on the global financial battlefield right now as we speak and one side of course is the silver liberation army headed by super max on the other side is j.p. morgan and led by jihadi jamie and lucia dede masters but as we know they all the precious metals prices have been soaring this week and that's an my first headline max gold explodes an s. and p. downgrade warning s. and p. one of the three rating agencies downgraded the outlook for u.s. debt and in particular s.m.p. is looking at the fiscal risks we see for the u.s. include the potential for further extraordinary official assistance to large players in the u.s. financial or other sectors along with outlays related to various federal credit programs so in particular they point to fannie and freddie they believe will need another three point five percent of g.d.p. on top of the one percent of g.d.p. that has already gone to fannie mae and freddie mac. going to start. barack obama comes into office hank paulson goes to congress but you're going to their heads give us. three quarters of a trillion dollars to solve the structural damage to the

by the us backed kosovo liberation army expelling a quarter of a million serbs and other minorities from kosovo so we want to hold that up as some kind of a success story let's look at the facts on the ground i'm not so sure that what the united states did there in the name of stopping the humanitarian catastrophe or genocide actually had that impact it just shifted who was doing the killing and and also if my recollection is right at that time before we began the bar the bombing there was a pretty aggressive pro-democracy for lack of a better phrase movement that was evolving in that country and of course are put into that i'm curious your thoughts on how. libya and our airstrikes against libya are going to cause i mean already i'm hearing but cher's you know he was yelling before that the people revolted against him so. now he's going to cia is this is this did that in in serbia and will there in bosnia will and will this in the middle east to make it more difficult frankly for democracy movements to emerge. i think that's a difficult question to answer i'll give you my two cents

geyser this is because the report be so over liberal asian army global sewer rock song this past week i was in dublin at a place called the grand social to a packed house people came down to listen about the message of the global silver liberation army and if you want me to come to your town send me an e-mail kaiser report at r t t v are you there is no place on the globe that should not hear this message will be there and will be our rocking good time let's get the latest let's go to space there are her quarter you were quarter back we've been talking about the global financial crisis led by the global financial terrorists and they are in the news today max goldman sachs misled congress after duping clients says levin senator levin alleges that goldman tried to artificially depress the mortgage market in two thousand and seven to amass a short positions and goes on to detail structured securities that goldman marketed to investors saying the firm's interests were aligned with fairest only they weren't why would goldman deny what is so obvious that you were engaged in a huge sure the

you know fully comparable to what the united states and nato did with the so-called possible liberation army in the serbian province of possible in one nine hundred ninety nine it looks like the handbook for military aggression intervention that the united states and nato everywhere is to as very limited options and they could replay the same scenarios repeatedly for the western powers reserved to themselves the exclusive prerogative of waging war whenever wherever and under whichever pretext they choose to do so. to get a better idea of what's happening on the ground in libya you can always check out policy policy leaders blog on our website you saw reporting from tripoli a little earlier the latest post she describes how international journalists have been fighting to establish the truth about a libyan woman who burst into their hotel last week saying she'd been raped by fifteen of these men r.t. dot com and go straight to our blog section for more of that. as the world's attention is fixed on libya the events have inspired both the angry debate and security all jobs are russian cartoonist

you know fully comparable to what the united states and nato did with the so-called possible liberation army in the serbian province of cost of over nine hundred ninety nine looks like the day on board for military aggression an intervention that the united states and nato. has very limited options and they are going to replay the same scenarios repeatedly for the western powers reserved to themselves the exclusive of waging war whenever wherever and under whichever rejects they choose to do so. yes this town blogger rick ross up there well coming up with plans to arm the libyan rebels come under fire. as if they're getting tighter al qaeda experts say the u.s. will be shooting itself in the words rise of weapons. as the coalition forces continue to impose a no fly zone. concerns that intervention by around europe security experts fear there be an islamic groups or something terror attack saying. airstrikes. e.u. countries have taken a leading role in forcing the u.n. resolution but their efforts all the way over in libya now threaten to bring conflict right to their very own back doors clai

you know fully comparable to what the united states and nato did with the so-called cost of the liberation army in the serbian province of possible in one nine hundred ninety nine it looks like the the handbook for military aggression and intervention that the united states and nato have recourse to has very limited options and they tend to replay the same scenarios repeated they want to ask about another angle here we keep hearing that britain is saying it seemed to work for the libyan government over a possible exit strategy for gadhafi something that companies and i have known anyway what is the real story is that you think i would say sions going on behind the scenes. you know i really have no access to go back or to our communications and as we know you know a lot of these reports frequently are either trial balloons or they're distant from asian i sincerely have no way of knowing what i do know is this today as you know the fifteenth day of the word against libya that is it's not going to be getting it it's third week it's the commander of the war it's been passed on from u.s. africa comm

over into the next futures month and they have been taking physical delivery as well as a silver liberation army that we started on this show taking physical delivery so every single month because more to the point where the ability for j.p. morgan to keep the price artificially cheap with these mammoth short sales are financed with the artificially cheap interest rates thanks to ben bernanke and geithner that's why interest rates are so cheap or start to create jobs they don't give a fig about your fricken job is to help j.p. morgan keep things cheap artificially low so they can pay themselves big frickin christmas bonuses at your expense but the game is up and so here's my prediction stacey herbert remember enron for a week after. a week after week people said this company's an eighty billion dollar company they're geniuses they're the smartest guys in the room and then one day somebody said. in line it's nothing but a big shell game and the stock collapsed and the date is zero eighty billion wiped out in the day j.p. morgan is one hundred thirty six billion dollars shell game once this is tot

you know fully comparable to what the united states and nato did with the so-called possible liberation army in the serbian province of possible in nineteen ninety nine it looks like the the handbook for military aggression an intervention that the united states and nato. very little options and they tell you week wait the saints in areas repeat western powers reserved for themselves the exclusive prerogative of waging war whenever we are ever under whichever pretext they choose to do so. or if you have more of a handle on what's happening on the ground in libya to check our policy is blog on our website you saw reporting from tripoli just a bit earlier on she's been there from the start of this trouble and the latest post she describes how international journalists have been fighting to establish the truth about that libyan woman who you may recall pursed into the hotel last week saying that she'd been raped by fifteen of gadhafi as men find out the latest about her paul has got some details that are t. dot com straight to our blog section for more of the story. if. you. as the world's atte

we have to recognize that and there are institutions like the people's liberation army tied to that school. this is fluid, but that helps explain, i think, some of the multifarious actions on the part of the chinese government and the last two years. we see china in the international arena acting in contradictory ways. my argument is that the chinese are puzzled because they have this debate internally. that is one reason for the seemingly contradictory behavior of the international and regional states in asia. these roles will evolves as the perceptions the vault. they could hearten and get worse. the realists and the major powers are already the center of gravity but there is a strong pull from the-desperate jernigan become much more truculent and much more assertive and much more difficult for us to deal with. it is not really that the movement will be toward the right hand and of the spectrum. we hope it is but there are strong and powerful forces at work in china that argue that may not be the case. we have to perceive multiplicity of voices and advocates over the years ahead. that wi

>> guest: that's the picture taken of the army nurses when they were liberated from santo tomas interment camp in manila. they're on their way out of camp. c-span: and where did you get the idea for this book? >> guest: it grew out of two sources. my mother served in the spars in world war ii. and i was always very interested in her time in uniform. everybody's dads served in world war ii, but not too many mothers. so i had that interest. and i'm a nurse. i had done a book about nurses who'd served in the vietnam war

bbc translation of an arabic journal in london, a colonel who is leader of this libyan national liberation army, the armed wing of the national fron he was quoted as saying, force is the only effective method for dealing with gaddafi. now follow me to march 26, 2011. a newspaper reported, and i quote, the new leader of libya's opposition military left for libya two weeks ago, unquote. apparently around the same time the president signed the covert operation's order. and i'm making an observation. the new leader spent the past two decades of his life in libya ? no. in suburban virginia where he had no visible means of support. his name, lonel kalifa hiftar. now, one wonders when he planned his trip and who is his travel agency? coress needs to determine whether the united states througprevious covert support ofhe armed instruction -- insurex-driven by the american-created national front, potentially helped create the humanitarian crisis. that was used to justify military intervention. we need to ask the question. if we really want to understand how our constitutional prerogative for determining

aware of that which is how big increasing security crackdown everywhere, moving the people's liberation army, having the crises and secession of what we just saw and also investing anywhere in the world outside of china. i had a joke when japan came up. the japanese do this so well one or the volume temple beach? if the chinese are doing some spectacular why are the media from becoming a massive investments? in the two previous asian crises, the japanese in 1997 east asian crisis the precursor of capital flight. money moving out of the markets and investing overseas. we are now in the middle of the chinese capital flight which the media is interpreting as the growing power of china but the simple point is they are making a rational investment decisions based on their fear of the chinese economy caught between all the various forces. >> host: to be precise, is it your sense that the projections of the continued chinese economic growth or understate it? do you not believe china will surpass the u.s.'s largest economy sometime in the next decade or so? >> guest: compounding at ten to 12% as fai

presidential election, he said to douglass, you know, if i lose, any slaves who have not been liberated by the army are going to remain as slaves. i want you to devise a plan to send agents into the south to encourage slaves to run away to the union lines. i want to get as many slaves behind union lines as possible so that the next president cannot return them to slavery. this is pretty remarkable thing for the president to talk about this. now, the tide of war changed, and it didn't happen, but it was quite an interesting plan that lincoln was talking about. and then, finally, at the time of the second inaugural douglass just came to the white house and told lincoln he thought it was a great speech, which lincoln appreciated because most people did not like that speech. he wrote a letter and said, i understand people don't like my speech. i actually like it. why? men do not like it when it's pointed out that their purposes are not the same as god's purposes. interesting. but i think in a larger sense lincoln and douglass recognized in each other kindred spirits in a certain way. they were both sel

we have to recognize that and there are institutions particularly the peoples liberation army tied to that school. okay. so this is fluid but that helps explain, i think, some of the kind of multi-ferrious actions on the part of chinese government in the last few years. we see china out in the international arena acting seemingly in contradictory ways. evan says we're puzzled seeing action a and action b. my argument the chinese are puzzled because they have this debate internally. at least that's one reason for the seemingly contradictary behavior on the international and regional stage in asia. so these roles, are going to evolve as the perceptions evolve. they could harden actually. they could get worse. as i say it's already the realists and major powers are already the center of gravity but there's a strong pull from the nativists and china can become much more truck you lent, much more assertive and difficult for us to deal with. not necessarily the movement is going to be toward the right hand end of spectrum. we all hope that it is but there are strong powerful forces at work

of this would understand a bit of background, this firm wauway has a background with people's liberation army of china, has supported strongly by the chinese government and at least in the past concerns have been raised about its involvement in the u.s. network. and that's the reason for the questions. would you have a concern about fbi systems being integrated for having wauway for example, being integrated into fbi systems? >> i can't speak to a particular company. i can say that ourselves, the intelligence community are always concerned about ensuring that the security of our systems and the persons that are working on our systems are providing the capabilities that support our systems. >> would that also include even down to the local level? nor to any network that might carry sensitive information would be connected with one that would carry sensitive information, would potentially fall within the mission of the fbi taking a look at it, is that correct? >> it may well be. in those circumstances we would take a look at it. if you're talking about our system we would always be concerned ab

>> guest: that picture is the army nurses on their way home. they've been liberated. it's 1945, probably early march. and if you look at them, you can see their uniforms are not fitting them particularly well. they were given those on their way home. and right in the middle, there's a woman with a hat on. she's ki -- a little slouched over. that's maude davison, the chief nurse. c-span: where is she? right -- show me. >> guest: a little--right there. your thumb's right on her. c-span: ok. >> guest: she was 60 years old and in very bad shape from the starvation diet they were on. c-span: let me digress a moment, though. she did get married or -- or had a companion after this, as you have in the book. >> guest: she did. she went home and was discharged -- medical discharge because of her health. and she met a man who had been widowed, a man she knew as a young woman. and they married. i did talk to his son, and he said that his father married maude 'cause he wanted a companion in old age and he thought she would take care of him. and, unfortunately, maude died -- she wa

for ron paul two thousand and twelve adam vs the man contributor jake the liberal veteran of iraq afghanistan and nathan cox army veteran who served in iraq gentlemen thank you so much for being with us tonight let's go skills got right in the face you got sworn oath to the constitution does it bother you to see so many other people in this republican presidential field asking for your vote asking for your vote asking for your support having demonstrated they don't care about that document having subverted actively despite having sort of through that same document many of them during their public service career. yeah i mean out of look at this one we've got we've got john bolton neo con in chief we've got dick cheney's stepson over with the huntsman i mean who can actually do this for the republicans nobody ron paul is the best chance that the g.o.p. has to overthrowing obama for two major reasons number one ron paul is going to be the eisenhower of our generation and challenging to end to end the open in the war in afghanistan and actually stopping the military industrial complex the reason our another republic

army if we take a look at the pictures of the libyan army to conceal the use mostly kalashnikov glance with extremely cheap and highly live very liberal thirty nine millimeter cartridge it makes those sense of why you need to weapon which is not a fair trade for and for nature cartridge which is quite expensive it's much more expensive thirty nine millimeter. gun which is produced all over the world the north korea in china everywhere so actually we can see it at this point recently if occasion a fifth and fall could have come from france and quite recently it's a well known fact that some of the libyan rebel fighters have links with al qaeda does this not look like an absurd situation that they're supplying. people who are knowingly connected with al qaeda with arms i mean what do we have an arrogance what we see no need to conscious and the leadership is so much obsessed with getting khadafi out of their power they don't actually care who the rebels are there was no al-qaeda nor any other terrorist organisations in iraq before to ensure three they can't go into iraq after saddam. as a result of american led invasion what we see now

army fracturing or the lack of supplies and theal lied attacks degreati graeding the army to the point where the liberals. >> are they capable, when we talk about the u.s. laying off the air strikes? >> that's going to be the big question and especially do they have the will and mandate to continue some of these strikes on gadhafi's forces. they don't anything specifically like the a-10 or ac 130 but those planes will be sort of put on stand by. if the situation ever got dire enough, the nato commander could come back and ask u.s. for those, although it would have to come back to the united states and go up our chain of command. secretary gates has argued that between iraq, afghanistan, troops also helping out in japan, there's not enough manpower and even a reduced mission in libya is going to cost american taxpayers about $40 million a month, also says there's just not enough money to go around. >> chris lawrence at the pentagon. thank you. ali velshi spoke with billionaire oil man t. boone pickens about alternative forms of energy and reducing the american addiction to foreign oil. here's some of that

liberalization for the country. five foreign and five afghan troops supreme killed in a suicide blast in eastern afghanistan in a military uniform hit an afghan army base near the city of jalalabad eight people were also said to have been wounded in the attack and it is the deadliest one in months against foreign troops. well the u.s. budget may include thirty eight billion dollars of spending cuts but they will be a financial boost for the military because he is planning military spending is at least seven hundred billion dollars while other areas including health care education and infrastructure are on the chopping block the decision came off the right long struggle with lawmakers and the pentagon saying military cuts will threaten national security award winning journalist chris hedges says the decision was made under severe pressure from certain low being circles there are corporations even though the war we're losing the war they continue to make a lot of money off of this war our burden raytheon northrop grumman boeing the price the stock price of these defense contractors quadrupled since the world. and they don't give a damn how many afgh

number of enslaved people would be liberated under terms of the proclamation which hopefully the courts would validate so frederick douglass has a plan of creating an army of bounty hunters to go into the south, pay these people to get the word out to the deep south and frederick douglass says lincoln is the one white leader who treated him as if there is no difference in color. after the second inaugural which douglas witness saw johnson behave in a drunken way at his swearing-in. cold medicine or liquor. >> he was drunk. >> he comes back to the white house and is barred from the white house. african-americans didn't come through the front door to go to receptions. he got in and lincoln said there is my friend douglas to a group of white people. on heard of in the united states. there was no one his opinion high-value more than yours. almost a variation on enough about me, what did you think about me? and frederick douglass said i think it was a sacred effort but of course frederick douglass rethinks lincoln and by 1876 the unveiling of the freedom monument in washington he is quintessentially the white man's president also in 1865 he said he was the b

that we liberators' would be welcomed with open arms, and that the army would be loyal to their new government. turns out that they did not surrender. nor did they fight. the disintegrated. they went home. which leads to another assumption that proved to be false. in military planning, and assumption is something that is wrong, your plan fails. it has been a lot of discussion about pahse four in iraq, and no planning, what you do after you win, how you maintain security. it is not that we did not plan pahse four. one of the basic assumptions would not only would there be u.s. troops and our coalition partners on the ground, but iraqi army would be in tact, loyal to the government. they were not. they disintegrated. they went home. so the brilliant strategic surprise that tummy francs accomplished -- tommy franks accomplished by a bombing at the same time, getting him to baghdad in three weeks, that brilliant tactical opportunity on the ground was then followed by a string of troops who were on call but not in country. and a lack of iraqi security forces to provide security in more places than

makes sense that liberators would be welcomed with open arms. and of course the army would be loyal to their new governor. turns out, they did not surrender and mass. nor did they fight. the disintegrated. they went home. which leads to another assumption that proved to be false. in military planning, an assumption is something that if it is wrong, your plan fails. there has been a lot of discussion about face four in iraq and that there was no planning about phase four, what you do after you win, how you maintain security? one of the basic assumptions was not only would there be u.s. troops and the coalition partners on the ground, but that the fundamentally the iraqi army would be in tact, loyal to the new governor. they were not. the disintegrated. they went home. the brilliant strategic surprise that bobby franks accomplished by not establishing troops on the perimeter, not bombing 445, but going to a bombing at the same time, hitting him in baghdad in three weeks, that brilliant tactical /strategic opportunity on the ground weeks -- that brilliant tactical/strate

makes sense that we liberators would be open -- welcomed with open arms and flag waiving and -- waving and that of course the armyould be loyal to their new government. turns out they did not surrender en masse, nor did they fight. they disintegrated. they went home. which leads to another assumption that proved to be false. in military manning, an assumption that, if it is wrong, your plan fails. there's been a lot of discussion about phase four in iraq and the discussion that there was no planning about phase four. phase four being what do you do after you win, how do you maintain security? it's not that we didn't plan phase four, but one of the basic assumptions was that not only would there be the u.s. troops on the ground and our coalition partners but that fundamentally the 400,000 man iraqi army would be intact, loyal to the new government. they weren't. they had disintegrated. they went home. so the brilliant strategic surprise that tommy franks accomplished by not having 500,000 troops on the perimeter. not bombing for 45 days. but rather going with 150,000 and bombing at the same time, getting him to ba

liberals? it's a problem we face. then you see within egyptian society the other pillar that's coming under attack, the army. the army in egypt is different than anything we know. it makes you uncomfortable as an american to see how they function. but they function in egypt their own way. they're an institution and they historically have been separate from society. they're not an institution that wants to interfere in the internal affairs of egypt. they want to be on the side and they believe their responsibility is to provide stability. that's why when they came into the square, those who knew the army, knew they would never fire on the egyptian people because their job is to protect the egyptian people. their job is not to harm them. and when you had the pro-mubarak people counter-attack on the square and everybody who was for the democrats said the army should be firing on those people, no, they weren't going to fire on those people either because they were also egyptian people. their job is bring stability. they did not want this job. they do not want to be in power. they want to see a civilian governmen

liberals? it is a problem we face. then you see within egyptian society the other pillar that's under attack, the army.he army in egypt is different than anything we know. it makes you uncomfortable as an american to see how they function, but they have functioned in egypt their own way. they are an institution, and they historically have been separate if society. they are not an institution that wants to interfere in the internal affairs of egypt. they want to be on the side, and they believe their responsibility is to provide stability. that's why when they came into square those who knew the army knew they would never fire on the egyptian people because it's their job to protect the egyptian people, not to harm them. when you have the pro-mubarak people counter attack on the square and everybody said the army should fire on those people, no, they weren't because they were also egyptian people. their job is bring stability. they did not want the job. they do not want to be in power. they want to see a civilian government come back. now, ten years ago, i think the structure of the army would have pref