maintain a presence here in the hopes of somehow or another mitigating the influence of tehran reducing the influence of the iranians it's a waste it's i would say losing proposition it won't work but we're going to do it i don't know what else to tell you at least until we run out of cash in my prediction is that's going to happen over the next two years we won't be able to afford to so we'll pull out so it sounds like were remaining there mainly for us interests subsequently remember when did the british leave india when britain was broke and could afford to stay that's when the british left india that's when we will leave iraq now if the us isn't ready to leave and they are going to stay there what does this mean for president obama because he is expected or he already has touted this as a campaign promise that he has fulfilled obama is a feckless empty suit who is a front for other people others are making the decisions and always said he's been bullied routinely into all sorts of decisions he was bullied into the the phony

surge in afghanistan he was bullied on iraq he's been bullied on this i don't think it means much of anything they go bomb a is not terribly meaningful in the setting more and more as i look at the man i think of him as louis the sixteenth shortly before seven hundred eighty nine. last we want to ask you. obviously the us what this money being funneled there is maintaining some kind of a presence there. how much longer do you expect this to go on was i said i think over the next two years the economic crisis at home is going to be so severe that we simply won't be able to afford it i mean look this is complex in iraq in baghdad is the size of vatican city were larger it's insane why would we want to do this well i've explained why but it makes no sense so i predict over the next two years we'll pull out completely very interesting take thank you very much for coming on the show that was douglas macgregor overtired u.s. army colonel. well the race to the white house is heating up from feisty debates to

super funded super pacs now president obama has unveiled his new campaign tactic it's called this so-called truth team and this is a team of over two million volunteers tasked with spreading the good word when it comes to president obama and their talking points come straight from the white house so is networking your way to approval ratings really the best way to win an election for me now to talk about this is campaign approach about this campaign approaches stephen crowder fox news contributor and political comedian hi there so what do you make of this truth team can we count on these messengers to indeed tell the truth. i don't know what we mean by messengers about the things that they don't like. now sir who exactly are we talking about when we say messengers i want to clarify that because i did hear two guys before me use the term new york con so i

know there's sometimes a point of view i just i make sure that i'm clear well i guess they're volunteers so i would assume that neo cons would not be a volunteer and to not just say i'm previous gets those words i know that there probably is no point if you attach this for people assume certain points of view here listen i don't know seems to be the attack watch rebranded before that was flag your fellow american flag at whitehouse dot gov here in the united states we believe in free speech someone was raised in canada had really was sort of weird to come the united states and see that because it doesn't exist as it does the united states over there in canada it's a distinctly american ideal so do i think it is great to keep people accountable and truthful yeah yeah i do i don't think that i need to be flagged or reported for saying truthfully that barack obama sucks at his job is effective probably barack obama's great campaigning is a terrible president he's great at campaigning and i think conservatives should definitely look at this simple yet effective approach on line and look at

incorporate something like this into their own campaign even so this group of two million volunteers that are going to be you know tasked with advocating and reelecting obama what do you expect them what do you expect them to say and what you expect them to spread. well they're going to have to try and sell it this guy isn't terrible it is judd so they're probably going to have to focus on how bad the other candidates are and whether they're weak or not let's be honest the g.o.p. field isn't that great right now they're probably have to try and sell hate unemployment is terrible but it would be worse if barack obama were in office how you calculate the jobs that would have been lost i'm still a little murky and maybe you could clarify i don't exactly know how that works i know that you have to spin that but the angle right now is not really that they have to sell barack obama the angle is they have to make sure that they're pointing out where conservatives are lying concerned those can't have a legitimate argument with brock obama or has is idiology just like the tea party

couldn't they were racists so right now we've shut off the narrative we shut off the dialogue before it begins by saying oh hold on we have to flag these conservatives because anything negative they say about about barack obama is a lot i. also want to ask you because this is being called a grass roots network so this is counting on passion of followers to ramp up support for president obama and this kind of reminds me of ron paul who has proven to have the most loyal and most energize following among all the g.o.p. candidates so far so is the obama campaign learning from the from ron paul who was once considered a fringe candidate. i think ron paul learned from barack obama listen i can respect the guy's a trailblazer when it comes to online campaigning this guy you know brock obama the politician was never elected to office barack obama the celebrity was barack obama who had the rock the vote campaign by m.t.v.

who was texting scarlett johannson that's the guy who was elected into office not a guy with a bunch of prior experience or even a guy about whom we knew a whole lot is it going to be grassroots i don't know apparently the occupy protests are grassroots but you saw them being paid sixty bucks a head to show up and shout anti gay anti. female slurs at the pac what was there was a thing they yelled anti bit anti black anti gay racists bigots go away at sea back in their paid sixty bucks a head that was grassroots we've had nancy pelosi accusing the tea party of being astroturf. you know that's the whole narrative we want to set this grassroots are that being paid by the koch brothers or these folks being paid by the unions if they're doing it for free good for them i disagree with them i think they're wrong but they have the right to say whatever they want well you know this grassroots movement is how some say obama was first able to get elected and in the first place you know he you know had his promises of hope and change and many young people

believed in him and voted for him but now with many voters disenchanted with ham and say that he didn't really for fell a lot of these promises well well this tactic worked for him this time. i don't know if this tactic going to work with them this time i don't really know it was grassroots i mean you're talking about grassroots with the basis of sean penn the scarlet johannsen and what's that will i am character who later got punched in the face by perez hilton was also part of the rock obama grassroots so i don't really agree with the premise that it was grassroots you have young voters let's be honest i'm young most young voters are ignorant most young voters tend to vote in their own self-interest if they realize the kind of debt that is being racked up and the fact that they're going to be flooded with the bill i think it's your money different selfish tune they'd be playing but they don't exactly realize that so i expect young people to come out and vote for barack obama and likely be fooled again is that a good thing you know it's a terrible thing it'll probably happen well lastly just want to ask you as a whole how successful you think this math it will be and crushing his g.o.p.

competition. i think it will be about as successful as the flag your fellow american campaign and as the attack walks would be which became the laughing stock of the internet but hey i've been wrong before save and great to have you on the show that was stephen crowder fox news contributor and political comedian. well we turn now to the crisis in the euro zone and chaos and sailing in greece as citizens protest austerity measures there the debt ridden e.u. has suffered another blow from ratings agencies moody's has downgraded the debt ratings of six e.u. states including vulnerable portugal italy and spain and it comes as the bloc struggles to prevent greece from default by offering bell outs for more austerity but as artie's jacob greaves reports more and more greeks fail to measure well only make things worse. system under siege m.p.'s drowned out

the pleas of tens of thousands of demonstrators massed within earshot passing another round of unpopular cuts. the results proved incendiary. that uganda protests turned violent as protesters including fringe and a kiss clashed with police again leaving their mark on athens. a day on this is the remnants of public anger the glasses of the only thing that's been broken as governments passed increasingly unpopular austerity cuts will be left asking who can they trust serve their interests the measures are very very tough part of the poor people especially and this is the reason that they feel. the today i think more measures have been taken and they're it's not going to work in the end they'll be another bill here clearly bad and. oh i hope for the best but i don't

see it coming. under pressure from brussels berlin and the international monetary fund the greek government has cut more jobs to slash funding for the nation's pensions a minimum wage but current policy appears to mainly expose those was fun the ball the crisis conditions is a mindset some feel is doomed to fail and they already have destroyed the whole generation of young people and their dreams they will destroy the structure of the sabian the infrastructure of the whole country we know that it is impossible to repay this debt that we have now signs that these eagle or old those bad we cannot continue like that because the policy that the government is following actually increases the day instead of finding a solution at the heart of activists claims is their search and that they've noticed there. he for the best part of five years now and that time taxes have

risen incomes have pulled in but the country's deficit only seems to grow and in this austerity cycle is something sought by an increasing number despite the turmoil the government boards will follow but what is bad about our political system is that break up by exactly the date even more. people buy this that. is they are going to come the only way out from this point is the default default is going to be very tough for us but there's going to be a better solution than this is a slow death. so now relative calm has a turn to the streets of athens smashed buildings have been patched up the signs of damage but to wait for the simmering discontent hasn't been a mass force medicine appears to bring nothing but pain many are continuing their call for terms of treatment jake greece athens. all that's going to do for

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one of the largest rivers in the world the plan is to dam all the major tributaries river. there will be immense pressure. but also communities. used sustainably by indigenous people. meanwhile agribusiness is encroaching illegal logging is taking place and so the shingle basin is now at a crossroads and this is there's a resistance against this dam project that was going on for twenty years the. worst

. the way it brought the school we had to get a cheer to defend all lotteries as if it on demand so right. gets initiated and these energy will power and to be cut out i mean i'm kompany and on mining companies and. the well and resources. of. the. the. jews to the grief and anxiety about the indigenous people are suffering. and i don't think this story will end well. and there will be a lot of conflict. why did we choose below monte for

a dam to work we need height and lots of water. the stuff bellemont a demo we will stop brazil stop bellemont a dam or we will stop brazil was the. was the was. the guy up i think that was the tie up will war cry nobody should underestimate the

indignation that they're feeling that. we're going for that i think that the federal government should see this as a message a message that much more blood could be spilled in the ching girl river valley if they continue to pursue the project in this way was. funded by apple wanted to do something they do to out in the open and not behind people's backs like the government my tribe and i i'm not going to accept this. sites and boards. for one century i thought this was what took him away. by britain by frogs.

would look good meant to us sauces were exported from have been for the british ones fault i'm all for my jail for because. when the i didn't offer much of the africa the i didn't but if you leave the money pleats so that has to get ignores those of africa for next to nothing to do to get by. but. i disgust because it doesn't help i don't know yet is it only because man because the with. me it is the feel of the future i was about thirteen when my father. i was thinking about all this i'm forty seven now and i find myself through singing about these things my father was fighting for in this times for young son mitigations ninety one by. the end of the.

ninety nine dollars. oh. no nothing. good on t.v. but the rhetoric and effort to shoot down that bad i mean jewish. accounts are comparable sicamous is going to do just what a republican. was going to do should come pretty. well for some minutes is enough to rule out the long haul and move for peace on the road all front of the lens. at the end of the do you see that to see and to not to . so do their long words and stick to those on this only to trade up the deval and the other is that a lot of them and we all tend to be of those lost or blue balls to solve the puzzle because that is a loss also a whole problem because i want to know some as it is

a new problem with that is going to. say see i told her to stop the heat. but that was. one thing i thought of just the money will go. before i can vote while while what else will be there is what i do then i'll get out of moving. because of all those things through my vest act are you going. to get a divorce or something then on the end you know a peaceful way i'll put this to you know that friend can so. you know is making a peaceful protest sad that this is not that that you know going to. change he's a good leader the much of the sikh kids are we but that a peaceful campaign against a sham will company. with the dictator something much. trumped up.

in the individuals guy we. might do to kyrgyzstan a comment who might my father. be me people have sacrificed risking their lives to put the truth for the generations to understand. that. we've got to be like us are we on the podcast i think it. was more like this you want to have educated we have twenty words. that's very hard to say nonviolence is distributional. if there pleaded with you that we have knowledge that we don't have what it is of our people you don't listen then in law generation comes and says well i'll buy this tried nonviolence maybe we should try violence how do you bring people in whom without we weighed the government as look if i did for these people. there is. a little bit.

of a battle but when one speaks of genocide one chance of a wonder or darvell or allusion never speaks of the congo. or the united nations centers that there be a conflict in the world since world war two. was a geological scandal because of the enormous mineral wealth that's in its soil. conflict is based on who's going to control the resources of the congo that's really what's at stake we're talking about ten year rainy i'm cobalt or you name it ira and they have a newbie i'm a spear in the congo and nothing's in their barrel but you ask all the soldiers bring them out better watch your children at bottling it up it's on track so you have a number of major corporations that are implicated illegally exploiting congo's mineral

wealth so you have cabbage corporation out of boston massachusetts o.m. group out of cleveland ohio you have freeport mcgraw hand out of phoenix arizona microsoft panasonic touchy you have new kia motorola being questioned about the. tattoo that's used in their cellphones congo as anywhere from sixty four to eighty percent of the world's reserve of coal tan three letter conductive and it's found in almost every cell phone in the world and in almost every electronic device so these are some of the corporations that have been involved in benefiting from the cargo while on the other hand we have the congolese people dying to the tune of fifteen hundred a day forty five thousand a month five point four million in the last ten years hundreds of thousands. women rape.

so what really discouraged as you is to see a patient you treated in two thousand come back five years later with the rape or and even worse than the one she had before this is terribly discouraging is a kid though what gives us courage is the capacity of these women to fight. through this. if one person is bring the lies in front of the of war by the time that ends everyone in the area are going to take their baggage and leave the community. if they are being displaced these is the region where most of the men are is a look at it so death which costs way to move the people. so the actual rapes taking place. and and the report of people and these two rapes in the district of believe thank you. very well i ask for you to ring lobby.

but. i think. in the name of my organization is uber does boeing you know do you were just blown . away organizational. change or of people contained by things. now i would go out into my physical. book asked are we taking the jokes given to the flights. and the route oh he's ok

we should get care and have a local man on the radio it's a. new war our friends and i get a lot of people. i was in this group of students movement. you can see there's a man day he has to go. down and i want to do is and i want to. make sure that it's time to just shoot. in on you know the nine down but no it was so so i was so sad to see austin i want to ask. i think we just don't want to talk move on we just bought by this crap the back of all those images on my.

from the also drawn so i could adore and also from all in the documentary was taken place what i was close to in place around the as an artist. because i felt i was mildly kissing while the recorded account artistically even though i was doing there was in doing so. we lost artist who try to encourage the people we show you know one thing it will write about it and no people are picking up. but you can make a little better and want to rule and transforming the lives of the people. to day is the opening of the international women's.

to the finish president. you know the one to remove him to come out to the very welcome welcome welcome. the liberian women have always been strong we have the only woman president in africa. and we want to make sure that they are more women that's what this coming together is about for us to sit down every month if we want. to be. friends of liberia partners of liberia. i welcome you all to see me that. these women. they are placeholders. sometimes they are the boldest of all of the people trying to stop the war because they have so much invested they know it's their daughters that are going to get raped they know it's their sons

their are going to be picked up as child soldiers it's their husbands who are going to get killed so they care deeply about stopping that violence. no could you who call. this. educate into the bin until until. one million people. were not and they came with machetes spears shouting and looting holding us they were after the ethnic tutsi we thought towards. the shores there was so much negativity during the genocide but people also showed humanity yet there's a there were people who.