as named john he's a retired f.b.i. agent who resigned following a sex scandal and since that sex scandal won a little has become the vice president of strategic and gage meant group a nonprofit whose sole profit is to educate local state and federal agencies about the threat of the unified islamic movement here in the united states and right here i would show you video from the training session which was a free seminar for the community but this is actually what happened when a local news crew try to film it. for we don't want to hear a rumor that you know. who you are you so told. troy. now the man in that video is one dollar himself and although he would let the news crew in he was nice enough to let the reporter state observe and according to her topics included hamas was plan to destroy western civilization from within and islamic centers as potential military compounds the second part is particularly interesting given that this training was happening in murfreesboro tennessee some

of you might remember the controversy that erupted in murfreesboro a couple years ago over the building of an islamic mosque. from the outset plans to build this new mosque you've been through roche asli contested for reasons like traffic congestion zoning liabilities even suggestions that islam is a political movement disguised as religion. are it's what we have here is a community that a history of islamophobia and hate crimes related to the building of that mosque and so what does local law enforcement do they bring in somebody who makes terrifying generalizations about the entire religion so rather for a county sheriff robert arnold trying to defend the seminar saying that the officers were just trying to learn about muslims in islamic culture that they were trying to offend anybody arnold then went on to say that this is kind of like c p r it took twenty years to perfect c.p.r. and we first started doing it we weren't doing it correctly well guess what sheriff arnold i've got news for you were reports came out of the way that c.p.r.

is being taught wasn't the best way people change the way they taught it and it showed arnold or anyone else in the rather for a county police department had taken a little time to do some research they would have found out the back in two thousand and ten in columbus ohio one dollar training session turned ugly when he accused a local man of having ties to the muslim brotherhood so yeah sounds like my idea of somebody who is just trying to inform people and not offend and it should be noted that just this week an inquiry into that the ice training on counterterrorism has led to them purging hundreds of documents or about three hundred presentations given since nine eleven because they were importation they use stereotypes about arabs or muslims or they had factual errors and the f.b.i. seems to be working to clean up their act of training sessions like the one in tennessee this week are allowed to continue. all of our foreign policy all of our state and local level decisions all law enforcement actions will be completely based on a fiction. yes john a fiction but unlike you i don't think of the muslim brotherhood is behind this

scary story i think that it's you and so are having its officers attend a training session with jod the brother for a county police department is tonight told time went. hi guys time for happy hour and joining me this evening are two producer jenny churchill and comedian bryan perry thanks for joining me guys but i saw your name right. close enough to. her you see yet every three ok. let's talk goat goats go sometimes to funny things some of them just just faint old said take a look this. is a bit of snow because they never lose consciousness when they keel over. or start a genetic. muscle aka. the last few moments. on their

feet. turns out that's not the only funny thing about goats resarch as a fad that they actually develop their own speaking voice when they move away from their family and from their siblings and so goeth accents change as they grow older and go from one place to another to go to have access can you imagine what a go at that sounds like can you give me an impression no i think i'm going to do i think i'm going to out of that when i do your best go. i do have to say that i'm a little upset that i've been wasting all this effort on cat as the biggest threat to humans when clearly it's goats if they have the intelligence to change their other this is a suspicious study because this is a brute. the study is saying that if you let a bunch of goats go off on their own they develop their own accent it's kind of just like a way for british people to compare goats to americans i mean if you think about it it's just them saying i'll give you studies have shown if you let

a bunch of stupid animals off on their own they'll start to develop a funny accent you know i think that you actually think they're you know without. talking about seventy who is just to. have a lot of words but i will take a listen to eric bolling today when he was speaking to maxine waters or about the congresswoman you saw what happened to whitney houston stepped away from the crack pipe stuff away from. those groups going to get in trouble. how would she explain those cuts. and that was in reference to her strong rhetoric against the banks and then afterwards he didn't apologize he just said i was joking yeah only fox news could take something that they claim is controversial and have read it and have their coverage be that fully more controversial it should be even be honestly if fox news anchor says something racist news at this point should be

just we should just as and you should have you know when you say something when i just listen to her and then responded to her with like whatever she was talking about that that part could have to go by the media for ever everyone to see but it's just. damn sir ok this is kind of depressing i have to say about the u.s. but first before we get into the study of what exactly are fields there are benefits to alcohol we just learned this recently. if you want to boost your creativity you might want to grab a drink a new study suggests having an alcoholic beverage or two can help inspire you researchers found social drinkers they studied completed a problem solving task better than sober people seems those who are less afraid of making mistakes and they simply go for it. totally makes right really fast before you want to have to say something about that clip bothers me i thought most young

people spent all their time like looking for their friend steve so they don't seem to have the best problem solving skills but i'm wondering what the problem they had people solved was yeah i think it depends on the problem you guys if you're going to. just one or two drinks. have some confidence. and then like once you've passed a certain threshold that you just start your battles but the reason for this is because there was a study done basically that found out that the us doesn't even break into the top twenty when it comes to consumption of beer wine or spirits which personally i like mine find a little i find it a little shocking disappointing i think it's a little disappointing but then you kind of have to get. pissed because the reason this was even done is that. the university of cambridge is doing this because you say kills more than two point five million people annually and so they want the

world health organization to regulate alcohol on a global level. i did you don't google level how do you do anything on a global level here that's low on the bottom of the list of things i think it would be i think they're going to get to that right after they regulate the internet on a global level but maybe it's all it was already. you should solve first before you just want to take people's booze away did you know it was true we lost to like swaziland i have to say i'm really intrigued to go to some of these places just to see i mean if you've been out on a saturday and adams morgan in d.c. you know that there are lots of junk people running around so what are these countries that there are more drunks right now where are the sober people in america right now this one i'm really curious about what it. was on the list utah in church you know i don't know i know i did my soul of the russian federation on there or something on the list or know what that means but that's. ok all right

let's to our last one here you know we're still really torn up about whitney houston's passing here on the show nancy grace tried to claim somebody shoved her head under water and now the westboro baptist have to ruin things too and so they put out a little song take a listen. they're going to protest whitney houston's funeral for her sorcery. things magic words well i have to say i read about sorcery and magic but i do have to say i watched at least one episode of her reality show and she certainly seemed possessed so that could be what they're referring to and i don't know why they're protesting it seems weird to me that you protest a funeral because in their demented minds she's like died and gone to hell so

a vision be they process one approach and i'm sure they're happy usually having rela very much right everyone forgot about their agreement with them any relevance i guess got to wrap it up thanks so much for joining us tonight as every night show thanks for tuning in make sure you come back tomorrow jeremy scahill is going to be back on the program in the meantime you know to follow us on twitter on facebook and find everything you dot com slash lot of showed me of thanks if the news. any batch wants. to buy ever. eternal fire is going to think about possibly. do we all want to see this on forever. wealthy

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sending a message to syria the u.n. general assembly passed a symbolic resolution condemning the violence in the country but not everyone was on board with the measure we'll bring you the very latest from new york. to russia is killing our children after. and while the un deliberates what to do about syria american media outlets are already acting as judge and jury but are they really presenting all the evidence. to not only from a few extremists and suicide vests but from

a few keystrokes on the computer and with just the click of a mouse the u.s. can be taken down or so u.s. lawmakers what have you think and while they shiver and fear its contractors who are making the big bucks on america's internet insecurity. it's thursday february sixteenth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. . well late this afternoon the u.n. general assembly passed a resolution that condemns the assad regime in syria the west and several arab countries are calling for the syrian leader to step down blaming him for the brutal crackdown and deaths of over five thousand people now today's vote in the general assembly is mostly a symbolic one but while it's non-binding it does send a strong message that reflects world opinion today's vote comes after china and

russia vetoed a similar resolution in the u.n. security council a move which has infuriated other members earlier spoke with our correspondent we're going to pour in iowa about today's developments. that's right there was an overwhelming majority of the general assembly that voted to support this draft resolution one hundred and thirty seven countries voted in support twelve against and seventeen abstained there were just about three countries that had problems with voting but overall those are the numbers that were immediately given that clearly signals that the majority of u.n. member states do support this resolution that has been adopted now what it does is it supports and fully puts its efforts behind the arab league plan a plan which calls for syrian president bashar al assad to step aside and hand over its power his powers this draft this is now it's

a resolution the resolution also condemns syrian authorities for violating human rights fundamental freedoms and using force against civilians and even killing protesters but why some countries voted no against this resolution countries including china and russia is because they argue that this resolution is not balanced it does not condemn armed opposition for participating in the ongoing violence that is now dated back eleven months russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin did address the general assembly saying that he believes this resolution is a move towards isolating the syrian government and could hinder any negotiations for peace russia has offered to mediate talks and dialogue between the syrian government and opposition groups to conduct those talks in moscow but with moves like this happening the international community is putting more pressure on

the assad government and clearly the opposition groups are not going to be running to any negotiation table and this is more of a symbolic vote so it is nonbinding so what do they really hope to achieve through it. well what could happen is now that the international community has shown the consensus of opinion it's not a full consensus but majority they could either try to go back to the security council and speak with russia and china about supporting a new resolution that would essentially echo what this resolution says but that just took place twelve days ago in the security council we saw that russia and china vetoed saying that the u.n. should not be used as a tool for regime change in any country it could also allow possibly for humanitarian assistance in syria possibly for the u.n.

to implement that there's also in this resolution a call for the secretary general ban ki-moon to appoint a special envoy to syria but all in all. nobody knows what that will really do at the end of the day you knew you need to reach a consensus within the security council for there to be any binding legal action on an international level and now that this vote has been passed you mentioned just twelve days ago in the security council it was rejected by both china and russia now that this vote has been passed is there now more pressure on the two countries to agree to this resolution. russia and china may feel more pressure absolutely because this is this is in many ways playing out in the media and many of the mainstream media outlets in the us and in western countries are casting russia and china as the villain in this process they have one position where they want to come

to a peaceful they believe that there could be a police peaceful solution agreed upon where you get both sides to come to the negotiation table whereas you have the u.s. western countries and our countries believing that the time has come for syrian president bashar al assad to go so here you have a divided opinion of russia and china may be feeling more heat but i think in the aftermath of what took place in libya those two countries are not going to be quick to cave under pressure because we saw what happened in libya following the intervention that the international community promised would bring more peace to that country that has not come to fruition and russia and china believe that if they open the door for the international community to have free rein in apt in syria there could be a repeat of what happened in libya so we can bet that this will continue to dominate discussions at the united nations but whether russia and china will change

positions on syria i wouldn't put my money on the marina thank you so much for keeping us updated on this story that is changing by the moment that was our correspondent marina parr and i have from our new york studio. well as you can see and the u.s. and its the west versus russia and china when it comes to how to handle syria now this seems to be the same story in the u.s. media today but amid the name calling and finger pointing are some of the facts being overlooked are things on the stasia churkin explained. well it's getting serious in syria i mean very serious the syrian crisis at a peak diplomatic tensions flying high the united states is disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here as american officials switch on the traditional approach of dealing with regimes they just don't like assad is crazy he's

a brutal dictator reese killing his own people this is the same narrative we heard about gadhafi the media is right there to echo whatever spin is presented by those in power well how disgusted are you. disgusted richard they had then a fight with people in power they echo what those people say secondly they don't look too closely at the facts and information war kickstarted as russia and china refuse to stand behind america's position many of chanting russia is killing our children after a veto of the russians and the chinese stand in the way of the un but it was vetoed by russia and china secretary of state clinton reacted generally the russian and chinese veto over him change resolution reacted to with confrontation by politicians clinton suggested russia and china will eventually have to answer to the syrian people working along their pain and news headlines attacking the two countries without detail or context so they present a serious newspaper don't get it it was please not my own my answer to your

question don't be ridiculous the media not showing the will to explain what led to the veto it's a crack in the wall of was basically were ripping the tissue of lies is being presented by the media here if you look. closely or even at all at what russia was saying that there was violence taking place on both sides you don't understand what was happening was there was an armed insurgency backed by people from the outside but this is an inconvenient truth the media have long dubbed the armed groups a popular democratic uprising and oppressors and the oppressed desperate new please come out of the country and growing cause for the world to stop the killing with all the yelling and screaming there is no time to think about who the opposition might really be and what a toppled regime could lead to it's not enough to just say assad rebels good who are these people it's always possible to replace a bay mediocre or

a terrible regime with something that's worse journalist matt lee has been covering the you went for years and knows all too well how the media likes to approach what happens i cover the security council closely enough that i'll say like the sort of the the the common sense the knee jerk answered almost everything that happens that russia and china are wrong in the west is right if you're going to cover the security council you might as well actually like try to cover what actually happens rather than if you come in to each day just knowing in advance you know who's good who's bad and what's going to happen i think that you can miss a lot especially when the coverage narrative varies depending on where on the map the conflict stems from the statement that you hear that any leader who kills his own people has lost all legitimacy if that really were the standard i think i'm not insubstantial percentage of the world's leaders would have lost their legitimacy as the mainstream media sticks with journalism by press release americans who don't dig deeper themselves and up getting just one side of the story with some facts amplified and others unexplained or simply left out the media has gone from

informing to misinforming the people and. r.t. new york. well earlier i spoke to ross baker investigative journalist for who what why dot com and the author of the book family of secrets he explained his reasoning on why he thinks the media's coverage of syria has been one sided it's even worse i think than the coverage of libya if that's possible and why do you say it at. well you know who what why dot com we've been studying these things very very closely and we find a complete absence of journalistic due diligence essentially just to give you an example i'm looking at a piece from the new york times from today and they could extensively from an opposition group talking about how many people have been killed atrocities a military massacre of fifteen detainees or etc etc and then at the end it says

these accounts could not be independently verified and that you have to ask the question well what is that worse certainly if the syrian government makes a claim i think those are treated with a real skepticism and really at all ought to be treated with skepticism also i would apply a bit of logic to it and ask why the syrian government would be doing the kinds of things are saying they're doing which really only serves to alienate the people on a large scale but that's that's what they said about gadhafi you'll remember where they claimed that he was giving his troops by agro and encouraging them to commit mass rape media put that out and of course that turned out to be completely untrue and reza i do want to point out right now we have a new development there that resolution condemning syria was just passed and as was expected we all knew that pretty much everyone was on board with this really the only opponents were china and russia i want to ask you how you would contrast how

the west how and why the west condemns the syrian regime but kind of turns a blind eye to bahrain and saudi arabia what is behind that. oh well i mean i think that's geopolitics i think all those countries do that russia does china does it united states france britain they all do that i mean it's very important to remember that governments make decisions based on so-called national interest often it's not even that at all it's the influence of powerful corporate interests that fund the campaign so we could keep pulling the camera further and further back to try to see what's really going on in this little tiny stage play we're being presented but the reality is that that it's not about atrocities atrocities has never been the standard it's about the fact that bashar assad represents a particular faction you might say in the arab world that the west would like to see depart the rest of it it should we should point out you know there as the death

toll rises in syria and reports of these violent atrocities do continue to come out that they're being committed there is it getting harder to justify letting it go. well you see again the problem is that we don't know who's committing these things because they're you know by now if in fact it was the military committing a large scale atrocities it shouldn't be that hard to establish a lot of what we're talking about involves say for example sniper fire from buildings where we don't know who's doing the shooting i think to some extent this reminds me of what i saw in romania in one nine hundred eighty nine when i covered the overthrow there of the dictator ceausescu where there was tremendous chaos and there were all these different factions of professional snipers firing on civilians but not all necessarily from ceausescu's very very hard to figure out who was behind that and i think my my point here is that we've got to be deeply deeply wary

even those numbers we're being told even the numbers that ban ki moon asserts he says that one of his people gives him those numbers well where did she get. whenever i've looked at those things that try to really understand it turned out that they came from very very questionable sources regionally and oftentimes there are two sides to a story why do you think it was why is it that the media doesn't really dig deeper into reporting the full picture of what is going on there and that some of these details are being left out. again i think it's a matter of self-interest and you know that in general i mean the reason i started who what why is because i just didn't feel that the media in the united states were really very good that the people were taking the kind of risks and showing the kind of courage and independence that needs to be shown in these situations but the reality is that atrocities are horrible the reality is that people everywhere ought to have democracy i mean the biggest advocate of the syrian people having whatever

kind of government they want to have the concern here is are we getting accurate information or is this whole thing being played i mean assad and his government have been there for a long time they've been brutal for a long time as you mentioned the saudis the bahraini s. and other governments have been brutal for a long time china certainly commits atrocities on a daily basis in tibet and we don't see the west doing anything about that so i really do think there's a double standard and that's the way the press ought to play it and quickly last i just want to ask you how this kind of coverage in the u.s. media is affecting public perception of what is going on and syria. well you know ordinary people were very busy we don't have time we don't have the historical background the perspective to understand what all of these things mean to understand that syria is run by a minority. shiite faction in a predominately sunni country that they're aligned with iran against saudi arabia

that saudi arabia faces its own poorly covered revolt by in a shiite or oil raising really region these are the big questions and these are really the things that the public doesn't hear about and they need to hear about it because otherwise what we're experiencing is a tremendous kind of mass migration from one viewpoint to another purely based on these very deliberate and calculated propaganda campaign press thanks for coming on the show that was ross baker founder and and editor. who what why dot com. well still ahead on r t want to buy you the land two if by sea but america's greatest threat might not be by either of the is coming up we'll show you show you why america's internet insecurity has politicians worried and contractors counting the dollars.