for your media project c.e.o. don carty dot com. coming up on r t n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden is in no hurry to leave moscow meeting with human rights activists today snowden declare that he is seeking political asylum in russia more on this developing story up ahead. and true color of diplomacy may actually be green obama's nominee for and bastard to the u.k. happens to be his top twenty twelve campaign bundler is this an example of pay to play and what does it say about diplomatic positions more on this coming up. and a pig virus may soon cause rising port prices multiple states have now experienced a virus that's most fatal for piglets an in-depth look at the virus later in tonight's show.

hello there it's friday july twelfth eight pm in washington d.c. i marinate and you're watching our t.v. . in a developing story this evening for south american countries say they will recall some of their ambassadors after the bolivian president's plane was banned from european airspace last week evo morales his plane returning from russia was rerouted to austria amid rumors that american fugitive edward snowden was on board brazil argentina venezuela and uruguay say the incident violated international law . envoys representing those countries will be recalled from france spain portugal and italy now speaking at a summit in montevideo call by morale is over the incident the euro going foreign minister luis album aguero so the action of the european governments were quote groundless discriminatory and arbitrary he went on to say the gravity of the situation which is a typical neo colonial practice is an unusual unfriendly and hostile act which

violates human rights and affects the freedom of transit displacement and immunity that is enjoyed by every head of state. now these latin american countries are demanding an apology from the european countries they feel wronged by and showing solidarity with solidarity with bolivia after last week's incident. now this morning n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden emerged from his airport hideaway telling human rights groups that he wants temporary asylum in russia but still hopes to travel a lot in america to avoid prosecution by u.s. authorities it was the world's first glimpse of the self declared leaker who's been hauled up in the transit zone of the moscow airport since june twenty third snowden met with a small group of human rights campaigners and lawyers at an undisclosed location in the airport now although the meeting was not public some of those present posted details on twitter and r.t.

was on the scene here's what tanya. this senior russian researcher for human rights watch said about snowden status in the airport here is that snowden could be subjected to ill treatment and yes intimate. people he's living conditions will finally be important you say there but he knows that he cannot sleep forever. but if he can't stay in the airport will he be granted political asylum by russia one member of the russian parliament who was invited to the meeting spoke smoke because they spoke about snowden's qualifications for asylum so i think he really. said as far as the requirements for a political refugee. because. i'm not an expert on the issue but human rights activists and lawyers who were there. at the end were agreeing that he was prosecuted for political reasons rather than legal drones so what's next for edward

snowden i was joined earlier by ray mcgovern a former cia analyst i first asked him i asked him how the u.s. is responding to russia potentially taking their new number one enemy. well they're adopting a typically imperious stance you must return him despite the fact that in the list and putin has said we never extra that anyone is saying he's released all these kinds of secrets which are not secrets to the russians and he's saying that to. the press spokesman for the president is saying that to give him asylum will damage relationship but not very much because he won't like this it damages too much so it's a situation where the u.s. government is in a terribly embarrassing position you know here the russians you know offering asylum probably right on to international law and you know i imagine that when the president calls puting this afternoon first question he's going to say why did your

guys tell my guys that snowden was on that plane with morales that was it their teacher rick and that was a trick well that's the way i can strike and i don't know yet how and i am not mentioning well i mean somebody told me who has an incentive to barassi united states more than we did and so you had the u.s. completely embarrassing themselves by leaning all over its allies the ones you're suggesting to them that was in the mark and out now here's another. these does snowden now face in getting to the countries that have offered him asylum in latin america like bolivia ecuador venezuela one of the problems there well he's made it very clear in a statement that he's asked for asylum in russia in till such time as these other countries decide to abide by the law and give him the international right for asylum but not there another and another in spain report a lawyer in france or italy who will fold it but in these three very courageous

latin american countries who didn't fold right and willing to accept him so again it's a complete embarrassment here's here's him appealing to the russians can you let me stay here for as long as it takes for these other countries that are under the heel united states to realize that they have international obligations and that they really ought it here to today tional law and convention right now it's our understanding that in order for snowden to get to these latin american countries alternately which seems like what it's what he ultimately wants to do you have to travel over u.s. airspace and that could cause problems now well it depends on how long he stays in russia you know as a couple of months you know he could change his appearance he could you know there are lots of ways you could travel by milan to than by sea and you know all those things are out right in the future out there in the immediate problem is he's he said that he's going to further bearish the united states putin talks about the united states is being our partner right now and as long as he doesn't say anything

from moscow and let's go in memory of all of the others say it from from brazil from london and he should be ok so what do you think snowden's claims for sound do you think they should be satisfied by russia well i think that in international law he's clearly going to idle to political asylum ok now that's kind of an out there question but we know that historically the lives of whistleblowers have been pretty bleak to say the least after the dust settles on. really it's going to be a problem with they've been alcoholics or they've tried suicide attempts what do you think's going to happen to snowden well this is wait a minute so courageous and look what happened happened bradley manning look were junior senators so the issue here the fact that he's willing to take that risk in full expectation that he's not going to be really for me and forever that says a lot for him i don't know what's going to happen but this is a unique case and russia now has responsibility partly for. that was former

cia analyst ray mcgovern. now as we look to what edward snowden's future may hold it's important to look at the upper kushan is a snowden's actions and who fears the leaks the most his leaks the most political commentator sam sachs has compiled a list of the top five liars exposed by edward snowden's disclosures here's what's here's more recent on. edward snowden's latest leak reveals how microsoft has been working with the n.s.a.'s prism program handing over contents of skype user's phone calls specifically snowden's leaked documents show and in july last year nine months after microsoft bought skype the n.s.a. boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of sky video calls being collected through prism and this appears to contradict a very specific message that microsoft ice president and general counsel brad smith made earlier this year regarding the privacy protections for skype users he noted in a recent blog post quote skype received four thousand seven hundred thirteen requests from law enforcement those requests impacted more than fifteen thousand accounts or

other identifiers such as p.s.t.n. number skype produced did this new content in response to these requests but it did provide non-content data so what does this mean well it means that microsoft just made the list of top five liars exposed by edward snowden number four on the list the british government last month snowden leaked documents showing rampant spying on foreign diplomats by the british government it's asserted that quote foreign politicians and officials who took part in two g twenty summit meetings in london in two thousand and nine had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their british government hosts some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set up by british intelligence agencies to read their e-mail traffic. busted number three on the list the department of homeland security in two thousand and ten sean mcgurk the head of cyber security center at the department of homeland security testified in from the

senate on the stocks that virus that was crippling iran in nuclear facilities he called the virus a game changer he stressed how the u.s. needs to protect itself against it and said it was still unknown who created stuxnet it as the department's analysis of the code did not point to where it was developed and then edward. snowden entered the picture and he promptly revealed that quote the n.s.a. and israel wrote stuxnet together so either the n.s.a. kept its involvement with stocks and that a secret from the department of homeland security or the department of homeland security was lying and i want to number two on the list the head honcho of our intelligence agencies themselves director of national intelligence james clapper you may remember clapper told the senate that the n.s.a. was not collecting data on american citizens but snowden's very first leak expose how millions of horizon users american citizens had their data handed over to the n.s.a.

clapper later apologized for misleading senators but his live prompted the president the united states to react to snowden's leaks by saying this this program by the way is fully overseen not just by congress but by the pfizer court and with that president obama became liar number one since edward snowden later revealed that the secret files a court which is supposed to be providing oversight has given the n.s.a. broad authority to collect and store data on american citizens without any sort of warrant whatsoever in other words there really is no oversight as president obama claims so you can determine whether his life was malicious or not you see edward snowden hasn't just put our intelligence agencies on notice by exposing it's unconstitutional mass surveillance operation he's put liars on notice too and in a world of wiki leaks and embolden whistleblowers the liars out there may soon be

dealing with something like this. in washington sam sachs r.t. . you know as entertaining them now we have some news from guantanamo bay where a hunger strike has lasted for five months among detainees at the facility of the one hundred and two detainees currently tracked as hunger strikers. by the department of defense an official spokesperson told reporter ryan j. reilly that ninety nine of those strikers ate a meal within the last twenty four hours why did they eat well get no officials allowed prisoners the option of living communally with with one another rather than splitting them up in individual cell blocks does this mean the hunger strike is over not necessarily because officials must see what they call sustained eating meeting at fifteen hundred calories a day for one week elsewhere getting plush embassy jobs to big ticket presidential donors is not a new phenomenon however it appears president obama has taken the practice to new

heights barack obama has rewarded some of his most active campaign donors with plum jobs in foreign embassies but career diplomats in washington are increasingly alarmed at how the practice has grown in recent years earlier this week obama's chief money raiser matthew barzan became the latest major donor to be nominated as an ambassador to great britain the ambassadorship comes with a posh residence at the court of st james which is said to have garden second only in size to that of buckingham palace now as campaign finance chairman bars and helped raise seven hundred million dollars to fund president obama's two thousand and twelve reelection campaign and more than one point three million of that was raised by bars and personally now paul craig roberts joined me earlier to discuss the practice of giving embassador ships to big money donors mr roberts is a former assistant secretary of the u.s. treasury and an associate editor at the wall street journal i asked him if being a diplomat to a u.s. ally like england is an easy job. you know him best you don't really control go

see anymore it's really controlled study to. see. so you don't really need an xterm there. big guy let's throw parties if you will can you tell us how long this practice of giving embassy jobs to big political donors how long it's been going on over a very long time i think at least since roosevelt that means franklin delano roosevelt and probably before you say look there are two ways to reward big donors to the political party one is to let them write the legislation that you pass so they write the laws in their own interest that's the most expensive way to do this with. the cheapest way is to give them is to give them an ambassadorship right now do you believe and does it look as if to save a couple dollars so dear to him that this practice that it's increased in recent

years since like i said time. i don't know that it's increased since then you know they still will give ambassadorships to foreign service officers if they're small countries right right now. is it is the most expensive embassy and it can really only be given to a wealthy person right because of all the entertainment costs and and you can't if you gave it to a foreign service officer the taxpayers would have picked it up and for some reason they give the big country ambassadorships to people with money that's interesting that's a very interesting raising bill so yeah right here i mean i guess that's part of not not leaving on the part of the taxpayer now do you lose institutional knowledge when people come from outside the system to take these roles in a and diplomacy. well it's mainly just entertainment as it is like i say i don't think ambassadors

any longer have march a state department role. and so it's really a way of warding foreign service officers who toe the line. and it's a way to reward large donors is it cheaper way to reward them than to write bills for their. more cost effective again so how do western european countries where the posh embassies are they will feel about u.s. ambassadors in their country who don't necessarily have the background that position requires i don't think they really care that they do they just like to be a part of the social. means that their watches and approves of them they are approved puppets and lackeys right. and you think it like you said it's not as big a position that it's better to give them

a job at an embassy than to write a bill is more cost effective long run but what negative repercussions could these gifting of an baster ships have for the u.s. could they ever do something you know someone with an ethics parents could they really ruin the lions between two countries or where they couldn't so people don't embarrass but that's about it. you know i think them basters are on a very tight leash. they haven't any real independence navigationally you'll get a very good one that the reagan administration had a very good ambassador in switzerland very little see and she but she was a favorite of reagan so she had enough a connection and clout and she kept the relationships with switzerland very high level and despite the justice department's attempts to browbeat swiss the swiss government the swiss bankers and forced them to break their bank secrecy

call for money and all that sort of chese you get a person who can be very effective in the role but that's not the purpose of the ambassadorship well paul thank you very much it's an interesting topic and anything glamorous like that always catches people's attention so thank you very much for being with us here with us today yes thank you. in two thousand and eleven bills to prohibit undercover videos of farms were introduced in several state legislatures including florida iowa minnesota new york and kansas these agag laws a term coined by mark bittman all private the making of undercover video showing animal cruelty and farming practices well now those laws are being enforced a freelance photographer taking photos of a kansas feedlot for national geographic faces criminal charges of trespassing the photographer george steinmetz was taking aerial photos of a theater lot in your garden city kansas for a series about food scheduled to be published in two thousand and fourteen when

a feedlot employee noticed the paraglider and alerted authorities. now the associated press reports steinmetz and his paraglider instructor failed to obtain permission to launch a paraglider from private property and didn't notify the feedlot of their plans the two were arrested in keppen phinney county jail before being released on two hundred seventy dollars bond the incident raises questions about trespassing and if a land owners own the air above their land they issue a face additional consideration as animal welfare and media groups are investing in unmanned aerial vehicles and drones. pork lovers be aware that your local deli could go sky high in the next few months all thanks to a deadly virus that is killing entire populations of piglets the diseases known as the poor seen epidemic diarrhea virus and until very recently it was thought only to exist in europe and china now somehow two hundred facilities in fifteen states

are reporting cases of the disease the virus causes severe diarrhea vomiting and dehydration in pigs is most fatal to young piglets now it should be noted that this disease is not known to be harmful to humans and there is no evidence that it affects pork products but it could hit hard in the pocket of consumers it also makes you think about whether the global food supply chain leaves consumers open to new dangers for more on the pedal virus i was joined earlier by dr michael greger director of public health and animal agriculture at the human society and he first filled us in on the history of such viral pandemics. well originally it was first described in europe in the seventy's going to spread primarily to asia for example china lost a million pigs and now just recently here in north america actually a similar thing happened with swine flu is a eurasian strain of swine flu that mixed with the north american strain to trigger the last influenza pandemic now what's this mean for the pork industry as

a whole. well you know even though i mean basically the disease in many ways it's really self-inflicted by the pork industry and their studies of being indian you're consistently have found that these industrial factory farming operations have much higher rates of inspection compared to smaller farms that you know actually let pigs go outdoors these factory farming operations really a breeding ground for disease because last year numbers of animals were crowding the stress crippling their immune system the lack of fresh air a lack of sunlight you put all these factors together where you really have the perfect storm environment for the emergence of the spread of new diseases some of which can have human health consequences now that's are going to various pictures are rolling behind you darling little piglets and i know a lot of people out there are going to be concerned about the welfare of the pig with is there anything that can be done other than the big industrial farms really kind cleaning up there at their facilities. yeah there are certainly there are some

measures that can mediate some of the risks for example you know providing just a strong baton for a pregnant mother pigs for example just to decrease the kind of immunosuppressive stress of line number concrete class their whole lives has been found to decrease for example swine flu transmission rates so there are things you can do to improve the conditions decrease the stress because the stress that reduces this creation of stomach acid which can kill off some of these people love increases in testimony till these you get this kind of fear induced it back you asian about increased stress hormones can impair immunity so things that are good for the animals reducing stress like getting the mother picked out of these cramps just asian creates where they can't even turn around for their whole lives things are good for animals can also be good for people too because it helps improve disease resistance now earlier today i spoke with a representative of the national pork ford and this is what he had to say about how

farmers can protect their livestock from this virus well a virus is transmitted what we call the corals so what it amounts to is when when a pig get this virus and gets into the intestine it shed in the faces and so everything that a farmer can do to make sure that their bio security is high enough that it prevents any spread of v.c.s. from one farm to another and that's the biggest thing. do you think this is sufficient or does factory farming inherently create risk like this when we over crowd thousands of animals that is trampled the football field size sheds to live snout us now tops our own ways it's just really kind of a breeding ground for disease these so-called factory farms are kind of viral incubators kind of the you know kind of a recipe for disaster so what's the worst case scenario for the pork industry consumers and the global market. well you know the same factory farming practices

that led to the emergence the spread of this virus of same risky practices that can lead to the emergence of diseases that can actually hurt people x. y. and flu kill ten thousand americans right and the same kind of long distance live animal transport that spreads these bugs around the world not just within these facilities and so the this one is really going to take this very seriously because it directly affects their wild align what i'm more concerned about is diseases that don't affect the pork industry bottom line like you're sitting in a bacteria that sickens a hundred thousand americans every year but it doesn't cause the pigs to get sick so they don't have any nationwide control program because they can kind of shift the responsibility of this disease shift kind of a cost onto the consumer nonsense society same thing with swine flu makes big sick but you know it doesn't kill tens of thousands of them so this disease they're going to clean up because it affects their bottom line but they really should think about fundamental changes in the way they treat animals and so as to prevent future

diseases that could impact public health and that's a very interesting and important note that you just gave us can't think that will happen that it could escalate to that level where humans will be at risk. well look i mean the american public health association has been saying for years calling for a moratorium on factory farms and the pew commission on industrial for mental production has called for an end to these extreme confinement practices in the public health community has been kind of shouting from the rooftops for years now this is not the first nice one flew us in the person strip so it's an e-book viruses multi-drug resistant bacteria because they feed so many antibiotics these animals just keep them alive in such crowded stressful on hygenic conditions and so i mean we're beating this public health drum right hopefully the industry will eventually this right thank you dr gregory great insight and we appreciate you coming on the show that was dr michael greger director of the public health and animal agriculture at the humane society. there's the claim that u.s.

foreign policy is about spreading democracy and capitalism to other nations but some recent events have shown severe contradictions with this intent for more on that residence. so biden just opened two days of annual talks with china where he actually said these words to china we both will benefit from an open secure reliable internet outright cyber theft that u.s. companies are experiencing now he must be viewed as out of bounds and needs to stop

that's right the world just found out that the u.s. is collecting everyone on the planet personal information and the vice president of the united states just now decides to make a big statement about another country happening the information of u.s. companies pot call the kettle black much. our government has made a habit of issuing hypocritical statements though obama just released an official statement on egypt which opened with these words the united states supports a set of core principles including opposition to violence protection of universal human rights and reform that meets the legitimate aspirations of the people. opposition to violence from our country engaged in war wars than we can count protection of universal human rights except for the people in the universe who don't agree with everything we do reform that meet the aspirations of the people this is from a man whose legislature only passes report when it benefits the after ration of the

rich. the us also recently issued formal statements about the protests in turkey and in brazil state department spokesman patrick ventrell said our position is clear that peaceful demonstrations are part of what a democracy is all about citizens expressing their views this from a country has systematically shut down occupy wall street protest across its own country by implementing violent arrests to group destruction canister missiles to the skulls of protesters and other violent tactics all coordinated through the f.b.i. . look no country is perfect and there are a lot of great things about the u.s. but what is the point of release these statements that are so obviously hypocritical wouldn't it be better if our officials would just shut up our

president should realize that the white house is indeed made of glass so maybe he should rethink where he throws his stone tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident. that does it for now for more on the stories we covered today you can go to youtube dot com backslash r t america or check out our web site r t v dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at aaron eight and please don't forget to tune in at nine pm tonight for larry king now with special guest bell kilmer the world famous actor talks about his career including his uncanny performances the novelist mark twain you don't want to miss that that's all coming up have a great weekend. the same story doesn't make good news. no. top plan to make it.

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