this is our two year moscow to headline source at ten thirty pm now you have monitors dispatched to the western syrian town of houla where activists say government troops have massacred more than one thousand nine hundred people. time to disappear leaders students take on the government against the law designed to curb the long fight against college fees but taking legal action saying the protest restrictions are unconstitutional. prime minister dmitry medvedev takes charge of the united russia party wants to clear out those who discredited but also remolding it for the online era but it was also calling for more competition in the party's top positions and encouraged closer discussions with countries opposition. and destroying dissent with elections ahead the georgia regime still got no appetite proposition journalists there say this still being pressured

a year after government forces violently dispersed independence day rather. thanks for being with us tonight more of those stories with me kevin though it is thirty minutes after. the second part of the show tonight and the rest the team in washington is just ahead. with. its technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. our guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're honoring not just one person within the government but basically the entire state department is the business to do with cyber warfare it's the hot new thing when it comes to fear mongering and it seems like everyone is doing it the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be

a cyber attack that cripples our our power system certainly our grid this is a matter of national security a cyber attack on america can do as much or more damage today by incapacitating our banks or our communications or our our finance or transportation as a conventional war attacking terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few keystrokes on the computer. well not one to be left out of a good party hillary clinton gave the keynote speech of the special operations forces golla dinner in tampa florida this week and in her speech clinton touted the launch of the center for strategic counterterrorism communications something that obama stablished in this in last september now off rates with a six million dollars yearly budget and staff is made up of people from the state department the pentagon and the u.s. intelligence community and it's forty staff members are constantly patrolling the

web protecting america from and engaging in cyber warfare and according to hillary the center is already waged a successful attack patrolling the web and using social media and other tools to expose the inherent contradictions in al-qaeda is propaganda. now she went on to explain how they've carried this plan out to say quote it is affiliate in yemen began an advertising campaign on key tribal websites bragging about killing americans and trying to recruit new supporters within forty eight hours our team plastered the same science with altered versions of the ads that show the toll tags had taken on the yemeni people so hill dog saying to a pony. or at least that's what we thought when we saw the original report we covered this last night on happy hour but it turns out that sadly that's not exactly how it really went down as soon as the media started printing hillary's speech anonymous members of the state department started changing the story here's

revision of her what revision of her one says that it wasn't a web site it was an open forum and that a team of multilingual specialists didn't alter a version of the ads this employee purchase and militant ads on the web page so that's only a hack to you purchasing an ad so i'm going to run of the mill targeted propaganda but believe it or not the cyberwarfare e-tail continue to unravel after that state department spokeswoman victoria nuland offered this revision to the epic tale which is rapidly becoming less and less epic believe me she clarified that they didn't actually buy ads actually there were no ads at all in reality what they did was post to the forum and the posts or even anonymous knew and explained when ever we do this we make clear that we identify ourselves clearly as part of the state department's digital outreach team and we also just make clear that we don't hack all of the work is attributed we usually do it on a free site and in a free manner so basically they created a new user account for the forum and made

a post i woud live pretty crazy cyberwarfare guys do join a.o.l. chat that day too but it's bad enough that hillary clinton pimped this mission as if it involved kick ass cyber warriors schooling al-qaeda but it's almost more disturbing that it took three times bigger. when officials to get their stories straight clinton says one thing her anonymous aides say another that the spokeswoman comes out and gives a completely different statement well damn if they can't get something so simple right can you really trust you to go toe to toe with hackers i mean don't go telling your latest cyber victory what all you really did was say hey al qaeda we see you sincerely the u.s. state department not to mention if you want to talk about things being hyped up you know like the threat of cyber warfare than you didn't do yourself any favors in trying to convince us that you're not exaggerating when you clearly exaggerated in this case about a non hacking hack so for trying to look like internet superstars but ending up looking like total nubes the state department wins tonight's tool time award.

our guy has time for our weekly financial check out and there's plenty to talk about today last friday all the talk is the facebook i.p.o. whether or not you can call this thing a bust this week there's now an investigation that's been launched into facebook underwriter morgan stanley over what could have been selective sharing of their downgraded earnings forecast for the tech giant is it shows you that silicon valley isn't too far moved from some of the evils that we associate with wall street right so there's that and of course the fact that the entire eurozone is now preparing for a doomsday situation of greece actually departing from the monetary union so here to discuss all of this with me is a laura lister host of the capital account here on r t hello lauren iryna let's start with the face i know that last week i was filling in for me you guys talked

about this facebook i.p.o. whether you call this thing a bust but did you expect it to get just so much more bungled within one week this certainly did turn out to be kind of a cascading chain of events that captured a lot of the twenty four her news cycle along with a lot of yeah different twists and turns between down as down and the regulatory issues. and just a lot of retail investors getting hurt in what was a really highly anticipated story stock but alone when there is this much expectation behind a company like facebook that everybody knows and when there is this torn italy insane valuation ninety nine times come the company's earnings it's almost set up for a disaster of some kind but no i didn't think that it was and i think if you're going to write in the sense that it's going to set up to to disappoint right when there's so much hype you know when you want to talk about a tech bubble or just hype or having this herd mentality then clearly something's going to disappoint you but you don't have to keep average regular every day

investors out of the loop and then choose your one percent investor is right basically by selectively leaking information to that i mean that is corrupt i agree but alone are you surprised we're talking about this a massive systemically important system dangerous how you want to look at it institutions that are massive investment banks also research houses also brokerages that of course have these conflicts of interest we've seen the damage that has come in the financial crisis and afterwords at this point i'm just wondering why more average people aren't doing their homework on their own because having this you know proprietary information are not there are plenty of independent voices that have been out there saying this isn't a good deal you can just as a facebook user ask yourself how much money have i ever given facebook who does that mean that the company is worth one hundred times what is it has earned so far what it what it stating as far as revenue i mean just think do some due diligence

question do the whole mark i think that if there's any lesson that's come out of the financial crisis it's that you have to be responsible for your financial future for whatever you're putting your money and not just trust what the mainstream media hype or too big to fail financial firm i mean come on well i mean if you also have you know i guess that they would they would be. more mainstream financial media but you have so you have channels like c.n.n. b c who this is what they live and breathe you have people like jim cramer that are out there telling people that this is going to be huge this is going to be great and they just get to walk it back and they keep their jobs and it's no sweat to them completely and their corporate media come on they're beholden to interests to i mean these are the firms that advertise on their networks to and i'm not you know asserting that i know anything proprietary but you can just i mean imagine the conflict of interest that would be there so i just think that you have to not trust kind of especially the mainstream voices you hear and do your own homework and look for more perspectives if you want to talk more about kind of the regulatory issue we can go are not because i want to ask you

a question in terms of perceptions reputations because i wonder if silicon valley really has been a little bit safe a little isolated from all of this thus far i mean we always talk about facebook because of who privacy issues that's one thing but they're still kind of looked at as this great beacon you know innovation in america and they create all the jobs and it's nothing like what we're going through right now with bain capital and with private equity and how horrible and miserable this is but do you think if this is kind of going to tarnish tarnish the facebook silicon valley reputation a little bit well here's the thing ok there's a couple things it's interesting you mention that because i was talking about last week how some of these innovative social media tech companies that apparently have this new business model have been able to convince everyone that it's a new business model and so exhibit more creativity and more latitude and the way that they account for and report on their accounting for their business in a way that could create some mumbojumbo in terms of what you're really looking at

in terms of what the company is worth the kind of money they're making what their potential is but the flip side to that is the v.c. money in venture capitalism and you were your producer sent me an article very critical of v.c. saying hey this is the same evil as a private equity not i don't i just don't buy the premise of those arguments because ok for one they're saying hey something. d.c. firms were given preferential treatment in this facebook i.p.o. where they got the information that analysts and cut their estimates ok well great why would you target the preferred clients they're just preferred investors institutional investors the point is either these you know the big firms that are doing this like morgan stanley the underwriter who is giving this material information to only one subset of preferred clients the other thing is this rule which allows for this kind of verbal communication of proprietary information to institutions because they're supposed to be sophisticated enough to know how to handle it but always small investors can't i mean that is is an issue and you can

look at that and if that rule is valid or not because i think a lot of people will go hey that doesn't even stand up to the smell test so why is this allowed i mean those are the questions i don't see why v.c. would be targeted the other the other example that was given was because they support companies that maximize their profits which sometimes means outsourcing jobs and i think that's just the business model in the united states that puts profits above all else that one doesn't it was just another example yeah right the profits above all else unfortunately rule the day here we were at a time that so really quickly when it was talked about the as the see in the phone calls with the happy hour but what's going on in europe right now is bracing for the worst bracing for this greek exit. people have been talking about this for how long right that studying it's become a reality but if they've been wasting all this time not preparing you know a look i think this is just one of those things ok now the grex that ok so they have a word for it so everybody's talking about a brand and they're going to bring their lena yeah exactly it's just you know how

long is this been going on this was the eighteenth meeting of euro zone leaders to talk about it to talk about solutions and to disappoint everybody when they don't because everyone's still looking to central planners for some kind of solution but it's the same slow train wreck we've seen plenty of people say no way greece is going to isn't going to exit or maybe it is but it's kind of a continuation and so far no shock is going to rattle just just the the doom and gloom headlines i guess they're just going to. laura lister thanks thank you. right as the head of the shell fireside friday and then in happy hour as a stirring a new trend online including trayvon martin and should schools put g.p.s. trackers on students to make sure that they're not cutting class they took. in using sigrid laboratory here mccurry was able to build on its most sophisticated

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those who it's pointed out. and studios use splenda. and the celebration and they don't realize that stand looking at their own future cuts so i'm this is just not so subtle. to the extent of how much i have. to tonight's fireside for your. well it's friday and unfortunately this week like most weeks we have another broken

campaign promise to reflect on him with the thing that obama said about transparency write that his administration will be the most open and transparent administration ever we've covered one example after another that's proven not to be far from the truth and this week if mr asian is at least being called out on it by senator ron wyden he's one of the few democratic lawmakers out there that actually speaks up the take the stand for your privacy your civil liberties but seems to understand the dangers of a growing and secretive surveillance state and he's exposed elements of the patriot act were being abused he took a stand against sopa and pipa and he's blasted cispa and now this week he's decided to take on a new battle he sees senator wyden is also the chair of the senate finance subcommittee on international trade customs and global competitiveness he has a long title but it would make sense that somebody with that title but have access to details surrounding trade agreements that our government is making right well it

turns out of the obama administration isn't granting that access to all the surrounds the transpacific partnership it's an international trade agreement between nine nations about which we know very little we're going to get into more details next week but for now what information has been put out there shows that this agreement would ban it by american preferences for u.s. manufacturers and it would create new intellectual property standards that would increase prescription. drug prices abroad now just those two things alone are big deal they would affect prices here in america businesses people and the administration isn't being transparent about the negotiating process or the details with members of congress that should be reviewing international trade agreements senator wyden says that even after his staff got all the appropriate clearance they're still being barred from viewing the details of the proposals. but guess who isn't being barred by the administration according to senator wyden and these are

his own words from this week he says that quote the majority of congress is being kept in the dark as to the substance of the t p p a negotiation is all representatives of u.s. corporations like halliburton chevron ph r.m.a. comcast and the motion picture association of america are being consulted and made privy to the details of the agreement not nice but corporations are being let in on the deal but lawmakers aren't going to guess that we could call this a trend for this administration because it sounds pretty similar to way that they treated act at the end i counterfeiting trade agreement now there's a lot of anger about this on the hill already on may third more than sixty house democrats and one house republican sent a letter to obama objecting the buy american ban that on may fifteenth congressman darrell issa leaks the entire draft of the intellectual property chapter from this q on to his website to make a point about the need for more transparency and now this week ron wyden introduced legislation clarifying that the u.s.

trade representative must consult with lawmakers during trade talks the idea that you would even have to introduce legislation for something like that to clarify something like that it's ludicrous but like i said it's just yet another example of the promised most transparent administration ever spinning on transparency and cherishing the veil of secrecy. ok for happy hour on this friday and joining me this evening are two producer age rowdies zero and lucy steiger all socio editor for reason magazine and reason dot com hello ladies. cited about science. yes i can be if you want me to do that well let me let me start off the story by saying of this

fifteen year old kid is actually i'm sure a genius right he came up with he won the international science fair he developed a simple dipstick blood in urine test that screens for pancreatic cancer with ninety percent accuracy and his test is about twenty eight times cheaper and faster than current technology and a hundred times more sensitive which makes you realize we're all getting ripped off . but big pharma that's big pharma but the best part of this story is the kids reaction when he found out that he was take a lot. of medicine. thanks . but i can't tell if he was like you know going to get groupies after winning the science prize probably not maybe blew it for i will be waiting for out of the way

probably but i was fantastic like i really like i love that he had that reaction instead of being like yeah guys yeah i woke up i'm so excited exactly yes i did it was like ah that's fantastic i wish i would've done that once i'm going to do that like he's done that it fifteen he's going to like it i'll take down to be all over me are you going to be amazing and like we'll take over the world with his science brain or it's all downhill and i know i sell to some people get a little too successful too soon and then you know we're going to go. you know pull in the low here and just like squander everything you're just going to do exactly that never again one of the low hands the britney spears of the world stars i really just hope for it to go down the same. way about hope in life. we often do we're in stories out of japan because often. what is one is a totally different culture you know we've done interviews on japanese culture and just how different it is and what it is that possibly is going on behind it and you

know sometimes they like to do with things here's a japanese game show for example that thinks it's really funny to give not shots to people they follow. me thinking but if it did there is. ouch. you know listen to this this is just for no i don't even know where to begin it's so awful japanese artist named mouse sugiyama he recently cooked his own genitals and then he served them at a banquet in tokyo he seasoned and praised them on a portable gas cartridge burner then he served them to five eager diners who once paid two hundred fifty dollars for the meal spiel does what you're saying like he didn't want to sell you know he had been moved during a general removal surgery in april oh so they were in

a jar somewhere everything right because they are more of our medical makes it better would you pay to eat someone's things than brains. i mean i'm not a foodie so i'm going to say you know that's so not for me but i don't insult i just i'm just i'm just saying it's i don't not there and it's not at my house. and i also am not into fear factor but i'm just saying i mean they pay two hundred fifty bucks so these people want to but the question that we had was why did you have to have them removed in the first place are you really sure you want to get a sex change or something but when i said i did not part of the story i said i was in medical reason that's right but you said strange because that would be less depressing just like a amputation first of i don't know. i don't know what the way to that are going to get out any kind of way i could. drives your kids sad story. sorry but i really did a conversation about removal of genital learning and i have

a proposal let's move on ron paul writer of yours. paul you know sometimes he says things and people think that he's crazy for example when he was railing at one of the g.o.p. debates against building the border fence and he said you know one of these days it's going to be used to keep us in and everyone was. laughing at him and so he's kind of said similar things when it comes to g.p.s. chips take a look at this. my guess is they'll probably have a g.p.s. chip so that they could measure everybody. no matter where they go so. well call him crazy all you want but that was about the national id card proposal back then but now it turns out this is the san antonio school district and they want to track students next year on to their campuses using technology implanted in their student id cards and you know basically this is going to improve safety by

allowing them to locate students and count them more accurately at the beginning of the school day and less they leave their card at home right leg because it's on their card instead of like it leave the rest of their purse exactly so it's like oh ok so it's just i don't it's going to blow up just because i don't feel like logistically i feel like there's so many holes here like ads and i got so much of the whole privacy thing right like i don't know you're going wherever i go i'm so glad that i was home school. or senators you know we might you know there's no iraqi men at all home so they don't really primary terms some of the time on occasion i'm actually going to a short. oh goodness ok. really and on this this is just so messed up you know her must have messed up people in the world and so let me just there's been playing king of the. stuff i see these stupid t. boeing things that go around and now this one the people for some reason think is

funny that's called trayvon i don't know if the white house messed up. i want to go over to his house. and kind of just be there i mean on the. other teenager your parents around you exactly i mean again i love comedy and you know and i'm all for making fun making jokes i mean i love louis c.k. people that are really p.c. at all but i think it's all about execution and it's all about. the intentions behind the joke like if you're trying to say something about commentary of society fine but if you're going to be funny you can just you know horrible per jokes being a horrible person isn't actually a joke it's just being a horrible person who you need a little more to it than that i think so like if there were elements of these books and probably just being an idiot who's a teenager who's like the new movie and i don't know what the teenager was and anyone that i don't i don't demand that i'm going to say that these just mean that it's like oh i don't want to they're going to that article that up about the friday

thank you for joining me ladies and that is it's for tonight's show thank you for tuning in we have our show on monday for the memorial day holiday but make sure that you come back on tuesday we're going to have more coverage on calls for the trans-pacific partnership agreement to have more transparency now in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch it all you tube dot com slash the alona show coming up next is that it's. the official. told time from the. video. now in the palm of your.