missions from. here we. are going to back to the future and what was once true in the eighty's sadly rings true today so a sporting competition silences us production is it possible that every year the chinese made in america again. well it's one thing to go for the gold and quite another to actually go all in with gold we'll speak with the man who's golden for addiction for the metal has him laughing all the way to the bank joins me from my discussion with gerald flint. the images the world is seeing out of syria

a country seemingly on the brink of revolution but in a country where foreign correspondents are few and far between is there serious manipulation coming from the mainstream media we'll hear from our reporter inside the country. he and i really. mean i do believe that people have the right to do whatever they want. even the right to watch for in a public library it's a hard questions during a passionate debate we'll take you to the big apple where debbie does the library legally. good evening it's friday september second seven pm here in washington d.c. i am lauren lyster and you're watching our t.v. well new jobs numbers came out today showing that for august for the first time since nineteen forty five. the u.s.

has created literally no jobs zero was the net job creation now the unemployment rate that means is unchanged it's nine point one percent which it has been and guess what folks as obama gets ready to roll out a new jobs plan next week he also has a prediction for what average employment unemployment will be next year in two thousand and twelve guess what it is nine percent you heard me right this same number unemployment has been hovering around for about the last two years is what it's expected to be by the white house in two thousand and twelve two so if i got why this may be let's look at how some of the administration's plans for job creation have worked out so far well for one obama placed a big emphasis on clean energy to put the u.s. in the running with global green energy competitors around the world from china to germany our competitors are waging a historic effort to lead in developing new energy technologies their factories

like this being built and driving factors like this being built in germany nobody is playing for second place these countries recognize that the nation that leads the clean energy economy is likely to lead the global economy and if we fail to recognize that same imperative we risk falling behind so for one loans were given through this they realize the solar companies a lender i got wind they got a half a billion dollars to make solar panels and they got a visit from obama to show that it was working you can see the positive impacts right here it's a little less than a year ago we were standing on what was an empty one but through the recovery act this company received a loan to expand its operations this new factory is the result of those loans. and

fifteen months later just where is the indirect well it's piling for bankruptcy it's laying off eleven hundred workers it couldn't make it work why it will it can't compete with gas through china and it's not a loan at all those two other u.s. solar manufacturers who filed for bankruptcy just weeks ago in the last month and they also cited that they could not compete because of the increased competition from chinese rivals so if the u.s. can't compete what to do joining us now to help us figure that out in studio is labor journalist michael thanks for being here so maybe it's taboo maybe people don't like to talk about trade wars after the u.s. has pursued free trade agendas for years but with all of these manufacturing jobs being lost total industries being lost would tariffs be a solution or just a question of which is only one part of the equation trying to has

a comprehensive industrial policy so we give a lot of subsidies to companies to start this new business just not one shot like you have in the stimulus but a lot of substance and on top of that there's other issues on which is chinese currency manipulation and is china's unfair environmental practices so would help the u.s. has to do enough on its side to really promote industries well interesting because that's what some of the reasons that these companies cited that they couldn't compete with china is because of the billions of dollars in cheap loans that they could get from state banks so what are you saying the united states should do to be more competitive we really have to prime the pump and that means putting a lot of money into these kind of companies and making sure for instance that we don't buy any products from overseas the government that is i mean every other government in the world is pretty strict about the fact that they don't buy products from outside countries from the u.s. we buy products made overseas all the time for instance the secretary of labor who are codicil leases. or was not mean the united states to secretary so you have

these types of things happening where you have to have a very strict recruitment policy you have to have a certain degree of tariffs and have a certain degree of incentives to really help these industries get off the ground so you would you would advocate for imposing terror but it's just not that right so everyone we are very happy that we didn't pass a climate change bill so we have no real incentive for companies to switch over to solar power or do these kind of things whereas in china they're moving at light speed they see the future all the companies they're switching over you know as opposed to here where we're kind of moving at this breakneck speed and we're debating building a big pipeline to bring in more oil through from canada right so why do you think that this is not more discussed by politicians or heard on the mainstream media more prevalently well part of it is a boring story it's the story that's been happening for thirty years which is that it's just jobs and we're going to china. but on top of that i mean there's a lot of financial interest you know general electric when you have general

electric as the chair of the president's jobs commission and general electric has closed thirty thousand factories united states of promise taking office. the president is going to speak up with these close to that you have president obama pushing a free trade treaty was soft read president obama pushing free tree treaty with colombia despite the fact if you want trade unions because of climate last year well and you have american consumers on board too i want to look back first though to talk about this i campaigned back in the eighty's or early ninety's take a look at that. never you or your room that. was going to. be. here to.

work. so you mentioned this is an old story and you go back and you see in the eighty's there were these campaigns to tell that story but now fast forward and i feel like you have an american populace that is pretty used to and enjoys their cheap goods no matter what it is so how do you convince americans that that one hundred dollar patio furniture of a guy that was made in china they should really pay fifteen hundred dollars for it to have it made in america wasn't honest and say oh it's cheaper to have it made overseas but there's a lot of situations we consumers quite frankly don't have a choice not a single cell phones me in the united states of america so you can see or will consumers want cheap goods but it's also that you know there's not that many choices left in our i mean we have the least amount of americans employed in manufacturing since one thousand four hundred. i mean it's pretty incredible you have now more american answering that are unemployed than working in manufacturing

that's just something about the health of our economy so they're just not a lot of choices and i think if people made more money if they had good manufacturing jobs they'd be want to do a bit more well enough an interesting catch twenty two so say that you know the price of goods does go up if more manufactured in america were labor costs are higher but then people can't afford them and this is an economy that's driven by consumer spending to the tune of like two thirds of the economy at a time when people already can't afford good anyway consumer confidence is at a two year low. i mean i mean it's been in the real irony is that. as more of the americans' jobs go overseas they're forced to shop at wal-mart because they can't afford it so to blame it on consumers is you don't worry there's some situations where they might be able to but that's you know that's like you know one percent of the problem so if you had to say one thing would really fix that would be would it be an overhaul of the trade policy i think immediately of developing the type of industrial policy that every other does your country has china has

a very industrial you know very rigorous trade policy they have tariffs francis tears germany has chairs i mean look at germany german auto workers make thirty six dollars an hour when you bring in american auto workers make thirty six dollars an hour german auto workers make forty eight dollars an hour germany has a trade surplus right now with china because they have a smart industrial policy so if you had to pinpoint one reason why that hasn't happened in the u.s. but that what the biggest roadblock is to that what would it be i think the biggest roadblock is sort of this fear that we have of government getting involved in planning mcconaughey that you know this is communism and this is all these other things so i think that's the biggest roadblock and also i think the big multinational corporations wall street everybody that's pumping this how broken the political system is they've got a lot of power that's for sure but thank you for coming in and talking about when you don't hear talked about as a solution on many other networks thanks mike i was like ok the labor journalist. now the bad jobs numbers out today that we've been talking about they aren't bad

news for everyone you see when bad economic news comes out like this we see what people in the financial world call a flight to safety people go invest their money and safe havens and gold rallies today and jumped the most in more than four weeks closing at eight hundred seventy six dollars and change per ounce some people say that it's increasingly becoming a safe haven now one beneficiary of that trend he's a predictor of the future who has revealed he is completely invested in gold and he is willing to take on economists even ones who are very scary on twitter who doubt him gerald celente he is publisher of the trends journal and director of the trends research institute and earlier he told me why this is a row i've been going to many many years my began trading gold in one nine hundred seventy eight my first buy was at one hundred eighty seven dollars and fifty cents an ounce and what's different now than then that people don't understand and why

they think it's a bubble whether it's not is back then it was only the united states that was really playing the gold market you had guys like the hugs brothers that had cornered the silver market for example it's a whole different world now back then you know it was the red shiny years nobody was doing business with them and russia and eastern europe were locked you high in the soviet union zion curtain there's a whole global game going on it's a global meltdown and gold is the ultimate gold and safe haven and you know you have been willing to take on people that have called gold a bubble one of them is economist nouriel roubini who has been quoted saying gold is becoming a bubble at least he's a smart guy he talks about how gold isn't money and it can be devalued by countries' leaders so why are you so sure he's wrong. well he's been wrong on his call he said i believe gold would top out at lucky about fifteen hundred dollars an

ounce and what are we you know one thousand away or approaching one thousand eight hundred dollars an ounce so by their deeds you shall know them and the other thing is so let him put his money in that digital money that not that's not worth the paper it's not printed on called u.s. dollars in your rose that's why the current cities are the gold is going so high is because that everyone knows that the only way that the europeans or the americans can get their way out of this mess they're actually not going to get out of it but to keep the ponzi scheme gulling is by printing more money but they put those white shoe boys labels on it such as q each to a q e three it needs to just printing more money and one by the way interest rates the federal reserve said they're going to keep them down here zero vincent mid two thousand and thirteen and the european central bank is talking about lowering them

so the lower the interest rates go and as they stay low the higher the price of gold goes it's simple arithmetic and we've also seen tragedies rally despite the low interest rates the love return on investment and low yields on the. yes but you know there's another thing too that i want to mention when they're talking about comparing gold to the real estate bob dole and the dotcom bubble those are different bob those are real bubbles the dot com bubble was built upon you know these was still a con bally con artist that had no business plans but a lot of the wall street barkers hype and the real estate market was just that oh god will they created it remember they had those wonderful ads on t.v. you know your house is as good as a piggy bank take out a home equity loan people slipping homes blogging pre-construction price

condominiums in florida that's a boggle this is not a bubble the bubble is the fake money that the federal reserve and the european central banks are printing make a projection because a lot of people are saying that q.e. three s. coming next month to protect we're going to pay vat you know i don't know if they're going to call the q e three or some other kind of scheme but they have to do something to keep pumping money into the system look laura and we found out because of the reporting that went on we just found out two years ago that the you know the federal reserve was pumping like one point two trillion in to the banks around the world that we didn't know what's out there is going to do something and that's why gold prices are going up. i'll leave you with that prediction from publisher of the trends journal and director of the trends research institute

gerald celebrity and still ahead right here on our t.v. the gruesome images we are all seeing from syria anti-government protesters gunfire and excessive violence. but with unconfirmed pictures can we really trust the mainstream media for the truth or is their coverage on syria seriously inaccurate or incomplete. plus to a place where censorship is not bound by law even if some want it to be tied up we're talking about four inaugural fee and public libraries and some in new york aren't too quiet about it. what drives the world if we are more green you've got politicians who makes decisions through who through who can you cross no one who is you with global reach and where are we cutting state controlled capital school nationals when nobody dares to ask

we do our tea question more. all right to syria now where the government is accused of yet more vicious and deadly assaults on its cities but access is limited for foreign correspondents so it's pretty hard to get balanced reports and objective commentary while our correspondent is there she is in the country she is one of the few parties arena gulu show she sets the record straight on what's going on in this troubled country. mass murder tearing catastrophe a country on the brink of a revolution this is what you see every time syria pops up in the headlines and what is really happening in a country where hardly any foreign journalists are present there's even been the implication that some of the images we're being shown have been digitally nipples manipulated and there have been reports available online that you can watch of

footage that was taken in bahrain and said to be taken in hama and it's showing the same footage in different stations different backgrounds the police are being so there are some very strange things that are going on right now an example of such manipulation is the case of palestinian refugees in the coastal city of latakia the stadium in the dark it became the center of the controversy when according to various reports anywhere from several hundred several thousand people were gathered here most of those people were palestinian refugees who came from the palestinian refugee camp in the sunni quarter of latakia now according to the opposition forces and to some of the palestinians when it got to the stadium their ideas were taken away their cell phones were also taken away and they really prepared for the worst because you have to realize that herding large numbers of people into stadiums carries them would all go very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so the ankle sprain has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in stadiums and then and then committing mass

executions we went to the part of the city which supposedly came under fire from what planes in the ships and spoke to the refugees to find out what happened the baggage the dog the dog or some people walking around the neighborhood yelling there will be shelling from sea soon and everyone has to get out i didn't go anywhere just stayed in my house i can see the bay from my window and there was nothing in there aside from the usual patrols. still gunfire did break out between the army and unknown gunmen so some five thousand palestinians left their homes hearing for their lives. we wanted to read so that our kids wouldn't hear the gunshots we hear in our house and when there was a break in the fighting we went to the stadium we stayed there for three days then we came back to london so did two thousand refugees only to realise there was no air and navy attacks taking place on the city. we felt like we were lined to the

heart of the of a syrian authorities have long been insisting armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them to start shooting first to string them to plot showed the state but ignored by the media. syria is flights in and media war and it's not losing. the syrian government might have realized its mistake of banishing foreign journalists in the country media war has returned but there is no guarantee it will go a long way towards changing series image can spur trade on major networks even those fourteen. certainly challenges the mainstream conventional wisdom and earlier i spoke with a man with some experience reading between the media lines to see what he thinks is filmmaker and blogger in news dissected dot org danny schechter in the course of our conversation the subject turned to media bias specifically i asked about al-jazeera and libya and a recent report that took a u.s.

congressman dennis cruise senate the piece was titled secret files u.s. officials aid to gadhafi and in it al jazeera alleges that because then it a vocal critic of the intervention in libya was actively aiding khadafi and his regime so was it a smear piece that was my question here is what it is that. i think a copy of a report of because synergise views on the conflict which were very critical of president obama for going in without congressional support into libya for acting in ways that were perceived as unconstitutional not just by because senate but. republican says well that doesn't constitute the rick support for khadafy it can be spun that way i don't know the exactly what happened but i haven't heard the senator's comments on it yet either so i would be very careful to jump to conclusions based on some document which was not really it was about it's not bike

the senate i want to keep this going for just one minute because then it spread apart he said we have questions about the legitimacy of the war and obvious this and why then what nato was doing were also you know very well know and it can fit within their paschall duty that any implication that he was doing anything other than trying to bring in an authorized war is fiction do you think that i was there and angle on that deal again in my this is opposition to the war well this was a report by a reporter who found this information the report of it that i saw which wasn't the actual report was that they were kind of still looking into it i mean it didn't seem as if they had a definitive view on it i don't think they were blaming dennett's because senate but you know to somebody finds a document you know and it's puzzled by it or is attempting to link it to something else that may or may not exist there were many people who tried to advise gadhafi including the south africans you know to negotiate not to take

a hard line that he took there were many people who felt he was being counterproductive and now was actually encouraging this conflict to to get even worse so there were people who might have talked to him now with the goal of supporting him but with the goal of trying to bring this war to a close. do you think though that with alger there is being at the end merica tar of cutter and that that ties into framing the story have within it that way. i don't you know the reason i don't is you know i've been to qatar again to doha. corners or spoken to people there about that i mean maybe they were calling me a story but they say no they have a tauriel autonomy and their whole credibility wrists on it your critics would say however they're being manipulated by the government whether they are or not you know you expect some the journalists there to make that claim a few did resign over the whole coverage of bahrain but not about libya to my

knowledge so i would tend to trust the al-jazeera correspondents who in my opinion are ethical and hard working journalists but the question of whether the government uses influence is the same question raised about every country does russia kill russia today with the say that as a murder fox news what to say i mean you know obviously owners do influence coverage that's clear but did the influence this particular story we don't know ok and do you think that what you're saying though does play a role more broadly and the network's coverage of the arab spring in general you mentioned bahrain do you think anything situation of egypt for example. well you know there's saudis for example in the gulf and carter and they you we have all attempted to downplay what's happening in bahrain i think there are legitimate

fears that something similar could happen their own country they're not democratic countries they're run by royal families the there are often repressive they have freedom of speech is not you know fully existed in those countries you know but it's a balancing act i think and i think before you you know assume that because a country doesn't want change therefore it's manipulating the media i think you have to prove that i don't think you can just assert it and that was filmmaker and blogger at news dissected dot org danny schechter now from the media possibly pushing revolutions we don't know to lawyers and activists pushing pornography you heard me right there saying pornography and guess where public libraries they're arguing in many libraries perusing porn is your constitutional right your right to be an american to watch porn are saying that is not the answer to that so that's how that's working out new york. a library

a place of serenity and peaceful contemplation but if only these walls could talk. must have been filling the silence rooms browsing porn online in public libraries is legal in the us. i'm not really sure what to think i mean i do believe that people have the right to do whatever they want but at the same time the library also has the right to do or not to do whatever they want to hide why not provide a little bit service they want. and some of these services are causing a public outcry locally across america internet policies of libraries need to for one thing libraries do is put a ban on for raising for longer free this is protected by the first amendment of the constitution only frontally funded libraries must use filters to block adult content such as child porn or obscenity to protect children from seeing it apart from that anything else goes all adults who have library cards have the option to

remove internet filters to view anything they want but if what they're seeing is disturbing to another library patron the library staff will ask them to remove it from the screen when you want something. that is that's not the point locations are plenty just in the big apple there are two hundred public libraries but with a push of the right button but the imagination of its patrons run wild and well for some the inconvenience is our technical library speeds are so slow thank you very. computer like they have like the world so as country and i think it takes like an hour and a half to watch a five minute chronicler to others it's a public aspect that's bothersome they want users to take the phone home i don't watch porn unless i'm with the girl in the pool that's my policy but i think that if you're going to allow this to happen you have to approach. i don't want to walk

by somebody's watching for. some city officials and concerned citizens want the perusal banned as quote some filthy public places where there's kids who. people go in through. the regular day to day it is just not right. the fact that a library is a public place is keeping some up at night not watching erotic movies but horrified you can make sort of the same argument about masturbation everyone does it but you don't necessarily want to watch other people doing it and when it comes to pornography that's generally sort of its purpose civil rights advocates attorneys and free thinkers say constitutional rights can't be touched if i'm in the library and i'm using a computer and a person next to me is reading a website that politically is the complete opposite of what i believe maybe i find that offensive let's ban everything. at

a rally against my very budget cuts some big lovers insist that pornography can have an educational purpose internet sites and website should not be banned from public libraries because they do hope and the understanding of the biology of the human body up to this paul has formed his opinion from personal experience i as an adult i have visited some of these sites and know they have no educational value at all and the library is the center of education only educational websites should be permitted in an educational institution especially with other types of institutions a bottomless pit considering all the shows we have around times square and other places in the city if you truly wanted to actually ask adult material. you have i reached a hundred of these different available shops in.