often multinational corporations populated by the states and all depends on many states to see it , see to it that these things done. the american states have played an exceptional role in the creation of elite global capitalism and coordinating its management as well as restructuring other states to these ends. so i think it gives me a little frantic think a little bit of a what you've done your, and i just want to ask you a little bit about what you mean by globalization and why free r freer trade is essential to its achievement and maybe even what is. free enterprise. >> well, and the sense that the book is a long historical analysis trying to us pierce some myths about globalization, people have tended -- treated on the left and right as a matter of markets bypassing states, as state deregulation. and we try to show in the buck that apart from that being the case, the authors of globalization, it's not multinational corporations that sign free trade agreements. states. and i guess what we are trying to get at in this new liberal era which sees states as opposed to markets which operates on ronald reagan's phrase governments

actually at this point was more harmful to for the united states and american businesses than for the russian federation there was a strong business pressure to eliminate jackson very but for american legislators it's very hard to make a pro russian gesture when they're not at the same time so something should stink there so how we can say that the magnitsky act as a replacement jasper unvalidated very very is because they need to give this atmosphere i mean they need to feel that smell one thing they need to keep. unfortunately judging by practical consequences and magnitsky is always worse than jackson when it was not in practical terms i don't think that those people who are in the big new skill list those investigators prosecutors judges prison personnel that they are spending their weekends in florida or they have their bank accounts. new york they don't but it can really spread and have very damaging consequences to different aspects of the relationship so that john mccain he said that they did this legislation is pro russian i mean the maginnis do why did they say. john what di

the city. we know two things. change happens. maybe the state of california is the state of golden opportunities, where we have a chinese-americanor of san francisco. 35 years ago, congress members passed similar resolutions in both house and the senate to formally recognize the first 10 days of may as asian-pacific heritage week. one year later, president jimmy carter signed into law a joint resolution to officially designate the annual celebration. 11 years later, president george bush extended the weeklong celebration to an entire month. you know and i know that our mothers say that every day is asian pacific american day.

the city. we know two things. change happens. maybe the state of california is the state of golden opportunities, where we have a chinese-americanor of san francisco. 35 years ago, congress members passed similar resolutions in both house and the senate to formally recognize the first 10 days of may as asian-pacific heritage week. one year later, president jimmy carter signed into law a joint resolution to officially designate the annual celebration. 11 years later, president george bush extended the weeklong celebration to an entire month. you know and i know that our mothers say that every day is asian pacific american day. i want to recognize all of the milestones the api has made in the state of california and in the entire country. the caucus has a record of 42 members in the asian caucus in congress. one of their very first things we want to say is it was a young man who was the first member -- we want to make note of that. the reestablishment of the white house initiative by president obama was another accomplishment. president obama's cabinets has dr. steven chu. the very first asian-american -- as ambassador to the repu

the city. we know two things. change happens. maybe the state of california is the state of golden opportunities, where we have a chinese-americanor of san francisco. 35 years ago, congress members

welcome back the united states is looking a little less so with less roots movements growing in each state to secede from the union but the move is large a symbolic almost a million americans have now signed petitions to the white house saying they're angered with the government encroaching on states' rights artie's marina but ny or has mall. tonight. or tomorrow here is that for a former colony won the right to determine its all best of. the test a perfected art your moves forward. for weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from the so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the the debt this country has rolling disunion among in the among the people they can'

development, and community servthe theme of tonight's evens a celebration of the achievements and accomplishments of asian-americans in the statecalifornia and our nation. >> ok'ing. -- ok. i would like to introduce our host for this evening. very well known as the first asian-american mayor in san francisco history. mayor lee championed balancing the budget to keep san francisco safe, solvents, and successful. he reformed city pensions. his focus is on economic development, job creation, and building san francisco's future. a great job, especially for helping out families. we want to keep families here. i also wanted to mention a little bit of his past. he was born in 1952 in the beacon hill neighborhood of seattle, washington. his parents immigrated to the u.s. from china and the 1930's. his father fought in world war ii and worked as a cook. he passed away when the mayor was 15. his mother was a seamstress and a waitress. mayor lee has five siblings, he graduated from college in maine, he also went to uc- berkeley law school and finished in 1978. he and his wife have two daughters. i also want to mention, prior to becoming m

the 1840s and 1850s of the period of the highest rate of 4 immigration in the united states in american history. we think it is the late eighteenth century which is the real immigration period and in terms of numbers, most immigrants come to the united states the the 1840s and 50s in percentage of population you have huge numbers of irish people fleeing the potato famine and from germans with a terrible economic situation in germany and other immigrants coming in to the united states and posing a lot of problems, in the northeast especially and assimilation. a lot of immigrants fight on the u.s./mexico war. they don't have economic opportunity. it is not very good soldiers. and the santa true ceo. they're all i ridge men because they carry an irish flag, when they look at the people, the germans too. one thing i didn't talk about is tension between catholicism of mexico and mainstream belief of most americans, a lot of americans go to mexico and convert catholics and redeemed catholicism and immigrants, he always translated german accounts, and the elephant wars a terrible idea. they th

but not slavery in the 15 states that existed. almost all americansin 1860, republicans included, they believe that the constitution protected slavery in the states where it existed. so the critical question was slavery and the national territories. the territories owned by the nation that had not yet become states. geographically, these territories comprised what we think of today as the great plains and the rocky mountains and the rest of the rocky mountains to california. it didn't include california, because california, as you know, was already a state. they were so critical because it had to do with the future of slavery in the future of southern power in the nation. now, some have demanded is what they saw as their constitutional rights as american citizens to take their property, including weight property, in the territory by the entire nation. in 1857, the infamous scott decision, the united states supreme court affirmed this southern constitutional deal. republicans, in contrast, they said never. no matter the supreme court. republicans would

understand the logic of choosing the lesser evil and i suppose i will choose the lesser evil unless i am in a state where most americans will be where the decision, the outcome is already known. is not an issue, only a handful of states where there's a real contest and our don't live in one of those. my guess is i will free to vote however one to because it will not affect the outcome between the two major candidates. for me the most important thing i can think of is to develop alternatives and build whatever third parties or new social movements. i am deeply moved and excited by the occupy wall street break through. i think that is a monumental shift in american politics. it is the first major social movement in my experience of america which has put the economic question front and center. unlike the civil-rights and feminists and many other important movements of our time where there was fear of going in that direction, they were not ready for it, the police would be angry and arrest of a. this is a movement that's that we are putting the question of the 1% and 99% front and center. that opens a space that this book

the air force surgeons association, american g.i. forum, dissociation of the united statesnavy, blinded veterans association, disabled american veterans. iraq and afghanistan veterans, jewish war veterans, military officers, association of american black veterans, national association of the united states. national military family association, paralyzed veterans of america. the american legion veterans and veterans of foreign wars, veterans of modern warfare, united spinal association, veterans of america and the wounded warrior project. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that their statement of all these veterans organizations be included in the record. >> without objection. >> i would also ask unanimous consent that a very moving letter from a very famous man, a chinese man who is blinded recently was able to leave china, and i would asked that his letter the one he will be included in the record. >> without objection. i won't quote from the full record in statement. but he says that this treaty is making this idea real and insignificant ways around the world. 1 billi

executive order formally legalizing marijuana in the state earlier than scheduled so with marijuana legal in washington state in colorado now the american people want the federal government to get the hell out of the way according to a new gallup poll sixty four percent of respondents said they want the feds to leave the states alone and not enforce federal law that still considers marijuana illegal only a third of americans want the federal government to stick their nose into this issue president obama can embrace progressive reform against nixon's failed drug war by doing just one thing over his next term and that's to do absolutely nothing and let washington state and colorado do their thing but will and what are some of the more complicated policy issues that come out of marijuana legalization on the state level or answer some of these questions is steve ceric executive director of the catalyst action coalition in washington state steve welcome thank you so how high are you right now steve. actually i'm probably flyover six times the legal limit seriously should that caused us to take you more or less seriously and how does your ans

this is incredibly inept of the state department to think that they can continue to fool the american public, pathetic. >> reporter: we've reached out to the state department for further comment but they have not yet denied or clarified any of this. jon? jon: hillary clinton obviously runs the state department. she is on her way out. john kerry, the nominee to replace her. is this going to affect his confirmation hearings at all? >> reporter: jon, the state department says at their end they're trying to keep things as smooth as possible. >> secretary clinton as you heard her say before has pledged to have a smooth transition with her successor. i don't have any phone calls or other activities of hers to read out other than say she continues to be on the mend and continues to recover. >> reporter: we know that republican senators still have a lot of questions for secretary clinton. just a few days ago senator lindsey graham says he wants to go all the way back once again to those sunday show appearances ambassador susan rice made that are now-infamous and find out once and for all if s

in the united states, the law is pretty clear about internet gambling; it's illegal. but try telling that to millions of americansn hundreds of websites to the tune of billions of dollars every day. the fact is, internet gaming is illegal in the united states and, as lesley stahl reported, absolutely thriving. >> in the virtual casinos of the internet, you can bet on anything. spin the wheels on slot machines and roulette... >> 16, red. >> roll the dice in backgammon and craps... [dice rattling] >> 11. >> wager on any sport, or take a seat at partypoker.com. you're playing against real people. ruffneck might be in china, dottie in california. right now, as you watch this story, 70,000 people are gambling on party poker, and that's just one site. >> there'll be more online poker games per day at the end of this year than all of the casinos in the entire world put together. it's a huge business. >> nigel payne runs sportingbet, one of the world's biggest online gambling companies. >> i don't need a hotel. i don't need any croupiers. i don't need any cocktail waitresses. i don't have to comp any drinks. i don't have

carolina a red state turned blue with the promise of change four years later tens of thousands of voters in the very same state believe they'd be better off on their own us the average american the things they believe in they're tired of the endless wars and here we are talking about invading iran now i can't think of anything more the white house meanwhile promises to review and issue an official response to all petitions with twenty five thousand or more. signatories at least seven states fit that category that we used to be on the interstate driving along at fifty five miles an hour by ourselves with secession as a goal now we're being passed on both sides in lanes by people going faster than we are and it's amazing because here we were thought to be radical fifteen or ten years ago and now we're mainstream. a mainstream movement to move apart marina port nial r.t. . and that is going to do it for now but for more on the stories we covered you can check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash our team america also check out our website r t v dot com slash usa and you can follow me on twitter.

. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie looking for obama nirvana. [laughter] the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco states well-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning back. we know you are finished. desperate, near the end. hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. amen. >> after the readings, the crowd headed to a reception upstairs by wandering through the other gallery rooms in the historic home. the third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. it is the stage for live performances. ♪ un

the question of state hood for utah. it became pretty clear early on in american history that states had substantial control over marriage within their borders. as we're seeing being fought out in the marriage equality debates today, and utah pushed again and again for statehood and was denied again and again in large part because of the question of polygamy. the federal government had much more control over territorial governments than it does, did or does, over state governments, so, yes, there's a big issue about how much control states have over marriage, was polygamy foundational inlessenning that control? at the time, the debate was no, it wasn't. it was about keeping utah out of statehood, and unless there's a transformative supreme court opinion, which may happen, coming especially from the california cases, it is still within state control. >> host: sarah gordon, you have a forthcoming book called "the place of faith," and where did you get interested in the subject of law and religion? >> guest: well, i became deeply interested when i was thinking about applying to graduate school, and i was torn. did i want to

for one of the first things, the american congress did after the war was pass a law requiring the united states to give up the cuba. one searches in vain for major world power to ever voluntarily departed from concord region. at the 20 century gun, a group of liberal elites who embrace the program loosely known as progressivism, challenging, criticized these four pillars. most were hostile to common-law with president woodrow wilson being the prime example of one who thought the constitution needed tv malleable and only the fittest should direct society. as america stood on the edge of american leadership, europe entered a decade in which it convinced itself war was impossible. the book, grand illusion, captured the view that europeans were too advanced, too sophisticated to fight each other. john maynard keynes a code this with his famous observation about how the world was tied together, how an englishman could order from his doorstep products from faraway lands and have them delivered to him. it's kind of an early version of thomas friedman's theory which claims an advanced country that used

the first time in 32 years an american ambassador was killed in a terrorist attack as well as the other americans. we have to understand why the state department failed to provide adequate security and then securitiondly it was evide the terrorist strategy of targeting killings of al qaeda has failed that al qaeda is very active in northern africa. those are the two issues. >> do you think she is lying about being sick and having a conclusion? >> no, i wouldn't say that. i would say that it would be inappropriate for her to leave office about ahearing before congress. there is time for that and i hope she does. >> you still think that she should and you believe her explanation of her malty and her reasons for not testifying now. >> i have no reason to question her word. what i do question is the delays of the stone walling on benghazi so long. now we have to get the story. we will have hearings this week. there will be more hearings hopefully secretary clinton will make sure she testifys to congress and the american people of the details of failure of state department security and the adequacy of policy on tearrism. >> in little roc

and the next great idea could be yours. ♪ >>> simply stated, the american people don't want to close ich is an isolated military control facility to bring these crazy bastards that want to kill us all to the united states. >> i ask that we step up today and support an ancient tradition. and i worry about a country who would let a tradition like the right of trial by jury go so easily. >> senators on the senate floor thursday whether detainees should be transferred to the united states. the senate did end up voting to block the transfer. it comes after a new study found that the united states could safely transfer detainees to u.s. prisons without compromising national security. meanwhile, the defense department's top lawyers said yesterday that the war on terror is essentially not an endless fight, and that we're approaching a tipping point with al qaeda on the run. >> al qaeda's core has been degraded, leaving al qaeda more decentralized. and most terroristic activity now conducted by local franchises. >> joining me now chris anders from the american civil liberties union. chris, goo

the russian president has lashed out at the united states, saying american human rights law is hurtin relations. >> no end in sight after nearly two years of war in syria. we will meet one man who spent the last year trying to keep his family alive. the first in a president elected -- first female president elect. for 50 years, algeria has been waiting for an apology from france. the french president addressed the parliament a few hours ago. this was how the president responded to date. >> i recognize the suffering here that colonization inflicted on the algerian people. amongst these sufferings, there was a massacre in other places o f algeria. these are in the minds of the people but also of the french people. >> following that speech for us was our correspondent who explains now why president hollande avoided a more specific apology. >> it seems as though he is taking the route of truth than apologies or using the word sorry, because that would be very difficult for french people to swallow because after all suffering. these were people whose parents, grandparents, and great grandp

moscow and washington due to the so many cases of abuse and sometimes even deaths of russian children after they were adopted by americans and brought to the united states for instance the story of twenty one month old. who died after his adoptive father left him in a locked car on a hot day or another case one american adoptive mother put her child on a plane back to russia carrying only some underwear and a note all of this has been causing outrage here in russia not only the case of themselves but the lack of a proper reaction from american authorities to. event them from reoccurring including heavy jail sentences that's why some of the deputies have been pushing to include the whole topic of adoption into this so called proportionate reply as the name it like i said nothing is decided yet and we will see definitely more debate in the next few days. we will indeed. live from the russian state you may thank you . now us vice president joe biden is to oversee new policies aimed at tackling gun violence in the wake of the newtown the mass shooting at present of arm of his support for reinstating the assault weapons ban and a tightening of regulations fe

to improve our treatment and acceptance of disabled persons, but through the americans with disabilities act, the united states has been at the forefront of protecting the dignity of people with disabilities. this treaty will help expand american values and leadership throughout the world. it is a vital step forward in respecting the rights of the disabled. as a member of the foreign relations committee, i am aware of the challenges that many countries face. these challenges include supporting their disabled citizens. our nation has set the standard for improving access to buildings, technology, and other areas for the disabled. without the u.s. accepting its leadership role, it's possible that different standards could be adopted internationally. this would, for one example, place disabled travelers at a disadvantage. they would be forced to deal with different standards while traveling overseas. and in many countries, there has been insignificant investment to improve access for the disabled and there is a misunderstanding about what rights disabled persons should be afforded. ratifying this treaty will help

at the highest rate of foreign immigration in the united states and american history. we think it's the late 19th century, which is the real immigration. in terms of numbers, the most immigrant come in the united states in that. weird the 1840s and 1850s in terms of population have huge numbers of irish people fleeing the potato famine and other immigrants coming in the united states imposing a lot of problems to a lot of people in the northeast especially in terms of assimilation. a lot of those immigrants go inside and u.s.-mexico war the race they do that if they don't have economic opportunity in the united states. for the most part they are not good soldiers. an entire battalion informed by mexico by deserters from the u.s.-mexico war called the san patrizio. people think they are all irishmen because the kerry and irish flag and their leader was a guy named riley. when you look at people, there's a lot of german spare, too. they were for the most part catholic. one thing i did talk about in this story about is a very, very and tend tension between catholicism and

it is also a time when people in the asian pacific american community are learning about each other. many people say that the united states should be a melting pot. i did not believe in the melting pot theory. when you have a melting pot, you put all the ingredients into the bowl, stir it up, and everybody loses their identity. in the asian pacific american community, there are over 150 languages, religions, cultures, everything you can think of. we do not want to lose that identity of our own history regardless of where our forefathers have come from. i want everybody to be proud to of the language of their forbearers, the religion, the history, the culture, and the arts. again, i do not want us to lose our identity and the community in this great nation. again, thank you very much to the members of the boards for this wonderful gift bestowed upon me, and let's go ahead to continue to hit the ball park -- hit the ball at the ballpark. thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, we will bring up our founder to say a few last words. we would like to ask all of the previous speakers to come up for a photograph.

this forces iran to behave more aggressively towards the united states and its allies because it sees such actions potential the only reason why american drones could be in iranian airspace is for them to carry out surveillance operations against iranian targets the united states is behaving in a very hostile manner towards iran the very fact that drones are constantly going over iranian airspace the americans are carrying out. psychological warfare against the iranians they shut down the iranian central bank at preventing iran from even importing medicine some people have died because of a shortage of medicine in iran because of the sanctions that the e.u. and the united states have imposed on the country that hurt them more than anyone else because it shows how aggressive western countries are behaving and how irrational and barbaric. eurozone finance ministers are breathing life into spain's beleaguered of banks by approving a forty billion euro rescue package for them back in june the same minister says they were ready to provide aid of up to one hundred billion euro race despite the recession madrid is trying at all costs to avoid

the national energy security funds. if there will be experts from united states the prices you know the states will go up there is no reason for american government do increase local prices because it will be the corpse of their poor self-induced the united states the return of factories to united states they don't want to do it and that is why i absolutely sure that they will not give permission to increase seriously increase their expert but to tell us the us federal regulators must know these arguments as well that if they go ahead if they given the green light to european gas exports would that mean that it does make economic sense not necessarily again the same answer and simply because you seem addition to economics that you and i may be used to talking about here and business there also the politics and it mainly the geopolitical interests that no doubt play a major role in statements like these the united states and numerous occasions criticized russia for using gas as a political tool and as soon as it discovers shale gas what does senator lugar want to to do what it wants to turn around and use gas as a political weapon gas t

americans. this is incredibly inept of the state department to think that it continue to fool the american public. pathetic. >> reporter: we've asked the state department about this and they have chosen so far not to clarify or deny any of it. keep in mind that right now, they're trying to transition from the clinton era to the kerry era. >> secretary clinton as you heard her say before has pledged to have a smooth transition with her successor. i don't have any phone calls or other activities of hers to read out other than to say she continues to be on the mend and continues to recover. >> reporter: i spoke to one republican senate staffer this morning who said the sense he gets is that a lot of republican senators still want to hear from secretary chrirnt ton. secretary clinton and want to hear from her before she steps down. so they want testimony about benghazi from the sitting secretary of state, hillary clinton in the next few weeks. heather? heather: we will see if that happens. thank you very much, peter. coming up we'll speak with former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. john bolton how and wh

the u.s. ambassador and three other americans. the report has blamed systemic failures and leadership deficiencies at the state department. the secretary of state says she will adopt all of the recommendations. >> the inquiry also found that americans had no warning of the attack and little knowledge of the threat posed by local militia. >> funerals will be held today for six victims of the newtown school massacre, including the school principal. >> the incident has once again put the spotlight on gun control in america and the country's powerful gun lobby. the national rifle association has spoken out for the first time since the massacre. >> americans exercising their right to bear arms in the state of virginia, part of their constitutional guarantee to self-defense, but the deaths in connecticut have revived the debate about what kinds of weapons are needed for self- defense. many now want washington to come up with stricter laws about public access to guns. that would include a ban on semi-automatic weapons like the one used to kill people in newtown. >> i do not believe the second amendment covers them. the second ame

so, united states has 30 million e-mail who claim to be -- who are of mexican origin, one-tenth of the american population. and as we all know, the united states stole half of mexico. just a fact. and the mexican's economy is highly dependent on remittances from mexican workers in the united states. so, logically speaking, if we want to speak about logic, the obvious solution to the problem of, quote, illegal mexican immigration, the logical solution is rerace the border and create one state. [applause] >> now, there are people in this room who applaud that. and -- and -- and-to be honest, developed a real affinities for burritos, so, i'm not particularly appalled at the idea. and spanish people at least from latin america tend to be very generous with north americans. if you speak a couple words of terrible spanish and english, they're very nice about it. don't ask that the parissans when you try too speak french. so on all those counts only not opposed to the idea of eliminating the border. but if you're a political activist, if you're trying to reach a broad public on the question of mexican

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the state. it is indicative of something important that the charitable impulse of the united states is stronger than in europe. welfare states are stronger in europe than the american states. the united states has been tardy in not offloading so much social responsibility onto the states. that is all i am saying. there is a cost beyond the financial cost of the state that should be thought about. particularly, right now it has become impractical as we look for revenues to fund that, one way to get more revenues is to not have charitable deductions. because of that, it limits the charitable efficacy of the charitable impulse. >> do you think that outside of religious organizations or the government, do you think something else would fill that vacuum? > >> lots of things. mocxis de tocqueville's "de thinks america.," american society is great for sustaining order of voluntary associations. no other country -- when the trains would leave st. joseph, missouri. the second day out, they circle the wagons and wrote a constitution. for the wagon train. they assigned tasks and had committees. it is in our national dna. partly because we believe in governments from the botto

would use the the little bit to the american attitude of the chinese -- would you speak a little bit about the american attitude toward chinese investment in the united states? >> if you're asking me about the american viewpoint, you all represent that. if you ask me about the american government viewpoint, the administration welcomes foreign investment from all countries into the united states, including from china. obviously, there are certain issues of national security that have to be looked at, whether the investment comes from france, and germany, israel or china. there is a committee on foreign investment in the united states. out of the hundreds of billions of dollars a year of direct investment coming into the united states involving thousands of transactions, only about 100 per year are reviewed by the united states government, and only about six or seven of those involved chinese companies. and out of the hundred that the united states reviews, only about 6%-7% are ever modified. so, the vast majority of investment coming into the united states is not problematic. we very much welcome that. in fact, we at the embassy just posted a huge ambassador

the united states. this is known as reverse targeting of american citizens. the 2008 judiciary committee bill which i supported by have prevented reverse targeting by prohibiting warrantless surveillance if a significant purpose of the surveillance is targeting a person in the united states. we have a constitution and due process procedures spelled out when it comes to surveillance of american citizens. the fisa amendments act has found a way around it, and that, i think, is a fatal flaw. the fisa amendments act permits the government to collect every single phone call and email to and from the united states. this is known as bulk collection. the 2008 judiciary committee bill would have prohibited bulk collection of communications between innocent american citizens and their friends and families outside the united states. the fisa amendments act also permits the government to search all of the information it collects during this bulk collection. the government can even search for the phone calls or emails of innocent american citizens, and these searches can b

carolina a red state turned blue with the promise of change four years later tens of thousands of voters in the very same state believe they'd be better off on their own. the average american the things they believe in they're tired of the endless wars and here we are talking about invading iran now i can't think of anything more the white house meanwhile promises to review and issue an official response to all petitions with twenty five thousand or more. signatories at least seven states fit that category the way used to be on the interstate driving along at thirty five miles an hour by or cells with the session as a goal now are being passed on both sides and lamed by people going faster than we are and it's amazing because here we were thought to be radical fifteen or ten years ago and now we're mainstream. a mainstream movement to move apart marina port ny r.t. . well as promised cross talk with peter lavelle is coming up your way in just a couple minutes away you're watching r.t. . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought.

reality, their imagined sense of the political issues. >> host: how many southern african-american slaves fought in the union side? did slaves also fight for the confederate states? >> guest: well, roughly 150,000 southern slaves fought in the union army or navy during the war. about 185,000 african-americans in all, and about 80% of them were from the south. there is talk about african-american slaves fighting for confederacy. there's no evidence for this. there are some slaves who end up in the confederate army taken by their owners as basically body servants. by the very end of the war, there was the discussion about whether this confederacy in order to preserve its rebellion, and to enhance its military capacities ought to try to enlist slaves. the recognition, by anybody who thought about it was that you couldn't do that without abolishing slavery. at the very end of the war, the confederate congress does pass an emancipation bill that provides for enlistment, but no guarantee of emancipation, but the war ended really before it could go into effect. the only other case is the louisiana native guards, a -- a regimen of free people of color in new orleans, wh

the americans in their hundreds of thousands across the states have gone online to say they want their region to be independent from washington he's been a part not trying to find out why some u.s. nationals are eager to reap the stars and stripes apart. from the. war to launder here's a former colony won the right to terminate its own destiny. the test of perfecting our european moves forward. for weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from this so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one is the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the the debt this country has with the growing disunion among in the among the peop