senator barack obama promised to close guantanamo bay now we're into his second term and get mo is still open for business in fact some are claiming he's made it worse for people inside of the facility that story ahead. and he talks for more than twelve hours on the senate floor about drones but what did senator rand paul's epic filibuster tell us about u.s. drone policy question more and you always look for the made in usa label there used to be a push to buy for american products but you may be surprised to learn that some iconic american brands have actually been sold to foreign companies spotlights the outsourcing of america. it's friday march eighth five pm in washington d.c. meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. starting off this hour the funeral of late president hugo chavez was held in

caracas today delegates from fifty five countries were in attendance including a low level u.s. delegation outside the chapel hundreds of thousands gathered to mourn the late president here's what fellow latin american leaders had to say about him. i mean this went up in minutes were lost its president in america lost its historic leader and we lost a much loved friend a brother. people the best tribute that we can bestow upon. the americans is to follow in his footsteps also in attendance cuban president raul castro and iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad chavez was the leader of venezuela for over fourteen years he was reelected back in october he actually lost his two year battle against cancer on tuesday after suffering a massive heart attack. well it was the filibuster heard round the world kentucky senator rand paul took a stand against drones with nearly thirteen hours of conversation during the

confirmation vote for john brennan and in some ways it was successful he managed to get the public to talk about you a visa and privacy issues right here in the united states it shed light on the question of using drones against american citizens on american soil but beyond that the scope of the filibuster was very limited it turns out senator paul and many other congress members can actually agree on some issues like the use of these machines abroad. the problem is that the drone strike program is often not about combatants it is about people who may or may not be conspiring but they're not in combat they're in a car they're in their house they're in a restaurant they're in a cafe i'm someone this evening who has supported the use of drones in fighting the war on terror i think they've been very effective in killing terrorists people who want to do harm to the people of this country i like he have seen things that the

drones can do to protect our soldiers and no one's arguing against that much should we be arguing against that i was joined earlier in our new york studio by stanley cohen he's an international human rights lawyer and artie's own rachel currency s right here in the d.c. studio i began by asking stanley why americans have these inalienable rights to life and due process while others don't. once again we find the double standard if your name is stanley or billy well perhaps not me or billy or megan you're protected if your name is mohammed or if your name is rula you're less than a human being under international law you are entitled to the same concepts of due process of formal accusation of inability to confront your accusers you cannot be murdered that's what the use of drones are overseas it's extrajudicial assassination it's a violation of international law it's criminal it's the kind of things which ends up putting people as they should be before the international criminal court the

fact that as long as it's done over seas and not in the united states there's a red herring it's criminal overseas it's criminal in the united states it's extra did and there was no support for it under international law let alone in the united states where it's all are there any specific instances that you know of where innocent civilians were actually killed and just kind of piggybacking off what sally was talking about sure yes the bureau of investigative journalism which to my mind has some of the best numbers on the german strikes abroad said that anywhere between four hundred ten and five hundred twenty one drone strikes have occurred in the countries of pakistan yemen and somalia between two thousand and two and today let it be known that none of these countries are ones that the united states has officially declared war on and during those drone strikes anywhere between four hundred twenty three and one thousand three hundred eighty seven civilians were reported killed and of those civilians killed anywhere from a hot one hundred seventy to two hundred nine of those civilians killed were

children so just to put that in perspective for you that's at least eight instances of sandy hook's essentially where people have been killed by u.s. drone strikes especially children and i want to highlight one instance in particular this is one of many of this was reported again by the bureau of investigative journalism in december seventeenth two thousand and nine in yemen there was a militant who had just been released from prison he he vowed millet. activity allegedly though he was still hit by a drone strike at the time though he was living with a huge number of extended family so that means forty one other civilians people who were not engaged in any militant activity were also killed among them twenty two children and five reportedly pregnant women so we'll never get a chance to either know if this if this militant was someone who you know who will not engage in terrorist activity but we also need to consider is the collateral damage twenty two children killed is it really worth it to get that militant that's a really good point and although you threw out a lot of numbers there you've really put it in perspective with that sandy hook

example stanley rand paul another say that they completely support the drone program abroad is that have a critical considering the fact that all these civilians are being killed are broad as well look it's the twilight zone let's not turn rand paul where the republican party or barack obama is humanitarians these are people who have built their political career on the backs of rhetoric on the banks of military experience not personal experience when i graduate overseas is it hypocritical of course it's hypocritical they view american lives as something very special a load apparently you turn the generals recently said that he believes and i don't know where they find this in the u.s. constitution but the president has the right to murder u.s. citizens within the boundaries of the united states the program is illegal the program is criminal we are killing people whether it is civilians of broad civilians in the united states were united states and we unfortunately senator

dianne feinstein does not agree with what you have to say i want to play a quick clip of her and then we'll get your rachel's opinions in some respects it's a perfect assassination weapon you can see seventeen twenty thousand up in the year very personal use. so obviously they agree with most senators and the u.s. congress agreeing with some sort of drone program does not when it comes to americans right are using it on u.s. soil i should say right rachel you know certainly seems that way and i think they're. saying is right when she says that it's the perfect assassination tool the question is who are resisting it in and using it on stanley last last answer look these are the very people that said there were weapons of mass destruction in iraq that initiated an invasion that killed a million civilians you can't believe them you can't trust them we have a judicial system in the united states if you've broken the law you can be prosecuted to get your day in court you get your judge and you jury you do not get assassinated the issue isn't whether it's

a clean assassination the issue isn't whether you kill three children walking by next to you the issue is assassination is murder it is illegal the president does not have the authority to do it whether it's overseas with a boy named mohamad or here with a girl named sally are to produce a racial courteous and stanley cohen international human rights lawyer thank you guys for your opinion thank you. just in today osama bin laden's son in law has been captured and transferred into american custody silliman agu ghaith was secretly flown to new york city where he pled not guilty to charges of conspiring to kill americans he pled not guilty earlier today he is one of the highest ranking all kind of figures to have ever been brought to the u.s. to face a civilian trial instead of a military tribunal now that decision was widely criticized by republicans including senate leader mitch mcconnell they want obligates sent to guantanamo bay and to be subject to u.s.

interrogation tactics there for its part the obama administration did not want to send obligate to want tom obey because of the president's intentions to close the facility down but more evidence is coming out that proves the president has worsened the situation in the detention facility were hired colonel morris davis is a former guantanamo bay official he's also the professor of law at howard university and i spoke to him earlier about the reason obligates won't be sent to guantanamo bay and i asked him if it has anything to do with closing. well i think it's a valid point they haven't taken anyone to guantanamo to a number of years now and the population is slowly. thinning out down to one hundred sixty six out of the seven hundred seventy nine that were you know there is some point in time so i think not adding to that is a good thing and i think the problem too is obligate is what would you charge him with the kuantan m a i mean the charge in federal court is conspiracy to murder americans and recently the federal courts tossed out the convictions of some former

guantanamo detainees convicted military commissions for conspiracy and for providing material support so i think taking him to federal court here in the u.s. was a smart decision on the obama administration's part now some of the critics say that it actually cost the city of new york asked so much to protect this man and so the cost isn't worth it on the other hand you have senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and others saying they really want him to go to guantanamo bay because he's already releasing so much information that we just don't know about any of these hold held that allegedly well i think so if you look at the press release yesterday from the justice department when they announced that he was being indicted today in federal court he's given a twenty two page statement without being water boarded or tortured which i think kind of shows the fallacy of the policy that we used a decade ago where we said we had to torture people in order to make them talk apparently obligate has given us a lot of information about his decade spent in iran his involvement with his former

father in law some of bin laden and he did it all without being tortured or he's being prosecuted in federal court where he was indicted today and he'll probably get tried before collegiate mom it sems been a guantanamo since two thousand and six and we're still arguing over what he can wear to court so i think this shows that federal court is the better option than this failed experiment we've had it go on tom i'm a know a lot of the critics that why. on top of all because just say it's just not it's not producing the type of farce also want to also hear in this report that says that the obama administration instead of closing it is making it worse so let's talk about your things first of all your experience personally in guantanamo bay with the things that you saw and what you see what you know is going on now and kind of juxtaposed right you know i think the conditions at guantanamo are better than most people believe me a bail bondsman so i saw a lot of jails in prison here in the u.s.

in the conditions at guantanamo compared to a lot of our federal and state and local facilities here are much better but it doesn't excuse this indefinite detention without trial without charge most of people at guantanamo are held in communal living facilities i think you saw where they had the new three quarter of a million dollar soccer field they they built but again we've got people detained at guantanamo who are there soley because of their citizenship the humanities primarily who we said we don't want to keep but they're there because we don't want to send them back to yemen and so so there's still that guantanamo after more than a decade in confinement and so unfortunately i think you know a lot of the detainees from what i understand are on a hunger strike because they're largely out of sight and out of mind and the only way to call attention to their plight is to do something like what they're doing which you know for see somebody has to die in order to get attention called to guantanamo and i don't want to see yes or no do you think that the situation is

worse and one time i was under george bush it's no better and is continuing and the longer it goes on i think the worse it is colonel morris davis a professor at howard university last thank you so much for joining us. still ahead on our t.v. you always look for the made in usa label there are plenty of iconic american brands that should be giving that patriotic vibe but it turns out that's only skin deep we'll tell you about the outsourcing of american products right after this break. looking pretty dumb but in the feel good well you won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories unique perspective from top left and dark. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. that

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welcome back as americans we accept as a fact of life that most of our goods are made in china or other countries we are very proud of the goods and actually are made in the u.s. we usually brand them as all american products and we market them with some classic cowboy scenes and we grew and was proud to be an american song blaring in the background but it turns out some of those iconic brands you grew up with have a dirty little secret archie correspondent on a saucy investigates warming the hearts of generations of americans they are

symbols of true americana. however these icons have once been made abroad or owned by foreigners budweiser and other american beer companies are owned by him back. an international criminal armory the famous and glamorous barbie doll. the first. no buyers made in hong kong barbie is america i want the eating disorders and the warped body images and all the terrible thinking that comes from barbie i want that to be created in america levi's jeans your mom. just like. the self described icon of american culture with only one line left made of its homeland because james dean because you know we think of all the rock n rollers and

now they're not really united states there's something incredibly wrong about most of levi's clothing is in fact still never see the fact that levi's jeans which are the symbol of american heroism or anti heroism are being outsourced. that they write the game of monopoly that makes capitalism a fun family activity has some pieces made in ireland the green and red houses the green houses make sense to outsiders to ireland and baseball rolling the official maker of major league baseball baseball has long had its iconic products made by coaster weakens on their homeland all this a painful truth to the american heart i don't know what america is anymore. i don't know where america is anymore i don't know why america is anymore but it doesn't and there according to the washington post three point two million dollars worth of american flags were imported from china in two thousand and ten the biggest irony

is that the american flag is being made by the chinese i mean is the chinese flag being made by america i don't think so while it may be disappointing it's a reality that's here to stay what we're seeing is the troops who should between the old twentieth century in which the united states was a manufacturing superpower in the twenty first century in which the united states is just a cheaper labor and manufacturing costs abroad make outsourcing of american products and the ceci while america drowns in a joblessness of its own so we need to create jobs here making these quote american products with americans that would be nice truly american is a ship that has long sailed the question now is whether made in america will be forgotten as a stamp on products left to become just a term for the history books and. art. and art his own honest aasia churkin to joins me now for more on the stasi or were you surprised to find out that a lot of these products weren't american made. i was making i mean it's

a crazy world what is the what is really happening i mean this reality what's going to go next the the apple pies i mean it's really scary that barbie is no longer being made here i mean remember the scandal the summer that the olympic uniforms for us the u.s. teams were being made in china and everybody was outraged and surprised i mean the reality is it's it's really frightening in the sense that all of these products and many more these are just you know some examples the iconic examples of you know that we traditionally associates with things that america produces are no longer being made here but it's the simpler things too i mean t.v.'s microwaves you name it it's computers phones none of that is really being made here anymore i mean i read that the last company that made televisions in the united states went out of business in two thousand and four it's a scary world it is a scary world out less so as and also includes fluorescent lights and. dishwashers but we actually also have a few products here on a stock just kind of you know

a few from your from your segment so of course we have our six pack of budweiser beer not me us we've got our american flag which is a very ironically not made in the u.s. the always iconic barbie whose standards will never live up to this one is princess pop star barbie and of course. and i want to read you just this one little line right here on the bottom of the box that says made in the u.s. they would die if then tokens is made in china so china owns our money i guess and both in monopoly right and in the real world we also have a little edge a sketch so a lot of these products are not made in the u.s. do you think it affects the quality of any of these products. you know no i don't think so because unless unless you know we talked about this and i let me put this on the label and i'm sure many people wouldn't even know that you know pieces are not being manufactured here in the u.s. in the monopoly game i mean you know most people don't even look so look at where the products are made so i don't think it really affects the quality thankfully you

know barbie is still barbie and generations are still going to continue playing with the doll regardless of where it's made i think do you think we should continue to call these products american products and brand them as american products i mean i know that i was watching the super bowl and the budweiser commercial was playing landslide as a song and had the scene of a horse running meeting its owner and it was very that cowboy kind of feel she would brand these as american i mean you know if they're created in the united states and the idea is you know what behind monopoly behind barbie all of that is you know those were those were come up within the united states so you know why not the united states continues priding itself and having come up with those and they're very popular products certainly even though they're being you know enjoyed everywhere around the world i think one thing that's important is just you know we talk about u.s. exceptionalism a lot and i think in this case it's quite ironic that it's time to you know just realize that maybe not everything necessarily has to be american maybe it's all right that you know a lot of these products are taking on

a little bit more of an international spin megan now earlier we actually have a chance to sit down with dan. wilbur i'm sorry he's a comedian he joined me to talk about these products and here's what he had to say about them i brought some. you know budweiser is moving to build them and i just want build them to know that they can't step all over america because we've got these we figured out the formula first twinkies and now this so we've got these belgium. so obviously here's the here's a little pissed off at belgium but i think it was all in light spirit of course but one thing i do want to bring up on a saucy is during president obama's state of the union address you know he talked about bringing jobs back home and taxing the jobs that don't want to come back home do you think that we should be trying to encourage these all american brands to in fact be all american absolutely megan i mean it's you know we are having fun with the story certainly but it does have

a much more serious underlying issue that simply there are no manufacturing jobs in the united states and that is certainly something that needs to be addressed and hopefully will be addressed because of the very high unemployment because of the cost of labor being so much cheaper abroad so many people are left without jobs and that's certainly something that that is really the bigger problem behind this issue of all of these iconic products no longer being made here are to a correspondent on a stasia chair going to thank you for your investigative report. well u.s. jobs report came out today with higher than expected gains in the private sector here's what we found out two hundred thirty six thousand jobs were added in february bringing the unemployment down to seven point seven percent that's the lowest unemployment has been since december of two thousand and eight so there are some positive news and news in terms of economic growth but we here at our t. want to focus on those people who are still looking for work of the people who are unemployed most have been so for twenty seven weeks or longer and here's the

possible indicator as to why more and more employers are running to credit checks on potential employees before hiring them in many cases the fact that a person is in debt is actually preventing them from getting a job in order to pay that debt off sounds like a catch twenty two right well i was on earlier by a job seeker his name is daniel berman and despite being a in a ph d. program and having two masters degrees under his belt he explained some of the struggles he's actually faced in the job search well i mean luckier than most of had a couple interviewers for positions i think part of the problem you have in d.c. and probably in the country as a whole is the tendency to where a lot of the factors make it hard to find a job reinforce one another for instance i think the credit check you mentioned is one of them but i think that's one of the side effects of basically when you're going to get a job people want references and if you're currently working somewhere getting five references in twenty four hours is no problem and chances are you going to pass

a credit check but if you don't have a job well you have to make a choice like if you're going to one job in d.c. you need a d.c. address and if you're not working that means you go into debt. but suddenly if you use that to end up getting a job you find that the choice you have to make to stay in the city and fight for an opportunity get a job ends up actually accept the job when people want to hire you sure i do want to bring up this graphic that we've made kind of showing how many americans are facing these credit checks when they go for jobs now one in four employees are actually subject to crack to credit checks one of four people are is looking for jobs and one in seven are denying from getting a job due to poor credit have you ever been asked to give a credit score. i've been asked couple times mostly for housing only one of the interviews i had asked me for a credit check ok do you think it should be a factor in and hiring someone i can see for instance jobs especially

a sensitive nature where things like that matter but i think that for the vast majority of entry level positions i don't see a particular reason why it's relevant i mean i can understand maybe you want to make sure people are going to leave the town of town or be more than i could be able to remain but i think as a general matter i don't see why it should necessarily factor in beyond the your ability to do the job and some of the people that are supporting this kind of credit checks the employers say that they don't they want to make sure that their employees going to work as hard as they can that they're not going to be susceptible to bribery or theft of the company but i do want to bring up another graphic that we made that shows the number one reasons are not the top ten reasons why americans are in debt today so if you look the number one reason is medical expenses you've also got job loss divorce on their student loans so these are all things that you really can't control and yet it's potentially affecting your ability to be hired this is you think that this is

a kind of catch twenty two where you can't be hired to pay off the debts that you currently have. i think it i mean i think it definitely is and i think it's sort of a side effect of the fact that i think the us and somewhat of a transition i think one of the big impacts at least from what i've seen of the recession is not so much the recession still here we're gain jobs again it's that companies and think tanks in d.c. and in our cities i assume have discovered you can get master's students to work for free as in turns and at that point why should you bring back the old paid entry level jobs you can use internships is basically a six month long job interview and we only have a few seconds left but finally you have fifteen seconds i want you to make your job pitched it to potential employers out there watching i had well i think we've already mentioned my resume quite a bit what i think is important though is that i can adapt to that and i think that having been unemployed and having gone through the process i can bet i can provide

a perspective on what people my generation are going to especially if you're tempted to market to them or adjust your hiring practices to try and reach out to i think what's an underutilized generation in terms of their abilities and experience and berman thank you for coming on the program and next year and sharing your experiences with us thank you very much for having me was an honor. and just so that everyone knows out there every time you get your credit score checked it actually decreases the score so applying for jobs can actually further lower your credit score think about that the next time you're playing. well as we've reported time and again here in r t one of the major businesses that has proven to be more or less recession proof is the sex industry and yet again we have proof of how profitable that business really really is today this is valentino and the brazilian sex doll it was made by sex on a call and is described as the most sophisticated real sex doll ever made makers touted that more she's more natural than nicki minaj and more prismatic then all of

the car dash combined and here's where the money part comes in and people are actually bidding to be the first person to have sex with us and all the bids are over one hundred five thousand dollars and they are still going up proving once again the tried and true saying that sex sells is really still valid and that's going to do it for now but for more of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america or check out our website our two dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez now today is international women's day and with that in mind my question to twitter followers today is what is the best way to determine whether we've truly overcome the gender gap is it wages is it the media's portrayal of women to eat me.