is as multinational as exxon as conoco phillips you as you pointed out two of the major oil companies have the same actually a major sponsors in terms of the shareholders so it's true that the u.s. is on course for massive expansion of its ability to drill for oil and its own domestic production whether that will lead to less international strife and war over natural resources such as oil i think is highly disputable and open to a lot of debate. really interesting i guess the debate is going to continue preservation you coming on the show that was chris williams a professor of physics and chemistry at pace university. and now to the skies of yemen which have become increasingly filled with united states drones but those unmanned aircraft are built to be joined by planes with pilots all of all of them financed by the u.s. that's right according to wired magazine the navy requested twenty five small planes for surveillance missions and yemen these aircraft resembles cessna's which are also used for crop dusting and other short distance flights of the new gift from uncle sam ought to arr

is as multinational as exxon as conoco phillips you as you pointed out two of the major oil companies have the same actually a major sponsors in terms of the shareholders so it's true that the u.s. is on course for massive expansion of its ability to drill for oil and its own domestic production whether that will lead to less international strife and war over natural resources such as oil i think is highly disputable and open to a lot of debate. really interesting i guess the debate is going to continue precipitation you coming on the show that was chris williams a professor of physics and chemistry at pace university. all the government can come in and search your home without a warrant so should the same rules apply to searching your emails and cell phones that's a question congress is looking at today the senate judiciary committee has voted on making changes to the electronic communications privacy act the law passed in one thousand nine hundred sixty regulates how the government can monitor digital communications but these days americans live their lives have drastically expanded

for the corporate death sentences the big five oil companies for example conoco phillips chevron exxon mobil royal dutch shell and b.p. dumped a billion pounds of carbon pollution into our atmosphere every day fueling asthma cancer epidemics and local communities as well as global warming but they don't have to pay for those externalities caused by their pollution leave the taxpayers pay for the extra burden on our health care system just like we are not the oil companies have to pay for our military machine that keeps the oil lanes open so these companies can make billions to even get cheap gasoline out all of us now no matter how you slice it these oil companies especially b.p. are not operating in the public interest they need to be put down they've broken their contract with we the people and unless we want to continue to see smoldering oil rigs just off our coast and massive oil slicks in our waters and we must bring back the corporate death. and that's the way it is tonight friday nov sixteenth two thousand and twelve. for more information on any of the stories we covered visit o

and conoco phillips announced an agreement for the $5 billion deal, but i would like to point out this deal is far from done. there are plenty of consortium partners when you're talking about it. for example shell, exxonmobile, all holding a a little over 16%. it will require all consortium partners. become when bp wanted to exit, in the end actually bought the stake, so we'll have to perhaps see a lot of work being done by conoco phillips to convince the partners to allow the deal to go through. 24r have been plenty reports in the past you how companies want to increase their stake when it comes to these oilfields. i did speak with the chairman of the oil and natural gas corporation, he's hopeful he will get the regulatory approvals and be able to close the deal by the first half of 2013. interestingly, it's in the first half of 2013 that we'll see oil being produced. >> thanks very much for that. now, in japan, the economy has become a hot button topic ahead of the country's december 16th election. on that spgs ldp leader kept up his rhetoric warning japan will not be able to recover

. >> my stocks are bank of america, bac, american international group, aig, conoco phillips, cop.al, kfn. and western union, wu. >> all right. we'll get rid of western union like tomorrow. now you only have 15 to deal with. that one is no good. western uniyun online on. c conco, nice yield. kkr, a private equity company. you may have too much of a concentration in financials so what we want to do is get rid of bank of america. put in bristol myers and keep in the travel trust and you're leaving western union entirely and let's add apple for that, too. you don't have enough technology and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of "am i diversified?" back after the break. (car horn) paying with your smartphone instead of cash... (phone rings) that's a step forward. with chase quickpay, you can send money directly to anyone's checking account. i guess he's a kicker... again, again! oh, no you don't! take a step forward and chase what matters. >>> some decisions, some transactions say more about the u.s. economy than all the other reports throughout. labor, commerce, maybe more

up in conoco phillips. new stakes deere, web co. leader in commercials. 4.5 plus million shares in media general. >>> when we come back my thoughts on compromise or no compromise as the fiscal cliff edges closer and closer. back in a moment. . but today...( sfx: loud noise of metal object hitting the ground) things have been a little strange. (sfx: sound of piano smashing) roadrunner: meep meep. meep meep? (sfx: loud thud sound) awhat strange place. geico®. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first day of work. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritra

conoco phillips is selling the 8.4% stake in the sea production agreement for roughly $5 billion. knows the sources and has extended national arm of the oil and natural gas in india. that is the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. dennis: a vampire, secret agent and a dead president with a new record of the film box office over the weekend. $288 million, better than the record set in '09. sucking up $64 million. the first bond film to cross the $209 mark in the west and "lincoln." and charlie sheen knows lindsay lohan's pain. so the star of anger management which let charlie strike it rich is handing $100,000 to help back taxes. she will probably have to pay more taxes on the gift. and now this, abc-tv station, the two going to surprise viewers and their bosses at the end of their show quitting on air. any thoughts on that strategy? cheryl: elected the opportunity to lets you know that dennis kneale and i have had a good run. none of them will ever work in television. ever. i tell you, there's no better way than to do something so public. nobody will hire them e