can they loan or show at the real headlines with none of the mercy of a live in washington d.c. now and i will take a look at what ben bernanke he said when testifying on the hill will there be or will there not be a q e three that a new poll shows that opinions towards america in the arab world are lower now than they were under president george w. bush sounds like obama is really screwing up then and these days newsrooms are emptying wall p.r. firms are building up so how could that trend change journalism as we know it we're

going have all of that and more for you and i for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. if you thought the you never had to hear about casey anthony again and boy did you think wrong turns out that she's going to be leaving jail this sunday and anticipation for that day the mainstream media has already managed to force her back on the audience into the top of their hour newscast and already started asking all those stupid questions that quite frankly nobody wants answered. come sunday you see but you may be a free woman but her legal troubles they're far from over freedom is right around the corner for casey anthony she is set to get out of jail on sunday value after a not guilty verdict that shocked a lot of folks various reports indicate the florida woman found not guilty in her daughter's death will be living the somewhat like she's in the witness protection

program the reports say she'll live in disguise and under a pseudonym as if in a witness protection program and sources close to her say she's not planning to alter her looks with plastic surgery. and really you can't just wait until sunday then forget about her again you have to rile people up tell them that her day of freedom is almost upon us so they can run and get their pitchforks ready in case you do figure out where she might be living you know only as much time was spent talking about economic issues that affect real americans or the wars that are continued to be fought on our behalf all we're broke and the way that it's. making the rest of the world see us then maybe we would see some actual real populist anger that's directed towards the center of all power which is here in washington but the mainstream media would rather distract the masses point them in another direction to their corporate overlords and their friends in washington just have to get their hands dirty and deal with any inconveniences i'm going to tell you about another thing that the mainstream media couldn't be bothered with today it came from why it's dangerous now if you thought that the us is going to stop holding

detainees in afghanistan once they hand over control of the massive jail of blogger of the afghans this year well then you can think again spencer ackerman has exposed more than one upcoming contract that shows the us is planning on building up more jails all across afghanistan i guess there just isn't enough room on our navy vessels now one of these contracts for which we don't have a price was just awarded by the army corps of engineers to an afghan contractor for a quote new us government controlled detention facility apparently they were in a really huge hurry for that one because it needs to be built by november another contract for an even bigger detention center worth forty six million dollars and the army will reportedly be holding a competition for and yet another contractor are common found is another detention facility of the army corps of engineers express interest in in june and that one is going to come in at a whopping twenty five to one hundred million dollars. really twenty five

to one hundred but if that doesn't show you the type of cache of the pentagon pentagon has to throw around as if a seventy five million dollar difference does it matter and i don't know what it does and all that information doesn't confirm to you that we're going to be in afghanistan for a long time to calm the nerves illusional not only is the war not going anywhere we are also obviously planning on continuing to detain people and since the military already made arrangements to hand over the prisons we have been a let's just build new ones and these also include special holding units that's the maximum security type so you can only imagine what might be going on in there the point is that even if guantanamo bay ever closes we'll still be deceiving people all over the world. but that's what the mainstream media chooses to miss because casey anthony's location is just so much more important.

op ed chairman ben bernanke he was back on capitol hill today for his semiannual report to congress on the economy and monetary policy and the rapid turnaround from his last press conference a few weeks ago he finally said that further steps to stimulate the economy q e three just might be in the cards but then again they might not all in all it was a maybe but we're not sure it's going to depend here's going to have to wait for an answer just that little bit was enough to get stocks to shout why isn't the market reacting to the possibility of a government default in the same way or discussed as a me as anthony randolph co-director of economic research for the reason foundation anthony thanks so much for joining us tonight right now for starters like i said just a couple weeks ago bernanke he had a press conference and there are all the signals were that no we can't have another round of quantitative easing because risk of inflation are just too high gas prices are too high right now and food prices are too high and then suddenly now he's maybe opening the door again for that has that much changed it's not that suddenly

if you. actually explicit statements that the minutes from the i.p.o. and see a meeting bernanke is walking a really fine line here where he is trying to play politics just like the present stage of the treasury secretary and what he says he can do any given moment come out and say nothing we did worked with q.e. two so we need to do q e three at the same time he doesn't want to raise fears about inflation if you really does think inflation is there so he's going to play down inflation but the fed is predicting low inflation but he doesn't want to predict it to be so low that it's just going to be obvious that they would have to do q e three if they don't want to do it it's this whole big mix that today's announcement or to what he said to congress is. to unexpected it's sort of that same sort of like playing with the line like we're kind of cautiously optimistic but we're keeping all the cards on the table the same back and forth what he's also saying of course he's acknowledging that they can and he isn't doing so well now that we've seen a bit of a slowdown that unemployment is still going to maybe taking down very very very

slowly at some point and he also says that all these factors that we're experiencing right now are temporary and so is that just more of the policy i think it's actually believe that will specifically he's talking about the things that are impacting commodities prices are temporary so what he's saying is look inflation yes it's four percent over the past five months it's at two point five percent over the past year and so the inflation hawks are looking pushes up and he's saying no this is because of the arab spring you know pretty annoying it's because of the japanese earthquake screwing up manufacturing wind so seeing those things are temporary so inflation is not a problem in the long term but he is very very you know down on long term economic growth you sitting on a plane is going to be a problem over the long haul and honestly most finance analysts today were saying because of what he said today we're almost guaranteeing there's going to be a q e three and of course who knows the way of this year is going there might just be another natural disaster there might just be another revolution the world is

changing very rapidly but what would another q e three actually do for us probably not much more than q.e. two did i mean what q.e. two did was for my analysis is it mostly help to drive out those commodity prices i disagree i think the q e two a lot more you inflation than just temporary measures and what it didn't do is it didn't do anything to boost spending so why q e three wide by even more treasuries it doesn't seem like it's by any chance a wise way to go but i think in october when we have the jackson all meetings and everybody all the march experts come together i think we're probably going to see something like a q e three announcement now like i mentioned so when bernanke he speaks when he says something and suddenly we see the markets reacting and we see stocks going up but then. we haven't really seen the markets reacting to this threat of the possibility of our government defaulting on the debt so i'm just curious as to why that is because wall street is so confident that they're going to reach a deal at the last minute because nobody wants to hurt business or could they be wrong or what exactly do you want to respond to any given point i mean you could

argue that because the stock market is a twenty percent higher than it is right now they have been pricing in there for your whole long and there's. the there definitely is snap judgments on wall street where you know we get bad reports increase they get downgraded markets go down but he says basically we're going to probably have a q e three so the market's come back but the most we have in terms of the debt ceiling is republican says today we're going to stand firm the president says we have to have tax cuts and that's back and forth so much that it's not i think really easy for there to be to somebody who has been so much smarter than you have so much more there's a risk in this adrenaline involved that you actually have to go by everything that the politicians say every day which at this point is they're really changing their stance every single day i think that mitch mcconnell he kind of blew everyone away after a day when he decided to say well maybe we're just going to give obama this deal where it really does this and that raising the debt ceiling i don't want a master political deals really really what it is and what the members of the

republican party don't see what he's trying to do there completely blind because he's giving the g.o.p. a big political win no i don't think it's the greatest idea in terms of what's actually good for the fiscal stability of our nation but in terms of it positively for the g.o.p. if they go forward the steel they will be able to throw up a debt problems of the united states of america on the president in the twenty twelve election and i think the white house is smart enough to realize that they're not just going to jump at this deal so sure will raise the debt ceiling but it may be that they wind up just having to take this because if the republicans put this on the table and the democrats and the president wind up saying no we don't want that they really could wind up losing this high speed game of chicken where we are told. well that's because you know that the g.o.p. finally woke up and realized our hell you know we're the reason that the government called on tuesday that's actually going to look kind of bad for us and you know one of the things that mcconnell is saying here of course is that he just doesn't want to let obama when he doesn't want to let him win reelection so now he has to finally start making these types of concessions but i don't this is what's wrong

with our political system tell me if you agree with me or not is that only when there is a fear the you might lose an election if you actually start doing something or making any compromises versus i don't know the risk of defaulting on your debt as a nation it was a problem both sides i mean mcconnell is just being kind of forward with it which me even call it refreshing to just have him just be i like look i'm a hope in the obama two thousand and twelve reelection and on the other hand the democrats been playing politics in the white house and playing politics with this all along we had the tools to solve this months ago were good letting this go down to the line because both sides are positioning themselves for the best possible outcome and if she doesn't election that's all that this really is right now they could come to any kind of agreement that they want now the republicans but they have to work out whether or not any kind of revenue is going to be perceived as a tax cut that's something they have to sort out and the democrats in the white house they need to sort out who were more or less in charge here if we let this go

we're really going to be the ones who because we actually have to make a call between painted it or paying seniors or paying the military that's going to be actually decision that comes from the treasury department so they're going to take a lot of political heat it winds up coming down to those choices well that's what i'm wondering what's going to happen here too i wanted to play we don't we're out of time but a.a.r.p. has already launched a massive campaign to talk about the threat of cutting medicare and medicaid in the social security and anything that touches seniors and i'm wondering who they're more afraid of is it going to be seniors the people that actually vote or is it going to be wall street people that has filled our coffers it's quite a political game here we're going to see who ends up winning in the meantime hopefully we won't have if you don't default thanks so much for joining us. well still the cons and i we have another example of big business pride of cozy up to washington lawmakers and this time it involves breathalyzers and efforts and people from across the highway are more on that in the moment and before he was elected president obama promised to reach out to the muslim world well

a new poll shows that his efforts have failed big time for him to dive into that topic with the tenet colonel anthony shaffer in the senate. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so bleak you think you understand it and then something else hears you some of the part of it and realize that everything is just you know you don't i'm sure are looking for the big picture. and yet. fuck fuck. fuck fuck.

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well the man who used to be the king of sharing the news has now found themselves on the front pages rupert murdoch became the focus of international media after reports started gushing out about his newspaper's illegal wiretapping practices in the u.k. he's the world news international they were caught hacking cell phones bank accounts even health records of individuals whose names were in the headlights and goes from murder victims to the families to the families of fallen soldiers and even former prime minister gordon brown. that it was this nexus this criminal media nexus claiming to be on the saudi. arabian susan but in fact saudi born with criminals against our citizens. now the former prime minister is calling for investigations into news international and news of the world and one of media attention has

brought the expansion of the murdoch empire to a screeching halt just days after the news the world shut down for a good word also with through his fourteen million dollar bid for british sky broadcasting citing the thought of the phone hacking scandal and despite the fact the current prime minister david cameron is a well known ally of murdoch he came forward in agreement with my tough decision to drop this big. this is the right decision in saying this company clearly needs to probably news international the news of the world must be the priority. so the right to say so as an investigation is now underway in britain allegations that murdoch's company has hacked the cell phones of nine eleven victims are also bringing the anger to america and fact several lawmakers both democrats and republicans are already calling for a d.o.j. investigation into murdoch's news corp here in the states senator jay rockefeller and frank lautenberg have both raise a very fair point at the u.k.

news outlets had no fear of dabbling in illegal activity it's what's to stop the u.s. branches of news corp from doing the same thing and in fact that lumbered went on to say further investigation may reveal that current reports. only scratching the surface of the problem at news corp accordingly i am requesting that the d.o.j. and as you see examine these circumstances and determine whether u.s. laws have been violated the families of the victims of nine eleven have also come forward supporting the call for a probe into whether or not murdoch took advantage of the personal information for the sake of a big story so as news corp find itself in the middle of the biggest media scandal in the years i think it's just another sign of the very rapidly changing media the competition beef between news outlets for both profits and stories is so intense the more more seem willing to risk their reputation just to be the first ones behind a scoop. i think it's safe to say that nobody wants to have drunk drivers on the road and day during others there's

a group who started the campaign on capitol hill to make sure the convicted drunk drivers stay off the roads but it sounds harmless enough and by now you've probably heard about the breathalyzer devices that are being put into cars for people who are convicted of both duis and detail for you eyes. blow into. the moment they are drunk or sober so you will see the start of the commodity turn the mobile and drive away without any restrictions. and now the thing is the manufacturers of those as those devices have now started a campaign to get their ignition interlock included it's a provision in congress as transportation reality or ization bill and campaign is definitely the right way to describe the manufacturers efforts not only have they hired the best or the best lobbyist to have their voices heard on the hill but the washington times even reports of they are lobbying like mad so in a realtor ization bill there's a drive to withhold up to five percent of each state's highway funding unless that

state adds a measure to enforce the device in cars of convicted drunk drivers there's also a proposal on the table who would allocate sixty million dollars to the manufacturers to develop a new type a device that would have checked how close the driver is to reaching the blood alcohol limit probably through skin contact with the steering well so if these measures are passed in the breathalyzer manufacturing industry would quickly be booming and much like the protecting children from internet pornography we talked about yesterday nobody wants to be seen as being against drunk driving prevention methods so lawmakers in the most part are probably going to sign on and you combine that with all the activist organizations like mothers against drunk driving who will gladly promote these proposals and the alcohol lobbyists don't stand a chance don't like i mean siding with alcohol lobby is there the point is when you lobby for something well lot of money and. usually pays off and so here are these manufacturers they basically just got a grant for sixty million dollars to develop new breathalyzer devices and like i

said before i don't believe a drunk driver should be able to roam free on the roadways but i also don't think the drunk driving should become a federal issue nor should it include legislation to favor a specific manufacturer with money that will help their upcoming business skyrocket . and now it's been over two years since president obama gave his cairo speech promising a new start more cooperation and understanding between the u.s. and the muslim world and after eight years of the bush administration it was safe to assume that we had nowhere to go but up when it came to changing perceptions of america but it turns out that was wrong and we saw the be international poll shows that america has become more unpopular and the arab world under obama than it even was under bush and the poll of four thousand respondents across six countries egypt lebanon jordan saudi arabia the united arab emirates and morocco was conducted after obama's latest speech on the middle east just last month so it turns out the

killing of osama bin laden actually worsen attitudes towards the u.s. and post revolution egypt only five percent say they have a favorable view of the u.s. which is down from thirty percent in two thousand and nine and those numbers are even worse for obama himself here than ten percent of all respondents have a favorable favorable view of the u.s. president and the overwhelming majority said that the number one issue on their minds remains the impasse over palestinians but is every president doomed to fail as long as the israeli palestinian conflict is a result or is this much more about obama's specific broken promises and expanded wars joining me to discuss this is lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies and he's also still serving as a reserve lieutenant colonel tony thanks so much for joining us tonight so perceptions in the arab world or at least in these six six countries specifically are now worse than they wore during the bush administration if you didn't think that was possible. well honestly i didn't and i think there are reasons why you

mentioned one of them specifically when president obama was running for office he specifically made very broad promises of bettering the outlook and outreach to these muslim countries and the problem with the problem with what has happened is this he's continued to very unpopular that isn't popular in europe world also use of the bush white house we're talking about drone strikes we're talking about frankly the expansion the war into and the tribal areas in pakistan more than even bush did we're talking about libya and obviously yemen has been another area where we expand operations so you have that at the same time you have and i'm going to say this is going to be popular less effective outreach from the state department as much as i think secretary of state hillary clinton is trying to do some some good i don't think she's been able to reach out and actually establish a broader lincoln of. relationships which you've helped our image therefore you

kind of have the worst of both worlds you have very high expectations which have not been met he's gone and not actually follow through an s.l.r. you see the results you do now i'm interested now because obviously a lot of the flak always gets put on president obama himself but what about what does it do you think the civically that hillary clinton isn't doing right. well i let's let's take pakistan for example everybody recognizes how bad things are with pakistan and i think you got to do the good cop bad cop thing here i mean you really do i mean everybody does it you really need to have a state department who is seen as kind learn gentler trying to do their outreach trying to work with people and you might have a program defense in the form of a secretary gates playing hardball and his case you had essentially kind of the reverse you had secretary of state clinton bad mouthing the pacs and then. if you can't go to our state department for outreach so this is been kind of the record the same in egypt i think we've missed clinton has reached out to the muslim brotherhood but what about the christians i mean you know jews so i think even if

the muslims are getting attention because i've seen it well you know you promised this inclusive thing and and things are really going what you said he would so i think what we've seen here is a reality that doesn't match the rhetoric and i think that again as for we're seeing a lot of this this problem come from now if we look at the numbers are specifically like i mentioned in egypt a falling five percent of people there now see the u.s. favorably that means that ninety five percent of the cambodians post revelation the not so is this probably a good sign of what's to come and what type of governments are going to start seeing after the arab spring what our foreign policy is going to be affected by i was accomplished today on an energy summit in downtown d.c. and admiral blair was there and i got to say this a lot of he didn't get it he didn't understand the basic roots of some of the issues related to the fact that what we did prior to say two thousand and one is we focused on basically keeping a lot of these states kind of on our side through their leaders and now we're

seeing kind of the reaction of people waking up and trying to throw off the light of their leadership we were associated with that leadership so all we have to do is actually outreach to people this is why we're continuing to fail to do i think we're trying to go through intermediaries in many ways which don't really don't help us. the people have to be convinced we're on their side in this point in time they're really not i'm curious to what you think of the fact you know like i mentioned that the number one issue that this survey stat was on people's mind is of course the israeli palestinian conflict and every american president for decades has been trying to solve this issue but also wondering if that's becoming a bit of a cop out because james zogby even said that he spoke to the president about this poll that he was going to and that and obama basically said well i expect the numbers to be low because israel palestine is just such an intractable issue out there and so i'm wondering if this starts being something of a get of blame it on without actually taking responsibility for his real actions

like you mentioned with drone strikes and expanding our wars and going into libya. well i think that obviously this white house has proven itself very wallet casting blame all the others and i think in many ways you're actually correct a riveting situation with that said the palestinian situation is something that's not going to go away any time soon frankly i think he had to just manage his people i think frankly holbrooke made it a better choice before he died of working the issue and the syria versus who we had and i think this is for you know we can't back away i've been actually talking to some folks going well the night before and it's one of those situations for we cannot neglect it because if we neglect it it will get worse but we the brutal truth is you have to have the right people the right personalities working this and until you do you will continue to see failures i think number of presidents have picked the right people and i'm not a big fan of president clinton but he did a great job of trying to do with right out reaching

a lot of situations he is credited for helping the northern ireland peace process with the irish love him to this day so i think we need to have more direct involvement and maybe that's the answer is having president obama take more of a direct leadership role you always talks about lead from behind maybe this if you wish were your best all leading from the front trying to actually bring. people going to go yeah it's probably a good wake up call or a good reminder to them you know of course i think so many americans often focus on the promises that he's broken or you know the promises that have been realized here at home when it comes to domestic issues but this is also a president that promise a lot internationally to the rest of the world that i think had a lot of people hopeful and i'm curious i just want to get your take on a new report actually that's been put out there in germany scahill fresh from his trip to mogadishu put out a new report about the cia's secret sites that we have in somalia and he even said that he might be releasing some pictures which has a lot of people angry a lot of people are saying if this is a national security risk that he could even be reporting on this what do you think . well let me first say you know jeremy and i are opposite and so i actually like

jeremy i think we've we've talked several times i think he's a good guy his heart's in the right place and frankly from what i read today there are real issues relating to how we do intake of prisoners right mcraven talked about the problem we said late news that a series of articles on it washington post we don't really have a clear format how we capture people and frankly i strongly disagree with the idea that detaining people indefinitely that's not what our principles as united states stand for you can't do that so you've got to have some path of judicial process and i've seen worse u.s. citizens have been rolled up in kind of not treated properly i talked about this in my book operation dark heart we were all of us citizen and we treated them completely different than foreign nationals we treated them we separated them we gave him his own room and i think you need to consider even if you don't like it if a u.s. citizen is he was a citizen you know treat him like he was a citizen you get even better everything they would have if they you know if if

they look like you or me and that's part of the problem i think a lot of these guys may look like arabs and i think that's part of the brutal truth that they just got to get thrown in with the other folks now that this is war you could have a low level of of brutality but with that said once you identify what someone is you are serious and you've got to consider that and jeremy is doing i think a good job he's got to expose what process and the failings of the process for what they are. i def i agree with you there thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. for coming up on this wednesday evening we have a he said it i read it and i respond to comments and you've left on line about the sale and that newspapers hold a news rooms cutting staff and many journalists are now landing john mccain are feel there is a dangerous republican from with them discussing significant. into the only one who would treat mechanisms do not come to bring justice or accountability.