since there are surveys of war hiring intentions also line up at the b.l.s. that all the car companies itself report sales which also aligned with what the b.l.s. had to say so clearly they couldn't make this argument so they just went with baseless accusations of cooking the books and a vague references to hell that so least that scary pro-labor woman now honestly is kind of entertaining to watch republicans desperately try to respond to something that is positive when it comes to the economy but if they're not spinning conspiracies then they're just simply saying that obama should get any credit for any improvements. so reading that is an eight point three would still be the murders you want to make percent and by the way he doesn't get credit for things going. that's right i guess he only gets credit when it's a bad number of course now the real issue here is how the government and the media report on the jobs numbers every month where they don't highlight the u. six or the long term unemployment so i suggest that fox news talk about that which again to actually get better last month so for spreading innuendo and conspiracies

because reality just doesn't suit their politics fox and friends are tonight's told time winners. high as the time for a happy hour and joining me this evening is andrew blake artie web writer and mike riggs associate editor at reason magazine and reason dot com hello gentlemen thanks for joining me now absolutely i have a very good serve at the top the hour but tell me more about what happened when you went to occupy d.c. to get roughed up yeah a bunch of cops jemimah good jerks oh marable yeah we have it all we're happy you're ok the my the camera the see the space next there is a next time. my turn here that i want to box to. it only cost me twenty bucks and. that's awful if you're ok so you get whatever

ok let's talk more about we've been we've been covering the mega upload story here on this show and basically we're still i think waiting for some details about kim dot com to take a look. one of the world's biggest. load as a bench down there prosecutors in virginia charged in violating piracy law the site was shut down yesterday three employees arrested on accusations they facilitated millions of illegal downloads cost copyright holders at least five hundred million dollars and. all rights of letting her give all the details on the original referee here but basically what's happening now in terms of some of the fallout is there's this site called bt junkie which is one of the largest torrent file sharing sites and they actually shut down voluntarily over the weekend the guy wrote this is the end of the line my friends the decision does not come easy but we decided to voluntarily shut down we've been fighting for years for your right to communicate

but it's time to move on it's been an experience of a lifetime we wish you all the best so i what do you think is this going to be a trend like this has mega upload been a big enough example of the other like sharing sites are starting to freak out i think they want to get out of there where they still have their lamborghinis and montserrat eason ferrari's that they've got by enabling online piracy for over a decade in the united arsenal of a songwriter also i know i understand irony is dot com i know it's entirely to run this i know i know there's totally legit stuff on there there's totally there's a voluntary file sharing buy music arses off but also a lot of these guys got rich through through some sketchy stuff and i want to keep that stuff because the way this works and what you can dot com he lost everything he lost so much when he couldn't post bail so i mean these guys they don't want to have to come under the hammer of like asset forfeiture which is what you absolutely not i don't want to go under the hammer and it's horrible if you think like everything i mean i don't know i don't know what i get i get i think yeah you bring up a good point there i think it's cute that they think this means we're going to start buying things they go over better their own the you're going to have to go to the

record store nope going on twelve years of not buying anything and some of the stuff and right now well the truth is you know that people do have legitimate stuff on their you know and that they share and you know that like. users can't do that we still can't through the answer. we have spent so no one ever did it. i guess that's what you want to do when you don't pay. all right you guys obviously aren't on the internet never mind we can just move on to your. idea yeah . can you imagine i mean you know people get really sensitive in this country about if you talk about experimenting and i think that we've seen fox freak out about things like this in the past it's really about take a look right now get ready for the age of designer babies in l.a. fertility clinic says it will soon allow parents to choose traits like gender hair color i color and skin color doctors there using technology usually used to

screen for diseases and there is not a single law on the books in this country to stop them but. that was a scandal yeah now take it take a look at this though now i have specialists arguing that basically they can remove defective genes or face in the healthy d.n.a. from a donor give a baby a third parent and they're defending this procedure saying it was not properly understood it wouldn't affect the child's genetic makeup but that's really when i get defective genes i go when i return to the gap am i right. when i this is yes you're right very good i just see this is like one more person for children to resent you know it's like mom dad dad to mom to like i hate all three of you you know you have all the ones you've read the lowering around you know yeah for your addiction or you know i think that's fair yeah. your grandparents you get to blame them for right away that we don't have to personal right now. i mean. you two girls

one guy. told me is that you can have loved two moms that's. love if you two moms. are you right. if that's what i have to. yeah you are right. but i stay with my. to be super babies i live or die die and bombing iran is much more serious because we see a lot of leeway right now the rhetoric is heating up making crazy arguments including now ferguson here's a clip of him talking about this piece that he just wrote in the daily beast on i think it was morning joe this morning. people say if we attack iran they're going to attack us back. well the thing to remember is that assuming the united states does not leave israel in the lurch there's already a huge amount of naval power converging on the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf region with american support even if it's only

a naval support there's not actually a whole lot to do wrong can do. right so here he is advocating for a war with iran and israel should go for it in the piece he says war is an evil but sometimes a preventive war can be a lesser evil than a policy of appeasement to people who don't yet know that are the ones still in denial about a way nuclear armed iran would end up costing us all feels like the eve of some creative destruction are you sure it's what you say you sound so charming oh yeah. yeah he's very important and. why is this you don't even sound like a warmonger to me i like now. you know it is it is your flying it is horrifying that he's like teaching all these impressionable young kids about how important it is to have preemptive are you going to have any kind of preemptive directory leveling is that what we're calling it now it. is now we don't know we don't like to use the world word war but no i mean with

a country leveling yeah. yeah what's fixing fixing things i don't blow it out or blow it out now when i never says the word war he always uses much general language and well he acts as if you know if you spread it out a little bit instead of just using the exact word the same way we like to you know limited humanitarian aid that's why they like making a choice as opposed to everything. yeah it's crazy like these are all the reasons that make total sense why people are getting we should go to war with iran and why israel should bomb them and let me just tell everybody why that's wrong and well i listen so i hope he's happy as well so what is your opinion on this we should you're saying we shouldn't bomb no ok i don't. and you think you. know you're asking those very murky yeah i don't i don't really i assume a lot of the viewers know very well how i feel i assumed you guys would know how i feel but. rather let's move on. i will finish this on super bowl and assume you guys both watch the game last. night so last minute or so when i actually have

anything to say we've all just tivo. he's actually saying he might get involved in politics take a look. would you ever think of like running for office really really you know something else to think about. you know i have no idea right now but. you know possibly. going to know i'm scared he doesn't but in the top color of fish shirt so that means you have to buy if you have the wrong you know on a dinner john doesn't but the top color for sure you're not going for office he's on television kept on the top. all right well we have our own and. these are long and i'll get to this every. night this is the one where just walked out of a bar which is probably not truly probably just walked out of a church i get out of a church now gay and we are going there i must tell you guys thanks for tuning in to come back tomorrow chris hedges going to be back on the program in the meantime difficult to become a fan of the on our show on facebook and followers on twitter you can find

everything if youtube dot com slash the lot of shows and coming up next. but i am less struck with the idea. leon there's no way than to see the film on screen yeah if you want to have sex go and have sex.

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really a police clad in riot gear take on the last occupy wall street stronghold protestors try to hold the line and keep the dream well the movement be able to withstand the latest low to the cost for all their tents on a wing down. and occupy protesters aren't the only ones dealing with blowback from the u.s. iran is topping the list of u.s. enemies these days and government officials will stop at nothing to put iran's nuclear potential in check so is this checkmate for a diplomatic solution. the united states is disgusted that

a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from feeling our sole purpose here and speaking of chess matches the un is in a stalemate over what to do about syria and ambassador susan rice sure isn't hiding her contempt well read into the rhetoric. a good evening it's monday february sixth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine here watching our team. well it is a different vision tonight of macpherson square here in washington d.c. the park there has just been about just been emptied out for the last four months politicians their staffers the lobbyists the president any one walking or driving by saw a large park filled with tents and signs calling for change a new system in which the one percent did not control the ninety nine percent it

was the site of the d.c. branch of occupy wall street but over the weekend that camp was dismantled. we're not going to lease and riot and hazmat gear showed up and surrounded the park they formed a chain of about fifty officers and cleared away many of the tents there in an effort to begin enforcing a longstanding no camping ban this came nearly a week after issuing eviction notices to the occupiers there the national park park police had maintained a pretty good relationship with campers at both macpherson square and freedom plaza here in washington d.c. complains about noise and rodents though became more prevalent in our last week as park police said it would be getting involved after more than four months of allowing that camp to stand and this was one of the movement's last science in the country and its dismantling could mean changes are ahead are only under blake was there while this was all happening and you as

a member of our our team web team he actually got a little roughed up himself i spoke to him just a short while ago and i asked him to give me his take take a listen kind of hit the nail on the head the movement started off the new york obviously but when i moved down to d.c. i was at macpherson on the first day that they started doing it there and it has been peaceful for the last almost four five months now at this time. but to this weekend things just. went a little crazy it started off incredibly peaceful on saturday too but over the course of a couple of hours things kind of discuss the best way to describe it is weird you said you got there like saturday afternoon things are pretty mellow. i was actually taking my time getting down there because it was so mellow i was checking with people in there thing nothing is going to happen there the national park police were very systematically going through the tents getting rid of the tents and there wasn't that much of a big to do happening but around four or five o'clock it started getting dark it started raining and within a matter of minutes things just went crazy the mood changed entirely the cops just

came through in full force knocking people over i was hit several times myself i saw people have their hands bashed in the guy next to me took a ton to the stomach and toppled over crying and it all within a matter of minutes it escalated to that and before we knew it there are people on the ground screaming crying and blood and then it was over wow and to just like that i mean and for people who have been following some of the police brutality aspect of the occupy wall street movement. it's really important to emphasize because if you saw what happened in new york and oakland this might be surprising to you but every time i've gone down to either freedom plaza or macpherson square there's a very diplomatic relationship between police and the campers they work together they're peaceful but what we saw here in the video that we just were showing that you shot that was very very different you know what we've been seeing here in washington i've been experiencing the exact same thing over the last couple of months and even early on saturday cops were being talkative to the crowd they were

joking everything was kind of just nice and then a few hours later there was kind of this like ultimate moment where something bad happened in all of a sudden it everything bad started happening from there because then within a matter of minutes they just came through earlier in the day the report that there was a police injury i haven't really seen what happened or who it happened to or if it even happened but that's what we heard on the scene and minutes later things just started going nuts and we've heard that between four and eleven people were arrested down there mcpherson square were you able to see any of these arrests happening and if so what were the people being around. or to just hear it happen please one once things started going wild they tried to cover up as much as they could i was actually told to put down my camera several times i was there with my press pass and and shooting is as much as i could and i had cops grab me by the camera i hit my camera at one point a cop was wrestling with my hand and trying to throw me to the ground and like i

said i had a few times but any time the journalist tried covering what was happening they were just shot down it seemed as quickly as they could if the police weren't using physical force they were going right up to the to the scene to stop people from seeing the fact of what was happening towards the end when things went nuts the cops lined up around fifty wide and just started moving in to make sure no one could see anything that was happening and that was an area that wasn't even counted they just cleaned the park i like a bulldozer of humans wielding butts on what you want to call a human and that is certainly something that is not unique to this area occupations from around the country journalists trying to cover the you know just what's happening trying to stay out of the way but really get as close as possible so they get what they can on camera they've been bullied they've been badgered they've been arrested i mean you were wearing your press badge you've been a journalist here at r.t. for quite a while now and yet they were i mean talk a little bit about as i know that you've spoken with other journalists down there using the stories exciting oakland in new york city i've read it and wrote and

watched countless tales of journalists going there and saying the police action is just ridiculous and i kind of didn't want to believe it to the extent that i've been told was happening and all of a sudden on saturday it just all of a sudden i realize i was there i was living with all these people to tell me was happening in new york with all these people are saying what's happening in oakland within a matter of minutes they just came through and they had no regard for what was happening to the crowd when and if journalists were trying to document that they were just told to turn around and when they started using force you started to question. like wow this is what journalists can do in america and what they can do the and while it's so interesting and as we speak from what i understand in oakland a lot of the occupy oakland members are on they've been sort of doing several actions all day long one of the things that they're going to do in about an hour from now is march down to court to stand in solidarity with

a lot of the people that have been arrested there but i guess talk to me about i mean i know we're a long way from oakland but you've spoken a lot with some of the occupiers here in d.c. and in new york what are people planning what's next now that this longstanding camp has been dismantled that's a great question obviously new york was the hub this started it all back in september and d.c. followed only weeks later and up until this week d.c. was now the longest standing occupation in a city of this size and on saturday within a couple of hours the whole camp was dismantled and then on sunday they came through to freedom plaza down the street and managed to largely dismantle that one too and protesters were saying you know we're going to be back we're going to come back this isn't going to stop us. but what actions are going to take next you really don't know especially after seeing people brutally be in and hurt and bloody on the streets of d.c. the other day are people going to become outraged and start to fight back if you're

going to be outraged and start to rebuild their encampment or people are going to be outraged and just kind of see what happens and let's hope that something positive this right while i'm sure you'll be down there keeping us posted and for any of us who work here at our t.v. this is something that we see every day and it is also just a couple foot steps from the white house are to web writer andrew blake thanks so much thank you. still ahead on r.g.p. from allegations to phobias to threats relations with iran have digressed rapidly these past few months and now experts say israel is on the verge of an attack coming up we'll show you how close another american war really might be. hard to see is the state. eight run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us.

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well there are mounting global tensions between iran and the west as president obama is trying to hit iran where it hurts in the pocketbook he signed an executive order today freezing all assets of the iranian government and banks held in the united states the white house says this is in response to deceptive practices on the part of iranian banks but this move is being seen by many as an attempt to further isolate iran as criticism against iran's nuclear program continues to mount as well now israel is stepping up its threats against iran and u.s. defense secretary leon panetta has warned that israel could attack possibly within the next ninety days president obama says our goal is to resolve this diplomatically but much of the rhetoric by high ranking officials in several countries seems to point to at least some preparation for the possibility of war i spoke earlier about iran with the director of international studies at trinity college p.j. persaud he explained how the atlantic world has already in some ways waged war

against iran on three fronts diplomatic economic and covert take a listen. well the diplomatic one is very easy to explore because since the early two thousand the united states to strike to create the diplomatic web around iran the centerpiece of bad weather was india and india and iran have a very long standing relationship and what the united states did was to promise india in nuclear deal or not that india is not a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty india in one hundred ninety eight illegally exploded five nuclear devices and yet the united states went to india in the early two thousand and said we will bring you out of the the nuclear sanctions accord and we would provide for you access to nuclear materials from the nuclear supplies group if you vote against iran in the two thousand and five

meeting of the international atomic energy agency and this is precisely what happened in nuclear deal was struck with india india came out of the nuclear chord and even though it's not a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty which iran is india voted against iran in the eye meetings twice on the side of the united states so that was the diplomatic war that the united states has been conducting since the early two thousand the core of what war is rather striking because very few people are talking about the assassinations of iranian scientists or senior scientists killed in the last two and a half years most recently on january eleventh it's hard to do it or old nuclear physicist was just was killed on the streets of tehran in broad daylight now this is striking because the u.n. did release a very definite statement the nonaligned movement has released

a statement condemning the assassination of a scientist but there's been no word from the. followers condemning this act of terrorism in the streets of tehran and according to my sources scientists in iran are now fearful of going outside conducting the everyday business after all one of the scientists was shot sitting in his car waiting to pick up his daughter from a daycare center that means ordinary activities have become very fine decided that this is a violation of the right to freedom of movement if over intellectuals in iran today and certainly there we heard very little to you know in terms of an investigation into that and there's a lot of speculation about who might be behind that i want to talk to though about just what we've seen very recently over the last few days these increased sanctions i know we also saw dispute between the i.a.e.a. the international atomic energy agency the inspectors and the iranian government

basically those inspectors actually left the country after apparently not being allowed to examine certain elements of the nuclear program and of course we've also seen you know today the executive order signed by president obama to talk a little bit about these very recent events and what you think is most significant here well there are two things one is the economic sanctions on december thirty first the obama administration signed in a series of very tough economic sanctions sanctioning the central bank making it difficult for third party countries to do trades with iran the european union joined the united states would say actions which are to come into effect on june twenty ninth the upshot of this has been the three countries china turkey and india very terrified because forty five percent of iranian oil is bought by china india and turkey the chinese and indians have already promised the iranians to circumvent

the dollar and to pay for your army an oral using either gold or a third party. currency perhaps the rupee or perhaps the yuan currently india uses turkish banks you know to do its trade with iran there's a lot of pressure on the turkish banks to not allow india to do these trades there's a lot of pressure on these countries economically the riyadh the main currency in iran has lost its value by seventy percent you know it's a very dramatic thing for dairy people conditions of life are not good on the question of the nuclear debate between the i.a.e.a. inspectors and the iranian government if one looks broadly at questions of inspections there is always in normal confronted asian between i.a.e.a. or any foreign in investigators and a sovereign country that is not something spectacular one should not make too much of of the fact that they have.