american troops there anti-war activist brian becker says it's the americans who should be making reparation payments to iraq not the other way around. they're making the iraq pay because they can i mean this is a kind of colonialism an ongoing pfaff that's been going on against iraq it started in the one nine hundred ninety s. by the way during the so-called oil for food program that was designed as a pelion of measure to bring relief to iraqis who are dying in the thousands each month because the u.s. wouldn't allow them to have food or medicine that allowed iraqi oil revenues to be put into a u.n. account administered really by the united states between one nine hundred ninety seven and two thousand forty billion dollars of iraqi oil was sold but only twenty five percent twenty five percent of forty billion dollars actually went to the iraqi people the rest went to the kuwaiti monarchy to exxon mobil and other so-called victims of saddam's invasion in august one thousand nine hundred i believe that the american government created these oceans of human misery and they have an obligation an

reparations to all of the iraqi people for this war of aggression. the white house is pressing ahead with plans to double u.s. exports in the next five years the proposals could generate some two million jobs. to help the country and its recovery from recession it comes as new figures reveal that the number of americans facing poverty is at a fifty year high. welcome to silk city. this once was what the industrial revolution looked like in the united states. now this is what poverty looks like in this town more than twenty percent are poor more than seventeen percent unemployed it means for many here ninety m. is a time to go to work and. it's time to head to the food pantry for charity but you know what. they are low income folks some of them have been unemployed for almost two years is what we're seeing. but on average it's the underemployed. there are people who can't make ends meet people like jenny i work in and i know it's not enough you know it's just not enough to get all the poor we need and the numbers are only growing and we saw in two tho

i'll encourage you to pursue having the board of supervisors appointed commissioners not reparations and paris, along with other commissions. thank you. >> thank you. >> i work with the inner-city adolescent network. we provide programs for the use such as continued education, job training, job readiness. i'm here today to ask for support. our funding is running out, there are collaborating partners. i want to come in and ask for some support. >> thank you, next speaker. >> i am with the foster services agency. i would like to urge the board of supervisors to look into the funding. there are large number of children. there is a 2-3 years in which they end up homeless. what we want is for the board to look at the funding and the mental health services. we have expanded with the agency's 22 intervention which helps children to have schizophrenia. -- we're expanding the agency's ability to do intervention. we did you that you would look into funding for these programs and also to help with the violence that the children are experiencing. they described their living situation as living i

i think it keeps me in good health and in shape. >> reporter: the bottom line, says repare -- >> i'man do a lot of things in terms of eating which is you can eat butter, you can eat chocolate, you can have a little dessert here and there, but again, has to be in a quantity that is controlled and you have to compensate with some exercise. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> dr. gupta. >>> "the situation room" is ahead. wolf leblitzer, what do you hav? >>> a at the top of the hour, my interview with the flim maker michael moore. he doesn't hold back from the mosque and community center near ground zero to what's going on with the democrats in the tea party movement. >>> also my special interview with tony blair, former prime minister. we'll talk about u.s. presidents, his relationship with them. >>> and darrell issa, the powerful republican congressman, if the republicans gain the majority in the house will he launch investigations and subpoenas or top white house officials? all that and a lot more coming up right here in "the situation room." don, back to you. >> looking

four years ago, bp found coercion in its pipeline in alaska and it to shut it down for repares. here is ktvu's health and science editor john fowler from 2006. >> reporter: bp says it found 16 miles of pipeline so severely corroded it could take months to repair. >> only when we're absolutely satisfied that those lines are in good condition, will we bring those back into service. >> reporter: bp acknowledges that it hadn't clean out its aging pipes in at least 14 years, saying it didn't appea to be necessary. the industry standard is every few months. a bp leak and spill in alaska earlier this year sparked a criminal investigation. experts say corroded pipes should have been no surprise. >> they have known about that problem in all likelihood for a long period of time. >> reporter: uc berkeley civil engineer robert bee used to work for bp on pipeline coercion and showed us what industry experts know too well, how bacteria eat right through pipe. >> this is solid steel. >> reporter: and bacteria get into the pilot when drillers pump seawater into petroleum to maintain pressure tu

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how many other people i've seen be harmed by this. >> in that tape, he describes going through reparative. it's sort of an ex-gay boot camp he says in memphis. what is it that he's talking about? >> they have two types of techniques. the first is you simply get the bible and try to pray away the gay. and then of course the quack therapy, the therapy that's been debunked by the american psychological association and american psychiatric association for more than 30 years. and their theory is essentially that you're gay because you had a distant same-sex parent. the way to make you heterosexual is to make friends with straight people and by doing that you'll magically lose your attraction to the same sex. it's -- we call it consumer fraud. and we've never seen it work for anyone. and it not only harms the people who go through it but the spouses end up getting married to these individuals. these groups love to show you the wedding photos but never show you the divorce papers and we see that all the time. >> i know you've done a lot of pioneering work on the cure the gays scam in the conserv

and under the treaty of versailles, the victorious allies forced germany to pay $38 billion in reparationsopped in 1931 during the great depression, and they only resumed after world war ii. here in new york, the legendary hollywood director oorth penn died last night. he's best remembered for a movie that turned a couple of outlaws into folk heroes. >> this is miss bone parker. i'm clyde barrow. >> clyde. >> we rob banks. >> couric: in addition to "bonnie and clyde" he directed dustin hoffman in "little big man" arlo guthrie and anne bancroft and patty duke in "the miracle worker." coming up next, a teachable moment. a school system that's working. can we learn something from the japanese? [ man ] then try this. new and improved freestyle lite® blood glucose test strip. sure, but it's not gonna -- [ beep ] wow. [ man ] yeah, that's the patented freestyle zipwik™ design. [ woman ] did it just -- target the blood? target the blood? yeah, it drew it right in. the test starts fast. you need just a third the blood of onetouch®. that is different. so freestyle lite test strips make testing... [

sanctions which provided the legal basis for the presence of american troops on the question of reparationsfor iraqis and to. a member of the iraqi national alliance party who says there is cash in the country it just needs to be better distributed . a lot is not short of money by the way the publicly we see in iraq is code by a degree of mismanagement. on the government part huge corruption i think they should in iraq is not if there is money or not i think the problem is how the money is managed and why the how the government is in complete control of the iraqi state's money while they are like a government is extremely of a while they like people are extremely poor something very unusual i think in order to solve this issue as to how bad more effective government in the future specifically coming government that could transfer our wealth from the government to the iraqi people. but the focus of financial development combating corruption in iraq often gives way to the battle against insurgency and so it is today twenty three people were killed by two separate car bombings in back down the

sanctions which provided the legal basis for the presence of american troops there on the questions of reparations for iraqis and to fight a qanbar a member of the iraqi national alliance party he says there is cash in the country it just needs to be better distributed. a lot is not short of money by the way the publicly we see in iraq is code a degree of mismanagement. on the government part huge corruption i think they should and iraq is not if there is money or not i think the problem is how the money is managed and why the how the government is in complete control of the states money while they have arche government is extremely a while they're like people think you're poor something very unusual i think in order that the thought of this issue is more effective government in the future specifically the upcoming government that could transfer wealth from the government to the iraqi people. six men taking part in an experiment project an experimental project to prepare for a trip to mars have set a new record for a simulation of the sky they've already spent one hundred five days confide in a sp

which were provided the legal basis for the presence of american troops there on the question of reparations for iraqis and if qanbar a member of the iraqi national alliance party says there is cash in the country it just needs to be better distributed. iraq is not short of money by the way the poverty we see in iraq is caus by a great degree of mismanagement. on the iraqi government par huge corruption i think they show in iraq is not if there is money or not i think the problem is how the money is managed and why the how the government is in complete control of the iraqi state's money while and they are like a government is extremely l.h. while there are people not explained before something very unusual i think in order to solve this issue is to have a modest government in the future specifically the upcoming government that could transfer wealth from the government to the iraqi people. the center of moscow witnessed a mafia clash this week the man the son to be the godfather of most of russia's criminal groups was shot and seriously wounded r t e got peace going off reports from the scen

professor mary freenesses berry wrote wonderful books and one is about reparations that you didn't mentiont's true. it's a wonderful book. one of the things i remember most about the book is it reveals the work of a guy named edmon pettis. people think they know the name, but those of you who followed the career of the civil rights movement remember walking over a brid called the edmon pettis bridge. it's a symbol that we think of as a horrible moment of black people and history of the country, and then i read her book and found that old senator edmon pettis was a leader in trying to get reparations in the 19th century for reasons that were not the most uplifting, but the bottom line was that after the civil war and during that whole reconstruction era, he figured a good way of getting money to banks controlled by whites in the south was by having the federal government give reparations to blacks who would then have to bank them and his constituents back and that was quite an interesting insight into history. history, i think is important, but also understanding these provisions of the con

professor mary freenesses berry wrote wonderful books and one is about reparations that you didn't mention, and my face is black it's true. it's a wonderful book. one of the things i remember most about the book is it reveals the work of a guy named edmon pettis. people think they know the name, but those of you who followed the career of the civil rights movement remember walking over a bridge called the edmon pettis bridge. it's a symbol that we think of as a horrible moment of black people and history of the country, and then i read her book and found that old senator edmon pettis was a leader in trying to get reparations in the 19th century for reasons that were not the most uplifting, but the bottom line was that after the civil war and during that whole reconstruction era, he figured a good way of getting money to banks controlled by whites in the south was by having the federal government give reparations to blacks who would then have to bank them and his constituents back and that was quite an interesting insight into history. history, i think is important, but also understanding t

the country was required to pay reparations most of which went to france and belgium. 91 years laternflict is at lost coming to a close. we are back with michelle malkin in 90 short seconds. ñ÷ >> sean: the president's faith has been on full display in recent weeks. sunday the 19th, only the fourth time since his inauguration president obama attended church. he and the first family made the short walk out of white house through lafayette park to st. john's episcopal church in washington. yesterday at an administration stage backyard discussion a poignant question was posed to the president. he was asked why a christian? take a look at the response. >> the president: i'm a christian by choice. my family didn't frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. my mother was one of the most spiritual people i knew. but she didn't raise me in the church. so i came to my christian faith later in life. >> sean: that answer was debated by liberals on one radical left wing cable network. >> i mean, did he really have to throw his family under the bus to make this point? i mean, you

the country was required to pay reparations most of which went to france and belgium. 91 years laters at lost coming to a close. at lost coming to a close. we are back with michelle hey, guys, i know i've been bad at this in the past, so i've come up with some mnemonic devices to help me learn your nas. hello, a "penny" saved a "penny" earned. oh, that's 'cause fedex ground helps you save money. that'sht, penny. do you know ours? heavens to betsy. dwayne the bathtub. magic wanda. ah! what's mine? uh, you're a dan fool. oh. it's just a device, dan. you c take it personally. yeah, i suppose. [ male announcer ] we uerstand. you need a partner whhelps you save. fedex ground. >> sean: the president's faith has been on full display in recent weeks. sunday the 19th, only the fourth time since his inauguration president obama attended church. he and the first family made the short walk out of white house through lafayette park to st. john's episcopal church in washington. yesterday at an administration stage backyard discussion a poignant question was posed to the president. he was asked why

and they are all driven by president obama's thinking on one idea, reparations. >> he's bankrupting the country. he is the most incompetent president to ever hold that office. >> and, again, according to the white house, this is an invaluable service. >> what we're seeing out of this governor of new jersey is just go to the money, cut whoever you have to cut, there is no ramification for any of this because he's a cold-hearted fat slob. >> in short, in scott brown, we have an irresponsible homophobic racist reactionary tea bagger against politicians with whom he disagrees. >> let's check back with our panel on their thoughts on how the president defines friend and foe. why do you think the president of the united states -- the president went after fox in an interview with "rolling stone," it was his spokesman, bill burton who drew a delineation, saying when the president says he's mad at the left, it's not with msnbc, it's more with people in the blogosphere. >> one of the striking things in the interview, it was talking about fox news world view. mr. president, a whole lot of people wa

has been claiming for almost two years that president obama is bent upon "redistribution" and "reparations." gingrich's now stepped up to suggest that this redistribution is motivate by anti-white radical revenge. >> racial revenge. well the point of the story in "forbes" magazine that newt gingrich was citing said that president obama was motivated by the ideology of a luo tribesman. mondel who is impeccably a european. and ted kennedy impeccably northern european was a big believer of government and that's not my view but i don't see a lot of the difference in the way that president obama thinks and the way that walter mondel thinks so we don't have to bring kenyan into it, the lieu ab tribe into this. don't have to be a father who abandoned president obama and wrote a very elcant book about wrestling about his very unhappy feels into this, in order to say we're for liberty and they're very regulation. appeals to people of all races. >> so this is a dangerous nathyour opjoin know, that the republican party is taking right now. >> in the short term it's maybe a profitable path because the

are wrong by being too conservative, trying to bring the deficit down too quickly, that's a very reparable problem. if we are wrong with 9 buffer between the capacity to borrow and where our debt is at the moment, we have very dangerous possibilities out there. >> brown: all right, alan greenspan, thank you for talking to us. >> my pleasure. >> brown: our next conversation will be with laura tyson, former chair of the council of economic advisors in the clinton administration. she calls for keeping the tax cuts for the middle class for now, while letting them lapse for the wealthy. >> woodruff: next, to britain's new coalition government, facing issues at home and abroad that are very familiar to americans. margaret warner has that story. >> warner: before last spring's campaign, liberal party leader nicholas clegg was hardly a familiar face to british voters. but the debates changed all that. >> the more they attack each other, they more they sound exactly the same. >> warner: 43-year-old clegg stole the spotlight from the candidates of the two traditionally dominant parties: labor's then

at the end of world war i germany was required to pay reparations, they didn't have the money so they printed money. they paid off that way. so in january of 1922, one u.s. dollar converted 289 marks. you can see what happened, and less than three years one u.s. dollar converted to 4.2 trillion marks. printing the dollar, the marks of that time became senseless so the government simply said it we're going to have a new currency and i came through and send 1 trillion reichsmarks equal one renton marked. what did that do to germany? what happened in germany is the people lost their homes and their businesses and farms and became very bitter. they gave rise to a fellow named adolf hitler. absolutely. this gave rise to the nazi germany takeover cannot cease taking over germany. here's an interesting pictures. a woman on the left heel in her home by putting bottles of rice market into the furnace. that is all they were before. on the right to sue some boys and there are making a fortress out of blocks of rice marks. that is all they ever before. so inflation is the very bad inflation can d

guest: first of all, japan and germany did not pay us reparations. to the contrary. to date, it is the largest aid program, the marshall plan. general macarthur was on the ground in japan for the reconstruction of the japanese state. a lot of the money actually went in the opposite direction. in iraq, which have not taken money from the iraqis. i think we expect the iraqis to stand on their own, based on their ability to sell oil. we expect they will not be asking for assistance from us. as we draw down, we will be able to rely on iraq as an important ally in the middle east, especially as we deal with other issues in the region. writes on twiteter -- he says that it is not a blanket statement. guest: i said the president has nuanced about that. nuanced about that. according to a lot of conversation that i have had, the president is absolutely committed to the drawdown. while conditions will dictate -- what i am afraid we could say, if things go well, we will hear that they are going well and we can draw down. if things are going badly, the matter what happens, we sh

financial penalties of germany for starting the war are unsettled, and the country owes $92 million in reparationsh the money going to pension funds, and countries holding debt bonds. so break tout checkbook. >>> and check this out, two pee-wee football teams in texas say they are are unfairly punished for this mayhem. remember, this is pee-wee football. two weeks ago opposing coaches went at it exchanging punches, and two were banned from coaching for life. both teams were barred from the playoffs. just take a look at that video, but players and parents say it is not fair, because the players are punished for the behavior of the coaches and league officials will be asked tonight to let the teams into the playoffs. wolf, they were 11 and 12 years old, and that is the kind of mayhem that broke out. >> a great example of the adults are showing for the kids. oh, my gosh. terrible. >> oh, gosh. >> thank you for that. alleged plot for a conservative activist to lure a cnn correspondent on to the boat and embarrass her and the network. we have details of what he had planned. republican senator lindsay g

guest: first of all, japan and germany did not pay us reparations. to the contrary. to date, it is the largest aid program, the marshall plan. general macarthur was on the ground in japan for the reconstruction of the japanese state. a lot of the money actually went in the opposite direction. in iraq, which have not taken money from the iraqis. i think we expect the iraqis to stand on their own, based on their ability to sell oil. we expect they will not be asking for assistance from us. as we draw down, we will be able to rely on iraq as an important ally in the middle east, especially as we deal with other issues in the region. writes on twiteter -- he says that it is not a blanket statement. guest: i said the president has nuanced about that. nuanced about that. according to a lot of conversation that i have had, the president is absolutely committed to the drawdown. while conditions will dictate -- what i am afraid we could say, if things go well, we will hear that they are going well and we can draw down. if things are going badly, the matter what happens, we sh

one last thing i'd like to comment on in terms of reparations. we hope that there will be some sort of legislation introduced that will give african americans some sort of options in terms of immigration since african americans came -- the ancestors came to this country against their will. there may be an option for african americans to opt out and go back to africa under some sort of ah spisses of the united states as a choice of where they want to live. host: we'll leave your thoughts there. michigan on our line for we set aside looking at speaker pelosi and thinking that she will hurt election chances. this is tim. good morning. caller: good morning. well, the reason i'm calling and i believe that she is going to hurt democrats is i look at what happened to bart stupak here in michigan. i followed his career through the years and he has always been a solid conservative for the most part. i guess what most people call a moderate democrat. host: you mean on his vote on health care? caller: right. basically i don't think he wanted to vote for it.

in 1989 that the man is moving in circles, in circles, war, preparations, war preparations, war reparations, and moving in is circles and goes to another war as i said before. nothing came out of it, but that's what we felt, absolutely. i had another -- i saw a document, which by the way, was taken off the internet to my great chuggerring. probably his last order to his troops, his last order to his troops in 2003, you're already north of baath i suppose and initiating in his own handwriting a document that tells people you have to prepare ambushes to the american column, and here is how you do it. i don't know if you can see, but you must do it when the road is sort of wide and drive more slowly, and this is how you arrange the forces, right? you're a marine officer; right? so, you see how to prepare an ambush. [laughter] >> that's not how i would do it. [laughter] >> i never had any doubt about that, by the way. [laughter] >> no the funny thing is this is exactly the way he prepared the ambush against general carson in 1969 in october when on both sides of the road there were two units sh

professor mary freenesses berry wrote wonderful books and one is about reparations that you didn't mentionand my face is black it's true. it's a wonderful book. one of thethings i remember most about the book is it reveals the work of a guy named edmon pettis. people think they know the name, but those of you who followed the career of the civil rights movement remember walking over a bridge called the edmon pettis bridge. it's a symbol that we think of as a horrible moment of black people and history of the country, and then i read her book and found that old senator edmon pettis was a leader in trying to get reparations in the 19th century for reasons that were not the most uplifting, but the bottom line was that after the civil war and during that whole reconstruction era, he figured a good way of getting money to banks controlled by whites in the south was by having the federal government give reparations to blacks who would then have to bank them and his constituents back and that was quite an interesting insight into history. history, i think is important, but also undstanding these