oh, i can't wait until we funnel south carolina to luxembourg.by the way, how did the italians feel about this deal? >> one company shareholder who opposed the deal said "the government got ripped off, it was the beginning of the destruction of italian industry." >> the republican candidate seen as a "persona non grata" there. >> jon: wow. mitt romney's business practices are too shady for italy. (laughter) italy. (cheers and applause) mitt romney has to say to italy "i'm a legitimate businessman." (laughter) italy. a country where the prime minister, the head of the country's largest media conglomerate, and the host of their finest bunga bunga parties is the same (bleep)ing guy. (laughter) we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, a native of afghanistan, a former advisor to the eyes army. her book is called "in my father's country: an afghan woman defies her fate." please welcome to the program, saima wahab. (applause) how are you? >> doing good. >> jon: thank you so much for being

schnats, is a mitt romney supporter who sponsored a fund-raiser at his home which is a scale model of luxembourg. they served romney's favorite pie, hold the cheese, hold the sauce, extra dough. still spicy for mitt. i'm sure you're saying, 14 cents. stephen, that's not even 1% of the cost of a large pie. people will be willing to swallow that. after all, they'll be willing to swallow this. wrong, wrong! people will not payure cent because when you order a papa john's pizza, it's only after you've reached a state of such desperate gnawing hunger that you would eat the ass off a raccoon that drowned in your bird bath. and even then, and even then, only after making absolutely sure that you're all out of drowned raccoon ass. and now obama expects to you shell out almost three extra nickel for this pie. eat the nickels. you have your dignity. ( cheers and applause ) right? am i right? now, personally, now, perjurily, i love papa john's pizza. i believe they're a sponsor. order some right now. i will wait while you pause your d.vr. don't get me wrong, folks. i believe every human being has a fundame

the luxembourg registered international company has already invested 110 million euros in exploratoryrilling. three mines are set to go into operation in the next few years, creating 800 well paying jobs. experts say there should be enough or for 20 years of mining. >> we are looking for other reserves and planning a long term mining operation. but it mainly depends on supply and demand and how much money we can make. >> one of the first new mine workers did not think she would be able to find a job here, so she was planning to move to southern sweden. then last year, she got her truck driver's license and now operates a huge dumper trucks. >> we are all optimistic. it means jobs for us young people. hopefully, it will be a success and we can stay living in our home town. >> joel is a train shed. -- trained chef. he is also glad more work is coming to the region. every day, the care delivers a midday meal to the minors. >> running a business here is now worth while. until now, you could not be sure you would be able to make a profit. lots of firms shut down over the past few years. >>

. >> 1200 square kilometers of the densest jungle, an area half as large as luxembourg.ere, hidden from the eyes of the world, live one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes on the planet -- the awÁ. about 450 indigenous people still live here. some have still had no contact to the outside world. >> sometimes i can see other aÁa on the river. you find their tracks in the sand. >> the awÁ have adapted perfectly to life in the jungle. to survive there, they need a large area of intact rainforest. they're always on the move, depending on what fruit is in season and on the movements of their prey. a protected area is meant to guarantee their traditional way of life. wolfgang kapfhammer is doing research at philipps university in marburg. his special field is the indigenous populations of south america. >> it's known that, ecologically, the amazon contrary to its entire appearance as a lush rainforest is actually an area with little food. the food resources it contains are relatively widely strewn, making it necessary for them to wander through a relatively large area, which req

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and robbie also has an undisclosed amount of money sitting in bank accounts in luxembourg and ireland as well devon dwyer baby c. news notes that what little we do know about romney's efforts to hide his wealth both from the american people and from the i.r.s. are pretty surprising. the company in question san katy high yield asset investors limited is described by government a financial documents as a bermuda corporation wholly own by w. mitt romney yet as both vanity fair and the associated press note in new reports it has never appeared on the candidates financial disclosure forms limited details on its existence only came to light recently when romney released his two thousand and ten tax returns under public pressure as nicholas shaxson writes for vanity fair even after examining that return we have no idea what it is in this company but it could be valuable meaning that it's possible romney's wealth is even greater than previous estimates by the romney spokespeople insist the couple couple has paid all the taxes required by law investments in tax havens such as bermuda raise man

by the way, we spend more money per student than any developed nation except for luxembourg. it is really taxpayer money and property taxes that is funding our public schools. not the federal government. that is kind of interesting because all you hear from, it seems, is the president, the department of education, and the left loves to demonize 1% of the society, we never quite figure out who they are, but our public schools are seeing just 10% of their money from the federal government. the feds, we will call them. that compares to 46% and 44% from the state and 44% local. local money comes from property taxes. so who do you think should have the biggest say in public education in this country? shouldn't be president obama? should be the department of education and the federal government? shouldn't be the teachers union? maybe, perhaps, the tens of millions of taxpayers in this country to pay 90% of the bill for school. i would just offer this thought both candidates governor romney, president obama, when it comes to education, would you please do all of us a favor. began to

throughout europe, only belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands and switzerland have legalized the right to die. on mars, the rover "curiosity" went on itfirst test drive today to explore for evidence of life existing on the planet. nasa engineers positioned the rover's wheels to move forward about ten feet, turn right, and steer backward, leaving track marks on the planet's soil. scientists say curiosity eventually could roam hundreds of feet per day. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: we take a look at the presidential race as the candidates fanned out across the country today. there are only five days to go before republicans officially open their national convention in tampa, looking for a bounce coming out of the key swing state of florida. but for now president obama still has a small edge over mitt romney. according to a new "nbc news/wall street journal" poll, the democratic ticket leads the republican one, 48% to 44% among registered voters. that's little changed from july when obama had a lead of 49% to 43%-- suggesting romney got only a

. >> even if handling the books reveals that actually he sticks money in switzerland, luxembourg, thet now, mitt romney's campaign is in fact doing a very good job in explaining to the public that he is the best to handle the public. the economy going forward. every poll, he leads. that's what they're going to lead with and that's what they're going to continue to lead with. >> richard? >> well, look. you never want to be a parody. ask al gore if that's a great platform for you running in the home straight. it's harder to overcome the sense of humor aspect than the hate. if people are angry at you you can parry it somewhat. the parody part of it is hard to overcome. on the economy, yes, he scores better than president obama. but if you look, if you dig into numbers, do you think the economy's going to get better under romney? he only has a slight advantage over president obama on that crucial question. there's not confidence in either man when it comes to the economy. >> i'm so sorry, richard wolffe, susan, ken vogel, thank you very much. >>> coming up on "hardball," chris matthews is

capital buying a telephone company in italy, not paying any taxes on it, rerouting the money to luxembourgromney, we know, has offshore of bank accounts, we know he has a huge i.r.a., an enormous amount of money. when there's smoke, there's fire. if he didn't have all these skeletons in the closet, we wouldn't take this as seriously as we're taking it right now. >> take a look at harry reid. he has us talking about this stuff and not the economy. that is good old-fashioned dirty politics at work. >> what if it comes out he hasn't paid taxes in ten years. what reason does harry reid have to lie? president obama is winging this right back into his stump speech. spoke to supporters in connecticut just within the last few hours and had this to say about romney's tax plan. >> an independent non-partisan organization crunched the numbers. they determined that governor romney's plan would effectively raise taxes on middle-class families with children by an average of $2,000. he would ask the middle class to pay more in taxes so he could give another $250,000 tax cut to people making more than $3

cayman eislands, bahamas, luxembourg, shell corporations in bermuda.nvested overseas for his health. he's invested overseas because he's saving money on taxes. these are known tax havens. the only reason to have money in a swiss bank can account is to hide it from the federal government. now, you know, will paul ryan have the strength to stand up to mitt romney to actually close those tax havens? we'll never know. but will mitt romney make the right judgments about the types of tax reforms america needs if he's been taking advantage of every loophole in the book? the american people need to have an answer to that. the only way to have an answer to that is to see mitt romney's taxes. >> mao, stephanie, what strikes me as interesting you also had on saturday the romney campaign trying to back away a little bit from the ryan budget. i think in part because they don't want to get blocked in given that governor romney's plan has less detail than governor ryan. but at the same time they propose essentially the same thing. what am i missing here? >> i found t

rid of all those exotic foreign investments in places like the cayman islands, switzerland, and luxembourgafter all, he had plenty of time to do so before the campaign started. wouldn't it make much sense to clean the slate, if you will, and spare yourself such a chronic political headache? ♪ >> just a smart leader. >> but why, if that's the case, did mr. romney bother sending so much of his money overseas in the first place? we're joined now by "the guardian's" ana marie cox and julian epstein. julian, if i may, if mr. romney got absolutely nothing, zero, from stashing millions of dollars overseas, if he was not evading taxes, then can you please explain to our viewers what the point of doing so in the first place was? >> well, the phrase that comes to mind is, "oh, what a tangled web we weave." >> that's not an explanation, julian. >> it's surprising that romney would go there when it's so easy to just do a google search and to find that tax experts say that the purpose of cayman island investments is tax avoidance. let's just look at the facts here. in 2010, romney had about $2.7 millio

we are behind countries like hungary and luxembourg.f we were behind hungary in the olympic count? >> well, why is that? >> well, there are various reasons for why our education system is the way that it is. you can't point to any one thing that is causing that, but there are lots of things that we can look towards to determine how we can actually get out of this. so, the first thing is that we need a high-quality, effective teacher in every single classroom in front of every single child every day, because what we know based on the research is that teachers are the one in-school factor that have the greatest impact on how kids do. we need to have more choices for families. we can never have a family feel like they are trapped in a failing school. and we really need to look at how we're spending our taxpayer dollars on education. we have more than doubled, almost tripled the amount of money that we're spending per child on public education in this country over the last couple of decades, and yet, the results have gotten worse. >> let me

how can you have a ruling in luxembourg that says yes or no to a member state ratified ems and on the same -- on the same of that you have a ruling of the constitutional court which tries to judge in substance the compatibility of the ems and other things with the german constitution. so, we have an unprecedent the case of competing jurisdiction. and i hope that german constitution court will not -- will be as open-minded as to accept my hint as constructive indication. >> would you welcome a referendum to change the german constitution? >> i think the problem with the referendum is that people never understand the question, which going to -- decides not only the question given but decides on the government which poses the question. i would expect in the current situation referendum only as initiative by german government to -- to get ems and fiscal conflict through -- >> professor -- >> once all the buildings come tumbling time. >>> we'll be talking about facebook and standard chartered. >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." >> these are your headlines from around the world. >> s

government reported farmers in the country were abandoning cornfields covering an area larger than luxembourg -- combined. >> that is a big number. all of this, of course, as milan is gearing up for the expo 2013 which is seen as feeding the planet. it will focus on food safety as well as quality. louisa caught up with someone who explains how organizers are hoping to make this expo one that stands out. >> for example, in the last position in sangai, there was a group acourting to all the geographics together, all the south pacific together and now the community doesn't work. so we invented this new criteria to put together all the canvas for which coffees or can heco or rice means something good together. so we believe that you wanted to understand something about coffee, so you enter into this space. second, we give a service to the country because we promote the economy, the history data and the future. third, possibly we can involve the corporate and in order to sploss. >> what do you think the impact of the higher global food prices will have on the expo? i mean, is there going to be a l

things like being born a in cuba or albania or mali as opposed to canada, luxembourg, or the united arab emirates. remember, this is an old slide -- this is what we learned about what poverty is like in america today. our insurance metaphor tells us that we are supposed to be insuring people against the really bad things that can happen to you when you are born. being born into that, that is not so bad by world standards. so if you took the insurance metaphor seriously and i think it is not entirely unreasonable to do that, your conclusion would have to be that every single penny we make in welfare payments should be going not to east los angeles but to ease the more -- east timor. another disconcerting thing about this insurance metaphor -- by conservative extrapolation, our ancestors was making $1 million per day. -- will be making $1 million per day. it is striking that we have these conservationists arguing that people like what you and i living the lives we lead off to be scaling back our lifestyles, living more conservatively in order to improve the quality of life for these future

. >> lesson learned for the future to be applied before we consider invading luxembourg, red team, push back. there is a formula of at least 10 issues that could be applied before you make the decision to go or not go. they are pretty much the obvious ones. i wonder whether they had been applied, water over the dam and iraq. at least for the future, considered 10 of these things which is a one size fits all matrix. good manners apply to the neighbors, that would be the turks. and whether they would allow us to bring the armored division and. it time, blood, money, preserving the institutions, a political vacuum, you s domestic political reaction, and, finally, the regional partnership if we get into a country. it just seems those might be the elementary things. i wonder whether or not there is any institutional read team push back that can be applied to future activities. a way to avoid what we have had in iraq. >> the ceo -- the cia identified how it looked at the process with the osama bin laden great to interrogate what intelligence they had before they decided to go with that. was t

things like being born a in cuba or albania or mali as opposed to canada, luxembourg, or the united arab emirates. remember, this is an old slide -- this is what we learned about what poverty is like in america today. our insurance metaphor tells us that we are supposed to be insuring people against the really bad things that can happen to you when you are born. being born into that, that is not so bad by world standards. so if you took the insurance metaphor seriously and i think it is not entirely unreasonable to do that, your conclusion would have to be that every single penny we make in welfare payments should be going not to east los angeles but to ease the more -- east timor. another disconcerting thing about this insurance metaphor -- by conservative extrapolation, our ancestors was making $1 million per day. -- will be making $1 million per day. it is striking that we have these conservationists arguing that people like what you and i living the lives we lead off to be scaling back our lifestyles, living more conservatively in order to improve the quality of life for these future

they funneled profits through luxembourg to avoid paying taxes on the deal. >> what do you find mostions. i'm a journalist. >> when in rome do as the romans do. they don't pay taxes in italy either. that's always been the problem in italy, they don't pay taxes. >> so what was the crime? >> no crime actually. >> just makes him look bad, huh? >> maybe it doesn't make him look bad. maybe it makes him look like a really good businessman. >> your column today talks about romney playing his trump card. >> you're staying on his taxes. do you think independence care -- maybe they do. do you think voters care about the -- i think they do want to know the guy they might for for president. they want to know a bit more about him than they know about mitt romney. >> let me just tell you the democrats make and the leb rals make is they think they're running against the 1% party. if the republican party was the 1% party, they'd lose every election. they're obviously the 50% party and 50% near it in other cases. those 59% who are not in the 1%, are they going to like this? are they so rich and beyon

former ambassador to luxembourg. she's got money. a fund-raiser.ady to go if they can figure out a way. there is no legal way that they can figure this out unless he steps back by september 25th. >> they kaudserrized it and you're right they came together and acted collectively quickly. haley barbour, it still lingered. we went a week talking about this because of the issues of rape, abortion, contraception, are controversial ones, hot button and tough for the republican party. uchld rather, as was mentioned here, de-emphasize it. how then does ann romney, mitt romney, and paul ryan at this point, change the conversation and literally turn the page and get away from this? is it going to be that easy. >> as long as the liberal media won't talk about nothing else, it's very hard. >> hold on a second. >> liberal media like the republican party leaders? >> we need to make this election about the issues the american people are concerned about at the dinner table. if we do that, most people watching this show never heard of todd akin. i never heard of to

names, but we are tied with poland, denmark, france, iceland, slovac republic, spain, norway and luxembourgnape, the national assessment of progress scores, have been flat for about 40 years. in 1965 the association for the evaluation of educational achievement studied 12 cups in math -- countries in math achievement and asked the kids to answer 70 questions. of the 12 countries, the u.s. came in 12th with a median score -- there were 70 questions -- a median score of 13.8. in '81-'82 in high school science we were last again. '89, a dozen countries, we came in last. in the '90s, 13-year-olds math, 15 countries, we were next to last. we beat jordan. science assessment in '72, we were 14th out of 14. in the mid '80s, 13th out of 13. we, we are -- we have lost our competitive edge. if you look at other countries. the question, sort of the big questions that we will chew on here is what exactly do we mean by competitive edge? what gives us the competitive edge, is it diversity, productivity, creativity? are we moving in the right direction? who's the competition? what are the right roles of fe