that has big implications on the trading traders behaviors so well i mean i expect i mean so you're saying i mean you're more on my side as you're more on my side of the issue because i think a lot of this pricing is extremely artificial and i think there is an enormous amount of speculation there because of who controls the oil market curd if i could go back to you there are some people who will say that anything about seventy five dollars a barrel now in today's conditions is speculation that means that's thirty dollars a barrel speculation you think that's outrageous is it possible i don't think it's outrageous there's so many paper instruments now that trade oil i mean the average investor can now can go into the stock market and actually get a sort of hybrid security that looks like a stock but trades in the futures markets and these have become so enormous and so influential in the marketplace that i think they do have an upward effect on the oil prices of course if we get a crash and oil at some point which i think we will because it because i think the economy is weakening then all

hydrocarbons at the mediterranean observatory for energy all right gentlemen cross talk rose and if i mean you can jump in anytime you want fred if i can go to you just stop home why are oil prices so stubbornly high because it seems to me and i'm not an expert on oil but supply and demand the market seems to be out of whack because there is an excess amount of oil out there but prices continue to go up and i should point out to our viewers that in even in the united states the united states is an excellent net exporter of gasoline right now but gasoline prices are very high so fred why are energy prices so high. well there's only one answer here that's there someone not fully elements in the picture but in so far as the price of oil is concerned over the years it's gone up since two thousand and eight because demand is out running supply and olympic can adjust the price of oil they are the ones who determine the supply on the margin opec determines the supply and olympic of course has an agenda that agenda is to bank. an enormous amount of money this year and and they intend to do that an

already i mean what he's twenty seven years old i mean i think a lot of you'd best years on the other on the other hand would say leave him alone let him do what he wants look what he's created i mean it cuts both ways in looking at how management will change. i think that's true however the corporate culture in the us. is true magically different than in russia. partly the laws are different partly the enforcement of the laws are different but also the corporate culture is a lot different in terms of executives who loot the company who don't grow shareholder value lose a lot of social prestige. unfortunately that's not true in every country and i think that. is going to be very. loath to not. live up to expectations and best hers are saying hey you know we're counting on you to grow profits to keep this as a financially successful company i don't think he's going to use his voting control to go off on flights of fancy and say thank you shareholders public market shareholders you gave me some money. and i'm taking it and doing what i want with it you know you've got lots of employees

i mean you can go to heritage study or we have a piece on our website it's we think the u.s. military intervention in syria is not a good idea so i think it speaks to jim let me stay with you here what you also know ok let me let me stay with him here jim what is the what is the future now you think of the humanitarian interventions right now because. russia and china particularly russia has been very much criticized in in western governments and and western media for its veto and the russians are standing by it was listen to what russia's ambassador to the u.n. but how he had to say about that. our effort was directed at ending the bloodshed those who are accusing us have been trying to fan civil war and conflict in syria so you know i don't want to want to make them in using this kind of hysterical language but we should have a. call that track record in dealing with the situation of syria supporting opposition sometimes with arms with their goals of forty's even change so. history will show i think. russia has been doing everything we can and continues to do everything we c

i agree i mean and i disagree with aiden in terms of the idea that the responsibility to protect has had no effect or is insignificant or doesn't change anything politically legally i think it does and it does so for the worse if you take for it i mean while it's true that great powers have always been able to have their own way i don't see in the past they don't see that that's an argument for abolishing whatever legal barriers stand in their way to make intervention easier and having those legal barriers and political barriers in place is one way of making it easier to hold power to account rather than allowing for the last restrained and unaccountable exercise of power by the permanent five members of the security council or by any other large major military power so i do think the responsibility to protect and along the lines that you said in relation to what happened in libya were a mandate for civilian protection gave enormous scope for the nato powers to effectively mount a campaign of regime change and i should also add to mean a very similar thing happened at the same time i

all bets are off i mean we should have learned that in iraq i mean should be laid by i wish we did i wish i had assurance that we did but politicians talk about why this is all necessary and even though many people don't support it is this because these people are in an elite stratosphere where they it's necessary maybe for them for political reasons they're facing reelection or to please their constituents or or whatever but these decisions won't affect them they're not the people that are going to be crippled by higher oil prices or have their kids sent off to war for that matter. well i mean it depends how high oil prices go i mean you could make a scenario and i'm not saying it's likely or probable but it's not impossible where you know or oil prices go to any number you could pick to fifty three hundred if we do something in iran and that cripples or shuts down a rainy an oil i mean a rainy an oriel is just shut down for whatever reasons and it affects saudi arabia see that's the elephant in the room i mean everybody's looking at israel and existential threat to israel and that'

know it's look it's been a great run ten years you know it's time for me to move on i mean i've been under an exclusive contract at fox for the last ten years i'd like to be able to do other media but i had a great time and it's just time to move on that's what i'm going to say about that mike your tweets up here right now it says i don't have to deal with their propaganda anymore you want to add me thinking. well look i just think there's a big opportunity out there right now to talk about economics and policy sort of in a non mainstream way and that's what i do and that's what i bring to the table and i think you know my voice might fit better at another venue we'll see but i had a great run it's a great organization and it's time to move on my you personally mike what can i say i couldn't agree with you more about the opportunity for non-mainstream views especially given the economic turmoil that we continue to see you know three years after the financial crisis i can't tell if it's getting better or worse but let's talk about greece because here is somewhere where we can we can ap

introducing i mean there's a lot of illegal ease and gulped in this legislation in i mean i would argue but i'm not sure a lot of state reps are actually smart enough to come across come up with the right pieces of legislation in there i mean there's our losses you know the amount of mercury they have as a regulator sions our regulatory environment has become so byzantine and complex at this point that you know you do need experts you know at least looking into vising and that happens with all sorts of legislation and left leaning organizations have advised lawmakers on things like taxes all over the country by no means unique for that really only has only had a. democratic state representative from the state was constant in the show who showed up down in new orleans for the alec meeting and paid his hundred dollar a distraction fee and after the first day they kicked him out because they figured out that he was a progressive democrat and thought it was a spot sure enough you know he was or at least he became one after they kicked him out and he said that the you had state legislator lo

down a foundation for the next president whoever he is exactly that's my belief you know and i and i mean the strain here i think he's got his chance and i think a bunch of those effects in the public the novelty of his candidacy were off within about twelve months of his arrival and ron paul certainly would be a novelty in office keep in o.t. but that's. politics is based on the moment and i think it's interesting he's a nonpolitician speaks very honestly but i don't agree with his policies and so if i were living here i wouldn't vote for him no he gets more independents than both then all three candidates of the candidates so why does the media not pay attention to him because he's against the establishment he's against everything isn't a stand for you against the military national complex here against the federal reserve do you think he has a chance here oh he is there are ten zero why he doesn't have the finances and he doesn't have the team necessary to put together a serious campaign. so you were just talking about how us running not actually his policies or whether or not he'd be g

is the idea that there is this photo fraud rampantly running rampant and it's really not i mean if you think about it on a commonsense basis if you've ever moved from one state to the other i move from maryland to d.c. i didn't i change my address change utility bills i forwarded mail i did not change and let the whether i should have not i left the board of election supervisors know that i had moved and likewise when people die usually the estate of the person they're taking care of everything but changing the election where they vote and their registration and letting them know the person has died there to see that just generally doesn't happen so that really explains why there are the consistencies there but that doesn't prove that there is voter fraud that there are dead people voting that they're people voting in two or three states it just shows that they're on the books for more than more than one state all right so then if that's the case right if this was. civically is an example not an example of widespread voter fraud why do we have these bills that are being passed in state

some people consider this being a breakthrough i mean i mean i mean a live streaming from court from polling station this is this is that was unthinkable i mean even a couple of years ago you know i'm a member of presidential council on human rights and we like them so will this work yes or no in the console and my friends call it members of this console we can see the it's a very democratic state really yeah you think this will work yes we agree on this point it's a very interesting suggestion and we will do everything that. that will be a real result that is you know its main point i would say or i would repeat my question to you as a member of this council if it's a closed trial if the court decides it's got to be a close trial will this well what camera be switched off or will they cut the live treme bill streaming but it will be recorded some sort of someone on here talking about polling stations but come on not in the court what are the courts no i don't know if we didn't discuss we didn't just go about there this bit of israel may i mean a concrete step to put in can take any

absolutely i mean the. problem in yemen is as much a a result of of the weak central government of himself and his rule i mean you know he has not been the perfect. anti-terrorist terrorism partner for united states and most u.s. officials will acknowledge this certainly in private you know he's ever since the u.s.s. cole bombing there's always been a very love hate relationship you may say between the u.s. and yemen when it comes to fighting terrorism in fact you know one of the key reasons why. it is is is even as as influential as today is because of a prison outbreak that happened a few years ago which many believe was an inside job by the but by the yemenis themselves so so there's there's always been this this really imperfect partnership. to fight terrorism in yemen in the u.s. and the and the emmys ok stephen if if the if the outside world were just to leave the yemen alone in the people of yemen alone could they sort out their own affairs instead of having these sarah good election sarah good presi

go to you first i mean after florida we have mitt romney again for the fourth time seen as the frontrunner for the republican nomination is going to stay that way. i don't think it's going to stay that way actually and what we are experiencing is this huge up and down a roller coaster. you know newt gingrich is receiving endorsements rex and tore him as receiving endorsements i think this race is going to stay divided for quite some time i do see this going all the way to the convention as it should go what do you think about that i mean there is mitt romney got the big mo is he going to be able to sustain this. well right now he clearly does but i think the next month and it's going to be a challenging month for the other candidates because there's only one debate and we enter into the next contests three out of four of them are caucuses so you could you could see a situation was situation where someone like a ron paul who has a good organization does well and these are states that mitt romney did well in. four years ago but you know katrina is right only five

i know i don't think so i mean if. people said that the problem was khadafi you can find many people who say when the problem wasn't good i feel as such it was it was lack of rule of law for example and clearly you don't have the lower end of your told no i don't think i don't care for people for all right jim brann from the stop the war coalition thanks for your time. type police are searching for two more suspects in a failed terror plot they say targeted israeli diplomats in bangkok three iranians have already been detained over tuesday's explosions in the thai capital tehran which is under international pressure over its controversial nuclear program denies involvement israeli prime minister though as calderon the greatest export or of terror in the world as our reports from tel aviv many israelis may not be convinced . seems like the battle drones are growing louder and louder with israel continuing to this really harsh rhetoric towards iran accusing them essentially of terrorizing the entire world community there

iranians punished somehow one way or another you know take down hezbollah you mention to masala already i mean it's really has nothing to do about the poor people of syria or democracy it's a geo political play to go after to turn around and turn around would be oh i met loser if the regime in damascus did fall well it's both exactly which part of the reason why the united states would like to see assad go because then iran loses its only regional ally and it further isolates you are allowing the united states and israel to put more pressure on it to stop its nuclear weapons program suspected nuclear weapons program so there is a clear strategic interests go ahead jump in i just want to jump in i do think there are any and they're greatly concerned here i think one of the problems at the top of their concern is if the syrian regime falls that in a sense the arab spring will blow back into iran again in the sea and taken there in the opposition or own country so i think just for the strategic reasons they want syria to stay because it's their pipeline and lawson has once important regional ally

i mean do you think this thing is going to die down or do you think that the afghan people are going to continue to push i would say and tell there's some sort of trial or investigation into this but it doesn't look like there's necessarily. going to be something that would appease them. christine you know that's excellent point i mean this they're not going to they're not going to forget about this i mean this is the koran regardless of whether they can read it or not it is irrelevant the fact is that these people have been offended they've been seeing their country torn apart for the later part of you know thirty years going back to you know one nine hundred seventy nine and they're just fed up with everything and they just want everybody to leave and i think that the u.s. would be in its best interest to leave and let them have it and you know the thing here is most importantly the americans have to know that we need to become more sensitive toward the islamic world and these kind of events we don't understand how bad it makes our image it's so dr mental to us i mean i think that's

what do you think about all of this here if i can stay with you in brussels i mean is this it there's a drumbeat to war irrespective of what the i.e.e.e. i i a e a has to say about anything because most people said the last report was just a recycled one of the one before go ahead. but i think this is of off the mark the issue has moved on the issue of relations with iran has moved on considerably from the strict starting point of its nuclear ambitions and no what were side issues have become the central issue that is the economic warfare being being and entered into against iran the ratcheting up of sanctions which with a certain word a certain point the quantitative element becomes a qualitatively different relationship and becomes an exercise existential threat to iran and we're protein that point and the the the issue of its nuclear ambitions or how or what has been proven has fallen into a subsidiary position i can see that coming out in in a dispute between the the pentagon or the and the papa defense and the state department because there is a significant. more significantly mo

i mean we see a sturdy. with a vengeance in europe and we can go to southern europe all the way up to germany the french are be experiencing it as well how can what is this the right formula and dimitri says it's not the right for me and to bring us back to prosperity because a lot more and more people are just being a misery. yeah well i think look the bottom line is it's really interesting people won't agree to us territory or comply with us therapy if things are getting better you kind of need to be in bad times to get people to understand how serious a debt problem is and that it needs to be addressed i mean nobody was interested in addressing the debt problem during the boom it's only during the bust the people start to understand why but it is true that i stared he doesn't alone create price prosperity what does create prosperity are small entrepreneurs and this is really important two thirds of the net new jobs in all industrialized economies are created by companies that employ less than fifty people

where the debate is what the topic is who the candidate is king seems to really struggle with that i mean i don't think anybody can forget king's inability to stand up for himself when he was attacked by newt last time she says you asked her sure to enter into an open marriage would you like to take some time to respond to that no but i will. as you noted mr speaker this story did not come from our network as you also know it is the subject of conversation in the campaign i'm not to get your point i take your point john it was repeated going you're not going to you chose to start today with it don't try to blame somebody else. yeah or there was a time when king lost control so much the audience actually decided to choose who they wanted to answer what. let's take a question from social media question. for we move on you want on this issue they want to and this is you doing this is. the thing is it's not just john king anderson cooper seems to have control issues the debates as well for example when perry cleared up for cooper who exactly asks and who answers the questions. a child of ille

of relief i mean. i got it gave me a.you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else.

and so i let me go to sara was i don't know for so you know and i'm going to make an amsterdam here i mean it i find it very interesting is that i don't think i'll agree with jim and washington d.c. i don't think there's any love lost for this regime in damascus here but i think there are some countries important country in the world they're worried about what's going to happen afterward just because assad leaves it's a parent that equally it doesn't mean it's the violence is going to necessarily stop it actually could get worse yes actually i think everyone worries about what happens next in syria and which is why the russians and the chinese in particular they don't want to see the regime gone necessarily but to answer your question. i don't think that the united states and western powers nor israel particularly want to intervene in syria exactly because they see you. what comes next we have a very clear understanding of what's happening on the ground. and all this because the syrian regime limits international media entrance into syria. i don't think we know what they're getting ourselv

i mean i must disagree i mean i think there are. three and a half million jobs that depend on us having a positive relationship with the e.u. one of the benefits that we have of being part of britain is that our relationship with the e.u. is stable and secure there is a great legal way it will in one hundred people with. an independent scotland claim with an independent is going to magically state it would have to go to rebut it when the independent counsel appointed how it would have to be a member of the european union it would have to do with your re exception process and why it's already in a while there's a huge difference it's already you've got about it already in the euro i mean a lot of you look at a work on the hard very hard and book of scottish independence by joseph martins he expresses if you look at her here's how it was one of the s.n.p. his favorite economists well i'm surprised you're one of the first ministers bravery corum is he relies on him to back a bit ahead of you so i do not listen and that's always said th

i don't know -- like, what do you mean, go down? oors. >> jimmy: i don't know why i'm laughing. i'm just -- wait, so you couldn't take the ferry back? >> no, i could take the ferry, but he was telling me i had to take a different entrance. and i was like, well, where is entrance? can you be more specific? i mean, god, like, he was really, really not a nice guy. at least, maybe just having a bad day at work. >> jimmy: maybe he just didn't like your dogs. [ laughter ] >> maybe, you know, like -- >> jimmy: what kinds of dogs are they? cute little dogs? >> yeah, i mean, it's very clichÉ. they're, like, two little, you know, hollywood chihuahuas. they're adorable. >> jimmy: that's awesome. that's fine. are you not allowed on with dogs? >> no, you are. you're allowed with -- you're on. >> jimmy: he was just being a wise guy? >> he was just being a wise guy, and he kicked me out. and then i saw this policeman. i was, like, in tears, and i was like, "can you please just, you know, show me where i need to be? like, he told me i have to go thr

yeah i mean i think that there's a pattern of afghan this pleasure with the u.s. occupation there certainly we've seen many other signs in the past few months we had warnings of afghan government members who were threatening to defect to the taleban we've had repeated entreaties from afghan president hamid karzai to president barack obama to halt the night raids against suspected militants where lots of people were being sort of bagged and tagged by the u.s. and there's been a lot of signs leading up to this the scar on burning incident which i think you're right to characterize characterize it as sort of the last straw this isn't just its own incident which these these people are are angry about that is bringing them out on the streets. i think that it is the culmination of of sort of an occupation that has to a great extent gone awry if this is the the peak of the curve as it were is there a downward slide side to the to the violence and the anger or is this just going to continue escalate. until we leave our midst it's tough to say tom i don't know i'm i think

in many many ways i mean it was that they were themselves a colony of the spanish so i mean you know it is this this is not helping either side because either side is very rigid on that but they do have still a very strong case. yes i believe they do and i want to make it clear i'm not a nut rallying for the falkland cause either i like to look at this of the perspective of a journalist but i'd be very happy to outline the arguments in argentina's favor and i think the biggest one just to respond to what luke was saying a moment ago the three thousand islanders that want to become british we should certainly respect that we should hear them and respect their their desires but also recognise the basic facts twelve million argentines three thousand people who live on a colonial vest each is not exactly equal in terms of of what they're both of their their weight of both causes what we have right now is a falkland fortress and the question is do we want to continue that you can you know cameron can keep sending out as many elite destroyers as he like but it seems a bit counterproductive

on facebook and you're on facebook i mean do you check any of the ads you click on any of the ads on facebook. i never have i never enjoyed dressed your guests last point in. it in the very you know you could be on facebook is tracking what you like and what you do at work somebody walks by and sees you want facebook on your monitor and on the side is a whole bunch of ads that are going to be related to what you like you might not want that person to know that you are interested in overseas vacations or whatever it may be and so there's a bit of a privacy breach there i think because it's going to put ads that are appropriate to what you're looking at on your facebook page for people to walk by and see ok gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on facebook state park. and. see. well into the future science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. market why not. come to find out what's really happening to the global economy

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the assad family go no one ok it's more about a process what do you think the end game is i mean and i said facetiously you know what kind of jeffersonian democracy what kind of country do you think is going to be there isn't going to be hostile to the west it's going to be it will continue with serious can traditional foreign policy what kind of relationship would have with israel with iran with hezbollah there's a lot of people you know are focused on the here and now but those are the questions going to be asked whatever whenever we get to this end game yes i know there's a good questions but nobody knows the answer to those questions. outcome in terms of. syria's foreign policy is a question mark and i don't think actually any of the players involved has much of a clue about that. because you i want you want regime change or if you're asking for really demanding regime change without understanding what the unintended consequences could be that's interesting yes we are because many thousands of innocent lives are at stake that's the key. anyone who insists on maintaining the regim