agrees to be conservative web site the daily caller says. all right here's my issue with this yes obviously the candidates health is important if we find out that they may not be fit to serve as president of the united states but michele bachmann is not the official nominee at this point we haven't gotten to the point where health records are released as they always are in presidential campaigns so why are we freaking out over this right now did anybody bother to figure out who this former staffer is whether maybe they might be working for an opponent of bachmann's that would be something wouldn't it now america blog has reported that there's some speculation that this bomb could have been dropped by tim pawlenty camp but they don't know for sure but the point is here that nobody knows for sure what the truth is yet and yet it's already breaking news it's the headline of the day on every channel and it's being discussed nonstop. why don't we cover something that we know happened something for which there is tangible proof something that actually matters of this point because it shows a greater trend in our society yesterday route one hundred fifty people gathered to

protest in dolores park in california's bay area thirty five of them were arrested . protesters tangled with certain francisco police on the street near market. you know what officers in riot gear finally rolled up to the sidewalk the demonstrators set down that's what police started making arrests about three dozen by sunday. and they are protesting over the shooting of kenneth wade hardy nineteen year old who was shot and killed on saturday after he allegedly fired two officers today officials said that the gunshot residue was found on the man's hand which could indicate that he had fired that gun so we're still waiting for those details but this is another example of what's going on in california's bay area and the frustration between civilians and police i don't forget about the case of oscar grant or the case of charles hill both men who were fatally shot by police grant had no weapon on him he allegedly was drunk and had

a knife but regardless the shooter killed trend is a perfect sign the brutality of police in this country and that community specifically so the case of kenneth wade harding is just another sore spot now whether he fired a gun or not it's a sign of the rift that's been created the mistrust between civilians and they're supposedly protectors of social upheaval and this is something that people obviously feel passionate about to go out and protest but it's something of the mainstream media is happy to miss. well yesterday the world watched as rupert murdoch and his son james testified before the british parliament's culture media and. court select committee about that phone hacking scandal that's now engulfed murdoch's media empire and when it came to questions about whether or not murdoch had any idea of the wrongdoing that was going on in news of the world what we heard was

a lot of no's do you really want to see you know if they should investigate this it's on. you know. can you explain. i didn't know that. it was. so. now part of murdoch's defense was that he employs fifty three thousand people around the world how could he possibly know what all of them are doing but again for a man who holds a behavior grasp on the british media should know better those are the questions that are being asked as everyone speculates on the future of news corp so how is it going to end for murdoch will the almighty fall from grace or did that already happened yesterday when somebody tried to buy him. oh.

so humble day for the old man and the book we also say about the media coverage of these hearings and the scandal overall joining me to discuss this is the founder and president of brave new films robert greenwald robert thank you so much for joining us tonight now before we get into some of these details i want to play a clip of the first words that we heard from rupert murdoch's mouth. right. i saw a lot of snarky column and folks put it that way all over twitter yesterday there but he was watching this live but what do you think we learned about a rupert murdoch the man yesterday. well i got a lot of comments on my twitter feed and my facebook page in on our websites i think we learned a lot and i don't know where to begin no i don't want to take four hours to talk about everything we learned first of all just think about it just the language you didn't start by saying i'm sorry he didn't start by saying we've done

a terrible thing he didn't start by saying i will correct this he said it was the most humble day of his life i would hope when he came out at birth was maybe a more humble day then yesterday was for him but we also saw him throughout the hearings and throughout the testimony both he and his son essentially ducking any of the answers of substance that have to be asked and the questions that have to be question hopefully it will increase the pressure to have hearings in the united states but what do you think are those guy those questions of substance that need to be asked and you know we need an answer for. well you know this is a series of them first of all it's the question of what they know when they know it how did they deal which they essentially duck around secondly who authorized significant numbers of dollars thirdly this is

a top down company as we found out what we did out fox you know they create memos written memos telling their newspeople what to respond to and how to respond it's impossible to believe that a company who's lost sixty percent of its value and its stark is not on the case and the head people are not deeply focused on this and then to go on what about the payoffs what about paying the legal bills for people who've been convicted of crimes what about the fact that the lawyers they've engaged asked them for permission to speak to the press so that they could clarify things and they were and they refused that mission what's gone on in the united states you know the list goes on and on and then there are the lawsuits there are the lawsuits from stockholders who is suing them now about paying too much six hundred seventy five million dollars for his daughter's company and then michael tomasky has a very good piece in the daily beast in the east today talking about the fact that in fact there is legal action that could be taken against murdoch well they

definitely seem to be a lot of a lot of shady dealings there a lot of goings on that we haven't quite gotten all the full details about but yes there were payoffs here there were people who simply ignored the problem didn't want to investigate it and the same time we keep hearing people say that well we knew this was going on for years but for some reason when it was celebrity phone calls or our phones that were being hacked it wasn't a big deal until finally it was something that could pull on the heartstrings of everybody was a young girl who had gone missing and turns out was murdered but why has it been ok all this time. well i don't think it's ok i think it's a question you know we live in a culture that's an attention deficit disorder culture how do you get people's attention number one and then you know people certainly around the world is suffering with profound problems in terms of their daily lives they're willing to take care of their family or make a living so they're not so concerned about policy the way you and i might be and

others might be concerned about survival hacking that dead girl's phone machine really got to people and understood here is a corporation that would stop at nothing and it kind of became the poster child for their bad behavior and now they began to understand and ask questions and say wait a minute this is the same corporation that every single one of his newspapers was leading the charge to war in iraq which was a war that responded in you know thousands and thousands of being people being killed this is the same corporation that is the communications arm of the tea party and you know it goes on but this is the symbol of this and this terrible thing but they did this young girl's phone answering machine has allowed people to focus and to ask the questions now it's all of our job to make sure that it's understood this is what happens with media consolidation this is what happens one man one

corporation dominating the media and intimidating the politicians in britain and in the united states but i think you know you hit upon a point there which is the sense that unfortunately this is what the reader is this is what audiences wanted as well perhaps as an escape from some of their real problems i bet murdoch would tell you that this was just a business and that's why because they are being successful so whether or not obviously there has been an investigation launched by the f.b.i. into whether some of this was going on here in the u.s. regarding nine eleven victims but do you think that these hearings that we're having these investigations are actually going to bring any of these practices to a halt or maybe ten years from now is the u.s. media culture going to be just as tabloidy as it is in the u.k. right now. well it depends on what time of day asked that question was not made up to miss the motor stick mode but i think that certainly in the u.k.

there are going to be a series of investigations there are going to be substantive there was an inquiry today that released a report saying that the murdoch's were refusing to cooperate which would be which will keep the pressure on and i think they're in for several years over there i think and that country it will definitely help change policy and the obscene connection between the elected officials and the news corp the dinners that dining the visits the families you know giving money up and back all of that i think will unravel what i hope will happen though is using this example that will come to the united states there will be investigations and people will begin to understand that in many ways rupert murdoch has had more effect on their lives than any of our presidents his ideology his conservative belief his using his newspapers and television to aggressively advocate that's something that has taken a toll on all of us and on all of our media and therefore on all of our democracy

well speaking of some of his newspapers advocating for things the wall street journal penned a unsigned op ed last sunday essentially coming in a bit of that into a defense about themselves saying that it's not fair that every news corp journalist now falls under this umbrella they attack the new york times the guardian they attack pro publica and they attack them by comparing this phone hacking scandal to wiki leaks saying how dare those organizations that publish documents made public by wiki leaks actually have something to say here what do you think of that comparison. well i think if mr murdoch or any one of his entities is signing your paycheck you really need to think very long and very carefully before you go out and hurt the values that newspapers and journalists are brought up with those you know sadly many journalists ones over there and and here and some who work at the various decent newspapers have had their integrity questioned and

compromised and it's going to take a while for that to be restored if it's going to be restored but one would hope that some of the reporters at the wall street journal would adhere to the great tradition of that newspaper and go out and investigate i can't imagine that happening but i would hope that would so maybe they're just trying to cover their own backs because journalists don't best to get any more so now we have to depend on making leaks to disclose many stories and so in essence they're just trying to bring the blame all the way back or out of the vicious circle robber going on thank you so much for joining us tonight my pleasure. well still to come police here in the u.s. go after the hacktivist group anonymous ok the details and we were ignorant and why does the mainstream media continue to push inaccurate plats about our war it's tiring to dive into that topic for the special guest salon dot com glenn greenwald .

really believe there's something. wrong with. the future however. we now have more proof of the government making moves to try and stop the hacktivist group anonymous right here in the u.s. i reported to you earlier this year that hackers were arrested in spain on suspicion of having ties to the organization but they were all released because the authorities could not find substantial evidence to tie them to the crimes but it does seem as if teenagers are somehow becoming the persons of interest in these incidents they were they were

a short while back when ryan cleary was arrested on suspicion of being linked to the hacktivists and that's something the both like an anonymous have vehemently denied on twitter but yesterday the u.s. justice department and the f.b.i. arrested four teen people who they believe to be members of anonymous and are tied to the cyber attack of pay pal's web site now the f.b.i. went to six different locations yesterday in long island and bronx brooklyn to find all of the suspected individuals they also obtained computers files and documents from the places that they raided and if you remember and a lot of us went after pay pal and several credit card companies after they blocked access to wiki leaks donations and lot of this is also taken credit for defacing websites shutting down servers and scrawling messages across screens web wide now as for those raids let's go back to the teenagers a mom whose home was raided yesterday left an account on the web site reddit dot com and it set at around eleven this morning i had four cars and a van filled with f.b.i. agents pull up to my house and then invade the woman tells how the agents had guns

drawn their entire time and took computers out of the home now the post continued when i finally got to sit down and talk to that they said that packets were sent from our i.s.p. address during the d.d. o. s. . attack on pay pal they said my son that was responsible he was thirteen at the time they sat down with both of us and asked about our involvement with anon ops and the testimony on reddit went on to say why would they spend all this time energy and funds to get a kid who was trying to be cool following on without knowing any of the consequences what do i do to protect it what can i expect they seized to death to computers that was of course the mother statement not mine but just so you know that is your f.b.i. tax dollars at work rounding up thirteen year olds who might have helped anonymous disrupt service to pay pal i'm betting these arrests are going to slow down on either i'm guessing they're just going to lead to more hacking cases but one thing is for sure the f.b.i. is stepping up their campaign to take down anonymous so it looks like it's becoming

an all out battle between the activists and the authorities. now today the u.s. led nato coalition in afghanistan handed over control of the capital of helmand province to the afghan army is one of the first places in the country to go through this transition process to get out of the country by two thousand and fourteen that obama has pledged but is this transition it really as smooth as we're made to believe has the u.s. left the afghan army prepared or does it leave behind forces too weak for the job that they've been given it's of the concerns about the new guard but jason discovered the reality from a better perspective within the ranks of kabul. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern crude or province one of afghanistan's most violent corners mob

but we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to be back the taliban led insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity then any on what we are old brothers and we are all called by one name was by the call of duty has also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of women soldiers has just graduated. and there's even a mujahideen unit made up of hardened veterans of the anti soviet you hide this is all good news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen going to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force and has even been featured in a recent movie. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around

the country there are concerns that the quality of troops may be coming at the expense of quality for starters more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem an ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and death adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertions today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival x. warlords who still command loyalties along regional and ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i was not neutral. it. still has much to. you called for.

this june john brennan obama's counterterrorism advisor claim that in the past year there hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency and percentage of the capabilities that we've been able to develop and that was when speaking about u.s. drone strikes in pakistan now it's anybody that follows our ever expanding war on terrorism that statement seemed a little too good to be true and what do you know it was see this week the bureau of investigative journalism released a report that since august of two thousand and ten they have uncovered at least ten individual attacks in which forty five or more civilians appear to have died and that's a conservative estimate thing is it's also isn't the first time that a u.s. officials made a claim that under further investigation turned out to be completely false think back to the interview that we did with investigative reporter gareth porter who found that when general petraeus claimed last year that his raids have been a spectacular success over thirteen hundred taliban have been captured well he failed to mention that more than ninety percent of those captured had been released within days and found to be nothing more than innocent civilians or think back to

when general john allen who's just taken over the war in afghanistan from the trace so to members of congress the violence in the country is five percent lower so far this year than last the u.n. report shredded that statement when they found the violence is in fact fifty one percent since this time last year so it's become a pattern and all too familiar story of lies peddled by many military and administration officials that neither members of congress nor the mainstream media question and it's allowing our war in the world to keep on growing so joining me to discuss that is going greenwald from salon dot com glenn thanks so much for joining us tonight now like i said this is not the first time that we've seen something like this happen but. talk about this specific report that basically shreds john brennan statements i know that he spoke to chris wood who conduct it how did they get this information. and what was so interesting about it was when when when john brennan made his statement it was actually a statement that had been repeated by numerous officials in washington over the

course of the last several months and everybody knew that it was completely falls when they said it in part because public reports make clear almost on a daily basis that civilians are killed as part of the strikes but what this group did was they wanted to be very systematic about proving the falsity of these claims and so they basically scoured public sources they had discussions with people who were on the scene in waziristan and they only documented the ones that they could definitively confirms the point or they could actually name them by name and they were able to confirm forty five civilian deaths during the period when brennan said there were none and what they said was they're actually almost certainly far more than just the forty five but those are the ones that could document using this very conservative methodology well you know i can imagine that it's not so often that you have the exact a list of names of people that are all hurt when you comes to these these drone strikes and civilian deaths so it must be a conservative estimate but let's get down then to the heart of this problem which

is why when we have public reports coming out that document the possibility or the document the fact that there are deaths why doesn't anybody question that why doesn't the mainstream media question why don't the lawmakers who sit there on capitol hill and have hearings and speak face to face with these generals and these advisers why don't they ask any of those questions. boiling for two reasons one is that it is true that these tribal areas that was there stand are very dangerous and there's almost nobody who's actually on the scene to document what happens after the drones hit there are local villagers. pakistani officials in these areas who say that civilians are killed but of course our media disregards anyone who is an american or especially villagers in the areas that we bomb and so it's very difficult to get firsthand reporting from the scene to map means that claims from american military officials whereby they simply call everybody they kill militants basically the definition of

a militant at this point is some of the united states kills in the drone attack is the only thing on that ever makes it into the american establishment media and none of which politicians can rely there have been some very interesting reports of the last week there's a photo journalist who actually is on the scene and was interesting and has been for the past three years he's been photographing the aftermath of these drone strikes and he says that far more civilians then pakistani and american officials admit have been killed have actually been killed and that it's radicalizing the area and that in fact for every fifteen people we kill maybe we kill one militant but the real reason it doesn't get much attention from the american political media closet because we don't really care we being the american political media class doesn't really care who we kill what civilians we care we don't keep track of our victims we don't talk very much about the cost of the lives that we extinguish through our military attacks we simply don't care we care about the cost to us we

care about the financial cost the cost to our service members but in reality the death of foreigners in the american military kills has never been something prominently featured in political discourse in the united states i'm happy to mention that because another story that nobody seemed to care about was jeremy scahill from the nation had a report on cia secret sites in somalia that you know as you documented to none of the mainstream cable networks even touched that story until finally for some reason joe scarborough from morning joe decided to wake up yesterday and bring him on this story but i'm also curious to see the l.a. times decided then to ignore scales report but then to report on something that they heard from anonymous. u.s. military officials about the growing threat the growing ties between al shabaab in somalia and between al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in yemen and do you think that that that may have been a plant that that was something that was specifically being sold to the l.a. times after jeremy scales report. i don't think there's

any question in this report is so interesting because it really reveals the fundamental divide between independent journalism i.e. real journalism in united states and government subservient journalism which is basically most of what takes place in the media that's owned by the nation's largest corporations are jeremy scahill went to mogadishu and in bed for nine days a very dangerous thing to do and dug around on his own and found out about the existence of the cia secret prison that no private media had reported previously in response rather than picking up on his story or discussing the very serious implications legally and in terms of human rights in the fact that president obama is maintaining a secret prison by proxy through control of the somalis what they did instead was they just ran to the cia or the cia ran to them and fed them information that the cia wanted disseminated in response to scales report and rather than scrutinize it

or investigate whether it was true or even provide both sides they simply recycled it mindlessly so you had c.n.n. claiming without even mentioning the scales report that it had discovered on its own momos that the cia was helping the somalis interview one or two detainees you had an a.b.c. news report that just printed the cia denials which are patently false and then you had this l a times report that clearly was dictated by intelligence officials designed to make it seem that not only was valuable information being a pain in the secret prison but that there was a very menacing threat namely there's a union last july i have to play you because you have every hospital. in the arabian peninsula i'm sorry i have to cut you off thank you so much will be right back.

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member. for the second part of the. so they would like to make a correction on a story that we first shared with you last thursday it was word start to spread about google's new social media program google plus we made two statements that grab the attention of the public relations branch of the company apparently they're fans of the alona show now a p.r. representative contacted r.t. to let us know that two may statements that we made in our story were incorrect so we want to correct them now first of all the p.r. agent said google glass is a not making profiles public they will eventually open the service up to the public to sign up once the field trial is complete and we feel the service is robust enough to meet demand profiles it will not be made public now this is what we're

part of last thursday. starting on july thirty first everyone's google plus profile is going public and during the current testing phase you can keep the profile private but that's all about to change. now i'd like to explain to our viewers the sources where you pulled that information one was a piece from the register u.k. based site which categorize itself as independent news views and reviews on the latest in the i.t. industry second source came from a google page itself which stated today nearly all google profiles are public private profiles don't allow this so we have decided to require all profiles to be public if you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public you can delete your profile or you can simply do nothing all private profiles will be deleted after july thirty first two thousand and eleven now at the top of the page the graphic clearly shows the google plus project logo which led our staff to believe that when google talks about their profiles they are referring to profiles on the google plus program.