most of the people in prison as sex offenders are not those people. i call them romeo and juliet's. he is 19 and she is 16 or she is 19 and he is 16. that is the most of the mark. let's face it -- we should know, especially in san francisco, that as human beings, we are not really comfortable with sex. some of us do not even know who we are, right? from day to day, right? you know, i mean, sex is a very complicated issue. the idea that sexual behavior and people's aberrations with it or problems with it or confusions should send them to present for life sentences. in wisconsin, they have the same thing in iowa and illinois -- actually have built prisons just for sex offenders. can you imagine? the entire prison are sex offenders, mostly young men. that is what they are. young men who are confused about their sexuality. as my son was or your son was. i'm going to continue with this, just some of the suggestions we have had. get rid of the word "officer." you have police officers -- isn't that enough? we have, like, 2 million of them. it should be social workers, correctional workers.

we have too many people in prisons to our liking people out of city college. what is happening is more than an outrage. the systethis is something thate take immediate steps to protect. we have seen that this falls on deaf ears. unless the people make their voices heard, we will not see change. we know this is a recipe for failure. going forward, we must become involved in the justice system. this is not someone else's problem. we will sit and wonder why the crime rates have gone up. >> when you think about the cost to our society and every person that lives in our society. it becomes very clear that we have no option but to act and act now. i am hoping that you will be motivated to get involved in non ordinary justice. we have yet to live up to that promise. i look forward to working with all of you call ever to pla. we invite you to stay with us. we look forward to continuing this dialogue in the future. thank you very much.

at the time, we were helping a few hundred people each year, and today, we fell over 2000 people -- wed over two dozen people clean up their criminal records. our goal is to help people have a dignified return from the criminal justice system. -- we help over 2000 people clean up their criminal records. the panel today is entitled "paving the road to reentry: clean slate and state law and criminal record reform." the discussion comes at a time when there is an unprecedented amount of people incarcerated. these individuals are returning from prison at the rate of 600,000 per year. in california, that rate is 115,000 per year. in california, over 1 million people have a conviction record, and one in five individuals have an arrest or criminal conviction. so we have to ask ourselves -- is criminal record reform an urgent priority for california? and if so, what is being done? and how can we go further? let's hear what our distinguished panel has to say. our first panelist is dr. steven richardson, a renowned author and professor of criminal justice at the university of wisconsin oshkosh.

we have a government of the people by the people and for the people. "for the people."ow can we ensure in the decisions made by these lobbyists that are influenced by the obvious -- influenced by the lobbyists, how can we ensure these decisions are for the people and not for the special interests? thank you. guest: that is a difficult issue. you can argue that it becomes more transparent if there is more sunlight, that everyone can see what is going on. that will show that the public interest is served. there are two problems with that. you can shine all but the light you want on a 2300 page bill that is full of legalese that is almost impossible to read in any comprehensible way and it may not do much good in informing the public. the second issue is what is definition of the public interest? it is -- is it in the public interest that green energy products continue to get a tax break or is it not? these things become very complicated. the issue i tried to pinpoint in this article, and it is a difficult one, that the more complicated and intrusive government is the high

military has been able to use this for now for people in iraq. do they feel like this is something that the u.s. did on purpose you know when they see the effects and they see the. higher rates of birth defects and cancer rates are they feel like this is the u.s. trying to poison them on purpose or do they you know take into account that these are weapons that perhaps no one really knew what the effects might be until now well i mean one of the effects of the weapons people know to certain different extents what they are i mean whether it's the direct killing of civilians which actually did happen to fit in fallujah or whether it's effects of depleted uranium which has been recorded from one thousand nine hundred ninety one war after the invasion of kuwait so it's not necessarily new now how he has always been tried to be denied so yeah there are some things that i rather like agree with you but the thing is i mean different records will see in different ways so it depends on who you speak with but a lot of ordinary citizens will say to you that

but there are certain people out there who run people out of their, throw a limb in jail, giving people tickets, dragging off their cars -- throwing people in jail, giving people tickets, dragging up their cars. that is part of the game to push us out. >> a lot of our children are foster care. what are we doing about them? we know that a lot of the young men are committing these crimes. how are we addressing milk? -- how are we addressing them? you can get it easier than you can get an apple. that is not our fault, and we are trying to change that. we need liquor stores to be better neighbors because the people hanging in front of liquor stores are not buying milk and bread. they are buying cups of liquor, by a cigarette. they are doing other things. we are trying to make sure that people understand that if you have a liquor store, you can provide other services as well. looking at the best liquor stores and saying that this is a good standard. we want liquor stores to be like this throughout the city, good neighbors. we are trying to take back our streets, get different uses, and peopl

war willing to use them and you have people that don't understand the consequences because the people who are flying the drones are not on the battlefield they're not in the play here in washington d.c. suburb but the are a drone operator wakes up in the morning family goodbye come to the office and shoot at targets thousands of miles away from here and go back home no risk or pull whatever specialist say the whole operation reminds the b.t.o. get. the question many ask is if it is so easy and convenient we'll get our m.p. way to move forward in the future or worse. why not use the people especially against the smaller countries and organizations. you know to try to shift around the cable were to get over demonstrators outside cia headquarters at the start of the year protested against indiscriminate killings by unmanned weaponry they say that rather than winning war drones merely make more enemies by killing mostly innocent people are fueling rather than quelling insurgency. r t washington d.c. . now across russia marking navy day a major celebration which is held in. every year the

with the young people and set up times to meet with those young people. what we found is that many of those young people have been disengaged from the academic environment for quite some time, so our work has been over the school years to further identify what those barriers to attendance and getting better grades and engaging the school -- we have tried to really find out what those barriers are and work with those young people. that is what our work has been looking like as well as connecting young people and their families with support services, specific to where they need those services, the types of needs we have had the we have been able to identify and the things they have expressed. but again, the district attorney's office has referred 15 young people, and we are actively working with them, as well as the school district has made referrals. during our pilot time, we also had a number of calls from parents who called hearing about the tarc center and had students that were true and that they wanted support for, so we have also worked with those fa

they do sell certain people. a major problem we have is that for people who have gone to prison in california, for this cases for which they were sentenced, the only remedy is something called a certificate of rehabilitation, which is so far from expunge meant -- it is a gold star on your criminal record that you get to take around and show people. that would be my dream to work on that. the other option is pardon, and i think governor schwarzenegger has printed six, and not to my clients. >> nor mine. i want to return to dr. richard s. i think a cut you off, and you were giving us a real perspective on the impact criminal history has on a person's life, and a one to give you back your time. >> i appreciate the legislation and the work that you do any work you are doing, but i think we have kind -- we do not realize how big a problem this has become. united states today, we are this global power. we are fighting wars that do not end. you all know this. and the war has come home. the war is in the streets. we have

there are people being hurt. the people who have been laid off and the unemployed for those who have been six months, a year, year and a half, that's obviously something you can relate to. and but if you can care about it it leads. and all of these news, the positive events kind of you don't hear them as much. but if we look at history and we predict the future basically by looking at the past, the mark economic performance of the united states and all of western europe is pretty remarkable in the sense of pretty significant steady growth, interrupted by short and shallow recessions. i mean, once you just remember that after world war ii japan and germany were devasted. their infrastructure didn't exist and now they're number two and number three in the world. the economies in the modern era have really shown themselves to be able to grow such that in the late 1980s there was another debate. remember when everyone was saying that japan was going to be number one and the value of tokyo real estate was more than al

in this country and the people of the world the people of afghanistan people need to know in this country what is being done in our name by our young soldiers with with our tax money and for which we are being held accountable but we don't know we don't have the information yes this stuff was classified but it's clear that this is not information these are all reports of events that already happened that's not going to put anybody's life at risk what puts lives at risk is these kinds of actions and if this spurs people to more opposition so that the war can be brought to a to a halt sooner i think that that's a heroic act and it will it will end up being very important in history because avoids those doesn't see it that way it's described in the release as a breach of federal mourner threat to american military personnel classified documents are secret for a reason should we keep secrets secret of the. well there are many parts that wiki leaks has said that they are keeping secret because it name names that people who might be might might face problems as a result could be put in danger a

people call each other people people sent text messages, which is very popular. or they talk to each other through other ways. i think that the situation in iraq continues to be the same. the lack of activity, and of course the lack of english speakers in the country as well. >> forums are a classic in network type of communication. you do not participate if you are not part of the group. there are very few that i can think of that are really open. most of them are associated with a particular trend or sectarian group. it is also hard to mine for data. forums will just disappear and if no one has saved the archive, that is it. interesting. what i think of the impact in iraq, i think of the video of the hanging of saddam hussein. is that an exception or a rule? >> the question is whether we would count that as new media. mms is multimedia messages over textiles, which we do not see use much in the u.s.. it is a very popular to of communication in iraq. you can get this information without an internet connection and your phone. many important videos, whether they h

people have had enough it's a family. we heard that maksim by key of said i have a shepherd that says father and five million sheep magine that. it was those deaths ultimately allowed the interim government to seize power when the victims of the bishkek massacre were laid to rest the new authority still to present them as national heroes to sacrifice their lives for the future of back country all of those people who shed their blood for they had the noose of curious nation and for the fast the rooty. before the bishkek riots previous john had not been buried so many people at once and there at the cemetery the leaders pledged it wouldn't happen again. but just two months later the country south was drowning in. s.o.s. save our souls this plea was seen on every house on every street in those back neighborhoods of southern kyrgyzstan a cry for mercy that led to even more violence and that's why we didn't have anything to protect ourselves with so we had to write s.o.s. everywhere but it didn't help at all places rues books

we the american people. have to come forward and say enough is enough we've had enough of the impunity in the law breaking and it's in every same single facet of our society now it seems as a giant corporations rule the day the government seems to be incapable of stopping them and that our elected officials are not acting in our interest where do we begin someone has to stand up and say i'm not going to get a war and we do have the rule of law so what we have to do is impress upon them what the rule of law is and hope that the will of the people will carry the day u.s. president barack obama has said several times this is an era of looking forward and not looking backwards bronco pramod said when he got elected he said it's not just up to me it's up to you so i'm taking him on challenge i realize that there are very powerful people who are telling him to move forward and not look backward because really what that's become of the code word for i will not prosecute but the fact of the matter is there was enoug

the people will make this election and it should be the people. this is the people's see. that is exactly what robert c. byrd would want. this is the people's seat. let me introduce to you the newest member of the united states senate, carte goodwin. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you, very much. needless to say, it is an immense honor to be standing here today to except an appointment to the united states senate. -- to accept an appointment to the united states senate. i want to thank the governor for an interesting me with this very enormous responsibility. in turn, my responsibility will be to work hard every day to maintain the trust of the people of west virginia. i have a deep and abiding passion to this state and her people. in the days, weeks and months ahead, my sole objective will be to make was virginia proud. i will have no agenda other than to work and fight hard every day for west virginia families. for the greatest person our country will ever know, no one can begin to replace him nor can anyone hope to fill his shoes, but what i can do and what i

i want to know how many of those 834,000 people are clerical people, i.t.eople, that there are 10 of them standing around talking about their boyfriends and girlfriends while maybe one or two are actually doing anything. guest: i cannot give you a number on that. the assurance i can give you is, based on my experience, based on my recent look inside the intelligence community, you do not find that much going on in the intelligence business. he may find that in some other aspect of the federal government, but in the intelligence business, typically, people are working long hours every day, particularly if they are working on country terrorism. there is not much wasted effort here. host: pat on the republican line. caller: i just want to make a comment that a lot of this is terribly wasteful because the money comes too easy. this is why big government does not work very well. when you have a huge corporation -- i remember when i was coming up in white, ford motors had 14 layers of management. it was inefficient and then they streamlined. most americans would

a dispirited people.y've lost confidence in themselves and that should never be allowed to happen. it happens because somewhere in that glorious, long career of harry reid, he stopped caring about people. he became more concerned about washington and the interests there >> and the interest there that covers every election cycle and the deals he can cut. the deal that often land on the backs of hard-working taxpayers. i don't have to make this stuff up, you witnessed it all over the past year. i'm not telling you anything you don't already know. what i'm asking you is to share the reality with the people, the truth of nevada. what six more years of senator harry reid will mean for them. just the thought is scary, of itself. you have the facts and the candidates to deliver, not just the facts, but the heart. the heart. the people of this state. that beats in unison with the folks all across this country who want a better life for their kids. we cannot afford to be the first generation unable to pass on a le

people wait indeed line on the narrow sidewalks and rubbed elbows talk to people. there is a community that developed from that use on the space. and at some point somebody pulled out a table and chair on the 6 foot wide sidewalk and a neighbor complained that was blocking the sidewalk. he thought, the owner of the building and the partner said can we do a sidewalk encroaching permit. no, the sidewalk is too small. we were thinking there is a plan in the market/octavia plan neighborhood plan that has emphasizes the use of alleys as creating living space. the neighborhood that's grid with busy streets and in between are the narrow and underused streets that could be used to off set as public gatherering spaces and planted areas and conducive for people. let's scratch the surface of that. within a week, the community challenge grant and the mayor's office of greening had grownup from had it's own grass roots and it was kismit there was a coincidance of events. we sketched up a few drawings of what we could think of. which is to remove a couple of -- 3 on street parki

you cannot lock people like that. they should have moved to the fence is a way much earlier. >> when i looked around, when i lookeddo, saloof bodies just lying there. i cannot believe it. people just died there. >> who is to blame? the organization. right from the start, the location was not big eug i my opinion. i cannot see how that area would be big enough for 1.4 million people. i do not think it is right to blame the police alone could i think the planning should have gone different from the start. >>>> the only explanation i can come up with is that the organizers built up a huge amount of pressure related e region being the european capital of culture this year, bringing in the media and appealing to politicians. >> if security issues are dodged r mmcial reasons, that is punishable by law. if the venue is said to be suitable for a 200,000 to 300,000 and then a 1.5 million shot, that is way too many. i am sure that heads will roll because of this. -- 1.5 million show up, that is way too many. i am sure that head

in the community i think that people have to realize that they are the government the people who elect the government officials and i think it's important that people are informed about this is. to pass the buck to give something right. to say yes jobs. get us better health care or open more schools for our children like what we see the power that we have as a unified and this is our symbol of if occasion would just say that. we have to know where the power came from initially came from the people who elected this individual i think that. the need for change is what set this whole thing in motion and. it's going on all over the world it just seems like america or the americans or american citizens are just kind of sleeping right now i don't know i don't know if they understand what's really going on in the world or how it effects affects them or affects us because on american citizens we have to remember that. america is this model for democracy you know we become just like people in third world countries. look to america and say you know you guys are really seem like you got it togeth

and i think most people understand maybe not people in power regular people who understand the rule of law and that we should respect the law and i think you can reach a large audience with that principle and i think the audience is now ready to listen. and you can watch the full interview with norman finkelstein in about an hour's time right here on r.t. . well the recent years fortune tellers and psychics have become increasingly popular here in russia some turn to magic to give their love life a little boost others seek cures for life threatening diseases but authorities say the trends are attracting con artists who not only swindle people out of money but also jeopardize their health sean thomas reports on the government's battle against fake magic. via lure of the unknown and of the showcasing of psychic abilities have become big business in russia while simple entertainment for some others turned to these self-proclaimed mystics for healing and the promise of answers to the problems of everyday life says good manners of national police that six years ago trouble came to our famil

people have the right to hire people they feel safe and comfortable with. that's our right. who we're dealing with. i think we should put them through an incremental system that will them get back to society in a good way. >> i don't disagree with the incremental approach. that's what i advise prisoners when i speak to them, letting them know incremental success is what they need to experience to enjoy a productive life. on the other hand, once again, returning to expungements, you have to wait five years of good behavior, no arrests or convictions before you're even eligible for that. and certainly five years is enough time to determine whether someone has been rehabilitated enough and therefore deserving of a second chance. >> dog, maybe you have a thought. if prison is supposed to work, why do so many people go back? >> welsh the reason they go back is they cannot get a job. i don't think anyone really likes it. and when you go out with so many -- and i'm not saying you change these laws, but, have you ever been convicted? i could say like this. okay, my record was expung

the kick is people have fully tested only one right the right to kill. it's not the residents of washington didn't see the writing on the wall tensions between craig is and his best communities have been simmering for decades when joseph stalin held draw of the region's administrative borders patches of it was that land ended up cutting through curtis territory the people see nobody took it seriously if the borders were appointed by reference to the terrain nobody could ever even think that these borders would become the frontiers between the independent states it was just dumb to put a stumbling block into the interethnic relations just to let moscow be the main result of the problem. for decades the two communities league side by side attending the weddings of their children and going to the same mosques. both the conditions and those bags a sunni muslims yet in this city religious unit couldn't outweigh the hellish brutality. in fact it was right before friday prayers the most spiritual time for a muslim that the slaughter began. while the viciousness

because then you're responsive to the people and guess what people are losing don't solve prosecutors and they don't want to solve judges they don't kick you out if you're elected official and you've got elected under the premise of i'm going to be tough on crime. you commit crimes you're going to send you away as a matter of fact you will do we're going to jack up the penalties we need to put these guys away because that's what people have been pulled in this country in this state here so i'm just going to go along i'm not going to say the system is not working i'm going to stick to what got me elected you know tough on crime. to most life as the sentence actually means death by incarceration. louisiana has a pardon board that can theoretically recommend a sentence be commuted. but the board hardly ever does. in the last ten years only to clemency is were granted out of four thousand inmates seven a life sentence. a laugh summer should mean a laugh sometimes i think they should dad and go oh it doesn't matter if they rehabilitate it they're there to be punished you commit a crime. so

people -- presidio maps. people keep forgetting that the army was a major presence.ore the city was functioning, the army was functioning. and there are maps from the 1800's that show the farmhouses in the valley, the eureka valley, and mission district that were done by the army. so the army is its own resource for the history of the city before there was a building department. they would have everything. you could find out what was the original house in an area. again, this is the 1800's more than the 1900's. but the earthquake obliterated a lot of records. >> there's the survey map that the government did. that's a great resource to just kind of show -- you know, we saw that map on the grid pattern. they had that, like i said, on maps in 1968. but there's no streets yet. but the coast survey map will show you where there are streets put in and buildings sometimes. there's lots of great resources out there. >> that was terrific, woody. thank you so much. >> i couldn't have enjoyed it more. [applause] >> we'll see you next >> but wae who is on the fence as a grand j

tons of thousands of people have turned out for the funerals of twenty seven people killed by a twin bomb blast at a share mosque and it won't this sunni rebel group of dollars said that time was in revenge for the execution of its leader abdul malik rigging june iran has accused the u.s. and britain of supporting the rebel group but president barack obama condemned the bombing. was detained in february after a plane he was flying on from dubai to kurdistan was intercepted by the iranian air force. and the european union's foreign policy chief says gaza's blockade must end to let the region's economy prosper catherine ashton also called in the in the meantime for a further easing of israel's three year old look aid to improve the lives of ordinary gazans israel recently relaxed its blockade to allow in more consumer goods needed construction materials are still behind ashton also talks between israeli and palestinian leaders her. much of europe is sweltering in a record breaking heat wave wilting crops and causing severe forest fire as greek emergency services are battling several da

this great position you know the people out of government you know people. so. do you mean to tell me you don't think that. u.s. president barack obama can change the system the system that you say is led and structured by the corporations of the united states in my opinion i think. he means well and i think that there are there are there are people who are going to run in this country way before brock graduate and probably thought about running for office or come in and said you know anything you can get. but the big star to interrupt you but the reason that most so many americans rallied around him is because he promised to change that pattern he vowed to as a matter of fact in two thousand and eight i think in october two thousand and eight you put a video up on you tube a letter to barack obama where he said we need a president that knows how to react. we stand with you. has he reacted to any of the injustices you've seen in some forms he has because he can not stand and do nothing what we see is the media telling us how things are going so we're kind of lik

they are poor people, people of color, victims of abuse, the mentally ill, people with substance abuse problems. there are the people that fall through the cracks of society. but that is the public read what the public wants and the public is understandably afraid because this is a real problem. then there are these people who build prisons and service prisons who give money to politicians who go out and run campaigns appealing to this fear and ignorance and prejudice, and if we cannot lock them up, killed them. they do not understand how shortsighted it is because they do nothing to understand the fundamental problems about crime. i think part of education people about criminal defense lawyers, public defense lawyers, is educating people about the source of crime. they need to understand if the constitution does not work for everybody, it does not work. >> so how do we educate them? >> you bust rush limbaugh. he learned there is a fourth amendment to the constitution. seriously, how do we do it? i am not sure. one of the things that i struggled with, in particular, in robert blake's c

here and in the area because they don't know that such people. such people as this close to them believe that the security and security of the. environment is a big a good for it has probably a few of. these from the prison no money if you work in this building and there's no police but since he is living here there's all the day police all the people in town are talking about. and knowing all the people don't want him to be here because there is a school next door and there's a kindergarten movie mr rate should still be in prison and the germans policy of preventive detention was designed to keep offenders like him behind bars even after a sentence was served because they were still deemed a danger to the public but it was a policy that fell foul of the european court of human rights which ruled the practice unlawful the german government argued it worked and defended it to the end it's get pushed into failing of course there's a danger that to convict could stay in preventive detention for the rest of his life but to avoid the situation we have

the first people, police say, the two men met, were a father and son. o the elder father died from the attack. the motive doesn't surprise some community activists in oakland. >> this isf symptomatic of what we'rean seeing in oakland in the laste few years where young people have nothing to do, thert aren't jobs available andbe they're becoming more hopeless and more angry. >> reporter: deborah snowe of oakland community organization says she shares the same goal as the yu family members who sat outside of court -- said what they hope will happen next. >> that true justice is no more violence to anyone, any family. >> reporter: prosecutors say th. two suspects, especially drummer, were frustrated with their lives. the two have criminal records dating back to april 2007 when they were both arrested for trying to rob a man in berkeley. charges were never filed. in august of last year, abc 7 news learned drummer was arrested for selling s drugs. then d prosecutors say in september 2009, drummer got in f fistfight at a store and suckeru punched a man whodr

5,000 people.nd you could get a job there because your cousin or your uncle worked there. i was thinking about the toyota plant in california and fremont, california, that just closed down. when it was a joint venture with general motors they had almost 5,000 workers. now that toyota is going to be building electric cars with a company called tesla it's only going to have about 1200 workers. we're still going to have manufacturing but we're not going to have the megaplants of the past. we're going to have plants half that size and maybe even much smaller than that. >> woodruff: martin bailey, the u.s. is still as of this year leading every other country in the world in manufacturing. what is it going to take for that to continue? i mean there is a lot of speculation china is going to overtake next year. but what is it going to take? >> well, we are very strong in technology and i think we need to maintain that strength. so support for research and development and technology. i think we have a lot o

we've got to keep people working and get people back to work. that's the foremost challenge for our country. i think people will understand that. >> governor ed rendell and jim douglas, thank you both. >> thank you, margaret . >> woodruff: next the soccer world cup ends south africa's massive jobless program remains. fred de sam lazaro reports on one social entrepreneurs efforts to help some of the unemployed. >> reporter: the world cup with south africa's own economic stimulus plan. $6 billion spent building or rebuilding stadiums, more on roads and a fast train. still the official jobless rate is 27%. and that's not counting migrants from neighboring countries and doesn't include the huge number of underemployed day labourers, so-called casual workers. >> we haven't been isolated from the effects of the economic meltdown around the world. i think we lost somewhere around 900,000 permanent full-time job s, which necessarily creates more stress on the cash i'm work environment because all those people are also gok looking for some way of support

to the people is walking the theme through it all. taking my kid and the car away hundred people. including i mean capturing and all that thing here and there and this is the number of people here who go along with you with the circus or these other people in england who want to show this family working to the go to the sort of it's a love of sixty seventy people so this is this is was first one i was surprised the second one of course when i was fifteen because of the cover six of the rating the steering wheel hose you know you have a lot of. it was really surprising in the car for a long period of p.s.p. having. seen what is really like a plane you know you have a lot of yes which is the same well russia has a long history of trying to get to formula one spotlight the media has more in that . the first than the formula one in russia was joseph stalin son of a c.v. he was behind the building of the first two russian racing car in the nineteen fifties the car named soco or hawk was revolutionary for its time but it didn't comply with the rules of formula one soon never took part i

for closure effort to try to help people and twenty five thousand people showed up there they've been showing up around the country precisely because the government programs are not working something like five hundred thousand people have been thrown off the government program because they don't meet various criteria as a consequence only a small relatively small percentage of those facing foreclosure are being helped at all and when we say helped means that their mortgages are modified either the interest level is reduced or. in some way the terms of payment are made more affordable for people but by and large the services the so-called mortgage services who work with the banks are really controlling the process the government is not imposing rules here they're not really offering debt relief to people as they do to people in other countries so we have a situation where the foreclosure crisis could lead to a million new foreclosures this year and there's plenty more coming your way on our t.v. this hour. president mahmoud ahmadinejad claims iran has a new look for a story to fend off

we are mainly preaching for people who like our message, but i hardly meet people -- the opposition. i don't know, maybe there are some people who are against too much like accessibility in the room here, but up until now, we have not met them. >> back in my town, i meet them very often. one of the most, one of the best arguments concerns air quality and the problem of noise. also, the numbers of young families not wanting to have their kids growing up in town and moving out. they're really looking at what arguments can you put forward to say we cannot continue the way that things are going. >> think in copenhagen, the status of the car has changed. people are not used to having cars anymore. they sometimes use a car and go to a car sharing club or something. it is socially acceptable to cycle. 30, 40 years ago, you would maybe be seen as a loser if he came on a bicycle, -- if you came on a bicycle, but now it is for everybody. everyone is cycling. it is not, the former generation in the 60's, denmark, they could afford to buy a car and they really enjoyed it. they wanted to show it,

it had about 500 people on it. of which about 450 were peaceful people.l dozen were act investments of a very radical group that had apparently amassed steel rods, knives, communication equipment. they boarded differently than the other passengers. boarded in one port in turkey. they went through security checks. these people boarded in another port in istanbul. they didn't go through any security checks. they had their own communication equipment. they had their own -- their own steel pipes and things that they brought on board. and when our coast guard effectively wanted to check this ship and make sure it behaved the way the other five did, they were brutally attacked. you can see that in the films that were released. our soldiers, our navy people were fighting for their lives. what would you do if the coast guard boarded a ship and the coast guard was brutally attacked by people who were, you know, clubbing them, knifing them, taking weapons from them, shooting at them? what do you think would happen? how do you think the american people would respond

when people say that is ridiculous.quate intelligence to live in harmony with our environment, by that criteria, we are not that intelligent. when you look at whales you are looking at a real mind in the ocean. i believe that one day through the use of computers we'll be able to communicate with the spe he says. i think that is an exciting possibility. >> larry: the way they die is how? >> they're harpooned. it is a very agonizing death. none of this would be tolerated at any slaughterhouse in the world. last year we filmed one whale struck. it took 25 minutes to die after being hit with an explosive harpoon, being shot at continuously with high powered rifles. a whale can take from ten minutes up to two hours to die. there is nothing really quite as cruel like this in any other part of the animal world. >> larry: laurens have you witnessed these killings? >> yeah, i was there on the last campaign. and, yeah, indeed we saw the whale being harpooned. it is incredibly horrific. even today i heard here in greenland, also k

. >> how many people watch you at 6:30? >> over 2 million people. we are the fifth largest network in the united states, and people do not realize that, and in the mornings, sunday mornings, maybe about 1 million people. >> there was a time when another person ran univision, and several people have run it. who owns it now? >> it is a new group. it is in charge. there is a group of investors who trust in us, and i think they believe in us. we are going to keep on going. what is so interesting is that while the networks constantly complain about their declining ratings, we are going exactly the opposite way. now, with the world cup, we had a game recently with mexico playing against uruguay, and more than 9 million people tuned in, so something is changing in this country, something magnificent going on in this country, and not only are there more immigrants coming in, and most of them speak spanish, but we latinos love each other so much that we tend to have more children, three children per family, in comparison to about two children per family for

people or white people, they lose them as people who happen to be black, white, latino. when a baby cries for food at night, living in a household that's below the poverty level in this country, the baby doesn't cry in black or white or latino. the baby cries in lunger. so there is shthu of race, class embedded within race that has to be part of the discussion. and the way out kind of like the way we got in. one shovel at a time. it's not a quick fix. but there clearly has to be efforts to mark our progress. and i'm not saying that shirley sherrod is an effort or a marking but i can tell you that every time something like this happens, we tend to be better not worse as a nation because we are forced to come to grips with thing that is we don't always want to discuss. joo host: wung of the things that came out is little bit of her history, econcerning the farmer she was helping. guest: she was 17. her father was shot in the back by a white man. it was never found guilty. she could have been bitter the rest of her life and used that as an excuse. and what she talks about i

people want facts.f they think people like me, i'm not going to go back vote republicans because i'm -- i think that the republicans are just as cruddy as the democrats. unless they can come up with we want something concrete and factual to change this country. host: before i let you gow, if you're not going to vote for republicans or democrats, who are you going to vote for? caller: well, i sat out the last election, i can sit this one out too. because unless this election proves to be a water shed moment for the country, there's going to be a lot of people sitting out the election, i'm afraid. guest: the argument you just made is one that's being made very powerfuly within republican leadership right now. there are people saying exactly what you're saying. take an example. the race to replace john murtha in pennsylvania, southwestern pennsylvania, i went around with the republican candidate tim burns who is running ads against nancy pelosi. some of them pretty funny basically saying let's get rid of t

to learn their work in crowds of people take care of their own safety. comes into action after a crime is committed not before. as for veronica her husband is serving a life sentence for actions neither of them regrets and for a cause they both support. r.t. . this week the higgs international court of justice ruled the cause of us declaration of independence was legal while the court's decision is non-binding it sparked international controversy the u.s. and many european countries praised the move but moscow warned it set a dangerous precedent and still wants dialogue between serbia and kosovo belgrade argues the court only focused on the declaration and said nothing about the legality of course of us as an independent state so your claims because of our success in february two thousand and eight violated its territorial integrity and its pledge to step up its diplomatic efforts to stop more countries recognizing a journalist and historian and the bush of knowledge says there are several reasons why because of our cannot be called an independent state.

may be it won't be 200 people may be 50 people but the next time you do it you get another hundred people. i have to share a story that's not related but sort of relate the. we have block parties every year in may or september or something like thachlt this last one our block parties are great way for us to get everybody. we get the starving students. we get the musician and it is artists and the families we get the you know people from low income housing coming. we get the corporate america, we get everybody at the block parties. it's because we do a variety of things. we have the bounce house for the kid. the music. you at our last 1 the guy named didz hip he's great. he was riding his bike bite block party he's an hoola hoop guy. he's on his guy with 30 hoola hoops riding his bike and said, hi, can i join. he had all the kids. he had a microphone and he was a spontaneous celebration. he sdoont live in our neighborhood but we invite him back. have an event. [inaudible]. >> yeah. well, music, music brings in people. young professionals, young people like music and love free food. >> if i

they are significant to the american people and the afghan people. you were notice those words were focused on. it is a timetable for providing security, when the transition is going to begin, and the goal is to complete that transition with a beginning point and an ending point. when the afghan forces are in the lead, the taliban propaganda that the united states is there to dominate afghanistan will be shown for the lie that it is. the propaganda tool the taliban uses -- foreign forces occupying our property, and that the motive is an ulterior motive face shown to be false propaganda. when the afghan forces are not just for ordering with us but were actually in the lead in providing security, i think it is the worst nightmare for the taliban when forces are providing security and in the lead for doing so. >> we put the man believed it -- we put them in the lead, and it became part of the narrative of the world that they were just not ready. >> will there be stumbles'? yes. are there enough afghan troops that can take the lead now on one campaign? c

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i don't know here not many people actually care about the so-called enemy of the american people as some american media are already calling tony hayward mostly people are talking about b.p. and the trouble the company's got itself into especially with the new oil spill that actually had nothing to do with the previous leak that b.p. has suffered from but still has added basically oil to already troubled waters but right now not many people are actually wondering what tony hayward will do when he will come and what kind of benefits will actually read from taking his position in russia if he is of course to take it so far we haven't even heard about his resignation first of all it was a few days then now people say that he will resign on october first and possibly join the a director's board here in moscow of the joint russian english company b.p. so not many people care to be honest with you addressing like curiosity is much greater over here in the u.s. right now and you know i know that they're pretty secretive when it comes to salaries when it comes to the contracts exactly in moscow b

it's tough for people on the right too. because they don't get what they want either if you're a say libertarian. so you have the country against you. nevertheless -- >> so you're always working against the majority that is against you? >> there's the basic mathematics. 20% liberal, 40% conservative t rest moderate. so it's tough. nevertheless, you get a president who passes the stimulus act, money going through the state. you get, you know, the nationalization of healthcare, whatever you want to call it. >> health care reform. >> the nationalization of the means of production. i think you have the trotsky agenda -- no. you get a lot of stuff. i think from any perspective, that is a pretty good step from left. by the way, it's such an aggressive expansion of government that you've scared the middle so they're swinging over to the republicans. so i think from a liberal perspective, they have moved as fast as hue nanly possible and achieved as much as humanly possible in a year and a half, immigration got pushed behind, but w