national gathering on a scorching hot fourth of july i was joined earlier by our correspondent abbie maher and. there's about one hundred plus degrees very intense heat kind of put a damper on just my energy level above all understandable but you know it was great to see people out there from all walks of life just in the intense heat despite the huge they were out there really giving it their all so it was it was interesting to see that and so also what was what was the message that they were trying to get out well from what i gathered from talking to a bunch of the people there after the crackdowns nationalized crackdowns federalized translate last year a lot of people said occupies dead it's over and i think what they were doing was really strategizing and galvanizing for a a vision that they can bring the movement to its next phase whatever that phase will be but over the course of five days you saw workshops speakers just a lot of communication and dialogue about what exactly it's all about. one gentleman michael levin ten who's the founder of the occupy wall street journal of a z dis

correspondent abbie maher and that's going to wrap it up i'll be back here at seven for now i'm liz wall. culture is that so much different each musician finding the mark limbering syria i mean witnessing a new generation of warfare and information for their peers no doubt western media aims to construct a concert. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. of the mission free cretaceous three terms for charges free. range month free risk free studio time free. download free blog clothing video for your media projects and a free medio dog to our teeth on tom you. download the official t. up location on the phone called touch from the choose our. life on the go. video on demand teasin blindfold comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. and. i mean welcome to crossfire i'm curious about covering syria are we witnessing a new generation of warfare

foreign policy decisions are made there but why doesn't anybody know about this are to correspondent abbie maher and is looking for some answers. yep there it is right and wrong that a.o. california about a lot of you have never heard the place but it really is quite interesting for the next two weeks and much of the world's elite will be flocking to a secretive orgy of power where they partied up a bohemian style where they give talks network discuss policy and drink heavily this powerful men's only club has been meeting for the last one hundred thirty three years. even the idea for the manhattan project which led to the creation of the atom bomb came out of the grove and nine hundred forty two pretty powerful stuff but who actually attend the gathering is packed with oil tycoons politicians business leaders and foreign diplomats who all make the pilgrimage to this year the redwood campout presidents nixon reagan and george w. bush all attended the group before the grace the oval office even media bigwigs are stable with the likes of the hearst dynasty and walter cronkite now replaced with rupe

correspondent abbi maher and. well it's no secret that this summer has been a scorcher across the u.s. one temperature record after another has been broken and states are searching for ways to beat the heat and the weather is actually causing a state of emergency and many places across the u.s. take a look at this right now the american agriculture industry is suffering from the worst drought since the nineteen fifties it's ruining crops now speculators are saying this could drive food prices through the roof but while the media outlets and food experts focus on the side effects of this drought there is a bigger threat to our food supply a so-called food blitz that's happening right now right under our noses it looks like the controversial agricultural giant monsanto could be above the law the monsanto writer as it's called was snuck into the twenty thirteen agricultural record cultural appropriations bill and what it does is require the secretary of agriculture to grant temporary permits to corporations that want

the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks he's charged with aiding the enemy are the correspondent abbie maher and joined us earlier to tell us of anything noteworthy that occurred today take a listen. today you know this is day three of what will be a five day pretrial hearing for private bradley manning who's coming up on eight hundred days of military jail now liz being held without charges what happened today mostly was an assessment of impact of the f.b.i. assessment of reno was this really a threat to national security a lot of definition of terms flying around what is deemed classified what isn't classified as we know bradley is being charged under the espionage act for transmitting classified information the problem is the espionage act only purpose only is designed about because of information and then we already know that the collateral murder video was not classified and you know with the defense actually withholding the hundreds of thousands of documents it is a little hard right now to to actually deem was this really a threat to national security if so how exactly did that happen