latin american nations expressed outrage after some states allegedly refused their space and demand to search the bolivian president jet over discredited room as it may have been smuggling whistleblower edward snowden out of moscow. the situation's united south american nations more than ever with leaders calling the fourteen of the flight offensive and humiliating. and live pictures from egypt where a tense anticipation descends on the country's vehicles appear at the epicenter of the protests in the capital triggering fears a military coup is already under way we get live reports there from tahrir square a little later on r.t. .

international news and comment online on screen twenty four hours a day this is. several latin american nations. after a number of european countries allegedly denied airspace to the bolivian president's plane the flight was forced to divert to vienna where it was then searched amid rumors that whistleblower edward snowden was on board furious leaders a value response calling the incident humiliating and offensive. believe years says that they did coordinate the flight plan with european officials prior to taking off from moscow and then all of a sudden mid flight several e.u. states banned them from entering their territory and this is despite the fact that the needed to refuel along the way and it seems that at this point we began having

technical problems with the plane and related with the fuel we found a transcript of what seems to be a recording of the conversation between the bolivian pilots and the air traffic controller at the airport in vienna in austria let's listen in do you need any assistance not at this moment we need to land because we cannot get a correct indication of the fuel level we need to land after the plane landed in austria a local authorities actually searched it and looking for snowden on board although they themselves say that they were allowed to do so by authorities but even when they did didn't find the former n.s.a. contractor on that plane it still took quite a few hours for the bolivian president to continue his trip back home since the e.u. still wouldn't give them the proper airspace cord or the proper route to continue their flight now bolivia call this an act of aggression violating all international laws especially the fact that the president's plane was searched this is totally

unprecedented in the approach to how to deal with airplanes belonging to heads of states and the ability also claims that this whole operation was planned and organized by washington there's been also a massive reaction in latin america with cuba and ecuador saying that it's a massive offense not only against believe here but all countries in the region who and argentina are calling for an emergency summit a continental style and for all the local countries to discuss this incident and think about reaction one of the reasons why they may have thought that snowden was on board that plane is. because of the bolivian president talked earlier exclusively to r.t. that his country was ready to provide political asylum to snowden why not of course the situation is far from ideal his case is constantly discussed an international level that bolivia is ready to give political asylum to the people who. are there so to speak basically for the former n.s.a.

contractor this this a transit limbo continues as he still stuck inside that franzen's on me to where airport the u.s. is still calling for his extradition while moscow does say they're not planning to buy some more since they do see him as a human rights activist while passing them over to the country where they still actively use the death sentence is a possibility for russia and it's a little surprise that reaction from bolivia has been strong in exclusive interviews to r.t. senior officials haven't been mincing their words. i think this is an unprecedented situation this goes against the practice of cooperation in coexistence between countries this goes against international conventions and treaties this goes against international law and all the rules that have been established over a long period of time this shows disrespect for other countries independence. so.

the countries involved in hijacking president morales his plane and making a mistake they think that others steal attack invade territories wage wars impose embargoes and go back on their own word just like they do we would like to warn the international community about catastrophic consequences of such acts as they give offense to any person or state the current policy of the usa and their allies in nato aims at ensuring their own security at the expense of somebody else's. all spanish and french officials have denied claims the bolivian president's plane was refused access to the space the original flight path would have taken the jet over austria italy france and spain and portugal and then down to the canary islands for refueling before heading on to bolivia southwards but after the plane was allegedly denied permission to proceed any further on its route it was forced to make a u. turn and land in vienna aviation expert crissy it says that someone is clearly not

telling the truth about what actually happened here. you know it's been quite a bizarre morning really with this plane traveling out form moscow. seeming to do that dog leg over australia going back to the. theory to refuel but also going to suggest to him that any further a space has been blocked so the aircraft can't continue until clearance is given to enter for example italian airspace french airspace and of course spanish airspace so strange turn of events you know we kind of wonder who is telling the truth here the global media and of course social networks have been mulling over the latest developments around snowden's case when i got reaction and insight from artie's and he said i have across and spanish correspondent police years ago via is in the

powers in bolivia the state department said they won't comment on it but they did the closest thing they they did to do to commenting is that saying that. there is no reaction so far or any kind of understanding of how the obama administration would react if snowden left the moscow airport it's all a bit embarrassing though isn't it if the us did. asked for that plane to be diverted because they suspected snowden was on board and he clearly wasn't going to be questions asked why because many people i don't think they asked for that they demanded it let's not forget that just on monday there was this revelation that the u.s. was spying on their number one ally europe but now we're not hearing anything about that it's almost to the right you raise a good point about that more being. europeans perspective it's a bit ironic isn't it bring about all the anger the e.u. has over the u.s. over its allegations of spying if it was the case they were helping the u.s. out and closed their respects to that jet that they're helping in effect snowden to because of the u.s.

it doesn't make sense as it well i think. it makes perfect sense from one point to you that makes perfect sense if you're willing to believe that. there's a group of people operating behind the scenes who are who are putting political pressure on people that's not in the public eye. and it's the kind of pressure that blowers tend to expose in fact and it's very much the kind of political tactics that snowden's exit. what sort of political pressure we're talking about with the u.s. because of course there's all this talk about the trade free trade agreement sure well i think as far as what kind of direct pressure has been put on anybody. we're in the realm of speculation it's very hard to say however we can look closely at how the europeans have reacted and look at let's say some of the righteous indignation that's come out of the european side i think francois hollande has probably led the european indignation despite the clear claims that from oblivion side that the french were complicit in at least complicit in refusing.

right right to passage. poland is is in a sticky position because he's trying to play politics as the moment his cabinet has been weakened by some revelations and he's and he's on the back foot as far as this e.u. u.s. trade deal is concerned we might come back to that one as well where i was at and i think and it mason is is putting it very strongly i mean yes i want spoke out about it should ever since monday it's wednesday and now everyone's kind of really quiet there's lots of confusion like you said bill no one's really denying or claiming anything happened today what we do know is that a president of the country was held in an airport for more than fourteen hours and his plane was searched that's a violation of international law why is no one talking about this over any day yes why are the politicians now let's bring in democracy a truck you can hear me in the past a lot of people are saying this is really helping the game with anti u.s. sentiment a moment on behalf of many latin american countries but surely those who are it's been anti u.s.

sentiment anyway hasn't there among a select few. yeah exactly bill actually this is a very hot issue right now here in latin america because now election america is definitely acting like a bloc you know and that right now we can feel that anger rage and deception there's just wrote there's been brought about one concept that is very interesting it's the concept of a colony you know latin american countries there's dean colonies first centuries and now they are saying that it's actually european countries which are actually like colonies colonies of the e.u. west they hang orders from the us i think this is actually why they are doing they are violating violating international law in order to keep hostage. graeme's time the president evo morales india and this is actually why how can these how to believe in government so and and yesterday after a number of emergency meeting albeit government was met all night long trying to

find a solution. president morales that was the main issue you know they were saying that european countries are behaving like colonies now i think that's where we start deception but you need even america right now if that's british to go via r.t. spanish correspondent live in the purpose of a key take away from all of these things it's kind of a key takeaway for me is that while. we're at this gas meeting in moscow when there was a lot of speculation around whether whether snowden was going to be snuck onto an airplane or not the fact is that morale has left moscow without snowden nevertheless somebody believed snowden was on that plane and why and who believed it why did they believe us and does that suggest that nobody has a visual fix on edward snowden in moscow right now or at least the people who are trying to catch him and is he could he be on

a plane to paris instead. good point well we shall see because the mystery continues brings us all back to the beginning where the snow is ahead great well no doubt we'll be talking about this for a few more days yet for you very much indeed what is obvious rossi and the scenario thank you very much for that discussion here. meanwhile france has called for a temporary two week suspension of talks between the e.u. and america on a landmark free trade zone but germany insists the negotiations should continue without delay despite the real with washington over snowden's revelations well in my colleague in a shot of a spoke to our tease katie pilbeam on whether paris really does want to stall those talks. france's president francois hollande he's demanding an explanation from the u.s. over reports of spying took place on e.u. diplomats and is threatening to pull out of the billion dollar worth trade deal between the u.s. and the e.u. now reporting the german newsweekly kicked it all off just spiegel revealed that

the n.s.a. logs the offices of diplomats of allied countries however when the allegations first came out chancellor angela merkel said quote if allegations were true it would be an unacceptable cold war style. but despite their clear view on spying a state spokesman for germany has come out and expressed a desire to get started with the trade negotiations france is not willing to step down on this matter but right what interested thing is that france is appearing to take a tough stance on international spying but there's a bit of a contradiction going on right now because france was accused along with a number of other european countries by the belief in authorities of forbidding oblivion bound jet to travel through their airspace because they suspected edward snowden was on board along with the bolivian president now the plane was held up more than fourteen hours result now this is been formally denied by the french authorities but if it is proven to be true it would mean france is putting on a tough economic front against by but when it comes to peer politics it's quite

another matter so bit of a contradiction going on there do you think france or world bass wild story about the interesting thing is the second time that they've stalled these negotiations after initial worries that their culture industry would suffer as a result of the trade deal i managed to get their audiovisual sector excluded from the deals the midst of long got his way on that one but considering the french economy fell into recession in the first quarter of this year and is expected to stagnate going forward does not in a financial position to stamp out a multi-billion dollar trade to ear. just ten forty minutes past the hour now i'll be back after a short break with the latest from the egyptian capital baeza scenes from the city center live pictures and it is there that many including those close to the president believing they are now witnessing a coup we go live to our two reporters for the latest after this break.

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with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anyway. news continues here in r.t. some parts of the egyptian army have reportedly been put on high alert status as the military ultimatum for president morsi to resolve the violent crisis has now passed fresh clashes between government supporters and to islamist protesters erupted earlier outside university after at least eighteen people were said to have been killed there overnight well a lot is correspond true importance in the egyptian capital right now and first we're going to talk to our correspondent bill true bill you have been following the events very closely in egypt just how has it all come down to this.

that it's absolutely you've been in scenes here in the capital where the president was asked if he would say i was to meet him and the president is right the minute she gave the president to meet him on the people it comes to me we see it and see if celebrations like a street party extremely fast if people really believe if they and the president will step down in the next few moments i'm looking in the house and seeing pictures of the military here is a moment that people here believe that with the backing of the army they had to move on to hold the house through that story but morsi will actually happen the most the thing people run to see if it sees the seat wearing name tags that was the name of the president on it and also the names of the much hated now i miss him brotherhood leaders people see here say they had enough it's been an extremely difficult year for egyptians speaking to protest they can see about the lead going

to me leading to chronic unemployment i was hearing you should just pensioners i know it's a great song says human rights abuses they say may see no change to the genuinely believe in the nation and that hoping they will be able to happen. the president a new constitution and a new parliament they feel to me when they've got the backing of the army they've got the backing of the government up to millions it has to be lusted for the nations of the last week they feel they've got the backing of the full political position and this is really the will of the people they are very defiant here they say they're not going to leave until the president steps down and they will stay here basically until that happens and extremely happy to see the bill this is not the will of all the people is it because morsi still has a very strong following you're saying there's an air of celebration there but is there not though the chance of clashes and more violence which we've seen already over this situation over morsi now.

what we see expect clashes in the ice and because of the tensions in the business between the country was even which have really been widening in the course of the last week in the city that we've seen a new simplicity violence across the country between security and opponents of the president leading to school instead here in the capital and of course that the governor it's nice to know that the protest is it's night they say that they're not afraid that they believe the military's on my side and we'll protect the people and will ensure that these clashes and this is a misuse of their parts and i think ultimately a little bit more even now that we see a military deployment to areas housing releasing this release and every food since i think tensions and possible passes this evening see egypt is still very tense we haven't had the same from the army we don't know what's next but people here are facing the president will step down bill thanks very much for that update no doubt

we'll hear from you a little later here. we are also hoping to hear from of course for the for the sleep he's also there in the city center back in caro we hopefully catch up with her very shortly but in the meantime we spoke to the egyptian novelist and political commentator sue if and he believes it's a sad irony that the army has stood behind this popular unrest. the military for the year that they were actually in power they themselves waged a war against their who should and kills protesters on the streets in an escalating massacre so it is very sad that we are back in in this position. but in fact it really is the intransigence of dr morsi that has led us to this because over the last year he has had repeated continuous trinity's to act as the president of egypt to bring people in to mend kind of broken ties and to actually

put the country on the road towards ends of the confusion. well as promised we can now cross back live to cairo and our other correspondent there paula snare paula tell us what you understand of the situation yes she paula tell us what you understand of the situation there where you are at the moment what is happening from your perspective who. was. who. was.

pulled out just briefly the country is divided today morsi still has many supporters are we actually looking at the potential of perhaps a civil war now what is next for the country.

as. it was. it was. odd. as. it. was. i. want to say thank you very much for that live update from the city center that. you. well of course we're following the tense situation there in

egypt very closely for no doubt we'll be hearing more from paula bell over the next few hours as developments unfold there in the meantime r.t. dot com you can visit that that's our website for extensive coverage up to the minute updates an eye witness accounts and a little later today here in r.t. peter navarro also dissects the egyptian crisis with his guests on cross talk don't miss that it's at nineteen thirty g.m.t. is a quick preview for you there are two questions i had on the one was do you think that this will actually be a coup or just a means of transition by other means and also what about the the militia and where is this interim. right right well when the military is coming in and taking a level of authority away from a democratically elected regime that meets my standard of a coup we can call put lipstick on a pig and say it's a transitionary phrase or but i think of those of them words that have been uttered

in every coup that has ever taken place throughout human history also the words this is not a coup have been said in every law i'll take the power and i'll give it back to you maybe in the future ok sounds like algeria to me why do i need to go in two thousand and eleven i don't think that we have a reason not to trust that the military will do that general term so we did a remarkably good job in my opinion given the challenges that he faced when he was head of the army in two thousand and eleven and he steered through that transition . crosstalk coming away a little later today here on r t now let's have a quick look at some other news making headlines around the world in our world are they just starting with libya where a car blast hit an army checkpoint in the city of benghazi leaving at least seven people injured that's after in a separate attack by an armed group forced the closure of the interior ministry the gang were demanding the resignation of the minister and want the police to be in charge of the country's security and his authorities who are struggling to form professional troops regularly use former rebels to secure the borders or to

intervene in tribal conflicts. the island of sumatra in northeastern in the knees year has been hit by a six point one magnitude earthquake killing at least twenty four people rescuers believe many others are still trapped on the day bring in these here is located in one of the most seismically active regions on earth quake measuring nine point one of the sumatran coast in two thousand and four triggered a tsunami which killed more than two hundred thousand people around the indian ocean indonesia bearing the brunt. just a few minutes we'll be looking at the aftermath of the worst oil spill in history in the gulf of mexico and then in half an hour be back with those developments in egypt and other news. with these two.

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lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingered these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers actually did in fact get sick from exposure to a number of chemicals including to be toxic often axons chief medical advisor dr kind of cool it's a memo to x. on and at the very end here you see the intent we do not need a health hazard evaluation and should try and avoid it if possible. the health hazard evaluation is osha and nyasha coming in and saying sorry there's too many sick people here and you spiller are now labile for doing long term medical surveillance how exxon avoided it was by misrepresenting the information as called simply. max on managed to successfully hide these documents from the media

from the people from the sick workers from the court from the federal health care officials b.p. is following pretty closely everything that axon did. we were actually flying over the disaster site on sunday april twenty fifth and what we saw on earth there were two airplanes were flying over and already carpet bombing the spill with dispersant we started to notice that the planes and helicopters were flying over they were dropping the stuff the spray they were really secretive about where those planes were coming from and when they were going around they didn't really want to choose to take an abuse of planes coming. because it looked like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there correct it is toxic it's toxic to people it's toxic to the environment what it does is it breaks apart the oil into something called

a myself a little oil bubble that's wrapped in this solving the in the hydrophilic you know lipophilic into them and they form little packages around the oil which says spins the oil in the water column they're called myself these my cells go around and they absorb on to biological tissue they're absorbing on to sand grains they're absorbing onto raindrop particles they're absorbing up into the clouds and they're raining down as stinging rain on people who then get rashes just like this person's urge to sign to go through limp it's in the oil they go through the lip in the sound they break down the sound wall which is a liquid membrane they take that whale into the sound into the organs were rattling so their delivery system where they go around while it's out is toxic to every

organ system in the body and the mixture of dispersant and whale is much more toxic then either oil alone or dispersant one fisherman here have been exposed to this mixture they have literally got ulcerated skin it's not hard to find these people we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported and by default us government can't afford to have it reported the ones who can afford to move have moved and the ones who can't are just begging for help . this is hugh councilman. he has worked for the p.a. for four decades as the lead researcher on toxics blew the whistle on high levels of toxics at the now famous love canal he also blew the whistle on the need to protect nine eleven cleanup workers from exposure to toxic dust and now he's trying

to blow the whistle on the toxic dispersants used by b.p. dispersions. and they're used to. so that it's not as visible to the public in other words they're used for a cover up oil alone in a body of water will rise to the surface there it's collectable it's containable but instead of actually containing it there dispersant was used of the eighteen dispersants on the e.p.a.'s authorized list twelve are more effective on the wheezy and a sweet crude than correct b.p. chose to use the only dispersant so toxic that it's banned in its own country of england be. using. which we're told has been banned in great britain for the last ten years why oxic human beings.

on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved use carex at under the surface of the water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons of corrects a day into the coal when they decided to do the subsurface injection the use of robotic arms to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the goal that it never been for. four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b. . he would continue to use correct that. will be shared was a set up to protect the peace. and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of dispersants and the e.p.a.

says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a fact of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released and why the head of the t.s.a. so if you say i would to either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have

the power to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from day one ms jackson forget about cleanup forget about the natural resource the average just for releasing that oil just for releasing oil. tins of billions of dollars of farm well if you can lose weight how much oil was released they might be able to get those penalties down from twenty five billion to maybe one or two billion. billion dollars here a billion dollars are you talking real moving. the company that makes correct said nalco is a joy. venture with exxon mobil the received over twenty four million dollars in u.s. government contracts over the past decade. now co-chairs directors with b.p. and exxon mobil. according to its own web site now co has some pretty influential

fans so from here to here this is the scope the distance about five hundred miles. respiratory problems central nervous system problems the headaches and dizziness and nausea and the skin problems that intense rashes there are hundreds of thousands of people who are dosed with high amounts of toxic material the more risk of having severe health affair it's often we're told don't worry honey we'll take care of you in it won't hurt we'll we didn't find out that a very good product well we thought was a good product turns out to have vial consequences i don't want dispersants to be the agent. of this bill.

calling for exit because chemical dispersant is the best to come out at night on the bottom of these bridges roads are coming from. good bad. dogs for good service for your houses so you're saying here today the beaches had known as a species. of them so much you suppose you've always had some corruption but i mean i never thought it was that this will has anyone in b.p. been fired because of this incident mood solution. just. on. the t.v. . i think this is a big. after

even more scrutiny surrounding b.p.'s continued use of correct said b.p. quietly announced in july they had stopped spraying dispersant oil was gone and so were the dead animals. to verify this we interviewed keith seal an b.p.'s incident commander but b.p. denied permission to use the center of the zero. three months later in september he snuck onto beaches where b.p. was working to find the truth or selves. at night the oil was clearly visible beaches or some young fish as you can see there climbed up into a clump of well dead wildlife was also prevalent now risking ourselves by turning these only the lights on. to tell that something they are going to have

a. respirators on the. movie station is just right across this cut. despite the piece claims they had stopped spraying our cameras caught the still transporting and spray dispersants. or any of them catch it would make. sure of it right now i. can't think of a place like louisiana as the state it is an oil it is only controlled by the oil industry. i ran one of the regulatory agencies as a result of his environmental quality agency the oil and gas industry lobbyists run

our halls every day i mean they're talking to people in the. agency that might have some say over how they would regulate or linda's same time they're making campaign contributions in every election that comes along when the time comes for a vote i've seen the oil and gas industry for example kill environmental bills just by putting the thumb up. the civilized world produces more food than it needs. while people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where a meal is the most value treasure. is flood or droughts to blame. that it was a bad year without a train. we couldn't find anything but that. there was great

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it's just it's the same corruption that affects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas and google louisiana the political structure is the economic structure of those states are sold on the oil where the would issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's were tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the

california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world of louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related bills proposed in the last decade every bill that contain provisions for alternative energy was blocked. the only bills that became law with the five that subsidized fossil fuels and nuclear. another factor that contributes to the lack of regulation by congress is the proverbial revolving door. on a congressional delegation is known as the all delegation our senators when every

tarak go to work as a lobbyist for walling gas there's a two year. cooling off period before you could become a lobbyist out of the senate senator lott resigned from the senate one month before the end of the session so he didn't have to wait two years he only had to wait one year and then he had a party with john breaux invited all kinds of people to celebrate when the one year was over and now the breaux a lot of lobbying firm is very successful they have lots of energy clients lots of oil and violence little plants gas clients and them a lot of power. to see. your of the oil industry which is enormously powerful which provides huge amounts of money in campaign contributions that was a very very short law if you present all year if washington d.c. and they've got a number of people on their leash. with only five hundred thirty eight congress

members the ratio of lobbyists to congress in d.c. is almost one hundred to one there's probably one hundred thousand people in the lobbying business in washington d.c. so it's a big business after the federal government blobby is the next biggest business the washington d.c. . lobbyists function as the razor to cart off from big industry making sure congress does their bidding but big oil uses a far more aggressive means of tightening its leash around congress' neck here's the reality you're sitting there is a billionaire you make money a wall street making money maybe you're exxon mobil you should know contribute to some fully front organization which can then what millions and millions of millions of dollars on television ads in two campaigns hold in this country what it really is saying is that we are giving unbelievable power to a handful of people who control the politics and the nature of our democracy.

on a national scale fuel companies have huge power over our government. but didn't we throw those oil guys out in the last election. didn't we elect the guy who is going to change things. i believe that americans of every political stripe are desperate they are hungry for a new kind of hope that. most people who will go to go in because they care about what happens there to change something. i will never forget this victory truly belongs to us. it belongs to you. it belongs to you. broke obama ran the most successful campaign ever it was very smart it was very well done it was articulately laid out

and they capitalized on the desperation in this country and it was so prevalent i don't want the folks in hope to bring about a sensible energy policy in the skull for. the love of billion dollars this past quarter i want to give up the profits easily. to go a lot of people on the left to demonize president bush thought it was all about evil president bush and if you could just get rid of bush and like mitt would take over and we'd all be driving around in solar powered cars and life would be beautiful within three or four weeks. old chris hedges it's a form of your correspondent author of nine books and a member of the new york times pulitzer prize winning team a democracy gives expression to the desires and concerns of ordinary citizens whether that's through the press whether labor unions one of the culture an

oligarchy exists. co-ops all those institutions if you are a billion it you can sit down and say ok i'm going to put three hundred thousand dollars into the race in colorado four hundred thousand dollars into mexico half a million dollars into vermont and use for the money and nobody has to know who i am i can do that with no disclosure whatsoever this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's a step forward for oligarchy or a handful of extraordinarily wealthy individuals and large corporations have a major major major influence over all political life after the obama administration came in with his big hopes of changing everything getting serious about energy getting serious about global warming in certain ways has been as disappointing as president bush was. there's a great deal of in tipis the distrust even anger toward slippers and i don't think

it's misplaced it was the democratic party under bill clinton that deregulated the banking system allowed our commercial banks to become hedge funds and precipitated the meltdown that we are now undergoing. this was done consciously bill clinton understood that if he did corporate bidding he would get over money can buy the one nine hundred ninety s. the democratic party late ninety's and fund raising parity with the republican party and by the time barack obama ran for president they got more. when have the american people been as betrayed investing so much hope energy money and barack obama's campaign. today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration. take responsibility for solving this crisis and the president and the buck stops

with me. obama flies down to florida jumps in the water. refly with his daughter for the photo op and from that point on most of the media has left beaches all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business that's one of the reasons michelle sasha and i are here. in reality neither he nor his daughter touched the water of the gulf they swam at st andrew's bay a protected area. what happened with safety regulations in the gulf of mexico in the wake of the b.p. disaster rename a couple of agencies change a couple of faces business as usual full steam ahead what does that tell you. the administration that it promised us change made no alteration to be antiquated spill response plan that still cites wall versus the most threatened species in the gulf of mexico and it still lists deceased people as the contacts increase when

emergency. obama might have had a good reason to tread carefully when he dealt with the spill the largest oil consumer in the world as the u.s. department of defense and gas which company is the pentagon's single largest supplier of fuel to b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil. during the last ten years b.p. has been the single largest energy contractor to the various branches of the u.s. military receiving over seventeen billion dollars in direct contracts for jet and diesel fuel oil is true and b.p. in particular is crucial to the military intelligence and diplomatic complex. on june sixteenth two thousand and ten obama called the meeting at the white house with b.p.'s c.e.o. tony hayward it's managing director bob dudley and its chairman of the board carl

hendricks bamberg. the u.s. government took no action against b.p. or its executives instead it agreed that b.p. would simply create the claims fine for victims of the oil spill the people of the goals have my commitment that b.p. will meet its obligations to them. as publicly pledged to make good on the claims that almost of the people in the gulf. large oil companies are greedy companies or don't. think lazy we can. look. past. four days after his meeting with president obama tony hayward was enjoying a yacht race in england. instead of being fired in the wake of the gulf oil spill

hayward was sent to run b.p.'s operations in russia and it was back to business as usual you can throw out tony hayward and just kill another one out of their frankenstein machine with a different hairdo and a different name they all operate the same you've got to get the oil out the cheapest way is the filthiest dangerous way in the most corrupt way. that's what makes these guys rich. by january of two thousand and eleven the obama administration announced it would start issuing permits for new drilling operations in the gulf of mexico why you may wonder big oil is paying the federal government or percentage of walty that comes out of each barrel that comes out of the ground it's an enormous amount of money. behind the i.r.s. the collection of offshore oil field revenues and royalties is the second largest

generator of money for the united states government. the first new permit issued by the old. ahmet ministration was for a while in the gulf of mexico operated in partnership with b.p. . it is displaying some of all that i do in charge of being responsible for the. sewer searching for the. me a valve the impossible are to you there is a plant open for the masses of pursuit. and stuff. to feed. the more.

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happening to the global economy. blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing. the. streets are full of crowns fighting against. the american dream. is not a. hundred and fifty million dollars each year to imprison one hundred sixty six people. around the world for america but

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