i. james o'keefe is at it again in case you don't know who he is here's his mug shot that's when o'keefe was arrested for trying to wiretap u.s. senator mary landrieu phone becomes to be a journalist and was promoted by fox news o'keefe is down to is that a number of fake journalism stunts is just to advance far right wing ideology basically took on n.p.r. with a very deceptively edited video to make it look like an n.p.r. executive was making critical remarks against the republican party in his official capacity but the damage was done in that executive plus n.p.r. c.e.o. vivian schiller resigned they also messed up acorn too with some videos and that's basically how o'keefe rolls he throws blatant propaganda out there and lets the

right wing media pick it up whether it's true or not is not a journalist he is a hack and now he's at it again releasing a new video to advance the myth of voter fraud this time then what you're about to see here goes to a voter registration center in minnesota has to several of them to obtain voter registration forms for fictitious people people like timothy t.-bo and thomas brady to prove that someone can register fake people or celebrities or jesus loving football stars to vote without an idea take a look at the video and then if so does voter registration form you can check mark a box that says you don't need an id a social security number or a driver's license. if a person walked up to election officials in minnesota and inquired about registering tim thibeault and tom brady to vote is it possible for a third party to register a group of voters for example to tivo so you have one person it's almost

pretty obvious brady can't come and gone through depression came through as sort of votes. so later in the video keith tries to prove that once someone like timothy t.-bo is a registered the met voter can send an absentee ballot again without an id in place of fraudulent vote what o'keefe is trying to advance with this video is the need for voter id laws those same voter id laws that are being passed in places like wisconsin that will disenfranchise millions of eligible voters who don't have i.d.'s in the next election mostly democratic voters but is bred for even points out over the brad blog dot com this is just another case of journalistic hackery by o'keefe first off as friedman points out what to keep doesn't illustrate in the video is that there's already a law on the books the help america vote act two thousand and five it's called there requires anyone who doesn't register to vote in person someone like timothy

t.-bo to show their id when they show up at a polling place to vote for the first time so that's covered that's for that second issue of mailing in absentee ballots without an id that's a crime all right but it's a crime that these voter id laws can't stop either and it's a crime that pretty much never gets committed only point zero zero zero six percent of votes cast according to a study by the brennan center for justice are fraudulent lightning striking people happens more frequently. but while voter fraud almost never happens despite what discredited hack journalists like o'keefe want you to think election fraud on the other hand happens all the time and there's one political party that seems to always be behind it and you can guess which one it is it's the subject of tonight's deleted. all the kids aren't just targeting democratic fundraisers like unions in their quest for one party rule in america they're also targeting democratic voters

as think progress pointed out over the weekend there are twenty two states considering bills or have already passed bills to restrict voting rights by requiring people to present a photo i.d. or proof of citizenship at the polls in other words disenfranchising tons of voters publicans contend that the legislation will curb mass voter fraud a claim has been widely proven to be for lack of a better term or a loss of scene one garbage as the brennan center for justice at new york university pointed out in a study in titled the truth about voter fraud allegations of widespread voter fraud however often prove greatly exaggerated claims of voter fraud are frequently used to justify policies that do not solve the alleged wrongs but that well could disenfranchise legitimate voters and that's exactly what republicans are doing as in see acorn in reality voter fraud is virtually nonexistent

back in two thousand and four george bush's justice department launched an investigation into voter fraud they were very worried about and convicted a mere eighty six people of some sort of fraud out of one hundred twenty two million voters in other words republicans are chasing a problem that at most exists in just point zero zero zero zero seven percent of the voting population. on the other hand unlike voter fraud alexion fraud is rampant like when about eighty thousand people in florida were barred from voting in the two thousand election bush v gore because republican stooge katherine harris the secretary of state contracted with a company in texas to scrub her state's voting rolls of models entirely african-americans and those democratic voters whose names just happen to be similar only similar to convicted felons who lived in the state of texas or when the

wisconsin republican party and the koch funded group americans for prosperity engaged in voter caging last year to keep college students and minorities from voting and thus pave the way for scott walker's gubernatorial victory or one republican secretaries of state were elected officials around the country ordered particularly in two thousand and four small numbers of voting machines in mostly minority and democratic districts leading to waits in lines in the rain or snow in many cases of up to as much as twelve hours while at the same time in the white mostly suburban wealthy republican areas there was a surplus of machines an average waits were ten to fifteen minutes election fraud a happens nearly every election year and is by far away mostly perpetrated by republicans several years ago one of those republicans conservative activist paul weyrich laid it out for all of us rather bluntly how many of our across. what i call. wrong good government they want everybody to vote

i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not. going to leverage in the elections quite candid like go only oculus go down. it's simple when more people vote when our country acts more democratically the democrats tend to do better at the polls that's mainly because democrats look out for working people or the ninety five percent of us who aren't millionaires and billionaires republicans on the other hand are perfectly content sticking up for the richest of the rich screw everybody else back in two thousand and eight indiana and acted restrictive voting laws and what we saw was elderly voters college students and low income people almost the democratic voters turned away at the polls by republican lawyers because they didn't drive cars in the us didn't have a driver's license i'm guessing republicans would argue these people should have brought their birth certificates with them just like president obama should always

carry his birth certificate as pocket you know just to make sure in the most blatant attack on progressive voters new hampshire state representative gregory song introduced a bill that would prevent college students and members from the military from registering as voters in his state of new hampshire if they are only in the state to attend school or serve in the military the new hampshire speaker of the house william o'brien defended the bill by saying kids are voting liberal voting their feelings with no life experience at least he put it bluntly for all of us to understand this is a war against liberals and of course in wisconsin coke brother lapdogs scott walker was able to slip a restrictive voter a lot through his state legislature while most of the attention was focused on his other assaults against public unions after all he has to figure out some way to win reelection in two thousand and fourteen. all together the twenty two states

considering these photo voter photo id laws account for two hundred sixteen electoral college votes that's eighty percent of the votes necessary to win the presidency of the united states when the norm is corporate spending thanks to citizens united and union membership steadily declining that other twenty percent shouldn't be too difficult for the republicans to pick up. you know our elections should not be a partisan issue and the fact that they are shows just how deep the subversion of our of them of our democracy goes we need public funding of elections and we need it now and then that's the big picture for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com free speech dot org norty dot com also checkered to you tube channels there are links at target dot com also tom foreman dot com check out all the different ways you can send us your feedback and don't forget as tom always says democracy begins with you get out there get active tag you're it.

the violence in syria the lies but the world is left guessing about what's actually happening as opposition forces offer contradicting claims over just how many people are dying. the e.u. gets the shakes over its own embargo on the radio oil as officials express concerns because europe could and the loser. pakistan's foreign minister tells r t that america's drone strikes are pushing new recruits towards the region's militant groups as a new report claimed scores of civilian deaths in the last let attacks. and in business entrepreneurs are to reveal what they're expecting from the next

administration during a meeting with the prime minister on thursday the war details join me in twenty minutes. it is not yemen the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina josh you all come to the program. now the u.n. says it plans to team up with the arab league and restart a monitoring mission in conflict or in syria falls russia isn't going calls for the international community to support moscow in efforts to mediate a peace deal the kremlin is condemning all sides of the syrian conflict for instigating violence while saying president asad is ready for talks with the opposition in syria government forces are shelling several areas including the flashpoint city of homs damascus as it's conducting an anti terror operation there but activists are accusing the government of a massacre and say hundreds of civilians have been killed over the past week syria

is under a foreign media blackout making their reality on the ground hard to confirm and the opposition isn't making that any easier as it argues over just how many people are being killed or bennett reports. the syrian observatory for human rights it's one of the most widely quoted sources of syrian casualty figures but it's not always telling the truth and ownership the syrian observatory for human rights has left several media outlets quoting false information as two rivals fight for the same name the original group was hijacked by opposition activists are posting military deaths alongside civilian ones both sides claim that the official observatory this is the original site in arabic with an english version on facebook and this is the fake site launched in the center and mostly in english several foreign news outlets have assumed they were one and the same thing quoting the fake sites casualty figures the consequence a very different perspective of the crisis the original side's latest figures

showed just over five thousand one hundred civilian deaths against almost two thousand military casualties the rival sides claims well over six and a half thousand civilians have been killed and barely six hundred troops a difference many claim suggests this is a lot more than just a numbers game i don't think even the people who are using these figures. have any objectivity really they have an agenda a clear agenda is there just the fire by any means possible that assad regime is a brutal massacring regime and it needs to fall a soon as possible and we can see the united nations security council when that human rights strategy for regime change doesn't work how annoyed western governments are how it got syrian observatory the original observatory strictly opposes military intervention the man who hijacked its name disagrees. used to translate at the real observatory he was fired after falsely claiming to be an

official spokesman and using a live interview to call for a no fly zone since then he's launched a smear campaign against the original group claiming very impostors as are we and his figures have been quoted by the b.b.c. c.n.n. and a.b.c. australia the other groups say they tried to pass some political views censored by calling for no fly zone for international intervention and we made it clear that they don't deserve a three for human rights. origin organization is that we are i guess an intervention we are against no fly zone all we need is to stop the bloodshed in that is going on in syria as always and his group refused to speak on camera stating i cannot waste my time talking about this is the moment whilst people are dying in homes there are my priority right now he did refer us to another opposition group based in london and they too refused to comment on the ownership

of the observatory but they did confirm that reporting military deaths was not in their interest it's not our position to report the casualties of. government troops the b.b.c. and the guardian had to withdraw material after falsely quoting as always the human rights observatory the un stop counting the death toll claiming it's too difficult to keep track of but it's human rights. chief also said five thousand civilian deaths should be enough to provoke international action the real observatory still documents the deaths civilian or otherwise but it may be too late for the numbers to matter. the. syrian journalist come outright he says the outside meddling already underway in syria's fuelling the conflict by making the rebels fight on against the regime we're a year after the beginning of the crisis it's created that foreign intervention in syria affairs has not been very constructive because the interventions taking place

by the most motivated players and they are motivated for their own reasons we have seen the gulf arab states and the international community which is the united states and its allies in europe and they're all interfering with the hope of weakening the syrian regime weakening its ties to iran. because that's. i mean we have to i mean this is their view motivation it's not helping the syrian people they're sort of intervening when we've had one hundred or two hundred casualties and i don't believe this is to remove the thing which made them that concerned so you know with the you vision is not. that intervention would not be for the right reasons and it's been a very negative until now and they've been they've been pushing the opposition to another step to speak to the scenery seem convinced opposition that the syrian regime's about to forward and therefore there's no need to talk to them so we know

where there was a intervention even if it's not for by using force has been very negative and political analyst abraham aleutian believes russia's approach will actually help solve the crisis by leaving the armed opposition in syria no choice but to negotiate. after so many months of military operations by the rebels in syria at this is pretty clear that what we are dealing with here is definitely not a peaceful protest but an armed rebellion supported from abroad we are dealing with western military political and security trace and to syria both russia and china have created but there are conditions for the opposition to accept dialogue with the government the veto is helping peace more than anything because at the styling the forum backed opposition that cannot count on the foreign intervention as happened in libya and the iraq to topple of the

regime and therefore and fuck the veto is creating better conditions for the opposition to come to the negotiating table and in that sense the vehicle is fostering peace. now we would like to know what you think about the situation in syria so why don't you log on to a website or to comment participate in our latest poll so there we are asking you what's the likely outcome of russia's mediation efforts in syria will be so let's take a look at the side that we've got so far. now as you can see in this chart over half of the respondents say the west will find a way to oust asad regardless of the result eighteen percent believe that even if agreement is reached a split opposition will not stick to it now less think that talks between asad and opposition will fail and only minorities convince the regime and opposition will reach compromise head to our website to cast your vote.

as the u.s. and its allies pile sanctions on iran over its nuclear program the country's president is set to face pressure on the home front to iranian lawmakers have summoned the hat of states to parliament for the first time since the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine that would have made any job will answer questions on these management of government and economic policies this comes amid the latest oil route between iran and the west european union is preparing to stop aborting raining fuel from july e.u. consumers account for around twenty percent of iran's oil output islamic state warns you are shooting itself in the food by cutting off trade and that view shared by the spanish ambassador to iran but three days journalist may grow on you morocco says the e.u. embargo was actually masterminded in washington and serves the u.s. interest. with we're seeing here is not the station that comes actually from the european countries to spain never want to do some bar go to to prove to be put

in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure all the european union i mean it's not just display no need for me also greece imports lots of oil from iran it could be hard hit in a way that would bring them bundled up in the coming future that would. complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of the . political move it has now become an economic issue and can have even more. destructive effect if the iranians decide to say cut off the straits of almost or even if they now of the sides to beat europe to it by. by by cutting off their oil now because we need this time to find alternative suppliers if they cut the supply now we want to be able to find them there will be a huge recession in europe. coming your way you layer in the program legal addiction in craving or workaholic america opens the market to new energy boosting

fixes but there is a hidden danger also had the latest edition of our russian close up stories. the close up team has been to the hot bar of screen. where the country's little world starts its way across the ocean. now our team goes to the area. was named after plenty of good looking to a different character to represent itself. for local businesses are striving to build the aviation capital of russia. the four by fours are made and should be turned it to the limit. welcome to the union of creature. russia close up on r t. now three people have been killed in a drone attack in pakistan the victims have yet to be identified but are believed to be militants the latest attack comes after a forward by a london bureau of investigative journalism which uncovered dozens of deadly drone

strikes carried out by the u.s. in pakistan president barack obama has claimed the attacks only target terrorists but the findings suggest the strikes have also killed scores of civilians and rescuers who rushed to help those hit by missiles chris woods who compiled the reports things and would be it won't be long before the legality of using unmanned drones is tested in court. has been saying for some time that it hasn't killed a civilian in pakistan since at least two thousand and ten every news agency. pakistan every credible news organization that's looked at this is finding that it's not the case we. are being killed pakistan is clearly very unhappy with strikes there's an interview in a british newspaper today with pakistan commissioner london describing the drone strikes as in effect executions state sanctioned executions seem to be an indication that these drone strikes are putting this stuff. because of what mr.

court has ever looked at the legality of these drone strikes and there's a reason for that every time a case has been brought in the united states that is attempted to look at what that these strikes are legal or not the united states is claiming something called state secrets privilege but that's where they say actually this is a covert operation and we can't discuss it really does need to be in the. examination by the u.s. courts about the legality of these drone strikes and of areas additional legal questions that. time i suspect is coming quite close given the pressure in the u.s. right now. and coming up next hour pakistan's foreign minister tells r.t. that drone strikes are actually counterproductive to the war on terror here's a preview. the region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint

efforts to be able to rid this region rather than follow sort of unitary approaches . in how we want to rid the streets and in our view. not only completely illegal and awful and have north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they are counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to getting you target number one or target number three today you're creating five more targets with ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gives to the militants to attract more people to join the ranks. americans trying to keep up in their rat race are looking for a boost the united states is now the world's largest consumer of coffee at passion

pushing people to devour caffeine and potentially dangerous amounts are just brain apart now reports on the country's craving. in the city that never sleeps our perpetual craving for energy never eases i nearly every man had street you'll find two things a coffee shop and customers cupping their fix a liquefied legal stimulant that most can't envision quitting i feel like you know i get it wrong. so i just have to are both of these real yes actually yes i don't know if i could give a little. five or six cups a day yes but i'm not good to much of anything like this we're going to drink three cups that definitely. americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us believe in consumer of coffee in the world according

to medical experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three hundred milligrams or fifteen ounces of coffee one large cup of starbucks contains more caffeine than the daily maximum recommendation however in recent years the country's addiction to caffeine has grown both in portion size and means of consumption consumers no longer have to down twenty ounces of starbucks or sixty four ounces of soda to get an energy high. unconventional products such as five hour energy drinks and stimulant least gum have made caffeine america's most marketable legal drug because of the work imperative in america are working really long hours people are chronically sleep deprived also so they're reaching for stimulants to get amid ongoing economic instability us energy drink sales increased more than thirty percent between two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven.

the newest stimulant hitting the market is a slim a plastic inhaler called aero shot each squeeze dispenses around forty milligrams of caffeine in your mouth the whole one country ordering. american is a caffeinated nation we know the generation of americans. consume that caffeine meanwhile multi-tasker is feeling for the biggest serving are turning to a product called fifty one fifty juice one gallon contains sixty four thousand milligrams of caffeine the equivalent of four hundred red bulls whole objective for food program is to create repeat customers to get people to the product can be clearly an addictive substance and by creating all these products they're definitely appealing to a wide range of consumers and feeding into the larger problem which is that you know happy over consumption of coke and it can be while going after new consumers one u.s. company created new.