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mostly people mainly supported the socialist parties and other leftist parties but now they feel apparently confident enough to make their own policy and to make there are the indications this is something really worrying i think that you know many belgium cities including brussels have neighborhoods with mainly muslim populations i don't you think it's only natural for those people to want their representatives to be in power. well. first of all that the people who come into our country and i'm not talking about just tell. but any other country in the european union people coming into the e.u. should adapt to a set of values i think should respect the separation of the church and the state should be in favor of equality of men and women in favor of the rule of law of freedom of expression. see that people don't accept this and good to be candidates in elections that i think that there's a big problem and there's also a big problem with the fact that people who don't even have a nationality are allowed to vote for local elections in belgium and i think this should change and first of all al

that's the party for socialism and liberation and of course obama if he actually was a socialist there would be no us drone or us soldiers killing people in independent countries around the world the millions of people who are unemployed would have been put to work people would be provided health care and education free of charge student debt and debt mortgage payments to the banks would be immediately forgiven but i think that all of this kind of rhetoric about obama being a socialist as some on the right wing will call any program that benefits any poor or working people is socialist i think as much as i dislike obama i have to say that a lot of the claims that obama is a socialist is right in line with the same people who say he's he's muslim as if that's a bad thing or that he's not born in this country that he's a foreigner as if that's a bad thing because it really is part of this racist reaction to someone being the other in the white house or someone different so when they're saying socialist a lot of times those people who are just playing really mean nonwhite but the reason t

mostly people mainly supported the socialist parties and other leftist parties but now they feel apparently confident enough to make their own party and it's only natural thing that many people are worried if they see elected people in brussels now but it will undoubtedly come in other local places as well when these people you know openly call for the settling of an islamic state you know we are in western europe and many people don't feel at home in a city such people are winning elections and you could say ok it's only one seat in two different communes of brussels but i'm sure this is only the start of something that will only gain in importance reporting tonight to about plans for a london venue with a ten thousand strong capacity not fear though it's for a mosque it would be four times the size of paul's cathedral with locals including muslims fearing it's designed to be a hotbed of extremism a report online from us and online to a major withdrawal voice with banking giant u.b.s. sachs in found says the jobs this is pulling out of the risky investments will see its debts explode. busi

. >>> she was elected to the lower house of the diet in 1946 as a member of the defunct socialist party. japan's, postwar general election opened the door. she want on to serve. a famous retiree has been drawing crowds. the space shuttle "endeavour" has gone on show at the california science center. and in los angeles, in late september, it traveled through the city to its new home at the science museum, two weeks ago. visitors can take a close look at the shuttle's 24,000 heat resistant tiles and they can also view one of the blast engines. >> it is amazing. it is a great exhibit here. and actually get up so close and see all the tiles. and all -- everything. it's amazing. >> organizers say they're expecting 4,000 visitors on the exhibitions opening day. a homecoming in southwest china, giant pandas are returning to a conversation center. the displays, by the earthquake that hit the province in 2008. the quake did major damage to the breeding center. it has taken four years to repair. 18 pandas moved into the reopened facility on tuesday. >> this will be a mild storm for improving prot

state in belgium we've always predicted this but up till now muslim people mainly supported the socialist parties and other leftist parties but now they feel apparently confident enough to make their own party and it's only natural thing that many people are worried if they see elected people in brussels now but it will undoubtedly come in other local places as well when these people you know openly call for the settling of an islamic state you know we are in western europe and many people don't feel at home in a city such people are winning elections and you could say ok it's only one seat in two different communes and brussels but i'm sure this is only the start of something that will only gain in importance. banking malpractise excessive risk taking a bonuses paid out for taxpayer bailouts no wonder the people's patience with the banks has run out but not if not rather the global financial giants the question is where do you interest casualties nor smith meets one british man thinks he's got the answer. hello thank you. for long ok thank you dave fyshwick is a cheeky northern charmer he made h

suarez: and with him, legions of red-shirted supporters known as "chavistas" from the united socialist party ( translated ): starting on october 8th, we social organizations are going to join the president to make radical changes to this country. so we can impose the revolution, and finally have a socialist system firmly set in venezuela. >> suarez: through three u.s. administration's, the 58-year- old chavez has shown remarkable staying power, surviving a coup that briefly deposed him; a constitution that term-limited him out of office; a drastic and for more than a year, his battle with cancer. all while openly antagonizing the united states as he's cozied up to the world's most isolated regimes. some will recall his theatrics in 2006 at the united nations general assembly, when he had choice words to describe then- president george w. bush. >> ( translated ): this podium where it is now my turn to speak still smells of sulfur! yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, at this same rostrum, mr. president of the united states was here, the one i call the devil. >> suarez: with president obama, he's

a rising star in syria's socialist ba'ath party, at age 40, he engineered a coup to seize the presidency. >> hafez al-assad rose to power from the bottom up. he had to fight the battles that came with the coup d'états, that came with trying to corral the different forces of the country into his camp. >> he knew he had to gai support of the other minorities-- the druze, the christians, the shiites. so he said, "i'm a minority entity. you want to be with me because my interests are your interests." >> narrator: hafez al-assad secured his power by putting trusted family members in high government posts. >> the brother is in charge of security, the cousins of the banking system, in-laws in security as well, and military. so the reality is, this is a family business. >> narrator: like saddam hussein in iraq, assad's ba'ath party repressed any ethnic or religious challenges. >> the ba'ath party promised to get rid of sectarianism. he demanded, and for the most part the syrian population was receptive to, this faustian bargain that the syrian people would accept less freedom and liberty in retu

neutralizing people and the first was focused on the communist party.d onthat startes on the socialist workers party. there wa new left and another one on white hate groups, and another one, the fbi called the black nationalist hate groups. in the files concerning the university of california, do you see the documents where, for example, on mario the fbi goes beyond collecting information and using that information to try to disrupt and neutralize people who were engaged in a non-violent civil disobedient. >> i'm over here. how're you doing? i was involved in the occupied movement for a little while, and not here at berkeley but in oakland, and i want to hear about any parallels you might see if you follow the occupy movement between what happened in the 60's and 70's and what happened now and if you see any parallels in how they conduct itself like what they may have done now to prevent those kind of things from happening and just what we can learn from all of this. >> there are some parallels to occupy on the current or to occupy the free speech movement of 1964 in that they were both mass movemen

caller: known as socialist, george soros, recently contributed to the democratic party campaign. would like to know if president obama or michelle obama, his wife, have ever been currently members of a communist or socialist party, u.s.a.. thank you. host: ann, democratic line. caller: hello. host: go ahead. caller: i would ask mitt romney why he says he is for the middle-class and when he was governor of massachusetts one of the first things he wanted to do was close down all the community colleges. that was what most of the middle class and lower class could afford. i do not think that he realizes what it means to be middle- class. he has no clue as to the finances of american people. he is so out of touch, i do not think he would do anything to help this country. host: let's take a look at the recent campaign ads that have come out. first, a new mitt romney advertisement. [video clip] >> you will pay higher taxes for government-run health care. their plan includes $1 trillion in taxes on the middle class. mitt romney and common sense conservatives will cut taxes on the middle-

there are political parties now demanding the introduction of sharia law in an islamic state in belgium we've always predicted this but. mostly people mainly supported the socialist policies of the leftist parties but now they feel apparently confident enough to make their own party and it's only natural thing that many people are worried if they see elected people in brussels now but it will undoubtedly come in other local places as well when these people you know openly call for the settling of an islamic state you know we are in western europe and many people don't feel at home in a city such people are winning elections and you could say ok it's only one seat in two different communes of brussels but i'm sure this is only the start of something that will only gain in importance. until it gets an international stories and briefing you now yvonne has to flex pursuit of nuclear weapons says israel's defense minister who claims to run used over a third of its medium in which to rain him for civilian purposes but regardless of that didn't rule out a strike on the islamic republic a recent speech at the un by israel's prime minister claimed iran was on the brink of

is the biggest challenge yet to his socialist rule from a young democrat party's recent cover novelsin paris for us. well we're in caracas where voting has finally kicked off in venezuela you can see a huge line of people stretching around the corner we're not even close to the polling station but the excitement here is a man and these people have been lined up as you can see the line is starting to finally move for hours hours before the polls even opened both candidates have been urging people to take to the streets to really get out there early to try to build up a mass of popular support early because as soon as there is an irreversible trend the winner will be announced now what is at stake here on one end and comments president hugo chavez who has really radically changed both men as well and the region under his so-called socialist one of the twenty first century policies one of that has translated to. certain industries using venezuela's oil exports revenue to really focus attention on the underprivileged the poor here in this country that's translated into social programs fr

i'd like to recall, for instance, the famous party, the baath party, the socialist baath party which was a secularist party which governed syria and governed iraq for quite some time. and to a large extent the government of hosni mubarak and anwar sadat was a secular government. of it was not a government which was religiously motivated in the way it's carried out its business and daily affairs. today religion is a major effect in the middle east. islam is a major effect. and as a result of that, the divide, this thorough divide between the shiites and -- the shia and the sunna, this is something which is a major political phenomenon which we have to deal with in the middle east. which the middle east has to deal with as it goes along. this is not something we had sometime ago. and even in turkey which is still a secularist country, nevertheless, the religion has you well know has come not to dominate the scene, but it's certainly had a major effect on the scene after the success of the ak in turkey. so religion is something which has to be contended with, which has to be dealt with.

has been given a boost after the government won 41 seats in parliament. 18 for socialists and 16 for the two nationalist parties. elections saw the national return to you power with 27 seats and that compares with 21 for a pro independence party. leader pledged to work with other parties if elected. jonathan house is in madrid. thanks for your patience. what impact if any do these election results have on the political process in terms of spain and timing and asking for assistance from the eu? >> i think this is a moderately positive result for rajoy. he has actually expanded on his parliamentary majority in the regional parliament in the galia region. he had a poor showing in the bags country, but they're sort of outliers in that they are sort of regional nationalist regions where the conservative party had never really done very well. so that's the poor result is in the really a surprise. i'm not sure the bailouts was a big part of the the calculus as far as timing. i think probably the key factor there is market pressure on him to come forward and made the bailout request. right now market conditions are pre

socialist experiment. let them do the shopping. it's a way of life when the going to. start with. the captain of the party . also to come this hour here on out say that of pre election excitement. so tired of all of it you know i mean it's almost like it's more than twenty four hours a day coverage on everything on the eve of the u.s. presidential election three of the people in america they really feel about the race for the white house of us just ahead after a short break. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the long ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes so many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious telly cation. alexei wants to become and has kept his part of this preparation. however these beasts is a musical a company. sound sequences you know they react to the sound signals the flutes that heard his head in the old days they needed them it wasn't just fun but these matters didn't come naturally

socialists and the. and heading back towards what used to be the main party. the sort of center right nationalist party but also the entry of a major player in the new formation which is to which is the previously well. the independent this left which four years prior had been illegal and this is their first time being able to present themselves in the regional elections so what we're seeing really is a major shift where the independent this radical left has become the second power in the region how much is this being fueled this whole separatism issue which is being filled by the government's austerity drive is one of the biggest issue in your country right now. well it's difficult to say i mean the reason that there are these separatist feelings are because of history first and foremost the basque region has this is nothing new i mean we've seen. around for forty years and i mean that's during the democracy but they were also around during the franco's period and they've kind of always had this separatist view just like in certain regions of . certain and in

parties. some of them tried to kind of combine those elements. remember the nazis called themselves the national socialistsgetting a large amount of votes until the german economy crashed. so this specter of nationalist parties is something that's part of european history. that's something, it is ironic to have the greeks talking about neo-nazies rising and threatening the germans with it. remember what is happening now is that merkel is going to be visiting greece. why is she doing that? i think what she is doing is sending a message to all of europe and especially to the greeks, that germany does not want to see the greek economy crumble or to exit the eurozone, at least, for the next six months or so. melissa: before we run out of time, i thought of you when mitt romney mentioned spain during the debate. let me play that clip and get your reaction on the other side. >> spain, spain spend 42% of their total economy on government. >> okay. >> we're now spending 42% of our economy on government. i don't want to go down the path of spain. melissa: what do you think? are we going down the path of spain? >> i

people thought that was a radical idea, a socialist idea, and then franklin roosevelt passed social security during the depression, and now 75% of the tea partymembers think that social security is a good thing. the right-wing conservatives understand and believe that the government has a responsibility to protect the vulnerable, to protect the elderly, so i think people do get misled fairly easily. they are good at misleading people on gun-control, abortion, gay marriage, things like that, but the churches, the right- winged conservative evangelical churches, they have a social- justice, upon it to them, as well. -- they have a social-justice platform to them, as well. i think that corporate america that is funding the tea party, they have a different agenda than the grass roots people. they want lower taxes on the rich. they want to get rid of labor union. they want to promote more inequality and give people at the top more of the wealth of this country, and i think people on the progressive side have to find a new way of talking about that, and i think that has been happening in the last couple of years, and particularly after occupy wall

socialist experiment. was meant to go shut. the way of. going to. action because another party. in the us people also go to the polls next month to decide whether to keep barack obama as president also start a new but all experts continue slamming the entire leg whole system for lack of real choice the voters themselves seem to be growing bored of the ballad of very old new york resident laurie often is to hit the streets to find out more. the two thousand and twelve presidential elections why are they so boring this week let's talk about that. so tired of all of it you know i mean it's almost like it's more than twenty four hours of coverage on everything you know no matter what happens and nothing happened exactly having said that i think obama's going to win do you think he believes in himself as much as he did four years ago because he seems kind of tired he seems like he's a little frustrated i think he's more tired of mitt romney just all of this like he just wants to get it over to november and just like ok give me you know my polls and let me win the first african-americ

socialist experiment. let them do the shouting she went into. action the captain of the party. now canadian authorities aren't doing anything to help a russian student brutally beaten by inmates in a car gori detention center that's according to the sister of twenty four year old . who's now slowly recovering from severe head injuries of travel to canada to study english but it was arrested in august for allegedly threatening his classmate or that's a charge that has since then been dropped an investigation into his beating is ongoing but authorities haven't yet released any details of the assault or charge anyone in connection with it his sister his sister or mother has also believing now that the canadian government is deliberately trying to ignore violent incidents that happen inside the country's detention centers. you know. very often in fact and you know we were and it didn't our last while neither was in our i.c.u. you know they were in me in the same hospital with a different kind of in europe and it would have been with christmas or to our afternoon human could only be

party has been hijacked. it has been hijacked by marxists and socialists and is no longer the democratic party of my parents and grandparents, where we were taught that if you wanted something, get ofup off your bums and work for it. now all i see is people wanting something on a silver platter. give it to me because i exist. i don't have to work for it. obama is the most divisive, deceitful president that i think we've ever had, and to sit there and blame his entire thing on bush and bush's reign for eight years -- are we forgetting what is the catalyst for this financial collapse? the community reinvestment act which was instituted by carter in the 1970's and reacted by clinton, werke mandated that the banks had to make loans to these subprime borrowers. when you make risky loans like that and there is no qualifying and no income -- oh, my gosh. something has got to give it. at some point the whole thing is going to implode, it is going to collapse. that is exactly what happened. as far as obama is concerned, he is a known element. let's talk about all of his deceits. i am going to cut the deficit in half --

that gives the leaders of the dissident parties, leaders who often turn out to be unmovable and imposition decade after decade. think of the leader of the socialist forces since 1963. and the point is that these opposition parties have no proposition for real reform. they are not seeing anything. they are demanding change, never defining it. reform, never explain what reform. government bound by law, never defining how one gets there, what it really means. and remember, in the 1999 so-called presidential elections, all the other candidates were saying they were in favor of him. not one of the next and what he meant by that or how we get there. so i want to really raise this as an issue, that we have a kind of pseudo-opposition that really is part of a problem. the regime has in a since greater a problem for itself by being a little bit too smart. it's organized this nonthreatening environment of pluralism, pluralism and that is manipulable, patronized in any sense controlled. but it's actually ultimately useless. and the result, the fundamental reason why algeria is a producing interesting political change, there's all the reason should know abou

i have to tell you that i am convinced the democratic party has been hijacked. by marxists and socialists. it is no longer the democratic party of my parents, where we were taught if you want something, go work for it. no one will hand it to you on a silver platter. all i see now is people wanting everything on a silver platter. give it to me because i exist. just give it to me. i have to tell you that obama is the most divisive, deceitful president that i think we have ever had, and to sit there and blame his entire thing on bush, are we forgetting what the catalyst was that put this financial collapse in the motion? it was that committed the reinvestment act by carter and advocated by clinton, where he mandated that the banks had to make the loans to these subprime borrowers. when you are making risky loans, where people -- and there are is no qualifying, and something has to give, and at some point the whole thing has to implode. it has to collapse. that is exactly what happened. as far as obama is concerned, he is a known element. let's look at all of his decease. i will cut the defic

stephen: now we have a socialist country. ( laughter ) >> you know, on the left and on the right, people want to crush liberty. we always see the same thing. so i don't think any party a monopoly on bad behavior. >> stephen: it doesn't matter who we elect. then we should probably vote for romney. >> i didn't actually say that. >> stephen: well, kind of. >> what matters is the constitution, in my book gli understand, okay. speaking of books, you have a new one here. it's called "vagina: a new biography. of thbiography. >> yes it is. >> stephen: i have no problem with that. i'm a mature adult, vagina, vavina, vagina. >> this is excellent. people blush is there not me. >> i'm proud of you. >> stephen: how's the vagina? >> well... ( cheers and applause ) it's a fair question. >> stephen: it is a fair question. >> it's a fire question. >> stephen: it's the first question, really. >> it's an ideal question. it turns out it's not doing as well as it should in our culture. >> stephen: really? >> yes, indeed, and this won't surprise a lot of people. 40 years into the sexual revolution-- quote, unquote-- there's porn everywhere, there's sexual information everywhere, but 30%

socialist experiment. and then do something. and then just it's a way of. going to get many times. the captain of the party or. us media coverage of the election in venezuela has been criticized as one sided against which obvious and author and alice bill fletcher says the incumbent leader is ideology has long been a headache for washington. it is because president chavez from the very beginning has been asserting the sovereignty of venezuela the desire to change the economic rules and this runs counter to the economic philosophy that comes are the united states so no matter what chavez has done at different points he ends up being a lame there's some sort of demon and we can remember in a coup of two thousand and two for us was quick to recognize the coup people and quick to denounce java's venezuela could be an example for other countries i mean here you have a country that is saying that neo liberal economics is failing the planet that the polarization of wealth which we see not just in one country not just in two countries but globally is completely toxic and must be addressed and that there must be a redi

who'd been branded from within their own party to push boys who don't know the price of milk but in reality just how different is miliband his father was a socialist intellectual and his upbringing in highbrow north london is worlds away from the lives of most british workers he went to oxford and has never had a proper job outside politics apart from a teaching post at harvard's this speech was full of bluster about the old me the believe the wonder of the lympics an ephemeral vision for britain some might say that's because policies are few and far between he says he'll sort out the banks make sure companies pay a fair wage and support the national health service but the main announcement to the speech was a promise that if elected labor will instigate a massive increase in food cation education focusing on the fifty percent of young people who don't go to university a great idea youth unemployment is around twenty percent at the moment but there was no mention of the all important. and how it would be miliband has admitted that if maybe with the power they'd be making austerity cuts too but he's refused to give any detail until after elected mo

venezuela at the outspoken socialist leader hugo chavez and his young democratic rival have certainly made their final pitches in the country now we're entering a day of silence parties will see catherine office in caracas with all the pre-election drama. there's no question who these venezuelans will be voting for comic tobar seventh. we are here because we support our president chavez he does many things to help us housing education programs helping the poor everything here has gotten a lot better because of him everything has changed. their red shirts brand them is the lifeblood of the venezuelan president's leftist movement through out his fourteen years in power for the hundreds of thousands of supporters who gathered in caracas on thursday the message was clear they want six more years of. his supporters say that chavez is the country's first president to genuinely care about the lower class. chavez is the punishment of the reach and the window of hope to make. them. under the banner of socialism for the twenty first century chavez has pumped hundreds of billions of petro dollars into the economy and government run aid programs along with earning him popular su