get ready because your freedom. to get up sometimes to see a story and it seems so for life sleep is if you understand it and then a glimpse something else if you're see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck or the big picture. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i like to tell the truth. i confess i am a total get over and sad i love traveling chaos is

a planned trip. but it was kind of the just today. i'm very proud of the role that al-jazeera has played. all right it's time for tonight's tool time ward and tonight it goes to mitt romney there's nothing to do with one stupid big he may have said the g.o.p. debate last night in florida this is about mitt romney the businessman is about his overall image after months we've been touring the country talking about what a successful businessman he's been claiming that he's the only candidate out there who can turn around our jobs crisis thanks to his experience in the private sector

. the policies that will get us working again as a nation our policies i understand having worked in the private sector look if i spent my whole life in government i would be running for governor for president right now but my experience having started out of russia having helped other enterprises grow and thrive is what gives me the experience to put together a plan to help restructure the basis of america's economic foundation. and he jumps at every chance to tout his experience in creating jobs which is a smart move since that's exactly what voters want to hear but now it is also trying to cast himself as the everyday man take a listen and speaking about the economy this week in florida it's not those are very low and it's not something that the very idea is for the great blue class the eighty to ninety percent of us in this country wait so mitt's now a part of the middle class really never mind the fact that mitt is a net worth valued at more than two hundred million dollars and you know it with

actually been at this every man for a couple of months now this summer we told you about mitt's comment to a group of people who are out of work he said quote i should tell my story i'm also unemployed. you see the reason that myth out of work is because he only served one term as governor of massachusetts that he started running for president back in two thousand and six and since his loss in the two thousand and eight republican primary he's done nothing but campaign for the two thousand and twelve race that's more than five years of just being a candidate can every day man go five years without a job i don't think so but now in trying to keep up his new image even taking to twitter and recent weeks he's told everybody about eating breakfast at subway or a burger at carl's jr and he often even tweets about his flights on southwest airlines you know the discount airline with cheap fares and no sign seats so what you have here is the romney campaign trying to change their up tight rich preppy candidate into the every man and middle class man just trying to make it today's hard economy and you know they've recently even stepped up their efforts after news

broke a few weeks ago that mitt was doubling the size of his twelve million dollars beachfront estate in california nothing says every day man like adding on more space to your beachfront estate so here's a little bit of advice for mitt romney nobody cares that you're rich being a successful businessman might actually get you elected and guess what americans aren't that stupid they know that being a successful businessman means that you are rich and that's actually what every american wants for themselves is to be rich so please stop insulting those that are struggling to survive in this economy by we're tending to be one of them and just be authentic about who you are the least in terms of your net wealth you know the constant flip flopping on the issues the used car salesman look that's still something you're going to have to deal with but the other stuff that's why mitt romney is tonight's two assignment. now the u.s. defense budget that's something that we discuss regularly on this show let's get a quick refresher. but it is more than doubled since the year two thousand and for

the fiscal year of two thousand and eleven the government requested seven hundred eight seven hundred eight billion dollars more for the d.o.t. now the defense budget makes up fifty three percent that's more than half of our discretionary spending and despite the d.o.d.'s budgets enormous size and the bass neither party has been willing to touch it but it looks like times are changing to get that deal was signed in early august has already begun chipping away at military spending was planned cuts of three hundred fifty billion from the pentagon at the start but if the appointed super committee can't come up with additional one point five trillion total in spending cuts under offense budget becomes a target again with another six hundred billion in cuts as part of a trigger mechanism let's be honest about the trigger happy to happen that's why they included the cuts to defense to begin with because they know that lawmakers are never actually going to cut the pentagon that drastically but if you are still worried about those cuts then don't the g.o.p. along with the pentagon are doing everything to bake and to instill fear deep in

the hearts of every american about this second round of cuts potentially having to deal all make sure it will never actually happen and boy do they go to that fear mongering to see washington d.c. politicians doing what they do best scaring the daylights out of people they do it all the time let's take a look at some of these rather apocalyptic scenarios that they've laid out for us first we're going to go with representative mark thornberry he's on the house armed services and intelligence committees and vice chairman of the subcommittee of emerging threats so in other words this guy is neck deep in our defense apparatus during a radio show back in august who are very said the first cuts are something in the pentagon says they can live with it's going to be hard but it's the kind of in the bar in the ballpark of what folks have been talking up for a while the second cuts if they were to happen would be devastating you simply could not operate the military with that second round of cuts. so wait a minute you simply could not operate like our military would cease to exist where reason weapons just vanish into thin air and i get it because it affect how

operations are done but that doesn't leave you can do some rearranging some shifting of personnel they're called cuts for a reason to make it smaller but not to be outdone is the only member of the house armed services committee working hard to freak everyone out the committee's chairman representative buck mckeon was worried that round two of cuts would mean that the military would have to get rid of two point three million service members mostly in the national guard and the reserves so the key it think these cuts could lead to a draft during an interview with fox news he said we also need to understand what it's going to mean to keep an all volunteer force do we want to reinstitute the draft some of the cuts we're talking about would take out over two hundred thousand . institute a draft is this guy serious hey we can remember vietnam ever since nine hundred seventy three the us has abandoned the idea of the draft they've moved to an all volunteer force and i think the policy elites learned their lesson pretty well not when after vietnam so let's be clear you know what i really mean no one thinks of the draft as coming back anytime soon any past efforts of discussing

a draft were immediately dismissed by the pentagon and you don't think we can cut two hundred thousand out of the national guard the reserves and still be ok what about the tens of thousands of troops that we still have stationed all over the world on bases in countries where we're not at war germany japan for a whole lot more so nice try but what if the military instantly ceasing to exist or thousands of argues being drafted against their will to serve in the military just wasn't scary enough for you we do have more leon panetta the new secretary of the department of defense has yet to weigh in on our list of world ending possibilities if the budget gets cut back in august but never had his first press conference after taking his produce position of secretary of defense and he did not hesitate to give his two cents and what a second round of funding cuts would mean to our military in fact when he was discussing it what he called a sequestered mechanism that's regarding the trigger effect panetta said this mechanism this kind of doomsday mechanism that was built into the agreement is designed so that would only take effect of congress fails to enact further measures

to reduce the deficit and yeah you heard me correctly there panetta actually called these cuts a dooms day mechanism as in the end of the world literally now apparently doom is going to rain down on the united states of these cuts go through for where not exactly sure but i have a little secret for everyone not only is the world not going to end but the cuts will most likely never be made because politicians like these three men i just quoted they scare the american people so thoroughly that we can no longer have a sane conversation about cuts to the military and i'm not saying the trigger mechanism is the best way the military should be cut it isn't it should. in a thoughtful thought out planned way something that's never going to happen until these very powerful men stop using scary words and start speaking honestly i guess that means turning your backs on all the defense contractors that keep the whole thing going and keep sucking out your taxpayer money that's another part of this question the needs to be had in republic stage. now you probably wouldn't know it

by the amount of media coverage or the lack thereof but occupy wall street is still going on started on september seventeenth with about two thousand people now about one hundred people still camping out in zuccotti park over the last week there have been some arrests some more violent the others and some using archaic laws about not having more than one person wearing a mask unless it was for a masquerade party but this is last week actually it's about protests in america about wall street's grip on power and especially washington well joining me from our studio in new york is evidence from our independent journalist who has been covering this story from day one and i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and now my first question is you know considering the fact that originally they were hoping that twenty thousand people would show up and it was only two thousand and five but it started with two thousand people and now it's only around one hundred people left would you call this a failure or success. i would i would definitely not call it a failure i believe that one of the main goals of occupy wall street is being

achieved you know we're living in some of the most turbulent and fractured times ever seen by the species and i feel like the people that are occupying wall street are very aware of this and i think the main goal in the goal that is being achieved is trying to break the mind control of the masses to remove the population from their stupor of keeping up with the car dash scenes or being mesmerized by how much of vodka snooki can pour into her stubby little body you know and once these type of things it once you have this type of a pitch in a realization it will serve as a catalyst for future manifestations of understanding the majesty of what it is to be a human being and i believe that you know this occupy wall street movement that's one of the main goals and i believe that you know that's what they're doing right now so i would absolutely call it a success but do you think they're actually getting through to people you know this

is something that we've been covering on our show and it's something that our viewers are clearly very interested in and we got a lot of tweets about it we had a lot of messages on line but at the end of the day not how many people actually came out to the protest. but you know you're right it's a slow cook a member speaking with alex jones recently and you know he said it best he said you know we have to go inside the matrix in order to pull people out and you know that's what we're doing right now and navigating your way through you know the establishment of mind control and trying to you know get more people to be aware and to care about these sort of things it is going to be hard you know it is incredibly frustrating but i would not call it a failure i think that it's something that's going to take a lot of time and i believe that this is a beachhead for future. fights and i believe that this is somewhat of a success now what do you make of the fact you know i said that perhaps it's not getting through to people in their field watching keeping up the car dash and maybe it's because they don't know that this is going on but do you make of the lack of

media coverage i mean sure one hundred people hundred fifty hundred or one hundred fifty people base are massive crowds walking on the streets but i think a lot of people made the proper comparison this week that it was the same not a tea partiers you see the media all over it you know the media blackout on this specific issue they don't want to cover it because they understand that like i said before if you are able to infiltrate the psyche of the masses and break that mind control that future manifestations will take place in the establishment wants to keep a population that's decadent and that stuck in this dream state but by no means do i think that it's a failure but it is somewhat upset ng and it is depressing at times but i mean this is just a byproduct of what it is to be a human being and i think that many of us that are out there now have the ambition and we have the vigor to keep fighting and i'm going to keep covering the story whether this in d.c. covers it or not you know i mean there's plenty of journalists out there such as

myself that refuse to be pacified by the lack of coverage by the mainstream media you know we don't need them. well that's good i'm happy to people like yourself and you know we as well will keep covering this story and you know occupy wall street i think might just be the beginning i think we'll see more protests from here on out thank you so much for joining us for joining us tonight absolutely. asco cons and i we have our fireside friday and essentially so stick around for happy hour we're still pale and ends up in a bar room shouting that let's watch out there is a giant satellite that is hurdling towards our back with us tonight. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime. i think. either one well.

we have the government says they've really been through safely get ready for the freedom. give them some closure see the story and it seems so. easy to understand it and then a glimpse something else here's some of the part of it and realize that everything you saw. i'm sorry was a big. secret is put a picture of me when i was like nine years old like this you know lived through.

the contest and i am a total get of friends that i love driving because he is likely. that it was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the old without sincere in its place. in tonight's fireside your. this week we saw a lot of action of the united nations as world leaders came to new york for the general assembly and as usual when speeches were given for international consumption we were a lot of platitudes being given we heard a lot of talk from president obama about democracy human rights freedom around the world and he specifically referred to the arab spring to the u.s.

the support of the people struggle in egypt and in tunisia even if that support was retroactive he said that after forty two years of moammar gadhafi is rule after only six months of battle libya's now forget about the fact that there is still a civil war that's going on there but all in all his speech sounded much like what we heard when the war in libya had just begun we are given the u.s. could not stand idly by and that's why we have to act of course we've been pointing out for months that logic doesn't necessarily fit when you launch a war in libya and then sit idly by while civilians are killed by their own governments in syria yemen and bahrain only recently we saw the stance on syria change around economic sanctions we solve on a call for u.n. security council sanctions and yet in the most that we've heard is a call for a movement towards free and peaceful elections so we can outright just turn against yet another leader that we've propped up for decades and given sol a because let's face it he let this conduct drone strikes on his soil we have far too many interests of our own there to take any real action so we have to be soft with the

rhetoric after all we're building drone bases in the region so that we can continue bombing campaigns for years to come but now when it comes to bahrain that's when it really gets ugly scene a speech at the united nations this week president obama took a very subdued tone when it came to this country especially a comparison to the sanctions in the harsh words that he had for syria he said in bahrain steps have been taken toward reform and accountability but more required he also said that america is a close friend of bahrain and we will continue to call on the government and the main opposition bloc to pursue a. meaningful dialogue that brings peaceful change that is responsive to the people by meaningful dialogue on a research close friends that we can't criticize bahrain for not recognizing the will of its people for killing its people for bringing saudi arabian troops in to suppress their own people you know it's a perfect example of our picking and choosing our even policy towards democracy and freedom we support it when it's convenient and seeing as how we have a massive naval base in bahrain i guess that makes it not so convenient you know

this isn't just a case of being timid of not saying enough it's actually a case where our government is going far in the opposite direction here's something that glenn greenwald pointed out today a pentagon news release from september fourteenth apparently congress was notified by the pentagon of a possible foreign military sale to the government of bahrain for armored high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicles tell missiles and associated equipment worth an estimated fifty three million dollars not only are we not criticising the monarchy we're actually giving it more weapons with which they can surprise people it's interesting that obama didn't mention that little detail in his speech but he was talking about how hard piece it's illicit and many of us surprising you know is it disappointing yes it's a hypocritical most definitely but next time let's just nix the speeches let's make the moral arguments for our actions unless the entire picture really adds up.

friday and for happy hour and join me tonight is artie web writer andrew blake and my critiques of the editor at reason magazine and reason dot com. nap it was given to go. right for starters there is a giant satellite hurdling towards earth and i kill us all take a look at the afi. it's morning pilots to keep an eye out for pieces of a falling satellite now debris from that satellite is expected to hit sometime this afternoon the pieces could be anywhere from ten to one hundred pounds and that's a sense that it's not likely the pieces are going to hit the united states but still they don't know where it's going to be now i don't think those what the hell they're talking about because all week we've been wanting to do this story and they've been saying don't worry it's not going to hit the united states for sure or

no for a while they're saying it could have united states then this morning it for sure was not going to hit the united states and we were clear then suddenly we became a target again like come on you get your act together or whatever the satellites going to land so you've lost your faith in government i think say because you have lost a great a. base i mean this is the most exciting thing was probably going to have from newsweek through the morning about the incident yes otherwise it was even ryan gosling movie and get drunk so i'm really excited today you can do all three. was really one out of three thousand. or so you know i am i one thirty trillion to one that is three thousand two hundred that if someone believes that it. was ok well that i thought you know that's a good you know. ok whatever it is impossible don't don't believe me it's i'm not an astronaut are you sure. i do a bit of walking around wondering if you might get hit by

a satellite and you think of my life and most of the thrilling that will happen to me this week ok all the more reason to you know live life to its fullest go for it go big or go home. there is a professor out of pittsburgh that's suing the police department there and anyway i'll get into my first experience with this but when they have the g. twenty in pittsburgh and there are protests that were going on they use this crazy sonic device that really pierces your ears so we might have to plug your ears for a second but this is what it sounds like. yeah that's a i haven't you haven't. i mean i love the video of people running just because it's like a very nerdy like this is all because. i know i ok i was there covering the protests at the time and i was the reporter that was assigned to go do the story about the protests i was standing like ten feet away from this thing and it really is just as such

a piercing of miserable horrible sound like you feel like you're just getting attacked by birds and satellites are falling on you unlike you want to run and hide and cry and so it might be that somebody is you know. yeah i think most of our crowd control methods are like sort of overly motorists but having to run from a loud noise is like a first world problem i mean like i was watching these videos in greece you know have you been getting. as you have been syria a thousand people dead in a week so we get to sue over a lengthy but i don't hear what it's worse elsewhere that's you know it's my mantra would have been to pittsburgh so i wouldn't say it's a first world. you know i'm going to pittsburgh i don't have a reason yeah exactly i have no choice now so i can't totally wrong impression of pittsburgh because when you were there for the g. twenty the entire city with shut down like all of downtown was shut down it was a weird crazy ghost town even to get to the convention center i first had to go through security at like the baseball arena take

a bus over the bridge so you're sure that was just for g.t.a. and then you had to hear a noise. and read me if i could just because the point. ok now i think you might like this video bristol palin that would be sarah palin's daughter kind of bit of a bar fights not a physical altercation but to take. was such. was. their choice was. ok so i mean if somebody talks bad about your mom then by all means go and defend

your mother that is what you were supposed to do so i almost was going to give her some credit for going in defending her mom because you know who cares what i think about sarah palin like it's her mom so go ahead defend her but then don't say are you only yelling because you're a homosexual yet like a good story you're suppose you're yelling because you're gay you know i mean he uses homosexuality more right i mean like maggie gallagher and maybe i don't i hear everything whether you're you sure you did your family values that i grew up with. booze or babies out of wedlock you know every time the palin family makes the news i love them a little more aware of this actually do you know part of this is ok so you got that saddle ranch on sunset i mean i'm not a i go by a rash or oh ok there you can see how labor showed me as a mechanical bull it's not a white trash i know it because it's on sunset boulevard so this is like l.a. over your head like what i would be like would be like real american even though i hate the whole real america think of california mark or not that's real anyway

starting to really get. your tickets if that's not if how do you think it's ninety seconds to talk about the mechanical bull to it that is like the funniest part not that yes he called his and our mom a whore that was a really graceful to smile i think i've seen some people go off those things in all directions. all right. pam this last one ok so the magazine publisher larry flynt is trying to offer one million dollars to anybody who can prove that perry has had an illicit sexual liaison i was actually not the first person to do this because remember there was also the support that you had to put it in a newspaper but the reason we found this so funny because fox news decided to cover the story and their headline just said liberal smut peddler offer he cash for. some but. when he ran for california governor his whole take lie was on the smut peddler that cares he's a small problem here not sure though like i mean the thing though explain

politically is most known for morning thing else as being a first amendment advocate and that's not like a liberal issue you know i mean mike's point i'm sure would defend like all these the rights of christian fundamentalists to spout their sort of crazy stuff you know so i mean he was just saying if you happen to know any illicit affairs that he's had no you know he had to do probably i don't want to add to this is a weird thing for people re going after perry for everybody who's on that stage like why why is perry still in sexual sexual hypocrisy he was with the wrong supporter said yeah why not i mean there's so much other stuff to nail him on i'd rather like i'd rather find out about mitt romney because you're so. right you guys i have to wrap it up of course it's red time to take for joining me yes that's it for a night show thanks for tuning in make you come back i find they are going to be here for half an hour and i got to get to become a fan of the a lot of time facebook followers on twitter this anything you think you can dot com flashing a lot of snow and coming up next. a

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