last week and i will say again that twenty six billion dollars will hardly put a band-aid over the massive foreclosure problem in our country or the people that are hurting as a result but three states of decided to step in and actually use those funds to balance their budgets and not actually to give the funds to the families that are actually suffering because the part of the settlement for each state will go directly to the state government and it's designed to cover a whole host of costs by providing additional relief borrowers paying civil penalties and even setting up foreclosure relief programs it looks like some governors have their own plans on how to spend those dollars take wisconsin for example because their land is the recipient one hundred forty million dollars from the settlement and thirty one million of that money will go directly to the state but we've learned that twenty five of the thirty one million dollars designed to help wisconsin's foreclosure problems are going to be shifted to help the state balance its budget that's right eighty six percent of that portion that's going to help governor scott walker be able to say that he was able to balance the budget for state a priority of this wisconsin isn't alone this tactical move missouri's decide to

follow suit with its share of the pie kansas city star is reporting that the show me state will take of forty million dollars from the one hundred forty million dollars settlement to use for funding public universities governor jay nixon took this settlement as a way for him to get back on everyone's good side after here regionally announced a twelve percent cut for public schools and make some saw the settlement as a way to fix his budget problem and conveniently analysis transfer of money last week now may and is planning on following in nixon and volcker his footsteps the state as a whole be receiving twenty one million dollars and eight point two million will be handed to the government attorneys general william schneider has already said that five point seven of that eight million is going to go toward the general fund so we can only imagine where that money is going to and certainly not homeowners hants those are three different examples of the same travesty states taking money intended to help prevent future foreclosure crises that help. i expect her crisis

is going on and moving that money to fix their troubled budgets but they're responsible for those obama shaking his head yet we should be because moves like these are further prove my point from last week and this massive settlement is enough to fix our housing problem but hey as long as the state looks good and looks like they're doing everything they can to fix their budget and who cares how that money is managed right meanwhile those that are truly suffering from robo sidings from fraud those that lost their homes to the banks will receive less aid when governors and states divert the money to other places i mean missouri and wisconsin so that's why we're giving all three of them tonight's tool to work for taking that money intended to help a specific group of people and using it to help their budget woes that let's admit those governors may have had something to do with creating themselves.

time for happy hour when you tonight are two producer jenny churchill at r.t. correspondents christina. ladies. all right so let me read you a little as each one comes from rick santorum gook has caused quite a stir. hero the radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women professional accomplishments are the key to happiness so a radical feminist told some women that they should get a job and that's just the worst thing on the planet to say and so then you're excited for him as he always has to do as a trade back or back excuse me backtrack and fix the statement and take a listen what is this was. but i can tell you this section was written in large part in cooperation with her as a mother who was a lawyer a neonatal intensive care nurse someone with a great amount of professional experience who felt very much like society and those radical feminists that i was referring to were not affirming her choice we're looking we're looking at that as

a choice that was not in fact the right choice. back of her was like about her that he's talking about is his wife who he claims wrote that passage even though she doesn't appear anywhere on the book of the letter said that she you know where in the fine print that's happening that's because women don't deserve acknowledgment of their thoughts or their writing that's right that's right she probably wrote the whole book but then all she had to submit to her husband or something i was going to say you know santorum said that women were too emotional to serve in the military it's obvious that his wife got really emotional when he was writing the book and snuck in and wrote that line and he didn't know he didn't mean it you know it's absurd and i like how it's like she's the victim suddenly because i mean clearly if that was her that made this edition of the book it seems as though it was probably her own and she and her own insecurities about leaving her job to become a parent and then he's making her the victim of the radical feminists are going after her and then i had nothing to you know i like i want some proof i mean i mean

come on line. david gregory on meet the press found a reason to ask the question will you have women serve in your in ministration because rick santorum is you on women and women's place in society is so far away from even most conservative republicans that it's really worth looking at and of course he said yes because you're going to say no but anyway let's move on to something more fun fairy tales just the movies we all grew up with here's the classic. why cinderella was. finally forced to become soup. and. find. fault with each tune she. used. well apparently the radical feminists. who i guess you could buy that's every good for the job or the story research has revealed that one in five parents of actually

scrapped old classics things like snow white the seven dwarves and rapunzel and little red riding-hood and cinderella for i guess we could say more modern versions so the kids are really scared after reading little red riding-hood and fifty two percent of the parents said that cinderella didn't send a good message to their children because it portrays a young woman doing housework say oh he's i mean i have to say i grew up in the time of little mermaid princess jasmine from a lot in and i actually had a couple friends whose mothers wouldn't want to watch these movies because they found the characters in these does mean disney movies to be too facsimiles so well i mean i was made in the area where like the sluggish ones where you have your if you think about their. biggest the biggest complaint i read about those fairy tales taught girls that their value comes from the prince that they that ben finds and saves them but i think this is so pathetic like the kids were scared after hearing

little red riding-hood that's the point but here in handling grego they put the old lady in the oven and we have the job and i mean i know not all that some of these stories you know creativity doesn't always come from every single light and fluffy this is once again it was the kitchen of america and the rest of the right so if you're making hand. over a little red riding-hood they're going to be in trouble i am regarding the survey like under five years old i get it you know i although i still question parents are there all the lots promote stealing you know i don't. new no i'm just saying under five years old but some of those parents are showing their kids teletubbies which is far scarier than a disney movie. i mean i think i mean i like your work with a vacation because it's true these are great i love getting lost in these classic movies and books growing up i mean there's like no we're not because you're he worries don't the stories that parents have been substituting don't have the same moral values these stories teach you something you learn something from these stories and now we are live happily ever after i mean yes i'm telling you what i did really learn from cinderella the other that you know if you're stuck she

persevered through various times have to hope that a prince is going to come along and all your little animal friends are going to help you clean the house but i'll go to the book. i write grew up with these movies so i love them but you say ok let's talk about one of the most depressing things that happened this weekend which is that we want somebody i know i grew up listening to. it is news that has left music fans around the world shocked and heartbroken houston was found dead as you said in her birthday leopold's hotel room at about three forty five los angeles time this afternoon her death at such a young age of forty eight and her enormous talent suddenly silenced has left many at a loss for words. now it is really sad and devastating i listen to whitney houston all the time when i was working at the office we can but if you just write any more information on how companies and why you should just like them so many music

increase the price of a whitney houston album by more than sixty percent within thirty minutes of her death and i'm crazy for not thinking this is terrible i think you don't think it's not messed up no demand why not they saw a chance to make a profit their company thirty minute i mean a share i mean it's terrible but i don't think it's surprising it's business in america for sure but i mean i guess on one hand they were smart to react so quickly because i think that somebody was just telling me like in the top one hundred songs downloaded over the weekend fifty of them were whitney houston zones they think a business opportunity but it's so sad to think that monopolizing i'm somebody whose death i'm going to who will want people who have really want to drop a line on whitney houston's life for years i mean they have been taking advantage of her and using them and i'm going to go at it as though it were out of time but you know isn't right ari thanks for joining us tonight you could just mean for the fans right in italy to be vying for their as if things were to the end they should come back tomorrow as a lot of them greenwald is going to be joining us in the meantime it's become

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. as violence in the middle east as collates it's the u.n. that's doing the fighting these days already with words over what to do about syria lots to talk about and we'll get all of that just. for you ok that's the story. and who is actually benefiting from all the violence in the region just ask the world's largest arms export and that's right the good ole us of a will show you how america is making billions off of blood shed.

and the greek government makes a desperate attempt to save itself from default appeasing global markets for the moment but sending thousands to the streets to protest so will the new austerity plan vienna. good evening it is monday february thirteenth seven pm here in washington d.c. my name is christine freeze out and you're watching our t.v. well several members of the united nations general assembly are working on a new resolution they hope to vote on regarding the future of syria the one hundred ninety three nation body convened today after the resolution proposed by the u.n. security council was turned down after vetoes from russia and china today's meeting of the general assembly ended after a full day of members voicing their disapproval of the situation in syria and the assad regime but without a vote and without any documents circulating to show what the general assembly

specifically will ask for our g. correspondent on a stasi a church going to spend the day monitoring the meeting and we spoke to her just a short time ago she gave me her take on what will and won't be accomplished by this and also what the latest is that came out of the meeting. well the latest is that this meeting has definitely lasted the entire day we've been hearing speeches from dozens of countries that started early in the morning and of course like you mentioned christine this comes only a week after a double veto from russia and china blocked an arab and western backed resolution on syria at the security council so what we saw today and are still continuing we'll be seeing in the days to come is an attempt from the saudi arabia and qatar to go to another body of the united nations and attempt to find some kind of decision there even though the general assembly does consist of over one hundred ninety members we have to keep in mind that it's not nearly as powerful as the security council because whatever decision comes out of the general assembly is by

no means binding it's only seen as a recommendation by the rest of the international community and what's key here is that the text of this supposedly resolution that the general assembly will be voting on voted on has not even been circulated yet from what we're hearing on the ground even though that's what we've been expecting a vote to take place all day today we're hearing that maybe a document will be circulated in the hours to come either by the saudis or egypt we're going to have to wait and see but the key here is that it's so we're hearing about it's going to be pretty much the same document that russia and china vetoed and russia's and china's problem with the text was that it seemed biased to the countries saying that it only named to the syrian government as the main cause of the conflicts going on on the ground in syria but not the arms group the armed groups and that's something that continues to be a major sticking point the recognition of two sides to this conflict by the international community i think it's an important point you make. regarding the difference between the u.n. general assembly and u.n.

security council what's the point then i mean if the u.n. g.a. despite having a lot more numbers has a lot less power than one of the actual point of today's meeting are they just trying to send a message are they trying to put pressure on russia and china what do you gathering is the point of all this. good luck the scene from what we understand the message the point of this really is to send a symbolic message to the syrian government more so than russia and china because we've been hearing all of these countries make speeches today see it saying that the syrian government is committing atrocities so really this is another opportunity for those who do support regime change on the ground to send out criticism towards the syrian government but many experts are saying really but the fact that in this symbolic diplomatic gestures being attempted at the united nations does not really mean much because any sort of document is not going to help stop the crisis on the ground unless it pushes for a cease fire so many are saying that should be priority prioritized at the general

assembly these days and not so just you know a lot of words of criticism and that's what we've been seeing as we say that initial resolution of course supporting the arab league and their plan to ask syrian president bashar al assad to step down. the arab league also is hoping that the u.n. will send peacekeepers into syria and again this plan was met with some competing arguments talk a little bit about the different sides in terms of sending peacekeepers into syria why or why not do people think that's a good idea. well look there definitely have been some sort of i guess suspicion and wondering in terms of exactly what kind of mission these peacekeepers would have on the ground as you rightly say the arab league did suggest sending troops of peacekeepers onto the ground in syria but this is something that first of all damascus has met with somewhat of a question that is not prepared to accept as of yet and we've heard from russia say

god first of all it does kind of believe that it was not the best idea to suspend the observer mission on the ground first of all russia has been saying that this is something that. would be considered but more details are needed in terms of exactly what kind of numbers you know when and what kind of exactly specific reasons the peacekeepers would be there for because from what we understand right now of course there is no peace to keep on the ground but russia saying let's push for negotiations and a cease fire of both sides first before any such consideration would begin to really make sense. just just one final question on a subject you mentioned that as of now from what you've learned from what you understand no vote is expected today at the u.n. general assembly. when i happen to discontinue then tomorrow the next day until something is decided on can something actually be decided and that's what we're expecting definitely some sort of document will be passed around by the saudis and

qataris we are of course we know that this document is going to be pretty much the same thing that was vetoed at the security council but we're going to expect yes in the days to come as this sort of vote to take place and whether or not it's going to have some sort of significance is really a big question mostly symbolic in this particular case because like we said the general assembly does not have any binding power when it comes to conflicts around the world and all right in our new york studios r.t. correspondent on stasia churkin. the u.s. of course though not giving up its quest for a regime change in syria saying it's only a matter of time before the assad government collapses and as history has shown washington may find a way around the barriers including the un if it decides to push its own agenda and syria artie's guy image as your own has more. what should have mandate having failed to reach international consensus on syria it's been

a complete waste of time washington prepares to act around the way for the time being the administration firmly rules out any form of u.s. military intervention in syria but the pentagon is busy filling out an attack strategy on syria just in case should the president call for action experts say history shows the absence of international consensus would not be an obstacle to washington if it decides to go ahead with intervention the united states sees the u.n. as a tool of convenience of the u.n. is subtle in going along with the united states then the united states is fine to have a u.n. sanction for its actions but when the u.n. and the people of the world or the countries of the world resist then the united states has the u.n. is unwilling to do its job and then uses other instruments like nato or other military arrangements they did in the case of yugoslavia they did it in the case of the iraq war whenever the u.n. doesn't go along the u.s. then says well the heck with you one will use some other instrument for the

exercise of american power last year the u.n. security council authorizes new to protect civilians in libya but the mission resulted in regime change the libyan authorization of force was very specific and it didn't authorize regime change in the countries that partook in their operation clue you know actually for exceeded the u.n. mandate and that operation i think that symbolic of the fact that he's looking at these u.n. mandates really are meaningful in the terms of international law and it's just the reality of it the two countries have flooded libyan rebels with weapons despite a u.n. arms embargo u.s. government wants the u.n. but they want the u.n. to do the u.s. bidding waive united states uses the united nations in regard to be israeli post in question is very emblematic and united nations passed resolutions which it has done repeatedly demanding that the israelis get out of the west bank and earlier gaza and earlier this summer. united states in force those resolutions they didn't demand they be enforced when it came to the united nations saying the palestinians

have a right to be a recognized the united states actually does if there was a crime against humanity the united nations they're taking up the issue of palestinian rights we can see here a manipulation of the united nations when it does with the united states wants fine but when it stands with opposed to people which it has repeatedly over and over again then united states government republican or democrat from a way to condemn the united nations. the u.s. also did not support the resolution on syria if it were by russia which called for all sides in the conflict to stop the violence and to start a dialogue instead he chose to take sides in sydney or. one might describe the u.s. the u.n. as use if needed go around it if you don't like it but while an all or cart approach to the world body might suit washington it makes for

a bad recipe for world stability i'm going to check our reporting from washington. and we go clashes in syria continuing and violence on the streets of egypt and libya still present as well as we want to talk about the weapons being used in these conflicts questions like how did those weapons get there in first place exactly who are the people they're being sold to and who is benefiting from the sales financially and politically well this time around fingers are being pointed at russia and its previous arms sales to syria but all western countries including the u.s. are using one answer point those pingers are using the other to sell weapons themselves to plenty of other countries in the middle east and they happen for years r.t. correspondent kareen important i have takes a closer look at the rhetoric versus the reality. at the united nations security council america holds one permanent seat but when it comes to weapons the world's largest arms exporters is often seen as sitting on two chairs they say there isn't

an international embargo on arms preventing them from doing that that's a fact but that doesn't change the immorality of supplying a dictatorial regime that is killing its people in massive numbers every day and we are deeply concerned about that as u.s. officials continue publicly scolding countries over relations with syria critics say the accusations are being thrown from a tremendous glasshouse the us is a hugely difficult in this regard because they've long been the largest arms dealer and most of those weapons the us sold historically more than four hundred billion dollars worth of since the one nine hundred sixty s. have gone to the middle east and you can't argue. seriously that's made that region any more stable in the past few years nearly fifty percent of u.s. weapons exports have been flowing to the middle east and many countries with the biggest appetite for american weapons have also made headlines for carrying out

brutal crackdowns against dissidents and opposition groups if you are for your ok friends they are thugs you're not i mean this is for all of us who have been overseas the duplicity in a darker sea of american foreign policy is painfully evident according to congressional figures america has sold one point four billion dollars worth of weapons to bahrain since two thousand and america struck its single biggest arms deal when saudi arabia ordered sixty billion dollars worth of arms the us has long subsidize the israeli military and recently supplied them with cluster bombs experts say this strict teacher carmi. middle eastern countries is aimed at iran and extending the u.s. dominance in the region this. is going on the war. against iran it's not at all you know human rights. it's all about some

geopolitical f.b.i. whistle blower sibel edmonds has accused america of playing particularly dirty all leading a campaign for regime change in syria but it's not some kind of. simultaneously our prize the situation where people are a ballet and then suddenly they are mysteriously armed and mysteriously arms are being smuggled into syria from turkey well who who is providing this arms nobody is asking in the us media all these are u.s. arms shipped to turkey this is the u.s. military complex flush with record revenue continues to lobby its interests on capitol hill arms manufacturers are some of the biggest companies in america they're some of the most powerful lockheed martin not only did they make it so i'm sure the defense department around the world their federal contractor and many other levels of the actually this statue outside the u.n.

headquarters is a symbol of global peace and nonviolence but critics say the idea has been twisted by the u.s. which goes around advocating peace arming countless conflicts all for the sake of profit. my r.t. new york. so you see here it's not just random countries it's countries like turkey but then funneled up into syria as well that the u.s. is selling weapons to so instead of finger pointing perhaps maybe a need to rethink policy or at least take a closer look at the consequences of these actions i spoke a little earlier to ivan eland a senior fellow at the independent institute to help me break some of this down well unfortunately the u.s. has a double standard in this regard and you see it in syria as your. story mentioned this is. in bahrain this is exactly what happened we not only give it to the bahrain government but of course saudi arabia invaded bahrain and help the

government put down the protesters there and of course saudi arabia is one of our biggest arms arms recipients and also mubarak's egypt we are united states was slow to embrace the protesters group then when they did of course it was still the arms that were. in contention which were hovering over the entire situation and which still cover the entire over the entire situation in egypt or us almost a more us bill because we give a lot of military aid to egypt and it seems like from what i'm reading you know right now yesterday just in the last twenty four hours we have heard a group a bipartisan group of senators it's funny what actually brings the two parties together it's being led by john mccain and joseph lieberman and they're asking and they're calling on. they put forth the proposal to start arming the anti regime people in syria and so it's just really interesting i mean how do you think this

looks from the outside looking in when the u.s. criticizes countries for selling arms to governments they don't like but they're willing to arm the people that are fighting us government well you know a lot of times you know the opposition people take the arms but there are. so leery of u.s. intentions and in fact in syria you could end up with something worse than the current regime as far as human rights go and i and there's also the issue of state sovereignty i mean if you break down the system world sovereignty over countries over their own borders you start running into a problem because this is not a perfect system sometimes regimes do abuse their own people but the state sovereignty system where you stay out of other people's business that's sort of the bedrock of. the international system otherwise we might have her petrol war and so that's why that's been set up it's a hard nosed reality that.