sam sachs r t. and verizon communications has just announced it will publish semiannual reports on the number of government requests it receives for customer data risin is the biggest wireless provider in the u.s. and has been under fire for its cooperation with government surveillance programs up until now it had decided to keep any data requests from the government private however it says it will start disclosing that information early next year this announcement comes just days after the nation's biggest technology firms including verizon warned president obama that national security agency's spying was detrimental to the reputation and standing in the economy brides and communications has said that it's facing angry shareholders and some of them have even filed lawsuits the manning the company disclosed the extent of its participation in n.s.a. intelligence activities while there's a limit to how much companies can disclose under current law risin won't be the first to file a transparency report

sam sachs artsy. believe it or not we are now at the end of two thousand and thirteen it's been a monumental year to say the least this year we saw huge advancements in apply for same sex marriage in the aftermath of a chemical gas attack we saw president obama threaten a u.s. strike on syria and most recently we saw the death of former south african president and international icon nelson mandela but while it's important to reflect on the events that have defined this past year in history it's equally important to look forward so to talk about what we can expect next year in two thousand and fourteen artie's on a stasia churkin sat down with gerald celente he's the publisher of the trends journal and the founder of the trends research institute take a look we're sitting down with trans caster gerald celente to discuss the year ahead twenty fourteen what lays ahead socially economically politically jerrold thank you very much for having us today well you are saying in your forecast that twenty fourtee

sam sachs artsy. current that doesn't for now i'm meghan lopez stay tuned boom bust is next. you know councils here in the u.k. are calling for tougher laws to police aggressive bankers finally no longer will the banker beggars be shaking us down for yet more hand outs and bailouts every time we passed the city no longer listening to them plead for more money printing and free credit facilities we're sick and tired of all the banker beggars harassing us every time we pass one of their toll booth cons like this famous one eight hundred we don't oh look i found your banking system going to found trash on the ground before me through some dollars it'll give a burke give me the trillion i want another trillion more trillions gimme gimme gimme. your comment was. all a fake i think i'm. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. ok i marinate in this is room bust and here are some of the stories we're tracking for you today first up what the rock is up with these earthquakes in texas are two correspondent guy in a teacher can brings us a full report from t

sam sachs r t well in the midst of this report calling into question the n.s.a. surveillance tactics the spy agency is also conducting a blitz of its own santa fe has launched a twitter p.r. page so far it has sent out a total of three tweets its first tweet encourage viewers to tune into and it becomes traversal a sixty minutes report that media critics claim amounted to a p.r. job for the agency the other two tweets linked upon tasks on lawfare where a reporter interviewed the n.s.a. director of compliance john de long and the n.s.a. general counsel raj s.g. to talk about the recent report on the n.s.a. i was joined earlier by cass sunstein a professor of law at harvard. i've been paying more attention to the substance of the report to as and. to the feedback seems to be people's reactions are generally very positive which is gratifying so what was the most shocking practice that you discovered that the n.s.a. was telling. we didn't discover any shocking practices so our goal was to think about principles that are going to be helpful for the future and one thin

i'm sam sachs and you're watching r.t. now today on capitol hill the chief of the n.s.a. general keith alexander fielded questions from lawmakers on the senate judiciary committee the focus of the hearing was continued oversight of u.s. government surveillance authorities and it's hearings just like this one that has been a common staple on capitol hill since june since edward snowden began spilling the n.s.a. secrets out into newspapers all around the world the latest secret published today in the washington post reels how the n.s.a. is using the same techniques that corporate online advertisers use to pinpoint surveillance targets and they gather intelligence on people's locations essential to the n.s.a. is using google cookies cookies are little. packets of data that allow online advertisers to uniquely track you and me and what websites we visit in order to tailor online advertising for us cookies are the reason why web sites you go to seem to remember you and why if you search for something on google one day you'll be hit with ads for that very same thing the next da

i'm sam sachs and you're watching r.t. and we begin today with a look back as two thousand and thirteen winds down we close the book on the year with some really big news stories because the year whistleblowers and n.s.a. secrets a year of violent explosions both from homegrown terrorism in boston and corporate disregard in west texas a year of government dysfunction and a year in which average people around the world took to the streets to protest against the status quo actions against the transpacific partnership trade deal a new community of activists rising up on behalf of chelsea manning who learned her fate this year for exposing u.s. war crimes so joining me now to discuss how these stories and more impacted two thousand and thirteen are the people who brought you the stories here in washington d.c. correspondent liz wall from new york r.t. course by. an honest turkana and from l.a. r.t. correspondent ramon glinda oh thank you all for being here so i want to start with what has to be the year of the whistleblower th

agencies are doing with their surveillance tools we're for more on that we turn to our tease that sam sachs. this may look like your typical battle between alliance and horde members in the virtual world of warcraft but to the n.s.a. this could also be a secret terrorist gathering today pro publica reported that the n.s.a. and british spies have infiltrated online gaming platforms like world of warcraft and second life looking for terrorists that's what's outlined in an internal n.s.a. documents leaked by edward snowden that focuses on games and virtual worlds the n.s.a. notes as virtual worlds become more popular pervasive and sophisticated so to will terrorist opportunities to exploit them also games provide attractive communications channels for terrorist groups and sympathizers because in game conversations often are difficult or impossible to monitor and games can supplement field training by familiarising recruits with the tactics weaponry and skills needed to conduct operations you know like when terrorist exploit the use of giant evil rabbits peter singer with the brookings institut

agencies and what they are doing with their surveillance tools for more on that though we turn to sam sachs. this may look like your typical battle between alliance and horde members in the virtual world of warcraft but to the n.s.a. this could also be a secret terrorist gathering today pro publica reported that the n.s.a. and british spies have infiltrated online gaming platforms like world of warcraft and second life looking for terrorists that's what's outlined in an internal n.s.a. documents leaked by edward snowden that focuses on games and virtual worlds the n.s.a. notes as virtual worlds become more popular pervasive and sophisticated so to will terrorist opportunities to exploit them also games provide attractive communications channels for terrorist groups and sympathizers because in game conversations often are difficult or impossible to monitor and games can supplement field training by familiarising recruits with the tactics weaponry and skills needed to conduct operations you know like when terrorist exploit the use of giant evil rabbits peter singer with the brookings institut

com slash r t america check out our web site r t dot com slash usa you can follow me on twitter at sam sachs. i think. we're going to go digital the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been a hydrogen lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told us about my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trucks and rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america to find a job or job ready to join the movement then walk a little bit hard. on a resume he will. find is a. glowing welcome to crossfire all things considered on peter lobo nelson mandela he is almost universally considered one of the greatest in. vigils of our time he was a prisoner of conscience and a living symbol conquering

bid for transparency alec allow members of the media to attend this year's meeting parties that sam sachs was there and brings us an inside look at the conference. i'm here at alex two thousand and thirteen states and nation policy summit in washington d.c. where senator ted cruz addressed the conference just a moment ago alec of course is the american legislative exchange council a conservative pro-business organization that brings together mostly republican state lawmakers from around the country and teams them up with representatives from corporations like exxon mobil eighteen c. and pfizer you can actually tell who's who around here with lawmakers wearing red badges that say legislative member and corporate representatives wearing blue badges that's a private sector member now alec has often been referred to as a dating service for lawmakers and businesses together here legislators and corporate representatives are crafting and voting on model legislation that's going to be done behind closed door meetings a little bit later this afternoon these are known as task forces no media is al

youtube dot com or to america check out our web site r t v dot com slash usa you're told me on twitter sam sachs we'll see you back here at eight pm but for watching. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max keiser happy boxing day boxing day is traditionally the day following christmas day when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts from their bosses or employers known as a christmas box and one of the masters of our universe left us in our christmas box today oh this doesn't look very good at all not even a lump of coal seams in fact i'm afraid to say they the masters of the universe have robbed us blind to twenty six million ounces of gold for example has been drained from london gold vaults sent to china never to return again not in our lifetimes anyway and your bank account.

surveillance saga here's artie's sam sachs. the week started with edward snowden reaching out to brazil and the n.s.a. making a p.r. push with the help of sixty minutes but the week is ending very very differently on monday the federal courthouse behind me delivered the first legal blow to the n.s.a. signature bulk phone records collection program a program that the world just learned about back in june as a result of edward snowden's disclosures in the case judge richard leon said i cannot imagine a more indiscriminate an arbitrary invasion than the systematic and high tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying it and analyzing it without prior judicial approval surely such a program infringes on the degree of privacy of the founders in shrines in the fourth amendment the program will be shut down in six months pending a government appeal after the ruling journalist glenn greenwald was quick to explain the significance of what just happened it's an extraordinary ruling ar

bush and continued under president barack obama r t political commentator sam sachs has more and and we are just getting that package for you we will have a very shortly having some technical issues. in takeaways from the washington post report of the weekend that the cia and the n.s.a. are covertly assisting the club mean government and its fight against fark rebels now it was just this month that the president of colombia juan manuel santos was after a white house meeting with president obama you see this is a relationship that's very important to the white house and in particular president obama's agenda of boosting u.s. exports from two thousand and nine to two thousand and twelve exports to colombia have steadily increased and they're expected to further increase this year also colombia is second only to mexico in the amount of arms and equipment the u.s. has shipped to central and south american countries since two thousand and six so clearly a colombia not in the midst of rebellion is pretty good for the u.s. economy but what's good economically may not be illegal that's a que

is looking into continues with a new week from edward snowden earlier in the morning artie's sam sachs reports on the latest. just when the n.s.a. thought the week couldn't get any worse a new edward snowden leak drops this one jointly reported in the guardian the new york times and dare speak will reveals that the n.s.a. and its british spying partner g.c. h.q. are using their global dragnet to spy on economic diplomatic and humanitarian targets in more than sixty nations specifically the secret documents revealed joint surveillance by american and british spies on charity and development programs run out of the united nations including unicef on the doctors of the world a french humanitarian group that provides doctors to conflict zones and on the trade union the economic community of west african states the documents also include joaquin almunia as a target of joint surveillance as the vice president of the european commission focuses on antitrust issues and has taken on several american companies including google and microsoft companies that were pushing for n.s.a. reforms at the w

revelations artie's sam sachs has more. pat buchanan he served in three presidential administrations he ran for president three times and he's no stranger to controversy i sat down with him to talk about the world as it is today that we started with how the office of the presidency has changed in recent years one of the things that bother me most is the fact that congress is educated which war power and that's why one of the best things that happened this summer was when the american people rose up and in a fix if we don't want this war on syria and president obama realize it went to the congress and the people influenced congress to deny him the authority to take us to war but i agree with that point i mean the president on stage says all options are on the table with regard to iran he means a military option an option to attack iran where did the present in the united states get the authority to take us to war with iran if iran does not attack us were does not threaten us he doesn't have it the dish idea of drawing red li

i'm sam sachs and you're watching r.t. and we begin with breaking news the white house has released a report written by a review board set up to investigate possible n.s.a. abuses it included forty six specific recommendations to reform the n.s.a. recommendation one was to limit section two fifteen of the patriot act forcing the government to submit focused requests for data rather than bulk collection that's important the review board also called on the n.s.a. to transition away from story data on its own to having that data stored by private companies which the n.s.a. can go to for specific requests also the report calls on the n.s.a. to stop undermining encryption standards as revealed by edward snowden there are a number of other recommendations. including organizational changes to the n.s.a. and reforms to the top secret buys a court the electronic frontier foundation which has been fighting the n.s.a. in court releases this statement in response to these recommendations saying we're disappointed that the recommendati

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political commentator sam sachs takes a look back on the year of snowden. june fifth a bombshell report the guardian's glenn greenwald has secret documents revealing how the n.s.a. is collecting the phone records of millions of arising customers two days later june seventh the washington post barton gellman working with filmmaker lawyer portress follows up with a no other huge story three top secret program known as prism the n.s.a. is also digging into the internet data repast tori's at major tech companies the n.s.a. is surveilling both our telephone and internet communications on a scale unimaginable before this directly contradicts a claim made months earlier under oath by the director of national intelligence james clapper does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all and millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir two days later on june ninth a former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden comes forward as the source of the recent n.s.a. stories he's left the united states and is in hong kong he says he's a whistleblower and he's handed over his

forward slash r t america check out our website r t dot com ports i should say follow me on twitter at sam sachs we'll see you later. and. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question for. no the way out of this assad has to go this is look if you believe me. for two years you know jay said assad house to go it's not going to happen to do with it was going to happen it would have happened he has the upper hand he's not he's not losing this war of course he doesn't have control of the entire part of the entire song borders of syria and that's why i brought up geneva too that is one way to move this process forward because i agree with sunny we will have a perpetual stalemate here the man wants to show up in geneva who's he going to talk to i think the geneva conference will be stillborn if the united states and its allies goes in with the precondition regime change of assad leaving power i think they need to back off of that that red line and look at a way to pursue n

government agencies are doing with their surveillance tools but for more on that we turn to our tease sam sachs. this may look like your typical battle between alliance and horde members in the virtual world of warcraft but to the n.s.a. this could also be a secret terrorist gathering today pro publica reported that the n.s.a. and british spies have infiltrated online gaming platforms like world of warcraft and second life looking for terrorists that's what's outlined in an internal n.s.a. documents leaked by edward snowden that focuses on games and virtual worlds the n.s.a. notes as virtual worlds become more popular pervasive and sophisticated so to will terrorist opportunities to exploit them also games provide attractive communications channels for terrorist groups and sympathizers because in game conversations often are difficult or impossible to monitor and games can supplement field training by familiarising recruits with the tactics weaponry and skills needed to conduct operations you know like when terrorists exploit the use of giant evil rabbits peter singer with the brookings institu

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america check out our website r t v dot com for its last year so you can follow me on twitter at sam sachs back with more news at five pm thanks for watching. i think. that. it was a compliment very hard to take a look at once again on here a plug that had sex with her make her. let's. listen to. it let's. play. live. dear bank account how does that look today a bit more depleted than usual could be that the masters of the universe a lie the n.s.a. change your bank account balance that's what i've been up to. all those jokesters of the n.s.a. just playing around with the financial system for a fall and by the after game i thought the reason they were involved in all that invasive technology stacy was to keep us say. hello and welcome technology updates on today's show christmas comes early from. a novel animation not brings films to the big screen. a moscow state university gives a whole new meaning to wearable technology but first new year may still be a couple of days off but they've already been plenty of festivities this month. something along. the take no spark nano technology sensor

throughout the reporting and no tough questions were alternately asked artie's political commentators sam sachs analyzes the report as well as the blowback. sunday night a sixty minutes report which touted unprecedented access to the n.s.a. didn't start off so well full disclosure i once worked in the office of the director of national intelligence seriously seriously they couldn't have chosen a different reporter someone who say i didn't previously work for the intelligence stated john miller has always had a very close that's his schtick is that he's got this close relationship still with all his national security people he used to work with and it basically meant you've got a national security insider preventing this you know presenting this so-called big scoop but the compromised reporter really is the perfect setup for what followed next the p.r. job for the n.s.a. and since it was a p.r. job the n.s.a. was spared tough questions and given a platform to distort the claims made against the agency by the edward snowden documents an essay can only target the communications of a u.s. person wi

political commentator sam sachs has more. this is pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist seymour hersh he's been exposing u.s. military intelligence scandals since vietnam and he's got a new scoop this one alleging that the obama administration cherry picked intelligence reports when it alleged that syrian president bashar al assad was behind the august twenty first chemical weapons attack near damascus published in the london review of books hersh argues the obama administration failed to acknowledge something known to the u.s. intelligence community the syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarah hersh goes on to say in the months before the attack the american intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports citing evidence that the al nusra front as you how to group affiliated with al qaida had mastered the mechanics of creating seren and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity urged in argues when the attack occurred al nusra should have been a suspec

s surveillance activities r t political commentator sam sachs has more. one of the most consistent criticisms of edward snowden leveled at him by the n.s.a. is top defenders is that it wasn't his job to reveal the n.s.a. secrets that he wasn't elected to make decisions about what should and should not be classified well in his most recent interview published on monday by the washington post edward snowden spoke to that criticism and explain exactly who did elect him to do what he did dianne feinstein elected me when she asked softball questions he said mike rogers elected me when he kept these programs hidden the pfizer court elected me when they decided to legislate from the bench on things that were far beyond the mandate of what the court was ever intended to do the system failed comprehensively and each level of oversight each level of responsibility that should have addressed this abdicated their responsibility to the events of last week that a federal court ruling against businesses bulk phone records collection program the white house's review pane

com slash r t america check out our website r t dot com slash usa you can follow me on twitter at sam sachs. it. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy which albus us role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once will just my job market it on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying.

revelations artie's sam sachs has more proud buchanan he served in three presidential administrations he ran for president three times but he's no stranger to controversy i sat down with him to talk about the world as it is today we started with how the office of the presidency has changed in recent years one of. the fact that the congress has abdicated its war powers and that's why one of the best things that happened this summer was when the american people rose up and in effect said we don't want this war on syria that we decide day of drawing redlines in the sun had from the oval office is preposterous in a democratic republic as a small government conservative what do you make of these revelations that have come out about the n.s.a. . well. we have a big government. does it make you uncomfortable. you think this is something that is necessary i may not like the world i'm embedded in the thing i can do about it i mean you got there so they got my e-mails they got my phone calls they got all the rest of it. you know i live right across the street well i think the concern is that th

america host sam sachs is in washington looking very dapper tonight we've celebrated new year already you've still got it covered so before you go off the party you might be popping off for an hour or so and let's just talk about the main events though talk with an awful boston bombing was not awful but it happened in april does not count so start of the year but we all watched in dismay. it really was a pretty wild week back in april i remember was at a well known american sporting event it was in a major american city in boston and it was all captured on camera the blast and also the gruesome aftermath from it was the first american to seen anything like this in their own country since since and as far back as nine eleven so it was fairly jarring for the whole nation in the way the rest of the week played out sort of like a television drama from speculation early on over who did this to the police naming suspects and in presenting pictures to people to that wild car chase through the streets of boston into that city lockdown. that occurred before they captured finally the younger br

america check out our website r t dot com for its last year said you can follow me on twitter at sam sachs stay tuned boom bust is next. i play as street cleaner who's in love with a waitress i go on stage managing that there's an audience i used to take drugs and drink like a fish. the middle east told me about the circus but i was such a punk i was like what circus. school or circus of clinton's gonna and would break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. put it under full strong arming a lot of these college face i describe you know. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. stay with sob story. if this guy like you would smear that guy stead of working for the people both missions in the mainstream media were pretty much over bridegrooms vision. of a good run. one . of their i marinated this is boom bust and here are the stories we're tracking for you today. first up a deal has been to reach it only took over four years in a government shutdown but now a bipartisan budget deal has been struck w

slash r t america or check out our web site r t v dot com slash usa you can follow me on twitter at sam sachs and don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is the actor misha collins one of the stars of the c.w. t.v. series supernatural we'll talk about the show's cult following share stories on what happen to be on the scenes and much much war you don't want to miss it till then take it easy. look if it was a problem very hard to make a plan to get along here a lot of that had sat with her great care playing little. ole boy. lived the american . play. well i'm. a. hello there i'm marinated this is boom bust in here the stories we're tracking for you today. first up where have all the banks gone well according to statistics from the f.d.i.c the way the dinosaur will tell you about it coming right up and also a columnist and former treasury secretary paul craig roberts joins me today to discuss all things bad policy related and later on as is and i discussed high net worth practice of her diction shopping her story it's in today's big deal you won't want to miss any

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and said it it's time that to let the agency get back to us job sam sachs reports. i think terror is up worldwide this quick indicate that the fatalities are way up. the numbers are way up there are new bombs very big bombs trucks being reinforced for those bombs there are bombs that go through magnetometers the bomb maker is still alive senator dianne feinstein chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee playing the fear card on sunday to defend the n.s.a. her counterpart in the house representative mike rogers also played by card we're fighting amongst ourselves here in this country about the role of our intelligence community that is is having an impact on our ability to stop what is a growing number of threats and so we've got to shake ourselves out of this pretty soon and understand that our intelligence services are not the bad guys so what has the two congressional intel chiefs using scare tactics on a sunday morning this pressure building in congress to hold a vote on actual n.s.a. reform on actually reigning in some of the n.s.a.'s most egregious progra