i'm liz wahl and you're watching our team. well today it seems we live in a world where constant surveillance is becoming the norm and it doesn't help that the government encourages it encourages you and i to keep a very close eye on everything and everyone around us but aside from obvious alarm bells the department of homeland security and f.b.i. encourages people to report so-called suspicious activities including paying with cash travelling long distances shipping a beard or changing your hair color having a politically active or religious beliefs or even wearing backpacks those are just to name a few so as fear mongering runs rampant our citizens being stripped of their right to privacy are these more uniform and i have faith look at how these days almost anyone can be considered to terrorists. the united states of america is home to over three hundred thirty million people we are a country known for freedom. that was then this is today it's. sure for suspicious activity of war already the land of liberty is fast becoming

i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy. well two tragedies have ignited a debate in the nation over racism and racial profiling thousands have taken to the streets demanding justice for trayvon martin and an armed black teenager shot dead by an ever heard watchmen outrage also growing over the death of an iraqi woman in california she was began some death and it reportedly left beside her that said quote go back to your own country now in the wake of the seemingly racially driven incidences we ask is racial. well filing alive and well and america i'm joined now by independent journalist mona kalak to get some answers. welcome ranya so while both of these stories are tragic it seems like only one of the is getting a bit of constant media attention and that is the case of trayvon martin what do you think of behind the. well i think what's particularly setting for most people about the case of trayvon martin is that he that the person that is responsible for shooting him how does not fees that he charges and has not been arres

i'm liz wahl you're watching r.t. . well it turns out russia is the u.s. is number one enemy at least in the mind of republican presidential candidate mitt romney and also from this exchange between president obama and russian president dmitry medvedev it was all caught on camera but right. now romney it's not this opportunity to pounce on president obama for daring to be flexible with russia here is his response on c.n.n. if he's planning on doing more and suggest to russia that he has things he's willing to do with them he's not willing to tell the american people this is to russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe they fight every cause for the world's worst actors the ide the idea that he has a more flexibility in mind for russia is very very troubling indeed. so is there around me and the republican elites that i'm bringing back negative attitudes reminiscent of the cold war earlier i pose that questions ivan eland senior fellow for the independent institute for you know i think it's campaign rhetoric and i think it doesn't real

i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy. a shot adds a poem a scene iran has agreed to take part and nuclear talks the country willing to engage in face to face negotiations after facing intense pressure from israel and the west to abandon their nuclear program this comes as the drums of war are getting louder as israel threatens to use military force and target iran's nuclear site president obama has said that military intervention is on the table for lots of sanctions time to work and a promising a shot so as a diplomatic solution really possible at this point park failure to negotiate lead to more justification to go to war to help answer this dr paul craig roberts former reagan administration official joins me now welcome paul nice to have you on. the get go haitians are on the table are you optimistic that this is going to work what are they negotiating about this next letter read as is done in the combative tazer estimator united states government that is a net and supreme leader in the war sixteen intelligence agencie

need for a diplomatic solution his voice on the issue might not be the most powerful one as artie's liz wahl reports. it's an annual tradition more than thirteen thousand people gathering in the nation's capital for the american israel public affairs committee annual conference it gives people from all over the country and to. revitalize their approach it is very important the united states will back israel while apac is considered to be one of the most powerful lobbying groups in america and they host this conference each year showcasing american israeli unity just how much power this group has over u.s. foreign policy there is controversy speaking at the conference president obama reiterated america is dedicated to fostering strong ties with its closest ally the want to comes to preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. i will take no options off the table and i mean what i say. that includes all elements of american power statements like that make the world wonder is war with iran just around the corner. are pushing us into a regional war that. does have cataclysmic potential apac

news for more on the stories we covered go to our consulates usa you can also follow me on twitter liz wahl we'll see you right back here at sevens. free. education free. for three. three. three. three. three books video for your media drug free media are cheap tom. kaiser this is a very poor you know the global economy has been severed at the mid so are acts of financial markets. no major organs remaining this is not a boat accident this is boy local girl. max that sounds like jamie diamond and life masters and that's closer what happened to the money well this is not a boat accident the facts suggest that the customer money at m.f. global stolen twice first by corps i next by j.p. morgan the system was twisted to hide the involvement of powerful figures of strong ties to the political system and multinational corporations operating out of new york and the city of london as richard dreyfus said in the movie jaws well this is not a boat accident and i remember the response from richard dreyfus was to the corpse of the first victim of jaws and. to the public to the tourists coming to amity i

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our. well a group of countries banding together in a troubled world economy they have been coined the grex that is brazil russia india china and south africa heads of states from the emerging economies gearing up for their annual summit tomorrow in new delhi the brics are the five fastest growing economies in the world and i want to take a moment to show you how far they're a global reach actually is to gather these countries make up forty two percent of the world's population and a quarter of its landmass are responsible for twenty percent of the global g.d.p. and that is expected to surpass the u.s. g.d.p. in just three years and they own a whopping seventy five percent of the foreign reserves worldwide now their influence on the global stage is only growing and with their growing power they have plans in the works to form a joint development bank artie's preassure the reports to us from india with a sneak peak of the summer. of c. from the five leading emerging economies brazil russia i

usa you can also follow me on twitter at liz wahl the alone show is coming up in just a half an hour we'll see you right back here at seven. this is the cause a report oh we're hunting we shall go tell you know these are from us more. hunting for joining lloyd blankfein hunt goldman c.e.o. lloyd blankfein reportedly hunting for muppets so c.e.o. lloyd blankfein told partners in a conference call this week that he's scanning internal e-mails for the term up it and other evidence that employees refer to clients in a derogatory way yeah ok so he's going to everybody's email looking for a muppet sees that in their bedroom and he's in the bathroom is examining everyone looking for the word muppet looking in the mirror lloyd blankfein that's the biggest muppet of them on you you get the joke you well two things first of all he's buddies of the n.s.a. i'm sure you can just call them and say me although i'm not references from my firm and number two just look at the headlines around the world because that's what we're going to do and you can see muppets everywhere you look first headline the

i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy. well a sudden change of venue for the upcoming g. eight summit the meeting of the world's most powerful leaders was supposed to take place in chicago but the white house has announced it will happen at the presidential retreat in camp david maryland now the white house maintains that the new location will provide a more intimate setting but the unusually late change for the international summit has some wondering what the motives behind it could be some believe this may have something to do with that you're looking at ads from od'ing that's of protests and rallies outside of the g eight summit in chicago the demonstrations have been in the works for months and earlier i spoke to natasha lennard reporter first lot of home and asked her why the big move especially the last minute here's her take. you know we'll never get straight about what exactly makes basic research vision making but it's definitely being bred and i think perhaps justifiably as part of protest is a huge amount of pressure with that promise to present it looking the

replaced a generational shift they hope will push the middle east peace process forward and washington liz wahl r.t. . how to talk more about this versus apac i'm joined now by jenny schachter filmmaker and blogger for the ice actor nat welcome danny so what do you think separates these two groups. well you know first first of all it's important to realize that a pac is is an organization of organizations there's an organization of the presidents of the jewish organizations many of them unelected not representative of any particular constituency except financed by a relative handful of people who claim to speak on behalf of the whole jewish community in america yet when jews are actually polled and surveyed you find the majority want peace in the middle east want are willing to trade land for peace are willing to a reach an accommodation with palestinians so this is not a very representative force but it's a very powerful force because of the money that it has and the momentum that it has after being in office and being around the congress for so many years and also is affiliated you know kind

i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy. well a sudden change of venue for the upcoming g. eight summit the meeting of the world's most powerful leaders was supposed to take place in chicago but the white house has announced it will happen at the presidential retreat in camp david maryland the white house maintains that the new location will provide a more intimate setting but the under usually late change for the international summit has some wondering what the motives behind it could be some believe this may have something to do with it you're looking at ads promoting massive protests and rallies outside of the jui g. eight summit in chicago the demonstrations have been in the works for months so is this last minute shuffle really an attempt to avoid protests especially as election season is underway all the answer to this and more isn't tashi leonard reporter for salon dot com welcome to talk show so what do you think is behind this change well you know we'll never get a straight answer about what exactly motivated to decision making but it's definitely being read and i

regulations and zoning regulations but what about those other laws that are in place are to correspondent liz wahl looks at the bureaucratic waste that sometimes gets in the way of progress. america months considered the land of opportunity home of the american dream or the entrepreneurial spirit thrives which is all that the pass now it seems a ridiculous bureaucracy has people jumping through hoops to start a business in the building entrepreneurs are useless things for no. yes many business owners are finding today tanya edwards and bill main own sags in the city and the heart of washington d.c. the important thing is before you get on make sure the green. they guide their customers on tours throughout the nation's capital be a segue i want to bring you think ford running a lot they're doing is illegal because they don't have a license to speak to tourists. for ninety days for not having a large but he believes he shouldn't need a license to talk to people. who prefers the. constitution. and they're not alone in having government bureaucracy to keep their business afloat want to become a floris

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. well more controversy this week surrounding the practice of fracking the u.s. department of agriculture has dropped the plan to require an extensive environmental review before handing mortgages to people that plan to use that land for oil and gas drilling now this has outraged opponents of hydraulic fracturing the. eases up rules on the drilling not that they believe the practice is common with extremely harmful health and environmental risks so another debate over energy rages on in america let's talk more about this i'm joined now by greg palast is an investigative journalist and author of the book voters picnic and pursuit of petroleum pegs power pirates and high finance carnivores affect to be out in bookstores on november fourteenth. welcome there so first of all i want to ask you what is fracking and what is so dangerous about it well fracking is brand new wave getting gas and oil only out really really use for about a decade or so. it what we do they do is they drill down then

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i'm liz wahl and you're watching r t well the u.s. has apologized for the shooting rampage in afghanistan that killed sixteen people many of them women and children and thirty eight year old staff sergeant is now under arrest being held at an undisclosed location the massacre has severely strained relations between afghans and foreign forces now u.s. officials are debating pulling out of the country sooner than planned and here at home a new poll shows that more americans are growing frustrated but the way the war's going and want the troops. comeback sixty percent say the war was not worth fighting thirty percent believe the afghan public supports the u.s. mission the u.s. mission there and fifty four percent say the u.s. should withdraw forces meanwhile president obama today said anyone involved will be held accountable and he reiterated the plants a draw down u.s. troops take a lesson the united states takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens and our own children who are murdered. her growing over the loss of innocent

i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy. well an executive order signed by president obama has sparked controversy on both sides of the political aisle the national defense resources preparedness executive order was signed quietly friday night it gives the president the power to control u.s. resources in times of war and peace this includes food water oil and transportation now some are concerned this cut leads to the executive branch having absolute authority over the nation's resources and others question if this is all and preparation to go to war with iraq there is a white house press secretary jay carney has answered that question across conference and some of. the brain power to allocate. it was. before the. plane with. the well i cannot explain the reaction to it i think it was a fairly. standard in which. piece of business. so is this just business as usual or does it give be executive branch on precedence that amount of power let's talk more about this radio host alex jones joined me earlier today from austin texas

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our team. well it's not just occupiers and rage at wall street these days wall street's own are calling out the greed and corruption that plagues financial firms today an op ed written by a mid-level goldman sachs again is that executive is sure it's been making its rounds on wall street offices former employee greg smith a dish all the dirt in the new york times in the piece entitled why i am leaving goldman sachs he says the financial firm is driven soley by profits even if it's not in the best interest of its clients and he goes on to describe a climate of greed to talk about whether or not ethics are going down the drain on wall street peter schiff joins me now nice to see you creators so how would you describe goldman sachs. oh it was first of all you know there's nothing wrong with making a profit and we're all working to make a profit i mean you're not working for russia today for free there you're collecting a paycheck so we all want to make money and i think when it comes to the broker

i'm liz wahl and you're watching our t.v. well the tragic case of trayvon martin the seventeen year old boy fatally shot in florida has highlighted the debate over america's gun laws but it seems that the momentum in america is on the side of gun rights not governor structure hands for much of the country the right to bear arms is synonymous with liberty and it guns mean freedom virginia just got a whole lot more free last night the state repealed a law restricting handgun purchases to one every thirty days and as artie's lucie county now reports it's to. mocker singh locked and loaded. just across the river from the nation's capital virginia a slice of traditional america green spaces and triangle farmlands offer a refuge from urban life a place where red white and blue is displayed with pride but here the symbol of liberty isn't just a flag it's this. it definitely is a sign of freedom you know to be able to go on and until now wind was all you could buy in virginia every thirty days the law was supposed to curb gun traffic