there's a report on our. culture is that similar to the media you should use it to try to deflect takes its damage families long awaited plans to start drawing down troops levels in afghanistan is in play but easy to really draw down or just read. what goes around comes around and it seems like wall street employees are on the chopping block this time i don't know about you but my bad times catch up with those who helped create am i the time to jump ship. it is not the first time she's been asked if she searched for chloroform. yet not war not the economy not the future of this country you know the cable news channels are leading with the internet searches of some woman or form florida come on guys i think we have some real stories for you starting with libya. a lot over the bush administration

guilty of criminal. probe to get your money so as the obama's in the street. was sound like what happens i get most days i get mine and who cares if a creates a few more enemies abroad or i don't know cos i'm american g.i. joe soldier's life right wrong or to have more on that end of it. and what the f. is up with corp sleeping with the government or is it the other way around i mean i do know that is there is hope we will bring that answer to you in just about. anything as friday june twenty fourth but lucy catherine up here in washington d.c. and you're watching our t.v. . now bankers are being laid off more than ever suge numbers according to some accounts twenty one percent increase in layoffs on wall street in fact i have a feeling that a lot of folks are probably losing sleep over this i mean these are the guys who have been profiting while everyone else has been losing cash right well for more

details let's speak to a wall street reporter for the business insider watch to help. break this down for us tough times on wall street was i mean. i think that there is going to be i mean just this revenue down and banks have basically increased salaries and banks console to do that if they're not making money so what do you do you start cutting jobs and people are going to be angry about it and i think there's going to be some unhappy faces on wall street if they're not making the money they can't be kept around of course but i mean you know we can sort of look at wall street as the warning bell here i mean if these are the folks that know how to make money these are the folks that are you know i mean they make a living out of buying and selling dollars they know how to make cash like even as the rest of the country suffers if these guys are going down should that be some sort of a warning sign that hey maybe this crisis is going to get that much better. exactly

and i think that what happened was there was kind of an idea that was happening that maybe a recovery was on the way because banks were making money again there were huge bonuses being paid out last year and that was an issue there was a lot of backlash and i think that's one of the reasons they actually salaries instead of keeping bonuses but the fact now that they're not making money shows that perhaps the economy isn't growing as fast as i thought it was the numbers keep coming out suggesting that growing across various sectors and i think that if there's not money being made on main street that usually kind of effects financed the financial sector as well and if you're not making money trading then these banks can keep the bankers on so i shared scared should we be i mean should i sell my crap and move to some nice sunny country somewhere far away from either the euro zone crisis or the u.s. . i'm not sure about doing that but i think there was basically i think what

happened as well is because banks started to make money again these financial services firms started to make money again they started hiring again so basically what happened is they've got an increase in soft levels they're paying more salary because they're not allowed to pay bonuses or that you know they didn't want to incentivize risk taking again so what's the answer let's salary and that way the working based on long term strategy and not thinking about you know where the next thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars is coming from but that really increased expenses so. these cuts are probably a result of hiring more when they thought the economy was getting better as well ok so it really were you then saying is that it's not be end of the world it's not that the economic recession has taken over wall street and we should all jump ship is just that these guys yet again mismanaged surprise surprise what they did with their own internal finances and now they're paying the price so that we're saying. yeah i mean i don't think that they mismanaged i think that maybe there was hope where this shouldn't pain and there are certain areas of getting caught. trading

because equities are going to be cut i think that they'll be certain areas in each bank which really have to look at how they're going to maintain great profits and with less people and people who are angry at the banks they're angry all the money that was being made and i think that the firms are starting to respond to that by i guess reducing the amount that they can to pay them to keep them around which is hard because that's also going to send bankers and traders to other firms ok well congress is obviously not changing their practices too much but they're saying are without a lot act like we're doing something that has a bunch of regulation how is that affecting the whole job market on the on wall street i think that banks are scared i think that they're worried that. i think they're worried that what's going to happen is basically i mean banks think that washington can't interpret the laws properly anyway and i think they're really

scared that what's going to happen is someone on capitol hill group of people on capitol hill will make a decision on franklin interpret it in a specific way i mean the same issue is happening right now with the say f.t.c. i think they're really worried that it's going to be interpreted in a way that will cut billions from their profits and i mean that's what they're worried about with the volcker rule the volcker rule is being immediate in being implemented in the way that banks have already started cutting their prop this if they don't want to do it and they're worried about the money that's going to be lost as a result of those cuts well you know i think at the end of the day they may be worried but it's going to be hard to find some sympathy for american people i really do appreciate you for your time thank you so much that was a business insider reporter felt. all right now the casey anthony murder trial is going on as you would know if you turn on any sort of t.v. screen since that believe story on every single channel right there behind me and we don't see casey let's see there we go. casey anthony i guess there's nothing

really important going on like i don't know a war in libya perhaps the congress today voted to the authorize the united states from fighting that conflict but first it's not going to do anything and no reason to cover the conflict even though people continue to die and all the mainstream media is snoozing when it comes to all this we are not r t is an ocean is on the ground and shows you what's really going on with the rebels these family hasn't had the walk was peaceful like this one for months it was key to the libyan rebel stronghold of benghazi to hide in this refugee camp in the west of the country afterlife and they need to tone became. it's not safe anymore it's become dangerous and that's not only because of explosions and gunshots people from the government and you call them rebels we call them terrorists came to me until we have to rest your daughter because we know that she supports gadhafi. these cave

has been long and hard for the win in their family but i remember there could never have made it worse i had to hide for some time from them as they've been searching for me from them we knew there was a bus coming from benghazi to near zero the bus with the rebels for their purposes we took that bus with our faces covered and everybody was against gadhafi on it we told them that we were also against him and they let us assume we kept silent until we went to egypt and from there via tennessee and we were sent here. to get them through this summer brother as sabri a surgeon has also fled the city he says they've made three attempts on his life but he only finally left when he saw a killing. take him from from or from i.c.u. killing him in front of your own good has got the on the world that. the doctor says people from the national transitional council were behind it this is the rebels' official political body set up after the revolution in libya started in the

mid february its members are recognized by many countries throughout the world as the only legitimate representatives of libya there is no other or green you want then you knew. you would be. better you i get this. about freedom democracy there is no freedom or democracy there is just war. the refugees here say they now finally feel safe it's not that safe from the side of the frontline either. these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in one thousand airstrike called into lebanon government officials a barn landed on the private compound and flattened it killing thirteen people including three kids we have been calling for peace and negotiation for months and no one wants to listen to us and now we have to pay a very heavy price of. casualties civilian casualties and also military

casualties. yes i think the time has come for the world to understand that this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen any time soon. ground in these symmetries to flash well made to has already claimed to be operation to protect civilians moscow on those clashes continue in benghazi and nato intensifying its bombardment of tripoli both eastern and western parts of the country and perilous to say and people are dying on both sides of the frontline many on the ground fear that when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here they'll be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western libya where people are certainly dying in libya but who exactly it isn't and what side you won't really get from reading stuff like this post now if you read the mainstream coverage the word on the ground as it often is

some sort of lying son of a bitch who is running around tripoli with a basket full of i don't know for his troops staging civilian deaths all over the place and generally being really really really bad guy who apparently deserves a lot of bombs right well that's not the take of wayne madsen investigative reporter who just got back from libya as part of as part of a fact finding mission i asked him what he thought was happening on the ground there and why these guys are not covering it. i have to say that even worse than armstrong armchair speculation the washington post which you just showed and the new york times happy reporters in tripoli who are obviously living in an alternate universe because what they were reporting their date lines out of tripoli were had nothing and in common with what we all saw on the ground first of all they were saying you know schools were closed and i watched the kids go to school yes things are not normal in tripoli long gas lines because of the sanctions imposed

there is some shortages of food because collective punishment is being applied by nato blocked by the courts are blocked including fishing boats and can't get sea for a sea food and so yes it's very similar what goes on in gaza with the collective punishment on those people there but the khadafi has a lot of support in tripoli there's a report today from the murdoch normal rupert murdoch x. . distributors of propaganda the wall street journal and to take a letter saying that khadafi is getting ready to flee tripoli why would he has total support from tripoli all the way to the tunisian border we had to go by car we actually encountered one impromptu pro khadafi demonstration on the main highway and we got out and sees people want to know are these you know are these deals being paid by the government as was now it's totally clear when i read this i mean i got into this as a copy of a fly in front of a bitch who is running around tripoli well getting out baskets of the biography you

know faking civilian casualty and you know you say yeah it's not really a thought he know and you know that we haven't seen an information war like this a propaganda war since the you know the leading up to the war against iraq and the occupation remember the yellowcake uranium the biological mobile weapons labs you know colin powell holding up the anthrax all that all that nonsense he spent millions innocent civilians slaughtered yes that one thing we did go to the hospital we saw civilians who were had been hit with shrapnel i think one of the things that is nato. saying we are not targeting civilians but we got the video footage of these people photographs and now nato at least has to admit that it is hurting civilians in its attacks and they did admit to killing a recently that killed some children but let's play i think we have a sound bite from president obama our own president speaking at the few days ago where he mentioned libya let's let's play that but if we have it when innocents are being slaughtered and global security and danger we don't have to choose between

standing idly by or acting on iran. instead we must rally international action which we're doing in libya where we do not have a single soldier on the ground but are supporting allies and protecting the libyan people and giving them the chance to determine their own destiny. so when you heard the president protecting the libyan people is he lying so i would say so and we we know that he doesn't even have a support of members of his own party in the house of representatives seventy democrats voted for a resolution to curtail the u.s. support for this operation today in the house basically. look another thing it's not being reported there are some rebels who have gone back to khadafi we have seen reports of nato hitting rebel columns there are other reports that these may be rebels trying to get back to tripoli to rejoin cannot because he's given amnesty to these people many former rebels including one i spoke to said look we weren't happy

with gadhafi but when we saw all of nato including italy our former colonial occupier joined this thing and now there's some question whether the italy want to participate in this any longer they're you know saying ok to pick tater we've had a man around for over forty years but darn it he's a libyan nationalist and he has given us the highest standard of living in africa it really is think things i mean just the focus is back here in the u.s. as you mentioned the house but there's it's but mainly it's about a symbolic vote it's not actually going to change the libyan policy immediately but it should send the message that congress isn't very happy with this war the american people are very happy with the war forty six percent of them according to a new gallup poll today and how does this administration sell this conflict to the american people and to lawmakers let's listen to when hillary clinton had to say do we have that. the bottom line is whose side are you want are you on khadafi side or are you on the side of the aspirations of the libyan people and the international coalition that has been created to support them now and i don't know

about you but that's kind of familiar sounding let me play you another clip that we might have in the control room if you're with us. if you love freedom and we're nations which embrace freedom are you with the enemy there's no in between you know whether she would be enemy that's it's clear through the media and i think well the media is is silent and worse as i point out they're putting out this information rather reporting the facts as they see him on the ground i think what we're seeing here is you know gadhafi before this rebellion started in libya he was part of the international community he had given up his w m d's in two thousand and three to george w. bush is an illustration and bush got out here's a look what a success this is we're now friends with gadhafi right and i was in that state of journalist wayne madsen now imagine walking down the street one day it's a nice evening and let me arrest you taken to guantanamo bay to spend five years at america's most notorious prison only to suddenly be released without any charge now

no explanation no apology from the administration just silence and five years of lovely memories i'm sure you actually probably rather forget well that's unfortunately exactly what happened to one of the runtime of a prisoner or to his dental but still has that story. as was a wristed on the streets and since when time to move for torture after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given explanation all said story could as he's suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the learned of the free are free to calls quote simulated drowning point instrumentality impairments of bodily function. and even death i was one of. those kind of torture on myself. because i was not science.

i was forced to agree that i am the member of either and i was not the us refused to even reveal who will hold the current. as his mother also his lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr quinn and it's a shame for the united states what happened. concerning that national war and it sent me a possible that twenty first century. or put someone in extra. room. saying you have no right moves to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards on our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating prisoners that our people think would be an effective elude the classified memo gonzalez did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil

ministers in the european union were glad to oblige the e.u. agreed to help arrest and transport people to countries where they could be tortured in a meeting here at nato headquarters in two thousand and one the detainees may or may not have been guilty since they never received a real trial we just can't know for sure. barrack obama was elected on the promise to show. that he's even appealed u.s. court rulings which give detainees some royds two years on prison still open for business but all. guilty of. crimes against humanity so is the obama administration and so's europe. for participating and what exactly executives from bush down and they'll fear going abroad after foreigners fold lawsuits over torture when the world is what america's doing said

bush's advisor we will all be ashamed don't you bushell r.t. braman. well unfortunately the world is a learning what america is doing and unfortunately the world has been aware of it i mean these stories may not be covered here in the u.s. we're casey anthony and lindsey lowe hands and drinking problems that need appear to be the top stories that we need to be paying attention to but elsewhere they are being discussed they are being talked about i mean think about guantanamo bay one of the blackest marks on this administration on the administration before it. not only does it make us look i know it's critical think about how it might inspire people in other countries to retaliate to react against what they see as an injustice that's not a right move that's not right behavior but at the end of the day right or wrong that's exactly what's going to happen that's exactly what could affect american soldiers american troops abroad and what's the point of putting those folks at risk for what

a dark hole prison the feel the i don't know almost no intelligence of worth doesn't make much sense to me but i decided to ask that question to jason leopold is an investigative reporter and the editor of truthout dot com take a look what he had to say. when we spoke actually a couple of months ago when the guantanamo detainee files were released i noted that there was this stunning hypocrisy within this administration and it also was was true for the bush administration and that is vilifying other countries other governments for human rights abuses in many instances the same types of human rights abuses that. that that we in the united states are guilty of so to try and make sense of why lie this administration frankly why people in general are not paying closer attention to this whole idea of ministration is not speaking out more forcefully and in fact why congress isn't either is. it really comes down to just

wanting to make this go away wanting to sweep it under the rug but as you know here what's really important is that this isn't going away this you know when you have lawsuits when you have detainees coming forward to describe what they endured that that ensures that it will remain front and center and this is just a perfect example but this administration has actually gone out of its way to the war any effort to hold anyone accountable to even launching any sort of investigation we recently heard however that the special prosecutor who was investigating the destruction of the torture tapes his name is john durham from connecticut that. he convened a grand jury recently to look into the death of a detaining known as the iceman at abu ghraib and you know the belief is well

perhaps these actually pursuing something that may result in. some sort of charges or an indictment and i doubt it we all. really know that with regard to the torture tapes that there was no accountability whatsoever in fact he ran out the clock on the statute of limitations there were not holding our own accountable i can't tell you how many press releases i have read from the state department within the past three months talking about sanctions and human rights abuses that match exactly what the bush administration had done to detainees in cia black sites prisons in u.s. custody so you know it's it's one of the issues that. no one seems to want to mention reporters that is when the you know when these press briefings go on. i think other countries are are looking at in.

being hypocritical they don't really believe the rhetoric coming out of president obama's mouth and that goes for a start three of state hillary clinton as well jason leopold an investigative reporter who's very much on top of the get most dorian also the editor of truthout dot com great site if you haven't checked it out yet so ahead here on our team you've heard what the mainstream media has been covering what nestle have even more find out what treasure trove the m.s.m. is ignoring from wiki leaks. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry pacific ocean.

the united states of america incorporated a governor a government of the stockholders for the stockholders by the stockholders not so much our democracy as a corporate toxic talk receive compound word i obviously can't now it may sound a little bit farfetched but if your d.h. reading happens to be a bunch of wiki leaks documents i may just be the impression you walk away with so the corporation somehow eroding democracy but i think the conclusion reached by

independent journalist around ayatollah who happens to be joining us live from fairfax virginia i just butchered your name there where you pronounce it for i don't know it's a good idea ranya wrong i thank you so much all right well walk us through this i mean you're weird it's actually saying that the rise of corporations in america is correlating with the erosion of democracy what's your proof. well if you look through the u.s. embassy people really play with you we do see a trend where oftentimes in other countries than when we're looking actual corporations profits are threatened by whatever it may be by that country's changing of policies or by you know protesters not country the immediately the whole meeting that we had the u.s. diplomats of that country and in u.s. it must get involved and start basically intervening will intervene on behalf of a multinational corporation to force a country not to make a policy change for example. there's

a there's cable doubt about that ecuador in ecuador a few years ago the president of ecuador talked about changing the drug policy the drug hot changing the from a suitable policy to where they could make generics and it would be more affordable for people to buy buy life saving medicine and the u.s. corporations u.s. armpit accompanies it as we're like spies are all called a meeting with u.s. diplomats and talked about intervening and and talking with people and the ecuadorian government on changing making sure that. policy to go through but i have to say i mean this sounds sure this sounds like a pretty bad deal for the ecuadorian people but an american who might be reading about this will say all right you know too bad for the ecuadorians but at least there is these diplomats are chilling on behalf of i don't know i'll be dobby or u.a.e. . corporations at least where we're helping him is going to do the job of government to promote american business and american festival because that's the problem is

what we see media people use completion between us government us interests and corporate interests and those are not always the same. and we're also we're seeing that diplomats are are intervening in sovereign countries to sabotage to sabotage. policies that could help their people just because corporations making more money just because it's american ration does not mean that beneficial toward the american people and that is not what article much should be doing they're working for us or not or these these these corporate entities that are you know running all over the world and sabotaging democracy to benefit their profit i'm let's talk about the influence of corporations and democracy here at home very briefly when you write about this kind of frequently explain to me how corporations making money that sounds like a good thing how is that actually undermining democracy here in the united states so it's interesting because corporations making more money means that they for example gets you close down their factory a big open factory in countries where there's no regulation and they can hire

people for slave labor wages that's not benefiting the american people but it sure is benefiting you know or corporate profit because they're making much more money they don't have to pay as much for labor. so that's good just that right there shows you that you know the idea that our u.s. corporations making more money is going to is going to help americans at home it doesn't it doesn't hold up it really doesn't and. in america i mean procreation this is really just an extension of corporate rule in america. multinational corporations have they spent a lot of money on campaign contributions and buying our politicians and and then hey wait wrong. they just turned a whole bunch of a whole bunch of cash from corporate donations and you know i think we'll have maybe some but come come back on our show and talk about that because i mean twenty photos are almost upon us right i think. all right unfortunately we are out of time i'm sorry it's been a kind of a tight show today but i really do appreciate you speaking with us independent journalist iran iran iran iranian college and i'll try not to butcher her name next time.