[laughter] the persian gulf. national geographic issued the correction attention is still running high over the issue and they created the national persian gulf to sabrue the nomenclature cancel the 2010 islamic solidarity and objected to the phrase persian gulf and is even threatened to ban the airline that doesn't use the right man on the display board. the american equivalent to this kind of pride is the way we use place names to convert inside or outside status in the community well into the manhattan for the avenue of the americans. the official renaming is an obstacle new yorkers still say six governor or pronounced like the city in texas. in my neck of the woods the name comes to washington's largest state and the retirement back on the arid and then as a lot to pronounced the names the way they are spelled or worse california transplant. [laughter] i could tell you the real pronunciation but then under the washington state law i would have to kill you. the pronunciation naturally i sort of gave it away by

was face with the this catastrophic loss of its power within the persian gulf region. and began concluding military bases because the saudis were perceived as not being strong enough to stand up to a militant iran. >> um, do you think that some to have parallels you talk about are kind of changing today in a world where there's emerging markets in places that are more palatable to the u.s. public such as brazil and canada? >> yeah, it is changing. i mean, oil dependency's gone down at the moment partly because of the economy. oil usage has gone down and demand has gone down. so when the economy comes back, the fear is that the dependency will go up again because people have short -- we all have short memories. unless our policymakers put policies in place to, you know, build on this current concern in the country over oil dependency. you know, as far as qanta -- canada and south america are concerned, i'll believe it when i see it. shale is extremely expensive. the low-hanging fruit has been picked in terms of oil, and we're now moving into a different and perhaps last

worry the obama administration is going to be expanding our military presence in the rest of the persian gulf and apparently we're doing it to keep outside powers from interfering so i guess list includes everybody but us we're going to break down the double speak there we'll have all of that and more feet and i clearly does have happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. ari so it's now day three of the media's obsession for presidential candidate herman cain's maybe or maybe not sex scandal when you think of session i mean that every now work has been covering the story nonstop like full twenty four hour coverage devoted to it. well you're going to hear a lot more about herman cain today and those sexual harassment allegations we're talking about whether he's stoking the fire rather than putting it out the more interviews he does the more inconsistent his story about two sets of arrests validations against him in the ninety's we're talking about early cain changing his story and that is probably not the story line the campaign wanted i've studied political

naval assets be positioned in the persian gulf for a shoot-out. so focusing on content, on policy just for a moment. is herman cain a serious candidate for president? >> no. and the reason he's not, he is not prepared even to the point of being a newspaper reader. i can tell when, we all can, with when one is familiar with a term like neo conservative which has been at the heart of the whole debate with iraq. which neo conservatives fighting very hard to wage that war and others opposed to them for that reason. to not know that the chinese have had the prc has had nuclear weaponry since the 1960s is ignorance. these are facts of our fundamental national and international situation. everybody knows this. when i say everyone, i mean everyone who is involved in discussing the national life of this country. >> so has it become hip to be dumb? to parade your ignorance almost as a badge of honor? >> yes. when sarah palin is avril hairyman compared to this gentlemen. i'm as guilty as anyone. i do love some of the lingo of anti-elitism. i do like people w

might be pulling its troops out of iraq but they are staying in the persian gulf coate is reportedly topping the list of the countries that are likely to host them the pentagon says it is determined to maintain stability in the region but jason news editor at antiwar dot com says america's real intention is to control the whole area it sounds like. the united states is determined to keep forces in the in the region and poised to launch attacks into iraq whether the iraqi government agrees to it or not kuwait as a likely place for keeping a lot of these troops they've been talking quite a while about the decision to put massive amounts of combat troops into kuwait much like they had before the two thousand and three invasion secretary of state hillary clinton said this was proof of an ongoing commitment to the future of the region but in reality it's an ongoing commitment to try to interfere in a region in which the us track record is far from stellar. the newly elected president of kyrgyzstan has vowed to shut the u.s. air force base in his country saying it poses a threat to his own

it has been with us talking more bombs to the persian gulf to counter iran there you go don't worry about oil prices just power your ride again with sal coming of crap remember we have. we wrap it up the show and she actually said it would be the solution to the world's energy problems and i'm correct except it's like. who coming out of japan and the japanese or history or are culturally attached to prove their there's kind of called ok have a whole thing of obsession in their culture with it's actually true the very innovative talking for let's move things chant and get anything on this. if you know what. it's like. just actually i think there's got to be some sort of. public right but that's a good that's a good point how does this work with decency laws all i know is that only the japanese could make it look at this school and you can use less oil driving like on the airplane you're flush while you're on the runway. i don't know but moving on to something slightly more appropriate leslie devolved into a complete crap party and take a look at this because i say i don't know if you

engineered anthrax vaccine and this project gained important traction in the aftermath of the persian gulf war of 1991 when as many of you may be aware that was tremendous controversy because service personnel who were inoculated with this vexing complaint of a wide array of adverse effects. so there was a desired among many in the government to come up with a better, safer and more effective vaccine, vaccine that would last longer on the shelf. in service of this work in 1997 bruce ivins put together, created a huge batch of purified, highly purified spores of strains of anthrax. this was anthrax he made sure was pristine and it was known as support, the balance of animal testing that would he needed to bring this next generation anthrax vaccine on line. the human tori does spores under the codename rmr1029. okay, so soon enough however ivins was very self-aware of his own shortcomings and felt that he wasn't given the respect and was wasn't popular was unpopular because of this lack of athletic looks and other things, and he was very concerned about what he believed was his own deteriora

an external power or what they say opposition and exult those are backed by the western powers persian gulf countries. and now on to the u.s. where the occupy wall street movement is entering its seventh week and showing no sign of dying down scores of activists have been arrested across america for refusing to pack up their camps russia has voiced concerns over a series of crackdowns on campaigners and their treatment by u.s. authorities go portraits of the way the occupy wall street protest is handled is an ample illustration of double standards quite a number of our counterparts from western countries. we will never put up with a situation when our western partners who have the right to ask us questions refused to discuss their own problems which there are plenty of them which keeps growing. authorities in the us have tried to enforce various curfews over the weekend to prevent demonstrations from escalating further more than seventy protestors are calling for political and economic changes have been arrested in the states of texas oregon and california police and denver used pepper spra

they go on station in the persian gulf for western pacific. they spend four months there, they come back, another month in transit. meanwhile, because we only have one ship of a given type in one area, we have to send another ship out, and there is an overlap in their deployment. the bottom line is, you need four or five ships in the fleet to sustain one on station the way we do things today. what i would submit is what the navy needs to do, what it has proven to be feasible in experiments, what it does with mine sweepers, leave the ship fully deployed for a few years, ply the crews to replace each other, and they share a ship back home to train. if you do this, you get a number of savings. i do not want to push the idea too far because there is another reason why you may need a certain size may be, and you may lose certain ships in a future war. but right now, the navy is saying we need to add 30, 40 ships to the fleet relative to the correct size of 284 major ships to maintain our global presence. that is not going to happen. we need to find

b, he would move some of our naval force from the persian gulf and as a last resort he is going to bensider military options. the problem is that with president obama that's not credible and with romney it will be credible. >> at the same time there was a rather heated exchange. let me play that for you and get a response. >> it made it happen. >> senator mccain, that's just simply not true. i guess you can believe that and i respect your beliefs. >> i respect your opinion. and the outcome is not exactly as predicted. >> that's not how it happened. >> it is how it happened. >> this is about negotiating with a sovereign country. >> ambassador, what is mitt romney's position about the iraq withdrawal timetable? >> well, first, it's an enormous failure not to get a status of forces agreement with a sovereign country of iraq. president bush was able to do that. he did that all the time. there was a failure of diplomacy and will by the united states government. >> it's president bush's status that is expiring in december. that's the agreement that is is forcing the u.s. out. it was the bus

will soon brief the obama administration on proposals to increase the number of troops in the persian gulfust one reason. iran. >> so you see every where you go you fine iran's hand and the subterfuges of their nuclear program keeps spinning. it's a very difficult situation. >> reporter: increasing troops, war ships and aircraft in the region as a hedge against iran comes just as u.s. troops are leaving iraq. >> what do we do in this region? how do we try to make sense of a region in so much turmoil. >> reporter: president obama has to approve the new deployments and gulf nations have to agree to take the new troops. the u.s. already has 24,000 troops in kuwait. additional 4,500 soldiers leaving iraq are scheduled to remain in kuwait for seven months. there are 7,000 troops in bahrain, another 10,000 in various gulf states. right now up to 30 u.s. war ships are patrolling the region at any one time. they want to increase ground and naval units across the gulf. he also wants more military exercises with arab countries, a signal to iran of regional support for the u.s. presence. so far no on

they go on station in the persian gulf or the western pacific. they spend about four months there and they turn around and come back and it is another month in khamenei. meanwhile, because we always want to have one ship of a given type in either the persian gulf or the western pacific, we have to send another ship out, and there's an overlap in their diplomas because the one is getting out before the other turned around comes back to maintain continued presence. the bottom what is unique for our five ships in the fleet to sustain one on station the way we do things today. what i would submit is the navy needs to do what it already has proven to be feasible, what are because with minesweepers complete this ship forward deployed for one to two years, fly the crews to replace each other and then they share a ship back home as well to train. if you do this you get a lot of savings in the number of ships needed to sustain that one on station. i don't want to push the idea too far because there are other reasons you need a -- you might lose achieved i

he knew fear and crisis was why he was hired, and he worked here during the days of the persian gulf war and seen a lot of things happen in amazingly fast time that without a crisis may have been delayed forever. in august 2001, he logged many late night hours and weeknights and weekends in the biocontainments. he did so alone. these hours continued through mid-september 2001. they picked up again in october, which i'll get to, but, of course, then, we had the september 11th attack, and bear with me here with a couple of what i think are very important dates. on september 21, bruce sent an e-mail to nancy. she had not heard from him in heres, and it came out of the blue. he predicted another terrorist event, an event putting them into 24/7 action, similar to what happened in the first persian gulf war. on september 26th, he sent an e-mail to the departed lab technician, the same woman he planned to poisen with whom he remained obsessed. here's the exact quote in the e-mail, september 26, quote, "i just heard tonight that the bin laden terrorists for sure have anthrax. bin laden had j

this goes back 200 years as a britain was a power in the persian gulf and the iranians felt that thetish were pushing them around and made iran subservient to britain. >> what does this tell us about internal politics? >> there is probably a fair amount of unity that iran has to show they are not weak. over time, we are going to see more iranian voices. the fact that britain would not have an overwhelming response made iranians more secure, we can squeeze the brits a little bit and it will not hurt too much. >> thank you for joining us. from iran to pakistan where there is trouble of a different sort, pakistan has said that they are withdrawing from a meeting on security. they are pulling out in protest of a nato air strike which killed pakistani troops. without pakistan, does the conference have much meaning? >> nato convoys at a standstill. vital supplies going nowhere as pakistan's borders remain firmly closed to nato traffic. they margaret our soldiers, says this truck driver. -- they murdered our soldiers. the loss of 24 soldiers at the hands of nato has caused outrage here. pak

. >> you're going to put the warships in the persian gulf? because they'll attack them. you know they're going to try to do something if you do that, put them there. >> that would be perfectly all right. >> oh, herman cain's war mongering gets even scarier. the man has no clue. seems like hs trying to outdo john mccain. he wants to take a shot at china. >> you view china as a potential military threat to the united states. >> i do view china as a potential military threat to the united states. >> and what -- >> yes, they're a military threat. they've indicated that they're trying to develop nuclear capability. >> bingo. hold it right there. china's not trying to develop nuclear capability. china already has nuclear capability. in fact, they've had nukes since 1964. in 2008, china had an estimated 240 nuclear warheads. herman cain makes sarah palin's foreign policy sound smart. >> as putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the united states of america, where do they go? it's alaska. it's just right over the border. you can actually see russia from land here in

hoyle gets a huge subsidy because of the military protect the persian gulf. whether it is a form of subsidy in the tax cut, it is a huge benefit which is one reason why i agree that we should be increasing r&d in clean energy. there is a subsidy in effect of $50 billion a year because of the military protection for the location where 2/3 of the world's oil reserves are located. the clean energy is not yet quite ready for prime time across the board. we can try to be more efficient and how we protect them. there are ways to do that and save $400 billion over the next 10 years. i see no way to do that if you have to double the savings. adamantly opposed to sequestration and i open doesn't happen somehow or that it is quickly superseded by 2012 congressional action. with that i will turn to my fellow panelists and see if they want to add anything at this juncture. >> let me ask you a question, a factual question. about the effect of the end of the wars. some military folks i talked to say that we lost all this equipment, we need to rebuild and modernize. others

the persian gulf area the oil producing states there and across north africa all the way to morocco. and the events the so-called arab spring had been planned years back and the instigators of those so-called spontaneous protests these twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth over the last months have all been. organized to a situation some of the people leaders of the protests have been trained in in belgrade in serbia by old poor activists financed by the u.s. state department. this thing has state department and u.s. intelligence all over it. and why why are they doing this well two things in my view one. there is vast wealth in the hands of the leading circles in the arab world vast wealth sovereign wealth funds of countries like kuwait and other countries but also just the resources and one of the agendas is to introduce as was done in the soviet union after nine hundred ninety one with the collapse of the soviet union the agenda of i.m.f. privatization free market economy and so forth so that western banks and financial agencies and corporations could come in and take

they get some say as who who moves in but they can't stop it from happen persian gulf. >> they have aot to say in this process but they don't have veto power. >> reporter: that's why he's reaching out to his neighbors trying to calm their fears. like the two churches in his building who would share space with hundreds of marijuana plant ps. >> we've spoken to the people here and we understand it's at its base a humanitarian evident to relieve suffering. they didn't seem to have any problems with it. >> reporter: we contacted the churches in his buildings several times and no one got back to us. the councilman says the whole process is moving too fast. at next money's council meeting, he's going to introduce a moratorium bill to limit the number of cultivation centers that can cluser in one ward. we'll be there and we'll let you know what happens. jim, doreen. >> there's a great deal of new information from the watergate scandal that was released by the national archives today. the documents reveal what former president richard nixon told a grand jury ten months after resigning the pre

the uae is a key persian gulf ally. the proposed sale would include precision-guided bombs and air-to-surface missiles. so-called bunker-busting bombs would greatly increase the uae's ability to hit the kind of targets where iran is believed to be developing nuclear weapons. >>> in turkey, surveillance video from the city of van showed the earthquake hitting on wednesday. look at this. a major hotel falls apart, and people are seen fleeing into the streets. at least 13 people were killed. survivors are still being pulled from the rubble, and thousands are living in makeshift camps. >>> coming up on "the morning news," the oscars pick a new host after eddie murphy bails. >>> plus, facebook may finally be ready to friend uncle sam. we'll tell news." with your savings pass. an extra 15% og save 50-60% and more on mattresses shop early preview thursday. real deals. real savings. sears. it burns! it's singeing me. it's the sun. get out of the office more often, with chili's $6 lunch break combos, featuring texas toast half s

with the persian gulf a little bit on the ground. well. you know. that there are like. one. thing that i think that the longer you're going to prevent. their lives than that of the other you're not you're at that awful man. i cannot for you for the quality of the hospital they're very likely to want to use from only a very good part of it out of them to merge now it is not a matter of the opportunity they're ok what about a criminal think. i'm going to get the contract off the ceiling by. the we are going to do with this mine and i want to use for only a life threatening emergency it is not. a hit. to that incident we actually have patients who are actually not in the e.r. but in the ward but they're not getting timely treatment in the world they want more pain medication don't pick up the phone and dial nine one one so we're sending a mass captain out to the eighteenth floor of the hospital to provide more pain medication for patients inside there you know you know one of. our firefighters paramedics are incredible and they're you know we think that we're constantly doing t

external power of what they say in opposition an exile those are backed by the western powers some persian gulf country. meantime historian and author f. william things that the west's interference in the uprisings in the middle east and north africa has left post revolution countries in tatters and you can watch his full interview next hour here on our say. the economy is in far worse shape libya had the highest living standard in all the africa before the bombing of nato today the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because of gadhafi. the economy of egypt is in dire straits the military remains in control they were the military high command of egypt was sitting in the pentagon when the revolts kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those events. and that interview was next hour here on r.t. for now palestine has for the first time ever received recognition by a u.n. body its cultural arm has accepted it as a fully fledged member but this decision comes at a price for unesco with the u.s. cutting its funding to the organization wh

. >> it all began in 1974 in the port city of bushehr in the persian gulf when it's the shah was stillr. the west stopped cooperating after the islamic revolution in 1979. the building continued with russian help. today, iran has several nuclear plants. plutonium is reportedly being produced in the heavy water reactor in iraq. this was discovered on satellite photos in 2002. the focus of the display over the nuclear program involves the enrichment of uranium. new facilities have been built in the north since 2006. the u.n. nuclear watchdog's in vienna has been negotiating with iran since 2003 and complains about a lack of transparency. in the 2010's, the u.n. security council demanded that tehran of its uranium enrichment program in the first of four resolutions. sanctions were imposed on iraq in's atomic energy program. but north korea provided support. as did pakistan. the network was greeted by nuclear scientist -- was created by nuclear scientist. >> it there had been advances in the international regime to sort of limit these sorts the proliferation since this is happening, partic

with the persian gulf a little bit on the ground. well. you know all the way they live their lives. there but i think that the florida courts were going to prevent. their lives than that of the other you're right but you're right that awful man. i cannot speak for you for the quality of the hospital they're very viable to want to use for murder purposes only that there's a lot of them to merge. it is not a matter of the opportunity ok well that's not a criminal thing over and above the contract awfully by. the police have been to do with this mine and i want to use for mercy purposes only where they live. it is not. a hit. after that incident we actually have patients who are actually not in the e.r. but in the ward but they're not getting timely treatment in the world they want more pain medication don't pick up the phone and dial nine one one so we're sending a mass captain out to the eighteenth floor of the hospital to provide more pain medication for patients inside there you know you go one of. our firefighters paramedics are incredible. you know we make that we're constantly d

. >> what he says for sure is that he was mistreated when he served in the persian gulf. when he came back from that experience in the '90s very bitter, very angry about this country, angry toward america, toward his family, toward his wife. >> we were a couple but he was different. he did not want me to get close to him anymore. he didn't want me to know his feelings. as soon as little john came in the room, his whole world lit up. he would get on the floor and play with him. john was his escape once he came back from saudi. i really don't know what happened to john, but i know something happened. but whatever it was, it changed him completely. into who he was about to become within and eventually it will come out. congratulations. congratulations. congratulations. today, the city of charlotte can use verizon technology to inspire businesses to conserve energy and monitor costs. making communities greener... congratulations. ... and buildings as valuable to the bottom line... whoa ! ... as the people inside them. congratulations. because when you add verizon to your comp