities which i don't think that coke or pepsi tells you anything about a person's personality and another thought that was about distraction considering the economic situation in the country i think there could be

a better way to do it one word thing i see what they were trying to do conceptually but it sort of fell flat i mean colker pepsi spike they gave mitt romney who's known for a very calculated to give him spicy or hot when i mean it was just like home only give us something a little bit more and i think you inserted and for think if you do that if we have a little attack you but you know c.n.n. was trying and it's early and this is not at all lame how about defense or medicare is that kind of record better question and i don't have more to the point but so obviously the economy was issue number one and this is what's on a lot of americans minds right now but i still i was personally a little bit by the fact that not until an hour and a half into the debate and they get into any foreign policy questions that you find that surprising at all no because i mean. to give the republicans you know some credit they are just getting they're receiving the questions right at c.n.n. . questions if they take their questions but usually needs to be i mean they believe domestic issues are going to drive what people care about and what do

people care about right now more than anything but nine percent unemployment rate the jobless numbers that come out every month and that's the bread and butter issues that baby being are going to be the most important now barring a foreign catastrophe that is a couple months before the election sure they completely change the dynamic but usually presidential elections will turn on the economy well one thing i really like ron paul's answer when they are being asked about whether it's time to take out troops out of afghanistan after all it's been ten years us on bin laden's dead and the rest of the cabinet solid to for it and said i would like the generals decide and i think ron paul did a good job of reminding us what being a president is all about let's take a look at that right program you know i served five years in the military of had a little experience i've spent a little bit time over pakistan afghanistan area as well as iran but i wouldn't wait for my journals i'm the commander in chief i make the decisions i tell the generals what to do and i'd bring them home as quickly as possible and get them on

of iraq as well and i wouldn't start a war in libya i'd quit bomb in yemen and i'd quit bombing pakistan i'd start taking care of people here at home because we could save hundreds of billions of dollars our national security is not enhanced by our prisons over there we have no purpose there we should learn the lessons of history and the longer we're there the worse things are and the more danger we're in as well because our presence there is not making friends let me tell you. i love the cutaway of mitt romney just sort of glaring at me very well i mean how dare you inject reason in today's political debate but i will say that i think that the foreign policy component of the republican primary for this change if you listen to romney said last night about afghanistan he said i think we should try to get troops out as soon as possible that's different than what they were saying in previous months i think you're seeing more of an. isolationist bring the troops home and tally not as strong as ron paul granted but i think in their answers you did see some nuance that.

that's a change usually it's you know support the troops whatever the generals are we going to stay in there we're going to win we have to fight you know we're the united states of america you're not seeing that harsh of a rhetoric as much at least that's what i mean that's why i dislike the ron paul east admits hey guess what we're not going to win this actually and dangerous because it makes more people hate america when you start bombing in a million countries abroad and it's part of the reason that we're going broke because defense spending is absolutely completely out of whack right now and john king didn't even ask them about defense spending considerable and now i'm told me time that they spent on the economy and give ron paul credit for this right he said and the president always say i defer to the generals you know you go on don't ask don't tell he said well would you repeal it would you would you bring it back to your previous what it was and they said no i go to the generals were the generals. on the president i told the generals what to do and that's you know sort of a big republican now or do we have time for our religious clippers that you long

guys. ok i don't think we can fit in or are religious claims but obviously we saw a lot of i believe in the right of everybody to practice whatever faith they want and then herman cain being asked about not wanting muslims in the white house and essentially everyone saying why i believe everyone should practice their religion but i think that we should be skeptical of muslims and. even went on a whole like mccarthyism was right rand. you know this is a tough issue that herman cain was on the defensive on because he said you know i wouldn't put a muslim in my cabinet and sort of retract and say i meant extremist muslim and i think that's going to be you know the key with a separate that out language is very important and there are some slip ups and there are going to be answers well it's always interesting to watch and i can't wait for the next one hopefully gary johnson will be in the next one i don't know why c.n.n. didn't put him in this time because i hated ron paul definitely shake things that day thanks so much for being here thank you. we have to take a quick break when we come back it's time for show and tell and that is everything you see on television.