tonight our two u.s. lawmakers are making a huge fuss about team usa is a limpid uniforms being made in china but why are they so concerned about uniforms when thousands of jobs are being shipped overseas we'll take a look at the bigger picture. plus are you feeling sad lonely or low on energy during the millions of americans taking antidepressants in order to cope with their emotions but who's really prescribing the cure to happiness doctors or big pharma will tell you the truth about antidepressants. and technology is taking a sexy turn these days as the porn industry pioneering the way for the use of google glasses we'll show you why your adult video experience could get a lot more up close and personal in the near future.

it's friday july thirteenth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r t o made in america that's a label that is rare these days and now there's controversy over the u.s. as a limp dick teams uniforms not being made and the usa but maybe they should take a look at the athletes and where they're from turns out a number of olympians were not made in the usa either here's a few of us lopez a long you know he's in track and field he's actually from south sudan and there's meb. also long distance running he is from rich rhea. and lastly there is a deal hakeem mon he is also a long distance runner he is from the country of somalia and that's just what we

found in track and field but while the media and members of congress fuss over foreign made uniforms some find though need for uniforms at all all they need are their birthday suits you're looking at pictures of the german a living delegation showing what they're made of in more ways than one and they're not the only ones stripping down american athletes are also gracing the e.s.p.n. magazine cover in their natural form in the olympics after all is a celebration of the human prowess right but now there's controversy over what american athletes are wearing the uniforms are created by all american designer ralph lauren they look american but like almost everything else they're actually not made here team usa it's the pride of america so why are the teams olympic uniforms made in china ralph lauren childs on its website that it's

the proud outfitter of team usa but not everybody's happy with the company sourcing they should be when new forms that are made. so you know but i think we should go all the uniforms put him in a pile and burn them made in china china china and the shoes made in china every night in those uniforms maybe. but really why the change why the shock almost everything is made in china these days why aren't they more concerned about everything else being off shored like jobs well i actually had a chance to speak with a limb big champion dr john carlos to talk about team usa and he gave me a behind the scenes view of the olympic games here's a short part of that interview. well out of that there would be. certain looking as in not born in america that represent america as well as we have citizenship of any nation to represent places you have to get with in jamaica and you have very good

to say that you can go and gladly recognition as jamaican to run the olympic games live jamaica. is many things that take place within the liberal grounds that the general public really don't have a clue as to what the mechanism is to allow these things to happen. like our guest talking about the uniform of the lesser uniforms they get amazing back in the eighty's. dr carlos dr smith walk the walk and talk the talk now here we are at two thousand and twelve the eleventh committee is talk of the tall enough. and it was a target and. god bless america waved america but we don't give a the american public works the workers of america the opportunity to make those usa eunuch moms we have a million dollars that we can send to china already we did to china we said a million dollars we had to have the kind of me when i gonna be struggling so this

is a question we put to the united states and the committee attorney what do you guys don't. get some food for thought there as the alembic games are set to. well are antidepressants mislabeled should they instead be labeled for their common side effects and is a more appropriate to call some of them anti aphrodesiac well some doctors think so that's because according to a recent study more patients taking active antidepressants lost their sex drive than those cured of depression and this could pose a problem for america take a look at these statistics one in ten americans take antidepressants two hundred fifty five million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the u.s. in two thousand and eleven and antidepressant use surged almost four hundred percent from one thousand nine hundred four to two thousand and eight and over ninety percent of american adults today suffer from depression and it's not just

their libido people are losing many of these meds inducing diety and double the risk of suicide so what are the true implications of unmedicated america to discuss this is dr bruce levine he's a psychologist and author of the book you see there get up stand up uniting populus energizing the defeated and battling the corporate elite welcome dr levy and so first want to start off by talking about these startling numbers approximately one in ten americans are on antidepressants this is reduced i'm certain and for certain populations like women between the ages of forty and fifty nine years old it's almost twenty three percent according to c.d.c. centers the control report in two thousand and eleven and so one of questions i asked my colleagues so a coach or a psychologist at what percentage point do you start to think maybe it's not an individual illness that there's something troubling in our whole society and culture but what number for maybe twenty three percent is certainly the number and

like you said it's really up to eleven percent of all americans over the age of twelve who are on and for the person and we're seeing this number skyrocket and you got to think something's going on or are more people actually depressed are more people being diagnosed with depression. what's behind that well bolt i mean i think huge part of that increase has to do with pharmaceutical company marketing and you know starting in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. pharmaceutical companies really started to basically end next psychiatry and we now have a kind of full blown psychiatric pharmaceutical industrial complex and certainly it's in their interest to have more people depressed and so and psychiatrists and more in their interest they have more business with more people are depressed so a lot of it is the marketing issue but there's also i think a lot of the other problem is that i think the everybody on antidepressants is masking some problems that we were also going on our society and culture like what happened in the old soviet union that everybody started to drink and it wasn't

a substance abuse problem that was the epidemic it was something of an ng in the whole culture but people were happy and so we see some well so it seems like maybe not getting to the root of the problem but instead trying to solve it through antidepressants and medication. i think it's interesting to us as one of the two countries that allows this directs consumer advocate advertisement of prescription drugs and i do want to take a look at some of the it's advertisements. bipolar depression doesn't have to consume you here's me and here's my depression you know when you feel the weight of sadness you may feel exhausted hopeless and anxious well i know that kind of describes me on a bad day and i think anybody watching this going if they're having a bad day i'll be like well i'm kind of showing these symptoms maybe maybe that's what i need to give me a little pick me out but i mean you know that you go to the doctor and you ask for

these prescriptions i'm presuming this is what happens because they're seeing it on the t.v. so i mean in that case they are your t.v. screens prison prescribing you medications instead of your doctor yes i mean we know that those commercials are very effective at getting people to ask their docs and the pharmaceutical companies there are a lot of things but they're not stupid and so they spend millions on these commercials to what these drugs are blockbusters at their peak solo prozac all these things have been two billion dollars a year three billion dollar year drug that's gigantic amount of money and so those those commercials are very if affective and now it is most of the antidepressants are being prescribed not by psychiatry and actually they're just prescribed by you know the g.p. general practitioners visit you know primary care physicians and so these folks have a limited amount of time so he feeds into another issue that sort of assembly line medicine the united states somebody comes in and they're bummed out the doctor can't figure out real quickly what's wrong with them in a kind of physical sense so they say well let's try some anti-depressant and they and their and their prescribe like almost like aspirin it's like no big deal well

we know that they are big deal they have a huge side effects huge adverse effects so it sounds like you know with this being the case that there is a very big tendency for these kinds of medications to be overprescribed are prescribed land maybe you know they're it's not absolutely necessary oh sure that happens all the time and to kids more and more and that's a special concern of mine that they're handed out like nothing to twelve year old ten year olds and not taking a look at there's often are. this loss of something usually what depression is really about is a kind of a reaction to overwhelming pain in your life and and we also in those commercials one of the ones that i noticed that you showed sort of implies but if you listen real carefully they say we think it may be having to do with some chemical brain imbalance well that's that's very cared for careful with their language because the reality is there is no proof in fact the whole idea that depression is related to serotonin levels has been rejected now but it was a great marketing kind of technique it was almost like it has affected his w m d's

and getting us into the war like we think it might be there so let's start a war what we think that the that these anti depression is caused by low levels of serotonin what we do know these antidepressants increase at least temporary serotonin in a neuro synapse and so this was a great marketing thing well it later is discovered that there is no there is no relationship between serotonin levels and depression but we do know there is a relationship between a lot of things like high unemployment and people being on public assistance and you know all kinds of physical problems so we do know that overwhelming pain is highly associated with the pressure but you know there are some people that swear by these medications people that say you know i was so i've been clinically suffering from depression and finally taking these medications has enabled me to get on with my life so when you say that there is a place that time in a place for these medications well people we do know from the studies that absolutely from you take a look at these studies about thirty to forty percent of people in most of these

trials do improve with antidepressants however what's also a. placebo sugar pills that's about the same amount ok and actually in a recent kind of food and drug administration if you took a look at the trials all of the trials out there on the majority of trials that the looked the anti-depressant does not outperform a placebo now for people out there they get very upset and they get very angry they don't like my antidepressants save my life and you know i'm really upset with you and. so i feel a little bad here because part of how these things work how anything that helps depression work has to do with faith and confidence and so part of the problem is when they hear somebody like me saying scientifically yes of course thirty percent of people it works for but it doesn't that's about the what a sugar pill but any treatment works about that bout that percentage point and so scientifically it means that it really isn't that effective but in real life and people feel that it works for them and so when somebody comes on and says the

things that i'm saying is so the straw is their faith and confidence so they have to get upset and angry at a guy like me. well so it's kind of like a power the power of the mind that you can kind of shape their own thoughts and which case maybe you shouldn't be taking medication but maybe other alternatives like psychotherapy and just changing your mindset in it to really feel better if you want and i don't i'm really opposed not so much to psychiatric drugs i'm opposed to the hypocrisy i think people should have a right to do it over their own and but what we know is that when people you know believe that they have faith in almost any kind of drug that it's going to be effective for them and so another problem and he says america that this sort of psychiatric pharmaceutical industrial complex creates is the sort of prison industrial complex so you have a lot of people out there who have no insurance who have no access to prozac and packs paxil and all those things and so what are they're using they're using illegal drugs marijuana they're using some folks even using cocaine and the reality

is is for some of those people out there that it does help their depression of the world and for drugs like marijuana is actually for safer then and then these antidepressants in terms of adverse effects. ok and i guess i want to ask you. in the end it follows that somebody is profiting i mean well obviously and we know it's profiting it's a big pharmaceutical industry they're profiting sign is it all about the money and status people while being well unfortunately when you have. when you have drug companies making so much money these are that that kind of elements going to be there and they can spread it around to almost every kind of psychiatric institution american psychiatric association all kinds of consumer groups and so the profit motive has really distorted what most americans hear about depression and ways to deal with it whereas the reality is there are a lot of different ways depending on your temperament depending on your personality psychotherapy works fine for some people but not for everybody for some people

activism is the way political activism if you take a look at history that's transformed people's the preston. physical exercise is a lots of different ways but we only hear one thing because the pharmaceutical companies. and so i mean we are seeing a staggering number as i mentioned before about ten percent of the population here in the last on antidepressants i mean can we only expect that number to dial up well i would guess i although there's got to be a limit so we were you think i mean like a so we already got twenty three percent of women between the ages of forty and fifty nine we've got increasing what they're doing now is that people are not just on one drug ok and they're on multiple antidepressants and you would think that some of the drug companies wouldn't like that they want you to use exclusively there's a lot of the reasons why they're pushing people to be on multiple psychiatric drugs is it helps them in terms of have somebody go suicidal they go homicidal and they hurt you know hurt themselves or somebody else it creates less liability issues for them to somebody can't say well it was this one drug and we're going to go after

you for creating these adverse effects so that's why they're pushing people to be on multiple psychiatric drugs one reason very interesting dr thanks so much for coming on the show that was dr bruce levy and he is a psychologist and author of get up stand up united populist energizing the defeated and battling the corporate elites. of the porn industry always on the cutting edge of technology and as with other new gadgets in the past they are among the first to make use of this device. these are the new google glasses in the porn industry is loving them and it's no wonder they allow you to see things up close and personal in a style of porn known as point of view well porn was the first to pioneer v.h.s. and h.d. and we saw that technology take off afterwards so our google glasses the gadget of the future and what are its true capabilities to answer those questions and more it was joined by quite an boyer director of public relations at paine visual here's

his take. well that largely remains to be seen at this point as i understand it the last one actually be available to consumers until about two thousand and fourteen and then sometime two thousand and thirteen will be made available to developers so at the moment we're kind of going on what google tells us about glasses but from based on those specs i'm pretty excited and i think it's going to be a very interesting technology that's going to ask you this isn't it as as you just have the technology isn't available until two thousand and fourteen so is the porn industry going to kind of have to hold on and tell that as well well for any real substantive development we probably will have to hold off until they actually are on the market but there's a certain amount of preparation you can do pre-launch which is something we did with the i pad we actually built an i pad sorry and had it online three days prior to the device being released in stores in the u.s.

and we based our development on the specs that have been published to that point and then work out agree with glasses it sounds like that's going to be a little trickier to do much sort of advance for a ration because of the nature of the device but we're what we are planning is ways that will apply it and not just for filming but also to use the augmented reality aspect that's inherent to the glasses to enhance websites and our product. can you talk a little i know it's kind of like this point of view thing lay of why why is the porn industry so interested in this technology. well i think the basic reason is that point of view porn has been popular for quite some time you know these days it's shot over someone's shoulder or there actually are sort of low tech camera glasses that you can get they don't feel a very good image quality but in this log he knows those angles that would never

have been possible before you're saying right and it's sort of an organic first person perspective and the more that it's centered on the actual perspective of the of the participant if you will the better i think from the point of view or standpoint. like i said it's a popular former pornography already the means to be seen how well google glasses work for that purpose split mari senses of the word pretty well and that you'll have a couple of early docking torn companies like us that will jump on it and then others will sit back and see aren't yours and whether there's money and really what the market and they are we see this trend where the porn industry kind of play and here is new technology and then and then it kind of catches on and you know every every day life what do you think. then what is it about the porn industry that kind of sets the tone for what's going to be the technology of tomorrow. i think it's

really going to the porn industry is driving is not so much that kind of development but be adoption of the technology by consumers and it's sort of the way people use it are you know it was the first book printed when the print press was invented was the bible i've always suspected the next five or ten were probably dirty books and it's very much a part of human nature and interested in sex we're sort of voyeuristic creatures by commuter and i think that's what really drives it is that a consumer gets a new piece of technology that can be used for watching porn in a moment where they want to do with it there's a lot of the good example right and i you know i guess we could just keep magic technology to get more and more advanced in here is a lot of what i mean i guess it's science fiction but let's take a look at it and see what you think. beginning to think. big you. think six corners.

which are on human contact how much i didn't touch it. i thought you wanted to make fun is that what you call this. so you know he's out of the movie a demolition man they're making use of a fact how mad and isn't that as our it's growing. well i suspect for some people that's where it will go i think there will always be a part of place for traditional sex real sex between people but we're not that far right now from what you've seen in some of the movies there's a device called the real touch which is a bit of haptic technology for example that fits on a man's penis and is coordinated with the video there are you incorporate that what scene is actually communicated to you and jack old fashioned by this device some

people find it a bit creepy and even to people who use it love it but things like that where you'll have on one side of the equation a tactile device that that stimulates a person and the other and probably another person with a similar device these kind of things are already happening we refer to them as cello deadlocks i don't think that's an official term but one of the in iraq and we are at a time but this is absolutely fascinating fascinating we're going to continue to cover it they said another time thank you so much for coming on the show appreciate it that was quite an voyages the director of public relations that paint visual. well earlier in the show we talked about freedom of speech in the last as far as journalists are concerned but what about average americans and more specifically the use of social media platforms to flex your first amendment rights is there anything that should be banned from being said on twitter laurie harshness with the

president takes that question to the streets of new york city to find out. twitter is instituting a new policy of blocking posts it deems racist is it ok for social media websites to pick and choose what can and can't be bad but this week let's talk about that. right but some people still do. but that's the world we live in so should it be out there for people to see or should twitter take it down twitter should take it so new york live free but doesn't the racist person live free to post whatever they want do you have kids do you worry about them being exposed to racist comments. well that's not good yeah but you can express whatever you want to anyway you should be able to express your freedom yeah you might not agree with raised this

them but do you agree that people should be able to say what they want in a social networking site like why not is just. so but that's the whole point of twitter is reading it out. that's what we. know now the internet you shouldn't just be able to say whatever you want. though if you write something it doesn't have to be even though that the words are. sometimes you can write some things that all races but but the words are not so it depends on the human side how you interpreted your blog. the negativity the drum but you're also preventing free speech right there so i guess it's a toss up so is it ok for twitter to decide what stays and goes since it's their company. again they probably have to have a good outside company that judges it because who are they to say what their

website true true but who are they say what's right and what's not there do you think twitter that kind of racist and time is going to make a difference and how people not be racist or is it racist is just going to process it's going to happen we've changed but not enough you know it's i think that's their way of preventing some form of cyber bullying but it's not going to change anything whether or not you think it's right for social media companies to censor content on their sites the bottom line is this wouldn't be an issue if people would just be better citizens and doubt being raised. also had here on our team for the last one hundred thirty three years the world's wealthiest and most powerful albeit have gathered in one place to discuss everything from business to politics and beyond it's a meeting shrouded in secrecy that the mainstream outlets ignore coming up r t will

open the book on this exclusive group. 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 who is your view with a global reach where we had a state controlled capitalism it's called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t.v. question more. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us.

well each year the world's most powerful leaders gather and complete secrecy it's called the humean grove and it's about to kick off in california it's been happening for over a century and it's said that some critical foreign policy decisions are made there but why doesn't anybody know about this are to correspondent abbie maher and is looking for some answers. yep there it is right and wrong that a.o. california about a lot of you have never heard the place but it really is quite interesting for the next two weeks and much of the world's elite will be flocking to a secretive orgy of power where they partied up a bohemian style where they give talks network discuss policy and drink heavily this powerful men's only club has been meeting for the last one hundred thirty three years. even the idea for the manhattan project which led to the creation of

the atom bomb came out of the grove and nine hundred forty two pretty powerful stuff but who actually attend the gathering is packed with oil tycoons politicians business leaders and foreign diplomats who all make the pilgrimage to this year the redwood campout presidents nixon reagan and george w. bush all attended the group before the grace the oval office even media bigwigs are stable with the likes of the hearst dynasty and walter cronkite now replaced with rupert murdoch and c.e.o.'s from c.n.n. and l a times so if the media is there american should know all about what's going on right so have you heard about union group i have not not really no not at all i don't have to know. on friday don't the world's most powerful players get together and discuss policy party and also do mock sacrificial rituals together oh no that's basically the first. i heard about it they sacrifice a coffin to have

a giant forty foot kind of like a modern day stonehenge i don't think it's i don't think so if that truly does take place i think it's great that's scary that's what i did here they were talking about like a new world order in like two years. maybe that's what they're planning. plainly to your friend. what do they do that's not supposed to be. the public to know what's going on that for sure i should know we the media will show it to t.v. or newspapers but unfortunately no what we can't just leave it at that. nothing left to do but book a flight to san francisco for the weekend and find out for myself. martin r.t. washington. that's going to wrap it up for this hour but for more on the stories we cover check out our you tube channel at youtube dot com slash our team america but you can also check out our website it's r t dot com slash usa.