any possible high tech military weapon systems we can devise. the other exciting thing is that almost everything we need to do has already been done by at least one country. in his book plan b. lester brown uses scientific and economic studies together with data from the world bank the united states government and the united nations draft a global budget we're restoring we are we look at the two sort of major components of what we think it's going to take to create a sustainable future one is poverty eradication and population stabilization and then we treat those as one because we think they're closely related when we put the budgets together for eradicating poverty stabilizing population plus what we call the earth restoration budget comes to a total of one hundred sixty one billion dollars now that's a lot of money it's a third of the u.s. military budget. it's a third of the u.s.

military budget and the u.s. military budget is hell for the global military budget which is now about a trillion dollars and if you asked the question could we reduce the u.s. military budget by a third. and shift those expenditures into poverty eradication population stabilization earth restoration i think it's clear that we would do far more to ensure our future that if we just stay with my half trillion dollars of u.s. taxpayer money going to military purposes. the environment is an integral part of our national security and i don't mean that in a trite and cliched way our resource constraints even if we would to defend ourselves physically we need those resources and if we're not going to be able to preserve them it is strategically tactically and just commonsense wise in the state

as security concerns are discussed the environment is immediately dropped and people say well we have to walk forward because this is a matter of our survival and what we have been suggesting is that the environment itself has a very survival is to get them into it so protecting the environment should be considered at that level. environmental harms should be considered what we call in political theory common overtness if you are at a crossroads or from cars that have divergent interests one is going in one direction the other in the other direction they're not going in the same direction but they have a common aversion which is getting into an accident. and they're likely to cooperate over that common evolution whether it's through a stop sign or through some kind of traffic regimen. even sides they did not like to cooperate on other things and have divergent interests they may still have

common of versions. rising temperatures rising seas and intensifying storms eroding coastlines falling water tables vanishing habitats and species the broad threats facing us in the twenty first century are environmental yet the environment is consistently overshadowed by the immediacy of war and preparations for war it is an extremely difficult to get the nation mobilized against something that is a long term as opposed to a short term problem as long as there is no emphasis or insufficient emphasis from the national leadership to protect the environment you probably cannot expect the military to give it high priority what we're looking at now is a threat to our global civilization and saving. our civilization is not

a spectator sport we're going to change the system now and that means become politically active it means supporting political candidates who understand the issues of the do something about it it means letting elected representatives whether members of the city council or members of congress or parliaments around the world let them know about our concerns and what we expect them to do about this is going to decide whether we make or not we have to become politically active.

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old muslims are terrorists but all terrorists all muslim. and without the rise of american islamophobia and so with osama bin laden out of the way in the u.s. military spending higher than ever who's afraid of the big bad muslim. it's tuesday september thirteenth eight pm in washington d.c. and christine for now you're watching our t.v. . well who says the pentagon gets pentagon gets everything it wants today a senate panel decided defense spending for next year may only be six hundred thirty billion dollars that's five hundred thirty billion five hundred thirteen billion base budget and one hundred eighteen billion for us wars abroad but hey that's twenty six billion less than was requested by president barack obama meantime today's the u.s. census bureau published data that shows that the number of americans living below

the poverty line rose to a record forty six point two million people last year take a look you can see this is the highest number of people since the census bureau began tracking poverty figures in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine that second line underneath is the rate of poverty which is about fifteen percent that is one in five americans living with less than eleven thousand one hundred thirty nine dollars for a single person and less than twenty two thousand three hundred fourteen dollars for a family of four now this also happens on the same day of the first meeting of the group tasked with cutting at least one point two trillion dollars from the budget deficit over ten years the so-called super committee it's made up of twelve members of congress it's supposed to be bipartisan and take a look at everything when deciding where to trim one when it comes to the military budget and there are some heated opinions something very apparent in last night's republican presidential debate. there is no west florida constitution to be the

policemen in the world and no nation building just remember george bush won the presidency on that platform in the year two thousand and i still think it's a good plan for let me let senator santorum respond as i know you strongly disagree . on your website on nine eleven you had a blog post that said that basically blamed the united states for nine eleven on your website yesterday and you said that it was our actions that brought about the actions of nine eleven now congressman paul that is irresponsible it pristine united states running for it was someone who's running for the preside states of the republican party should not be parroting what are some of it not and said on nine eleven. we should have we are we are not. we are not being attacked and we were not attacked because of our actions we were attacked as new talked

about because we have a we have a civilization that is antithetical to the civilization of the jots and they want to kill us because of who we are and what we stand for and we stand for american exceptionalism we stand for freedom and opportunity for everybody around the room and i am not ashamed to do that so a lot of challenges here and i think it merits a closer look now may do that earlier i spoke to gareth porter an investigative journalist who specializes in covering u.s. national security policy. what santorum said is the official line of not just the u.s. government but more concretely the national security part of the government because unless you take a position that that the threat of terrorism including nine eleven has nothing to do with u.s. military presence in the middle east or wars of the united states sites on the soil of islamic countries then you're going to have a problem justifying

a policy and so what happens here is that within the u.s. government and more broadly as it is essentially spread through news media in this country to the general population we get the general notion that we can't talk about any link between the wars that the united states fights in islamic lands against islamic people and the threat of terrorism when in fact you know it's very very well established that there is such a link and in fact in my article i quoted perhaps the most. the most important most significant official document which represented that linkage which which presented in a front formal way that linkage which was the two thousand and six cia national intelligence estimate on global terrorism what it said was that the u.s. invasion and occupation of iraq had in fact been the biggest single force in

building up popular support for jihadism and essentially giving them more and more recruits to carry out terrorism and it went on and on and essentially. actually foreshadowed what has actually happened that we would find out that not only in the islamic countries but in europe in the united states homegrown jihadism will become a serious problem because people respond if they are islamics to this perceived threat was not and yet when you ask people making the rules and you ask. and officials i know you spoke about. this nothing new or how you felt about back in two thousand and seven one thing that that the former state department corner for counterterror terrorism daniel benjamin gave an entire list of things that the u.s. should do to combat al qaeda and the one thing that he didn't say was pledging that the u.s. would pull out of afghanistan and iraq that's right tell me what i know you caught him tell me a little bit about his answer when you asked him i didn't bring that allegedly

according to or in a coffee break i said shouldn't the u.s. pledge to the islamic world never to do this again and to get out of islamic countries with our military forces the the most important thing it should be done we pause for only a moment he said you're right and then he said that we can't do that and then he said the reason is we would have to explain to the families of the people who died in these wars that they died in vain now i think that's such an important thing to bring i think that's that really really is very important and there are so many people who know someone who was lost in these wars and that is the one thing they fear most yes but that's not the real reason why i and by the way mr benjamin then went back to the state department as counterterrorism coordinator and he's he's been doing that during the obama administration so he was clearly still part of the palace when he made that speech and the important thing is that he did not contest my point that there is clearly a cause and effect link between these u.s. wars on islamic territory and continued killing of civilians particularly in the

islamic countries and the continued support for jihadism very very strong support for jihadism throughout the middle east and even in the united states as we now know so i mentioned a little earlier that today was also the first meeting of the super committee on capitol hill. twelve it's mostly bipartisan twelve people charged with cutting spending one point two trillion dollars in the next ten years the military budget is a tough sell for a lot of people i think that. or jon kyl from arizona even said he would quit the committee if this was proposed that this was put on the table talk about them of the challenges when we look you know it's one thing to say the military budget not off the table and it's another thing entirely to actually cut serious money from the point that i would make is that what we saw him play in the republican debate between ron paul and run santorum rick santorum excuse me and the politics of the super committee are the same politics and sensually it's really

a fundamental divide between those people who are. essentially have tied their careers to one of two sorts of political forces either the israeli lobby or the arms lobby in this country these are the two most powerful groups politically in terms of being able to get members of congress to do what they want through the financing of their candidate and that was gareth porter investigative journalist. well the sixty sixth session of the u.n. general assembly may have officially kicked off today but all eyes are focused on next week when the prospect of a real diplomatic crisis over the palestinian bid for statehood is expected to steal the show so we're going to talk about what to expect next week and what and who will dominate the headlines of course r.t. will be on the ground with exclusive coverage of the news that shaking up the world as well as some of those stories that will remain underneath the mainstream media radar but for a quick preview earlier i spoke to r.c.c.

services half an hour with our eyes on the news of that palestinian bid for statehood i asked her to break down this often layered and conflict. it is kind of complicated but very exciting to actually have some real diplomatic stuff to cover and i different from the usual sort of preachy boring speeches that we seem to get out of the assembly essentially with the u.s. middle east peace process the israeli palestinian middle east peace process seemingly at a standstill. which we've seen to be detrimental to for the of the obama administration the palestinians have decided to use what literal little leverage they have in their eyes to appeal to the united nations in their bid for an independent state now the united nations cannot obviously grant the palestinians the territories that they want in the west bank and gaza with ease truthfulness or capital but what the u.n. can do is essentially recognize our new country as a full fledged member state now the way such process works is the palestinians would have to go to the u.n.

security council in order to get that kind of recognition one who is on the security council of course it is the united states and the obama administration has been very very clear in saying that they're going to veto that effort but then the palestinian effort doesn't end there what they can vendue is go to the general assembly were all you need is a simple majority to to pass which they are expected to get and what they'll be able to gain from that is sort of switch from of the non member observing entity which is what they are officially called right now to a non member of deserving state kind of like what the vatican is for example and what does that get them well it's a little bit more than just symbolism it would allow them to sign on to certain international bodies like for example the international criminal court which for obvious reasons is not something that the israelis want to see happen right and regarding the u.s. i mean i think it's interesting that you say the u.s. is doing a lot to make sure that this doesn't happen but this a little bit different from what we saw president obama say just last year take

a listen to us when we come back here next year we can agreement that will lead to a new member of the united nations an independent sovereign state of palestine living in peace with israel. so things have changed well of the exchange but of course the accommodation been very very. strong on trying to back away from the president's comments it's funny that you play but with the flick sound bite because that's actually what the palestinians are using in a new ad they just released in trying to boost a more international support for their bid the white house position has and unfortunately for the palestinians from their perspective has always remained the same they want negotiations between the palestinians and between israel they claim that this unilateral approach by palestine to seek recognition through the united nations will and the entire process and will completely fall negotiations and that is because that would really really isolate the u.s. they cannot turn against our ally israel and as we've seen

a we even the saudi arabian officials are now saying that americans are really eyes letting themselves i think in this position one of the other things of course we've got to bring up is what we've seen this year which is the arab spring and how much it has shaken up sort of the order of the world we have of course seen the fall of some leaders and the rise of new ones talk a little bit about that well i think one of the biggest powers to watch next week is to see what will happen with turkey we've seen the turkish prime minister tayyip erdogan release flexing his country's muscle in the region right now he's on a so-called arab spring state tour he spoke before the arab league today where he in the strongest there really is really strong terms condemned the world stance towards the palestinian issue really supporting the palestinian bid for statehood and that is really again a really worrisome development for the u.s. and israel turkey of course is a nato member they really are ramping up their power and they get the facts in that region they have expelled the israeli ambassador to that country they've threatened

to send warships armed warships to protect any more aid convoys to the gaza strip so it really remains to see whether this kind of. i guess bellicose attitude will translate to the debate next week. i want to talk now about a system that has been created to help gather data about cultural trends across the world and this is a system that we can thank the internet for that has helped research as you researchers use google books to search terms and basically connect the dots it's called culture romex and on one hand researchers have used it to study the origins of language where words come from and when but one report also found that by analyzing thirty years' worth of news articles cultural mix could have predicted the revolutions in tunisia egypt and libya and also the location of osama bin laden's bunker to a two hundred kilometer radius in north pakistan earlier i spoke to the author of

that report to leave the terro is also assistant director for text and media analytics at the university of illinois and he explained how this all works. so the idea behind this is so i took one hundred million news articles so this is thirty years of media from across the entire planet and took that and extract it ten billion people places and things connected by about one hundred trillion connections and this is too big for any computer today but what i did then is run trials that look through that and try to see what are the interesting patterns that you can get from the news when you do this and one of the things that came up immediately was this notion that the tone towards countries if you take all the news coverage across the entire world and see what is it saying about egypt is it is it is it optimistic about its outcome or is it passive mystical it turns out that seems to move in interesting ways and if you look back to what's coming out of the economic literature right now so twitter predicts the stock market or you know a large predict moving sales there's

a lot of work that's saying that if you just try to use news or social media and you measure the tolls of the global polls and it does a really good job below the forecast economic events and the question is then does that work for society all of us and so if you take all the news around the world and you say give me every news article published on earth about egypt and you look at the tone of that by month you want to put this graph that seems to do pretty good job of telling you hey egypt is it's accelerating in negativity and then. it's even simpler you take all the news coverage about it lightened and you make a map and you take all the news coverage you take every city reference in that news coverage you make it into a map where you are end up with a map where all luke roll roads lead to about a hundred kilometer radius around where he was actually found all right but i got to ask and in this could be a little bit concerning you know you talk about that are imitating life or death life imitate art i mean do you think it's possible if what you say is true and connecting these dots really is relevant is it possible that the needier could

never late what is happening you know to make things seem larger magic than they are to fuel some of the unrest in some of these places and. and that's that's the that's one of the reasons for using things at such scale because if you so for example within egypt the egyptian press was pretty muted about the protests in the early days and so by looking at the entire world you're getting around that you're working no single government could have as much control about its media and so the idea is that yes you do have that risk when you look at small scale well if you have everything being said on earth i mean you know this study looked only at news in the future you know they're using social media if you look at social media there are twice as many words that twitter today there were in the new york times over the last sixty years in another three years of twitter keeps up its current growth and will be as many words post the twitter as in all the books in the last six hundred years and so when you reach those scales it becomes harder and harder for any single entity to try to control that or or try and throw things off but you

know i worry and i wanted to ask you i mean things like what you guys want out was news articles but i was curious sort of about the role of social media certainly when i want to know anything now i just go on twitter and kind of check that out i mean is that part of what you guys are using now in terms of your research so the idea obviously i want to look historically and so i want to be able to look back over decades because if you look at egypt today you know you might see that there might wonder well is this something that happens periodically what is this really significant in you know in mubarak's reign and so the idea now is obviously in the you don't nowadays you have social media you have all kinds of emerging media video audio you know imagery so that's certainly something that's starting to be explored that's certainly something that i started to look at now you know there's a lot of questions you know in terms of you know twitter is very popular in certain

areas of the world not in other areas of the world you know work twitter and social media tend to emphasize more technology verse and. so there are some interesting questions that have to be addressed but you know these are the exciting you know these are exciting things we've researched there are now we have so much data and so much computation power you know reaching a point where we can we can start taking those baby steps towards trying to better understand you know human society and that was assistant director for text and media analytics at the university of illinois khalifa ataru so it's in gears now it was ten years ago today that a man named osama bin laden a muslim was named as the chief suspect behind the attacks of nine eleven but in many ways the fear of this one man has morphed into the rise and spread of islamophobia throughout society from congressman peter king hearings on the radicalization of muslims in america and many compared to mccarthyism to the bitter and often hate filled campaign against building a mosque near ground zero

a certain take long for the radical right to start peddling the myth that sharia law will somehow make its way to the united states and since then more than a dozen states have actually adopted legislation banning sharia law there's also been countless examples of the f.b.i. and y p d infiltration of mosques and systematic entrapment of quote muslim terrorists so is this simply government leaders staying vigilant or does it illustrate that people seem to revel in the idea of a muslim bogeyman r c r z correspondent honest us here churkin or takes a look. anti muslim sentiment in the us for we are and suspicion at a peak we are facing the rise of islam or naziism a decade after bin laden became the poster child of evil as the man behind nine eleven and even after his death hate towards the concept of islam has grown increasingly widespread not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists all

muslims who stood by the media what is the number of islamic terrorists one percent i think it's closer to ten percent and politicians like congressman peter king who initiated a special hearing on the threat of homegrown muslim terrorists actually radicalized . proof of anti muslim bias is plenty starting with f.b.i. entrapment muslims into considering crimes otherwise would not with police force organizing every single aspect and then taping it this has really destroyed the lives of young people and their families in new york you have eleven hundred to talk to any intelligence units of measure they need to justify their funding just the department of homeland security needs to justify its straightforward ethnic profiling.