been leaked about what goes on and joining me now to talk more about this is our correspondent abbie martin and abbie i know you spent most of this weekend in monterrey rio right outside the gates of the grove what was it like. oh it was interesting and definitely different than previous. you know there was definitely a lot of secrecy going on so we couldn't really get inside but we did see a lot of people outside there was a creation of care festivals the first time that the occupy movement had really come into full force and you know it's calling now the power structure is pretty much all of the world first we have to build a bird group or the occupy movement and emerged with those protesters and now we see them here protesting the bohemian grove and it's secrecy you talked of you in your piece about you know people wonder why the redwoods are only for the one percent but you know let's break this that this down i mean this is private property the owner has the right to do what he wants invite who he wants to his property and talk about why some of these critics and protesters are most an

line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the lair of the one percent abby martin r.t. month a.t.o. california. time now for some other stories making headlines around the world egyptian president hosni mubarak owl's been ordered back to prison after a doctor said this health has improved mobarak was admitted to to a military hospital in mid june following reports he had suffered heart failure eighty four year old former leader was sentenced to life in prison last month for his complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's revolution which toppled him. hundreds of demonstrators rallied in the city of peshawar in pakistan protesting against the reopening of a nato supply routes into afghanistan as follows the one thousand strong rally held on sunday and the southern pakistani city of karachi islamabad close the supply routes for seven months after twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by u.s. drone attacks. let's cross over to the business desk natasha we have a new wave of downgrades this morning don't we absolutely and this time it's italy a coun

a time of rest and relaxation as really a chance to discuss plans for the world's future so our abby martin to bohemian grove to see what triggers those rumors and growing protests for millionaires and billionaires the people that control the world control the central banks the build nuclear weapons i mean this was their summer playground straight from the san francisco airport headed to montevideo a city with beautiful redwoods and picturesque coastlines. the perfect getaway for the world's rich and powerful and in fact every year ceos media moguls and high level politicians flock here to the bohemian grove secluded camp out there making business deals there they're talking policy for a lot of conversation a claim which members deny their motto here is that weaving spiders come not here which they claim means there's no business discussions it's just the vacation for the wealthy men author and activist mark dice has a rare grove yearbook issued every decade showing everything from men in drag to high profile politicians giving speeches the book shows george w. bush and his father giving la

i'm abbie martin and you're watching. the mujahideen elke hell or i me k. is an iranian terrorist organization that is according to the state department despite any case facilitation in multiple terrorist activities over the past couple decades including assassinating u.s. military personnel and iran participating in the u.s. iran hostage scenario and working with saddam hussein there is currently a massive lobbying campaign at the state department to remove them from the list. it is a ron's democratic opposition working for a nuclear free iran founded on human rights unjustly listed a terrorist group and u.k. is the victim of violence the radical regime in iraq and their iraqi allies europe has delisted any case and in two thousand and ten a us court order to review iranians u.s. lawmakers and former senior officials demanded listing secretary clinton for democracy and freedom in iran d. list any k. now that i make a fiercely opposes the current regime in iran which coincides of course of american interests in the region so does the us only dealing terrori

and abby martin and you're watching our t.v. . the violence continues to rage on in syria this time hitting closer to the assad regime than ever before a bomb has detonated inside the syrian national security building yesterday killing multiple top assad security chiefs including president a sorrow assad's brother in law who's often hailed as a serious second president and the u.n. security council resolution that would have slapped new sanctions on the syrian regime has been vetoed by russia and china unlike many mainstream outlets that report on syria's civil war from the comfort of other countries news rooms r.t. has been on the ground in syria covering the conflict firsthand riff and osha has more from them ask us. the news about blasts has come at a very tough time for the syrian capital in the last four days damascus has been seen for what the opposition and free syrian army have dubbed the final battle for damascus a decisive battle for the syrian capital shootings have been heard in very different parts of the syrian capit

time will tell if this recent regrouping will push the movement forward abby martin philadelphia for more on the occupy movement and family i'm joined now by a room group the founding editor of the independent welcome to rune so it was a scorching hot fourth of july but it didn't stop people from coming out that at. no it didn't it was very spirited it was very festive there were maybe about five hundred people there it had the feeling in many ways of almost like a medieval sare there were jugglers that. poets musicians and people really felt energized. but at the same time it was also disappointing in my opinion for the movement because this was a movement that was bringing out hundreds of thousands of people last fall and yet it was able to bring maybe only about five hundred people to its first national gathering and well why do you think that is a why don't you think more people turned up you know and massive numbers that we've seen in the past. i think there are a lot of factors for it one is certainly that the movement has lost a lot of visibility because of the. mainstream med

abby martin has more. have you guys ever heard of the information security oversight office well i hadn't either until i came across its two thousand and eleven report outlining just how much u.s. taxpayers are paying to classified government documents a whopping eleven point three six billion dollars stake a look at this graph from one thousand nine hundred five until two thousand government spending on classification was pretty stable starting from three billion dollars to about four and a half billion dollars and in the five years after nine eleven the money spent on classification rose steadily every year to double that eight billion dollars for the most recent two year period from two thousand and nine until two thousand and eleven the price of classification has skyrocketed from eight a half billion dollars to almost twelve billion dollars that's a twelve percent jump in costs just from two thousand and ten and let's think about this for one second about how much money the federal government has spen

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book in which he argues that corporate capitalism will quite literally kill us all and artie's abby martin is going to fill us in on the ground report from philadelphia where there's a national occupy gatherings we'll have all of that and more if you tonight including it is of happy hour but first take a look what the mainstream media decided to miss. all right so today there is a specific story that the mainstream media is covering but i'd like to point out it's got a little taste of everything that a scandal needs are may be not everything right there still has a bit of a sexual element that's emerged as far as i'm concerned but there's definitely corruption and there is a massive fall from grace. well if you ever wished you could say interest rates with the snap of your fingers well there's a job opening please to actually barclays boss bob diamond is stepping down their c.e.o. resigned yesterday because the big bank was accused of fixing during the height of the financial crisis fallout from the market rigging scandal continues as barclays loses its top executives in as many days what

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correspondent abbie martin who is on the ground in philadelphia to tell us what is happening take a look. i don't like any other are higher protests i've been to so far because this is the first national gathering it's not a localized action so there's occupy groups in the whole of the country getting together gathering in one place but there is also i mean hundreds of auctions across these five days of the national gathering the first national government of occupy wall street so it's a really interesting scene there's people of all demographics out here and they're participating in different acts there's a march going on right now we have an action going on right here for free so there's a there's an end drone war group over there with more people just a whole different mix of people and different things happening now it's been almost a year since these protests have sparked and we've seen them sweep across the country how is this one different from the ones we've seen. after the federalizing crackdown cross the entire country from the top down and we saw the camps dismantle people have

correspondent abbi martin is on her way to the secret secretive bohemian grove meeting as we speak she is infiltrating the monte rio redwoods to find out what this elusive group will be discussing and who will be there we'll tell you what she finds out plus we went spent a lot of time here on our team talking about the controversial natural gas extraction technique known as fracking and the alleged dangers opposes to drinking water for the community that lives around these sites the reason the method is so popular is because it's supposed to be cleaner greener a cleaner greener way to use to u.s. energy independence or so you might think next week we'll tell you about a group of geo chemists who say it can prove that hydraulic fracturing doesn't fact pollute and is directly connected with water contamination we'll show you the study and we'll tell you how water leaves a fingerprint that can be traced to its chemical source and those are just a few of the stories we have in store for you next week along with more news and in-depth interviews to keep it tuned in to our t.v. . but for mor

abby martin r.t. correspondent brings us more. occupy wall street movement many recognize for its boisterous voices makeshift tents and violent clashes with police. who many have said it's on hiatus the sleeping giant isn't going away anytime soon after the crackdowns on encampments across all major u.s. cities many protesters gathered to regroup and reenergize the movement. others have to live bring its message to the encampments have been wiped out. or not as visible but that doesn't mean that we're not working just as hard as we were before behind the scenes the most recent protests kicked off in philadelphia the city of brotherly love consider this is like a convention and people here are delegates for their occupy groups and i have heard a number that there are about ninety two different occupy groups represented here this is the five day gathering for occupy wall street protesters the first national gathering in the entire country since the inception of this movement a gathering in philadelphia on independence day because th

line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the layer of the one percent abby martin r.t. what they do you know california and earlier i spoke to abby for an update on what she witnessed take a look. i think people are recognizing that this is the one percent of people in the world we have million heirs billionaires i mean you cannot you have to be pretty pretty rich to get in there there are one hundred twenty eight camps of twenty to fifty people in these camps each one has a full barn. very rich wealthy elite going in there from all ends of the society and what really happened this year was the first time that the occupy movement recognized hey the bohemian grove is really something that we should be calling now and occupy and so they made an event occupy bohemian grove just as they have before just dovetailing off this whole movement of the ninety nine percent versus the one percent and they had an event a month later you know ampitheater which is about a mile of the gates of the grove and all day they had a beakers. band they had a woman from the mothers of fukus

movement began what shape is it taking now or joining me from philadelphia is archie correspondent abby martin abby thanks for joining us and what can you tell us about what's going on down there with the scene is like. well on about five days ago four days ago the national conference started it's the first national gathering for occupy wall street the entire country so until this point we've just seen local actions around the cities of different states but this is the first time that people from all over the country are coming in flooding and like you said to do workshops training seminars really retooling and re strategizing and i'm the face of the crackdown that we saw last year so when we say retooling re strategizing you know i mean is there an attempt to try to label this in several guard do they want to call it face to occupy if they want to call it phase three or four or five you know what is the meeting really supposed to represent in philly. it's representing a phase two for sure it's representing the next stage in the face of these crackdowns i mean they realize that there is no way

line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the lair of the one percent abby martin r.t. month a.t.o. california. tara just a moment on the tasher with the business first out of pakistan to start off the r.t. world cup made its way up to eight thousand people are marching in the northwest of the country protesting against the reopening of nato supply routes in afghanistan demonstrations began on monday hundreds of pakistanis rallying in the city of peshawar islamabad close the supply routes for seven months after twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by american helicopter gunships. in turkey a huge fire engulfed the forty two story skyscraper pull out tower that's made up of presidential apartments and offices hundreds of people were evacuated no one was hurt another blaze is believed to have been contained the cause of the fire is yet to be determined but a technical fault is suspected. a russian soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station just two days after blasting off from the baikonur cosmodrome russian. nasa's astronauts

line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the lair of the one percent abby martin r.t. month they do you know california. time now for some other stories making headlines around the world. president hosni mubarak has been ordered back to prison after a doctor said his health has improved barak was admitted to a military hospital in mid june following reports he had suffered heart failure eighty four year old former leader was sentenced to life in prison last month for his complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's revolution which toppled. to canada now where police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting at a barbecue that left two people dead and up to nineteen injured in toronto it's thought another shooter may have been involved in the incident which followed what is described as an altercation around midnight and two fatalities were a teenage girl and a twenty year old man the majority of the injuries were caused by a crush as around one hundred people fled from gunfire. business time no natasha and there is a fresh blow to investor

correspondent abbie martin joins us now live in the studio she has been there on top of it in philadelphia where it has been a scorching hot fourth of july yes indeed it was 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 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 sorry federalize cartoons late 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 of 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

participation and collaboration so classifying for transparency ha well george orwell would be proud abby martin r.t. washington. well that's going to do it for this hour of the news but let's turn it over now to lauren lyster she is the host of capital account and she is going to give this a preview of what's to come lauren what can we look forward to today hi there liz well it is friday and i know that it has been a major breaking news day domestically for a lot of outlets i know that i think you covered this colorado story as well but stepping aside from that there is still an economic. just very slow doldrums underway in the united states certainly in europe worth keeping on top of and examining and we spoke to day lives to a woman who has a really different way of looking at booms and busts it's not a way that you typically hear economists describe them because technology technological innovation it's something that impacts every day yet it's not something that really factors into a lot of economists assessment of booms and busts but when you look at capital and flows of capital and cycles

also follow me on twitter at abby martin. download the official location to i phone the i pod touch from the i.q. zaps to. life on the go. video on demand tease my old posts and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. and. follow him welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle targeting africa the u.s. is expanding its covert military and intelligence operations across the continent this is being done we are told one of the pretext of fighting terrorism is africa again being colonized by outside powers. and. started. to cross talk the u.s. military in africa i'm joined by my guests in washington ivan eland he's a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute james middlemen he's a university professor of international affairs at the american university and peter pham he is the director of the unsorry africa center at the atlantic council all right gentlemen crosstalk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i have anyone if i go to you first is

and sets a chilling example of what becomes of government whistleblowers are the correspondent abbie martin is in jessup maryland where the court hearing took place today and she joins us now live for the latest hi abbie so anything noteworthy come out of the hearing today. yes 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 you know was this really a threat to national security a lot of definition of terms flying around what is classified what isn't classified as we know bradley is being charged under the espionage act for transmitting classified information the problem is that the espionage act only pretty only is designed about classified information and then we already know that the collateral murder video was not classified and you know with the defense actually withholding hundreds of thousands of documents it is a little hard right now to actually deem was t

participation and collaboration so classifying for transparency ha well george orwell would be proud abby martin r.t. washington well mexico is bracing for another round of protests against president elect and wreak a pain a new protesters many from the student group. believe pena nieto bought the election and the media tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to take to the streets in a mag of march among the targets televisa one of the t.v. stations accused of censoring the student protests but amir charney is a proud member of that student movement and joined the earlier today to talk about sunday's march take a listen. we've been organizing this march along. the moment we started with the protest this march dated for the twenty second of this month is intended to be our march that includes also the states of the north and the south this is an intent for a national march against the imposition of opinion at all and as a candidate of the of the revolutionary institutional party in here in mexico we also have a these demands against the media in specific this. system of television of tel

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and yet even members of the media who get invited never breathed a word about it correspondent abbie martin is in want to rio and has more on the significance of this annual event the street from the san francisco airport headed to do you a city with beautiful redwoods and picturesque coastlines. the perfect getaway for the world's rich and powerful and in fact every year ceos media moguls and high level politicians flock here to the bohemian grove secluded campout less than half a mile from where they're millionaires billionaires the people that control the world control the central banks the build nuclear weapons i mean this was their plumber playground dr peter phillips spent three days on the inside now on the outside he argues that the public has a right to know what's going on and his calling for an occupation of the grove it's speaking to the the powerful of the world saying we want to have a democratic process we want to have an open transparent process and they're making business deals there they're popping policy with a lot of conversation a claim which members deny their motto he

i'm abbie martin and you're watching. starting off this hour while the clock is certainly taking to the two thousand and twelve presidential elections and people on both sides of the party lines are adding even more pressure to the race just as things are heating up president obama's bid for reelection is on track to be outspent by the romney campaign a first for any incumbent president and it seems like mitt romney has plenty of money to go around both in his personal and political life thing is we may never know about it until now every presidential candidate has revealed their tax papers but mitt romney refuses which is democrats really with rhetoric he wants you to show your papers but he won't show us here and. if you know joe biden you know he's quick to talk and even quicker to act he did release his taxes for public scrutiny in fact we have him right here but it seems like democratic senators dick durbin and levin want more transparency from public figures this is what durbin had to send the senate floor yesterday

i'm abbie martin and you're watching. for the first time data has been collected on a national level that reveals the extent of cell phone wiretapping in the u.s. the level of surveillance has exploded in the last five years increasing about fifteen percent annually since two thousand and seven in two thousand and eleven cell carriers reported that they've had one point three million demands from law enforcement agencies requesting text messages color locations and other information yet as cell surveillance increased warrants for wiretapping has declined fourteen percent last year to only two thousand seven hundred thirty two so how is this happening and will this disturbing trend of exponential growth of the surveillance state continue for breakdown or what is happening i was joined by kate crockford privacy rights corner for the american civil liberties union take a look. sure it's really interesting actually that there are fewer wiretap requests now than there are for what we call his business transactional records now

i'm abbie martin and you're watching our team. in addition to the multiple wars being waged by the u.s. military to fight the war on terror there's also a war being waged in latin america to fight the war on drugs for the second time in one month a d.a. agent has shot and killed someone on doors for allegedly transporting drugs a few weeks ago the d.a. oversaw a raid in which four civilians died traveling by boat so why is u.s. law enforcement interfering in the region and what is the war on drugs all about to talk more about this i'm joined now by adrian pyne a professor at american university thanks so much for coming in. so this is the second time in the course of a few weeks that this happened we just had you want to talk about this a couple weeks ago to talk about what exactly happened in this instance well from what we understand and there hasn't been a lot of information coming out about this but there was a plane carrying cocaine and it crashed and. agents who were acting basically on their own authority arrived at the sce

i'm abbie martin and you're watching our t.v. . now everyone's heard about the storm that hit here last friday with heavy rain and high winds knocking out power for over two and a half million people across the mid atlantic my question is why are thousands of people still left without power a week later it's just a storm guys not like it was a hurricane or tornado pepco as president said a statement that they're working quote full force and around the clock until every customer is restored i mean come on let's call a spade a spade here this is an enormous failure of infrastructure and what does it say the infrastructure is so poor in our nation's capital that canada has to come help us whenever there's heavy rain and wind let's take a look at some of the damage what in power poles are no match for seventy mile per hour winds and falling trees and the u.s. government is spending so much money to rebuild iraq so why is it short changing this country it's already spent sixty billion dollars on iraqi infrastructure just from two thousa

i'm abby martin and you're watching our team. for the first time data has been collected on a national level that reveals the extent of cell phone wiretapping in the u.s. the level of surveillance has exploded in the last five years increasing about fifteen percent annually since two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven cell carriers reported that they've had one point three million dollars million demands from law enforcement agencies requesting text messages color locations and other information that is cell surveillance increases warrants for wiretapping has declined fourteen percent last year to only two thousand seven hundred thirty two so how is this happening and will this disturbing trend of exponential growth of the surveillance state continue unabated to break it all down i'm joined now by alan butler appellate advocacy council for epic thanks so much for coming in so so what what does this all say explain a little bit about what was just uncovered well what we've learned is the extent of law enforcement requests

corporate capitalism will literally kill so we'll have him explain that and then we'll catch up with abby martin who as you know is on the ground in philadelphia to tell us what's going on with that national gathering for the occupy movement. sounds like you have a great show to look forward to that's coming up in just a half an hour thanks for that update a lot of that's going to do it for the news from the stories we covered you can check out our youtube channel it's youtube dot com slash america we post everything online in full there on our youtube channel or you can check out our website it's our teeth dot com slash usa web team is busy working away on all kinds of stories that we don't have time to get you on the air you can also follow me on twitter at liz wall the a lot of shows up in a half hour we will be right back here at seven. o'clock in the alona so you'll get the real headlines with none the less the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't

abby martin our to washington. well earlier in the show we talked about the freedom of speech in the u.s. as far as journalists are concerned but what about average americans and more specifically the use of social media platforms to flex your first amendment rights is there anything that should be banned from being said on twitter laurie harshness with the resident that takes that question to the streets of new york city to find out. twitter is instituting a new policy of blocking posts it deems racist is it ok for social media websites to pick and choose what can and can't be said this week let's talk about that. right but some people still do. but that's the world we live in so should it be out there for people to see or should twitter take it down twitter should take it down so we're live in new york we live free but doesn't a racist person live free to post whatever they want do you have kids do you worry about them being exposed to racist comments. well that's not good yeah but you can express whatever you wa

i'm abbie martin and you're watching our team can election results be trusted in a country and torrijos for election fraud thousands of people in mexico are saying no and took to the streets over the weekend to protest the results of last week's election for the reigning pre-k. party candidate and yet though won thirty eight point two percent of the vote left this presidential candidate on the dais manuel lopez obrador got thirty one point five percent of the vote. the protesters are alleging that the pretty party won by buying the votes and i would have thought of as planned formally challenging the outcome of the election so is there any evidence of voter fraud and one other term of pre mean for mexico to explore those questions and more i'm joined by investigative journalist andrew kenneth hey andrew thanks for joining us thanks for having me on so you're on the ground there tell us what you've seen from the journalistic standpoint of what's happening right there and right now and over the weekend well basically since the the crew callen election results were announced just last mond

story suggestions because we want to know what you want us to cover and also phone and twitter abby martin. it's not me. yes i'm speaking aliens because news is that aliens are patrolling various locations around the world apparently this really is the end game securitization of all bad debt and sell it too early and some outerspace stacey max you have been saying that for years though there's so much debt here that who can possibly back us we're going to have to go intergalactic seeking somebody else to take on and collateralized this debt so in the past week or two we've seen a cia agent who has come out and said that he claims they've seen some aliens that what is known as area fifty one but then i saw in the u.k. the u.f.o. files aliens might come here for holidays government officials believe aliens me visit earth and suggest harnessing u.f.o. technology for u.k. defenses files say paper show the existence of a flying saucer working party within government during one nine hundred fifty to fifty two and then in one nine hundred ninety five the m o d papers show that one agent reported