three. three. three. three. three volunteers video for your media drug free media gondar teton tom. was a us led nato campaign heats up in libya and from congressmen senators and now even mayors are lighting a fire under the white house they want an end to the wars so what's next we'll bring you that story. got a wall and we got a well get a fight of our american people aboard the street we hear that mr president obama isn't all about war he's all about education but how do you succeed in school if you don't have a home we're going to tackle the issue of homelessness among america's youth.

really this is what the mainstream media circus around the murder trial has come to and then you have this. well they give tax breaks to businesses and send jobs overseas so that's nothing no one every winter. i think she was talking about the economy there but i guess who cares about the economy right there in the press seems to have really worn it. or so today i'm announcing my resignation that's right the member who has cast a dark shadow over this country has finally resigned as the mainstream media ready to put this wiener behind it. and i'm serious you call i outbreak is still raging in germany a scientist race against the clock to pinpoint the source will speak to one guest who may have some answers and it very well it just may shock you.

that evening it's friday june seventeenth eight pm here in washington d.c. and lucy catherine of you're watching our t.v. . now libya afghanistan iraq yemen pakistan i mean the list of wars raged lightweights by this country seems to be growing america's patience for them is wearing quite thin now while outrage lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are battling the white house over libya a war that technically isn't really a war according to this president generals in the pentagon are reaching a quiet campaign of their own to ensure that the afghan surge continues meanwhile the cia has fast track its plans for a not so secret drone base in the persian gulf now whether or not you think these wars overt or covert are necessary the much more important question here is how this country can pay for all this i mean just today the i.m.f. that america's economic growth is going to be slower than expected warning washington of quote playing with fire for doesn't curb its soaring deficit you know

even america's mayors are now joining into the fray calling on the white house to stop spending on all these wars and stop putting that money back here at home where people need it now the mare's conference the u.s. conference of mayors have not done this was not involved in war policy since the vietnam war so put that pretty good deal now earlier of joined by dr pollack roberts on this issue he served in the reagan administration i asked him if the tides against the white house may be shifting when it comes to living up to look at as you enter the ministration has its own goals and their independence what mayors say or what the american people think libya is important to the administration because they want to do it china from its oil investments with china has massive all investments in eastern libya and the united states government is concerned by the report recently from the international monetary fund that within five years china would overtake the united states as the world's strongest economy so

washington trying to protect its hey jimmy is trying to reduce any independent sources of energy that china has so that's what the libya kind. it was about so you don't think these lawmakers and now that the republicans are doing the fray of bringing up the whole constitutionality issue you don't think they're going to be able to do anything at all to change the policy on in libya and not unless they're willing to impeach the president well it really considering the mr boehner and the president going to golfing and soaking lots of cigarettes this weekend i guess we should hold our breath for that but why do you why do you think all the focus here in congress about this outrage of president obama bypassing them why is it all focused on libya and not for example yemen where we just are reports of a cia ramping up operations there well they don't acknowledge that war that's a secret war and look for a leader when the on the seat of presses writing about it well and in secret until

the united states government acknowledges it and they don't acknowledge that you say. congress gave up its power to clear war some time ago when they have this war powers act and they're supposed to be consoled and but now you see obama has cut them completely out of the process and started a war killing or asking them so let's sort of believe at least trying to defend their current programs but so much of a good is slipped your hands i'm not sure how how are you going to be. sure and they're brown and let's be realistic here i mean i have he gone to congress in the first place they probably would have rolled over and rubber stamped whatever conflict he wanted to get involved in it's just there they're mad you know no one checked with them it's a power issue just like you say but you know i have to ask i mean where are we going to get all of this money for these wars whether there are acknowledged or not i mean even alan greenspan pardon me alan greenspan the former federal research and

chairman today call it american debt and horrifically dangerous issue i mean how do we pay for these conflicts if we're trying to reduce deficits and that at the same time well right now they're pretty money so the fed reserve spring. money to pay for for the wars now and if that puts too much pressure lid on the face of dollar crisis the next thing they do they will grab people's private pensions. you know there's a lot of money in private pensions and yet here it is section relating tax free and so the government was saying hey look. this is accumulating tax free and therefore we're going to put a tax on it or we're going to confiscate some part of it or they will tell the pension managers you have to use it to back treasury bonds so they'll make people's pensions be used to finance the government's emphasis that's what they'll do if they get into real trouble with the dollar so you don't see the lawmakers actually catching on to this whole issue of defense spending spending on

a you know fancy planes and gadgets and then things that go along better in the cold war and world war two than the modern day america and flashing to their. you know because you see the united states is not really a democracy more it's an oligarchy and it's ruled by a few powerful interests and the military security complex is one of the most powerful and of course there's also then the israel lobby which is also very interested in united states continuing these wars in the middle east and then there's a lot string and if you look at and then there's the oral in history and if you look at all those interest they are really related to the war and those are the powerful oligarchy groups so what the people won't think is it doesn't count very much including if that lawmakers are on board well and let me just ask you i mean no we covered this in our newscast yesterday but what do you make of the president's justification for libya saying it wasn't really a war because it was

a full scale conflict i don't know what that makes tomahawk missiles party favors for peace. yes well it is obviously nonsense i don't really know why they bothered to say oh look what's really going on here. under the bush administration you you had these. people claiming that the president has a unique powers and these powers are over and above the ability of congress or the courts to check them and if this is especially true in wartime and so if you look at the situation since the president now can determine whether or not there's a war simply by having a warrant gives him but powers of the caesar he doesn't have there's all kinds of laws he doesn't have to bail you doesn't have to be the law against spying on americans or the law against torture he doesn't have to obey any of this a rule. liberties such as hades corporal stripes woodturning so that he can do when he wants and i think what they've done they've let too much power accumulate in the

executive branch and it's going to be very difficult for congress or courts to get back in this game and that was the opinion of dr paul craig roberts. well from war and economic woes to the battle over education it is often said that knowledge is power even president obama himself has been pushing education are the key to keeping america competitive in the future but at a time when so many american families are struggling just to make ends meet academic success seems to be more allusive for america's kids especially if they're homeless artie's we're going to linger profiles one eighth grader is fighting to succeed that's idle out. i want to hear this is i'm fourteen years old man this is the track tokyo palmer has been forced to grow up faster than most kids after losing everything in hurricane katrina he and his father headed west but their move to the golden state

has only led to poverty unemployment and ultimately homelessness is not a good people came to chicago to go to zero at all and i mean good i mean health care i've been everywhere tokyo is among a growing number of homeless children in los angeles and around the nation last year the department of education reported that there were nearly a million homeless students in america's public schools thirteen thousand students in the l.a. area alone that's more than fifty percent increase in the past five years doing counts are under most yes has seen this very rise in homeless students since the housing crash these families that we how they're homeless they're looking for employment they want employment and quite frankly this is an employment right now. comes home after school to a shelter which is actually right next to this make a hotel in downtown los angeles where suites run at more than four hundred dollars a night and you can spend the entire day relaxing in the ritz carlton spa the type

of luxuries that tokyo and other students in this situation can only dream up and i think. maybe so high standards so high place that they don't have to worry about them but still now what if you and i may put yourself in my shoes the concept insecurity that homeless students encounter makes it nearly impossible to succeed in school and move up in economic status a challenge likely to increase as legislators in washington debate making cuts to programs which help our nation's hungry tokyo's father believes the debate is not really considering the people who are suffer. i mean on the streets we've got a war. we've got a war we're going to buy our american people on the street tokyo knows he will get a good lunch at school but having dinner or even having a place to stay at night is always uncertain mccauley coral home park or home shelter home the national center on homelessness tested

a portion of california's thirty four thousand homeless high school students and found that only nine percent were proficiency at reading and only five percent were proficiency. a problem which will likely worsen as job losses foreclosures and he vixens push more families to the streets to work in the. first of the homes because my secret to get into all of this. is school despite dealing with poverty and discrimination talk you'll still dreams of being a basketball player or a musician in my mind it is no good schools work get some more get in grades good to me and yes even dreams of being the president of the united states until he reaches high office he has a message for those who are in power now be given money to different people which

church and that's how it children you know and your state. and your eyes and you can help them out. far from the corridors of power and ideological battles but challenge express with a clarity of childhood to the nation's elite in los angeles in the r t where one young american has found a way to beat the odds in a big way and brian smith was the first in his family to go to college he got up and grades he excelled in school and almost every single subject until he had hard times and wound up without a home and brian managed to turn his misfortune into quite an inspirational story but he faced a long hard road to get to where he is today earlier he joined us here in the studio to talk about what he had to do to survive even excel in school all while not having any place to stay brian walked us right through it take a look there was a lot. of music in and since we had keys to and i paid a fee to use the lab i would sleep in there since we would do you know music in

there all the time it was not uncommon for students to be in the music department until one or two in the morning so i just used that and then i would do work on my project all the time and then of course i would sleep there well i did that with your friends at the school administrators know their this was happening to you for the most part no it was until a certain journal or kept on harassing me you know and figured maybe i was sleeping there and then he made it very difficult for me and then that's when he started complaining and. it got kind of worse from there i went with how did it get worse well the school actually threatened to have me arrested and. the student janitor just would not i mean if you wanted to clean the room i said i you can clean the room and even the police there's other that they could do at that time and so it was difficult because every little noise that i heard i thought it was someone trying to come in to arrest me something so it was going to be an honor

student and what was your g.p.a. during this time three point seven six i believe i mean that's really just incredible and as our reporter ramona talked about in the story that are just before you came on i mean this really is unfortunately somewhat of a trend whether in college or in high school have you seen this play out in california during your years there do you know other folks who have gone through similar experiences i have heard of other students going through it i think that there are more than we realize and another thing is just because you can't tell a lot of people can't tell you in a friend of mine who helped me so well you know you always know nice well i take a shower the only problem is we don't have enough money to rent a place so we're to take a shower at the gym i was at a gym membership and i had different walkers you know take a dance class and have a locker there and have one in the yard in the music department and it was difficult just knowing my schedule had a rest room we could rest so i would go there until i could until the when. you do what i had to do basically and i mean you really do seem like you overcame all odds

and so you got your degree you're getting even more education if you're succeeding and i don't most all count do you feel overall just looking at this country do you feel like there's a really taking individual like yourself to succeed or are there a lot of ways to get help out there because it seems to me that the government to some extent is letting letting some of our students down by not addressing this issue but here i'm talking about homelessness and you know i think it definitely exists you can walk anywhere and see it that's not a problem but i think we don't see it within with the youth as. as much as not as as a parent i do feel that there will always be someone there to help you a lot of times the government doesn't do what we really need for at least in california if you go to school you generally can't get food stamps which i don't think really makes any sense but that's the way it is let me in take a tomahawk missiles. you know so i mean i believe that there are other ways you know there are soup kitchens but if my school music apartment in any music

department university every sidles and generally there's a buffet afterwards so you know that's you know that's you're really relying on your own way and opportunity to make it way back most definitely most definitely and so i think you just make the best out of it and i think there's a purpose for it and a reason it's you should help someone else and some people have told me that my story had been inspiring to them so that's that's great and that was brian smith once a homeless homes college student now american success story. so we talk about homelessness the wars the economy real issues affecting the world and this country so because look at the mainstream networks why the hell are these channels obsessed with frankly where things to be out of fluff and the casey anthony trial that they can't seem to get enough of to we negate all those all the news these days real news these days seems to be hard to find so why well joining me now to decode this mainstream media mystery is question journalism professor at georgetown university hi chris you know i was so excited yesterday because this whole wiener gate thing

blew over for i was looking forward to these puns going away. yesterday and. it seems to me that it's really not going away anywhere i mean our networks are covering this wall to wall as if it's some presidential resignation why well i mean. casey anthony there are part of that carnival paradigm i mean that's the one thing they have in common but the one thing they don't have in common is wiener gate is something that appears across all kinds of media media all kinds of platforms and casey anthony thing is more of the twenty four hour networks and there's a reason for that and i'll get to but but we i mean it's it's the it's the i mean political scandal tragedy you know whatever however you want to look at it i mean his own party was ready to the rose to make the state basically and basically to report his district based on the two thousand and ten census not the republicans

and his own people so you know i understand the coverage of it to some extent couch it and better terms why not you know say hey we'll get to the real issues first and then like we just did in this i think our at the very end talking about the you know the third because it's because the absurd so the carnival paradigm that's what that's what people hook into because everything else is so depressing and so complex and depressing that's a double whammy right there i mean they're your songs i mean you know minutes. los you want to talk about jobs you know they want to hear about well let's you mention that i think we actually have a little cute compilation clip of just how seriously the mainstream networks took took the conference and before we play i'll preface that usually has these pressers every single week normally it's not really covered by the mainstream press the congressional reporters go there take their notes etc the wiener case leaked right before the press or and so all of the cable networks led with live coverage of this

take a look at how they handle it when she changed the topic to jobs. but it's day one sixty three hundred sixty three days since the republican the end of bash i actually saw john king sort of grinning maybe because he sort of expected that the writers of the n.t. follows sanction is not going to have any harm and i'm anthony weiner's resignation comes in medicare. tax breaks to businesses and jobs overseas and then simple as that nothing no one ever any winner of but i have to think as soon as the reporters get a shot here when she's done with her statement at the start of world com bubble. i mean they have at least pretended to care a little bit. i mean because it is the press. i mean and you also have to understand i mean they're also depending on the outlet and whatever platform you're talking about there are political reasons for keeping the story alive i mean obviously this is this is made great part star rise as it was

started and to the mark i will dip back into the market again trust me but this helped him you know get a raise in stature this is something that's been playing on conservative blogs and news sites as well as far so there's that aspect of it but that's actually a pretty small part it feeds that the seriousness that we all want to plug in to process cheap there's no new news so they get to get the pundits on to roll with it roll with it and he's got there's no breaking news here except for that and you know so there's something they can glom onto so it's cheap it's like casey anthony's case it's cheap there's no investigation needed here i mean you can churn this i'm sure innocent but do you think eventually because people want to see this kind of think you people want to see this kind of thing to people want to see the casey anthony insanity well some people do i mean. you know stepchild headline news is banking on that but they basically don't all different their wiener gate they basically created

a brand around casey anthony but that. network basically has done that its growth c.n.n. has grown it from the o.j. simpson trial you see the spin off with nancy grace i want to see if i like a chicken or the egg question what comes first people demanding this kind of news coverage or it does the constant feeding of it and see and then sort of cause in saturday and addiction to my thesis for the evening is it is that they feed it to people and then they get accustomed to it and ask for more and i think i don't think it's a chicken and egg thing i think the biggest there they lay it and basically that's all we have also they created expectation regardless of what caused it i think we have a clip of how folks handled their inability to get tickets to the casey anthony trial there was a bit of a scuffle i think we played our first like. i got i mean we're all just talk over there so obviously they're freaking out i mean

i don't know do you think there would've been this kind of excitement for something so minute when there are so many big issues going on it wasn't on cable twenty first i thought well no i mean there's that and there's also this is a whole different kind of animal i mean if and i've said this before if she were twenty two year old african-american or hispanic graymail and this it happened you know people would be fighting all right to be fighting to get away from what he does you know what was going on because they figured that's one gayness normal but she's not you know there's something out worldly about this when you have a young so-called pretty white female and it did be you know that sells right itself but you know again at the end of the day there's quite a few serious issues that we could be talking about and it's just unfortunate that it seems that only ricky. thank you so much for your time appreciate it as christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university. all right well the deadly e. coli outbreak in germany has clean nearly forty lives to date while the sickening

thousands and the over it has already been called the world's largest and the world health organization says that infections continue to spread there's infections in european countries as well as even canada and the united states but unfortunately the source of this outbreak has baffled scientific minds are still struggling to figure out the evolution of this deadly strain now the uncertainty has led some to question whether foul play perhaps could be at hand here some folks even saying that who knows maybe this super resistant strain of the whole life could have been engineered in the lab and there's a lot of evidence for that per se but one of the voices retiring that alarm is mike adams aka the health ranger and here's his take on why this particular outbreak is not there's like none other in history. where this strain called zero zero one zero four if you look at the genetically it reveals how it would how it came about and you have to come to the conclusion that this strain was exposed to eight different classes of antibiotics in its creation so whether that had

a great interest to you before we get to that i mean explain to us exactly when that's when you see the strain is resistant what is that what does that mean for folks who aren't really familiar with this sure resistant means that if you were infected with this strain and you go to the hospital where normally they would give you an antibiotic that cures you of that strain in this case that strain is completely resistant rendering that antibiotic completely useless and that's why so many people have died from this and i think right now up to nine hundred people are facing kidney failure because of these infections and the doctors can't do much for them because the antibiotics are useless so basically no cure for this and i read and wonder for it there's actually even a little bit of black plague strain in this. well if you look at genetic code there are a lot of hints of different things from the history of infectious disease that seem to have made their way into this strain and that's one of the suspicious elements of this you asked the question in the intro where does this come from how did it come to be this does not happen in the wild where you have a strain that's resistant to eight major classes of antibiotics this looks like

genetically it looks like it had to be engineered maybe by a terrorist organization or maybe who knows by a rogue agency in the government or a pharmaceutical company that wanted to sell some other cure to it we don't know the answer to that yet but it is wise to start asking questions about where it really came from but what about i mean we know that in our society we tend to overmedicate there's more and more increasing use of antibiotics in humans and in animals in animal feed i mean could it be that somehow this all that passed down through i know the kalpoe yeah that's a that's a great question and that does happen when you find strains that are resistant to let's say one or two major antibiotics that does happen in the wild and it does happen from the abuse of antibiotics in animals and when that animal based fertilizer is used on food crops you do see that resistance but we've never seen eight different classes of antibiotics resistant all at the same time and that's

what's raising suspicion that this had to have been engineered by someone and then either intentionally introduced into the food supply or perhaps something escaped from a bio weapons laboratory and somehow made it into the food supply accidentally those are the two possibilities that we're looking at now and it's a mystery i mean i don't have all the answers but it's definitely not just a random accident in nature there are many examples of both governments and corporations unleashing problems so that they could offer the solution it's the classic problem reaction solution story and it's been used to to justify wars in the middle east for example you create a problem and then you sell the. solution so this could be an agenda potentially to have more food regulations and crackdown on small farms you notice that in the reaction to this they have virtually destroyed small organic vegetable farmers in spain i mean they destroyed the economy there are literally thousands of tons of vegetables that are perfectly safe were were just wasted over this because they

were they said oh don't eat cucumbers don't eat tomatoes don't eat lettuce turns out those were all false alarms but they had an economic impact that might be considered an act of economic warfare against spain's farmers but it with all due respect i mean our congress can barely get together and agree on what to name the next post office let alone wage some sort of covert food warfare campaign i mean it's kind of hard to believe that a government that's so kind of in disarray can really get itself together to do something that outrageous there are elements that know what they're doing it just came out in wiki leaks not long ago that the u.s. was pushing g m o's very aggressively throughout the e.u. including spain and spain resisted that effort and as the wiki leaks website revealed the us had determined it was going to retaliate against spain for resisting g m o's so there are elements within the government that do have an agenda and sometimes they pull it off. and that was mike adams health ranger and

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