think the beginning of the weekends when you once home are al improves so as useful protests in momentum in the fight against wall street why does it seem freedom of speech and the right to assemble are being forced to remain silent we'll speak with a protester who shot this video. plus things aren't always what they say you know you wouldn't be able to tell by reading the mainstream outlines so as they give a false sense of economic reality what's really happening. and from one has failed headlines to another maybe it's time for the mainstream media to take a hike as these are happy images smothered headlines happy hypers return from harry

iran why is the mainstream media so intent on taking a trip and abuse records abroad when there are so many more and their own backyard . rising to have ins of the us surrender as its space shuttle program china as well on its way to building its own i haven't laid tile s. so is this the beginning of the next great space friends. it's thursday september twenty ninth five five pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our team. protesters occupying wall street continued to gain momentum for nearly two weeks now protesters have been spilling

out onto not only wall street with the streets of boston los angeles and chicago to name a few because people say they represent ninety nine percent of the population in the united states fed up with the greed and corruption of the corporate elite and the government that supports them now the movement is growing despite efforts to silence it reports amateur video of police resorting to violence fencing off crowds performing mass arrests and even pepper spraying protesters seemingly without provocation and our next guest a protester herself in mansfield caught a couple of incidents on camera take a look. so as thousand struggled to have their voices heard is freedom of speech and the right to assemble under attack in america i spoke to an earlier announcer to share her story take a listen. i was down at recess and we were in the streets. people

walking free and we got to union square and things sort of changed the cops became more aggressive in the more active about trying to quell everyone's excitement and then they ended up rattling off and he's killing sections of the crowd needed standards and he designed and we're pushing the full story in which we can still leave that page we buy those. and they make them for flora in the ground in treating changing and. why should god we want them to three girls of the front face been in the face in the spray from all they're facing he's hard to get moving in a crowd i get it just on the left side and i think molest i and so that of their other ever that's how i feel about what you were seeing around you why do you think that the police were resorting to violence. it's easy

a combination of frustration in i think maybe maybe our experience maybe they picked out people that they associate with the stereotype because of gravel rousers or people that they would expect if not trouble even when we were and think maybe they saw it as a a preventative measure maybe i'm not sure there's an inexplicable reason and did you think that the actions that they were taking pepper spraying people are arresting them where they justify it. i don't think so i mean i can understand you saw the gators interview in july and just having to get out of the union in dispute there was no nobody made any violent gestures didn't knew him. being aggressive there was nothing new that's what we were there was a lot of noise people lee shouting changing the life of their cameras out there was no big but i thought we were. ok and from your story and from what it sounds like there definitely an attack to stop there or that least as violence because

protesters to the foreign accent do you think that protesting as it was down upon these days and do you think glad that one of our fundamental rights as americans the freedom of speech and assembly is under attack. i think in a lot of ways just through the media's metaphors the protests there's no meaning to me as being disorganized assignment so ridiculous and i feel like that that's coming from has been leaking to the secret is being is as the day it was released in the form. fifty's as the stereotype is and just like young people it better to do what it really does a lot of people who merit alone and jobs are there will be going on. any number of other issues just told to do so and they do not lay people who don't agree with them recently and you know recently a new york marable own guard warned that the unemployment crisis could trigger riots and social unwrap you think that this is the direction that we could be

headed. i could easily see you would have ripped into your right a little specially if he. reacted the same way i don't think the anger and especially not the people in the crowd aren't a little easier when you're pretty it could be full right and i you know people get involved in the back and ignore the figures. and you know a criticism and you have mentioned touched on it earlier that we're seeing a lot about in the about this movement now in the mainstream media is that these protests lack organization they lack a unified message and as an observer and a participant of occupy wall street do you see this is this true. i think a lot of people don't know there's some people preaching anarchy you know so returning they didn't need more government regulation but i think they all having so many do you think the restriction is trying to you know we've managed through just the top one percent of the investment you seem to be hearing curating their

fish are. struggling. if you're interested in spending their money. jane thank you so much for sharing your story with us that was jean mansfield a protester with occupy wall street well despite protests nationwide things are looking up today after u.s. reports show an economic rebound according to the latest headlines out this morning the private finally some good news on the economic front here's a look at a few of us stocks rally treasuries richard reid on economy data and the german vote is according to blow bloomberg. financial stocks leave broad rally according to c.n.n. money and the wall street journal says u.s. stocks futures are higher as european markets look to rebound. the reason for those

rosy headlines u.s. stocks in the euro rose today on stronger than expected economic data germany's lawmakers approved new powers for the eurozone rescue fund meanwhile here at home the number of jobless claims dropped sharply last week while new numbers show slight growth in the u.s. economy for the second quarter now those of us who are in economic experts could be forgiven for thinking perhaps hoping the economic doom and gloom could soon be a thing of the past but is that really the case that millions of americans are making unemployed as congress seems to be stuck in political gridlock and the future of the eurozone remains unclear as europe struggles to address its economic crisis and the global investors are warning of financial meltdown and social unrest in the next year according to a bloomberg survey out today so what's the verdict an economy that slowly on the mend or looming economic collapse for some answers earlier i spoke with edward

harrison founder of the blog credit write down i asked him to break things down for those of us who are not financial experts and tell us which way the economic winds are blowing here are his predictions. i think. it's not very clear at this point but the odds are even at a minimum that we are headed for a recession and a lot of that actually has to do with the policy response go through europe and. one in the united states we have. the end of this school stimulus the end of any sort of support from the government to the economy that's going to be a headwind then we also have the federal reserve which is also going to keep things relatively high. compared to the loosening that they had done before and then europe it's pretty much the same thing that you have austerity

which is even more than what we have in the united states and you also have the monetary policy which is also fairly tight but it may be reduced at some point but both of those say that the policy response is going to be restrictive unless we see some miraculous we found in the consumer or. companies it's going to be very difficult so sounds like some were doom and gloom what about the these numbers these headlines that we are seeing is this just a small step off i am going along is to go i mean a what can we gather anything positive from from these the headlines and these new reports you know there are one or two good things. none of them are necessarily a trend this point but we saw jobless claims which run to four hundred thousand for the first time in a long time and we saw fairly good numbers in the housing market it shows that

during the summer selling season the housing market stabilize and we also saw that g.d.p. was estimated one point three percent annualized instead of one percent angle. switches that are. thought so that's good but that doesn't necessarily make any difference in terms of how things are proceeding going forward all right and we thought let's talk a little bit more about jobs because we did see a small drop in jobless claims let's kill more than forty percent. unemployed americans have been out of work for half a year or more four point five million americans haven't worked for a year or more and we even saw burning addressed the jobs issue yesterday calling it a quote national crisis do you think that this is changing anytime soon it's not going to change because at the end of the day what we're having a problem with is demand there's a there's a lack of demand when people have jobs they don't go shopping and they don't buy

things and therefore companies don't see any demand for their products and they will hire at some point that turns around how does it turn around there's an incremental buyer sometimes that's the government the power two or three years it has been the government and now the government's not that incremental by those results we're going to have. economic weakness ok now i want to move on to the situation in europe what's going on in greece stop a moment and how might it affect the euro zone will be to that was happening and what i call the extended for two strategy when you look at all of the market metrics for greece in particular it's pretty much a lock a certainty that greece will default the question is how much of a haircut how much of a loss are the creditors for greece couldn't say at this point the politicians are trying to extend this effort and the creditors will have to take this loss in the

meantime that it creates a contagion both in terms of the way that we saw in the previous headlines about the the german voters the dutch voters but also. in terms of greece. it has a contagion to other countries in terms of how it has a knock on effect for the italy as an example. that was founder of credit right down the road harrison. so the grim economy has also taken its toll on nasa the program has recently retired its last space shuttle fleet china now has its eye on the sky this after it successfully launching an experimental module today china as well on its way to building its own heavenly palace but as the chinese space program is getting us on the first celeste real ambition an american astronaut take their thumbs out the hitch a ride on russian rockets is this the next start of the great space race joining me now for more on this is

a grilling on andersen associate professor rosberg versity hi will ian thanks for joining us good to be here thank you china now i have some ambition but placing one of their own men on the moon by the year twenty to money do you think the u.s. cooperating with china or will this launch a new space race. question i think the why single b. would be to cooperate with china this would be a great thing unfortunately we also have little voices here in this country claiming that somehow this is a threat to us i'm not sure how it's a threat to us but. i'm sure the very clever people in washington will try to beat the drums and claim that we have to try to get back to the moon or the chinese do or maybe that this is the first step to war i don't know but i do believe that it would be a good thing to cooperate absolutely i understand that the u.s. there. they see it as a threat because they think china could possibly be using space for military and

their share and do you think that's a valid fear. i don't know if it's a valid fear i mean united states certainly has done it and so we we tend to think that if we've done it why then. nobody else should be allowed to do it i'm not sure why we have that attitude here but nonetheless i do think that anything can be used i guess for military ambitions but i really do not think that's where the chinese are headed the chinese have become much wealthier because they've gotten away from the socialism that dominated them for years and years they've gone much more to a market economy and much more to a zero economy where they're making things for the rest of the world so i'm not quite sure how china how people can square that with the idea which try to really want to do is make rockets so all the markets where it's selling things i just i'm not quite sure how people come to that conclusion but you know that

a lot of people in washington will come to lots of conclusions that are strange and you know the space leadership is often seen as a symbol of international leadership do you think you ask losing its power when it comes to space will be a symbolic of the u.s. overall decline of its power and influence in the world well that's an interesting point i do think that if we got out of the nasa i mean that nasa is basically now just are hopeless bureaucracy and i know we put people on the moon in sixty nine i remember where i was i was in high school at the time and i do i think though that if we actually would allow the entrepreneurs to be turned loose in instead of making this a government operation really allow private companies to find what they can make out of space rather with satellites or whatever. and or even space tourism

that in fact i think we could become a very very good leader in space. glut i think that if we want to depend on dow so then yeah you'll see that whatever position we have declining because nasa just is incapable i think of really doing anything great anymore very interesting some more cop cooperation between china and russia russia sold china some space suits and some other space here i why isn't the us part of this collaboration that's a good question and i think would be great if they were i thought i really like the idea of of seeing cooperation between governments on this so i don't know why we can't do it i mean you know the russians aren't going to be invading osa neither are the chinese so i don't see what all the fear isabel i think would be a great thing i mean and the russians have a very capable scientists and so do the chinese i mean i. i think this could be

a really good thing to really promote cooperation but whether or not people want to do it that's you know that's that's something beyond me i'm not occultation. really i'm thank you for joining us that was william anderson a filthy professor at frostburg state university well a free country that prides itself on free press truth is supposed to win over propaganda a watchdog press is supposed to hold governments accountable for abuses of power that happened at home last week to american hikers were released from an iranian jail a story that continues to make headlines here in the u.s. i have mine screamed abuse and i ran but silence it seems when it comes to abuses of power right here on u.s. soil so when it comes to playing the watchdog who is back to the us press really have our keys on the southie of churkin our reports. the mainstream media watchdog

over slieve to power days near us centric stories on of these americans coming back after being held in prison stories villainize even government touted to be fully comprehend the threat that iran poses. now apparently we don't while america's own skeletons ok deep into the fog seen a financial crisis happen the meteor missed him you know a deep economic distress in this country that no one predicted we've seen two wars go. projections that they were about to be ended and we see a basic attitude which i characterize as a you all about us. the american hikers that were held in a ring in prison and the true headlines dramatizing and mulling over every detail with a simple plea let our kids go they're just waiting for the moment they've been waiting for for so long while largely ignoring america's own ongoing detention abuses like

those at guantanamo bay every time we complained about our conditions the guards would immediately remind us of comparable commissions at guantanamo bay. he would remind us of cia prisons in other parts of the world this left out of the mainstream media coverage all that was mentioned was americans were given a hard time and this person will die independent journalist has covered foreign policy for over thirty years and says modern day coverage avoids context the sordid history of the run began with the cia helped overthrow the shah of iran in one nine hundred fifty three and put in a regime that was tuned to american interests that's what the problem is and what iranians have been angry about ever since i was also angry are americans out on the streets at home. i. cleaned. their positions over

marginalized and prevented that's printed. the mainstream media authorised to ridicule and downplay true american protest and they like to think that this is just a very narrow group of people that say we're on the streets in the last couple weeks and then on in the wall street protests protests. while applauding the arab spring uprising echoing the official stance of the american government and many reporters many going to do some producers really want nothing more than to have access to the and they think of governments as a source of news they think press conferences are a place where news is generated wanting to keep their jobs journalists play it safe i can even begin to count how many times someone has told me you know i can't risk pissing off making my source i don't want to be cut out otherwise i may be able to work afraid of being blocked from the circle of insiders the mainstream media has traded integrity for this cause the relationship that's politicians play havoc with

policies and laws while the media whether it's aware of it or not does the government's bidding. martini. and for more on all that i spoke to the always outspoken brian backer a national coordinator of the answer called less than i want to dig deeper and for all that all of this i asked him a simple question what does the mainstream media covering this story say about their priorities. i think we see with most of the corporate owned media in the united states that whatever the political position the line if you so speaker of the united states government and i think that largely is to sensationalize a story and largely to take the u.s. position in this case there's no question about the fact that the three hikers were arrested wrongly by iran held wrongly and ignoring the big question which is that the united states has been virtually at war with iran carrying out sanctions having

commando operations carrying out cyber attacks against iran iran had a revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine that's the context in other words if you strip any particular at any particular incident even one is great is the rest of the sacred from the political and historical context the story loses meaning and the mainstream media has used this incident as an opportunity to criticize and highly they human rights and justice as in iran and not necessarily saying that that criticism isn't deserved but why has the mass and of these two young men been over have lacked that. the similar acts of abuse occur right here in the u.s. and it gives other u.s. governments an excuse to do to do the same thing right i mean if we have the american media doing what they did in this case and highlighting the abuse of. american those who have been detained by americans in iraq those who have been detained in afghanistan including iranian officials who have been seen for long

periods of time in iraq or those who are being detained at guantanamo bay or in secret prisons around the country around the world and subjected to all kinds of torture the entire. and people would be aware that torture bad imprisonment false imprisonment the violation of people's due process rights is a routine function of the united states government but instead because they are watching a corporate sponsored media they say well that's what's happening in iran that's what the iranian government does rather than focus on what their own government is doing which of course is far greater in terms of what it is doing around the world in terms of. people's due process rights very end you know these hikers they reveal that while they were in iran applecarts would constantly remind them of comparable conditions and guantanamo. and so do you think that the u.s. human rights record can be compared to iran's. well i i think the u.s. human rights record is one of the worst in the world and i think it's

a fantasy that the u.s. media presents that are somehow the americans are democratic and there's due process rights and people's people are not tortured when in fact it's just the opposite i don't know what the conditions are exactly in iran certainly i'm against any abuse of any prisoner held anywhere i think people's human rights and the rates as prisoners must be maintained whether it's iran or any other country but comparing the united states who run we can see the u.s. has developed an entire global network of secret prisons and has authorized legally authorized the use of torture against people around the world and now we have the obama administration sanctioning the same practices that we started under bush but also including the right of the american government to kill whoever they do it with whomever they want to and there are thousands of people who have been assassinated in targeted killings that's the grossest kind of human rights violation if the tables were turned. and iranians illegally wandered onto us

and they were captured kind of approach do you think we would take our ad do you think they would be treated in a similar fashion or would we handle that what do you think well we know that even people who are not accused of political crimes are spine by just mexicans or central americans who have come across the united states border illegally they're being held for years at a time and then deported they're torn away from their families i mean it's a fundamental violation of thousands hundreds of thousands of lives a million people have been deported by the obama administration that's more than any any other president. that was brian bakker national coordinator of the answer. so as the u.s. economy politicians are in full fund raising swing and this is only the beginning just this week president obama tensile towns have drawn up support from big support at thirty five thousand dollars a plate so simming your gut level life of luxury how much would you pay support

your favorite leader laurie harkness of the resident that nat for the story of the big find out. president obama health center that individuals could attend for just over thirty five thousand dollars how much money would you spend to have dinner with a world leader this week let's talk about that how much would you spend your oh why i'm not happy the job he's doing. i think. twenty but i ten bags. hillary clinton billions because i love her and obama now obama a year ago. now actually. five thousand dollars on taking that money. thousand. because that's what i could

afford is there anyone you would spend more that dinner with. maybe michelle cheney i would love to spend money to talk to and actually get the truth of what happened for those years but again you won't get any truth that i want some kind of important. really just something for mankind and you know i think thousands to that i don't think too much it would. be thirty five thousand dollars. spent for a campaign funds for. ok here and. how much would you spend so i had dinner with the pope it's been thirty five thousand for the as long as he would to try to really think that would guarantee us he'd have been well yeah yeah but i think he's got a good call with it politics and government has reached such levels of b.s.

and it's partly due to all of the money that's involved with it that no i don't think i would spend money on that i don't think that's i'd rather somebody spend thirty five thousand dollars on education or some direct way of actually helping people instead of just getting in good with a lobbyist no matter how much money you'd spend to have dinner with a world leader let's just hope that at the end of it they'd pick up the check. well that does it for now for more stories that we cover go to our dot com slash usa and check out our you tube page that's dot com slash arts in america i'm liz wahl see you and our in-house. what drives the world the fear mongering by politicians who makes decisions to create. who can you trust no one. with the global reach him.