a free book video for your media project a free meal gogarty dot com. welcome back here with our tease here's a recap of ahead julia sun says the u.s. must stop prosecuting with old low was aiming to shed light on the crimes of the powerful he made his long awaited statement on the balcony of london them to see fourteen british police raided to arrest a man soon you can step outside the building. in other news the sentence for punk band pussy riot m.t.v. who didn't stand in russia's main cathedral is true years behind bars the two women before performance was ruled to be hooliganism regulated by religious hatred outside the court crowds rallied both in support and against the women. but rains

prominent human rights activists not real read jail for three years he was found guilty of inciting antigovernment protests through his speeches and online posed by the equal rights movement against momentum in the gulf states. and the un's new peace envoy for syria admits his first task is overcoming security council divisions that those reports are just making intelligence is helping rebels attack the regime. that's a good for you you're up to speed right now to stay with us for our team's conversation with author and journalist nomi wolf who talks of the increasing perils faced by anyone choosing to stand up to the u.s. government's regime of increasing secrecy coming up next. 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. 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 began this 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 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 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 no 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 do 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 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 trying to avoid leaks 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 he's going to use the journalists on as the 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. so i think that. there's no way that he can. i have an impartial trial in sweden but quite apart from that i think i'm very concerned that there's sort of national pressure on britain and on sweden by the us there's some evidence of this interim creek really good investigative citizen journalist has document a lot of the seventh that demonstrates that the intent is to extradite a sauna to us and then have him be the highest profile you know 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 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 the 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 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 confirm 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 or 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 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 meet it why do you think that at least maureen 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 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 criminalization 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 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 for fraud but not like marginal fraud but clearly systemic right 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 was an e-mail 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 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 that we were facing fifteen days records island which is a violent prison yeah it makes you think twice about going out to use your first 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 the e-mails 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 think 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 the march and they can go home. i'm sorry to say that when you get this matrix of surveillance plus police brutality plus laws that suspend due process

it's very effective at breaking down protest now let me flip it around and say having studied closing societies and societies that we opened democracies mass protest is the key to reopening democracies then we will thank you very much and don't think you mind me. i am.

really in a song says the u.s. must stop prosecuting whistleblowers they mean to shed light on the client is a book called he made his long awaited statement on the balcony of the editor's london embassy fourteen bridges police ready to arrest him and he had to put all five the building. in other news of the sentence for the punk band pussy riot n t pigeon stunt in russia's main cathedral is two years behind bars in the women's performance was ruled to be what it isn't motivated by religious hatred outside the court crowds and rallied both in support and against the women. brains prominent human rights activist and the bill read jab is jailed for three yes he was found guilty of inside three antigovernment protests through his speeches and in one post while the equal rights movement gains momentum in the gulf states.

and the un's new peace envoy for syria admits his first task is overcoming security council divisions that says reports of just muted intelligence is helping rebels attack the regime. and that that's got you covered this all rather now the deal with us well the latest from the world of sports where it was a thrilling day at the top and bottom of the russian premier league tate will be here next to reveal just what. well to do this course through the headlines. big battles leaders need to held it down to start try a bit more but nine monday namo used to ten monterey on an action packed day in the

russian premier league. while english battles hold as manchester city fight back to be promoted southbound to three to bowl champions league winners chelsea twenty third wigan on a second crunch date in the premier league. and a ferocious fed world number one roger federer sweeps aside there are joke of each to take the cincinnati masters crown with a week to go until the u.s. open. but let's kick off with football as russian premier league leaders need to are held to a one one draw tangy ending their four winning run though still going a point clear at the top so the tour without a top scorer examined the golf bug constantly gave them the lead twenty minutes in however they shut up equalized to sixty five minutes one wanted finished and she stay seven. while it was a nightmare debut for band manager down to tresco as his nine months out of a moscow sides want their fifth straight defeat after losing to want him to ten monterrey the number one nil down off the haul for now thanks to say the boss but

was thrown a second half a lifeline as to that were refused to ten man hugh jack finally netted dinars first league go but eight minutes to go was sent off rebus completed his grace two one before remember had kevin karami dismissed and remained rooted to the bottom but to right now go for it. so could force match just outside moscow but it was a one way street for taste of the army men trying three know that new boys mordovia to clinch their third. the victory of the campaign. opened after thirty minutes before rushing before the islands are going to have doubled their lead right before the break and alex and the sound are complete to the right eight minutes into the second half to start the sixth day over twelve. was saturday spotlight bounced back from last week's five nil demolition buys anita's tonight average men

rallied to win two one a time to remain i guess i have earned a penalty for the visitors ten minutes before halftime the press not to make no mistake from the spot is fifth of the season to become the league's top scorer and one nil is stayed until the seventy third minute when dmitri can borrow fed in the corner for brazilian new boy romulo to head home his maiden goal in russia on the spot i'm davey and in a frantic last ten minutes that's when was brought down right on the edge of the area and come our off who really sent the keeper the wrong way. then ruby to hit the bar but home side i'm going for victory to want to go second the visitors this. was where lockyer marty struck twice in the second half to see a two no victory at struggling volga philippe chi sado netted in the sixty fifth minute from a corner of the ecuadorians third goal of the campaign and nice blue shirt off opened his tally for this season as he added

a late second from the go to score line and go third two points are tac. while in england samir nasri grabbed a late winner as defending champions manchester city came back from two goals down to be promoted southampton three two in australia in their opening game as the new premier league campaign with seventeen minutes gone hostile theirs was up ended in the penalty area but goalkeeper kelvin davis say that he still has tevez fit then five minutes before the interval test finally put safety in front however only out of st substitute rickie lambert can. also dead at the levels and stephen davis quickly does the same to make it to one of the visitors sub and inject here then snatch a go back to the champions nasser grab the win that ten minutes from time what we're going to a grand slam other than a bitch strike and frank lampard penalty helped chelsea get to know within the first seven minutes and then they held out against a battling electic side. while on an equally thrilling saturday arsenal vs sun

flood was the only male male game while full of thrash norwich final and swans are also trying five there like q.p.r. captain ben off as late penalty gave you cancel a two one win over top them and then adam in the form of a stoppage time penalty help reading draw one with stoke west brom stands ten manageable three male and kevin nolan hit the winner as west ham beat aston villa one nil. all meanwhile so here is where i will undergo a scan of the knee injury he picked up in manchester city's win over southampton on sunday the twenty four year old striker collapsed following the challenge eight minutes in the argentina star scored the winner against q.p.r. on the final day of last season to secure safe you the title and netted twenty three league olds in his debut season earlier this month city gave up their pursuit of striker robin van persie who joined manchester united on friday and new signing van persie will be the focus as manchester united go to everton on monday night to complete the first weekend of fixtures in the new english top flight season. now

into tennis and while the one roger federer has cruised past second right now about joke of it to secure his twenty first masters title in cincinnati the swiss star had recently beaten his serbian rival in the semifinal wimbledon and federer again was in imperious ball in the first set taking it to love the first time that djokovic had failed to take a game off their direct twenty eight matches between the two then he went down to the wire in the second set the world number one prevailed in a twenty to tie break with two said stick eighty six try out the season and cement . his grip at the top of the rankings. now danica has cut the gap to motor g.p. leader. after winning the indianapolis grand prix from pole position the repsol honda man beats his fellow spaniard by over ten seconds we dread to busy oh so coming in third ahead of casey stoner the reigning world champion race despite having torn his ankle ligaments in qualifying was

a second win of the season for his teammate who now trails lorenzo by eighteen points at the top of the standings. now to beach volleyball where brazil's limping bronze medalists larry said frank and giuliana silva have won the last grand slam of the season in poland the reigning tour champions beat the italian pair of mata manigat the good article in the gold medal match the brazilians took the first set twenty one sixteen but in the second their opponents all back and almost forced a decider of frank happiness over eventually trying to get twenty two twenty to fix the title while in the bronze medal much jemmy's could put the bill to send the russians get it. katherina nickelback. was also successful dealing with bronze medalists in the men's final as the last of martins bobbins and younis made in their austrian opponents in a close to set up it was the latvians first ever victory at

a world tour event with an american team completing the podium in poland. and finally when it comes to surfing not many would think of russia as a hot spot for the sport but aussie 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 first. and coming from russia had a affinity for made sure. and i found a new sense of freedom. when i first saw the ocean it was limitless and challenging. you surfers in my city which was months away and i captured the stoke stokers of the surf slang for. positive vibration.

and that public curiosity was something very different. and i started trying 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 i cut my first three ways. and. changed the course of my life. surfing originated in polynesia an ancient polynesian and everybody surfed with the kings for them it was a sport. of royals have bigger boards they have their own private server breaks. songs in 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. chased out of the water by him and i had a friend when i first started surfing in monterey and get killed by sharks. and. that's their part of the environment we are part of the food chain where. go surfing. so it's just one of those things but i think a lot of more people get hurt driving cars them. getting a ton 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 embrace it with a lot of passion. as in the case of surfing whatever the activity. i live in bali when there is smoke in russian communities villages of people that fell in love with surfing and go there. to surf so i think the future of this is fantastic.

and who knows maybe in the future there will be world champion rests here for. treating the ocean with respect. and very important treat other. bigger fellow human beings with respect. like i always say and that's when my my model and my slogan for many years live the life you love. and that's supposed to ask i think so. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global

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