producer andrew blake andrew it's great to have you here on the satellite here so first of all can you just explain this concept i mean to those that are not you know privy to the making. of the printer both how does one make a gun from a three d. printer how does that transformation first you have to go back and look at how these three d. printers actually operate and over the last couple of years are becoming i don't see this really mainstream but there's certainly breaking through and becoming for one thing affordable for an hour for just a few hundred dollars to a to a low grade consumer model to a few thousand dollars to something a bit nicer you can pretty much is exactly what i said it's a three d. printer you design something using a cad design on a computer you make a three d. rendered image you take it you imported to a big machine like a big xerox and you import a different polymers or plastic or resin into it send the file through and within a couple minutes a couple of hours or maybe a couple of days you can hold whatever it is you had in your head you can design it people

to talk more about the latest in the hacktivist world our producer andrew blake joins us now hi andrea liz could hack this really hack into a spacecraft on mars i mean anyone can do anything i mean if you reverse engineer anything you don't like if you have the technology to put it there you have the technology to take it down it's that simple we can essential we do anything i don't see why not but the way in the reason this all started developing was back around a week or two ago someone at p.c. mag. in addition they wrote that oh if you really wanted to have curiosity out of curiosity this is how you would do it and they kind of pinpointed step by step well if you know you can get three hundred if you can send a signal at four hundred thousand kilowatts to three hundred fifty miles away and you know how to do essentially rocket science because that's really what it is so they publish this saying that well if you really have all the means to take down this billion dollar craft you probably already know how to do it but they leave it out for everyone and allegedly someone with this sec

well time to check in with our web team to see what they're working on our web producer andrew blake is in the newsroom to tell us more hi andrew what are you working on over there you know we got some stories got some stories some things happening right now actually as we speak live we know that mitt romney is down in the state of florida running around shaking hands all willy nilly making speeches and whatnot do you know what president barack obama is doing right this second at this very second i have no clue who he is presumably hunched over a computer because right now he is on reddit dot com fielding questions from just after thousands of users from the site that actually the traffic has been so tremendous that reddit has been essentially crippled during the last hour but president obama did show up there was it was acknowledge that it was indeed the commander in chief and he said hey just ask me anything guys i'm the president here we go and of course took some cookie cutter questions with some cookie cutter answers talked about internet freedom and a little bit a little bit on

movement so smile for the camera because chances are big brother is watching coming up artie's andrew blake will break the story down for us. plus the latest details about the seemingly endless debate over the national defense authorization act better known as andy a well indefinite detentions become as american as apple pie we've got one of the plaintiffs in the case joining us to tell you what this means for your civil liberties. and when it comes to foreclosure fraud that can a single person achieve what president obama and all of congress have not been able to buy one woman who's running to be a clerk of court sure willing to try and we'll ask her how. it is monday august thirteenth at four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our t.v. . i want to tell you more about a previously top secret program used for the last several years in many major cities here in the united states and there are a few different elements involved here we're talking highly technical facial recognition software close circuit cameras like the ones you may have seen you know in parks or on the s

pleasure to have in the studio that was all artsy web producer andrew blake thanks well coming up next hour it's he is the capital account with lauren lyster chat let's check in with learnt to see what is on today's agenda lauren what have gone on over there hi liz i know that it's friday it's summer friday it may feel like we're in the peak of summer but i'm going to break down for you why we are in the middle of winter at least according to our gas. winter which may explain the economic situation where and when this economy's going to hit rock bottom and when we're going to bounce back to prosper. you will not want to miss that right doesn't sound like you want to miss that and that is coming up next on the capital account with lauren list server that is going to do it for the news for more on the stories we cover check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash r t america or check out our web site r t dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at liz wall we'll be back here in a half hour see that. can someone. please find. the. wealthy british scientist sign some tim

do have a very thorough and amazing web team and i'm joined now by one of the web team writers andrew blake tell me a little bit about what you guys are working on today hold up the stuff today hold on hold on to go to w w w w there you go our dot. com flash you say it's been a very long day for all of us and sharing a tell just finished up both stories on an hour ago really interesting out of easton pennsylvania which is only around sixty miles north of philadelphia and the other day the local occupy wall street offshoot there held a protest at a wells fargo bank in the city now this town only has around twenty six thousand people you know kind of small potatoes it's between philadelphia new york and one of the protesters there held up a sign inside wells fargo to the customers that said you're being robbed and someone had a panic button and the cops came and getting no no no not at all they were robbing the bank no no no you were going to sound so the point to the message here was that the banks are robbing the every mad but the police you know respond the same which i think maybe they sh

repartees there andrew blake is in the news room to tell us more i know andrew one of the big stories that we've been following for the last really couple weeks here is about trap wire anything new for us yeah well if you've been watching us online on the web or on television in the last two weeks you'll know that we're really sticking with this trap wire story we first blew the lid off of it two weeks ago today actually and two weeks ago tomorrow what we know about trap lawyers this is a massive global surveillance intelligence infrastructure that is. there's so much involved that we can only have time to get through it all now but we do know it's creepy creepy creepy surveillance system what we found out just this week now is that trip wire is linked to something that perhaps is even a little creepy or so we have this global surveillance system that uses facial recognition software that was exposed through these strafford e-mails hacked by anonymous published by we and that's where we started digging around a few weeks back but now we see that trip wire was owned by a company called

that was our producer andrew blake. on an effort to stop iran's nuclear program the u.s. has piled on stiff sanctions against the country but other sanctions working are sarah furthur reports on how tech savvy iranians are working arm around the u.s. embargoes in getting their hands on high tech gadgets. i pads i phones i pods apple's cool overall popularity has meant that their products earth familiar sight everywhere from our workplaces to our homes and on our high street there's one place you might not expect to find products like this on sale and that the iranian capital of tehran where apple along with many of the u.s. products abandon the functions that have been in place the year but it seems the text of the iranians are managing to outsmart this u.s. embargo and products like the ninety popular in toronto they're widely available as well just like any other apple next door this one in tiran is bustling and busy. i have no difficulty in importing electronics from the us nor do we feel any impact on imports from sanctions doesn't come so easy indeed is getting techn

that's time to check in with our web team to see what they're working on our two web producer andrew blake is in the newsroom to tell us more handrail what are you working on today hold hold hold of it let me let me tell you about something i don't have much time but this is really really really important so there's this massive almost entirely widespread kind of secretive surveillance system blanketing america right now and many people haven't heard of it it's called trap wire have you heard of it i have not heard about it it sounds terrifying absolutely go to our two dot com slash usa and read all about what trap wire is it's run by a company right down the street northern virginia called abraxas and it's staffed by some of the top intelligence officers within the united states government got former agents with the cia the f.b.i. and what they're doing is they've installed the surveillance cameras and other sort of information nodes across the country that uses face recognition software that is more advanced than anything commercially available in the united states right now and they can

trap wire surveillance program and to break all this down earlier i sat down with web producer andrew blake himself who broke that story last friday he started off by talking about the amount of media attention being drawn to the issue take a look. the way that this story has quickly spiraled out of control in just three days is almost play make believe but what's actually happening is science fiction so it kind of makes sense so we have to back up to two thousand and four this company releases a breakfast put together this thing called trouble here and not a lot is known about it right now and it's still not the way it's been all week and we're people trying to dig up information we don't really know that much but we do know abraxas has this program called trap wire the vice president of intelligence there said it's more sophisticated than any facial recognition program out there and they can use these cameras to go in and track someone in wherever they are they're located in so far as the biggest myth piled in cities across the united states so we're talking d.c. to new york chicago los a

it for free while to help us discuss this issue a little further i'm joined now by our producer andrew blake and you actually say there's no doubt that this is a big money maker here i went on one of the websites for one of the companies that does this and i want to read it this is a web site for a company called live view g.p.s. and it lays it out pretty clearly it says from detail reports to accurate position updates our g.p.s. tracking systems provide our clients with the effective tracking solution for their needs our clients include numerous federal state and local government agencies fortune one hundred and five hundred corporations as well as numerous privately held companies throughout the united states and abroad makes me feel safe yeah the federal and local agencies are able to do that yes and this company has it has a laid out a right there right in front of you as a business model. i mean how common is this very well you said it would you say by two thousand and sixteen we're expecting twenty six billion dollars this industry alone in within the last decade or more specific less

producer andrew blake and i started out by asking him just how common the surveillance businesses. well you said it would you say by two thousand and sixteen we're expecting twenty six billion dollars this industry alone in within the last decade more specific less two or three years we saw this huge transition where telecom companies places where you're talking like horizon yeah and places are going to get a cell phone contract landline contracts broadband cable internet all that stuff those companies have also in the last couple of years entered the home surveillance market which is great because that's one going to have everything streamlined to one bill you don't have to worry about paying you know a.d.t. one thing in time warner another no you can have the same company that send information over telephone wires and over five or optic cables those same people can see exactly what's happening in your house and they realize that they can make a ton of money by doing that and they have men and so the sales market really has been picking up in the last couple of years but it's just

publications like reason and salon and firedoglake and so we want to now break it down with web producer andrew blake himself he joins me now in studio hey there and your i know this is henri it seems to have caught a lot of attention since you first reported on it last friday i guess just kind of break down some of the almost like too much attention like the way that this story has quickly spiraled out of control and just three days is almost a make believe but what's actually happening is science fiction so we kind of make sense so we have to back up to two thousand and four this company releases abraxas puts together this thing called trip wire and not a lot is known about it right now and it's still not the way it's been all week and we're people trying to dig up information we don't really know that much but we do know abraxas has this program called trap wire the vice president of intelligence there said it's more sophisticated than any facial recognition program out there and they can use these cameras to go in and track someone in brevard they're located in so far as the biggest myth politan