utopian alternatives to troy independence. but. with a clear dependence is the risk to go with julian assange in his own words from internet freedom to cable gate r t sits down with the wiki leaks founder inside the ecuadorian embassy in london hear his thoughts straight ahead on r.t. . and porn it's a multibillion dollar business here in the u.s. while many enjoy watching porn it appears adult entertainment stars are happier and have a higher self esteem than most women why is this we'll speak with adult and adult film performer to get some answers. and the twenty twelve election is over and

conservatives lost coming up we'll look at how religious affiliation played a big role in the way americans voted and how non-religious voters are changing the political playing field here in the u.s. . it's friday november thirtieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . all right well starting off this hour he's the man who's made a name for himself by sharing explosive government leaks on the secret spilling website wiki leaks and is now facing the consequences for those data drops love him or hate him the press and the public can't seem to get enough of wiki leaks co-founder julian a songe his tale after all is one of classified documents and evading a sorties in other words the perfect made for t.v. drama and this case is far from over now or to international had

a chance to sit down with the man himself to find out the latest developments in his political standoff here's part of that interview with our tease laura smith judy and you'll saying basically that the internet can in slave us but the internet is just a thing right it's a soulless piece of equipment who was a real in slave. the people who control the interception of the internet and to some degree also physically control would be guarded warehouses and international fiber optic lines so we all think of the internet as some kind of potomac realm where we can throw out ideas and communications and with pagers and books and they exist somewhere out there actually they exist on web servers in new york in the robie or in beijing and information comes to us through satellite connections or through fiber optic cables so whoever physically controls this controls the realm of our ideas and communications and whoever is able to sit on those communications

channels can intercept entire nations and that's the new game in town as far as state spying is concerned intercepting entire nations not individuals and just this sounds like a kind of futuristic scenario but you're saying that the future is already here yeah i mean the united states national security agency has been doing this for some thirty twenty years but now it's spread to even mid-size nations even gadhafi libya was employing the eagle system which is produced by french company emesis. push there in two thousand and nine advertised in its internal documentation as a nationwide interceptions of them so so what's happened over the last ten years is . every decreasing cost of intercepting each individual now to the degree where is cheaper to intercept every individual than it is to pick particular people to spot on and what's the what's the alternative this sort of utopian alternative that

you would put forward so the talking alternative is to try and gain independence for this for the internet to sort of declare independence versus the rest of the world and that's really quite important because if you think about what is human civilization that makes it clear to centrally human and civilized it is our shared knowledge of that intellectual knowledge. it's something we're all putting on to the internet and so if we can try and decouple that from. the brute nature of states and their cronies then i think we really have hope for a global civilization if on the other hand the mere security guards you know the people who control the guns are able to take control of their intellectual life take control of all the ways in which we communicate with each other and of course you can see how grateful they are commonplace for the word just happen to one nation it will happen to every nation at once it is happening to the nation once

assad spying is concerned because now every nation is nurturing its society with internet infrastructure and in what way are we as social naïve internet users if you like and i exploit you from that obviously but kind of willingly collaborating with these collectors of personal data you know we all have a facebook account we all have telephones which can be tracked people think well yeah i use facebook and maybe the f.b.i. if they made a request could come and get it and everyone is much more aware of it now because because of patricia's but that's not the problem the problem is that all the time everyone nearly everything they do on the internet is permanently recorded every web search to know what you were thinking one year two days three months ago and you don't know but google knows it remembers the national security agency intercepts requested a lot of us for that it knows there will be any. enough with security agency which

. was the research head of the national security agency's signals intelligence division describes this as turning key to tell it terrorism that all the infrastructure has been built for absolute totalitarianism it's just a matter of turning the key and actually the case has already been to do with it and it is now affecting people who are targeted for us drone strikes organizations like wiki leaks national security reporters who are having their sources investigated is already probably turned and the question is would go all the way no artist certainly isn't the only outlet with an eye on a sauna c.n.n. host erin burnett recently interviewed the man behind wiki leaks to talk about his new book cypherpunks but it didn't exactly go as planned i want to start by asking you something at the very beginning of your book that really shocked me and you said the internet is

a threat to human civilization and i thought i saw that and i thought but the internet is the tool by which to julian assange to become one of the world's most controversial people where you've published all this information why is the internet bad. oh here's a book here as well but it's all aback as well that court of. justice started off on the wrong foot and it only escalated from there there in a situation where the you know i don't want to talk about the railing or you know situ. sorry. yes you heard that correctly the c.n.n. host was the one yelling that she didn't agree to talk about that topic in the interview an interesting aside because c.n.n. is beginning to in many ways resemble our t.v. with all this coverage of bradley manning domestic drones and cyber security now r.t. america had a chance to collaborate with our sister station r.t. international to pose a few questions to a son here's one of the questions we here in d.c. wanted answered in particular and one that our viewers have asked numerous times

you with a kleenex here. what was the time. when you go into it but hopefully earlier rather than later i mean do you feel when you were with he's making these releases you're having as knowledge an impact as you have. cable guy who's extraordinary publishes peter told months it is the most significant because previously from the iraq war was also four hundred thousand documents showing one hundred or one hundred thousand people being killed and precisely how that was also . very significant but there's no one who's done anything as significant as that since but. there are hopefully. those that will continue with the successes of wiki leaks. shouldn't be viewed merely as a demonstration of our organizations for reality or the realty of the activist

community on the internet. they are also a function of this hoarding of information. by these national security states you know the reason that there was so much information to leak the reason it could be leaked all at once is because they had hoarded so much why had they hoarded so much wealth to gain extra power through knowledge they wanted their own knowledge internally to be easily accessible to their people to be searchable so as much power to be extracted from it as possible. the here we here exude attempts to redress the imbalance of power by taking what's inside these very powerful institutions and giving them to. the commons people in general so we can understand how world works and stop takeover by these powerful institutions but it's

a function of how much knowledge these powerful institutions have accumulated you know next week marks two years since a staunch gave himself up to british authorities and we will continue to keep you posted on this story as it develops. and this week also marks the second anniversary since the release of tens of thousands of classified documents by the whistleblower organization wiki leaks the one we were just speaking about and what has now become known as the cable gate this data drop was the single biggest information leak in american history it is because of this organization that the world now knows about everything from corruption in egypt to the true identities of guantanamo bay inmates and now the infamous video known as collateral murder which shows american soldiers gunning down innocent civilians including in a reuters journalist but does the american public have a right to this information or should have should it have been kept secret lore

harshness of the resident doctor that took that question to the streets of the big apple. it's been two years since wiki leaks released what's now known as cable gates the world's largest leak of classified u.s. material so has it changed the world much this week let's talk about that i'm kind of a thought what i don't know doesn't hurt me so if your government is killing innocent people you're ok with that i'm not saying i'm ok with that but. i know i'm contradicting myself but i obviously don't want my government to kill innocent people but in the same boat. how do i know they're innocent that the government for the people we should know what's going on would be doing what they keep secret to the secret is only for them i think is only going to benefit them they're not acting for our best interest in doing so i don't think so if you're in the government and you live or you run a business this is a business and everyone from your employees to the person who's the janitor know

everything about your business something's going to come back you know what you know maybe you shouldn't do anything that would haunt you. that. you have a good point knowledge is power right so we found out information some. nation so that's a positive thing but i don't know if it's changed anything you don't think it's changed the way the governments might act i think if they broke through some sort of firewall to get this information they probably built a new firewall that they can't break through quite as easily they have to do what they think is best for the country and if this is going to upset people and cause a lot of it had to be done i think but do you think we have a right to know if we're doing if they're doing things like holding people that are innocent. well i guess i think i just know that so i don't think it's changed anything i think the government is going to make it more of a secret you know as long as there is money power involved i don't think anything's

going to change the information has since the printing of good will burke and the fourteenth century. the public is allowed to have information what about the government are they allowed to have information about us certainly yes so what about the people who protest that the government is using the internet to spy on us . well if you want to spy on each other just look at today just to minutes ago syria just closer to the internet so is that a government the i think of the government especially the what america is the world is ultimately spying at everybody whether or not we feel like wiki leaks has changed the world the bottom line is governments might now feel like they have their own big brother watching and hopefully that's a good thing. all right well since its inception the adult film industry has been mired by stereotypes some saying that adult film actresses all have a history of sexual abuse some saying that sexually transmitted diseases are

rampant in the industry while there is always some sort of truth to these stereotypes the industry has evolved since its first to a career path that some actors choose to make a living by a new report. gives credibility to that argument it says that female entertainers are happier more spiritually healthy and have higher self esteem than other women the study was conducted by pennsylvania's shippensburg university texas women's university and also the adult industry medical healthcare foundation and was published in the journal of sex research it compares adult female actresses with women of the same race age and marital status and it found a number of things the report concluded that there was no statistically significant difference between the groups of women when it comes to sexual abuse as a child it also found that these performers sleep better and have more energy

overall now this report isn't a case for the adult film industry but it is the first major study of its kind so it is shining a light on an industry that is oftentimes played out in the shadows and then ends up on television screens across the nation although in secret so here to give us an inside look of what women in the industry actually experience is one of these entertainers chanel preston. hi there chanel so this report claims that you are happier and that you are psychologically healthier than other women so let me start off by asking you are you happier. well i don't know i'm happier than all the other women but i am very happy and i'm very comfortable with who i am and i'm very happy that i do what i do and it also says that you have a higher self esteem in a better body image of yourself than other women can you kind of compare some of the women that you know that are in the industry versus some of the women that you know that are not in the industry and kind of something do you think that the women that are in the industry have this higher self esteem and body image i actually

think a successful woman in the street do have a better idea of a better. they have better self-esteem obviously were exposed to a whole the time and so we're running around without clothes on often and you can't do that if you're insecure and then if you are you're not going to be successful at what you do for sure so let's talk about how you got involved in this industry there's an argument it's called the damaged goods hypothesis i'm not sure if you're aware of it and it argues that actresses involved in this industry come from desperate backgrounds and are less psychologically healthy than other women can i ask you what your background is and how you decided to enter this industry you know i grew up in a really great family i was not even a premise curious person when i was younger i've always felt like i was very open minded and i was actually working as a counter manager at

a. caroline and i just i just was a very happy it was stressful and i ended up quitting and i had always been. a little curious about the sex industry and so i decided to make the plunge and i became a stripper and then i was given the opportunity to travel a lot all over the u.s. and i actually met a lady that asked me if i would be interested in entering the porn industry and i initially said no but i went home and i gave it a lot of thought and i considered all the repercussions and i thought you know i actually saw a opportunity there to make a lot of money and do really well and possibly make a career and i called her back a couple weeks later and i said yeah let's do this and if they don't have any i don't have any so there's i have no history of sexual abuse like i said a great family and they're still supportive of me. and at the end of the day are you happy with your career i am very happy i think it has actually shaped to i've

become as a person i don't think that being in any other industry could've helped me become who i am and i do want to bring up one of the quotes that was from this article it says some descriptions of actresses in pornography have included attributes such as drug addiction homelessness poverty desperation in being victims of sexual abuse some have made extreme assertions such as claiming that all women in pornography or sexually abused as children stereotypes of those involved in adult entertainment have been used to support or condemn the endace tree and to justify political views on pornography although the actual characteristics of actresses are unknown because no study of this group has actually been conducted so one of the things that i want to ask you about because this is what we have seen time after time as an. adult film industry advocate saying that you guys are these homeless drug addicted people

so let's just go through the list so. that we can kind of clear up some of the thing do you have a drug addiction and know are you homeless. are you poor no would you describe yourself as desperate or being a victim of some sort of sexual abuse absolutely not so. would you describe your fellow women in this industry as being any of those things i mean are clearly you interact with them what type of feeling have you gotten from them do they come from desperate backgrounds you know and like i said there's all different facets of the industry and they're not going to say that there aren't women that fall into that syria type because there are it is just a reality of our industry but the successful ones are no us are nothing like that and if they are they will will not be successful in our industry and they will not have a career in our industry in the state in age and let's go ahead and turn the conversation now and talk a bit about the health aspects of it now in the report talked about the psychological and spiritual health but i want to kind of take it one step further to discuss the

physical health you were explaining to me a bit earlier today that adult film performers get tested every used to get tested every month how often are you tested now now as of a few months ago we test every two weeks and do they look for in these tests we are tested for hiv clemente i got. syphilis now i know most women only get tested once a year if that obviously they aren't so to say as sexually advantageous as women in your industry but do you think that you are more or less in control of your health to the same extent more or equal of other women i think people find that performers in our industry are actually more responsible in. the rest of the world because it's drilled in our minds to test all the time and we are conditioned to be aware of disease so

a lot of people in our industry are really careful about sleeping with people outside of the industry which seems kind of ironic because some it's sort of the opposite for other people they would never dream of sleeping with someone in our industry yet we are a lot more careful than everyone else it seems and finally we just have about a minute left but i do want to ask you this there are so many stereotypes i think we kind of talked about a few of them here today that regard your industry and adult film actresses in particular is there something that you kind of want the general public to know something that can help men and women see you as more than some sort of sort of exploitive sex worker and really see you as a person. a lot of women that get into this industry actually leave their professional careers to do this because so many people are curious about the sex world and it's a performance and it's fun and it's exciting and as if you're comfortable with yourselves it can be really lucrative and an amazing career and you actually learn a lot about yourselves and that's i think why we feel so comfortable with who we

are and most of us make this decision mindfully and a lot of people think that you know some creepy person tried to get us in the industry and we were young and naive but that's not the case in a lot of situations nowadays and we're happy we are happy and we're comfortable with our lifestyle i think that what we are seeing is a shift towards more progressive attitudes and that opens the door for lots of possibilities as people in your profession in a kind of discovering adult film performer chanel preston thank you so much for your time thank you. all right for as long as the us has been around there's been a separation between church and state and yet and one election or political discussion after another religion always seems to creep up in the conversation and the two thousand and twelve election was no exception in fact the political talk now facing the most religious rhetoric and this is the most religious rhetoric we've seen in decades as far as political talk goes but despite this progressive

candidates and ideas gained major ground in the election and the idea that politicians no longer have to pander to even jellicoe base could effectively change the american political landscape arctic correspondent liz wahl takes a closer look at this new phenomenon through the eyes of atheists for social and religious conservatives the election was devastating what we're seeing in our projections it's the white establishment is now the minority but conservatives put up a fight we've seen probably the most infusion of religious issues and doctrine into an election cycle probably since the late one nine hundred eighty s. during the primaries rick santorum rose as a front runner providing the social conservative platform many republicans yearned for i don't believe in an america where the separation of church and state is absolute he wasn't alone in the race to be the next republican nominee sometimes seem like a race to prove who is more religious than i have

a sense of assurance about the direction i think that god is speaking and in my heart that i should go when i finally realized that it was god say that this is what i needed to do i was like moses you got the room and board. well you sure now you're not supposed to doubt god but this was more than rhetoric their agendas were influenced by religious doctrine social issues have really been consumed by a religious agenda at least for the religious right i mean there's no question that they're fighting as hard as they can to get abortion banned gay marriage ban seventy eight percent of white evangelical christians went for romney according to exit polls despite their efforts historic victories for gay marriage in two states voted to legalize marijuana both triumphs for the socially liberal but not all churches monody socially conservative outcome the church of the flying spaghetti

monster aims to separate church and state the religious satire has over two hundred thousand followers on facebook it's part of pasta fairy and as and members claim they're touched by his newly appendage of course it's all meant to make a statement there's equal evidence for the flying spaghetti monster as there is for god or santa claus in fact an unprecedented number of americans don't identify with their religion the number of nonbelievers or actually people with no religious affiliation they call them the nuns. it's growing rapidly recent data from the pew research center shows one fifth of americans and a third of adults under thirty have no religious affiliation that's the highest percentage ever and it's polling we have a problem with people trying to use their religious doctrine to dictate national polls of this election results reflect an america that is changing the demographic shifting and political candidates no longer need to pin their hopes on winning over

the evangelical votes in washington liz wall artsy. well capital account is up next on our team america so let's check in with more or less or to see what's on today's agenda or and i hear going to talk about bubbles and not the type that you blow into your heart cocoa right you know maybe it'll be the type we blow into our cocoa later but in terms of the show that's coming up in a few minutes yes we are talking about bubbles and bubbles in the sense that i'm going to be talking about and that you were referring to they get a lot of bad press you know no one would say oh woo we had a housing bubble or hey that dot com bubble sure was great no they get bad press because no one likes it when they burst and they're malinvestment that's what they're reflective of but is there a place for bubbles at a time when the economy is in the doldrums when growth is low when unemployment is high when i.p.o.'s have been at lows compared to the highs we saw in the ninety's is there a role for bubbles in fueling innovation and in this sense are bubbles good well

it's a tough case to make if you ask me but we have a very smart guest who's a ph d. in economics and has forty years or so of experience in private equity and v c so he you know has experience in all of this and he is going to make his case shortly all right lauren you deal with those bubbles all six of the chocolate. that does it for now here on r.t. for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or check out our website r.t. dot com slash usa. don't forget to follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez off to right back here at five pm. eleven. zero zero zero.

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