top stories this week fierce battles raging in the syrian civil conflict the u.s. is making suggestions as to how the country's future should be built without president assad. trying to talk with sweden or rejects without explanation from ecuador to interview the wiki leaks editor at its london embassy. and washington flexes its muscles again to beijing state hillary clinton lands in africa to warn its leaders about the dangers of doing business with china. and that's it from new center here in moscow we now return to our washington d.c. studios on the show and just a couple of moments here on. well

twenty thirteen is still half a year away but that hasn't stopped war hawks from fear mongering about the impending sequestration cuts now we've talked about it several times a fourth of five hundred billion billion dollars in extra cuts to the super inflated defense budget over the next ten years and while those big numbers might sell one kind of scary c.b.l. recently concluded with a fence based budget would still of be larger than it was in two thousand and six but despite efforts to inject a little reality into the bait the hawks are still crying over the cuts likening their implementation to doomsday and in fact they're so nervous that they have a bark on crusades against this take for example senator jim inhofe who could not understand for the life of him why other programs were untouched well the defense budget was on the chopping block. everything seems to be exempt except the military food stamps exempt a hundred percent of medicaid. thirty seven percent it only ten percent of the

d.o.d. budget so why is it that we are at fodor's so is this situation where that's the is the problem. and meanwhile senators john mccain and kelly iowa are actually setting out on a tour cross country to try to draw attention to the january deadline and iowa has fully joined the fear mongering club explain how this would occur every aspect of the pentagon from jobs to of course overall national security. it means nearly a million jobs in the defense industrial base but as senator mccain has said our secretary of defense has said essentially be shooting ourselves in the head if we go forward in this hauling out our forces jeopardizing our national security and i think it's to be a wake up call to congress on both sides of the. yeah she actually said it shooting ourselves in the head just more evidence of the mounting hyperbolic language that we've seen over and over again from the war hawks. in modern warfare if you're not

in advancing improving your technology you become very much at risk so if we could a trillion dollars out over the next decade our modernization programs come to a halt and you're talking about personnel cuts so gigantic proportion so you can't project force as the navy will have fewer ships than we've had one hundred years will be given one hundred fifty to two hundred thousand pink slips to active men and women in the military today and according to the secretary defense will cost one point five million jobs across the country we can't yet say precisely how bad the damage would be but it is clear that she chris ration would risk hollowing out our force and reducing its military options available to the nation we would go from being unquestionably powerful everywhere to being less visible globally clearly it would. that kind of secret straight cut across the board would have a serious impact not only on men and women in uniform but on personnel and the

contractors who serve the defense establishment. right nothing like stoking fears without actually putting anything into context for not giving a breakdown of the costs or explaining why it is that our men and women in uniform will be suffering in cuts to their benefits and some cuts to wasteful and useless weapons projects or the fact that the u.s. spends the most on its military than any other country in the world believe me our defense capabilities will still be unquestionable but frankly that's because they probably don't want you to know where taxpayer dollars are going for example how about all the bases that we have around the world one guestimate says that we have no less the one thousand and seventy seven bases in other countries that are those that we have so many that we've actually lost count nobody knows the exact number that's just where our military money was begin what about the two huge wars that we've been involved in for the past decade five hundred fifty billion in afghanistan eight hundred five billion in iraq so i got one point three trillion dollars by. both of those wars just by the us and those estimates are very much on

the conservative side anymore proof of the d.o.d. is always so wasteful about their spending habits well over the course of just one week in july the pentagon spent nine billion dollars on new contracts they range from shipping contractor liquid mint out of war zones to new ships for the navy to a five hundred million dollars severance package for a company building jets that we don't even use anymore all of these examples still just skim the surface the reality is the pentagon has the country's credit card and they are charging it leg nobody ever checks the bill because i'm sure there's a for the last ten years nobody did but thankfully americans think that to change a two thousand and seven rasmussen poll showed that the public favor deep cuts in defense spending participants thought the defense spending could be cut by at least eighteen percent and instead they could put that money toward other areas like job training higher education pollution control the fairly neo cons think that they know better and they keep saying that national security will be at stake and we can no longer be the best in the world well while we still take to take the cake when

it comes to our defense department we are suffering when it comes to unemployment infrastructure and education those are all areas that need to be strong if you want to be the best in the world if empires of the past are shown us anything is that military might doesn't guarantee survival and sure why defense spending does provide a lot of jobs that shouldn't scares away from reply or a type of study of the nation show that investments and other government programs are just more helpful to americans they actually yield more jobs per dollar so what point do we sit back and evaluate the whole picture yes the defense department is important but so is our economy so's the future of kids across the us john mccain lindsey graham buck mckeon leon panetta all those guys have their blinders on and that's because it's in their interest but i don't i think a good portion of america agrees with me the sequestration cuts are coming it's time for somebody to stand up and say that's a good thing now we can focus on what really matters.

our guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and this time going to new york city mayor michael bloomberg again one last time to the man it seems to stick his nose in everybody's business he seems to always think that he knows better than you and he is never shy about giving those opinions whether he's lecturing occupy wall street fear mongering for stop and frisk and warrantless surveillance is all for terry arrogance definitely shines through punctuating one unjustifiable argument after another but he's probably most known and hated for his shameless promotion of the nanny state now we've discussed the shenanigans extensively on the show bloomberg has banned trance that smoking in city parks even big old so does and recently his government said that interfere in personal decisions from the cradle to the great literally take a look at this now new york city mayor michael bloomberg is targeting baby formula

he's asking hospitals to keep formula and a secure store room sometimes behind lock and key making it a little more difficult to hand out to new moms who will instead be encouraged to breast feed. that's right set to take effect september third this policy also requires hospitals to cite medical reasons any time that a newborn receives formula has another glaring example of bloomberg paternalism or maybe i should say maternalism look at a politician targets new mothers and he sure is not threatening to arrest anyone here he hasn't banned baby formula yet and yes experts seem to agree that breastfeeding is better for you but still it's typical bloomberg they go straight for regulation rather than promoting policy through education encouragement and not only that but he's also pushing policy through good old fashioned shaming i mean bloomberg is willing to interfere with parenting to the level of breastfeeding it really makes you wonder what else he might go after next maybe plans to publicly

embarrass parents that don't toilet train their kids by the age of three i mean would not promote healthier children of kids aren't toilet train they could develop serious medical conditions and emotional problems might shaming deadbeat parents be more effective than fully educating them or maybe bloomberg personally attached trading wheels to the every kid's bike in the city to according to the c.d.c. there are half a million bicycle related injuries every single year and kids under fifteen account for most of them so why not personally step in to put a stop to this mr mayor he would not arrest anyone or find anyone either just a bit of humiliation will do the trick but clearly because we were dozing cares about your kids' safety more than you do the ends justify the means here no seriously guys ideas they might sound far fetched but they're not terribly far off from bloomberg satchel proposal and set of encouraging behavior informing mothers king michael think that shame in city hall parenting would work better with even more trite as the bloomberg is batting formula companies from giving hospitals free gifts like tote bags so ok mr mair way to take on the evil formula companies forget

about big pharma that's pushing highly addictive psychotropic meds on kids in fact forget all the other important issues facing your city to write seems like it kind of refer that from stopping for is to warrantless surveillance to inequality. it seems like the mayor has been wrong on every major issue and perhaps by is why he's continuing his war and personal freedom promoting an ineffective self-righteous crusade to distract the voters from the real issues but whatever the real reason is bloomberg just cannot seem to stop ruling with a heavy hand so for that he wins again tonight's told time lord. our guys it's time for a last raise and i felt when we come back we'll have an extra special happy hour for you my grades are going to joy be a lower show team and i will be getting you off very well after two and a half years but put away the tissues there are plenty of ridiculous stories to talk about so sit tight.

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all right guys it is time for our final happy hour and joining me this evening is a lot of show senior producer jenny churchill a lot of shows at other spots the lot of show producers that night and we want to show crew the favorite reason magazine's mike riggs i've had to say my own name too many times i got a little confusing. well i got the short class trying to get you a challenge spoken i'm really sorry. yeah exactly. let's talk a little shall we since there are still going there's a lot of outrage because well there's a delay playing the night but then you can find out the actual news when it happens

anywhere else from anyone else you want but i kind of think it's funny because there seems to be like a rivalry like c.n.n. . text you the results just because they don't have the right feel the olympic ceremony if. you're getting that with all the time i turned around today to tell the whole crew like i just got a text message and i i didn't specifically didn't read i closed it because i didn't want to know because i saw all this always olympic gold i know this heat baseball really carry with the story so i just go to war i just noticed splash water in each other's faces at the end of the race oh you're wearing that statement when it's happening live and you're watching you know that whatever like four hundred relay or something and i can't not look at the tweets or the tax i have to know if i know the information is out there i will literally go crazy be like don't look don't learn how to run your you know what else is funny is c.n.n. has been covering the story throughout the day about n.b.c. botching olympic coverage is really that's what it's come down to is c.n.n. has nothing else going for them but they have to undercut another network actually

i think ok aiding in the botching of the coverage and then doing stories about the botching of the coverage that they're. doing the tape delay but they are not. really going to take delay has happened for years yet and through now. suddenly this has become an issue because of the tax alerts and the tweets that's just because technology you know you know this is technology and tape delay that is don't go together and that's because you should always be in america so that we can watch them live during daylight hours this is this a live action said i do you want to go there i want to and that's why it's laws it's not west coast for god's sake it's east coast right eastern standard time olympic for ever now and i'm just saying attention to the only time zone clearly i just live in the diary yes everybody else should have daylight was i live there you know i don't know it's an original west coast. and the west coast are again but less well so one of the things though and i love this did you hear this guy and his

name is guy adams and. and plus angeles bureau chief and so he has been tweeting up a storm kind of talking crap about this and then it turns out that his twitter account got suspended and he released all the e-mails that he had with twitter and they said that is because he broke the rule because he posted someone's personal e-mail really was a corporate e-mail and so it's led everyone to believe that it's basically because n.b.c. complained i don't think so many people are tweeting about this either i totally think n.b.c. complained that twitter has botched this and like such a big way this was their first big partnership thing about this is like their first big event they weren't like any sort of co-sponsor for the super bowl or for any dumb ice skating championship or any how much i was hearing out here like what how much i i don't know i don't know i just know that they're in bed the corporate media the bad guy there must me n.b.c. and twitter and i totally think you know the guy's email address was public and i'm going knows how to get you know and i don't like it i don't think his email address

is public but their formula is definitely public and the formulas of almost every network corporation out there are public you just google someone's e-mail and then you can say i've seen a lot of you know i think we're going to do an experiment i think to put sand. on it now if you guys just start tweeting obsessive li and being really annoying and talking crap i'm going to have arrangements and see how long it takes for your account to get suspended. seems much better like your natural and i know you come on here you're pretty annoying but yeah i mean trolling for truth exactly exactly what i troll is for a cause i'm a i'm a self-righteous troll or as some of our critics out there probably you know if you're just simply trolling surely for your time that would make my day pretty good pretty good at best and then. you wanted your last olympic story we had enough olympic gold just talk about rock it was going to go like it's right off the lawn of crap and look at the drab lot of crappy olympic stories the police. basically

let's start with how we have a little clip which is that everybody remembers why mitt romney got in trouble with the brits when he went over there is because he was questioning their security. you know it's hard to know just how will it work turnout will turn out there are a few things that were disconcerting the stories about the private security firm not having enough people. supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials that obviously is not support which is encouraging. well turns out that the police that were guarding at wembley stadium where the soccer matches are being played they lost keys to the venue because there's one thing that. i think pulling it out of the more than just one set but they just they just lost them somewhere out there . really as the resident english soccer expert i should say that we only stadium couldn't call it soccer for the. global audience or. whatever the point is wimbley stadium is synonymous with disaster. the football association of england

took out something like three hundred fifty million pounds to be in debt to build it and it was over running because nobody likes it they see that is for sale so i'm not surprised to see if anything with that i'll stop to see i think this. strategy i know that they couldn't sell all the tickets to these games so i think they just like put some keys out there and we're like somebody find these and have a rave in the back so we don't we're going still those are you know. i know the brits are competent ok i we're over there on medal counts while we were racing up until your british sounds pretty low i do they're bad for us like my winter. but i really didn't have runs are going to win or lose some key is you know i mean the last set of keys big big change the locks really millions of people in town for the olympics having one set of keys like that big a deal and if you look at it statistically out of all of the keys at all of the venues for the slump it's really it's like minute it's almost nonexistent like

someone's walking through london and they found a set of all the keys to wimbley. building you know a little thing on them and say wembley you never know it's a little like this. are usually we're going to regret it today when it was a bit stressed oh ok that's. getting a little. bit of time ago it was rusty all right let's do go yes done and done ok so here we have a clip. this was on sunday i mean obviously we have a lot of talk about the second amendment about gun control after the shooting in aurora and he basically was talking about his interpretation of how he views it and the clear limits that there are on the second amendment as he sees it so take a look. it does not apply to. arms that cannot be hand carried to keep and bear so it doesn't apply to cannons but i suppose there are held rocket

launchers that can bring down airplanes that will have to be. it will have to be destroyed. really commits all we need is people to have a handheld rocket launchers have to respond i would love to see response to this i think you more need like northrop grumman or someone else's response is that actually why i don't know who actually made it and your idea of the grumman probably said it like a box of chocolates and. it's only got there the mastic sales rocketed up for just went through the roof i think you probably got a rocket launcher for that it's ok it's ok that's a very good launcher they trigger locks for rocket launchers yeah those child safety locks. nobody. that's the irony in all of this though right is that on one hand you see we talk about this all the time right you have a growing police state any kind of dissent if you're trying to take part in a peaceful protest you're getting shot at with rubber bullets if you know one person acts out of line but the rock you want your thing you know we could still

talk about that because what he's saying is it goes back to what the constitution allows and he's going strictly by the constitution was fine not so fascinating because it doesn't account for time that's passed new technologies exaggerates kind of like you know saying we should take everything the bible word for word and that case we would all be stoned all of us every single person at this table today you know. i was god the constitution doesn't provide for the keeping in arming of bears personally so you know justice scalia conservatives are brilliant man. this is you know we do something like no. stories sometimes of the stupid that they're actually studies and things conducted about this or news stories done on it and. basically. we've seen this clip us are not the way i started introducing it doesn't go back to when the jury had to. go back to the four loko days for as i can tell you. on the heels of college students being hospitalized and

a teen driver crashing into a house the manufacturer of the popular caffeinated alcohol drink four loko has announced it will take the caffeine out of its products the announcement came as the food and drug administration was expected to find that caffeine is an unsafe food additive to alcoholic drinks. well speaking of unsafe apparently this is. this is just so stupid so this is a study that was done and apparently drinking caffeinated energy drinks mixed with alcohol is linked to casual often risky sex amongst college age adults and we need a study to tell us this i believe that it. is just going forward it was a little you know you're on and see i figured it out it's not just alcohol it's that you put the caffeine in and then not only are you drunk but you stay awake long enough when you actually have sex with our knowledge. that maybe it was

alcohol who got paid casual sex in college drinking out of a bird in only your underwear i feel like you know him and. you know but you know there are all kinds of things that don't we because we're all sex but you know this is this is about is a pretty pretty pretty obvious one you're right i don't know anything about her. directly i just paid to do the studies or the kind of you know how are you going to get you know some college professor up in the ivory tower carefully any miller senior research scientist at the university of buffalo research institute on addictions senior research now it was there for they're going to. give out money to the researchers you really dropped the ball on this one the point is that this is the kind of stuff that they're researching these days in this country very happy about where you know all the money is going in the right place. all right so lately came john and his wife have been in the news. jim jones recently attended

a concert with disney style characters the mystery woman beside him there has now been introduced as his bride resoled jew she appears to be a modern woman with a modern hemline and they look very much like a modern couple. they look like a modern couple with anything going to give him a modern haircut or with argument with the point is that she has been reported and i mean we don't obviously really know what the hell is going on in north korea but reported to be a pop star named high on song will sell everything but heard that and she had a hit a few years back called excellent horse like lady. she rates since has been confirmed there was actually a singer named resole juice so there have been like mixed reports first one pop star now it's another one but this other pop star she performed footsteps of soldiers and now people think that those on top stars were actually the same person . we don't really have stars and so you see some horses with you know the soldiers

i got and you know any better for the horse whatever it's called it's. a horse like lady it's unbelievable to watch this video it's just and i guess we can play for copyright just because they're saying she works like a horse because it's like a woman in like sweatshop like conditions like making. the hard working or you likely to exist exactly oh fine an. excellent excellent horse like lady went to the bar the bartender asked her why the wall face. all right. guys i'm going to wrap it up but thank you for joining me tonight for the last time you ever shared to our final happy hour. and that is it's for our show i guess we just want to say thank you to everybody thank you to all of our viewers for watching this entire time thank you to all the guests for coming on that contribute

over the years thank you to the entire crew especially our crew in the control room right there that's making i have been right now and you know thanks to our team it's been a great time and thanks for watching everyone don't forget to still you know check out our videos and i can still find them on facebook on twitter on you tube and whatnot as well as hulu and coming up next is the news.

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