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any toy. or go back and watching our t.v. shows are the top stories join us on set to make his first public statement since being granted asylum in ecuador is a diplomatic standoff between britain and the latin american nation continues one suggested that it could strip with doors embassy of diplomatic privileges to move in and the rest a son has been sheltering in the embassy for two months now. a pro-democracy activists in bahrain gets a three year jail sentence for criticizing the regime online for the protests there are far from dying out with a verdict only sparking further unrest across the belt. of a two year sentence for members of the punk band pussy riot for performing an
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anti-abortion stand and russia's main cathedral provokes a strong reaction in russia and around the world dozens of activists have been detained during rallies both for and against the group. boss fighting between rebels and government forces rage on in syria with the u.s. mulling over plans to impose a no fly zone the closest washington's come so far the suggesting there were military intervention. that's the headlines julian assange is case as raise numerous concerns among journalist and activist who fear being prosecuted for doing their job next are teens reviews author and journalist now me wolf who says the u.s. government is especially tough on those exposing official wrongdoing. naomi wolf author journalist activist thank you for sitting down with r.t. today it's always a pleasure marie and i first question for you recently u.s. defense secretary leon panetta announced and ordered pentagon officials to begin monitoring major news stations in the u.s.
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to see if any media outlets are disclosing classified information as a journalist and as an american what is your take on this i mean you know my immediate take is a profound feeling of nausea and its sense that somehow the united states has collapsed into you know the soviet union circa sort of mid thirty's. this is horribly foreseeable but i can't believe it's come to this. the bush administration begins trajectory. seven or eight years ago by saying ok we're going to start to react to be espionage act and they threatened to go after the new york times you may remember when they broke the swift banking story about how at that time it seemed so quaint how the government was monitoring people's private financial transactions. but what's so dangerous could have been warning people about for years is that
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a journalist's job is to publish classified information journalists like first of all this is a white house to wait houses obama's and bush's which is systematically overclassifying everything especially wrong doing it specially anything related to what was so blowers want to release specially you know torture that they've engaged in methods of torture fraud corruption they're classifying it you know i've had conversations with representatives legal representatives of people who want total who tell me that they can't tell me how their clients have been tortured because it's classified and they would get in trouble because of the way the government is over classified it's not national security information it's the government. using classification as a way of protecting its own corruption and fraud but what's so scary about this is that anyone who's a journalist who tells the truth and there's nothing wrong with. their jobs will say and i said this when julian assange was arrested that up and down the eastern seaboard in dinner parties and cocktail parties the elite media stream all we do
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all day long is talk about classified information and trade classified information share classified information and show how when we have a quest of information because it means we are being effective at our jobs that's not the same as leaking it i do agree that someone who actually leaks classified information knows that they're breaking the law you know i'm not saying there's no reason not to have classification in a working democracy but the job of journalists is to publish classified information that is brought to them that's in the public interest and so now if you've got the government saying they're like literally it's like mafia tactics can't believe it's come to this the government is same to journalists everywhere in america. we're going to intimidate you and we're going to threaten you and we're we're threatening you with with serious legal penalties like prison time if you do your job and
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i mean it's like that's what they do in china you know i mean i just can't even believe it's come to this obviously journalists publish classified information because that's how we know we're living in a democracy you brought up joining us on what do you think will happen to him if he ends up in the u.s. i mean in an ideal world obviously i believe in the rule of law in an ideal world you know he would go safely to sweden and you know the women who have accused him would have their day in court he would have his day in court and justice would be impartial i don't think that's what's happening in his case i think that it's a global. kind of. manhunt to. punish and silence a whistleblower publisher again not a leak or a publish a publisher i just want to stress this bradley manning leaked the material allegedly you know and so he has to deal with whatever you see julius on as the
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problem is the publisher like the new york times exactly it's dan ellsberg is to bradley manning as the new york times is too. much. and so i think that. there's no way that he can. have an impartial trial in sweden but quite apart from that i think i'm very concerned that there's sort of met a national pressure on britain and on sweden by the u.s. there's some evidence of this interim creek really good investigative citizen journalist to document a lot of the seventh's that demonstrates that the intent is to extradite a sauna to us and then have him be the highest profile. journalist in guantanamo and. you know where where you go from there people have been there for ten years without charge or trial and i think that that's not just to silence him again i think it's also to send
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a message to anyone else who might leak you know compromising or embarrassing or problematic material about the united states government earlier this year you threw your support behind a class action lawsuit filed against us president barack obama and his defense secretary over the national defense authorization act when you were reporting about that bill you said in quote included powers that could bring the authorities of guantanamo to america's courthouses streets and backyards in may a judge suspended section ten twenty one of the n.d.a. you were actually in the courthouse it's quite amazing this this judge more than anyone so ok the national defense authorization act is absolutely terrifying piece of legislation so section ten twenty one was the section that explicitly said this gives the president the power to round up anyone without charge or trial and hold them forever. chris hedges a very brave journalist brought this forward as well as many activists including an
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occupy activist from london and the president's lawyers were in the court and i was there. listening to this and to my shame there was like there were like one and a half reporters in the room you know none of them from each or u.s. news outlets well the most important thing ever to have happened to that point was happening and the government's lawyers basically confirmed that chris hedges could be detained forever for reporting on the taliban or reporting on people who could be classified as enemy combatants they confirmed that that was indeed the case or if someone wrote a book about you know enemy combatants that in any way was sympathetic to the point of view that you know the u.s. had too much power in this part of the world you know crazy examples of sweeping powers to detain american citizens and to criminalize dissent criminalize journalism and so this very brave judge listened to the evidence which wasn't hard to miss because. it was so confirmed by these
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lawyers that that's what this would do and she suspended that part of it and so saved you know the constitution where the due process clause is which guarantees everyone in america the right to a trial i still can't understand why this story specifically the n.d.a. has not been a bigger story in mainstream media in the us this was a huge huge issue and this bill was signed into law when people are celebrating new year's eve new year's eve and then somebody heard about it i mean as you mean it why do you think that at least you know i want to i want to ask you that what when you talk to journalist guy friends who are journalists you know senior people who are running major news sites opinions i don't say did you know that the due process clause was suspended on new year's eve and they're like what no surely not and they
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don't believe it because they didn't see you know a wave of coverage any coverage would be buried obfuscated and no one's giving these people orders to not cover it i was listening to these historic arguments of the american presidents lawyers saying yes we have the right to round up journalists that journalists have the right to hold him forever and there was no a.b.c. no n.b.c. no n.p.r. no c.n.n. no fox news nobody was there you know and the best explanation i have is like denial you know let me be it's such a huge story that no one can really believe this is really happening so we can't cover it but i do think that what we're seeing right now and i predicted this would happen in november of last year is that like why the violent crackdown against occupy why the violent criminal ization of dissent why the bullying of journalists now i think it's linked to what we're seeing in the news right now of this huge
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fraud being uncovered in the banking sector. h.s.b.c. you know billions of dollars in fraud bank of america wells fargo barclays bank of england fraud from fraud but not like marginal fraud but clearly systemic crowd and i just wrote a piece about this for the guardian you know clearly systemic tim geithner finds out about in two thousand and eight you know writes need mail doesn't leak the news doesn't call a press conference and then you know becomes treasury secretary so it's clear that you know there's a small group of guys and girls who are in on massive massive massive fraud and. so the occupy movement journalists you know threaten to uncover a lot of crimes if the books are ever opened in an e-mail world in an electronic world these crimes are forever last forever so that now is my working theory about why we're seeing such sudden violent crackdown on reporting on dissent on whistleblowers that otherwise a lot of people would go to jail for the crimes that they've been committing occupy
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wall street is a movement that really raised awareness and pointed attention to the fact of money flowing from wall street to washington influencing policies the economic problems have not gone away since the fall of two thousand and eleven they've only gotten worse occupy wall street though has sort of died down a bit why do you think that is well in the fall of two thousand and eleven you know american citizens gathered together and spoke up and protested in occupy public spaces and they were shot with rubber bullets they were given you know lengthy jail sentences they were arrested for staying on the sidewalk as i was and my partner was you know lawfully obeying the law were arrested oh yeah. yeah i was arrested for standing on a sidewalk telling occupy protesters what their first amendment rights were to protest. you know and then we were facing fifteen days in rikers island which is a violent prison yeah it makes you think twice about going out to use your first
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amendment rights i mean occupy protesters were you know. they were power hosed they were they were locked up for seventeen hours and you know for didn't use the bathroom they were tortured you know as much as the civil system allows you know every activist you know assumes that their emails are monitored their phone calls are monitored i mean it's just a complete sense of big brother is a hair's breadth the way i. am frightened seeing countries like britain sleepwalking into okaying legislation to institute. this kind of surveillance but really in europe people still feel they have some privacy they can go to march and they can go home. i'm sorry to say that when you get this matrix of surveillance plus police brutality and you know plus laws that you know suspend due process it's very effective at breaking down protest bellamy flip it around and say having studied closing societies and societies that we opened democracies mass protest is
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the key to reopening democracies and we will thank you very much for saying don't r.t. thank you maria thanks. mission . critical patients free. for drug free. arrangement free. free. to three. gold free blog videos for your media projects a free media oh god r t v dot com. wealthy british style it's a small town right on. target. the. market. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for
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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. cars a report on our. doing this all just had to make his first public statement since being granted asylum in ecuador as a diplomatic standoff between britain and the lead an american nation continues london suggested it could strip with the words embassy and diplomatic privileges to move in and arrest the son has been sheltering in the embassy for two months now. pro-democracy activists in bahrain gets a three year jail sentence for criticizing the regime online but the protests there are far from dying out with a verdict only sparking further unrest across the gulf state. and a two year sentence for members of the punk band pussy riot for performing a stunt and russia's main cathedral provokes a strong reaction in russia and around the world dozens of activists have been detained during rallies both for and against the group. last finding between
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rebels and government forces rage on in syria with the u.s. mulling over plans to impose a no fly zone the closest washington has come so far to suggesting direct military intervention this has the u.n. observer mission mandate expires at the end of summer. that's the headline sports next. hello there welcome to the sports update in all to you thanks for joining us this hour coming. from behind to be true be seen once in a gripping game in moscow while looking much leave when a game with the russian grandmotherly. of them want to gainst world number two and federal will play in the final of the cincinnati march to. crash course in
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a big draw for the takes pole for the indianapolis grand prix while casey stone is among those who was injured during qualifying. but. scored from the sport with six minutes to go to came back to win two on a time to remain in the russian premier league still smarting from last week's five no demolishing eight emery side a game conceded ten minutes before half time. owning a penalty for rubin. making no mistake from the sport's fifth season to become the league's top scorer. one of the saide until the seventy third marriage when kim barra fed in a corner for brazil a new boy romelu to have a home he's made in gold in russia on the spot debut and in a frantic last ten minutes the referee once again had to point to the sports ballots and was right on the edge of the area and coolly saying the keeper of the
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wrong way then rubin the by the take home side going on for victory to go level on points with current leaders. struck twice in this second half to seal a victory at full philippic say the next. in the sixty fifth minute from my corner for the ecuadorans overcome and denise bush opened his telly this season a late second forelock to wrap up the school i thought if moved up to third point behind spot. well that rose to fifth despite being goalless draw time to sack him from bristol. it was a sense of dating opening day of the season over in england where two teams scored five goals for the first time in the opening fixtures for fifty eight years old versus something that was the only goal this. new boy had braced
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rational which five new york and nathan struck twice swansea also thrived. for and that's a delayed penalty as you cross a one to one a time to talk and other the phone to stop which time penalty readings met their one all draw a time to stay mr powell to but still want time to ten men liverpool and kevin nolan first half strike. one nil. over to tennessee where roger federer will play another joke in the cincinnati masters final the talk to players in the world won their respective semifinal match at the martin del potro of argentina djokovic broke to go up for two in the opening set out to take it six three then he broke him again for
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a two one lead in the second set and eventually claimed six two and the match. i. just won the first match was. on the court. was through. good. third of the fellows who use the rink are seven six six three it will be the seventh time that federer and djokovic have played for a tournament title the last time in twenty seven dubai federal judge for the cincinnati title three years ago this week sleeves their career serious fifteen to twelve i exciting match up you know between the world number one and world number two and his demand to be there gets in the hole because at the moment still because he has had so much success throughout the u.s. open and then just american or of course has been almost dominating them so i can stop him in the finals tomorrow i'll give everything i have been serious enough not
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. in moto g.p. spared any pedrosa has taken pole position for the indianapolis grand prix so honda rather completed a course there in one minute thirty eight point eight one three seconds current overall leader of the winter of spain was second hundred of his oars was third fastest qualifying was marred by several crashes involving americans bent. spears was not injured but star hayden will not take part in the upcoming race australian casey stoner also crashed medical tests show a torn ligament after doctors originally thought he had broken his right ankle it's unclear whether he'll race on sunday or not. it's important to keep people in. on the riding in we need some good laps in i think this is being used quite good on the bike now to. do good tomorrow this position is
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good also in part due to. the third excel and russia as you has followed up a limping trial by winning the women's three thousand meter simple change at the latest drama league meeting in stockholm the limbic champion. to the distance in an impressive time of nine minutes five point zero two seconds just six seconds outside the world records fastest time this season and beating the record for the meeting while high jumper and the teacher also successfully followed up in big victory by winning with the off to me to just five centimeters lower than in london . back on the track the olympic four hundred meter champ and turner which is ross didn't disappoint the crowd just shit did in london final the american overcame britain's christian group and she also picked a modern mulcher of the swan are in the final me to hold the heat when it's time
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for to nine point eight nine seconds. in the women's one hundred meter hurdles it was a limbic silver medalist or harper who talked almost up to him using up a sort of thrill a sell a person in london to american court time of twelve point six five seconds to claim a victory. and finally when it comes to surfing not many would think of russia as a hot spot for the sports but artsy caught up with the country's first professional surfer jean craig who was in moscow to promote a documentary on the rise of russian surfing. my family ended up in california. living on the coast. and coming from russia had an affinity for nature. and i found a new sense of freedom. when i first saw the ocean it was limitless and
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challenging. you surfers in my city which was months away and i captured the stoke stokers of the surf slang for. the positive vibration. and that caught my curiosity it was something very different. and i started trying and my area was not a popular thing ocean was called big waves and no such thing as a sort of school. but i kept trying and trying and on christmas day i remember a cub my first three ways. and that changed the course of my life. surfing originated in polynesia an ancient polynesian and everybody surfed but the kings for them of the sport. of royalty had bigger boards they had their own
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private server breaks. songs and the whole very rich tradition of culture so yes it's a sport of kings. and when you get a one on one more thing when you catch your first wave you'll feel like a king or queen. i've seen him chased out of the water by him and i had a friend when i first started surfing in monterey and get killed by a shark. and. that's their part of the environment and we are part of the food chain where. we go surfing. so just one of those things but i think a lot of more people get hurt driving cars than. getting attacked by sharks so. i don't think about it too much. the russians whatever they do they do very good russians are very enthusiastic and they
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embrace it with a lot of passion. as in the case of surfing whatever the activity. i live in bali and there is russian communities villages or people that fell in love with surfing and go there. to surf so i think the future is is fantastic. and who knows maybe in the future there will be world champion rests here for. treating the ocean with respect. very important treat other. bigger fellow human beings with respect. like i always say and that's when my my motto and my slogan for many years live the life you know. ok up to date now i'll be back with more sports news for you from around the globe and. say whether it's next but for now.
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