you know we can work to ensure the stability of the region and to deal with this crisis in whatever direction it goes rather than delude ourselves in that somehow we're going to tell the syrians what their future is going to look like a week or a month from now nic you know we are it was already mentioned at the beginning of this part of the program is iran and my suspicions are it's less about israel because i think israel actually is very worried because it's very confused about what's going on with the arab spring in general in the region because it's not as black as black and white as it used to be but iran is an issue here and we hear a lot of saber rattling right now in and so let's look at the issue of syria and iran because there's a lot of countries in the world including the united states would love to see the iranians punished somehow one way or another you know take down hezbollah you mention to masada ready i mean it's really has nothing to do about the poor people of syria or democracy it's a geo political play to go after to turn around and turn around would be oh i met loser if the regime in damascus did fall well it's both exactly which part of the

reason why the united states would like to see assad go because then iran looses its only regional ally and it further isolates you are allowing the united states and israel to put more pressure on it to stop its nuclear weapons program suspected nuclear weapons program so there is a clear strategic interests go ahead jump in. i just want to jump in i do think there are any and they're greatly concerned here i think one of the problems at the top of their concern is if the syrian regime falls that in a sense the arab spring will blow back into iran again in the sea and taken there in the opposition or own country so i think just for the strategic reasons they want syria to stay because it's their pipeline and lawson has a lot of support regional ally but i think it also has domestic implications for them that they're really concerned about what you think about that james i mean what how does the rand play into all of this here because again i look at western mainstream media and they're just doing this typical colored revolution element here which we we all have to be honest with ourselves we don't really know what's

much of what's going on on the ground because western media all media as far as i can tell all been banned from the country so all these numbers coming about casualties guesstimates as far as i'm concerned. well that's a very valid point peter i mean the endgame here is iran i mean the neoconservatives and the rest the pro israel lobby want to take down the ronnie regime because it supports the enemies of israel and hezbollah and lebanon and hamas and that's what this is all about that's what iraq was all about iraq wasn't about oil how much oil are we getting out of iraq it's negligible i mean it's nothing how many a lot with oil company merican oil companies there was about taking down saddam hussein because he supported the enemies of israel and with regard to the palestinian resistance there so with iran that's what then game is for this agenda like i said i'm not saying that elements of the pros are a lobby started that revolution or uprising in syria but i think the numbers have been inflated i think i saw an artsy piece about that about it about reporting

entity and they've been exaggerated in western media and like i said then game is iran you can read my friend's book the transparent cabal dr steven seagal ski and that is what we're we're working towards they want to take down the neocon service and wrestle pros are a lot we want to take down the. mains arab ally and that's syria and it all goes back to nine hundred sixty seven peter and israel's deliberate attack on the u.s.s. liberty of a good friend former republican congressman paul finley and he told me when israel got away with murdering american marines and sailors on the u.s.s. liberty on june eighth ninety sixty seven he wrote the excellent book they dare to speak out about the pros will lobby influence in america he said once israel realizes get away with murdering american sailors and marines and people like john mccain and others in his admiral father covered it up for lyndon johnson they could get away with anything and that's what we're dealing with here you've got politicians in america the put the interests of israel first and they don't put the best interests of america first you have neoconservative think tanks like the heritage foundation american enterprise institute they're all pushing war for

israel against iran and syria well and recently right as we go to jim jim is from the heritage foundation go right ahead would you like to defend yourself or a comment i mean are you supporting. you could. well i mean you can go to heritage dot org we have peace on our website it's we think the u.s. military intervention in syria is not a good idea so i think it speaks let me stay with you here but you also ok let me let me stay with him here jim what is the what is the future now you think of the humanitarian interventions right now because. russia and china particularly russia has been very much criticized in western governments and and western media for its veto and the russians are standing by it was listen to what russia's ambassador to the u.n. but had to say about that. our effort was directed at ending the bloodshed those who are accusing us have been trying to fan civil war and conflict in syria

so you know i don't want to want to make them using this kind of hysterical language but we should have a. call that track record in dealing with the situation of syria supporting opposition sometimes with arms with their goals of change so. history will show i think. russia has been doing everything we can and continues to do everything we can. ok jim so what do you think about that i mean what my point is here is that you know these humanitarian interventions which i think is an oxymoron in a way because so much violence is used but i mean you know it was libya. being what we're looking at libya as a president we can do it in other places and let's be fair and places that the west would like to target their cold called enemies of the west and all that friends of the west they're never going to be targeted that way even though their human rights records could be deplorable or eccentric cetera i mean and i think you know the

right to protect is a very good case russia did that with south to settle we can disagree on that but that's how russia looks at a valid form of the right protect the south with thousands were defenseless they were not fighting anyone and now we have a people that are in very dire straits i believe but the whole idea of an a humanitarian intervention has been short circuited because the some western countries took advantage of the libyan case. well i do believe that humanitarian operations are really no different than any other kind of foreign policy decision and it's never simple go to the rule book and it tells you exactly what to do you have to weigh the merits of all the situations your own capability what's the right thing to do what can you actually bring a situation i actually think the right to protect is a pretty bad he was an empty doctor and that can be used for going after your enemies and could be used actually to prevent people from doing legitimate humanitarian operations so i would just put it aside it's going to go to the ash heap of history we're going to take each one of these cases on their own merit i

mean i would say in the case of russia who russia does have a longstanding relationship with syria and this regime they i think they they have special access and i do think they have special obligations to make every possible effort to do what they can and i think they are. well and it looks like they're going the extra mile in trying to get the sides to talk to each other each other in moscow another venue i mean the ambassador was very emphatic about all of that i mean the the the hate the reaction from western politicians and diplomats i think was hyperbole i mean the amount of violence that to the u.s. is committed against the people in the greater middle east in the last twenty years particularly you know he's you know you get to the point of hypocrisy here make a fine go to you what do you think about the future of these humanitarian interventions i mean we had a dead end right now because or we do see western powers or a coalition of the willing as i keep saying the will end up doing it because the u.n. security council is not going to back it up anymore. we'll see

a coalition of the willing to put it the best thing for the united states to do now is support the support the support saudi arabia in whatever they can do to help the opposition to go back to a point about this responsibility to protect doctrine i think the situation in syria and all shows that strategic interest always trump humanitarian missions. the person world may want to help the syrian people on the sleeve but. it would be a huge mistake to antagonize china and russia now by crossing them and intervening in syria despite a veto i don't think that any humanitarian concern in the west will be big enough to actually prompt governments ok james james in a way i'm going to give you the last word even dissolve and you think we'll be doing a program on theory a month from now. peter i think it's going to end with us arming

people like john mccain who has been a neo con neocon sort of mouthpiece for years now putting israel's israel interests ahead of america i think you'll see him and joe lieberman and others pressure a bomb to arm the rebels in syria i think unless collate from there perhaps you'll see civil war and you'll see these a liberal here you know minutemen intervention run out of time thank you much for a very very interesting question that looks like it's going to be a terrible ending no matter how you cut it many thanks to my guest today in washington amsterdam and in los angeles and thanks to our viewers for watching us here as you see you next time remember. to.

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that. would be. welcome to the loner show where you get the real headlines with none of the mercy i can live out of washington d.c. now it's not going to take a look at a congressional ban on insider trading house and senate members are patting themselves on the back but does the stock act actually leave some of the larger aspects of corruption untouched then an exclusive n.b.c. report ties an iranian exile group to the assassination of nuclear scientists in iran if it's true what does that mean for the u.s. lawmakers who support the emmy kate and chris hedges sparked

a heated debate when he called the black box black bloc it cancer with an occupy but tonight we get a response from susie cagle in oakland got all that and more for tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. well this morning in an attempt to quell the growing fear over a birth control rule that would require health insurance plans including those offered by catholic universities hospitals and charities to offer contraceptives the white house announced that they would be announcing an accommodation to this rule now the so-called accommodation puts the burden of the contraception coverage on the health insurance companies rather than the religious institutions requiring the companies to offer free services directly to women but this accommodation well it still wasn't good enough for many people out there in the media specifically to fox news oh no you see they've been having a little bit too good of a time ginning up a controversy around this subject to let it go now president obama offering up what

white house aides are calling an accommodation not a compromise to his controversial birth control policy there's nothing more. geared to some of these people than than ordering them to pay for something or their you know their employers to pay for something that they don't agree with on religious group what does this say about the decision making in the power of the presidency when you have the vice president apparently who disagreed with this initial to sit . and you have the chief of staff bill daley who by the way no longer works for president obama is there any connection there to the fact that he's not there and this issue this is not about contraception this is about religious liberty this is about you telling the catholic church what to do in defiance of their beliefs and so the media unfortunately really covered it the way the president was framing it not as a religious liberty issue. now i'm not exactly sure what media that woman over there has been watching because i've been watching

a lot and there's that one single discussion that i've seen that's focused solely on women's health rather than religious liberty now the most that i've seen is a lone pundit trying to shift the conversation back to sanity back to a discussion about the fact that ninety eight percent of catholic women have used contraception at some point in their lives i still haven't seen anybody make sure to point out that this rule before was altered wouldn't apply to churches but to church run institutions hospitals huge universities that employ thousands of people of multiple religions now and so what i've seen is a concerted effort across the republican party and of course it's mouthpiece fox news to create as much hype and hysteria around this issue as possible it's fox doing what they do best right picking a culture war issue and then going to the mattresses every host every show the same thing over and over again you're under attack by the president if nonstop right they've been doing it for hours they've been doing it for days on end and i guess it's great t.v. nothing gets a crowd more riled up in a social issue which i can attest you from checking out see impact this week but

the problem is all may not seem all that shocking that fox news is leading this cycle the rest of the media is gladly hopping on the bandwagon there ready and willing to pretend the birth control rule is the most important issue facing americans right now. you know his rivals have been calling it a war on religion is now the president appears ready to walk back a new policy that would make catholic institutions responsible for their employee's birth control costs the administration will not require religious employers to cover contraception costs for their employees they'll be able to get it indirectly from the health insurance companies that work with these institutions seems like the white house completely underestimated the response that this decision would get from both the cut of the catholic community the religious community and the right. yet a third turns out that c.n.n. and i said d.c. they're just game for a culture wars fox is like nobody can bear to be left out for them it's

a breath of fresh air from all the real news right war a stagnant call stagnant economy and shockingly enough fox is shepard smith was the only one to actually pick up on that the sense is the economy may be improving and suddenly we get a social issue popping up like this how this happened. so isn't it interesting how that happens in fact shut really might be on to something we've got one good jobs report all of a sudden the economy is no longer making good t.v. now if they've ever really spent enough time talking about the true fact of the housing crisis of the recession and millions and millions of americans but i mean this is just too transparent they spent a couple of days pretending to care about the people that the positive jobs report left out the millions of americans that become so discouraged that they left the workforce the disturbingly high number of people that have been unemployed for six months or a year or more but who cares about them when you've got a wage issue ready to exploit so an attack on religious liberty indignant men and women splashed across the airwaves pretending of their religious freedom is at stake i have to think that there are

a lot more important things going on in the world which is why i've dedicated such a little coverage to this issue here on my show there's a drumbeat louder and louder for an attack on iran syria is on the brink and yesterday the government came to a twenty six billion dollars settlement with the five biggest banks which essentially screwed homeowners who. the u. six unemployment that's still fifteen point one percent so yeah the birth control rule matters matters to me it matters to women around the country but it does not warrant twenty four hour hysterical coverage from the media the church's past obama responded let's move on but this is just something of the m.s.m. just can't give up this is a story that you know that they're going to miss. well congress is finally acting on an insider trading ban with both the house and the senate overwhelmingly approving bills this week and you could say that it's a good sign that they're finally realizing the frustrations that americans have with what they see as corruption on capitol hill but the senate's version with the

changes released by eric cantor to the stock act leaves out the political intelligence industry and industry that tracks action on capitol hill and sell that information to investors so members of congress pacific republicans are patting themselves on the back acting like they've done the right noble thing are they still leaving wall street's role untouched kind of like that foreclosure fraud settlement that was announced yesterday and got a like that secret option held by the federal reserve so that all of the same old game are discussed with me as anthony ran down as though director of economic research for the reason foundation anthony thanks for joining us tonight sure i mean what do you think in general right suddenly we have an insider trading ban in congress coming up the president mentioned in the state of the union sixty minutes did that piece but they're acting like they're heroes they're regulating themselves it is astounding to me that we are two and a half months after this issue sort of surfaced in the mainstream news and people still think that insider trading rules never applied to congress in the first place in sort of truly rules have always applied to congress this stock does almost

nothing with the exception of you have to know the reporting every thirty days what you have in your portfolio as opposed to your it's some small things like you members of congress can't. participate you know an i.p.o. prior to it going to going public but really this is a massive big to do about nothing i want us to the breaking down for us because i think of the general understanding out there is that congress members were doing this completely legally and they did not have any rules that the insider trading rules apply to every single citizen the united states we have rules against it and members of congress and their staff are citizens of the united states and so these rules apply to them now we have additional rules that apply to congress to to be more forthcoming you know i don't have to disclose to the whole world what my portfolio has in it but if you're a member of congress and every year you've got to you know show this as you see tracks the looking for any you know any insider trading and so when we see in china

trading happening on the hill if it's happening well then we're going to jump on it and that's where this whole thing has come from but the idea that the stock act is somehow going to prevent anything different this is this this you know there are things that are i mean i'm not saying that there's nothing bad going on i'm saying this does nothing to change the status quo it does nothing to to move the ball any forward no progress has been made here we do actually have now an investigation though right again spencer baucus which is. interesting that there's an investigation against mr baucus and maybe it's going to be found out that he did something but we're talking about you know the trade specifically with spencer baucus and i'm not going to defend him whatsoever because i think that there's a lot of problematic things that he's done but we're talking about real pittances here which sure that's wrong and so if we highlight things wrong but we're talking about you know ten thousand dollar tree and whatnot this is the amount of focus has been put on this is completely unwarranted relative to the other massive problems massive corruption things that go on crony capitalism washington it's not to say

that this is not bad stuff saying that this is a smokescreen away from what real corruption is in d.c. i would say then let's talk about the political intelligence industry which democrats are really upset about being left out of the stock act i mean do you think that. represents a little bit of the bigger picture though right because that activity on capitol hill that then is being sold yes but even the political intelligence history isn't that big. i mean we're all your might want to look at you know some serious corruption things and you start looking at you know energy subsidies and start looking at some of the i mean you look at both of the left and right for the for the president some of his biggest donors have these are getting these massive government subsidies or weren't written into the law until his administration took power let's take a look at something like that because that's on the order of multiple billions not multiples of ten thousand you know you want to look at some of the some of the republicans who you know their ideology would suggest that they should want to get rid of fannie mae and freddie mac. and yet they stand firm because of the amount of money that they get from the

housing lobby that you know somehow they're conservative everything but this one particular issue and that's you know multi-trillion dollar because there are some really big corruption things you know the political intelligence most of that really isn't even that problematic and what few problematic things that there are it's not worth this effort let's spend all of our effort guns that much bigger targets and we think they're right because. it's i think it's frustrating for a lot of americans and it makes them feel like the corruption is more rampant when you see individual examples right of a congressman or that decided that now maybe is richer because of certain information that he was privy to but if there are entire industries that are being fueled out there thanks to the exact same thing that it's a much bigger problem so i want to talk about something that was reported today that apparently the fed had optioned opposite number of treasuries and they didn't think really and they only allowed three banks to even come in and our securities excuse if they only allowed three banks to come in and be in on this bidding and it

would have been a transparency on what happened this was all after the taxpayers bailed out aig i.g.s. or technically it's all about how much more money you can get back for the taxpayers to write specifically this is selling a. related assets at the fed oh and that they you know that they held. in a close auction which i haven't taken the time to actually look into the law in this someone could come across me i don't think that they actually broke a law here but this is you know this isn't a serious i'm going to sue is transparency i mean why would we not want more people bidding on these assets you know that's only going to that's almost certainly only going to drive the price up and if the fed knows something to where if they let this be a public option in the drive the price down well then that's probably something we should talk about one way or another this is highly problematic and this is on the order of billions of dollars now and by the way doesn't it is barclays that. it is the only one that it winds up getting sold to goldman sachs you know you want to look at some shady things going on that you know let's let's look into this is. problematic yeah i can't let you go without asking about what you think of this

settlement foreclosures that i and we we talk a lot about yesterday and we gave a pretty hard time but. here's the thing that no one's really talking about and that is. a huge part of the deal is the principal write down seventeen billion a principal write downs and because you don't get banks are going to get dollar for dollar and those write downs you know winds up being an estimate of around thirty billion dollars in modifications to people's loans the thing is is the banks are not going to be the ones to feel that for the most part it's going to be mortgage backed security investors themselves which are pension funds insurance companies for one k.'s at the end of the day most of this deal is the taxpayers bailing out the taxpayers. the banks are giving if you want blood this was not the deal to get blood. the trade was fantastic for the financial services committee and i think that it completely missed the point in that it's not one it's presuming a lot of guilt towards particular bank activities and it's going to give

a lot of money to people who actually made their mistakes they were conned into anything and it's stepping it's not stepping back to look at some of the real serious problems that that went on with the mortgage disclosure and during the whole build up of the bubble we may disagree on some of the reasons why it was problematic but i think it was highly problematic all right good point anthony thanks much for joining us. just ahead of the show i can tell you about the new software that could create a huge problem for the government to hunting down pirates and anonymous officials are trying are tying the enemy k. to the murder of iranian nuclear scientists at the same make a some of us lawmakers want to support. people calling like you said for free and fair elections.

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