paul burka is senior executive editor of "texas monthly." you've been watching governor perry for a long time. this is very tactical what his weekend plans are given the fact that all the other candidates are in ames? >> absolutely. it's very shrewd move. he steals the thunder from whoever wins the iowa caucuses. this is the way governor perry has operated throughout his career. he never plays by other people's rules. he plays by his own rules. he's always pretty successful at it. i think this is -- this is pretty typical. he has a veteran team. they've been together for ten years and they always have a plan. >> and what is -- what is his power base right now? people see him as a threat perhaps to michele bachmann because he comes from that wing of the party and he also has evangelical roots. within texas we know there was a divide between him and george w.

for more, we are joined by paul burka, senior executive editor of the magazine, "texas monthly."s been covering texas politics for more than 35 years. paul burka, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >>. >> woodruff: let's talk about governor perry's job claims that he in texas has been creating 40% of the new jobs in this country over the last two years. first of all, is that borne out by the facts and second of all, what sort of jobs? >> well, the answer to the first question is yes it appears to be borne out by the facts. the second question is really more interesting, what kind of jobs. and that is something that there's going to be quite a lot of debate about. for example one of the important companies that governor perry brought in was countrywide and that was right at the beginning of the mortgage crisis that countrywide was involved in. and they set up a call center in the midland/odessa area, as you recall it was around 500 jobs. well, the call center collapsed because the mortgage industry collapsed so that didn't hold. that wasn't governor perry's fault

the two 18-year-olds used black paint to draw a burka on the posters featuring brooke, seen here. later police say it was a sin for women to remain uncovered, and that they were, quote, just trying to do good. the ad is for links which is the british brand name of the axe body spray. and they directed the rage at nicholas cage. they were arrested and have to pay a fine. for more we go to the london bureau chief. >>> i am troubled by this. what the muslim teens had done was wrong. but axe body wash bothers me. >> what about it bothers you? are you older than 18? >> yes jie. are you older than 16? >> i can't spike my hair anymore. >> yes, you can, look at you. >> well, thank you. >> it just seems like so much work to blackout a whole poster. i take the subway every day. all it takes is one person with a sharpie to blackout the teeth and i won't look at another poster. >> yes, and they write muss stash -- mustache. >> for teenage boys to be scared by a scantily clad model, isn't that against all laws? >> well, of course it is. i tell you what, it is damn sure against one of mine. the

it emerged that the attackers had disguised themselves in burkas to allow them to evade police checkpoints. >> the council staff in the compound were in the safe room for most of the day. we were in contact with them. they have been extracted safely. they are now in the embassy. they are shaken but well. >> today afghanistan celebrated the anniversary of freedom from british rule. that is why the taliban say they targeted the u.k. the british council promotes british culture. it is an example of soft power. the taliban saw it as a soft target. >> this is particularly vicious and cowardly. it is an attack that has not succeeded. this was an attack against british interests. it is also an attack against the afghan government. british and american troops are preparing to leave. the afghans will have to take security -- take care of security on their own. they will do so eventually without foreign help. the insurgents have shown they can strike even the most heavily protected parts of the country. tonight the city remains on high alert and in fear that there may be more attacks to come. >> you

as the cleanup at the site began, the attackers had disguised themselves in burkas. >> we were in contact with them in the safe route. they have been extracted safely and they are now in the embassy, obviously shaken but well and uninjured. >> today afghanistan celebrated the anniversary of freedom from british rule. that is why the taliban say they targeted the u.k. the british council exists to promote britain and british coals or overseas. it is an example of false power in the soft power. >> this is a particularly vicious and cowardly attack, but it is an attack that has not succeeded. >> this was an attack against british interest but also against the afghan government. british and american troops are preparing to leave here. increasingly, the afghans will have to take care security on their own. the insurgents have again shown that they can strike, even in the most heavily protected parts of the country. tonight, the city remains on high alert, but in fear there may be more attacks to come. >> relatives of norwegians shot dead by the gunman anders breivik last month have been visiti

imperialistic we need to go in and change those countries we need to get you know women out of the burka or whatever and that's to them is western values and it's very different kind of western values in which you're talking about people in the quote unquote non-western visioning the life of prosperity and freedom all right rick i'm going to give you the last word on this program go ahead. well i mean it just on this issue of security and i agree with everything that that bill just said but i dasn't this take us back then to this distinction that homey made between west the west as and idiology that could be the imaginary of aspiration versus the west as a set of social political military and economic institutions and i think these are different things and that's part of the very ambiguity that makes us still today even talking about the last as if it's something. all right gentlemen i thank you very very very interesting discussion we could have gone go on for a lot longer many thanks my yesterday in cambridge chicago and in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t.

israeli occupation forces is also the patriarchal nature of palestinian society according to and not to burka has written several books on the subject here woman suspected of sleeping with a man before marriage can be thrown out or even killed by the families. in the other thread could be true but in fact for society the hill this is the way to get rid of women and poor let them serve a problem with their dignity and honor and without a million their families but the irony is that while these women are held by some as martyrs many religious leaders are reluctant to send their daughters to the front line as bombers and although islam condemn suicide explains shaikh mohammed it's acceptable when fighting colonise ation and occupation if there are some groups or governments in. we can't do it by our territories we are we are we have to do to fight against these invasions sheaffer says her reasons were both political and personal she was fed up with the bombs falling around her and ashamed that after just two years of marriage her husband had run off with another woman life had simply become too

i don't want to be a rich man in a burka. tree threat and i don't understand why the tea partiers and the koch brothers in the republican party are so hell bent for leather to create a nation where the rich people or rich people in a poor country would you know tom i really think that a lot of the people who voted for tea party candidates in the last election were not voting for rich people or not voting for a nation where rich people were getting rich or they were voting in outrage against the bailouts to wall street they did was not done by the bush administration and and they didn't realize that i had said i don't think they realized because the democratic party was party to those bell. i was bad on messaging but you're right it was a bi bi partisan bring how did president obama drop the ball in this debate and what does he like you know should he be channeling f.d.r. absolutely f.d.r. faced the situation almost identical to the situation that barack obama has faced over the past year f.d.r. in one nine hundred forty two o

25 minutes ago, another european country approved the draft of a law banning women from wearing a burkaso, did actress lindsay lohan break a woman's wrist during her stay at the betty ford center? ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] because you never stop improving your recipe... we never stop improving ours. we've added a touch of philly cream cheese to kraft natural shredded cheese, which adds a touch of creamy to any dish. kraft touch of philly shredded cheese. we're not just making great cheese. we're taking it further. ♪ >>> we're now hearing that an italian parliament commission has approved a draft of a law banning burkas. it would make them illegal in public. anyone who forces women to wear them will be fine and face as year in jail. the draft is forced to parliament for approval. france passed this back in april. >>> new legal problems for lindsay lohan. an employee at the betty ford center is suing her. dawn bradley claims lindsay lohan twisted her wrist after she caught her sneaking out of the rehab center to go drinking. she said that forced her to have surgery. the district attorney i

we're going to see women in burkas well but we don't really know what's going to happen yet i mean i think for the meantime it's. it's it's a pretty easy call to say that libyans are are better off at least now without as you say this madman running their country and we don't really know how things are going to shake out in the future but but for now i think it's a good day for the libyan people the. when egypt felten when. the the egyptian egypt had this whole infrastructure i mean the military basically ran it but there was a whole governmental infrastructure and even though they ran many of the businesses even you know when when mubarak fell there was still a structure there. my understanding is that libya is very much not that case that basically the entire structure was khadafi and an inner circle of basically brutal and it was run a little was run more like the mob and egypt was actually run like a country with an autocrat and if that's true and reality check me on that if that's true then you can see where egypt could make a gradual transition to civil society because the inst

does that kind of justify the pentagon's defensiveness and that is the need it's a place for that burka that it's very it's like an it's like in the cold war you know american military contractors needed the russians to be the bad guys and they could justify increased appropriations for their quote defensive measures now we've moved from cold war to cyber war but the same dynamic seems to be applying here we are you know if you see something happening but fight them over there the bad guys there for justifies what you do over here and unfortunately media does not scrutinize american institutions in this way and this mcafee report of least i've read a report of it on fox is very sort of vague i mean it's saying seventy two networks were attacked forty nine in the united states they list the bunch of countries that may have been attacked doesn't seem as if they have a lot of detail here and yet they're getting a lot of news attention through this which of course is good for their brand and promotes it promotes them as a leader in cyber security they have a vice president of threat assessm

that what do they do if somebody gets a contagious disease what happens if somebody shows up with a burka roses or or you know some really virulent no no already there i mean what you know here we have you know the most nations have national health or we have a better public health purposes but they were so innovative in this island because they have restrictive no restrictions on people developing thing they will have. only that you have to carry out a manic ok you win and you do prevent disease by just isolating yourself yes and yes i was not aware it was shipped them off unless it was. please comes in and then ok here's our guard quote for a question this is where to go here if we learn one thing coming out of iowa it's that the candidate for president needs to be careful eating corn dogs michele bachmann and rick perry liz liz of the hard way back in two thousand and six so did president obama with a hot dog so they're quick for a question with a bullet will political consultants now take a lesson learned and for big future presidential candidates from eating fat like food don't ask d

. >> fight over humas and try on burkas. >> here is the problem.erally you dvr this stuff, you can't record it because you can't spell qaddafi. i never know whether to go a k or a g. >> or a q. >> because he doesn't like the jews there are just as many ways to spell qaddafi. >> that is absolutely right. that's true. you have to have a name like sheen in order to trend. >> but even the government there when they translate things to english they spell it different ways every time. >> it is not that it is misspelled, it just can be spelled. >> any word spelled in symbols and knot the roman -- and not the roman alphabet. >> i am trying to rebel going to hell. if maxine waters has her way, that would be the tea party's destination. have a listen at the california democratses's ugly outburst with the black caucus this weekend. >> i am not afraid of the big bad wolf. i am not afraid of anybody. th is a tough day. you can't be intimidated. you can't be frightened. as far as i'm concerned, the tea party can go straight to hell. is will -- and i intend to he

i put them all in burkas. >> the most shocking thing was the people, i misunderstood them as much aserstood us, and i thought they would be screaming at us. when you get down here, most of these people have nothing against muslims, and they have been kind to us. such a nice crowd. i am getting spoiled. >>> wines made in the usa are defying the sour economy. they are setting sales records. we will explore why the american wineries are at an all-time high. first, advice from the cnn help desk. >> time for the help desk where we get financial answers to your questions. joining me now is our guests. thank you for being here. interesting question coming from eric in miami. he asks i was given quotes for a fixed rate at 7.75%. a variable rate starting at 3.25%. the variable rate, of course, is so tempting, which is the safer choice? >> 7.25 smells like a personal loan. pay close attention to how long that rate is going to be -- the lower rate will be fixed. it will adjust and adjust up. understand what the cap is on that loan, meaning how high can the interest rate go eventually, and under

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