that's calling to revoke his piece of board it's a petition launched by an organization called roots action and as of today already has over ten thousand signatures so to talk more about this effort to have parker see behind the award in the media's facilitation of the war is peace mentality i'm joined now by norman solomon co-founder of roots action dot org and author of war made easy how presidents and pumpkins keep spinning us to death thanks so much for coming on norman lead to be with you so first of all for people who don't understand why it's so hypocritical for obama to have a peace prize and break down what he's done that stands in direct opposition to this award. well president obama triple the troop levels in afghanistan after he took office as president it was in december of two thousand and nine when he went to us low to accept the nobel peace prize since then what we've seen is an expansion of what the us government sometimes calls a war on terror. choosing to exercise a perceived corroborative to send cruise missiles and drones and other weaponry into a number of countries ir

to revoke president obama's nobel peace prize the petition launched by an organization called roots action is calling out the obama administration saying that it is quote widen the use of drones and other instruments of remote killing in several countries and it made perpetual war look even more perpetual than ever since just me or is it a bit ironic that a peace award is going to the same man that's managed to completely destabilize it it's about that time let's break the set. over the last six months on the show there's been one argument that has stood out the concept that democracy is a form of government should give all voices an equal opportunity to be heard to give all ideas a fair and equal platform to be communicated to the voting public and no i'm not about to start ranting about how disappointed i am with the outcome of the twenty two of general elections but it's because this is an off year that i think important it's.

to revoke president obama's nobel peace prize the petition launched by an organization called roots action is calling out the obama administration saying that it is quote widen the use of drones and other instruments of remote killing in several countries and it made perpetual war look even more perpetual than ever since just me or is it a bit ironic that a peace award is going to the same man that's managed to completely destabilize it it's about that time let's break the set.

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nine it was a total surprise now activists are saying that maybe he doesn't deserve groups like roots action which are launching an online petition calling for the revocation of obama's two thousand and nine nobel peace prize now that campaign one quarter of a million strong i might tell you claims that obama became an aggressive military leader after taking office too aggressive in fact to maintain that prestigious award the initiative continues to gain steam escalating conflicts abroad continue and a failed promise of the closing of guantanamo bay prisoner prevails joining me now breaking this all down for me is leah longer and she's a member of the former president of veterans for peace leo hello hello to be here thank you so well what do you think of this award do you think it was given to him prematurely well absolutely i think you know millions of people across the world were dumbfounded when he was given the prize only months after he took office and you know president carter stated that he thought that president obama had been given the prize in anticipation of what he might do or pr

action is not enough. the fossil fuel companies are the root of our climate problems, in fact the companies have tried veryvery hard to make sure that the debate and discourse about the climate action is something that is not scientific at all and it is based on things that do not exist or are not measurable by science. we can exercise the power of our pocket books by divesting our retirement fund from the fossil fuel companies. the retirement board can divest without effecting the fund security or yield. the staff of the retirement board estimates that out of the 15.6 billion only one billion is invested in securities, either incorrect or correct investments such as mutual funds. we are not calling for immediate divestment, the resolution calls for seizing new fossil fuels and divesting within five years, this gives the retirement board to divest in a responsible way, as mentioned above, the hsbc bank, argues that the stocks will become increasingly risky as the climate change excel rates. they are studying how can be done without increasing risk, the apario group, calculated that divesting from fossil fu

pope francis urged the catholic church to take decisive action to root out and punish sexual abuse of children by priests. the pope met today with senior members of his staff, saying the church's credibility is at stake. groups advocating for victims said the statements were just rhetoric until concrete action is taken. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: there was a stark warning today from the united nations children's fund, unicef, about the humanitarian crisis caused in syria, and the ability of the international community to help. a unicef spokesperson said "the needs arrising exponenally, and we are broke." new figures show the number of syrian refugees in jordan alone would more than double to 1.2 million by the end of this year. but they may be the lucky ones, millions more syrians remain in their country. and that's where hari sreenivasan picks up the story. >> sreenivasan: bab al hawa means "gate of the winds" in arabic. in northern syria, at the border crossing of the same name, it is also the gate into turkey, and escape from the slau

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would reach out to the polaris project to find ways to collaborate on rooting out human trafficking. we have discussed taking action to shut down the adverting of backpage.com but, again, we've seen no, no movemt. we sent letter, we faxed in to you many letters, and we never get an answer. northern virginia we've had a number of cases where young women has been sexually trafficked. we can't get an answer from you with regard to backpage.com. and the fact that you've been reluctant to even deal with that issue is very, very troubling. we're still waiting for a response to my letter calling for reform of the civil rights division, especially the voting section. a recent inspector genre view showed a longstanding pattern of dysfunctional harassment -- this is the ig. this isn't a member of congress up here, this is your own ig appointed by you. you must have had some impact. showed a longstanding pat everybody of dis-- pat turn of dysfunction, harassment and demands a strong response. the inspector general referred remaining personnel to the department for possible discipline. an administrative action, maybe no admini

would reach out to the polaris project to find ways to collaborate on rooting out human trafficking and we discussed taking action to shut down the advertising of the service at backstage -- back page.com but we have seen no movement. we have sent too many letters and we never get an answer. in northern virginia number of cases where young women have been sexually trafficked in some have been involved with that page and we can't get an answer with regarto back page and you've ben reluctant to deal with that issue is very troubling. sponse to my letter calling for reform of the civil rights division especially - the inspector general review showed a long-standing pattern of dysfunctional harassment and this is the ig. this is a member of congress up here. this is your own havead some impact sheared a long-standing pattern of dysfunction harassment and unprofessional behavior and operations and it demands a strong response. the inspector general referred remaining personnel to the department for possible discipline in my understanding is there is the noticeable and taken. maybe no administrative action taken and ex

we called the police action in the fifty's last third of the north of korea the people who lived there were murdered of killed in this war this is a situation with historical roots that we need to understand to this other stuff happening in north korea that we don't know the perhaps we don't want to know because they're more convenient as a faceless legal enemy than as a possibility for in the region in a country that's peninsula that still divided all these years later oh it's divided by by war dictatorship the aftermath of the second world war etc you have to get a little bit into the history and understand where they're coming from if you want to talk to them and communicate with them and not just feel good by denouncing them . north korea also features in today's edition of breaking the set as well host abby martin explores who gains from provoking the communist state to the brink of war. the war rhetoric from high level north korean officials is not letting up and as a result the u.s. announced that in a precautionary move they'll be speeding up the deployment of advanced missile system defense to the region in the next few weeks this following a series of

roots were not able to vote on this as a special election. what that points to that even though what we had to do as organizers is work behind-the-scenes with a bunch of political action going on behind closed doors and try figure out on that mess and try get ourselves on the same page to promote somebody and that was really a hairy things with all these behind closed doors meetings and that was behind closed doors meetings on the same day of the decision. san francisco should lead the way on this and we should -- i would hope that lafco can put forward a clear recommendation for replacing the mayor, supervisors or any other elected official in the city that we do quick special elections so the grass roots community can ge involved and help determine who is the next person to fill any given seat. thanks. >> thank you. any other member of the public would like to comment? is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> and this is a petition action item but i'm not clear if there is any action? >> if you wanted to you can accept the report and if you want to do anything else with that you can pass the report to other bodies. it's up to

you indicated you would reach out to find ways to collaborate on rooting out human trafficking. we have discussed actions. we have seen no movement. we sent a letter. weev get an answer. there a number of cases where young women have been sexually traffic. we cannot get an answer for you. did the fact you have been reluctant to deal with the issue is very troubling. we are still waiting for a response. the reason inspector general review shared a longstanding pattern of dysfunctional, harassment. ig appointedown by you. it showed dysfunction, harassment, and demands a strong response. they refer this to the department for possible discipline. and expressed concern about continued policies that you cannot doubt on in partiality. i recommend an independent outside review to make the rate recommendations -- make the recommendations. of atroubled by the report 41% traveling for professional reasons. ever have second thoughts about any of the travel? to ever say i do not know that that was the best use of the taxpayer money? weird trying to work on priority issues. we're not able to get contraction. the last

root it out. vatican announced this morning the pope directed his congregation to act decisively against sexual abuse and carry out quote due proceedings against the guilty. pope francis says such actionsy to the churches credibility. >>> the power is now back on as japan -- back on at japan's tsunami damaged nuclear plant. the outage lasted for about two hours. japanese authorities say there was no immediate danger from the break down but the plant is set to be decommissioned. >>> time is 6:35. the chevron refinery could be back in full production in the next few days. it was damaged during a big fire. it's been operating at 60% of capacity since then. state regulators are going over dozens of checklist items related to safety and operating procedures. there is a public meeting to discuss what investigators found out. that meeting is scheduled to start at 1:30 this afternoon. >>> expect big crowds if you plan to head to the giants game today. tara moriarty lucky to be out at at & t park with more on how the giants are preparing for today's season opener. >> reporter: it is drizzling out here. it was raining earlier. hopefully it will clear up in enough time for a first pitch. the seat

root it out. vatican announced this morning the pope directed his congregation to act decisively against sexual abuse and carry out quote due proceedings against the guilty. pope francis says such actionsto the churches credibility. >>> the power is now back on as japan -- back on at japan's tsunami damaged nuclear plant. the outage lasted for about two hours. japanese authorities say there was no immediate danger from the break down but the plant is set to be decommissioned. >>> time is 6:35. the chevron refinery could be back in full production in the next few days. it was damaged during a big fire. it's been operating at 60% of capacity since then. state regulators are going over dozens of checklist items related to safety and operating procedures. there is a public meeting to discuss what investigators found out. that meeting is scheduled to start at 1:30 this afternoon. >>> expect big crowds if you plan to head to the giants game today. tara moriarty lucky to be out at at & t park with more on how the giants are preparing for today's season opener. >> reporter: it is drizzling out here. it was raining earlier. hopefully it will clear up in enough time for a first pitch. the seats

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actions, staff were called away from their normal duties to deal with this incident. >> the case is continued until the next day for administrative reasons. but this time, drake presents the issue of the rootnot accepting an assigned seat. >> it's more of a obsessive-compulsive disorder rather than refusal to sit with people because of racial issues or anything like that. i just prefer to sit on the southeast corner facing northwest. >> and i believe that. i'm just curious, why hasn't this come up before? how long have you been at this facility? >> well, the thing is, when they started it, i've never really had issues about -- >> you've just been able to accommodate -- >> i've been able to secure that. any other time i refused to sit down and leave i never really had an issue. they let me leave. and then, this is the first time they ever stopped me. >> this is that big of a deal to you? to you, seriously? >> for where i sit? >> yes. >> it really is. hamburgers and french fries are my favorite meal. i've missed that twice because i couldn't get the seat that i wanted. >> have you talked to anybody? >> i've got kites in to mental health. >> while drake's seating problems might result from a

by identifying problems and rooting them out early, we are working to minimize consumer harm. our report also encompasses the bureau's first enforcement actions, which were against credit card companies that deceived and misled consumers. in some cases, the companies targeted economically vulnerable consumers with low credit scores and low credit limits. we were able to secure $425 million in relief for 6 million consumers, and we also imposed penalties on the companies to deter such activity in the future. these actions will serve as a warning signal for anyone who seeks to profit by deceiving or misleading consumers. in the second half of 2012, we also tackled issues in the market for private student loan debt, which currently totals about $150 billion. our studies detailed the struggles students and recent graduates are experiencing in that market. together with education secretary arne duncan, we made recommendations to congress on common-sense reforms to ensure that the risky underwriting practices of the past are not repeated. the work i have discussed here today is merely a snapshot of our efforts on behalf of consumers. we also are ad

collection, by identifying problems and rooting them out early we're working to try to minimize consumer harm. our report also encompasses the bureau's first enforcement actions against credit card companies that deceived consumers inch some cases the companies targeted economically vulnerable consumers with low credit scores and low credit limits. we were able to secure $425 million in relief for six million consumers and imposed penalties on the company to deter such activity in the future. these actions will senior as a warning signal for anyone who seeks to profit by misleading consumers inch the second half of 2012 we tackled issues in the market for private student loan debt which currently totals $150 billion outstanding. the studies detail the struggles students and recent graduates are experiencing. together with the education secretary we made recommendations to congress on common sense reform to ensure the risky underwriting practices of the past are not repeated. the work i'm discussing here today is merely a snapshot of our efforts on behalf of consumers. we're also addressing consumer complaints on a growing number of financial products and serv

action so far has been insufficient. they've made some progress, we've seen some reforms. however, they've really not yet tackled the long-term structural challenges that are at the root of the problem. if you look from just a few years ago before all these reforms, america was projected to reach a stagger debt to gdp level up 200% in 2035. following all of these reforms, putting them all together, we reach that same level just five years later, in 2040. i don't know about you, but a slight delay in an economic disaster is not comforting to me or sufficient. so we need to do a lot more. we may be eternal optimists, but we think they can make some progress this year if the parties can come together to do something. so that's why we're thrilled to have senator portman here today. he's seen the budget from the house budget committee, from omb and the senate budget committee, so if anything's going to happen, it's going to involve the handiwork of senator portedman, so we're -- portman, so we're thrilled to hear what we had to say. i want to thank john and ben and i think mike allen's here today as well and senator portman especially for spending time with us today. back to you,