mobutu so hard to i mean it's routine it takes a genius not to see it but i think the real problem to it is that democracy itself is in very serious trouble because of the corporations when you have two european countries and when you have greece and italy the politicians abdicating in saying that bank doesn't i mean where is it going to go you know so we. what we are witnessing is the democracy is becoming more and more denuded of content and slike an empty shell and this is what is angering young people who feel whatever we do whatever we supposed for nothing changes and saw these protests do do you think it's this problem is it is it the media is it structural is it is it the increased ability of the same to control the periphery as a result of more sophisticated telecommunications it is what's what's what's driving it what's writing it is a democracy that has become bakra fide but the media has become a below a central pillar of the establishment much more than it was during the cold war at that time they were proving to the russians and the chinese our system is better than yours

look at mobutu in congo, given billions of dollars and entertained by american leaders. at one time had seven of the largest palaces in the world. mansions in the u.s., mansions in paris, all paid for with your money. what did his people have? they didn't have running water or electricity. even if you believe the humanitarian nation -- nature of giving money to these countries, it's not going to them. you're making rich autocrats richer in thirled world countries and it is not going to the people of the country. it is stolen and skimmed off the top. look at mugabe. lou gay bein disciple bab -- mugabe has confiscated land, basically run his country into the ground, and we've given him billions of dollars. you can't buy better behavior. don't reward autocrats. don't reward folks who torture their people. and for goodness sakes, let's don't send $1 billion to pakistan who is imprisoning a hero, who helped us get bin laden. my amendment will call for an immediate halt to all aid to pakistan now. i'm asking president obama not to send one penny to pakistan until dr. afridi is