toughing it out in the heat and in the dark one week after the devastating storms thousands in the d.c. area are suffering waiting for power so as the u.s. and for structure crumbles at home why are billions of your tax dollars paying for every structure upgrades overseas. me once. shame. shame on you. fool we can get fooled again despite his approval ratings former president george w. always brought in the laughs in honor of his sixty sixth birthday today our team looks at bush versus obama to see if these two men are really different at all. they both have libertarian streak so now they're teaming up to protect the internet we'll tell you about rand and ron paul's manifesto and what it means for the world

wide web. it's friday july sixth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm not a martin and you're watching our t.v. . everyone's heard about the storm that hit here last friday with heavy rain and high winds knocking out power for over two and a half million people across the mid atlantic my question is why are thousands of people still love without power a week later hey it was a storm guys it wasn't a hurricane or tornado because president said in a statement that they're working in full force and around the clock until every customer is restored i mean come on let's call a spade a spade here this is an enormous failure of infrastructure and what does it say when infrastructure is so poor in our nation's capital that canada has to come help us whenever there's rain and heavy wind take a look at some of the damage here when in power poles that are no match for seventy mile per hour wind and falling trees the u.s.

government is spending so much money to rebuild iraq why is it short changing this country it's already spent five point seven billion on electricity in iraq from two thousand and three to two thousand and six and over sixty billion on infrastructure and i don't have much more they've spent since then and just picture for one second how far six billion dollars would go in any u.s. city according to a two thousand and six poll iraqi state electricity as the most important thing requiring a political solution out of a list of ten national security came in fifth well it's hot in iraq over one hundred degrees pretty much all summer long but guess what it's so well during a hot here in d.c. to expected to be one hundred three to one hundred six degrees all weekend so why not invest in making sure this city can handle a little storm does the government really care more about iraq ease than it does its own citizens sort of spending tons of money to destroy and rebuild other countries why not spend the much needed cash to ensure that our power grid can

handle one storm and speaking of excessive spending in the war on terror remember one ton of obey you know that site that obama promised he would close four years ago well it doesn't look like that's going to be happening any time soon or to correspondent lives wall has the story. now forty million dollars will be spent on a communication of great at guantanamo bay now this is the largest known infrastructure project for the base at least that we know of the plan is to lay out this underwater fiber optic cable from south florida to cuba where the base is located apparently satellite connection isn't good enough for guantanamo bay wants an underwater cable the base commander reportedly said quote it only makes sense if we're going to be here for any period of time now an infrastructure project like that may well suggest the u.s. military is preparing to stay at guantanamo base for the long term and this is contrary to a campaign promise president obama made years ago when he was first running for

office he pledged to shut down guantanamo and two thousand nine hundred eleven signed an executive order to close the base but that never happened and as this latest project suggests more money is being pumped into upgrading the base in this case by improving communications and of course taxpayers are footing the bill guantanamo has come under fire by critics challenging america's human rights record their indefinite detention torture around eight hundred people went through the camps within the last decade of america's war on terror many of them had nothing to do with nine eleven according to a former chief prosecutor at guantanamo bay u.s. attorney eric months although has represented some of the detainees at guantanamo he says what's happening there is a failure of leadership on many fronts. you're saying one thing and doing the complete opposite there's a big disconnect between the justice department between homeland security between the president and states and our foreign policy in i think we need to evaluate you

know why we're spending millions upon millions of dollars and something that should not even be there in the first place that the present house is one hundred sixty nine detainees the government says eighty nine aren't a threat but president obama and congress have a blocked their release as for the rest some of them have a shot at a military hearing but forty six don't have that chance because the government says they can't be tried for one reason or another as for the u.s. supreme court it keeps refusing to take up the titians from guantanamo detainees now the u.s. of course prides itself on the rule of law and human rights but critics say at the same time has denied due legal process to these detainees practice torture and not just in guantanamo but in secret prisons around the world that construction on this underwater cable is set to start in a year but probably won't be up and running for another two years and it doesn't require congressional approval liz wahl r.t. washington d.c.

. it was a big talking point the two thousand elections it's not really on americans radar these days it's seen as are sort of still spending millions of dollars to hold hundreds of people there without charges for over a decade it certainly should be it doesn't look like it will be closing its doors and in time soon. he's the x. president that gave enough guffaws to fill comedy shows for decades of course i'm talking about the one and only george w. bush well it's a sixty sixth birthday today for this special occasion we're going to play some of his best highlights from his eight year term and by best i mean some of the most absurd comedic moments of his presidency take a look we need energy. consumption our enemies are innovative and resourceful. so we. they never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people and neither do we. we must never stop thinking about how best to defend our country

i'm the decider and i decide what is best the united states of america is in cased in a war against a. extremist group of folks i was sure our nation so we're waiting sanctuary if you know stand for anything you don't stand for anything if you don't say ever shall be no shame for anything and we want to end the shame on you. shame on you to any food we can't get fooled again and my state of my state of the union our state my speech to the nation whatever you want to call it i ask you a level and find out if you ever literacy level of our children are appalling i hear there's rumors on the internets that we're going to have a draft you were going to put food on your family i know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully travel sovereignty means they have a sovereign and you are a you're

a you've been given somebody and you're. viewed as the sovereign entity oh earlier comedian again for sod join me to rehash the best and brightest moments our former president george w. take a look. i mean first of all when bush went out of office comedians all over the land wept because he made their job so easy you don't even have to do anything you just have to repeat stuff that he said it involved no work for eight years so for eight years you could be a political comic the laziest political comic out there and still make a living and so so it is sad to see him go but he had some really amazing gaffes in it like you know i love the sentences weren't his favorite stuff with pronouns or nouns and verbs got him flustered at some times but he also had some really great visual gaffes like you know massaging merkel or out dancing in african tribal dance

troupe so he did a lot for us in his two terms in office and i don't know if he's as dumb as we think he is he's either and he could be just super ironic the whole thing could have just been like you know george w. bush the art star and he was doing like an elaborate art project i mean that that is a real possibility. do you think that you know when people look at how. all these profiles that you were you were talking about around the world i mean people really thought he was a joke as the leader of this country with a new look at someone like sarah palin and she wasn't too far behind when it comes to the the level of intelligence of the lease they outwardly put out but i mean. do you think that he was just really a puppet and if so who was pulling the strings. you know it's funny i do think that some of this you know. the job of being

a president is more sophisticated than hay is you know the way his brain operated so in that sense i do think he was like a bit of a puppet i had a sense that you know congolese or rice was the babysitter dick cheney was the tutor you know i mean like they each have their role in making sure that the president could get through the day without wildly embarrassing the country the funny thing is they actually didn't do a very good job because he almost never got through a day without wildly embarrassing the country. so he was a puppet and the puppet masters didn't do a terrific job what do you think about obama i mean what what what does it say to have someone who's mostly continuing i mean seriously mostly continuing the same polls he's at least on the civil liberties level and also foreign policy but is eloquent and articulate and appears to be intelligent i mean what does that really do. well i mean the funny thing is like you know you're right bush and obama on

certain especially foreign policy issues are very similar but where we laughed at bush we laugh with obama and i have to say that he's a really skillful comedian like every time he appears on late night talk shows in fact he appears on them so much a lot of comedians around the country kind of feel like he's vying for their jobs you know i mean if he doesn't win in november i wouldn't be surprised if come january we saw him at the chuckle hut in cleveland because that is how funny obama is a very good comedian so i definitely think but it's a deadly think it's a different kind of comedy it's less gas based and more purposeful jokes and in terms of the you know having a leader like him at the home i think there was a collective sigh from the country when when when obama came into office because we suddenly felt like oh do you need to go make a statement at davos or or over you or are you doing that you know state of the union address tonight great go for it you're going to be just fine whereas with

bush you were at the edge of your seat and you were just worried you were worried about what is he going to say on the international stage that's going to embarrass us and so with with obama i felt like we you know that the country gave a collective sigh of relief which is part of the reason why a lot of people don't even compare him to bush even though some of his policies may be similar to bush i think he he escapes with the comparison in the mainstream because he's so eloquent and dangerous when you see someone who can actually speak and he's some skilled a hypnotic kind of propaganda that he puts out there about all of his policies and you're just like ok. you know about how how skilled his whole campaign buildup was on the hope and change and right will go in the branding i mean is that dangerous to have someone in office that can really convince everyone that what he's doing is right where of bush you're just like ok seriously. i mean i don't think

it's dangerous i think it's seems dangerous in comparison to bush because bush was so bad at communicating any of his thoughts or ideas i think any president should be as good as obama and convincing the people that his policies are the right policies now whether or not you're convinced that's for you as a voter to decide and to actually parse through the words and determine if these policies are right for you i think obama's keeping the average american voter on their toes where we're not even on their toes just like standing on their feet whereas whereas bush was just like you know we could just sit back and laugh and so i don't think it's dangerous i think it's like the bare minimum of what a leader should be able to do is to. just dangers in the sense that he essentially is continuing a lot of those policies that most considered

a danger to this country and a danger to our civil liberties but what but as a whole. what do you know what are the what's the most funny thing that you think about comedians just. to poke fun at really. i mean his stunning falsetto. you know. i mean if this is a this is a different president though this is a different first lady i mean these people are cool they're hip i mean michelle obama was doing the dougie the duggy the dougie the duggy and you know these are cooler than me i don't even know what the word is exactly but like that these are the kind of people who are dealing with their self-aware their hair. you know they know stuff and so these are like this is a far different president and first family than what we what we had before thank you so much for coming on and and giving us that they're going to be birthing

george w. bush i'm sure. be a comedy one fine for a while thanks so much as comedian and again for assad. and bush i hope you're watching that still ahead on our team a father and son of congress want to protect internet freedom but congressman ron paul and senator rand paul are planning one return. client of american power continues. things are so bad. might actually be time for revolution. and it turns out that a popular drink at starbucks has a surprising him really hear.

what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one. is imbued with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasural so when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. well the paul family is out of again this time to cry and government regulation on internet

freedom rand father ron paul has created a libertarian manifest. stouffer the internet called the technology revolution and it outlines questions to be addressed to an internet rules are being delegated it urges the government to stay out of the governing the net and let private sector shape the future of the world wide web so what does it all mean and what will best protect our internet freedoms why would someone be against net neutrality to answer those questions and more i was joined earlier by r.t. web producer andrew blake take a look. because the internet was made to share information and so if you're going to put these kind of restrictions on it well first we should say that it shouldn't be a surprise that ron paul and rand paul are against government regulations of anything so they've actually been going they've been speaking for internet freedoms for a really long time is there is really this year during super tuesday ron paul made a great speech talking about how the internet was crucial for delivering the message of the libertarian party for his campaign and just for the entire

generation generations to come and if you're going to take this conduit for everything not just knowledge but intertainment and media you're going to take all of this and start putting restrictions on it that's terrible that that's how you want to transfer things exactly getting to the point i know they're saying with the next couple years are going to be able to transfer wirelessly the equivalent of like four or five different d.v.d.'s worth of data like terabytes in a second wirelessly and it's just going to happen is that is going to give you something and bam you got it and. as the internet has become more and more mainstream especially united states there have been attempts to censor it to regulated you know as recently as this year that rick santorum was campaigning to to end pornography on the internet leaves it was my god it was a thing you never going to have you actually said like that's bad and like you know the day that i can't go find a photo of a dead body or a naked body on the internet i don't know what i'm going to know if i can live in

this country and if i can't. think this is a manifesto i'm very serious so this manifesto has a lot of great ideas it's not put together the most eloquent of ways it was a couple things in here that don't make a whole lot of sense when you put it in the grand scheme of things but doesn't have a lot of talk about it what are you so that it outlines some some basic things that the government should address yeah we'd want to talking about regulations so we have a little a little chichi here thank you. senator congressman paul so when faced with internet regulation we should ask ourselves these key questions there's eight of them is a record function is this a core function of the federal government so should the government be doing this is a government need to do is it in the constitution is actually the second one is it constitutionally defined does a protect constitutionally defined rights does it protect property rights does a protect individual rights and this kind of goes with everything ron paul rand paul will ever say it but they make sense it should it should be put in context of

the internet it really should and as a protect individual rights is the federal government does not do this will others will this policy of regulation allow the market to decide outcomes or will distort the market for political ends and is this policy regulation clear and specific with the fine metrics and limitations and here's my question yeah we were get into those specifically it is interesting though because they of course are against you know vocal opponents of this and so we saw rand paul pretty vocal about that but at the same time these these bills are being backed massively by the corporate industry defense corporations with this same manifesto they are saying do we really want the government to be regulating the internet if we're going to have anyone overseeing what happens on the internet it should be the corporations but then you have comcast you know throttling user data which is starting all of the major a lot of people don't realize this but major i a speed internet service providers in the united states starting some of them already started by july twelfth they will be implementing a policy where if they think you've done something bad on the internet they will

slow your internet they will do that very thing that you're sharing copyright material they will throttle your service they could eventually terminate your service they said that they're not going to but they haven't ruled it out and you know these things have been happening for years will send people letters saying oh we're going to cancel your internet because you downloaded that movie that one time and it's actually come to a point where yes they are canceling and then we have the really grateful thing here that we really have to keep our fingers crossed that it's going to stay this way is that you know for the last. several years the technology has always outpaced the bad guys in this case i'm going to say that the bad guys are you know the government regulators are trying to find a way to censor and regulate the web and it's always been that we've had a way around it like i have right now i can download anything really didn't like a minute and it's really easy they say oh no you can't access torrents in the pirate bay we're going to shut down mega upload you can find anything right away and the second that they shut something down you will be able to get it the next

second it's really not that hard as long as it keeps up that way we're fine as long as you know the fallen rebellious pirates are sailing their ships through the internet sees one not faster than the government is a terrible. thing but i mean just in the grand scheme of things i mean yes comcast the f.c.c. if you know told congress you can't do this when it was slowing down and people but i mean net neutrality as a concept it always was really confusing because that language i think people can't really grasp what it means but really it's the internet companies and i remember looking into this originally and there was a big campaign called hands off the internet it was all backed by the telecom industry and if you look at the you know the senators and congressmen i mean a lot of them are heavily lobbied by the telecoms here yeah but when you're looking at the concert and then your child i mean you have to look at you know i agree with what the senator and congressman

a lot and the deregulation and keeping the government out of a lot of things but i mean looking at a situation like cars i mean if nader didn't really go through and try to you know demand a federal mandate that cars get airbags i mean i kind of look at the internet and i'm just like our internet telecom company is going to just run amok and try to destroy all the little guys when they have like preferential agreements with certain movie websites or you know comcast has going to sure yet. yes they will the thing they absolutely will they're already doing it we're just saying leo you are putting these big corporations to have now this really they're not in charge of the internet they're not censoring stuff yet but it's getting there they are going to slow down your internet if they don't like the law that they think you're breaking or they like that lot other they can do this like there's already people in the united states right now who are using like special crazy state the art software to encrypt information that they're sending on the

internet like innocent harmless information from one person in america to another person you know we're on the show the other day and i had an application just came out called wicker and it's for texting you can text and said let's just to other people's phones it gets encrypted through their servers like millions of times and that millions what a couple hundred and that's actually going to that's necessary in america because people are getting scared they really are it's kind of said but yeah. so in this manifesto they say that people you know free press just came out with this suggestions also last week saying you know we advocate on your child we think this is really good and you know the polls kind of replied to saying that openness there hijacking the language of freedom and liberty to actually work against freedom and liberty on the internet i guess it just comes of the question can we really trust governments to regulate themselves i think on those issues or to that kind of sorry

i was a dumb question i think we need. the the government needs to treat this like a really bad relationship that just so here's a guy in the government ok and let's say we're dating ok. you're the internet ok and i'm sick of you the better the well it is now yes and i'm sick of you and i'm going to walk away i'm going to leave it when you do whatever you want you'll be fine on your own you're an adult you've been around for a while you view. graduated from your a.o.l. chat rooms all the way to your. doing. so i heard snuff films. that's all you see to walk away just walk walk away guess how many advocating to implement these like this manifesto strategy i don't know does it make that much sense coming from from ron paul and rand paul too like there's one part in here where the hell is this where they start saying. that. the

foundation of technology is be able to protect your ego protect your own private property understand that private property is the foundation of prosperity and freedom itself yes sure that's what the forefathers said absolutely however these are the same guys who were also railing against sopa and which they were saying that you know you should be able to share things on line you know they don't want more lax copyright laws and now they're saying that personal property is the key to innovation which it is but this thing it's. not the it's not the best thing but it's a try in it's not going to be implemented but if you don't know a lot about what's happening right now in washington and on the internet and you need someone to put it together for you it's not the best thing but you can download it and it's three pages and it makes sense you know oh yeah that that's ok that's fair they do thank you mr paul's you know it's fine well definitely an interesting debate definitely on the need to be had as the internet is facing

a lot of infringement on freedom as it stands that was our two web producer andrew blake. now we often talk about how local police agencies here in the u.s. are turning into small military forces from armed tanks like vehicles to military grade pepper spray and yes all being used on civilians tonight we just have another example it's called the american science and engineering xeni backscatter vans and she just called it an x. ray van for that spies on you take a listen to this. another interested party in this car bomb squad the state police as well as explosive ordnance disposal teams because you can use the system remotely and you can scan vehicles and. now sure yes i understand the need to check for explosives but do you really want to trust law enforcement to use this device in an emergency like they say i mean come on i could totally see this mobile x. ray machine being driven around every city scanning just passing cars and trucks

for just about anything they want i mean what does this say about our civil liberties and i got us thinking what would cops be able to see with this new technology maybe you were stopped at a store heading home from work and grabbed a six pack and placed it on the front seat i'm betting that the driver would be pulled over just for having beer in their car or how about those people who may have questionable mood enhancer years. and what happens when the x. ray van catches some horny teens going at it in the back seat of a parked car well they call their parents and arrest them for public nudity if this car's a rock and don't come again but in a whole serious this really has gone too far mobile x. ray vans really i mean we're already having our naked bodies x. rayed and microwaved every time we go on a plane and now this one i go wake up in this country and fight for our civil liberties the government already snoops on our emails and phone calls and now we're

going to give the police the power to see inside of our cars where do we draw the line and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered today go to our you tube channel your to dot com slash our team america or check out our website r.t.r. com slash usa also follow me on twitter at audi martin and we'll see you back here in a half hour. at first break that just burns your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. much stronger than anything in the bio labs italy's is thousands of times was stronger than any kind of debris and they were pushing it.