and i don't r.t.d. or korea is suspending its nuclear program but a new report says iran is nowhere near creating a bob so does this mean crisis averted or was all this fear mongering just a bunch of wasted energy. gets. more suspicious a little more. about your bag on the bus thinking about changing your appearance like paying for things with cash well that's all considered suspicious activity and it could earn you some on wanted attention we'll show you just how callous the see something say something mentality can be. and speaking of unwanted attention

starting today google is gathering even more data on you and your internet browsing habits is this the end of internet privacy as we know it. it's thursday march first a.t.f. here in washington d.c. and let's call it here watching r t. well topping this hour north korea has agreed to suspend its nuclear enrichment program that's also agreeing to let in international nuclear inspectors and return the u.s. as it will provide food aid it's being hailed as a first step in improved relations between the two countries meanwhile iran which has its intense especially from the us still part of its program said recently that having a nuclear weapon is quote a sin this has the west seems convinced they are building a they are conspiring to build a nuclear weapon so is this so-called x.

axis of evil perhaps not as much of a threat as many think or even at times as having a asco card joins us now so why am i there have been nice to see you. while this news from north korea has many display our domestic secretary of state hillary clinton called it a modest first step in light of this kind the country be seen as less of a threat to the last. look north korea is not exactly a threat this ng is d. were threatened by the u.s. according to the leadership according to the leadership so after she leaves we'll be develop their nuclear program and even have their missile capable of delivering a nuclear package anywhere in the world in asia according to themselves of course king's only real in his last months he defies the plume ok legal to start talking again but we need some kind of concessions in the.

looks like we're having a little bit of technical difficulties there i think we are going to try to get back to them in just a moment and areas hyderabad i see once again. to see once again we're. so getting back on track here our iran calls a nuclear arms production while a great said this kind of goes along with iran stance as whole time that their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes that cracked it is look there was a fatwa by supreme leader ayatollah khamenei two thousand and five saying exactly what he said a few days of course wednesday effect before the elections to date you know you know you're right. it is and to islamic they don't want a nuclear weapon they called their nuclear weapons and it is a civilian program according to the best u.s.

intelligence once again according to the itself they are not the fellow being a nuclear weapon they are you know what it's called a leak in c period if they sink they're going to be attacked they could fill up a nuclear weapon according to experts in the window between six months in two years and of course they would be there before that if there is an attack by the these rigs by israel by the u.s. or by so it's very different to the north korea situation compared to the run it's called literally different. north korea be a very rational actors as well do you and kings or will has said that for the past ten years or so you'll only go back to because the asians specially with us if there is some sort of concessions. to the let's call the. food for nukes through trip you was the furthest but i can john will expect it is being

implemented now in all matters only the us and the west they want any kind of understand with north korea because don't forget. international corporations less than what international corporations dreamed that would be me he could invest in north korea this is not going to happen within the next eight years you could happen maybe you know two thousand and twenty thousand and twenty five well it's still there it's a virgin lark it now parallel to free run has oil and that changes the equation globally and this is like all of that saying you cast one over all these indications are no hard proof that iran does in fact have a nuclear weapon are they conspiring to belgaum we are still hearing a lot of this war rhetoric from israel in particular why is that. well. the ultimate israeli motivation is there to the r.v. all the nuclear power in the middle east they have

a between two hundred and four hundred nuclear weapons what they say is this tensions threats from the part of iran know if a threat against their nuclear monopoly if you run becomes an civilian nuclear program according to the israelis it's one step one step beyond that would be a nuclear weapon that you run doesn't have you run is a regional power in southwest asia what we in the west called an evil east the arab league the very close link with central asia with regional powers like turkey and specially with russia and china in terms of trade in terms of dealing with oil and energy and they are not part of us here of influence and this is the u.s. military mission we want to have a lot of we have until late seventy eight early seventy's night this means our agenda of the gulf as the shelf iran was caught so it's still a cold war mindset the washington least they're still sinking lake of where thirty

two years ago and this is not going to happen well we're glad that this time supplemented if we find a future but i think pack a are really quite quickly when i ask you what it takes for the so-called axis of evil as it's been dubbed to be seen as less of a crap. well there is no axis of evil if this was a rhetorical. new york on's imaginations in the early two thousand and two north korea the whole thing is there's going to be a real. peace agreement between the north korea and us because the korean war technically is not all iraq the whole thing is over in we know what happened right more than one trillion dollars that was spent. all the american casualties and specially the destruction of your lives one hundred thousand two hundred thousand three hundred thousand people dead in the euro is the full scope let's problem

because coming back the u.s. will never get what they had during the seventy's when the show was a power for. the resources of your own but there's got to be a member standing you have to sit down and table. that they were just we're just out of time but we will continue this conversation another time that was passed but our is the times correspondent. well today it seems we live in a world where constant surveillance is becoming the norm and it doesn't help that the government encourages it encourages you and i keep a very close eye on everything and everyone around us but aside from obvious alarm bells that are part of homeland security and the f.b.i. encourages people to report so-called suspicious activity it's including yet they are paying with cash traveling long distances shaving a beard or changing their hair color having politically active or religious beliefs even wearing backpacks and those are just to name a few cell as fear mongering runs rampant our citizens being stripped of their

right to privacy artie's marina par and i have takes a look at how these days almost anyone can be considered a terrorist. the united states of america is home to over three hundred thirty million people we are a country known for freedom. that was then this is today it's. sure report suspicious activity before the land of liberty is fast becoming known as the land of fear and suspicion there are individuals in the united states who seek to carry out acts of terrorism a post nine eleven slogan born in new york city has been adopted nationwide don't assume it was left by accident if you see something say something this see something say something american campaign depicts terrorist scenarios and encourages members of the public to keep watch on well other members of the public according to f.b.i. pamphlets distributed to local businesses potential terrorist activity indicators

include always paying with cash wearing backpacks and baggy clothes and the discreet and prolonged use of cameras for note taking even the cybercafe owners are encouraged to keep watch on any customers overly concerned with privacy even just trying to shield your screen from others can make you a suspect. first thing government policies or making anti-war statements can also land citizens on the u.s. watch list as of two thousand and nine the u.s. defense department categorizes public protests as low level terrorism we're in a military dominated. because the people who are going or. perish with the french you know on nine eleven is clearly never a fear has been exploited and. sustained by encouraging

a spate of public surveillance some new yorkers accuse the government of storing more paranoia and security but we are and i will say all we are isolated is that one is paying cash doesn't mean you know that the terrorists be brothers watching yeah no i don't agree with that at all it's too far reaching the n.y.p.d. under fire again for its intelligence gathering campaign involving muslim americans . and illegal surveillance scandal erupted in the big apple after police officers were caught spying on mosques and muslim communities according to the associated press thousands were under surveillance with no evidence or even allegations of criminal behavior we have to keep this country safe this is a dangerous place many in the u.s. fear that with america's escalating definition of suspicious activity the government's expanding powers remain the biggest threat to the people security we're not r.t. new york earlier i spoke to george tenet there founder of survive and thrive t.v.

he has opinion on whether the u.s. is growing more paranoid with more spying surveillance. ty think that america and the politicians that run this phone tree are forcing a. new era of terry ism and spying on fellow americans and with the economic collapse that's our place right now in kind of expect more polar terrorism and more spreading of fear and fear mongering by or government gets the totality harriet has and is a very extreme ward why would you go as far as to use that word well i mean yesterday i covered the occupy movement they actually closed down a distribution center wal-mart distribution center for six hours and the government is now arresting leaders of protest movements across the country

and they shut down those the occupy movement basically with a coordinated attack and if that isn't a attack on freedom of speech and our liberties i don't i don't know what is that also came out of anything made up of the apartment of homeland security has been. monitoring the occupy wall street movement how do you feel about a federal government agency keeping tabs on protesters i think it's atrocious i think the bureaucrats that we pay with our tax dollars should actually be going after real terrorists then actual citizens that have grievances with the corrupt politicians and crow financial elites in this country instead of trying to shut down free speech instead of arresting these young kids since pepper spraying them and arresting them they should be addressing their grievances and take a look at wall street and take a look at the big corporate business and try to right the wrongs of the inequality

in this country an earlier. activities count as a specialist changing your appearance paying with cash and so forth these i think that almost everybody does that some point in time as almost anyone there are qualified to be on a terrorist watch list. but i actually read the twenty five flyers of the f.b.i. underneath the communities against terrorism passed out and they actually encourage people to come in at any number and mention a secret phrase tripwire so it's reeks of kind of a secret star reporting on your fellow citizens but here are some of the businesses that they targeted with those flyers hobby shops if you're interested in remote controlled aircraft if you're at a hotel and you don't want maid service if you're at a mall and you will ride with a group of individuals split up but are still communicating by phone that could be

a dry run for a terrorist activity i feel like a lot a lot of us are guilty of some of those things that some point in time. a large extent you go to the car rental shop and you read the car watch the questions they ask you i've talked with a couple of my subscribers and i you keep general they want to know where you're go and they want to know what you're doing and they're going to question you if you paid cash these are not anyone's concern with your private movements in a vehicle that you're renting this is just overreach of authority and overreaction to so-called terrorist threat and hard to look at the other side of the argument i mean. what's wrong with being asked to report suspicious activity at run ports meant that's useless information at selby as long as they keep the public safe. well that's the balance the balance that we have to come to in this country is

safety versus security and when you give up your liberty and you give up your freedom and your privacy for safety and security i say you've given up your freedom in general when you've lost the whole point of it it's keeping the balance it's keeping a balance of keeping the public safe but without infringing upon our rights that are guaranteed by the constitution that's that's the that's the tricky part and also brought to light recently the new york police department monitoring muslims this includes keeping a close eye on muslim mosques muslim students simply due to the fact that they are muslim and so are certain that method is a religion is more likely more likely to fall victim to spying sure i mean they may be modern monitoring muslims right now that you may not have a problem with i have a problem with the civil liberties aspect of violating that but soon they may be monitoring people that happened to own guns legally i mean if you look at those twenty five flyers they talk about martial arts and paint ball you know modern if

you go play paintball and you this is quoting the flyer if you're converting large parts of rural land to paint ball fields or military style training camps you could be a low level terrorists i mean the n.r.a. should take a big issue with some of these issues i mean this affects the left and affects the right it's an overreach by the f.b.i. and government authority i guess we all better watch our thousands that when we're in that paintball field george thank you for way again that was george hammond our founder of survive and thrive t.v. . so president obama has made some tweaks to the controversial indefinite detention law the national defense authorization act sparked outrage because it allows the government to detain american citizens indefinitely without a trial this week the president issued a directive that would not make it a requirement for the military to detain suspects but it still gives the president the authority to detain suspects indefinitely so do the changes really help to

restore civil liberties that were stripped in the original bill or is it simply too late to help answer this david seaman journalist and host of the b.l. show me earlier today. it is too little too late this is a national emergency this is actually a national crisis because this is not something that you know could be signed into law this is not conspiracy theory or fantasy this was signed into law by president obama on new year's eve and over the past couple months very few television networks other than you guys and a couple of others have covered this issue in depth and so it was signed into law on new year's eve and now it is actually active it takes effect today we're now living in day one of posts and da america and his only response is to produce this directive a waiver which is not really legally valid and this is what he plans on doing but it doesn't bind future presidents and even i mean we have to admit that it's some

point there will be another president obama's not the be president for all the turning and even he can turn around and change his stance on this so the directive is totally unacceptable he should not have signed this in the first place so under therapist it seems like the president is trying to make an effort to address some of the concerns over the bell did spark a lot of outrage but so do you see this as more about p.r. move to make it seem like the president is taking action to address those concerns it absolutely does seem like a p.r. ploy last night on twitter and on facebook we saw the tens of thousands maybe even millions of people just freak out about this and so that you know they go to google and they search for n.b.a. and when they see an article comes when they see an article or comes up saying obama is addressing this and he has produced a policy directive they go oh ok obama's got this but the fact of the matter is obama doesn't have this this is treacherous this is really scary this is like driving down i way at seventy miles an hour and you have

a flat tire now you don't keep going you pull over immediately this is not something that should be addressed next week or next month by congress this is something needs to be addressed right away. i've been telling my viewers this on my show. you know you have to tell everybody you know on facebook or twitter or wherever go through your phone contact list on your cell phone and tell your family members about this this is really happening right now and very few new outlets in the u.s. are covering it at all and. they have it if you want to ask you one of our attention to the other side of the argument here the press threat leatham president obama said quote a redhead and practical requirement to play suspected terrorists into military custody but undermine national security interest so what do you make of the argument that something needs to be done to make it easier to take to detain those that do pose a danger to the u.s. well i mean who are these people they're like it hasn't been properly defined and

we had a guardian there was a guardian op ed that came out the other day written by not only worth and in this op ed she calls and the being signed into law actual treason i believe that everybody in congress who voted for this thing and knew what they were doing they need to be removed from office peacefully but they need to be removed we need to vote them out or have a recall or some other measure and president obama's administration has to be held accountable as well for what they knowingly signed into law there is a piece that came out i believe yesterday of the day before representative blackburn in forbes magazine and she's saying that now the t.s.a. is going to expand their grass to highways and maybe even bus depots and that was an agency that was originally intended to just do airport screening that was the whole point of the t.s.a. was just korean passengers before you get on an airplane and now they've turned

into something very close to this weird secret police force they have uniforms they have metal badges and things like and yeah they just confirmed the three years it. people have out there that we are turning into this police state and there's no other way to describe it now david you and many critics of n.d.a. i want to see change you just said you want to see members of congress that allowed this to happen step down or be voted out but in reality what do you think is the likelihood that this law or some of the more controversial aspects of the law can get repealed it can definitely be repealed the problem right now is that the vast majority of americans don't even know about this i was talking to a lawyer yesterday and she had never heard of it and you know when you tell people on the sidewalk about this first they look at you like you're crazy and then you say no check out the article about a new york times check out the piece about it guardian then they believe you but they you know there's nothing i can do about this and that's not true what you have

to do is. put pressure on those in congress to support things like representative ron paul has a bill that would do away with this and i believe it's less than two hundred words long it's not some sneaky bill all it is is to repeal the most egregious sections of the n.d.a. and there are a couple other bills out there that do similar things all you have to do as a as the public is tell our congressman this is completely unacceptable it needs to be repealed and then we're going to hold you accountable afterwards because you actually did get away with this and you thought that we weren't looking and we were right there that paint you for coming on the show that was karen alyson host of the d.l. show david seaman thank you well today google's latest privacy changes go into fact what happens as all of google services like e-mail and youtube they're all now streamlined into one profile google maintains it will give consumers a more personalized live experience but critics say it allows the company to

compile vast amounts of personal information and store it all into one place well earlier i spoke with con helen and columnist for foreign policy in focus about what this means for your privacy. i think the idea that google is doing this in order to give you a better personal experience is something that you are you are very little careful about accepting i mean this is about working and i and i think in in this case became not only other collecting an enormous amount of information but i don't really think that you can trust google here with what they do with this because they've already been caught in a centrally figuring out a way to sly cookies there is these little things that allows them to track you when you go browsing on the web to slip these into safari and to internet explorer which covers apple computers and and microsoft computers and to really basically

the whole deal and they can they see that we can do this so when i go on my safari because i have a mac and i go on the web and i start looking for stories that are in researching someone's tracking or now google says is doing it for your own good but i don't really think that decision i want to leave to a major corporation i think that that is my sort of inherent right to decide who knows what i do on the web and where it is i don't want to look for a lot exactly of the problem that i mean you know they compile your shopping habits and somebody sees a pair of hughes or something that they want and i think at that a discount price it's kind of giving them. their config you know they are letting them shop for things that they want an easier is that they can find things easier sell in a way they can benefit the consumer why had the consumer be concerned that twelve i

mean i think it's you know when they come up they have an argument and they say you know it's like living in a small town and it's like you go to you know your porch or in small town and ask. while the grantor knows what types of meat you like and knows what kind of cuts of meat you like except for ok if you're a little town everybody knows you everybody knows your business i don't i don't want that to happen and this is like it's like if you leave the slaughter the butcher comes after you and follows you around and gives you all your right kind of meat you know at your doorstep i mean these are these are ways in which we're slowly giving up our privacy and there's another thing which you need to worry about and that is if google collects all of this stuff together. does it mean that at makes it easier for for instance a government agency. to step in and get that information and we saw this in the

post nine eleven situation where the government was able to go in to get e-mails to get the things that people were sending back and forth it order to monitor them to see if there's any kind of terrorist activity why couldn't they do the same thing with this and i thought their letter seemed to be more concerned that people seem to know more concern when it comes to the government violating their privacy about what's to say that google long give this information to the government eventually well they will mean that's what i'm trying to say what i'm saying here is that if they collect this well together and the government produces a subpoena i would say here from a court because there are some sort of they're monitoring terrorist activities and they can't tell you what your second views because that's national security so you can talk about it. they can go in and get this information so so she would she do

is if you click was information in one place and makes it a whole lot of easier for a government to go in and get that information now normally if someone wants to know what i'm thinking and what i'm doing what i'm saying on you tube or where i'm going on the way of work what i'm saying in my cell phone except that you need to get a warrant in need to go tell a court we have reason to believe that such and such is engaged in some kind of activity or here's the evidence for them and therefore they could put your phone or they can put a listening device in your car or your or your home except or law goes through a list there's no warrant now couldn't it have played this kind of go along with consumer demand is there because people are they wanting the infinitely fast temple's streamlined so isn't google just giving people what they want well you get the ask those people. i mean how about asking us i don't need names instantly i

mean they allow that but only things instantly and if you try to go on and disable. the little things that google can track you try to get to be a computer artist in order to do it and even if you do it it doesn't mean that they still can't track and so my feeling about this is look if some corporation wants to come up and ring my doorbell and say look we like to every time something to you we come and ring your workout several times a day if i want that i say yeah sure i do logical to sign up this is no soliciting i don't want them removed or that's my decision as to who's decision and by the way twitter is now selling old tweets to businesses and that is a conversation we're going to have to have to say for another time a lot of controversial changes going into effect today content you for coming on the show that was kind of how an columnists for foreign policy in focus.