ignored in this report ok that's how i talk to an on said human rights council is selective and politicized let's not take a look at these investigations more closely so israel's internal investigation found the gaza raid was justified as sell defanged and now it's compare that to the un how can two different investigations come up with such opposite conclusions. well israel's judicial inquiry has not concluded yet there was the i.d.f. inquiry so we'll have to wait what israel's position inquiry says but again the human rights council as kofi annan said is selective politicized and casts a shadow upon the reputation of the u.n. as a whole bunch the moon criticized the council for its excessive focus on israel which is seventy five percent of all resolutions are against israel only a handful in the rest of the world combined out of ten emergency sessions seven have been against israel so what happens when we get such a report that is biased they disregarded evidence that we submitted of the i.a.e.a. changes g. hottest intentions their violent actions on the ship the fact that the violence th

this week's anniversary of september 11th may be the most politicized yet. >>> and rock of ages. you will not believe who has now become one of the most popular deejays in the world. >>> good evening. with his so-called recovery summer becoming a punch line and with the midterm elections just 58 days away, president obama hits the road tomorrow with a new plan for the economy in hand. this is about showing the president addressing issue number one for americans, and it's also about trying to help the democrats who may be paying a big price for voter anger over the bad economy. so we're going to start tonight with david kerley in washington. >> reporter: back from camp david, president obama is preparing to hit the road tomorrow, unveiling his new economic plan with additional tax cuts. but already republicans are dubbing it too little too late. >> we always like to see a death bed conversion, but the fact is if we had done this kind of thing nearly a couple of years ago, we would be in a lot better shape. look, they're just flailing around. >> reporter: tonight, the administratio

. >> so you think it's been politicized? >> absolutely. this is very dangerous and ea tragic for two reasons. reason number one is that it goes again pst t fundamental american principle of separation of church and state. this concept of separation of religion and politics or church and state has a wisdom behind it. and the purpose behind it is not to politicize religion. because when you politicize religion, it is dangerous. >> but ultimately, when you look at the polls, something like 71% of americans think that even thoughhere's a right to build there a center that will include a mosque and other things, which we'll talk about in a minute, the wisdom of it may not be there. >> well, here's the -- >> is that political or is that just people saying it's e sensitivitywise, it's the wrong thing to do? >> i am extremely concerned with sensitivity. but i also have a responsibility. if we move from that location, the story will be that the radicals have taken over the discourse.e the headlines in the muslim world will be that islam is under at

and the purpose behind iis not to politice religion. because when you politicize religion, it is dangerous. >> but ultimately, when you look at the polls, something like 71% of americans think that even though there's a rhtig to bud there a center that will include a mosque and ather things, which we'll talk about in a minute, the wisdom of it may not be there. >> well, here's the -- >> is that political or is that just people saying it's sensitivitywise, it's the wrong thing to do? >> i am extremely concerned with sensitivity. but i also have a responsibility. if we move from that location, the story will be that the radicals have taken over the discourse. the headlines in the muslim world will be that islam is under attack. and i'm less concerned about the radicals in america than i'm concerned about the radicals in the muslim world. >> but isn't that also saying you're less concerned about the voices of opposition here? >> no, no, no, no. i'm sorry. i don't mean it that way. i meant that the danger from the radicals in the muslim wor

politicalization, what i'm talking about is that increasingly, various places on the media landscape--everything from cable television and through the internet--cater to people from one partisan political point of view--either left, right, democrat, or republican. we've had this factionalization, which i don't think serves the country well. >> you have not worked for a large corporation news entity. you have your blog, you have your books, you have the media that you're on television and radio... >> i do think i've worked for all of them. i'm just not working for any of them right now. >> well, maybe that's good, or maybe that's bad, but what i was gonna get at is, in these new media expressions, is there somehow going to be less pressure for profit, more ability to report? >> you know, i'm now at this place where i'm developing new public media programming, so i'm having to look at the financial side of media as well as the ethics and the skill of it, and it's a very new role for me to view myself as someone who can be an entrepreneur within the media landscape. i believe that that i

>> i have resisted any temptation to try to politicized -- tried to peddle -- tried to politicize the fed. i think it is important. i am concerned about policies that they have undertaken. i am also aware that there is a more broad approach. i am more concerned about the yuan in china and that monetary policy and to the imbalance of trade where we tend to worry about exporting jobs or losing jobs, which is the same. import products from a country that is underpriced by comparison because the tax structure is lower. their currency is out of whack compared to the dollar. i would like to have less focus more on getting that through control rather than worrying about the fed. i a.m. favoring an audit of the fed but i think that the audit, many of those would like to audit the practices and criticize the practices which would only politicize the said. you have a financial audit to declare what is happening. >> if you are doing the agenda for summing up sections, what would be the items and what order would you put them on? >> what i would do is focus on how we get the tax cuts done. we nee

, rank politicalization involved in these decisions. look, here's the words of steve ratner the former auto czar who says, attacking union's sacred cow meaning the pensions, was something that would have jeopardized the whole agreement. the whole union-white house deal that was a taxpayer funded laundry machine. they used our funds. nows go what? gm is using those funds to refill the coffers of democrat party. >> sean: foreclosures now sadly up 25% from a year ago. i know the media doing the work of the obama administration spreading an election is telling us the recession soefr. unemployment still at 9.6%. -- u.s. home prices dropped 3.3% in july. the 8th consecutive decline. cbo telling us unemployment will stay above 8% through 2012. job picture has gotten worse in 27 states. 1 in 7 americans in poverty in this country now. they are saying this is a success? how do they sell that in this election year? >> by the president becoming more personal. you have seen this over the last week. the strategists are turning him back into the stor

>> reporter: well, it's difficult to say because it's clearly become politicized. most people still believe that she will still be released. particularly because she has health problems. discovery a ln he the possibility of cancer. but the trouble is, it's unpredictable because there's another pn you have to wait for that political game to be yed untan baed. >> all right, jim. well, thank you for the latest headline there. it must be so troubling for sarah's family. so close to see her once again. kn she on see her once again. >> frustrating to have this caug >> devastating for that famil >>> we want to go the o heas ofe m ron claiborne is h >> good morning, bianna and dan. dan and bianna. good morning, everyone. the federal aviation administration is proposing new rules to address the dangers of pilot fatigue. as lisa stark repo changes would more than double the amount of rest a pilot must have between flights. >> reporter: the crash near buffalo last year took 50 lives and revealed serious safety issues, including tired pilots. in this case, a crew that commuted

in the highly politicized debate over what happens when revenue changes take effect it's beneficial to be able to point back and say all we're doing is return to go the 1990s. >> charlie: returning means the following. if you today eliminated the tax cuts for people who made more than $250,000, you would gain how much revenue? >> about $250,000? about $35 billion in the first year. $700 billion. >> charlie: over ten years. if you did it for today, if you eliminate the middle class tax cuts that the bush administration and the congress gave us, you would enhance revenue by how much? >> a little north of $2 trillion. >> charlie: $2 trillion. >> over ten years. >> charlie: let me go to the stimulus in terms of where is the economy today and what does it need to avoid a double dip and what does it need, you know, to reach some kind of growth level that puts us on the right track? >> i think the biggest risk we face is not a double dip, an outright double dip but rather a period of very slow growth which unfortunately has been the historical norm following economic downturns that were cause

it's politicized from the very foundation of it. and now they don't like us and what we represent and they feel that the nuclear issues is one excuse to put pressure on us. but they're wrong and the time for that has passed. >> rose: okay, fair enough. who do you mean by the "zionist regime"? >> ( translated ): a regime that has occupied palestine and now forces its rule on that territory. >> rose: but why don't you just say aisrael? why don't you say the state of israel rather than the signist regime? >> ( translated ): we do not recognize that entity. we consider it to be a zionist and racist regime that occupies, creates wars, terrores and destroys the homes of people and prevents people from accessing water, medicine, and food in their own home, attacks its neighboring countries and threatens everyone around. >> rose: so you would therefore hope that there is an agreement reached between the negotiators from the state of israel and the palestinians so that they can agree on borders and agree on all the issues that separate them

and we don't do anybody any favors by politicizing it.o figure out how, from whatever perspective we come from, to set aside our sort of political interests and figure out what's best for children. and then act on that as opposed to posturing to try to seek some benefit of some sort. >> and we're not doing a good job with that? >> well, in minneapolis, for students of color, and i don't have the precise number in front of me, but roughly 50%, maybe a little bit more than that, drop out. we can't be doing a good job if that's happening. >> why is that? is it the home? or is it the school? >> it's home life. it's what goes on in the school. that creates what -- it all comes from the home, but i don't know that things are that dramatically different than -- today than they were when i was in school. >> do we not do a good job of teaching responsible in public education? >> let me put it this way. when all is said and done, more is said than done. >> more of my sit-down interview tomorrow with alan page. he's a role model for america. he has

. >> which oversight got it, my appeal would be that the issue is de-politicized. there is a risk of that political parties who have thrived on this division, they may seek to be opportunistic. the first is to appeal to all parties concerned. to seek a national unity on the issue. to allow the rule of law to prevail. we cannot afford what happened before and what continues to happen when a verdict against i. >> what do you sense of the sentiment on the ground? >> there is a state of anxiety. people are willing to have the local populace be calm, whatever the verdict. this is a test for the indian government and all political parties, and for the people -- will civic society prevail? will trust in the judicial process that has taken two decades prevail? >> as we understand from our correspondent a could go on again with a possible appeal. it is not a final verdict today? >> anyone who has dealt with indian law courts -- and never is final. it is a signal that has come through. one must be mindful that this can in itself evokes sentiments we must pre will not turn to

will need to be perfected, but me to do enough to turn immigration into something that is not so politicized and is more about really getting down to the problems. i wanted to address briefly some by pointing out, you cannot always tell what will happen based on one set of votes. in the dhhs appropriations bill for 2010, in the senate, and there were a lot of horrible amendments to make e-verify mandatory, inshore every inch of the fence was real, we get ensure every inch of the fence was real, not virtual. -- ensure every inch of the fence was real, not virtual. a lot of people said, my goodness, the senate is horrible, we are not going to get anything. we kept trying to calm people down, saying, wait for conference. that is a big step. you cannot just look at a bill and say that is it. there are all kinds of steps going on. if what you care about is not in the basic bill, it does not mean that it is over. that means you work to find the champion to will advance your cause. at this point, rather than focus on the specifics that need to be in the bill, the important thing is focusing on the

summers is brilliant, and unfair to look at what happened to that stimulous program, which was politicizedo such an extraordinary degree by the congress and by the white house. that's why that program was not nearly as effective as it should have been. as far as rahm emanuel, there is going to be an opportunity that nobody expected, which is that mayor daly would be the mayor obligation, of course. >> summers just got back from a trip to beijing and he saw bau over there and he tried to get him to monitor his money the proper way, instead of what he is doing with it. and that didn't work. do you think there's any connection between that failure to get one -- in fact the president himself met with him. do you want to talk about that? >> the main issue here as far as we are concerned, the united states economy is concerned is that the yen is kept at an artificially low level. >> what does that do to us? >> what that means is their exports are more competitive and our exports are less competitive in china. what that means to us is that we have fewer jobs. we have nufactured at home. that's no

human rights council brutal and disproportionate israel for its part calling it biased politicized extremists talk about that and i was doing was arrested for being on board the ship and the flotilla and still are thanks for being with us tonight how significant this judgment for you egypt israel points out the panel condemned began its investigation. clears all the members. flotilla. only and i'm doing points that the blockade was illegal. at the time everybody vindicates. mission to go to israel well ok but actually against its number wasn't actually part of the group at the time although i do believe we've got the people the activists were trying to achieve so you surprised at what happened that day yes i mean force that was used as the united nations. group said the force that was used was necessary it was because of proportion to anything that was on board any of the vessels there was no. civilians on board the vessel and mostly humanitarian person. so what does this mean on a practical level now what are the practical benefits to you all of these u.n. findings what does it mean they're

. >> it's become politicized. 9/11 has been politicized in different ways since then.different way now. >> we have a lot of threats tangled together. both president bush and president obama for reasons you cited in your article have said that it is in our interest to make clear and no one more forcefully than president obama in the last few days that the u.s. is at war with terror but we're not war with islam. that's been viewed as essential to send that message to the world. the lesson we're seeing in this controversy over the mosque is not all americans agree. with president bush out of office, bush expecting those sentiments suppressed that kind of argument in the republican party. if you look at polling out recently in "time" magazine, republicans said that muslims should not be able to run for president. the flip side of this is that to some extent the sentiment is being driven by what you describe as already happening. the successor to the 9/11 commission, the national security preparedness group came out with a powerful study this week that talked about cases of

process, not just by policy disagreement but by personal contempt among members ad she's highly politicized process, political people involved in this process, which i think is a bad thing. and an ambivalent comnder in chief and in afghanistan we have a patient, determined enemy and doesn't look like we a patient, determined president. >> it doesn'show the president was ambivalent but the opposite, the president welcomed a vigorous debate, an analysis on this, took the amount of time to welcome that debate,didn't want to send another trillion dollars in an open-ended war in afghanistan and then dictated a six-page, single-spaced memo he got everybody on his team to sign off on to suggest that they were all on the same page and then obviously gave that memo to someone in the white house which is presented in his book. that show as determined president to make sure there was no misinterpretation of his role. even someone who grew up in a military family, the president is still the commander in chief. to say that he ignored the generals, he's the commander in chief. he makes the ultimate decis

comments we've heard from the local politicians and authorities say that this decision will not be politicized that poland will act in full accordance with its own law and international legislation and we of course are waiting to hear any developments on the story and the future fate of one of the most wanted man in russia set against a political analyst from the congress and newspaper told us why he thinks poland won't extradite it's a kind of to russia. i think that despite current approach mint and russian poles relations and despite russia strong pledge pledges to extradite him i don't think that we expect him to come back to russia i personally would be very surprised if he's extradited for simple reason that still this is a very politically charged issue and as you understand poorly shouldn't the ruling elite they also have the only mitigations they have all on domestic agenda and they can go to friday that so i said this as a sort of get in my old game he sees all the north i think you would not go to russia they were conflicting reports some said that he was not informed that he might

saudi arabia cuba and saudi libya the human rights council as coffee and on said it is selective politicized and casts a shadow upon the reputation of the un as a whole but the un report its supporters to one of them is the israeli peace activists and group ghosh alone which claims that the blockade of gaza is illegal and also spoke to the organizations found former israeli parliament member theory of an eerie. the question of whether the blockade is legal. or even very wise is very questionable it's being questioned in sight is that. i myself believe that the blockade is illegal immoral and festival stupid because no one really knows what the blockade is for what to suppress of this brocade the government now sais that the only reason is to prevent world materially and weapons from addiction to the gaza strip. but this can be achieved by other means for verba you can stop ships on the high sea search the cargo and then let them go a disk ship is mainly. there to. make two point one that duplicate is illegal and should be abolished but also i think very many jewish people in israel and europ

desire to use the situation for political purposes this should be avoided the environmental serious politicized so much in russia that it's impossible to see when it's true or when the truth is exploited for political purposes so where citrus do you think that global warming really exists is really in agreement you know the climate has changed we can see that just think snow has become common in places where we've never seen it before we see that the permafrost zone keeps melting further we can see the plants that used to bloom once a year are now blossoming two or even three times which soon is going to be more than six months that we've been working on the northern sea route previously the coast ice used to recede for a period from seventy to ninety days today the northern sea route is free from ice for one hundred two hundred fifty days and ships can sail freely in clearwater is this also tells us something firstly i think that the country's leadership on our president has made the correct and well wait a decision to carry out serious detailed analysis and secondly our president called for t

arabia cuba and saudi and libya the human rights council as coffee and on said it is selective politicized and casts a shadow upon the reputation of the un as a whole. but the u.n. report a has its supporters to one of them is the israeli peace acts. which claims that the blockade of gaza is illegal and also he spoke to the united nations found a former israeli parliament member of neri. the question of whether the blockade is legal. even very wise. very questionable it's being questioned inside israel to i myself believe that the blockade is illegal immoral and first of all stupid because no one really knows what the blockade is for what isopropyl of this blockade the government no ses that the only reason is to prevent. reckons. the gaza strip but discount be achieved by other means for example you can stop ships on the high sea search the cargo and did let them go at this ship is mainly. there to. make two points run that the blockade is illegal and should be abolished but also i think there are very many jewish people in israel and europe and then on to rort who do not support this bil

poland has to consider whether to be extradited to russia and no matter how hard warsaw try to de politicize this issue . the prosecutor general tells me they have no choice but to start extradition procedures but these procedures do not mean an instant extradition and the russian side shouldn't necessarily hope for a decision that will satisfy. experts knew from the very start the decision would not be free of mind games as you understand. they also have their own limitations they have all but mystic agenda and they can go too far and and definitely i think this is. a moment of truth for our relations. has been one of russia's most wanted since two thousand and two it is now that he walks in an elegant suit but just a decade ago he was the leader of a chechen militant group and he is believed to have been involved in a string of atrocities in north caucasus from brutal killings to good things moscow says it has proved it was one of the masterminds of the more school theater siege in two thousand and two which led to more than one hundred deaths however in two thousand and three he received

desire to use the situation for political purposes this should be avoided the environmental serious politicized so much in russia that it's impossible to see when it's true or when the truth is exploited for political purposes because it is going to boarding to opinion polls you've been the most popular minister for the past few years why do you think that is. i don't think it's right when an emergency minister is the most popular minister in the country music but i believe that artists writers culture and foreign ministers should be the most popular figures whereas in emergencies minister should largely stay unemployed thank you for this interview. wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kind of a report on our. thank you we. just. one thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on r.t. in your headlines afghanistan's opium harvest falls by about a half but the value soars with drugs ending up in the hands of prisoners and even police officers.

foreign relations in washington the secretary of state says it's vital that past differences are politicized. we took office it was a mid cooling to cold relations and a return to cold war suspicion now this may have invigorated spy novelist's and armchair strategists but anyone serious about solving global problems such as nuclear proliferation knew that without russia and the united states working together little would be achieved so we refocused the relationship. we offered a relationship based on not only mutual respect but also mutual responsibility and in the course of the last eighteen months we have a historic new arms reduction treaty which the senate will take up next week. cooperation with china in the u.n. security council on tough new sanctions against both iran and north korea a transit agreement to support our efforts in afghanistan a new bilateral presidential commission and civil society exchange that are forging closer people to people ties and of course as we were reminded this past summer the spy novel is still have plenty to write about so it's kind of win a win. the u.s

saudi arabia cuba and saudi and libya the human rights council as kofi annan said it is selective politicized and casts a shadow upon the reputation of the un as a whole. now the outcry over the facility deaths did lead to an easing of the guards a blockade although some restrictions on that in place and adnan from the united nations relief agency says easing at the placate made life effect had made little effect on life and. i don't think that is being. a great influence on the humanitarian situation or the circumstances of the people here in the gaza strip we need jobs in gaza with the not only we need just to ignore the trucks that fall over normal the gods or or visit the bills or something like that we need building materials to get into gaza because we have those of thousands of homeless people in the gaza strip great projects for the u.n. system and the private sector just completely paralyzed and we have more than four thousand factories are have been destroyed during the war and because of the percent of the population is still depending in you on humanitarian aid organizations it is