tonight on r t green on blue violence is on the rise in afghanistan yet another deterrent to the twenty fourteen drawdown deadline so what does this mean for the u.s. that is ongoing role inside afghanistan r.t. questions more. and the conventions are over so now it's a race to november we're going to do some fact checking from the speeches at the d.n.c. in r. and c. we've also got a dose of economic reality coming from our financial group lauren lester. and if you're eating dinner right now it's time to put down that fork for just a minute we've got a story that will make your stomach churn involves the agriculture giant monsanto their special seeds and something called

a super warm the slimy details coming up. it's friday september seventh eight pm in washington d.c. and lopez and you're watching r.t. . well we begin tonight with a look at the war in afghanistan where a green on blue violence is causing unease between the u.s. and the people it eventually plans to hand power over to this year alone forty five international service members have been killed as a result of these attacks twenty eight of them american those numbers. those numbers really concerned the obama administration but for whatever reason they didn't merit a mention in last night's d.n.c. speech nonetheless white house press secretary jay carney did speak briefly about these insider attacks in a press conference let's listen in. it's in porton to remember that. well first

of all that our relationship with our afghan partners is strong and that every day our forces fight alongside afghan forces there are now about three hundred fifty thousand afghan forces. and we partner with those afghan forces on ninety percent of operations and while the. whenever there is a so-called green on blue incident it is concerning and the fact that there have been the number of incidents that you mentioned is is deeply concerning now carney went on to say to that the need that there is a need to keep these incidents in perspective so to put these attacks as well as the afghanistan war into perspective i was joined by anthony shaffer from the task force on national and homeland security at the center for events defense studies i first ask him if the attacks are caused by improper vetting. we are not getting

a problem because three years ago i first brought this up and other experts warning them the closer you get to the more you can see the tele blog become more of bolden . we we said you had to do the betting to protect our troops they chose not to do that for a number of political reasons and i think we're now suffering the consequences of going to one of the your comments a new direction make it one of the reason they didn't bring this up is because the very root of this problem goes back to president obama announcing in two thousand west point speech we're leaving in twenty forty so he embolden the taleban this is part of their do you plan it gave them the ability to plan for this and they're continuing to expand that we are seeing in the numbers increase over the last three years and not by accident and more importantly this whole picture and that that that the afghans are leaving look i talk to people on the ground there. and ask an afghan led operation is basically putting the afghan army be ahead of the our our u.s. army guys and they don't letting them drive around the circle that's it it's a fiction so i'm very critical by the fact that we're not making progress this is

become a political issue the white house doesn't want to talk about and frankly the bottom line for me and others who interviewed all who've been there we're putting our kids our soldiers jeopardy no good reason with onerous rules of engagement with no real path forward other than just to separate out the next eighteen months and how many let's talk really quickly about the difference between a war and nation building we aren't nation building right now so how can you put an exit date on nation building when you don't know all along it's going to take the build the nation you can and when they announce this policy i also said you got to go big or go home on another if you did not work the bottom line is this of that assessment i made then three years ago to go big and actually be successful in the nation building we're talking about you would have to put five hundred thousand troops on the ground for ten years and we knew that wasn't in the cards so therefore we started saying it's not going to war we were unfortunately correct in our prediction and now. we're headed for the door so we've got to figure out and

i've talked to several senior generals about this the numbers are relevant is the mission and the fact is the mission we've been given this nation building thing is not working based on the resources a lot of to it and a friend of mine retired congressman former admiral joseph stack told me that he was lied to about this they briefed him when this first happened in two thousand and i saying hold on this is going to be us focusing on the border and they did a big switch on a given if they switched the mission from protecting the border to nation building to enhancing that and frankly and he's a democrat he's upset about it. and just to go back to the screen on blue attack thing that we're facing right now the attacks the insider attacks that we're facing right now i mean always kind of switching from the mindset of the u.s. versus the taliban to the u.s. versus off afghanistan. well this is a great question and let me try to parse it for your audience the karzai government has been described by ambassador ryan crocker and other rituals as

a no other insurgency i've talked to a number of folks to include some afghans who feel the karzai government itself is helping to to create the conditions for the uprising because of the corruption the corruption is now so rampant that the afghan people themselves so this is really not about helping the afghan people i wish it was so so today i mentioned this is where we started with the corrupt government and the afghan people who really i think like you like me want to be free see that they're caught between two very bad choices two hostage voices and force like for us most many of them are choosing the taliban because we've already announced early a new spirit of the karzai government all the moment we and tony the ministry of defense the afghan ministry of defense that is actually handing out booklets to try to its forces to try to explain the western mindset it covers everything from talking to women to prang to taking pictures of a country but i mean twenty were in their country should it be the other way around

well we tried that and idol i don't mean to put a bad face on the idea of trying to be culturally sensitive it's just i think we've gone too far we were there in two thousand once you go out to two thousand three to basically right or wrong we we had the right data and this is i don't mean to diminish the importance of cultural understanding but we were there because we were attacked the afghan people supporters and i remember that the actual conflict in two thousand and two thousand to forty two days the northern alliance and others helped us do this now we tried to instill. wait upon them these people who are socially not undercover they're self-governed to to be loyal to a central government they have no tradition of that so therefore we are very circumstantial enough trying to justice and i want to kind of push the conversation just a little bit to yemen president obama has in many ways become the drone president yet he said it in our weekly and interview earlier this week that he wants to use drones responsibly he didn't actually address this in the d.n.c.

at all but he did say that he wants he is drawn to sponsoring and then we look at what's happening in yemen twenty nine people alone died this past week and they were all civilians so are we using drones responsibly or not but i have studied this i've talked i've had high level contacts with certain leaders of certain embassies recently on this very issue just yesterday and the problem is that anytime we use these as we kill innocents we create a next generation of terrorists and this is something the obama administration is just ignore completely and other experts do advise them to say the using drones are not bad it's just if you overuse them increases perception of progress you're creating a next generation to earth launch i think the backing up of what you just said i mean these attacks that we're seeing in yemen i are we actually fostering to the taliban members are we fighting them i think we're sauntering them because much of what we need to do is boots on the ground so i like operation for such an operation

and let me tell you your own limited aspect of what we're doing right now is actually creating more havoc and chaos which the governing bodies of yemen or pakistan have to deal with rightly i think we're helping to stabilize pakistan by this overuse of drones all right that was anthony shaffer with the task force and the national homeland security for the center for advanced defense studies tony i really appreciate your pence thank you. well in case you missed it the democratic national convention wrapped up last night with both joe biden and president obama giving their party acceptance speeches the speech was supposed to be held at the bank of america stadium bank of america is after all headquartered in charlotte but a last minute venue change forced thousands to cram into the time warner cable arena instead and left many out in the rain and that's not the only mishap that has

supporters questioning the d.n.c. its location choice r c correspondent liz wahl takes us to the middle of this dispute. more than six hundred miles away from america's financial hub lives a city with striking similarities with that it was very symbolic that the democratic national convention was coming to charlotte with this big wall street of the south as the second largest banking institution city outside of wall street itself the democratic national convention being hosted here in charlotte is also home to the headquarters of bank of america the massive bank at the time they're fired for unreasonably raising interest rates on their customers and wrongfully foreclosing on home. testers took to the streets surrounding the democratic national convention and the police were quick to respond. oh but at least one speaker at the convention highlighted the greed and corruption because protesters speak out against massachusetts senate tauriel candidate elizabeth

warren even if you were right this system is rigged against them and here's the painful part. they're right. this system is very. look around oil companies guzzle they own billions in profits billionaires pay a lower tax rates than their secretaries. and wall street c.e.o.'s the same ones who wrecked our economy and just royd millions of jobs still strut around congress no shame bank of america is one such corporation many say profits from this so-called rigged system the bank has faced a slew of lawsuits and is accused of predatory lending which resulted in foreclosures across the country in two thousand and eight a number of banks failed and the taxpayers were asked to bail them out and the taxpayers did through the government now those same banks those banks are acting

the same as they did before with little change since the two thousand and eight wall street crisis many fear history is doomed to repeat itself. according to some activists money and corporate influence on american politics is a hazardous mix one of the main things that we stand on is the monies big corporations implement through the money how they've taken over our poll political system they write the legislation the they fund the campaigns and almost every elected official has has to answer to them rather than to the people themselves so what can americans do there's a lot of local credit unions small credit unions that are answerable to local communities if the community doesn't like what the credit union is doing they can actually stop them from doing that others have taken their grievances to the streets. in charlotte north carolina liz wahl r.t. all right folks well we've had a lot of information overload over the past couple of weeks with the d n c r n c

and new today the august jobs report so today we want to dedicate part of our show to what we want to call financial fact check friday but first a look at the jobs numbers the august report revealed that ninety six thousand jobs were added to the economy to put that in perspective one hundred thirty thousand jobs were expected meanwhile unemployment dropped to eight point one percent from eight point three percent but don't go singing out praises yet the most likely reason for that drop is that people have simply stopped looking for jobs now the jobs that were added to the economy were in industries like construction education and health services along with hospitality so small gains but not enough to change anything other than the political discourse and yet the stock markets are doing surprisingly well today why to shed light on the situation i was joined earlier by our financial guru lauren lyster we first discussed the coverage of the u.s.

jobs report take a look. well i think that one thing that journalists could do a better job of is looking at the big picture instead of obsessing over one jobs report which is a small snapshot as part of a much much bigger landscape and this month is a great example of what so many mainstream publications i think where they really got it wrong because what is the headline number that appears in so many headlines unemployment rate falls to eight point one percent from eight point three percent the prior month of course but you point out meghan it's not because more people were getting jobs or fewer people were losing them it was because three hundred sixty eight thousand people were no longer in the labor force and that drops the labor force participation rate to sixty three point five percent the lowest it's been since september of nine hundred eighty one so it's simply that fewer people are looking for jobs because they're depressed discouraged we're tiring to be fair is another reason people drop out of the labor force but if you're not looking for

work you're not counted as unemployed you're not counted in the labor force the labor force is unemployed people meaning you're looking for work or employed people so this is really what's behind the drop in the unemployment rate which is a far more sour reason then what you may be led to believe if you're just looking at the headline of usa today or the a.p. or a.b.c. was another one that i saw so i think that's important and what you really need to look at is is the big picture if you want to look at the headline rate if that's what you want to use the eight point one percent well guess what unemployment has been above eight percent for a really long time the longest it's been since the great depression so it's stuck and people that are unemployed are long term unemployed that number is stuck and it's a large number so these are people that are falling through the cracks they're left out of the economy and their skills are no longer becoming a political it's a very tough situation there's a huge debate as to whether these are structural unemployment problems meaning that people don't have the right skills for the jobs available or if they're cyclical

problems meaning the economy just needs to get that. get propped up if you believe that that can or should happen meaning that something like the fed could act which is something i would disagree with but it's an argument then bernanke makes absolutely and i mean i guess it was all of the eye of the holder of the economy the jobs report really i mean i know we have republicans say horrible things that go for obama out of office and the democrats kind of going on to the realm of maybe not hope and change but hope and patience so let's talk about the quantitative easing that we're hearing rumors of i mean stock market prices are off right now which is surprising it's counterintuitive to the jobs numbers but it's not counterintuitive given everything that we know about q.e. i mean one of the things that quantitative easing has arguably been successful at is propping up the stock market so that's a longer term trend that we've seen over a few rounds of q.e. that we've had in the past and if you're someone that believes that news or rumors

move markets we have rumors that the fed's going to possibly announce another round of stimulus next week that this jobs report that was weak could have given ben bernanke the ammunition to do that so that's what the stock market may be reacting to also the e.c. be announced a major bond buying program an unlimited bond buying program in europe so that could be what stock markets are reacting to so those are both factors that majorly come into play what you see is doc markets are truly addicted to central bank action if you ask me meghan sounds like an interesting port and i'm going to have to trust you on that you are after all our financial guru but let's take a look at what mitt romney and paul ryan had to say really quickly regarding the economy and there are in c. speeches last week. to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in america will not vanish as have those in greece we will cut the deficit and put america on track to a balanced budget the stimulus was a case of political patronage corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst.

bigger you. you the american people of this country were cut out of the deal. what did taxpayers get out of the obama stimulus more debt. that money. wasn't just spent and wasted it was borrowed spent and wasted. so i mean that's the republican standpoint let's take a look really quickly at the d.n.c. the democratic standpoint from last night and then i'll get your opinions on both share thank you a future. where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs after a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed we're getting back to basics and doing what america's always done best we are making things again. the two men seeking to lead this country over the next four years as i said at the outset

a fundamentally different visions and completely different values. so i mean lawrence mead kind of seems like the selection is moving out of the realm of politics and into the realm of economic referendums what about you well to me it seems like a referendum on economic platitudes and whether or not americans will accept them i mean do you want me to go through some of the remarks that they're giving that i just think smell like b.s. absolute ok. so you hear mitt romney and paul ryan talking about debt ok paul ryan saying the stimulus was an example of cronyism paul ryan voted for tarp which ended up being a great referendum on cronyism with wall street and the big banks you have mitt romney making the comparison to greece i hate when politicians just throw out this comparison to i don't know scare people we comparing the private sector investment the us going the way of greece in greece you have a government that defaulted on public obligations and ordered to pay creditors and

government on their government debt there are huge levels that can never be repaid ok but the economy and a total plays into a private sector slowdown shutdown i mean just total disaster. that was only lauren lyster host of the capital account. so what's in your food well that depends on who you ask if you ask g.m.o. advocates they might list a number of ingredients you can't even pronounce or more popularly they might say that the answer is well none of your business but the more important question might be what are the consequences are what are the future consequences of our present actions for years that our agriculture giant monsanto has been genetically modifying corn and soybeans to withstand and even produce herbicides and pesticides but like what was happened with the drug resistant bugs in modern medicine and as

albert einstein so eloquently put it for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction this time it's in the form of super waves and even more daunting super warms the environmental protection agency has launched an investigation into the colony of super worms that are bound to spread throughout the midwest to talk more about this i was joined by alexis baden mayer political director for a gadget consumers' association here's her tick. well my dad who invented it genetically engineered crops that had b.p. in it into mirrored bruson of a natural insecticide the idea is that the insecticide would be part of the crop so when the root or attacks the crop they would die because the pesticide would be inside the crops but we knew that this would happen and finally the root worms have developed a resistance to this genetic lee engineered crops and it was bound to happen months and so we knew it would happen and now they'll have to come up with

a new product to sell the farmers and alexis we saw these super weaves that monsanto had created and the special says that they have that came from the special see that we're supposed to be resistant to disease now and even more often if disease came along and they had to create a talkfest a toxic herbicide to battle it in turn they made money off of the thing that they created that created in that turn the super weeds so they're making money off of these things that are happening i mean are we going to expect the same thing to happen with super worms are they going to be making money off of that too of course monsanto is a chemical company they market themselves as you know a company servicing farmers helping feed the world who if they wanted to sell pesticides and herbicides and these products which have a very short shelf life certainly enable them to continue the business model and life is how is your organization involved in the proposition thirty seven the

proposition thirty seven of course is the initiative in california that would require g.m.o. labeling on foods. well we're supporting proposition thirty seven we support consumers right in our food become a companies have kept this from us from a long time they don't want to know that where they don't want us to know that reading genetically modified food consumers certainly want to know and so that's what this proposition is all about now advocates of this proposition thirty seven say would bring transparency to the food industry opponents they say that it would hurt farmers it would have adverse effect on the economy and it would hamper innovation we were very aware in a very bad drought of summer and experts say they could this could turn into a corn crisis so is now really the time to be worrying about what's in our food web rather than whether there's enough of it. we definitely need to worry about whether there's the soup but it's not the problem is these industrial monoculture is

a genetically modified crops these are is it the crops that are suffering the drought the farmers who are growing organically and who are growing wars and when and where mixing animal agriculture with with grain crops these farmers are not experiencing the same kind of tragic drought that the monoculture g.m.o. farmers are so if we have more consumer awareness about g.m. of me will certainly it'll help the pledge to develop more organic and sustainable agriculture and we know that eighty five percent of corn crop is located within the drought area itself with barely half of the crop area experiencing extreme or exceptional drought levels we also know that the majority of american corn actually isn't used to feed americans a lot of it goes into petroleum a lot of it goes to animals to feed animals so are we overhyping just the corn aspect of the g.m.o. foods a little bit or not. oh no it's very dangerous even to be eating animals that are

said to that if we engineered crops and we've learned that pregnant women have the bt gene in there bless the engineers the gene is in the blood of ninety three percent of women of reproductive age and their fetuses so this is a very very dangerous thing to have in the food supply even if it's even only being fed to animals but wal-mart began selling b.c. corn to consumers in the form of regular sweet corn that people eat at barbecues so this is it slowly creeping into every aspect of our food supply now excess i also am entente i was already spent four point two million dollars trying to kill the november prop thirty seven initiative critics like your organization have made this abundantly clear but i mean i have to ask what's the difference in what monsanto is doing versus what you're doing as i understand your organization donated forty thousand dollars to yes on thirty seven versus the four point two

million for monsanto well we've actually donated seven hundred thirty thousand dollars and i'm very proud that we've been able to raise that money this is all coming from small contributions from consumers who really care and it is a real tragedy that we have to raise money to do a ballot initiative when that should be part of our regulatory system just like it is in most countries where they respect consumers right to know what's in their food certainly we're going to be outspent month fans and their allies have raised about twenty five million dollars so far we're going to rely on word of mouth social networking consumers educating one another they're going to set up a bunch of expensive t.v. ads so you know what lead democracy will work ninety percent of the public support and that will be reflected in the elections all right alexis patton mayor political director for ghana consumers association thank you for joining us we'll have to see what comes of the prop thirty seven battle. i think they went well great things

have small beginnings as lawrence of arabia said it. and sometimes these great things continue to depend on the small one example as the of this is the story of a simple household products that save something worth one hundred billion dollars that damsel in distress the international space station last week that i assessed had an issue with what it called and main bus switching unit which harnesses and distributes the solar powers power astronauts are trained to deal with exactly these problems so two members of the flight crew embarked on a spacewalk to fix the damaged unit even with their technical know how inexpensive tools on hand the space crew was unable to repair that. during that eight hour and seventeen minute spacewalk that's the third longest spacewalk in history and the longest ever performed by a space station crew what was the issue you may ask well the astronauts couldn't

remove one of the bolts because the metal shavings had blocked them undeterred however the two men returned on wednesday this time armed with a tool you hopefully already use today that's it right here a tooth brush by connecting a spare three dollar toothbrush to a metal pole they could actually scrub the bowl clean and replace the broken unit sounds more like a movie than real life but it looks like four out of five astronauts agree that this little tool is good for fighting plaque and cosmic. well that does it for now but for more but for the stories that tune in for the stories next week on our team we've got a whole new lineup set up for you first up facial recognition technology the f.b.i. is budgeting one billion dollars in the attempt to stop crime one face at a time the f.b.i. has already given the go ahead to several states to begin using the next generation identification it's expected to go nationwide by two thousand and fourteen next

week we'll tell you all about the future of crime fighting and piggybacking off the facial recognition we've brought you several stories about everyday citizens getting themselves into hot water for filming police now torre snapping pictures of their favorite sites are earning their own unwarranted attention police are identifying these people as potential terrorist threats we'll give you a look at the l.a.p.d. anti terror guidelines and why people are actually ok with government intrusion into their privacy and last but not least coming to a movie theater near you a new film allegedly based on the scientology founder l. ron hubbard's life is called the master and it stars joaquin phoenix next week will take a critical look at the wonderful world of scientology that's all next week along with more news and in-depth interviews so make sure you keep it tuned in right here to our t.v. but that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered.