they didn't have lithuania on their chest. for inspirgs and it was a source of pride. many sent to siberia set up basketball kouts there. it let them do something they felt was lit wanian and gave them a will to live out there. >> this is a real deep story and meant a lot to you obviously. is it that is right you're part lit wanian or ultimate underdog story or something else in this for you? >> i remember -- >> it's his favorite thing. >> i can remember all the family holiday. my fathers and uncles played basketball in the town park. in the early '90s they wore the lithuan lithuanii lithuaniian tie-dye t-shirts. this summer i'm watching the olympics and the u.s. dream team bowl over everybody. i have the tv on a saturday morning and watching the u.s. play l play lithuania. it's still close. i'm cheering for these guys. i love my country and the u.s., but i wanted lit juan ya to win the game. thank for joining us. go team lit juan ya. up next, it's happy hour here on "the cycle." what your favorite beer says about your politic

the euro and now bulgaria is not the only country it's just the latest in the string of countries lithuania last week the prime minister had said that it will only join the euro when quote unquote europe was ready and of course that that is at this point very unclear when the state will be coming and also latvia has has lost and pusey as it's changed its tone in terms of looking at the process of joining the euro now what this all underlies it goes back to the same point the vulnerabilities the weaknesses that we see in the euro and from the outsider's point of view this is what they see they see countries in trouble needing bailouts and you have creditor countries imposing conditions and then you have a stare be imposed on the people and you have angry and desperate citizens of those countries and with that kind of a picture it's not entirely surprising that bulgaria made that decision. more on bulgaria's decision we're joined by harlan green editor of popular economics dot com mr green thank you very much for joining us you're welcome now the debt crisis has caused some e.u. states to que

the euro and now bulgaria is not the only country it's just the latest in the string of countries lithuania last week the prime minister has said that it will only join the euro when quote unquote europe was ready and of course that that is at this point very unclear when the state will be coming and also latvia has lost and boozy as it's changed its tone in terms of looking at the process of joining the euro now what this all underlies it goes back to the same point the vulnerabilities the weaknesses that we see in the euro and from the outsider's point of view this is what they see they see contras in trouble needing bailouts and you have creditor countries imposed on the people and you have angry and desperate citizens. those countries and with that kind of a picture it's not entirely surprising that area made that decision but they are zones troubles only escalating our business presenter katie has the latest market update from the region. carol the numbers this hour i can tell you the european markets all still a decline a muslim meetings are now all of the way in the region leaders ar

the euro and now bulgaria is not the only country it's just the latest in the string of countries lithuania last week the prime minister had said that it will only join the euro when quote unquote europe was ready and of course that that is at this point very unclear when this state will be coming and also latvia has lost and boozy as it's changed its tone in terms of looking at the process of joining you be a euro now what this all underlies it goes back to the same point the vulnerabilities the weaknesses that we see in the euro and from the outsider's point of view this is what they see they see countries in trouble needing bailouts and you have creditor countries imposed on the people and you have angry and desperate citizens of those countries and with that kind of a picture it's not entirely surprising that bulgaria made that decision. you're watching our figure this hour a tough choice a look at the election of the u.s. says the democrats gather for a convention but surely declare braga vom of their candidate. also coming out a but what should she do us drone strike leads to video ca

lithuania or something like that you know it's i mean costa rica's for the bottom of all those thirty four countries we're the only one that doesn't say health care is a right not a privilege shouldn't we be a little bit more of an entitlement society well the concert i mean isn't that a human right the kids or the right to entitlements i don't think that they're all right to health care well i mean to what end right the mean when you start talking about if you don't die if you get sick absolutely and in the united states you're not in a position where that's happening if you're if you're sick and you know and you're uninsured if you go to emergency room you have to be treated if you go to an emergency room and say you know i think i've got a lump in my breast they will not treat you if you're bleeding they will well you are you a fan of planned parenthood there's obviously there's obviously places that people can but by the way i don't think plans aren't as many screenings like bessel and current actually refer to somebody else but the right to it for free but the reality is there ar

bitterly anti-semitic and a larger reason why so many jews come over from russia and russia poland, lithuania and parts of the russian empire is because of this anti-semitic policies and because of the progressive draft coming military draft and russia. so vera, ran into pro-german fatherland very shrewdly plays that card to try to get eastern european jewish immigrants in new york to be pro-german or at least anti-allied and this refers to, my beloved jews, nicholas icann on the left holding a shield with a jewish captive. this referred to the fact that during world war i on the eastern front, the czarist troops would often go to jewish villages and sort of drive the jews out towards the german lines, almost like a human shield as they move for a word so that the germans would shoot the jews and fewer czarist soldiers. so they are trying to mobilize, again, mobilizing hearts and minds in new york throughout the war is an ongoing business. the germans in addition to propagandizing for their cost covertly are sabotaging new york in a certain sense before we joined the war because by 1915, wall