really are going to support democracy and if lamas groups win a free and fair election they commit themselves to democracy human rights and the what the law says is going to respect that so that's now putting to being put to death in future and we'll see turns out to matter is that the. united states can't get along with islam is a drop in that it's along fine with his lungs and saudi arabia gets along fine with the longest in turkey afghanistan. or in our islamic republics iraq the united states to this month so the issue is islam and the issue is the for a long time the muslim brotherhood was perceived as being opposed to tragically opposed to see in the region and so the us government supported the mubarak tutorship to keep the muslim brotherhood out. that world has collapsed and we're

seeing a new world where the us is trying to negotiate a rapprochement and ultimately rather in egypt rather than the now that the islamic are in power there what does that mean for the last. well you are going to be seeing the negotiations are ongoing and clearly both sides are sending signals that they're interested in dialogue and mention the position of the u.s. muslim brotherhood has been sending signals of flexibility the u.s. saying. well now we're going to tear up the camp david peace treaty. so they're not still not planning to run a candidate for president. so it looks like the muslim brotherhood is surely signaling that it is also looking for an accommodation for the united states you know that doesn't mean that there isn't going to be change on you know i don't think you know years from now or two years from now if there really is an elected

government in egypt that represents egyptian people i don't think that the status quo of respect israel can be maintained in the gaza blockade can be maintained i don't think the policy in the attic isolation that. can be made in your to see some kind of shift and even if you're going to have to accommodate us is going to have to on the day we're aspirations in the region if there's an iran that they want to understand that how that plays out in the details in their story robert thank you so much for weighing in and everything that is going on in the region that was policy director for just foreign policy robert naiman. well coming up on our table five how to call for every time i saw you made in the u.s. soccer i'd have about five seven looks like the u.s. just can't get manufacturing jobs take a route that story next. let's

not forget that we had an apartheid regime right now in the us. i think iraq the eatable and one well. whenever the government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you give them your freedoms.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know what i'm charging welcome to the big picture. for. food.

well made in the usa products with that proud stamp increasingly becoming a thing of the past companies are finding it more attractive to do business overseas it's no secret that foreign labor is cheaper than hiring u.s. workers but it's much more than that it's the system america's infrastructure workforce work ethic factors that workers and companies here in the u.s. at least as of now just can't compete with one is the labor force a skilled labor force that in china is willing to work twelve hour days at live on site and sleep in a dorm so they get the job done by working hard and working quickly so it seems that despite the us being one of the most educated countries in the world the likelihood these manufacturing jobs will come back home are slim to none meanwhile china seems to have a wealth of jobs for both skilled and educated workers so how is it possible for america to compete well to dig deeper i spoke to peter schiff president of euro pacific capital. you may have

a lot of degrees that doesn't mean we're actually educated just because you get a degree doesn't mean you know anything in fact a lot of americans have the griese but have very real marketable skills the problem is it's too expensive for companies to train workers so they waste time in taxpayer money going to overpriced universities yet they can't find jobs and you know wages is just one part of the employment cost picture you've got regulations you've got taxes you've got litigation there are all sorts of things that the u.s. government does that prohibits americans from learning on the job that prevents companies from hiring americans they look abroad and they find it much better trained workforce because people in other countries aren't wasting so much time and money pursuing worthless degrees in college they're actually learning skills that increase their productivity and so it's impossible for america to compete right now because we're at such a competitive disadvantage because of all the government that we have so we have

people being trained than being educated but not not for the right things not for the things that the economy needs and i don't even know if they're educated just because you go to college and cram for some exams i mean a lot of people they graduate with a bachelor's degree they don't they might know very little about the subjects they majored it i mean ask your typical college graduate i mean all they try to do is pass or they try to get a grade they try to study for their exams or write their papers but how much they actually retain how much a learning is actually going on at american universities i think a lot of people are there they're there for four five six years either getting dropped or go to parties they're having a good time they're cramming for their exams but all they want is a degree because somehow they've been conned into believing that all you need is to have some kind of degree and now you can earn a living and the fact the matter is you can't everybody's got these degrees so what are they worth what people need is real skills odd. job training where they acquire

a knowledge or a skill that actually makes them more productive and that's what a lot of americans lack are those skills and once they graduate they're not going to take these low paying jobs with all those student loans they'd rather just you know collect unemployment or collect some other kind of government government benefit and of course a lot of the companies can even hire them even if some of these people were willing to work for lower paying jobs that they're not even available because the employers won't provide them because it actually cost too much even with the low wages when you factor in all the other government mandates and benefits and the risk of it getting. a little lawsuit accomplish just assume not even bother and just look to hire abroad and a lot of college graduates being faced with this harsh realisation of the unemployment rates highest among recent grads but peter has the u.s. come to the point to the rails to the realisation that these jobs that are now

overseas that they're just simply not coming back. well they're going to come back eventually i mean at some point this phony economy that we have where we spend borrowed money is going to implode and a lot of the service sector jobs are going to disappear and we're going to have to replace them with productive jobs the types of jobs that we lack and we're not going to be able to do that unless we dismantle much of the government that we have that is preventing us from creating those jobs and we have a lot of our workers unfortunately are employed in a very inefficient manner and it's only made possible because of the artificially low interest rates the fact they were allowed to borrow so much money from the rest of the world that we can import all these consumer goods that we can't produce but the world's willingness and ability to sustain this the american economy is coming to an end when the world you know gives up and they can't promise up anymore and we can't cause them anymore with inflation then we're going to have no choice but to

allow this economy to be reached to reach be restructured by the market and that's going to be very painful for a lot of people they're going to have to wake in to this reality and it differs dramatically from the fantasy that a lot of people harbor about the american economy and that the economy as expected to be that the main focus for tonight president obama will get his state of the union speech and jobs a part of that and the bigger picture right now is the disappearing middle class which some attribute to the fact that these jobs are going overseas and i mean if these jobs are gone what then is the alternative to bring back the jobs back the middle class well. doesn't understand that the reason the jobs are leaving is because politicians like him have pursued policies that have chased them hours and you know this might be called the state of the union address but believe me he's not going to speak at all about the true state of this union this is all politics

for barack obama he's trying to get votes he's trying to win reelection so he's going to paint a rosy scenario. you know he's going to talk about what a gigantic mess he inherited and if it wasn't for him things would be so much worse and that now things are getting better the only truthful statement will be that he inherited a mess but rather than cleaning it up he made it worse and he made it worse by expanding on the very policies that produced that you know barack obama ran on a platform of changed but joining the change was the size of the mistakes he's just making the same mistakes only bigger and the only thing standing between us sort of living in right now is cheap money artificially low interest rates but just like interest rates rose in greece and now they're rising in italy or spain they're going to rise in the united states and when they do our phone the economy implodes and then we're going to have to deal with these problems peter thank you so much for for away and on all of this that was president pacific capital peter chef. and that is going to do for now from our in the stories we covered you can head over to

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pod touch from the. life on the go. video on demand parties in mind bold colors and feeds in the palm of your. question. dot com. it's like an island cut off from everywhere accessible only by helicopter. banks in more than two hundred kilometers off the coast of nigeria a floating factory that is unique in the world as big as eight football pitches it's a foretaste of what the search for oil will become. this enormous crofters itself

at the heart of a wide a system that consists of searching for oil ever deep under the sea and also further and further from the explosive situation that prevails on land. summering platforms and drilling vessels. on a map a tiny rectangle named back. here as owner of the few kilometer square that represents a new eldorado. in the center floating like a queen bee a bellyful of a treasure that the whole world covets is the flagship of the oil company tokens. and i have your ideas. on akpo we are far from everywhere but everything is checked.

this and you've checked all the facts this is how it all the bikes to this sort of community go up even the people you know when you've been working with them for years you have to search their backs and even those including the head of the station. and what are you searching for mainly. to tissue anything that's bound by drugs guns knives. this kind of thing else this. situation on the gulf of guinea and the most populous country in africa nigeria is roughly the size of france and belgium combined. it's the size of the country the niger delta region that's the object of envy. a geological insolvent is overflowing with excellent quality oil. thousands of drillings licensed to the oil companies of the whole world pierce the country's ground on land and at sea link together by

pipelines that run through the mangroves in the sea in every direction. today nigeria is the largest oil producing country in africa the scene of a banquet between companies. all. after arriving by helicopter and after the regulation search patrick one of the two managers takes over from his colleague john francois his back to back in offshore speak. as an engineer turned manager of a nigerian father and a maltese mother. is one of the rare employees of the company to hold such a post. buried under their schedule to produce one hundred sixty three thousand barrels a day for next month we're dealing with large volumes of it which is very very flammable is more flammable. oil and also we have lots of volumes of gas at high pressure. home it's

a look at the system so we kind of leak if we have meat and there's a sparkle source of ignition of the next thing you would have a fire and then you put us at risk yes everybody has to be worried about fire because a fire on board would be disastrous it could be disastrous. don't you so much for we have to be careful here permanently on the alert for to you because you can't escape. the three hundred meters long and all but this one is where over story starts. the name is the floating. storage offloading units woods says everything because. it's a unit that floats and it has capacity for production and storage we also process we don't stop but we sit and export gas first task

a tour of the property patrick shows us around his pipe or cathedral so we're currently. back there while the whole deck level so below. us now we have tons so one of the problems that we have vessels of this size long three. choices corrosion of the decks and corrosion corrosion at this level. it would be difficult to repair because just underneath we have tons of oil so it will be rather impossible to cut a part out too well because of the risk of exposure. is another lifeboat here and then of course we have. rafts just in case of us so anybody. you say has more than enough means to. just stay. for the first time we've been allowed access to this incredibly technological and

highly risky structure. on board are two hundred forty men so completely lost in the interlacing of pipes that you almost never meet anyone the f.p.s. as a citadel of troops fowles elbows through which flows the precious liquid below are dozens of pipes reaching down to the bottom of the sea which suck up the oil. but you could say that workers here are like the distant extras in a giant mcconnel construction protected by the navy another permanent surveillance from countless cameras. a technological exploit certainly but in a context of political paranoia. good morning. to nigerian navy patrol boat stunt gone twenty four hours a day under the olders of antonio djoko patrol rulebook. he moved into security work after twenty two years in the army twenty two years of

happiness as he describes it he's a man who searches the bags organizes patrols and supervises all movements around the base. but. you. always look so here we have the eye mucking about and so their operations center where we monitor the whole of the outpost field. with this radar to come into it which allows us to check all the boats arriving. can but who are you to know what boat of the riving and especially to pick up any suspect record that wasn't expected to enter the field i think in all these cameras they monitor all the accesses here. and inside the. reciprocal dimeter the secure but that's a lot of security measures for extracting oil how do you get. so on this on this is

where the measures required to nigeria of the day considering the threats that exist as a nigerian high risk the bordering the militias and turned this contest you know as one votes intruding in the maritime exclusion zone. doesn't this one item that they are now you armed here on board since it doesn't i'm not on. if i don't there are no weapons on board even you don't have one you know making your ruler should have some guys climb up the chain and they have weapons machine guns for example what do you do but i don't see the other measures that would be taken measures that have been designed for that situation. there are no guns on board and the situation is under control i repeat the situation is under control. i mean ari is a small fishing village situated on the island of bonny right at the mouth of the niger delta. and it's here that the gas sent from the f.p.s.

so platform arrives undersea pipeline. if it weren't for the plant ameri ari would be a typical little village. with hearts and shacks with palm leaf roofs streets of san news it coming from portable radios open air stores kids running everywhere and a soccer match underway and the fisherman returning with the tide. all would be well if next door right next door protected by barbed wire they went sending millions of cubic meters of gas and oil to the most highly developed countries in the world. every day by did loading gus to order for. new york dollars but not the one not the community

nearby you know about it i mean anything from the company. and this you. know. when you come up with these guys know that all looks that isn't going to follow every day studied law did not is top one this is no big doubt it. in the small harbor when the ships come in the giants with gas the tiny ones with fish to worlds rub shoulders i did looks as if the big world is giving the tiny one the finger back of it and that if you wanted to do was get a good look we took our own. metal shop. and. sometimes sometimes. nigerian people work for the companies yes yes there was the little boys with us how.

about that at the white men he says but it's very odd you. some of us live there are getting blood from us out of all of us by the dog for you to. hurt. and as a supreme insult naturally there's no gas in the village to smoke the fish and from cooking think of the wood from the forest. above a terminal on the chimneys that burn off the gas nonstop to prevent overpressure they tell us. that's a lot of use to the villages of oppression. that. is religion. economy to wit i did some of that fish imports would you.

think it does or what that because of the devices it. has because i didn't doubt for it and i said i didn't know what. that does is it not discuss the deniability i think it will do about why what i wanted not up. by the review was that i didn't know what the. offshore from the village the s.p.s. the engineers and technicians continue extracting oil far from land because that's the job of the heart of the story machine the end of a pipe and in a small jar the famous brown liquid. the world's holy grail you might say. so but this is the oil. being treated it's a condensate it's a very light crude that is.

i mean we're more than two thousand meters down. and we can get something out that's relatively easy to use so it comes out of the top it's what they call the blob of nigeria. so this quality you have to go deeper and deeper to find it today or future major projects a situation a very great debt. so it's going to require immense technology. more and more to. the logical evolution to go would get the oil even deeper. if the input of course other aspects of very important for the commercialization of the sort of the case against you mustn't see i mean i mix or water and oil because water doesn't cost much and oil costs

a lot to complain much else every time we load our oil product here onto a tank we have to be sure it contains a minimum of water. was up and i say the blood of nigeria because it's their role material it's their problem going up what is it we're here to help them exploited and for me it's what is the fruit of their history just what we spoke of their history because seduced and always thought it's because of their millions of years of history. because we have. the world. and i hope it will allow them to fuel their economy just. in an efficient way my this but despite that there are a few problems. from your point of view can you understand that there are people who might want to attack you. maybe or maybe you should cut that system but. i'm just asking the question you don't have to answer that i know my

answer is yes personally that doesn't surprise me something but doesn't surprise me . so he's back on land we allude military surveillance to film something that's totally forbidden to film on pain or arrest and major problems yeah. yeah. you know is this with. the runs a protest movement to denounce the environmental damage caused by the all companies wants to show. i think the effort and i think we'll move. on if well and we will move into i knew we could come close to this not been born it's in that they're fifty it's to. the end of a pipeline lost in the wild an enormous blaze the stench of gas is insupportable

three to five hundred meters it's already on bearable i was thinking that it was the forbidden things like that yes that was a problem in mckinney. and that's in two thousand and five but i'm not on that drug and i'm different our government. does not have any political way to implemented that but i thought it was you know the thread was against the laws of our country it is it is like a monster so how it smells stinks and the sound. like this is the most i was down the most but this is worse than the most you can see the city from a distance. right now you can see. i mean that this is. on the other side and there found out everywhere everywhere i did i did plan to write about the plan. to find the flat.