which is what was reported with stop an individual who was speaking a foreign language in this case farsi and say simply because they spoke that language that they were going to deny a sale then that is clearly racial profiling because in a fact their policy reads that sanction countries are the countries in which they can export certain goods and those countries and include cuba they include north korea they include syria in the sudan so what apple in essence should be doing is literally stopping anybody that they hear spam speaking spanish anybody that they are speaking korean anybody that they hear speaking arabic and then denying them a sale if if if it's not just racial profiling and that was stuffy and organizer for home bar. well looks like congress will act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling they're set to go up in just a few days the rates were set to rise on july first from the current three point four percent to double that so six point eight percent of college students and grads shouldn't breathe a sigh of relief just yet that's because even if interest r

which is what was reported with stop an individual who was speaking a foreign language in this case farsi and say simply because they spoke that language that they were going to deny a sale then that is clearly racial profiling because in a fact their policy reads that sanction countries are the countries in which they can export certain goods and those countries and include cuba they include north korea they include syria in the sudan so what apple in essence should be doing is literally stopping anybody that they hear spam speaking spanish anybody that they hear speaking korean anybody that they hear speaking arabic and then denying them a sale if if if it's not just racial profiling ok be to tell me a little bit more about this group of our that you are an organizer for what you stand for and i know you're protesting over there in new york ultimately what what is the message that you want to get out. you know we formed. as a way for iranians iranian americans and other allies who who stand against a potential war on iran against sanctions and in solidarity with the iranians struggling

. >> your office is sending tweets out in farsi. are those access in iran? >> sometimes, they have trouble accessing the state department website. sometimes, they have trouble accessing the human rights report. it turns out that those are not popular publications with other governments. so, yes, they can be blocked. one of the other parts of the policy that secretary clinton has outlined in is the concerted effort to help people navigate the blocks and the hardships and threats that are brought against them. we have given $76 million perhaps my last few years -- by the end of this year, it will be $100 million -- in programs and grants and ngo's for working on tools and training and research that help us of our citizens to exercise their rights wherever that may be through new technologies. while iran does take enormous steps to limit their citizens access to the internet, there are people or accessing information and sharing it inside iran as well. i hope that people know. i hope there people who can access the messages and the information we are sharing. a

do any of you speak farsi and we don't we spoke to him up to a point then we called the russian consul to figure out what was going on. oh yes so you managed to lead the consul no means yes and then we put him through and the consequence faded for us and he explicitly to. the police were not questioning your papers so it was fine. ok and when they brought you to baghdad did they take you straight to jail. and taking us from one precinct to another if you don't have to the station as it was already eleven pm they brought us to a prison term or a real prison with bars and on every a prison for the lock you up together or in separate cells were placed in a single cell. did they give you any explanations they had initially told you it was for your own convenience but what did they see once they locked you often. marcellus netter we spoke to the head warden and he told this guys this is for your own safety and i stopped sorry for the tight security sorry for the handcuffs and the head bags. you had that i did yes and we walk around the courtyard single file so it's all for your own safety a

virginia zach just farzad he was wasn't allowed to purchase an i phone because workers heard him speaking farsi to a friend. there's already enough intolerance and hate hatred of the muslim community in america apple should not feed. and the very very ugly karl rove with his g.o.p. is crossroads g.p.s. american crossroads super pacs rove has already done enough to help weaken american democracy but now he's just flat out making a mockery of rove will be attending and speaking to mitt romney retreat this weekend for high end donors which is reportedly an opportunity to strategize and fraternize among the new backers probes super pacs plan to spend plan to spend upwards of three hundred million dollars to help romney beat president obama in november but by law they can't associate or coordinate with mitt romney or is official campaign so it seems like by attending the event rove is breaking the law course he doesn't care this is the guy who dared nancy pelosi to arrest him for years who helped commit treason by outing a cia officer and who participated in lyon our nation into two bloody expensive

. >> host: so do you think if your office is sending tweets out in farsi or your state department web site facebook page, are those blocked in iran? can those be accessed? >> guest: there are, we know that there are, that people in various places have trouble accessing the state department web site. they have sometimes peculiar trouble accessing the human rights reports. it turns out that those aren't always popular publications with other governments. so, yes, they can be blocked. but, you know, oneover the other parts of -- one of the other parts of this policy that secretary clinton has outlined has been a concerted effort to help equip people to navigate the blocks and the hardships, the threats that are brought against them. so we have, um, given $76 million of grants in the last few years, and we'll by the end of this year be at 100 million to programs, yapts, to ngos and others who are working on tools and training and research that help us empower citizens to, um, exercise their rights wherever they may be in as safe a way possible online and through new technologies. so i kno

revealed they were barred from making purchases at local apple stores after employees heard them speaking farsi. sahar sabet was prevented from buying an ipad after an employer overheard her speaking to her uncle, zack jafarzadeh, another customer, had a similar experience. employees cited export laws on iran in justifying their actions. a group of iranian americans plan to hold a flash mob protest at an apple store in new york today. epidemiologist rose bertell has died at the age of 83. she won the 1986 right livelihood award for her work on the threat to the planet posed by radiation. known as the anti-nuclear nun, she investigated the disasters in chernobyl and worked extensively with their victims. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. >> i'm juan gonzalez. leaders from more than 100 countries gathered in brazil for the rio + 20 earth summit, the largest united nations conference ever. the gathering comes 20 years after the 1992 u.n. earth summit in rio de janeiro, when leaders pledged to protect the planet by