free. free. free. the old free blog video for your media project a free meal god r.t. dot com. the british government's costly foreign aid program was labeled a waste of taxpayers' money as a new study claims of most of the cash thunderball doesn't reach those in need. also this out putting up walls and tearing families apart israel continues to build separation barrier is leaving palestinians in gaza and the west bank and able to reunite with their ranting. and what you say reported on saturday suggesting that americans feel political correctness has made the u.s. a hyper sense to play show where people can speak their minds.

this is all see coming to life for most hello and welcome to the program concerns are rising in britain where prime minister david cameron's costly foreign aid program has come under fire for not helping the poor around the world a study by a center right think tank says the billions of tax payers money is being used as a tool to promote the good image of the coalition government and my colleague bill dodd discussed the issue with laura smith. well let me give you three quite stark examples the first is the example of bush's eight ethiopia which totals three hundred million pounds evidence studies b.b.c. investigation shows that in fact it wasn't used to help people it was used by the ethiopian government meant a corrupt hold on power the u.k. government refutes that saying that the money doesn't even go through the

government but according to human rights watch they say it does and this investigation showed that in fact supporters of the opposition weren't allowed to receive food or seeds or fertilizer which is what the aid was destined for a second example is in india a three hundred eighty eight million pound project aimed at improving indian schools the government here hailed as a huge success they said more children are going to school as a result of it but the indian government says that around seventy million pounds of it was either stolen or lost much of it was allocated to schools that didn't even exist and that some of it went to by cause for dignitaries officials in india again the u.k. government refutes that and nigeria thirdly one hundred million pound project improve again the quality of education in nigeria an independent report showed that actually the results of it had been not to improve the quality of education at all

and they awarded the project in nigeria their second lowest rating again the government here refutes that same report sources that only visited a handful of schools so it's a pretty damning indictment of what's happening to all this money. vall sum of money how does it exactly help the image or british politicians. well of course the conservative party here in this country has an image of sort of stingy only wanting to help the rich and it does go a long way towards getting rid of an image like that it shows that politicians are magnanimous sort of make them seem very generous and this information does suggest that the government doesn't really have where the money goes or how it's ministers or how effective it is it only has to get seen to be giving this city the study is really quite critical isn't it does it suggest the u.k. should stop helping communities abroad altogether i know it's not suggesting that it's just suggesting that the money is allocated and administered much more

efficiently of course this is all happening against a backdrop of austerity at home and many people are saying you know forget it forget giving money abroad let's keep it here at home where it's really needed at the moment so here we see a reduction in benefits even for very poor people we're seeing tax hikes we're seeing raids on particularly public sector pensions so a lot of people say keep this money at home don't give it give it a broad and the budget is continually increasing it's now going to be no point seven percent of gross national income and that equates to five hundred pounds a year for every household in a lot of people say you know we could do something here at home with that five hundred pounds. in the wake of the palestinians a recent success said the u.n. is roe has stepped up measures of which threaten the possible formation of a united palestine as the injury of state continues building barriers and thousands of settler homes in the occupied territories it's not just learned that's divided

but families through his policy of reports. this is the erez crossing one of five land crossings between israel and gaza getting through here is tough you need the right permission and papers but this crossing does not just separate israel from gaza it also divides families who are trapped on either side of the border these are the tears of a boy who hasn't seen his father in three years mohammed lifts gaza in search of a bit of a life for his family but what he found on the other side of the border was loneliness and despair and what he left behind destress and fear. i miss my father a lot and i want to see him i'm afraid a lot my father must come back here we must go and live with him but he can't come and we can't go. all they have now to remind them of him are photographs and the occasional phone call. loved me i

can't live like this anymore i'm sick i'm having a nervous breakdown this happens when a man is very sad when he has a lot of pressure on his soul and heart. this family is just one of thousands torn apart by israel's separation policy that makes it almost impossible to move between the west bank and gaza it was only after mohammed had moved that he found out his family could not follow because while he and one of his children have west bank identity papers his wife and four other children don't for reasons unknown to them . it was a big surprise for me they told me there is a possibility of changing it so i sent the papers up until now they have the file but they refused to give permission for them to come i can't give up my kids but i also want to give them a future. israel says the west bank is a closed military zone and it has the right to prevent people from entering it even

those from gaza but palestinians have extensive family ties in both areas and the policy affects just about everyone there are a number of policies that explicitly say that family separation is not a justification for being allowed to enter the west bank so even if there's no serious security claim against an individual even if there's no question that that mother is separated from her child that's not enough to justify a travel international law protects freedom of movement and israel itself has recognized guards in the west bank as a single territorial unit but that's not enough to guarantee something people in the west of the world take for granted a couple from different cities wanting to get married or a father looking for work. but the children miss him so much they who pictures and cry when they speak with him on the phone this is their. it's not coming back and he says i can't say i want to bring you all to the west bank you want to go and

live with the sea for the children and they have a better life how to gobble gobble it it's a choice no father should have to make to be separated from his family so he can provide for them or join him and together face a bleak future. is wrong gaza meanwhile in gaza hundreds of thousands have rounded celebrating the anniversary of the fun turn movement this was the first such event allowed by hamas is two thousand and seven which sort of hours their rival from this trip it follows a major recent hamas celebration in the west bank as the troop movements continue their efforts at reconciliation in their fight for palestinian statehood and political analyst earlier in the miri says it's about time that the two groups with their differences aside. thomas will have to look and to too far to hand the audience that i would have to look into to hamas in the eye and both sides have to agree on only one thing we don't need more of the consolation talks we don't need

more the consolation agreements because there were so many agreement signed between the two parties but not one of them has been on a door implemented but hamas cannot take over palestine the concerns of netanyahu are baseless and groundless he's the only israeli leader who has been giving support to hamas and not only to hamas but out to every extremist group on the palestinian side simply because he's dumping the palestinian moderates is dumping the leadership of theirs in about he's dumping the put political negotiations with the with the palestinians and he's carrying on his own agenda of it of increasing the number of jewish settlements in the west bank even though they are illegally they are illegal under international law he carries on his policies that disrupt every chance of meeting a two state solution between the palestinians and the israelis is the israeli withdrawal from gaza was based on an agreement with the palestinian authority we have we would have seen a totally different middle east today. what is the statement of fact someone passing could be an insult for someone else that's

a view of political correctness that appears to be taking hold in america but some now say this phenomenon has gone too far now he's entering a fortnight investigates why a nation that private self on its freedom of speech has become so sensitive. america is a country that pioneers freedom of expression but is the rising tide of political correctness reigning in the right to say what you think white people do well to hold back to to to actually speak their mind it's almost as though you have a sort of a code to call them sometimes you want to call a spade a spade and sometimes you want to call it trouble according to recent news and poll the majority of citizens think the u.s. is overdosing on p.c. turning the land of the free into a nation of hyper sensitive sissies. were even corn chips can cause mass controversy in this ad a priest substituted to read zero for the eucharist the body of christ. the commercial was created for

a possible super bowl broadcast but after an uproar among catholics frito lay apologized and pulled the plug on the satirical spot during a commercial being pulled is a classic example of americans freaking out about something insulting to do with religion i understand why the catholic league might flip out that's their job however be able to laugh at yourself folks. the price of humor can end up costing big maybe captain owen honors intrusted with a nuclear powered aircraft carrier worth half a billion dollars was fired over racy morale boosting videos created years ago having survived eighty five combat missions oh it was shot down by for to the style gestures and comments as for the man who wrote nineteenth century classics not even mark twain is protected from present day p.c. two of tweens books are being republished with the word sleeve replacing the n. word it's about laziness it's not about liberal guilt to not want to do offend or

conservatives want to want to sanitize or plain vanilla is history and art it's really about laziness we don't we don't want to trust people to look and examine to look at some. and then go beyond that said what does it mean or those times like what is the author trying to say when film critic roger ebert took to twitter to criticize the censorship he was criticized for simply writing the n word a federal jury will soon decide if a white people can use the n. word at work this as a white t.v. reporter is suing a fox news affiliate in philadelphia after being fired for using the n. word during a staff meeting white house chief of staff rahm emanuel has apologized he's apologized and of course the r word can also make you a glorified villain as was the case when former chief of staff rahm emanuel privately called a group of liberals retards rahm emanuel and i think he has some indecent and insensitive ways of being pale and is of great e.s.p.n.

sensitivity surrounding sex has become a touchy subject announcer ron franklin was fired for allegedly calling a female reporter sweet baby menace a political correctness has neutered the american language creating a super sensitive society incapable of laughing things off a p.c. employee that's left more people biting their tongues for fear that freedom of expression may be more trouble than it's worth more in a corner artsy new york. coming up later in the program a space of online. i work for the government i don't appreciate people hacking us social justice is real so that something has to be done. we have the means to do it you should do it. don't. think about a notorious group of promise to return with a vengeance in twenty. and the french quarter is waiting to hear the

news that might support claims that nicolas sarkozy accepted fifteen million euros from lawmakers to finance his presidential election campaign. so how much does it take to get into russian politics how many hours of hard work and how many patriotic deeds does it take to become one of the people who make the decisions in the world's largest country well i'll tell you how much it takes exactly seven point five million euros russia's federal investigative committee has a stablish that allegedly hey of constantine should show of from fear russia and the commies prospectively promised for a fee to get a businessman on to their party's electoral lists giving him a spot in the lower house of the duma the investigators have forwarded the state

duma an official request to strip the two m.p.'s of their parliamentary immunity and you're darn right they better street have their parliamentary immunity stripped i mean what's worse than government corruption some people in the government being so corrupt they can actually sell the government itself to someone for a fee so positions in parliament corruption on this high of a level needs to be punished severely breaking rocks in siberia or worse sounds pretty good to me tolerating flagrant corruption does not a great civilization make but that's just my opinion. this is our c welcome back the french quarter is waiting to hear evidence that former president nicolas sarkozy received fifty million euros and campaign finance from the lately been leader moammar gadhafi years before helping helping to topple

him that legations were made by lebanese border businessmen who awhile and trial in a separate money laundering case kristoff chief editor of french weekly l'express said that while the allegations are being taken seriously hard proof has yet to be presented. it's true that libya under gadhafi must have generated lots of dirty money with the system in place and pulled cash into western countries look at the solution contribution to sarkozy's campaign thirty million new remarks in the presidential campaign expenditure allowed is twenty two million years fifty million that's more than double what it would be so this left over money certainly didn't go towards a campaign but instead ended up in someone's pocket at the time to prove his need and as of now there is only a statement by one man on trial who's tried to blame someone else to shift the attention away from himself which carries a legal weight if you will and time now to take a look at some other stories from around the world and is where the vice president

says president travers could be sworn in by the supreme court at a later date if he's not able to take office next week the news comes amid conflicting reports on travis's house it has severe respiratory complications following a long infection called during his cancer treatment in cuba and his island law says that if the president is unable to be present during his inauguration a new election must be announced within thirty days. nato has begun deploying surface to air missiles and troops on the turkish border with syria the bloc approved the reinforcements last month after on current requests of support from its allies nato claims the move is. defensive but some countries including russia say the deployment will only serve to escalate the syrian conflict and stoke tension in the region some also fear a foreign intervention is and they're making. a snowmobile accident in the italian out has claimed the lives of six russian tourists with two more remaining

in critical condition and hospital the group were heading to their hotel when the driver lost control of the vehicle after which it fell one hundred meters down at sky slope a ski slope so speeding and technical problems have been named as the likely causes of the accident. second to nobody that's have led to me putting ranks on the list of the world's most powerful people according to a leading u.s. think times the consultancy firm says no person has consolidated more domestic and regional power or he's going there to check out now reports. it was the international political think tank you asia group that came up with a list of the world's most powerful individuals with the russian president at the top of that list then they decided no they couldn't leave him there so they put mr nobody at the top of their list so why they would put in a second to mr or mrs nobody according to this big tent into the foreign policy magazine that published the list authors explain that they left the top position empty because the modern war has no clear leader they said they also said that they

based their choice of names on that list on the individual's ability to single handedly quote bring about change that significantly affects the lives and fortunes of large numbers of people with the russian president followed by u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke you or the influence the organization has on the u.s. economy and by extension on the global economy german chancellor angela merkel for policies that are quote the glue that binds europe and us president barack obama he ranks the fifth are on the list then you have the head of the european central bank the chinese communist party leader and others. stripped of his seven tour de france titles for using steroids cancer survivor lance armstrong is said to be considering publicly admitting his guilt as a reporter. this online a friend of the famously eccentric russian businessman some people who's been

arrested in cambodia for allegedly threatening local sailors with violence says a tycoon was simply making too much noise during new year celebrations. like to bring down the crime rate in mexico and local authorities destroyed thousands of toy guns find out why. u.s. human rights groups and even some officials are crying foul after president obama extends the military's authority to indefinitely detain terror suspects including. americans without charge or trial the national defense authorization act of twenty says he also allows for the notorious going tunnel a military prison to remain open despite the presence of unpledged to shut down the facility. so americans fear they could now face prosecution. i think gauged in activities that my government seriously disapproves of one of those activities with supporting wiki leaks and joining us on also bradley manning and as

you probably are you know many people and our government have declared them a terrorist group and julian assange. is extremely scary and certainly could be used against their people like me and my international team there seems to be no backbone either in the administration or in congress to actually stand by civil liberties and the constitution and basic human rights people's lives are being used as a political football and to really sort of hold up this false sense of it this hegemonic power and political realism that is no longer applicable or what mainstream media has they're not reporting real news and critical news so that the general public is really has no idea i just how serious this assault on our liberties so you more people would care if they actually knew but they're not getting that news. the notorious hunks of his group anonymous has promised to shake up the internet in the new year with the most time about tonks motivated by social and political issues america's web producer andrew blake says they finally managed

to gain some good press and twenty twelve people with this group or who are aligning with this group are doing stuff where. the majority of people at least in our society might actually accept with what they're doing we saw that just last month after the newtown shooting when the westboro baptist church said look we're going to go over to connecticut and we're going to protest use the morial services and anonymous pretty much send out a call to arms of immediately they were anonymous from all over the country who actually traveled to newtown and were not just on the internet but they're in real life trying to stake out members of the westboro baptist church so they can alert other people of where they're going to be how they're planning on protesting what they were going to do to demonstrate a lot of people don't realize that because a lot of people think these are just some nerdy computer half truths that are hiding behind screens in the united states who only care about you know the walls if it where but no actually there is you know thousands upon thousands of people

spread out over the course entire world who are making sure that people still have open access to information that people are safe that people can can figure out how to get by these hardships when government regimes step in and try to censor the internet or you know like we saw in gaza kill innocent civilians and very own resident asked people in you how they feel about this so-called how to. the hacking collective anonymous issued a statement warning the world to expect them in two thousand and thirteen is that a good thing this week let's talk about that it is an all course of business that they interfere with they can write their congressman they can vote. i work for the government i don't appreciate people hacking us we've got people's personal

information that has to be protected that these people that they decided hey i want to take that. that's their information because they've decided to take the law into their own hands this is ok yes definitely keep on going why are they important in the world today well because to bring a certain information to the public. because of the activity is social justice is a real thing and so something has to be done if you like if we have the means to do it then we should do it what about the fact that they do it anonymously they don't show their face or their name do you think that they have to because what they're doing is illegal or do you think they should show their names and faces but i think showing their names and faces would just block them out and blacklist them and stamp them out so i think that's the reason why it be anonymous i think they're meddling kids legally should not be doing what they're doing definitely but so do we just let governments and corporations do whatever they want unchecked no not in

check but do it legally through the law and follow the guidelines that are set before us for example with the united states were built on the constitution and that's how we have to follow the law through that i'm against anything illegal just because i like to follow rules and i don't want to be a put in jail or i wouldn't want to be put in jail even if it does mean sticking out for other people i think it's a good thing they should continue to do what they're doing what about the people who say that just meddling kids. well i think a lot of people or ignorant to the reason that they're protesting. i think what they say makes a lot of sense and i think people need to do more research understood exactly what the true purpose is love them or hate them anonymous has promised to put on a good show for twenty thirteen we'll just have to wait to see if they live up to that promise.

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indeed. indeed. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines for friday january fourth two thousand and thirteen and the stock market partying like it's nineteen nineteen i don't know what explains the market gains over the last year despite the risks and arguments from some corners of central bank when reagan was buying when so many americans have been pulling out pay prosperities chris martenson and get as outlook for two thousand and thirteen zero and talk about this. warn.

me do you. want to show you. or how about a trillion dollar magic coin solution to the debt ceiling what is guts plus after the fed minutes came out yesterday gold humbled some are arguing the gold these this in general is shaken some gold traders according to bloomberg expect prices to rebound from the longest weekly losing streak in eight years here to talk about what is going on in the precious metals markets is key whiner he is president of the gold standard institute and c.e.o. of monetary metals and our discussion of the dairy cliff sent some viewers over the you tube comment or cliff will pull the conversation back from the ledge of your feedback and deliver a special message just for your audience you won't want to miss it let's get to today's capital account.

when it comes to the macro environment central bank policy and economic risks and their actual impact on stocks or any asset class the results don't always make sense or follow logic don't we all wish in those situations we had appreciate knowledge of the future like this one more you sure knowledge of the future to play the stock or we could make truly. want to make truly and when we could make. a trillion is more than a billion moments or exhibit. cuties or a reason we will want everyone to zip it because it kind of seems people some of them often do not take into account the true value of billions or trillions when they get.