this and other issues that doesn't make any bit of difference in terms of the corporate u.s. media's on whether there is a legitimate debate or not david pleasure to have you on the show as always that was david swanson campaigner for roots action. well today the senate held a hearing to address what the u.s. views as a worldwide threats from the rising power of china to cyber war to concerns over iraq's nuclear program the u.s. is finding much to fear these days it was once al qaeda considered to be america's top threat but today it seems iran is what scares the u.s. the most this despite iran and even top u.s. military leaders coming out and saying the country is not building a nuclear bomb i spoke with former cia analyst ray mcgovern about the increasing fear mongering in the u.s. involving iran and his opinion i asked him whether these fears are justified.

it's a synthetic stoking of fear. you use the word and the word synthetic you know he may know an elaborate and i know you are true if you look at the polls seventy percent of the american people believe that iran already has a nuclear weapon that's exactly the same percentage of people in two thousand and two who were persuaded by what i call the phone in corporate media to believe that saddam hussein was working on a nuclear weapon it's bizarre what do the defense ministers of america and israel say they say let's put another asked him self on face the nation. the readings working on nuclear weapon no. what does a who barack say in israel is counter cut apart he says you know it's the iranians who are working on a nuclear weapon they would have to kick out he let inspectors we would know that and they don't want that at all they are not working on

a nuclear weapon they have not yet decided to do so so the facts are that the two servants ministers both intelligence agents and say the way they say it is they have not yet decided to do nuclear weapons will that means that the i mean simple english means they're not working on a nuclear weapon now. clapper general or former general clapper who's the head of national intelligence and patris they almost wore out the subjunctive mood you know it was always if the uranium is decide to go for a nuclear weapon if they choose to do so it's like going to war in the subjective mood and that's precisely what i was criticized for for saying we did ten years so exactly ten years ago before iraq going to war and if on a contrived synthetic if i've ever seen the like of it now that you said earlier seventy percent of americans believe iran currently has already has

a good water bomb i mean what could be behind that that misconception i mean knowing that it's totally not factual really good question you have to take five steps back and say what is this whole about is this about a nuclear capability or. it was about that about regime change we haven't changed a regime in tehran in fifty nine years don't you think it's about time that we change the regime in tehran the israelis lost big time when we went into iraq because the big beneficiary of our expert exculpated iraq was iran now they've lost the trip to the south of list turkey to the north they want regime change in toronto unfortunately. influence among u.s. policymakers is so strong that they constructed this magic in every threat about this nuclear weapon so that they could do sanctions that they could do four hundred millions dollars worth of of covert action in iran to perhaps

elicit a reaction from iran where they can sap them with military means that's what the name of the game is and people should realize that because you know it's very very close to the kind of situation that happened exactly can you see oh it's almost bizarre deja vu all over again this time it's not iraq this time it's iran and israel is a big decision maker here know what was really interesting is dianne feinstein who's a very pro israel person admitted that she had been meeting this over the weekend with the head of mossad the israeli cia so that petraeus will work with the talking about the iranian threat well you know why don't they talk to the radiance about the threat you mean so willing it's really really really unconscionable the way the americans are being rallied around a new war. and that was former cia analyst ray mcgovern. well from the hundreds of

protesters arrested in oakland to a massive action in washington coast to coast the occupy movement faces big hurdles this week the vet now in its fourth month demonstrates against the growing income inequality gap in the u.s. as well as corporate influence in politics but much of the media has dubbed those that take part in the protests as dirty happy of with nothing better to do here is an example of that coverage. i think if you put every single less wind cause into a blender and hit power this is the sludge you'd get there so most uninformed people if you listen to it virtually unbelievable i like the one guy says were affecting things i think the only things affecting is traffic we've got all kinds of crack heads down there what are we doing we're not crackhead they're that soft drugs they are certainly unified they're certainly coordinated and they have the behind writing these but mostly kids and aging hippies out there you can't make this stuff up they're passing out free condoms is but open sex going on there are drugs easy to score but in reality the nationwide protests have drawn people from

all walks of life including derek mcgee he is an iraq war vet turned wall street financial adviser turned likely occupier himself he's also the author of the block when i when i wish i was here dispatches from felicia earlier i asked him to land on the name calling directed at the occupy movement here says take oh no i'm a very very clean hippie i would consider myself to be. you know. the whole expression of dirty hippie is just kind of amusing to me because most of the protesters are sort of just like me workers students these are the people that just happen to be concerned. the the media has sort of painted this image of. a dirty hippie it's sort of a creation i think well and how do you feel about the labels given to those that that participate in the movement. well i think it's just really misguided i mean if

you want to just let's just take the word you know the hippie i think of hippies as being someone that rejects modern society and i think what we have now these protesters are the exact opposite of people that are concerned people that are willing to actually put forth an effort and do a lot of work in their spare time because they see things that are wrong to me that seems like the exact opposite of lazy or or hippie well you certainly do not fit into this stereotype i mean you served in iraq and you once worked on wall street what comes held you to join the movement tell us about your journey from working on wall street to occupy. well i think there's two major parts one is coming from you know the military background and that would be having you know having served and having lost friends in this sort of thing i very concerned that the words that we use freedom liberty democracy aren't just sort of words that get

slapped on bumper stickers and thought the schoolkids that there are they're actually alive and real and being honored. and you know i have a sort of vested interest in that and the wall street aspect of it is that i understood that things went wrong and that the things that allowed those mistakes we made haven't really been fixed they haven't been addressed. i look at it like. you know i don't think we should eradicate wall street i think that's sort of unrealistic but i think wall street needs to be regulated to make it stronger i think of it as like sort of a teenager that just needs a little bit of guidance because it is going to be a little bit self destructive without that sort of guidance and parenting and having worked on wall street yourself ob did you observe at any corruption while you work there. no. i certainly didn't i was i was only in for about two years. when i was laid off in two thousand and nine so

no i didn't get to serve any of the corruption a lot of that took place i think years prior to the actual crash itself. and derek and i know you compare i read some of your work at the police force at the occupy wall street to soldiers fighting and iraq comparing the movement seems a little bit extreme why do you make that comparison. well i mean i'm making the comparison because i did you know what they're doing sort of i did the riot control and i know the mentality that goes into it and my point i think in the right that you're referring to is that it's like it's like being on a football team or something like that you know once you get all those pads on you get on the field you're not thinking about the other team or if they're right or wrong whatever it's just sort of a. it's just a response is just what you do you're in the game when you want to win and so i

think that the responsibility falls on those people that put the police into those situations you know it's not so much the in the individual actions of the police and being there protesting as the cottage park what did you find in common with the occupiers. i found a lot in common i feel that. it's. most people don't understand what the real protestors like i mean there's the ones that make the news the ones that are newsworthy that have been sort of you know slapped a little you know on the covers and on the news stories but that's not the real protest the real protesters just like me getting down there when they can after work or after school when they can for a few hours making a sign walking around doing what they can. it's a lot of hardworking people that's a lot of very informed people i've met a lot of professors teachers some of the smartest people i know down there that have a incredible grasp of the economy and the political situation today and ultimately

as a protest now a knocking on at occupy wall street what do you hope to achieve and what do you hope that the movement ultimately achieve. well i think that the movement is is achieving great things in that it's letting everyone know that they are not alone in that. we had always had this idea that you just accept certain things that you know not everyone really fully gets to participate in democracy and that's just the way it is and now with this movement everyone sort of realize that around the country around the world around the city there in every around him there are people feeling just like them like they're being left out that they're not getting to participate that their vote isn't being translated into an equivalent amount of democratic or spacious and people are going to take it anymore their thank you so much for sharing your story with us that was iraq war vet occupy

wall street protester and author of the buck when i wished i was here this patch is from fallujah. and that's going to be the for now we'll see you right back here and half hour. a soulless substance. can attack like a well trained army. villages in ruins. for thailand where time stands still. all becomes a scene of nothingness. the mysterious sons of russia. are to. download the official anti application to your i phone or

i pod touch from the i.q. snaps to. one jaunty life on the go. video on demand on teens and live broadcasts and already says feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. the folks. on his way to work every day that just love it vinnie nko walks by what will once the homes of his neighbors the houses a gone now there remains a covered with layers of sand and the people moved out a long time ago shit up don't they used to be a house right here where it all buried by the sand when you there were three other

homes next to it another house was here. i remember it was turned on its side almost all price. yes that's my house there. though it's still standing but it won't last long this isn't much of a sand drift the wind usually brings much more and covers the house up to its roof sometimes the windows are blocked off and there's no use trying to clear the side of the house you would need a bulldozer but you can't get one close enough because that would make the house collapse. these are not the dunes of the zahara in fact they're found be on the arctic circle in the permafrost of russia's north how did this place come to be deserted. an airplane pierces the low lying clouds and begins to descend inside its baggage laden cabin passengers of patiently waiting to land exhausted from turbulence

everyone on board knows that flying to the village of showing a is always risky the white sea coast is infamous for its volatile weather which can change drastically within minutes if a strong crossed wind picks up will be impossible to set down the airplane will have to turn back home and attempt to return journey in a week's time weather permitting. when the pilot sees the green patchwork of the arctic plains give way to yellow swathes of sand he knows that he has arrived at the world's northernmost desert every incoming airplane is an event for the village on wednesdays local residents gather at the airfield some trouble by fort others drive customized all terrain vehicles that are the only machines capable traversing both the sams am marshlands. the village of showing us sits on cape can in no us washed by the white see it lies beyond the arctic circle one thousand four hundred kilometers north of moscow this tiny settlement in the middle of nowhere is

unique fifty years ago the sound appeared. it has been waging a relentless offensive against the villages ever since local residents were totally unprepared and houses were evacuated china's population plummeted from two thousand people to a mere three hundred seventy rule number one here is not to shut your front door at night otherwise it might be completely blocked up in the morning. local resident pilcher my league in has many household chores to take care of the most important one is watering the vegetable patch gets his water from the well despite its color it is fresh and suitable for drinking there is no other source of water in the village the tiny vegetable plot that reclaimed from the desert is in stark contrast to the surrounding environment the sand can only accommodate weeds in a few flowers which don't even get enough sunlight to bloom. galena kenya cova has

been the village doctor for many years most of her patients call him her with heart problems and physiological disorders from walking on uneven sand day after day to day galina has to make a special house call the village has a new resident two week old step his mother brought him from the city of our candles to settle down in. life does he cry b.c. coping ok he says yes we did more if you were going to be the baby does he burst feet ok yes yes after if you didn't put him up right in lay him down on one side stick to the diagnosis alter spicy food stay healthy out come to see you tomorrow bye bye. yes i've been here for six years when i arrived in two thousand and five there was only one lady and a village two thousand and seven story spike in the birth rate it was the year when

the diesel power plant been done that we did not have light for a month back them humans and it ended up boosting the birth rate what else could the young people do ten babies were born at a time today the rate is now relatively normal but there are still more and more children every year. the lighthouse is the pride of the locals and the main symbol of the village it is the only construction the desert was unable to destroy it was even renovated got a new coat of paint for its fiftieth anniversary unfortunately in two thousand and ten it was closed down remand lagoon of we used to be in charge of the lighthouse does not understand what happened in his spare time he still counts the one hundred forty seven steps that bring him to the top. where it was wrong to close this place down when the question of reviving the

lighthouse was asked beyond so was mairi perhaps perhaps in three five or even ten years right now if we had the means and the money to reopen it it would be up and running again immediately the structure holds a fun place in the hearts of or a man and his former colleagues they continue to take care of the building to the best of their abilities even though they know it is pointless modern navigation technologies have made such lighthouses redundant but it comes as no consolation to remember. nikolai much of skill was born in showing up he returned to his native village from the big city which he found uncomfortable because prefers to go to work by his own vehicle his daily route takes him along a sandy beach south of the showing a river today this place looks more like a huge scrap metal at one time it boasted a wooden pavement club welcome visitors and fish were collected around the clock on the pier and the village was founded in the one nine hundred thirty s.

the base for a fish trawling fleet it was showing as gold to the local fish processing factories canned millions of fish dozens of boats waited their turn to be unloaded with their cargo holds filled soul called and how about the intense fishing her. the knock on effect the trolling nets were destroying the seabeds vegetation tide started to pull thousands of tons of loose sand to shore with barely any trees on the tundra the sun's advance could not be held back. and came to work in showing a in one nine hundred forty seven she only planned to stay for three years but ended up living here ever since she remembers the night when the sea seemed to term and to get revenge on them. we showed you a few years storm struck in one thousand nine hundred sixty three taken away all the seafront constructions of the village all the warehouses and there was

a street there that was blown away all the houses were destroyed it all disappeared after that life in the village started to slow down we had cows and horses back then today there are none everything has been taken away the place used to be really exciting people worked into shifts i remember walking through the village she would see people dancing in the afternoon and at night it was so much fun to hang out back then. the damage from fishing is just warm possible cause for the sounds coming here the residents simply continue to live out their lives in this quietly dying place now classified as an environmental disaster yet even though showing us suffers nature's wrath which is home to a weather station studying its affects the station is used for the first choice weather forecasts come rain or shine at three thirty in the morning and evening a weather balloon is released from nikolai much of city was the person in charge of

the balloons maintenance to raise it he uses his' original which is obtained through an old recipe mixing sodium hydroxide with water etc silicon and a minion powder the gas created it is just as effective as any commercially produced. nicholai prepares it to radio location and generic in the control center inputs the data required for a successful launch finally balloon is ready to go and is released. it will float up forty kilometers into the air and it will start gathering data about the situation in the lower atmosphere. eager to make use of the warm weather there. is digging up some timber buried in the sand the wood will come in handy the winter turns out to be cold yet just last house is quite old with large cracks in

the walls it is vulnerable to the weather so having more firewood never hurts. to do in one thousand nine hundred four i went to live in ukraine. i spent twelve months there but it isn't like it. is no freedom there. i'm not suited for farmers work so i came back here. they have american hunt and fish i'm free to do whatever i like it's a place for free people it was just. a feeling of complete freedom and unity with nature is the main reason people continue to stay here despite the fact that a lot of showing the residents are entitled to state and housing in central russia the majority custer's aside and return to their homes and showing. unlike many others not just a correction of a never considered leaving an option. she's a member of the village administration and spends her free time in the arctic

tundra only around. she recently purchased an old motorbike and learned to ride it . twice a day during low tide writes to the white sea shore to check on the fishing nets. today's catch is disappointing. is not much but enough for dinner i get flatfish call it smelt fish and herring i used to fish with a fish and rod. then i started using the net and then it just kind of bit tiring and i bought a bike to go fish and pick berries or just go see places. i love these shores there's no and to them i love showing them and that's something that cannot be changed because it is in my heart and soul of all of. this is to showing i will see that it is a place of contrasts even though each house is equipped with

a satellite dish they're all heated with an old wood burning stove firewood is delivered from our candles by c. quite often the cargo ships have to spend a while on the shore during low tide and end up looking like huge whales stranded on the sand. today showing it is receiving the delivery of fuel some machinery and merchandise for the villages and the shop the highlight is a brand new tractor for the weather station. the villagers were initially worried that it might have been damaged in transit but it started up on the first try proceeded to head to the station across the sometimes missionary group of council we start sailing in late may and finish in october we travel from our candles to showing them europe which takes about two days transporting food and equipment carrying a hundred tons of cargo on this trip there's no roads and it's too expensive to transport or by air so that leaves us with the ship's. tide begins to return and

the captain climbs aboard the crew has to hurry to steer the boat into the sea with a farewell horn blast the ship heads out leaving behind it a village of people who have managed to stand up against nature not just literally but also psychological. sunday mornings are ideal for walking along the shore especially if it gives your dolls the chance to see one of the big ships that come into the harbor. these future moms hold their own as they run into a junior neighbor that won't play with metal and here is not upset she likes dogs better. and he loves her grandfather leaving more because he always takes her to the beach to look at the ships leaving for our congress city with trees which ano has only seen on television. thank.

wealthy british style. markets. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. mission free accreditation free clothes for judges free to arrangement free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media r.t. dot com. you know sometimes you see

a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought. i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. in kalmykia the majority of the population is buddhist here there is a saying that if a person is pure of heart one son of the prayer wheel is as good as saying a million mantras constantine been balfe is not a religious man but every time he sets out on a journey he comes to the say could place to sleep guess about worldly things for a while. today constantine is heading for the so-called chored zimm all black lands one of the most environmentally troubled regions of kalmykia it is found two

hundred kilometers southwest of comic his capital s. star his mission is to monitor the work battling the desert of the cation in this area. here is an arid region located in the southeastern part of european russia. that my organ that this is my home land. when we were children playing in the steps of the grass was so tall that you could barely see if this could be more proof of me they say that climate change takes millions of years but all steps of change are right in front of our eyes. it was plowed in the one nine hundred sixty s. . they planted corn. but it didn't work out and it ruined the steps of the corn is very hydrophilic it drew out all the water and left small sand genes in its wake is. to out history the cow mix of lived as a new.