the u.s. military is reorganizing its bases around the world. today we're looking at the changes planned for asia, in south korea and japan. south korea carried out a joint anti-submarine drill with the united states in july in the sea of japan. the move came after the two countries concluded north korea was behind the march sinking of a south korean warship in the yellow sea. recent tension in the region has prompted the south to consolidate its military partnership with the u.s. the u.s. is preparing to enlarge its military base at pyeontack south of seoul. the changes at the base prompted protests four years ago. about 100 families tried to fight a government order to move out. in the end, they were forced to leave their homes. people are still unhappy about the resettlement, but the opposition campaign has faded away. >> we need u.s. forces. we should coexist. >> north korea played a role in changing people's attitudes. it conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. it also fired missiles. i

seven u.s. troops were killed in roadside bomb attacks in southern afghanistan today. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we get analysis of the latest violence and the charges of corruption within the karzai government. >> woodruff: then we have the first of a week of stories from margaret warner in baghdad. tonight she reports on iraqis taking over as u.s. forces draw down. >> especially as control of it, they are my partners, they protect me. they have for the last months. i trust them implicitly. >> suarez: kate zernike of the "new york times" and david von drehle of "time" magazine assess the glenn beck phenomenon and the tea party movement after the weekend rally in washington. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown finds out what this year's emmy awards say about the business of entertainment television. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... thi

what is beneath the u.s. administration goes to great lengths to get its hands on the on the edge condition arms to boot testing the limits of international move as they push for his ability to extradition. discord is to build a mosque today ground zero in your pursuit of peace some saying issues just a way drawing attention from america's economic struggle. for the good prince a self-proclaimed moral seeks to move the president from prison and saying it's these good people right to rule the country. news much more twenty four hours a day this is o.t. . say a russian businessman wanted for stealing in the u.s. will not be extradited immediately reports had suggested a special plane and fifty u.s. commandos had arrived in bangkok where vick to boot was being held all correspondence. has been following the latest developments in the case there's finally been some clarity in the case it is very unlikely that it will be thailand day that is according to the country's prime minister who said that according to tile

occupation of redefine the u.s. withdraws its last combat troops from iraq ahead of president obama's deadline but critics say nothing will change in the country. and the troop pioneers it's a fifty years since two dogs from the soviet union became the first living creatures to survive space travel paving the way for future exploration. broadcasting live from central moscow this is our t.v. the top story this hour pharmaceutical companies are accused of using people in india as guinea pigs to test new drugs without their consent human rights groups say even those people on tests who are alerted to possible dangers are not told the full story meanwhile india's health ministry says the number of deaths linked to clinical trials has risen this year alone more people have died than in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight combined archies charan singh investigates. india government run hospitals provide treatment to the poor but there are increasingly aims that being made in guinea pigs in drug trials for we

with u.s. combat troops pulling out of iraq some question whether iraq is or able to control the country themselves as a number of private contractors in iraq is soaring many analysts believe the situation will get worse with only says even after withdrawal the us will continue to exert controversial influence over the country. these are dirty wars that the united states tried to cover up at one point and now have somewhat institutionalized which is why we see these these increases in funding for private contractors i mean another exposé the washington post it just a few weeks ago was on this massive expansion of the u.s. intelligence community and all of the private contractors that are now conducting intelligence operations and this is what we're seeing you know we're seeing now state authorized selective assassinations i mean it was a policy created during the bush administration but it's a policy that's been continued and reinforced during the obama administration so it's really just a ques

he said the u.s.arines in the south of afghanistan are likely to remain for a few years. >> the u.s. has more than 90,000 troops in afghanistan. president obama has promised to start bringing them home in july, 2011, in effect a beginning of the end of the war. now, the head of the u.s. marine corps has speculated bluntly about the effect of the president's deadline on the taliban. >> in some ways, we think right now it's probably giving our enemy sustenance. we think that he may be saying to himself, in fact, we've intercepted communications that say, hey, we only have to hold out for so long. let me give you a different thought. if you accept what i offered earlier as true that marines will be there after 2011, ok, after the middle of 2011, what's the enemy going to say then? what is he going to say to his foot troops where you've got leadership outside the country trying to direct operations within because it's too dangerous for them to be there and the foot troops have been believing what they're

the last u.s. combat brigade has left iraq two weeks ahead of their planned withdrawal at the end of the month but the fifty thousand strong american military continue will remain in the country for support and training until the end of twenty eleven have the power to use their weapons in self defense or at the request of the iraqi government and over seven years of being in iraq more than four thousand u.s. soldiers died according to the pentagon like ready from the antiwar group democracy village in london says there'll be no actual pullout for years to come. why simply is happening is they're going to stay there for at least twenty years and that's the length of time the oil contracts have been signed the fifty thousand troops that are there is also a believing number because it's actually about one hundred thousand private contractors there that number is likely to increase so i don't see any change really for the iraqi people between now and then life is just going to be one big struggle for t

has to cut military spending what happens to the u.s. then well the u.s. empire is going to have to shrink but it's going to have to be a managed shrink you know these things don't happen they do happen dramatically overnight sometimes but usually it's something that happens progressively such as with the british are so what you'll see is the u.s. will pursue its withdrawal from iraq which president obama said he was going to do today and from afghanistan and from other parts of the world and let other big powers take over that spatial see india merge in the south continent china in asia as it has been brazil and south america and russia and germany and europe so you'll see these other powers start to move forward the u.s. will learn or lose a little bit of its of its empire and chunk by chunk but they'll be stronger at home and that will allow them to move forward on a stronger basis and i think that's what's really facing the u.s. right now that's how it all starts greggory why we appreciate your insight on the possibility of a lost decade for the u.s. t

here in moscow the u.s. says its combat mission in iraq will come to its official end within the hour vice president joe biden is in baghdad overseeing it with all american combat troops having already left the country. and washington says that this means the end of the seven year long war that killed over four thousand u.s. troops however about fifty thousand will remain in iraq to provide training and support for local security forces u.s. troops will no longer be allowed to go on combat missions unless requested and accompanied by iraqi forces but many analysts say baghdad doesn't control the country which remains split some plagued by insurgent violence last week alone dozens of iraqi citizens died in a wave of terror attacks well john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation says the war in iraq is far from over. there's no real withdrawal at all on the contrary fifty thousand troops are going to remain in iraq so what we're dealing with here is a political package it's an administrativ

i get frequent calls from the u.s. journalists asking what the u.s. should do in the current situation and whether they should withdraw their troops next july i don't want you to respond with a question of my own but is there an alternative immutable there is not there is no alternative to the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops some of the longer the forces him u.s. and nato forces stay in afghanistan the more they will destabilize the region it is evident that the presence of any foreign troops nato u.s. or soviet troops will only inspired terrorism in afghanistan you cannot depict the country as a den of terrorism or its people as terrorists by default this is not true there is a faction of people within the rebel movement that use terror methods some of these people do indeed have links to al-qaeda in no way does this mean that any afghan or any armed afghan is a terrorist the u.s. is facing a philosophical problem if they spent nine years there by december two thousand and ten the length of their military presence will match that of the soviet con

while the u.s. launched an appeal against the decision submitting more allegations as evidence the appeal the ruling today will mark the end of the legal road for the extradition bid the decision will determine whether those free or is sent for trial in the u.s. or he could spend the rest of his life in jail if convicted on the gun running charges victor boot has been accused of arms links to wars across the world allegations he denies as well as u.s. claims former u.n. expert on arms trafficking brian johnson thomas believes washington's battle to jail has become personal. i think the trouble is that. the americans have got a lot invested in this now in terms not just of cash but also national pride and if you look at the revised in darkness which they put in some months ago i far not even strangers on the original sting operation i mean i worked for the united nations over the years i was an arms trafficking expert and it's always seemed to me that if there was a case to a recipe for arms traffick

the u.s. is imposing more sanctions on iran drawing up a new expanded blacklist of groups suspected of terrorist slings it follows recent comments by america's top military officer that they're refusing to rule out using all of force of around its uranium enrichment to round last ounce in response saying military action would lead to the u.s. suffering a defeat worse than those in iraq and afghanistan. more from new york. well the united states treasury department did announce additional sanctions against twenty one iranian entities entities that u.s. officials say and accuse of aiding groups such as hezbollah hamas and the taliban now these u.s. sanctions are targeting iranian companies in the banking insurance investment mining and engineering sector americans or u.s. companies are now in a bid from doing any business from those entities that are now being sanctioned by the u.s. treasury department and all of this is coming just a few days after the u.s. joint chiefs of staff michael mullen

designates as rogue can see what the u.s. has been compiling on them although at the department of defense the cia conducting the physical attack on drone operations but intelligence and coordinating with different government agencies on counterterrorism activities at the state department that designates individuals and organizations that either link to terrorism part of a terrorist organization or aided by state sponsors of terrorism it all comes out of the state department and you will terrorism reports welcome to the briefing where they deliver their findings and we ask the questions do dick have you have any evidence of him as has been involved internationally in terrorism or would you count only the israeli civilians that's been targeted by hummus and this is the only. kind of just sit statistics say hamas has been responsible for the killings of americans although those are some. quotes from us right now is actually. something of the sea so our most recent victims have been israelis but hamas does have american blood on

and u.s. stocks are rising modestly on to report and private employment showed a modest pickup in hiring payroll company eight hundred pieces in four years and it forty two thousand jobs last month slightly better than full cost investors are awaiting a key reading on the services sector due out later on wednesday. b.p.'s new chief executive robert dudley is a moscow is the talks deputy prime minister igor suchan discussions are likely to include possible asset sales to cover the cost of b.p.'s gulf of mexico oil spill they will be joined by tony hayward the outgoing chief of b.p. who will be taking up a non-executive director role on the board of the russian joint venture to pay for more we now live to our correspondent. who's that rolls next headquarters where the meetings that you take place hello to you zena now all the any details about the subject of these discussions. then did robert dudley is here in moscow to build new bridges with the russian government russian investors it up also b

with u.s. combat troops now out of iraq, insurgents are severely testing that country's security forces. today, the largest series of coordinated attacks in more than three years in iraq, 13 in all, just about every big iraqi city was hit. suicide bombers targeted police, roadside bombs killed civilians. at least 36 are dead tonight, more than 200 wounded. at the same time, the white house said the president will mark the official change in mission in iraq with an oval office address next tuesday evening. our terry mccarthy is in baghdad tonight and he spoke with the top u.s. general there. >> reporter: coordinated attacks across the country, all within a two-hour period. meanwhile, said america's top commander in iraq, a bad day. >> i'm fairly certain it's al qaeda, maybe with some other groups working with them. it's about the terrorists trying to make a point about the lack of a government, trying to challenge the security forces. put doubts in people's minds. >> reporter: the attacks came j

i mean the just hottest websites use that story as proof that the u.s. is indeed fighting this holy war against them and that's not just bad press that's actually putting lives at risk but are these events more common than we think is there a culture of christian beliefs in the military that's becoming more prevalent and perhaps even putting more pressure on troops will join me to discuss it is afghanistan veteran jake to live barito jake thanks so much for being here you know i have to ask you this is just one story here but how commonplace are are these events maybe not even mass baptisms but just the prevalence of religion within the military. well you there's an old phrase it says there's no atheists in foxholes there are for many years christianity has been a huge part of the u.s. military in fact the uniform code of military justice is modeled after many christian beliefs for instance you can be kicked out of the army if you commit adultery you can be kicked out of the out of the army if you participate sodomy of course if you're gay you'll get kic

the u.s.- led invasion of iraq, the last u.s. brigade has left the country. during the occupation an estimated 100,000 iraqis lost their lives. the u.s. state department has described the end as a historic moment and vowed that america's long-term commitment to iraq is unwavering. 6000 troops will remain to the end of next year, training their iraqi successors. >> the withdrew under the cover of darkness. there was no fanfare and no ceremony. but the soldiers are looking forward to going home. >> we are going home. we won. it is over. america. i love you. i love you. >> operation in rocky freedom claimed the lives of over 4400 soldiers and almost 110,000 iraqis. the country held free elections, a law and order are a long way off. as recently as tuesday, 58 were killed in an attack. the rocky politicians are divided about the withdrawal. -- iraqui politicians are divided about the withdrawal. >> we have to take control -- move from military to civilian control. we are supportive of the withdraw

the u.s. flag is often seen side by side with the vietnamese flag on the facades of joint ventures college undergraduates domes to modern pop music near a monument to soviet leader lending. but one thing remains the same. is gone around the clock by the soldiers of the vietnamese army the the army.

there are 50,000 u.s. troops that are remaining in iraq, albeit it in a support role rather in a leading combat role. but that's enormous capability. the real bottom line in iraq, i think is that it is-- despite all of its challenges-- it is a much, much more hopeful place than it was in january and february of 2007 when the surge was launched, and when there were 50 dead bodies in baghdad every 24 hours. there is going to be violence in iraq, there still are al qaeda in iraq, there are other extremist elements. there are residual militia elements but the 700,000 iraqi security forces on the ground there generally can deal with this, with some assistance from the united states. >> couric: i'll be back with more from afghanistan later in the broadcast. right now, harry smith in new york has the rest of today's news. >> smith: all right, katie. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," the latest on the massive egg recall. and which brand may be tainted. the news helped send stock glart line for unemployment

the last u.s. combat brigade pulls out of iraq two weeks ahead of leaving behind a month's contingent to train security forces and protect the people. it's fifty years since two dogs from the soviet union became the first living creatures to survive space travel making history and paving the way for a future exploration. chief inspectors to pull off russia a visit to examine its bid to host one of the next world cups leaving officials optimistic about the country's chances. turn are stopping terrorists and stemming the flow of drugs that's what the leaders of afghanistan and pakistan together with russia agreed upon at a summit in sochi middle east expert james denselow thinks there's a chance that afghanistan could become a source of corporation between russia and the u.s. . i think russia is strengthening strengthening its presence in the world in the last few years and i think it's interesting that afghanistan a country which for ten years during the one nine hundred eighty s. was a source of co

and the u.s. sanctions are starting to bite and they're going around trying to get the chinese and the emirates and various other players on board because it or they really need to let this play out on a political time to talk a little more about that's me just a resident of indonesia they said as well to me that he would like to publicly debate with president obama about global issues and solutions what are the chances at the end of the day that that meeting of minds could take place and what response we'd like to see from the obama side. there is zero chance that that meeting of minds will take place u.s. president president obama cannot be seen as elevating president to a debate of equals here and domestically in the united states especially in the run up for the november elections if he's seen to be seen as taking what might be perceived as some sort of a bait from to sit down and discuss these issues where of course will bring up the issue of israel and u.s. relationship with israel and so on

but china cut 3% of its u.s. treasury holdings as it worked for a second straight month to diversify its massive portfolio of international debt. >> tom: here are the stories in tonight's n.b.r. newswheel: the markets tread water. the dow fell a point, while the nasdaq gained eight and the s&p 500 was up a fraction. trading volume started the week light. under 800 million shares traded on the big board. nasdaq volume came in at 1.6 billion. with the home buyer tax credit now a memory, homebuilders aren't feeling so hot about their prospects. in june, the national association of home builders' monthly sentiment index fell to its lowest level in more than a year. the fed said banks began easing lending standards for small businesses during the second quarter, the first time that's happened in four years. but the data show easing of standards is happening mostly at the nation's biggest banks. and, general motors appears to be ready to start its much- anticipated initial public offering. reuters says g.m. has finishe

mile by the u.s. government using him of international arms trafficking and specifically selling and delivering weapons to known terrorist organizations he was taken down in the thai capital by a joint sting operation by the u.s. and thai authorities or so that the board has always maintained his innocence his family and his lawyers many analysts actually believe that one of the main reasons that the man is being persecuted by the united states authorities is because of his long term contracts with the pentagon itself of course of george bush in two thousand and four that president or have voted with the united states government to from having any kind of contract with that and his companies but despite that request despite the order by the president the pentagon actually extended his contract to two thousand and six so for two years the pentagon operated with it the bill and his companies basically outside of the law many analysts now believe that because of the information that he possesses somethin

the former u.s. marine greg klavan returned to vietnam in one nine hundred eighty six he makes a living by giving private english lessons when he left vietnam off to being wounded in the war it never occurred to him that some day he might come back let alone share a table with vietnamese guerrillas so coming back and seeing. developing people. getting jobs and going to school in a normal life made me feel better that we didn't completely destroyed all of the. things that we. have gone through i wish that the people of the united states the people of vietnam and all nations always live in peace and understanding. since the end of five years ago many things in vietnam have changed in some can expected ways. one of the buildings of the jail the u.s. invents nicknamed the hanoi hilton is now indeed a moat and the hotel. the u.s. flag is often seen side by side with the vietnamese flag on the facades of joint ventures. to graduate stumps to modern pop music near a monument to soviet leader lending. but on

the u.s. marines are helping out, flying missions into pakistan's remote swat valley. nbc's stephanie gosk rode along and has our report. >> reporter: u.s. helicopter pilots flying aid missions in pakistan's swat valley say the terrain there is beautiful but deadly. the gorges are deep and the weather changes quickly. it is also where an estimated 100,000 people have been trapped since the floods hit just over two weeks ago, washing away every bridge. most of the 1,400 people killed by the raging water died here. >> translator: there's no clean drinking water here, no food, nothing. everything has been swept away by the floods. >> reporter: disease is spreading. today the first case of cholera was confirmed and thousands of children are sick with diarrhea. the pakistani military has asked u.s. forces to focus their relief effort in swat. in the last nine days, u.s. helicopters have evacuated more than 3,000 people and delivered 180 tons of food. >> our guards will sit in the back. >> reporter:

the u.s. until community now picked a buddhist pleaded not guilty on u.s. charges of conspiracy to sell arms to colombian rebels if victor boy did smuggle weapons to colombia wouldn't it be that i would wouldn't the colombian government be more interested in getting him down the u.s. well it's obvious reason that that would be the case if head to head he'd be involved in sure even colombia is a sovereign state so that would be natural for them just to raise the issue for the raise the issue themselves problem is the united states i believe butties it still is run by a bit foggy bottom inertia from the bush era era it's still i believe it's of the semblance of the cold war mentality they would like to it's like a character assassination campaign and they're guilty by association by trying to defame and bringing malicious and spreading malicious innuendo against bush which was also publicized and spread by hollywood they create they they they try to be smirch their russian illegal arms export and trying to associate him to the fictious kerrick to produce by b

the u.s. administration goes to great lengths to get its hands on the alleged russian arms dealer brute testing the limits of international law as they push for his urgent extradition. going web site wiki leaks announces fresh revelations concerning the cia just a month after infuriating the pentagon by publishing its documentation. big apple of discord plans to build a mosque near ground zero in new york opinion some say issues just a way of drawing attention from america's economic struggle. to go prince the self-proclaimed royals seeks to a victory the russian president from the kremlin saying it's he's gone given right to rule the country. coming up in a business update russia's fishing industry may be growing the problems here mean that they catch is more likely to end up doing nothing in twenty minutes time. news and much more ahead twenty four hours a day this is r.t. welcome to the program top story now thai authorities say a russian the businessman wanted for arms dealing in the u.s.

light some people are saying but here's a headline about the u.s. u.s. is bankrupt and we don't even know if this is laurence kotlikoff boston university he's an economist and he points to a fiscal gap of two hundred two trillion dollars if you put everything on the balance sheet that's a big number well it's fifteen times more than the official debt and the discrepancy between the official debt and the actual net debt. it reflects what economists call the labeling problem what is a labeling problem well is when congress labels most of its liabilities unofficial in order to keep them off the books and into the future so the question is as laurence kotlikoff was asked by bloomberg presenter but is that to say that they are effectively lying to us. yeah they're effectively long tours there's no question about it yes governments are lying to you. wow what a revelation well how can you tell they're lying to us well take a look at this other video from america and its third world america tens of thousands of americans outside of atlanta georgia fight to get a

the u.s. is reportedly closer to striking a deal to install a missile defense shield in europe. struggling with a cultural divide germany plans to bring in turkish police to help combat crime among its rapidly growing ethnic minority. nucky is here big hit from the small screen. radar out snooki has been crowned queen of america's reality t.v. . you're watching news and much more on carried on still the u.s. is reportedly close to setting up a defense shield in europe against a possible attack from iran pentagon officials say a deal may soon be reached with turkey or bulgaria to host a key element of the defense system. in poland that the patriot missile battery deployed there by the u.s. for training purposes is part of a new project. reports. is obama's new security plan for eastern europe really what it seems ever since u.s. pressure of missiles were delivered to northern poland in a military experts have been asking themselves that question the polish defense ministry says for now these s.

and u.s. officials today highlighted the enormity of the disaster saying it now tops the 2004 asian tsunami, the 2005 pakistan earthquake, and this year's haiti earthquake combined. flood victims stand in line for hours at a relief camp, waiting for food and water. >> ( translated ): we are receiving food sometimes, but sometimes we miss out. we are poor people and due to we have small kids and we wonder how will we provide food for them? we don't have any jobs and they are only handing out food once a day. >> lehrer: and there will be more coming into these camps, as thousands try to escape the swollen rivers by any means possible. water-borne diseases like cholera are a major health risk. in punjab, relatives buried a man who died trying to save his family. >> ( translated ): his son and wife both were stuck in flood waters so he went to rescue them, but the flood waters were too high and the current was strong and that's why he did not survive. >> lehrer: many pakistanis say their governmen

the u.s.s. often. around the same time defense units hold massive training exercises. constantly. defense force during the exercises he heard rumors about defense units getting ready to go to a far away country to take part in. it before was sent to vietnam we get strict orders not to tell anybody we're going to distant places. what that place was. the defense missile system was to be tested for the first time in history in vietnam in military conditions. had a crew. i know this launches down to the last i felt at. times. the first soviet rocket specialists came to viet nam in april one thousand sixty five here they were officially called military advisors they organized a crash course training the vietnamese to. get teams did their work. and. the vietnamese were generally not very tall rather short actually. it was hard for them to load the rockets. around. so when one of us was enough to load the launcher two or three vietnamese had to do it. was one of vietnamese colleagues he served in the

the u.s. to withdraw the last of its troops from iraq by the end of this year. at the defense conference in baghdad, the general warned the iraqi military might not be ready to assume full control for another decade. washington says it is on target to and combat operations by september and to remove all troops by the end of 2011. in afghanistan, several thousand prostrated -- several thousand protested the deaths of three men killed by u.s. troops in a nighttime raid. they shouted, "death to america," and blocked a road. the victims were suspected insurgents. the u.n. estimates that 300 civilians have been killed in afghanistan by u.s. forces this year. we will be taking a look at the challenges faced by german and international troops in afghanistan later in the show. poland has extradited a suspected mossad agent to germany. he is accused of assassinating a top hamas official in the united arab emirates earlier this year. this man allegedly provided a passport to one of the assassins. the ta

the u.s. scales back combat operations. >> i think we have a vested interest here. that doesn't mean necessarily we'll have thousands of troops on the ground. it might mean we have to stay invested economically and politically. >> lehrer: then, "newshour" political editor david chalian assesses the winners and the losers in yesterday's primary elections. >> ifill: we take a two-part look at the latest in mexico's bloody drug wars with journalist ana paula ordorica and security analyst eric olson. >> lehrer: and "global post" correspondent yoan grillo reports on how the mexican media is handling the story. >> ifill: then, judy woodruff gets up close and personal with an ultra light car that promises to get 100 miles per gallon. >> we can be sure this idea is too good and too right and works too well. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this is the engine that connects zero emission technologies to breathing a little easie

u.s. health sales and record temperatures mexico is or is next. hi i'm max kaiser and welcome to the kaiser report controversy swirling a room the world not just dirty corrupt bankers but dirty crop grading agencies duty and corrupt economists who fail to see the big picture as we do on this show we give it to you wrong we give it to you straight we give it to you real let's go to states or overseas here or give us some of the real stuff max i have a lot of real stuff first a real beef with you but i deposited a fifty euro note that you gave me into my bank account yesterday yeah and the whole machine shut down yeah guards came to me and said it was a counterfeit fifty euro note yet now that's the fifty euro note that you gave me ok you're hanging the money you're passing bad bills well speaking of bad bills this is indirectly in my first headline max china's gold demand surge is twenty six percent in q two w g c w g c is the world gold council and they report china's gold demand in the ap

u.s. because the u.s. economy of course is shrinking what else what else tell us more well just to put this into context because this is gold you've been telling everybody is the way to protect from fake currency and fake currencies the total gold demand according to the world gold council last year was up thirty six percent to one thousand and fifty tons but in the u.s. as we're talking about it's also been a record year u.s. home sales and record july slump this is existing home sales and it was a twenty seven percent slump in july home sales which has intensified fears of a u.s. double dip recession according to the article this notion that there's somehow a double dip that it wasn't a continuous collapse you know that that's false isn't it you see we hit peak credit in two thousand and seven we hit peak asset inflation in two thousand and seven and it's been unwinding sense then when obama came into office he threw some money in there threw some more currency into the bonfire and it cr