graham may be directed in part or in whole by the cia does not even masculine eight the cia's warnings of harm were forced to acknowledge officially the existence or nonexistence of requested records die really hoping that the rest of you out there pick up on the absurdity of such an argument but the problem is that we see the same argument being made all the time the way the state department refuses to declassify the state department cables even though they've been released in full for all to see by wiki leaks the same thing was done with the pentagon papers which are only last year forty years after being published in newspapers technically declassified so what's the point of keeping something classified or secret if everybody already knows about it it defies logic it's become an obsession it's an addictive habit of the government just can't seem to break and now while at times it can seem so ludicrous that it just makes you want to laugh about it we have to remember that it's also a very dangerous and very toxic path to be heading down because you see the more the government gets away with things like this the more they're going to keep us in the dark and while some out there might try to argue that these are classified

missions and there are some things that need to remain secret which i think most anyone would agree with we have to look specifically at what it is that they're applying this argument to the use of drones that's something that needs more public debate not only is there a legal gray area to be applied but the more rally the ethics of firing from thousands of miles away and not disclosing it to the public who exactly was it was killed or caught in the crossfire that's questionable especially when drone strikes so often shape public opinion in other countries when women children neighbors are killed and yet we have no idea what's being done in our name so let's just let this be a reminder another example for you of how far the secrecy obsession is really extending hopefully the judge is going to rule against the justice department and for judicial watch for transparency and for honesty but if the government's done it so many times before they want to stop the judge from letting them do it again.

hi guys it's time for a happy hour joining me this evening is artsy web writer andrew blake and the reason foundation's anthony rand as oh thanks for joining me guys you're already saying i don't know why you're so upset about we're did i do your there ok ok start being a masculine with these little treasures these are what sorts of miniscule hitting a bow mercury was from scotch next time i would. just like ok let's move on to something a lot more but. whatever as if having the death penalty and being one of the law enforcement and speak us here in the country that still has this really archaic and like horrible way of killing people isn't enough this north carolina politician wants to bring back public hangings just take a listen he said we need to make the death penalty a real deterrent again by actually carrying it out every appeal that can be made

out to be made at one time not in a serial matter if murderers and i would include abortionists rapists and kidnappers as well actually executed it will at least have the deterrent effect upon that for my money we should go back to public handing hangings which would be more of a deterrent to others as well. yeah absolutely incredibly horrifically unimaginable if he really wants to attack you know absolute you know most hated rivals people he thinks just hanging that's the best you can come up with what would you suggest i mean how do you know he's already playing have to guard against you know the hunger games probably would be you know at least to start you know all that's been done you know don't hold back how would you kill someone you know this is you i'm not that dark inside my feet but i feel like with questions you have something and i feel like you've thought about this before no no no but other people have like down the down the coast in florida congressman last year said that they should bring back the firing squad actually because they don't have

a firing squad in utah until just recently and then there was a guy that actually chose it but this dude. just wants probably yeah. he said this is kidnapping the thing is legal hits get the kidnappers and hang them like two people get kidnapped still like everyone's had an abortion has yeah it's ok to hang the abortionist but when i hear it all right with me i'm gutted i don't think that people still get kidnapped but this is. just. i you know city folk not understanding north carolina like we're not going to tell you the value of us public hanging and you know what i was you know shape in mind and children and no way i'm sleepy horrific and you know i guess were missed the whole kidnapping epidemic of north carolina all right let's move on to mormonism hug it so much better use of the entertainer and several out there that are you know look i'm sorry that mitt romney is a mormon. mormonism is a cold and it would give credence to a cult to have

a mormon candidate. all right so there have been a lot of questions as to whether his religion might affect his campaign but now check out this story that gawker is talking about today which is apparently mitt romney's militantly atheist father in law was posthumously converted to mormonism by his family despite the fact that when he was alive he regarded all religions as hogwash i was there when this is going to died and because we can now this is just sort of the tip of the iceberg if you want to get into like an unusual thing in mormonism because as everybody who has seen the book of mormon knows you have all sorts of what you could to be god of your own planet and nobody telling you that has the right you can only get to the planet if your husband gives you the keys or something and i did as you know that if there is no mystery that if we want to start grabbing like weird things and hold about people's religions and holding them against them then we you know i'm a christian and we believe when we take communion that we are drinking the blood of christ and eating his flesh that's

a threat i think you know the jews like to necessarily religion specific this is like oh the guy died let's just cover up his past for a political campaign the poor guy who is an atheist to save his soul they just want to save us all so they waited for. dragging a chicken around your head and transferring sense to it as the jews like to do with the poor i'm not going to do or seeing any of those rows i was a second hand crazy art let's move on to something hey let's move on to t.v. is there so much fun. i have genital herpes. and i try to be there in thirty years my doctor told me something surprising one study found that up to seventy percent of people who had genital herpes got it from their partner when they had no signs or symptoms of an outbreak and. i always wonder who the actors are that actually agree to be in these commercials because it's like embarrassing right to be like a t.v. commercial out embarrassing ever and so now this kid you know what you're pretty is

really angry kenneth clements a former student at ronald reagan high school in miami florida claims that the school newspaper wrote up a story about s t d's with the headline teen stay quiet about as t.d.'s and they just put a photo of his idea on it with an ax over his mouth and so he's obviously filed a lawsuit because he's saying you basically just labeled me as as t.v. boy and now everyone it's call me i mean the same i can't take a joke he's saying you can't take a joke i sound like that's not bad if you're the one person that they made of body you know be the face of the story it's not the student but you know. what it is perhaps you were clearly a bully unschooled it oh she clearly has a very limited this is this is this is coming and yes very much so you would just laugh it off i would i would think you should be saying i think i think you should you know i would sue because i want money because i'm a high school student and i want to embrace all that is america but i would also own it so i think he should step up like why not just start getting crazy late and

have a bunch of protected sex and get it get these us t.v. so then he just make it look bad got him is that now it's making it so he can't get laid in high school because he's already has the label of s.t.d. boy so that you know it isn't just doing your best i don't know i mean if they are going to speculate about what he's going to get all this money from this lawsuit people are going to be flocking to him he's going to get these s.t.'s anyway so be able to look back on the in laugh all right let's just end this with a nice clip of obama saying. but. i. see. i thank. you not really talking about his policies but a little bit makes me. anyway after that al green's record sales are shot up by four hundred ninety percent. but we don't have to talk about it so thank you for joining me john i'm sorry product is very thin and here for my part you guys that

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live from moscow at eleven pm this is r.t. with me kevin our in our top story for you the arab league's frozen its monitoring mission in syria because of the escalation of violence there more than one hundred people are thought to have been killed in clashes between syrian security forces and opposition groups in the past two days alone the u.n. security council remains split meantime on how to end the crisis and russia has given a resoundingly no to a new resolution on syria drafted by the e.u. and arab states that warns of further action if damascus fails to comply the text call for president assad to transfer power to a deputy moscow says the resolution should not contain any threat of sanctions or imply any outside intervention let's talk to dr yang will work in. now he's a little bland liston professor at the lebanese international university is joining

us on the line from beirut professor very good evening thanks for being on r.t. today germany has said that the upsurge in violence cited by the arab league is a signal for the un security council to act and how significant is it that the observer mission has now gone on ice so to speak what do you think. the observers mission was stopped by the arab league because the results of the first round of monitoring in syria didn't go the way qatar or saudi arabia wanted to do to go in the sense of indicting the regime in order to transfer the file to the united nations council so that's why what happened was an interruption of this mission which was giving credit actually to the regime especially by insisting on. the existence of armed

insurgents throughout syria which justifies the crackdown of the regime on these military ordered on these armed. groups that's why it was interrupted specially that there was a will and now due to transfer of the file of syria to the united nations council in order to take action to come up with a resolution in order to enforce a regime change that goes by the will of the united states and its western allies so how did not been for the russian decision to block such a resolution which was clearly stated by russian officials so doctor what you're basically telling me is that none of this is a surprise to you we're told you things will be pre-planned there. definitely it was pre-planned because it goes by the previous interview to transfer the file of

syria into the united nations the first time it happened and last october there was a resolution but it was blocked by russian and chinese virtue then they were the americans transferred the file back to the arab league in order to try to indict the syria through the arab league however it didn't work they sent monitoring mission to syria it went against the scenario that was said by the united states by giving. by by stating that there are insurgents throughout syria which justifies actually the policies followed by the regime by cracking down on insurgents which was a fact denied by the western countries and by their arab allies that is why this surrogate was asked what about these extra hundred arab league observers that will be staying on there in syria what's their purpose now do you think. i think that

the moment the decision of the arab league to withdraw these. small knitters i think that their mission is over by now and if they choose to stay and keep going by their mission depending on the decision of the. successive governments i think that their reports will not be acknowledged by the arab league or they will not have the cover of the arab league specially that they are financed by the. league of gulf states the six gulf states that were financing especially led by saudi arabia and by qatar dr we've only got thirty seconds i want to get your thoughts the pressure growing on the u.n. from western and arab nations as well as the syrian opposition we've documented all this to take action on president assad and. china and russia as you've just been saying steadfast in refusing any regime change in resolution where is this going to go do you think just thirty seconds the crisis will go on we will

phase civil war in syria similar to the case of algeria and the one thousand ninety's and i don't think that there was this will lead to a regime change but it will be a long crisis ok thank you ever so much she thought a german working professor of political analyst and professor of the lebanese international diversity there preaching it thank you amid intensifying fighting between the syrian army and opposition groups r.t. sarah firth is been to the area near the capital which was recently taken over by rebel fighters now she reports of the opposition as united against the regime they are poles apart on their methods a clear message from the protest is this that damascus as a funeral takes place. we don't want killing we don't don't we don't want to. grab see. children killing we don't freedom we don't know what we want to.

live. here in this this country our country yes now they feel safety is being provided by the free syrian army the corella party made up of many army defectors they could say its presence here has enabled protests like these to go ahead. the military cannot come in anymore because the free syrian army is protecting us we support the free syrian army and we support. the former army colonel heads the f.s.a. from the road he's been steadfast from the start and his calls the foreign military intervention of his safe are void of partnerships with any other opposition elements he sees differ significantly inside the country and the national coordination council when at the leading opposition groups remains adamant that foreign military intervention would make an already deteriorating situation even worse while the security position has caused some areas to get out of control and

it seems that there is a war between two groups outside the country and it's the syrian national council pitching itself as the main opposition but it too has failed to unify the many different opposition factions and this lack of unity has hampered the growing close to direct u.n. involvement russia and china remain firmly opposed to a resolution that would leave the door open to foreign military intervention and a far cry from previous cools the dialogue qatar and saudi arabia now talk to the opposition and move this to cost even more lives say many mislead to find rebel groups you have to work with the other side working with the other side. of. the f.s.a. say they have little choice but to use weaponry to protect civilians. who have this main square here in town where people come out and protest even the security forces

try to come in but we protect them but this is what's happening here but it remains a precarious situation in the moments of confusion the crowd gets nervous and starts to run at one point gunshots heard still says where they come from or from. favre. that's a lot of confusion here on this day seem to be reading in a different direction just not exactly sure what's going on now that the you know a safe situation severe right now and all of this happening just fifteen minutes from the city center is just a day before it's a government demonstrations so position can show continues to gain ground the divisions within the country have never been clearer. i don't. care what you are that the are. the it. was. a good idea. was here is

keeping a blog updated fully it out for you where she's posting extensively on the situation in syria a lot of fun images from various parts of the country and have made it on the t.v. side of it here yet with us we will bring them to you if you want to keep abreast of the latest pages you'll see people rallying instructed by damascus. the official tee up location to your. touch from the. video. feeds now in the palm of your. dot com. polish protesters are refusing to give up the fight over the anti web piracy part of the country signed up to more demos

a planned against back to the multinational deal forged in secrecy they say the activists also say allows firms to censor the internet the e.u. official an e.u. fishel rather resigned over the treaty which was signed by twenty two european countries earlier this week our correspondent next year is asking reports now from warsaw. a passer by from england confused scenes on friday in central warsaw with filming of a sequel for the hollywood movie before. judging from the number of masked men and cameras such resemblance was tangible the film character fought for revolution these people are also standing for change to stop the anti counterfeit trade agreement act from becoming law in poland minus fifteen degrees centigrade is definitely not an excuse for thousands who gathered in central warsaw friday common it's a week of numerous mass rallies across the world with people protesting against internet censorship actor may have a positive aim to protect intellectual property but these protesters fear it will

be used to police the web and take harmless websites offline eighty engineer march and says he's work is under threat because of actors obscurity with the international pact worked out in complete secrecy issues. first of all. the. possibility of legally censoring information the government. is very unclear the negotiations have lost since two thousand and four and nobody's been anything unlike the week's massive anti active protests in poland friday's showdown had clear political overtones while the majority of the crowd was voicing no to the treaty a large chunk was directing their anger at the government and experts say the scale of public dissent has managed to make war soldiers ruling elite nervous the government was promoting itself as being modern as. people probably internet and

people trying to keep them accountable so when they discover that the government is supporting something without doubt it was purely political answer to no we don't believe this but this considers the harm governments are pretty nice in the steadily scenes they are. point of your already tactic and the n.r.l. that they may not ratify act and they will have a second thought so after a week of ignorance i think suddenly they realize that the protests are much deeper much broader and soon. to become law in poland actor needs the approval of both the polish and european parliament nobody knows for sure how long this might take but protesters say they will continue piling the pressure on the authorities to stop this happening and i think it came as a complete shock to government nobody expected this and nobody expected. to. do this going to think i think there will be a lot more. loss for at least two weeks i think because. i think this is how long

it will take to actually pass the regulations prime minister to scare has been adamant war so would not give in to and blackmail in the streets with what was initially acquired social protest has become politically broader with every rally as collating in both the numbers present and the level of aggression let's see russia's key r.t. reporting from warsaw in poland. while running alongside this twitter is in a flap over a censorship scandal only it's after the microblogging firm said it cannot remove tweets country by country if they float local laws needless to say use a furious at the potential free speech i spoke to liberty campaign irish swartz he told me that countries that censor and twitter should expect this to backfire. important thing to understand about twitter as policy though is that it's reactive if they get it in response to government order or court order and what's nice about

twitter is because it's a real time service the government is going to be slower than twitter almost always you know by the time you get a court order asking someone to take down a tweet and by the time twitter reviews it and it goes through all the policies is will probably be passed and everyone on twitter will have read it already it'll have been retreated hundreds of times twitter has been especially admirable in how they deal with this in that they are particularly highlighting tweets that have been censored by the government so there's no none of this disguise that goes on with some of the other major companies where things just suddenly disappear and you don't know why twitter has said that make it very clear that their users your government is censoring you and i think that will be a huge step in pressuring people to share the stuff that was censored but also pressuring governments to change their policies we've seen this incredible uprising all around the world against censorship in various forms whether it was soap in the us or act in europe and i think it's just going to build people realize they have this power now they can win changes not just from companies but from governments and the more people realize that the more people are going to get involved and participate and the more that happens the harder times everyone's going to have

sense and people who want to live from moscow just ahead of the wind chills know still global warming getting people hot under the collar. and they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally and financially that's the world we live in the resident asked people in new york what they would sacrifice to save the planet some interesting answers coming up but also we skedaddled to sochi a ski has put the slopes through their paces for the first time before they welcome the winter olympics finest to. the ratings firms keep raising the blows on the beleaguered euro zone now fitch has downgraded five countries they include spain and italy which are the big worries of course because of this size if they fail leaders in key finance is a struggling to try to find a remedy to the debt crisis at the annual world forum. that's where the list of reports from. we've seen leaders not only from the eurozone but from other countries financial and political leaders also continuing to fight and to argue

over the proper solutions for the eurozone crisis and at the center of it is a lot of people pushing for a larger bailout fund for a for a secure fire wall the irony is that as they're talking about this we hear that germany wants greece to hand over control of its fiscal budget as a condition for the next bailout package where the further irony is that we've seen capitalism really be one of the topics one of the issues here at this davos questioning of capitalism in its current form is still serving the global and these western nations and i just heard david cameron in his remarks at davos asked about this and he said you know despite the problems i still believe that the capitalism in its current form and western democracies is the best first serving freedom and democracy at the same time that we see not only technocrats managed.