erica payne founder of the agenda project thanks so much switching gears now to a day that was supposed to be a joyous one it was a wedding celebration instead it was a day marked by blood my horror and by that of at least six people back in august of two thousand and seven now perhaps because it happened in afghanistan or perhaps because those responsible for the deaths were nato troops but a judge and a military court has now found there was simply not enough evidence to convict them artes don't know bushell has the story. civilians killed and nato soldiers go free the same old story in afghanistan the threats and for a moment to be different polish soldiers put on trial for deaths including a pregnant woman and a child. on the sixteenth of august two thousand and seven water shells that were fired by polish troops in the city afghan village of not as a result six people were killed three were severely wounded but the soldiers were cleared of all charges one of the accused told r.t. it's all been a big mistake we didn't see people. we were accidents in the south sudan was because of o

short lived default this is a deal or at least a could be and for more on the subject i spoke to erica payne she's the founder of the agenda project here's what she had to say about the state of the u.s. debt debate. i don't know change you know the republicans have stepped forward and said i think very irresponsibly that they are absolutely refusing to put any sort of revenue solution on the table and we're reaching an impasse but it seems to me you know it's hard to negotiate with a crazy person and i think we're seeing a lot of that sort of tea party craziness that we saw during the election and they're really pushing them hard on the republican leaders are i think it's very doubtful that you know the grownups in the republican party are going to step forward and say enough already what do you mean the tea party craziness just clarify a little bit if you mean the fact well you know these people in the tea party are saying absolutely not in terms of raising the debt ceiling. right you know i think that they actually fundamentally don't understand this and it's a little bit of of a messagin

smith vice president of the young conservative coalition and from our studio in new york is erica payne founder and president of the agenda project ladies thank you both for joining me tonight now sarah i'm going to start. with you just give me one good reason why republicans are digging their heels in right now over this debt ceiling debate when there are so many other issues by i think this is the issue it is about the economy and it is about reining in government spending i mean this is a prime opportunity to make the point that if we want to keep meeting our debt obligations as well as you know becoming fiscally sustainable over the long haul we have to stop this out of control government spending the rest of the country is having to rein in their own spending it's time for the government to do so too but what about the short term i think a lot of americans are saying sure we need to balance the budget we need to get our house in order for the long haul but in the meantime they can't pay their bills they don't have jobs they're losing their homes and that's the one hundred fifty eco

those who are there certain of the conservative political commentator and strategist as well as erica payne founder of the agenda project all right well governments multinational corporations and global institutions all seem to be losing the battle against computer hackers and the u.s. senate yesterday joining the international monetary fund sony as well as google and the growing list of hacking victims but also growing as a number of so-called hacktivists which is the anonymous corrupt collector of say that they're simply trying to hold corrupt officials accountable now in their latest campaign dubbed operation of our state rebellion anonymous once federal reserve chairman ben bernanke you to resign over what they say are economic crimes against the american people so are these guys villains or just the pseudo robin hood's of cyberspace laurie harvest of the resident dot net to the streets of the big apple to find out. so many intend even the f.b.i. it seems like no one is safe from hackers these days i do however punks heroes or villains this week let's talk about that. they are heroes be