box critics cry foul of the us signs away even more american civil liberties from internet freedoms to regulate tanning salons forget a recession the u.s. may be dealing with some downright oppression we'll explain. it's tuesday january third eight pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. well the iowa caucus is now caucus is now underway and they started just minutes ago let's take a look at how the media is covering the frenzy and iowa. the race to the finish and i was. you can see right here from the morning register newspaper. you know when all of this started that we would be chasing rick santorum around in the final twenty four hours i would say that ron paul is the one that is winning their imagination by anything with these so seeing

ron paul on television so much goosing guy got. another good heavens i went every four years with his caucus as ron paul when he. converged already on mitt romney. in a romney win. now in this race it is clear three front runners have. is a more in register poll finds mitt romney leading ron paul and rick santorum so it appears the battle lines have been drawn and one of these three men will win each candidate has a very different following let's take a look at who they are and what they stand for mitt romney is the man with the money he's got the big business background the see who's not afraid to fire you to make a buck and that's why the big businesses have lined up behind him he's considered to be the most electable and then there is a ron paul he has a legion of dedicated followers those mostly young supporters are sick of the status quo not happy with the current state of the economy and meddling in the wars

abroad they believe ron paul is the only candidate that offers a real change. and the new candidate enjoying his time in the spotlight is rick santorum he is the darling of the far right religious conservatives and pastors and i are flocking now to his campaign he has a strong stance against abortion and gay marriage meanwhile ron paul is getting some celebrity endorsements the first winner of american idol kelly clarkson tweeted her support for paul and apparently it was a great career move for her because sense that tweet her cd shot up in the charts almost cracking the top ten also indorsing paul active duty soldiers serving abroad and some girls from the moonlight bunny ranch brothel in the vatican they are pimpin for paul well now that the troops have lined up behind their candidates how

will the caucus play out minister grayson from the electric church of god join me earlier from atlanta georgia to weigh in a little it was surprising in about three days i went from six thousand subscribers to over eighty six hundred so i guess it must have made some sort of impact on book and to tell us about your videos and the message that you were trying to get out. as it stands the mrs on trying to get out now america needs to wait look to what is taking place in this country. been a long time republican and conservative and voting in that block when obama was what the republicans would do is what decided i would give somebody who was saying something. slightly different machines and bomb and i have

repented of that. decision so now i hold no allegiance to either party to me they are just one big circus just trading clowns all doing the same thing and the only individual who stands out from the crowd with been consistent in doing what he is saying he was going to do since he has been in washington ness ron paul there i can count on i don't agree with everything that you say is ok if we all agree with what everyone see it this would be one world but ron paul you can count on him to stick with what is constitutionally sound you can stick you can count on him to stick with conservative principles and you can count on him to not being a go along get along politician and that's all we have been getting for the last twenty years that have been voting now ron paul as doing

a much better than the mainstream ever would have imagined and now he's taken being serious at finally being taken seriously. do you think that he could actually win this that would be able to pull this off absolutely i believe he is going to win are you listening if huckabee. ron paul would i mean iowa i'm all for it and i believe he will take iowa and if he can win iowa he can win other caucuses as we'll have ron paul does paul the sov and he does when the caucus the iowa caucus how that set the tone for the rest of the election. it will say to america those who support ron paul that he is in fact a contender that he does in fact have something to say because what the media will try and do by and large and. preach this time and time again they would like to

destroy the whole because when they were talking about ron paul having an opportunity to win in iowa then they dismissed it as well they're really won't care what will really count is what takes place in new hampshire so it won't matter to newt gingrich this won't matter but it does matter it sends a message that america is sick and tired of go alone get along politicians and they are the ones who need to wake up because next we will start sending people to washington who will work with ron paul to get rid of all of the gridlock that goes on in washington between republicans and democrats now paul supporters are among the reasons why they love him as this antiwar mass and that he sends again and again by his opponents are also attacking him for his noninterventionist of years some say that he has lacks views on iran for example are dangerous ad you

think that accusation is resonating with voters. for voters who understand ron paul we actually get those who don't understand ron paul and who allow the media and politicians to spoon feed them fear then they go along with what the politicians say about ron paul well for those of us who get it ron paul is saying listen war after war after war going back to desert storm nothing has changed we need to change our strategy we need to change our policy because what you have been doing is not working and if we allow people why obama or any of the other g.o.p. members remember i say you know the same clowns playing in the same circus we're here for world war three and face. and just want to ask you caucus says are just moments away now what is your prediction for tonight i believe

they're wrong paul will win iowa. minister thank you so much for coming on the show today thank you so much for having me. well still ahead on r.t. has candidates race to the finish line nations around the world scramble to business their defense shield relations are quickly having sound for the winter so is another u.s. war brewing in the persian gulf that story next. the folks at the end of the day they're the police corruption of the folks. like what a protester who nobody seems to know. but never a pepper sprayed the face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic.

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all tension heating up in the middle east take a look at this. iran has fired a cruise missile today further straining the country's relationship with the us europe and israel the focus now is in the strait of hormuz a waterway where about a sixth of the world's oil is shipped there's has hawkish rhetoric on both sides suggest another war in the middle east is a burn away so when it comes to foreign policy what is in store for two thousand

and twelve earlier i spoke to pepe escobar and he gave me his predictions for the year ahead take a look two thousand and twelve is going to be a really really hard core it's brinkmanship and blustering on both sides u.s. and iran. get that on the thirty first of december obama passed what is raising a cruel cream in their eyes operate anyone who tries to deals with the iranian central bank well russia will ignore it china will ignore it south korea which one of the dog importers of energy will ignore all other countries in the middle east and slaton america or central asia like the minister and they do or guess webster instance will ignore it the saying is you run is going to be pig for its energy in third party accounts in different accounts with the

banks in turkey for instance in new one by the chinese inventors whether they have already agreements so these sanctions are not actually going to bite so why have they been approved in what and for what purpose in fact. a pack israeli lobby once again sold they are trying to ratchet up the rhetoric and ratchet up the economic sanctions against iran trying to push the west in a little extra a year to go to war in iran which is a device are so infinite that you can't really know if there's any small measure of success in the end so it's not going to work basically so this is how we start two thousand and twelve and some call these sanctions an act of war would you go as far as as a college that. yes it's an act of war can imagine if it was the other way around if these sanctions were against american exports of oil or if this sinks us or

against china for instance assuming china you know main source of of of foreign exchange for china will be to export energy it is an act of war this thing is how you're going to implemented and who's going to respect that being with europeans like you know today the french foreign ministry pathetically is saying look we have to curb our imports of iranian oil what's going to happen to the european economy if that happens now it's one hundred eighth a barrel so it's going to be one hundred training and in one month could be one hundred forty one hundred fifty and you want to recover the economies of the u.s. and europe as well with oil at one hundred fifty it's not going to happen and it's totally counterproductive. law and amendments and the way it's going to be interpreted by the obama administration i'm not sure they're going to try to provoke a confrontation against south korea for instance an ally with russia china or with countries in south america or in central asia for that matter and have elso want to

talk more about china where you say the u.s. is a new cold war what do you mean by that. well it is a new cold war in terms of what happened with hillary clinton's trip to central asia about a month and a half ago obama's trip to south seas australian southeast asia months and a half ago more or less and this deployment of marines to darwin in northern australia and the progressive in the minds of washington of course encircled of china in the south china sea and the intersection between the indian ocean and the south china sea. this is completely crazy because what is stead of america proposing a project for celsius. for the countries in the cells trying to see or a vision for the future it's another military drive and the chinese of course

because the chinese diasporas they are extremely powerful know this solves this station so when there is something to be negotiated in the south china sea will be on the table between china and the philippines china and vietnam china and indonesia and not with american military interference so it sounds and it looks like a desperate ploy from a decline in empire once again so we keep repeating the same scenario over and over again you know now i want to shift a little bit to a controversial law recently signed into law by president obama and it's related because you know the us takes launches these wars takes these steps all in the name of fighting terrorism he least recently signed this new piece of legislation into law it's the national defense authorization act and this act allows for the indefinite detention of u.s. citizens and his justification when he signed this was quote ultimately i decided to sign this bill not only because of the critically important services it provides

for our forces and their families and the national security programs it authorizes but also because the congress revised provisions i would otherwise have jeopardize the safety security and liberty of the american people so he is justified but he has said this a moment that he is very weary about some of the controversial things in the bells so. if there is such a controversial aspects of the bill why would he sign it and what are the greater implications of this. absolutely it's crazy he was force this law the apac law in congress you have a bunch of people in congress which are these spies by the overwhelming majority of the american population like congress' approval rate nowadays is what twelve ten twelve percent maximum they force this law to obama he signed it reluctantly with the kids here look we need the if something happens it's up to my discretion to

apply this or not but the problem is the law is already signed so assuming obama would not do anything in terms of imprisoning americans for ever you have the right to remain detained for the rest of your life that's what it means this law but the next president especially if it's a republican hard core president might well do it and presidents after that as well so this is crazy because now it's the letter of the law so in terms of the whole mystery this being propagated over and over again for. the declaration of independence that this is the food democracy now it's over and it's for everyone to see even the current theories they're extremely authoritarian can point to the u.s. as a look your own citizens are not even free anymore you can throw the whole population in jail if you want to with the excuse of terrorism so this means another thing the

war on terror you was not there when i was there was kewl or not killed a few months ago the loss of their lives on. and i just want to ask you one more question looking at what is in store for two thousand and twelve and do you see more violent complex in the middle east as inevitable at this point. look i've been talking to some people this past few weeks historians university professors of political science majors and that there is a sort of unofficial consensus that mean we are approaching a nineteen fourteen situation in two thousand and twelve where you remember saraj in. one thousand nine hundred fourteen that was you know at the beginning of the first world war the great war for civilization as it was built this is not going to be a great war for civilization on the contrary it would be barbarism hardcore if you remember that general mike mullen the former head of the joint chiefs of staff his

idea to deal with iran was a monster shock and awe was an attack there you know iraq in two thousand and three compared to me it would be like disneyland to completely shatter the communications and the lines of communication of the regime in tehran you mediated in front of the europeans and then you run as would rally the peoples the regime and the west to have a new satrapi in the middle east all this cannot possibly work but still a lot of people in the pentagon neocons and all that they still think it might. that was asia times correspondent pepe escobar and while some fear what the new well war new year will bring when it comes to foreign policy many of course are using this time to set those new year's resolutions and some are ready to get rid of last year's dirty laundry so what would you ban in two thousand and twelve laurie harshness takes that question to the streets of the big apple.

two thousand and twelve is now arriving what would you rid the world of in the new year this week let's talk about that i think wall street protest because it doesn't really help anything at all if you ask me i'm a business student is my fifth year in college and i just i don't know what the point is i understand what they're fighting for and i grieve for but for me i'm like you just taking up space i would probably be. gambling. in the world be a better place without those things yeah i think it would be lots of benefits yeah i agree i think a lot of people would protest though oh i have no doubt a lot of people would protest definitely including the government because they are acts of much money out of it it be occupy the liquor store time noble borders and more borders let's just all be one country yeah because it's so difficult to travel around. i like that and then what about what do we do for money do we just have one

monetary unit. well with the way the euro is going to have such a good idea people trying to score points in politics. you can make the clean up the politics in twenty two out is made into things that are good for the world not just good to get reelected oh poverty for sure yeah so how do you think the world leaders should go about starting that. well distribute the wealth so yes. definitely bad it causes too many problems as good as it is a cause too many problems then in the world for britain everywhere. do you would you legalize anything. are economic the speed limits been higher there is. yeah i let everyone speed up faster because they'd all be sober yeah that's right only to drive is there or am bit of intolerance so you have make everyone tolerate all different cultures yeah that's

a tall order i know well you asked if i could religion probably ban religion all of our spiritual but religion as a religion we think the differences. control no matter what you'd like to abolish internationally let's just hope two thousand and twelve brings us a little closer to a better world. well the u.s. government is helping you ring in the new year with forty thousand new laws from outlawing wrong milk to regulating tanning salons to restricting who can get an abortion many new laws kick in this year and they don't stop at the federal government so or the stop online piracy act allows the federal government to shut down sites they think are breaking the law critics call this ship so what's up with all these laws and are we starting off two thousand and twelve with less freedoms

while to answer that i spoke to george hemminger founder of survive and thrive t.v. and he told me why he is preparing for a worst case scenario take a listen. on the ground here we are just trying to get ready for armageddon i mean i was just talking to a kid yesterday at the coffee shop i think sixteen to twenty nine year olds are sick almost fifty percent unemployment. people just given up hope on finding work and the government is just continually enacting laws that make no sense whatsoever and you get to the point where you start giving up on the government and. i know this happened in russia where people just lost lost faith in the bureaucracy lost. in the leaders and i think we're getting to that point a lot of people a lot of my followers on my channel started to give up on the whole process of what america is supposed to be and i want to talk to you about sopa this is

a very controversial bill critics say it's censorship that or it restricts freedom of speech on the internet but one public publication is standing behind this very controversial bill the boston globe states quote free speech and fair use can co-exist while the n.c. piracy bill still needs further refinement to ensure that its legal wording precisely matches its legislative intent online piracy as a major problem that imposes a real economic cost congress needs to take action to protect american jobs from piracy although the proposed legislation may be imperfect it is a strong and decisive step in the right direction so i want to ask you why would the boston globe come out publicly support such a controversial bill. i think it's it's confusion there's two points i want to make on sopa in one is it seems like the users of the internet are the only

ones fighting against this kind of tola tarion view and shutting down of channels of communication users at home and one that the everybody that would be me that would be everybody is you insane you know google and facebook yahoo these are big corporations that are it gets so but i believe where are the why are they there throwing their money at congress why are i mean why are these big internet companies getting involved and throwing their weight around financially the fight against these arcane laws you know the companies that are supporting so are you know are hollywood the motion picture association the music industry. the question is the second wave of this is we're talking about a whole change in the way we view. personal property rights you know we begin in industrial era revolution and now we're heading to a whole new type of society where people share information the internet. copyright

the idea of copyright is being put into question and i think what's happening with these laws that are being passed are just the old guard trying to hold on to power and that's all that this is and then what do you think are the greater implications of this bell and a. prevent piracy and illegal behavior online but could it be a greater you know window for the government to come in and gain more control of the internet or what could this and what could this lead tail. i think what it's going to lead to is eventual either going to use it to shut down web sites you know of course web sites that are hiring probably movies and music but that's the fine line where is it going to be overstepping of that protection of your personal property rights you know if i post a link on a website there's entire huge websites the drudge report there's news agencies that

link to copyrighted material. is that a hand in to shutting down free speech of course it is and once again the big picture is there's a lot of people a lot of companies that have been. formed on the idea of copyright protection and we're seeing an evolution of it we're cns sharing of information and there's news agencies like yours that are out there that are are basically embracing this and they're the ones that are going to survive and thrive in the future of the companies that understand this new paradigm of sharing information rather than just trying to hold onto it and quickly want to ask you with all these laws forty thousand new laws and some very controversial federal laws are these are all signs of the times of what's to come of the future of more laws and less freedoms. maybe i break it down simply but i'm sure you know people were wondering the same thing when nazi germany came to power and i just i put that as on my thinking i just ate

you know what we're in the process of it because of the empire we've missed it many times you or but as that happens you're going to see more towards areas and you're going to see more control you're going to see more government authority getting involved in your lives and what i basically telling my audience is. in your own personal lives do what you want to do you exercise your freedom because eventually we're all responsible we all feed the beast and that's basically what the message i tell people are all much you know various living as best you can thank you george for coming on the show that was george hammond your founder of survive and thrive t.v. . and that is going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered head over its who are to dot com slash usa you can also check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash artsy america and you can also follow me on twitter as well

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