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have all of that and more for unite including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to do this. well 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 serve back on the audience into the top of their hour newscast and already started asking all of 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 that 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 while we're broke and. way that it's making the rest of the world see us then maybe we would see some actual real populist anger that's erected 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 so 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 wired. 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 u.s. is planning on building up more of 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 u.s. government controlled detention facility apparently they were 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 of 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 lot being twenty five to one hundred million dollars. really twenty five

to one hundred because that is a show you the type of cash or the pentagon pentagon has to throw around as if a seventy five million dollars difference doesn't matter and i don't know what does and if all that information doesn't confirm to you that we're going to be in afghanistan for a long time to come when you're delusional not only is the war not going anywhere we're also obviously planning on continuing to detain people and since the military already made arrangements to hand over the prisons we have been away 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. well fed 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 fed press conference a few weeks ago he finally said that further steps to stimulate the economy. 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 and answer just that little bit was enough to get stocks to jump wise in the market reacting to the possibility of a government default in the same way or discuss as a me as anthony randolph co-director of economic research for the reason foundation and 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 read the actually explicit statements that the minutes from the echo and see 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't in 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 and he really does think inflation is there is 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 will have to do q e three they don't want to do it it's this whole big mix that so today's announcement or to what you said to congress is. to unexpected it's sort of that same sort of like playing with a 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 the economy isn't doing so well 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 he also says that all these factors that we're experiencing right now are temporary and so is that just more of the politicking or does he 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 there were percent over the past five months it's a two point five percent over the past year and so the inflation hawks say you're looking pushes up and he's saying no this is because of the arab spring you know hurting oil is because the japanese earthquake screwing up manufacturing lines so he's saying goes 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 he's saying unemployment 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 it's

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 that you get to a lot more you inflation than just temporary measures and what it didn't do is they didn't do anything to boost spending so why q e three why buy even more treasuries it doesn't seem like it's by any chance a wise way to go but i think in october we have the jackson hole meetings that everybody all the monetary 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 they're. we haven't really seen the markets reacting to this threat 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 i deal at the last minute because nobody wants to hurt business or could they be wrong 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 that they have been pricing in their fear all along i mean there's. the there definitely is snap judgments on wall street where you know we get bad reports are increasing they get downgraded markets go down is basically we're going to probably have a q e three so the market's come back up 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 they 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 as today 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 imagine what a master political deals really really what is me if the members of the republican party don't see what he's trying to do they're completely blind because he's giving

the g.o.p. a big political win 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 a positive win for the g.o.p. if they go forward the steel they will be able to throw all of the debt problems of the united states of america the president in the twenty total action 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 all. well that's because you know that the g.o.p. finally woke up and realized oh hey you know we're the reason that the government you called one of the debt that's actually going to look kind of bad for us and you know one of the things that mcconnell 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 center and tell me if you agree with me or not is that only when there's a fear that 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's just being kind of forward with it which for me to call it refreshing to just have been just me i like look i'm not helping the obama two thousand reelection and they're on the other hand the democrats were playing politics and i wasn't playing politics with this all along we had the tools to solve this months ago we're going letting this go down to the line because both sides are positioning themselves for the best possible outcome and if she doesn't hold elections that's all that this really is right now they could come to any kind of agreement that they want now the republicans they have to work out whether or not any kind of revenue is going to bring people perceived as a tax cut that's something that they have to sort out and the democrats in the white house they need to sort of look we're more western charge here if we want this go or we're really going to be the ones who because we actually have to make

a car between paying the debt 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 but 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 and then to 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 the people that are still there coffers it's quite a political game here we're going to see who ends up winning and the reason i'm hopefully one hundred feet off the field thanks so much for joining us. well still the cons and i we have another example of big business trying to cozy up to washington lawmakers and this time it involves a graphic and efforts to keep him from the highway alarm that involvement 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 easy to understand it and then you glimpse something else and here's you some other part of it and realized everything is ok and you don't know i'm sorry because the big picture. and yet though. fuck fuck fuck. fuck.

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well the man who used to be the king of sharing the news has now found himself 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 headlines and i goes from murder victims to the bomb families to the families of fallen soldiers and even former prime minister gordon brown. it was this nexus this criminal media nexus claiming to be able to show you more about it in houston but in fact sorry boring story with criminals against our citizens. now all the former prime minister is calling for investigations into news international and news of the world but i

want to 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 out 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 an agreement with murdoch decision to drop this beer i think this is the right decision open saying that this company clearly needs to sort of it will probably news international the news of the world that must be the priority. should the right to see so as an investigation is now underway in britain allegations that murdoch's companies hacked the cell phones of nine eleven victims are also bringing the anger to america in fact several of the lawmakers democrats and republicans are already calling for a d.o.j. investigation and a murdoch's news corp here in the states senator jay rockefeller and frank lautenberg have both raise a very fair point and 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 he 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 by 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 between news outlets for both profits and stories is so intense the norm ornstein 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 danger in others there's a group who started the campaign on capitol hill to make sure that convicted drunk

drivers stay off the roads that 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 that you are. simply has to blow into the body. of that moment if you are drunk or sober you will see the start was the problem in terms of normal 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 ryall there is a sham bill and campaign is definitely the right way to describe the manufacturer's efforts not only have they hired the best of the best lobbyist to have their voices heard on the hill but the washington times even reports that 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 to allocate sixty million dollars to the manufacturers to develop a new type a device that would detect 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 it protecting children from internet pornography zakk that we talked about yesterday nobody wants to be seen as being against drunk driving prevention methods so lawmakers of 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 not like anyone siding with the alcohol lobby is there the point is when you lobby for something with a lot of money and. usually pays off and so here 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 manufacture with money that will help their upcoming business skyrocket . 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 you zogby 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 am 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 which 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 if you're so perceptions me arab world or at least in these six six countries specifically are now worse than they were during the bush administration if you didn't think that was possible. well honestly i didn't and i think there are reasons why and you

mentioned one of them specifically when president obama was running for office he specifically made very broad promises of buttering the outlook and outreach to these muslim countries and a problem with the problem what has happened is this he's continued the very unpopular that isn't popular in the arab world policies 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 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 very popular out 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 link of the relationships which have helped our image there for you kind of have the worst of both worlds you had very high expectations which have not been

met he's gone and not actually follow through and that's why you see the results you do now i'm interested now because obviously a lot of the flack always gets put on president obama himself but what about what is it you think the civically that hillary clinton isn't doing right. well i let's let's take the stand for example everybody recognizes how bad things are with pakistan and i think you got to do the good cop bad cop thing here if you really do i mean everybody does it if 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 department offense in the form of secretary gates playing hardball and his case you've had essentially kind of the reverse you've had secretary of state clinton bad mouthing the pacs and then who do you go to if you can't go to our state department for outreach so this is been kind of the record the same and egypt i think we've missed clinton has reached out to the muslim brotherhood but what about the christians i mean you know geez so i think even if the muslims are getting

attention they kind of say that well you know you promised this inclusive thing and and things are really going what you said it was so i think what we've seen here is a reality that doesn't match the rhetoric and i think that again s. where 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 if only five percent of people there now see the u.s. favorably that means that ninety five percent of the post revelation do not this is probably a good sign of what's to come of 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 at a congress today on an energy summit in downtown d.c. and admiral blair was there and i got to say this a lot if 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 the states kind of on our side through their leaders and now we're seeing

kind of the reaction of all the people waking up and trying to throw off the light of their leadership we were associated with that leadership so we have to do is actually outreach to people and this is what we're continuing to fail to do i think we try 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 of time they're really not i'm curious to what you think of the fact you know like i mentioned the number one issue that this survey said was on people's mind is of course the israeli palestinian conflict right 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 conduct and obama basically said well i expect the numbers to be low because israel palestine is such an intractable issue out there and so i'm wondering if this starts being something of a bit 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 i think in many ways direct actually correct that we're having situation with that said the palestinian situation is something that's not going to go anytime soon frankly i think he had to just manage his people i think frankly holbrooke a bit a better choice before he died of working the issue and this area 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 who were involved in it before and it's one of those situations for we cannot neglect it because if we neck neglect 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 weight outreach in a lot of situations he is credited for helping the northern ireland peace process

with the irish love them 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 situation would be best all leading from the front trying to actually bring. people going to go yeah it's probably a good weight of color a good reminder too i mean 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 but it comes to domestic issues but this is also a president who promised a lot internationally to the rest of the world that i think a lot of people hopeful and now i'm curious i just want to get your take on a new report actually that's been put out there jeremy 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 that this is a national security risk that he could even be reporting on this what do you think . well let me first off say you know jeremy and i are opposite as well i actually

like jeremy i think we've we've talked several times i think he's a good guy and starts in the right place and frankly from what i've read today there are real issues relating to how we do intake of prisoners that mcraven talked about the problem with simply fox news and a series of articles on that washington post we don't really have a clear format how we capture people and frankly i strongly disagree with the idea of detaining people and definitely that's not what our principles as nice they stand for you can't do that so you get to have some path of judicial process and i've seen worse u.s. citizens have been rolled up and kind of not treated properly i talked about this in my book operation dark heart we were all of us citizen 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 a u.s. citizen is u.s. citizen here treated like you a citizen you can't even benefit 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 we just got to get thrown in with the other folks now they're this is war you could have a low level of of brutality but with that said once you identify what someone is you a citizen you've got to consider that and your and he's doing i think a good job he's got to expose what process and the failings of the process for what they are. i definitely agree with you there thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. well coming up on this wednesday evening we have a new you said it i read it when i respond to the comments that you've read online about the shelf and with newspapers folding and t.v. news rooms heading south many journalists are now landing in the to the our field there is a dangerous route for the families of will discuss it as soon as they come up. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly actually you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and here's some other part of it and real.