well really the u.s. wars are a form of absolute terror there's no other way of explaining secret rendition torture should not being targeted assassinations drone attacks on countries which the us is not even in a declared war whether it's in pakistan somalia yemen. and and hundreds of drowned surveillance over countries all over the planet all of this is a form of release date terror and a must be linked to defense of our rights right here because the people of the war on when when the sovereignty of every country is under attack of course it resonates here at home because everyone here who speaks out for their rights also is increasingly finding themselves targeted the occupy wall street movement targeted. the muslim population as a whole targeted way but it's about in there but president obama has promised to keep the military in check to make sure terror suspects are treated fairly isn't that some reassurance. well there has been no fairness in the way those even charged with terrorism have been treate

when the u.s. invasion began almost went into hiding from an increasingly wary northern alliance but his freedom didn't last shuckers supporters maintain he was sold for a bounty went into the hands of the northern alliance who were warlords basically and he actually thought all the americans that my goodness it will save me from the torture that he's had lots of torture by the way but no he was transported to the internet and back he has remains despite president obama's original election pledge to close guantanamo altogether despite being cleared for release and despite being a legal permanent resident in the u.k. with family in london which includes one son he's never even seen and fall for a moving closer to being freed shuckers supporters see worrying developments in the us is attitude to extrajudicial detention obama recently signed the national defense authorization act which places domestic terror investigations into the hands of the military and extends a ban on transferring prisoners out o

planned exercises by the u.s. and israel the exercises that iran was doing in the in the persian gulf they would argue that those aren't sort of part of a lead up to eventual military confrontation i think is is probably running out of arguments at this point and the reason that this is happening is that this is the logical conclusion of our current strategy against iran we have sanctions in place with no diplomacy the only way that that is through confrontation they are calling this particular build up a point an exercise and not a deployment but is there more to it. well this is something that has been planned for quite a while now it's not the first time that this sort of exercise has been done with israel but what is being planned is actually you know back in september the u.s. actually provided israel with an advanced radar and for the first time actually deployed. permanently deployed u.s. troops to israel that was a small contingent of a couple hundred troops what we see now though is this much larger exerci

the u.s. military is in for a facelift after president obama announced america's focus would fall on establishing its dominance in asia the plan calls for a shift to special forces operations improved surveillance and cyber warfare capability long sought a slight reduction in ground forces but got to reports there are still plenty of questions. the new strategy is to move away from ground wars from long term stability operations to mobile wars where the u.s. can as we don't put out a put it shift and deploy forces to fight any enemy anywhere they said they're going to invest heavily in new capabilities seen drone scene space technology is to give the u.s. military this whole new shape which is the defense secretary said it will be nothing like the cold war or the post cold war military meaning they are moving away from ground wars told words air wars toward the intelligence war so to speak the u.s. is pull troops out of iraq would still leave thousands of contractors behind president obama said

that is, the u.s. should be making statements, um, standing up for the importance of democracy but at the same time not try to actually shift the power balance within the country in one direction or the other. i think this almost always backfires when this is tried. the second principle is just to accept that pakistan does not share the same priorities with regard to the terrorism issue. um, and this would lead to not providing pakistan undue influence in afghanistan, sort of recognizing that we have different goals and for pakistan to participate in a reck sill yes, sir process in -- reconciliation process in afghanistan, they would have to demonstrate they're willing to use the leverage that they do have with the afghan taliban to bring them to the table to compromise. the third would be conditioning aid to pakistan but not cutting off. we're already move anything that direction. moving in that direction. the congress recently passed legislation which would condition all aid to pakistan on it meeting

but now that the u.s. is going broke it says it needs to be more frugal in their military spending this as they unveiled plans for the most expensive piece of military equipment ever take a look you are looking at the u.s. as a gerald ford the biggest price tag for any single weapon in history it cost a whopping eleven and a half billion dollars that carrier is worth more than the g.d.p. of both nicaragua and haiti although what you call cutting back to look deeper into this earlier i spoke to retired u.s. army colonel douglas macgregor i asked him if this is money well spent. no i don't think so. the real question for the american taxpayer is are you getting something better dramatically behead in capability than what you normally would get with the traditional carrier and the answer is really no it's very expensive we've invested in some new technologies such as the electromagnetic air left aircraft lift system which is designed to replace the catapults it's troubled we've got problems with it's not worki

but i think the big story is really how strong the u.s. economy was in q four unemployment rate eight point five percent even though it's still high from historical standards it's much lower than most people thought it would be and i think that the general mood is that we think it is surprises and the economic data has been surprising to the upside in the u.s. well surprise of the downside in europe and you're talking kind of about expectations this is something that when people are looking from a broad policy view they don't often realize how much that plays into what we really see happen with markets continuing with the u.s. dollar because i think. i do want to address some of these issues that we see with the dollar the constant deficits that we see that are that are staggering for the united states debt to g.d.p. which is now oh sorry go ahead we're going to talk about the the the budget deficit you're talking about not the trade deficit you know not that great stuff they say we talk we got a lot of deficits we do we do have a lot of de

citi expects the u.s. card and payment sector to outperform this year, citing fewer regulatory risks and an improving economy. in the biotech space, a lot of interest in a linkup between bristol-myers squibb and inhibitex. over the weekend, bristol myers agreed to acquire inhibitex for $2.5 billion or $26 a share. inhibitex shares more than doubled today while bristol myers barely budged. inhibitex is developing a oral treatment for hepatitis c. the buyout news spread to other biotechs with experimental hepatitis c therapies in the pipeline. idenix surged nearly 40%, a near five-year high. achillion pharmaceuticals rose more than 20%. and pharmasset climbed 3%. and that's tonight's "market focus." gold prices fell almost $9 today to $1608 an ounce. prices have been falling in recent weeks, but investors are hoping gold will regain its luster in 2012. our next guest says gold bugs expect prices to rally more than 20% in the new year to about $2,000. tonight's "word on the street" is "gold," and joining us no

so with the u.s. giving in to their demands to be seen as a victory for the taliban i think the idea of releasing these individuals without understanding what we're getting in return we being the united states i sat it's not really a good idea and i think it's almost an act of desperation so how does the average citizen feel about releasing the terrorist suspects either out of high profile. to be. right so i would say that they need to be. detained should the u.s. be negotiating with the taliban and i don't think so. but i well i mean they bombed our country and. they should pay for their for their sins so to speak i think that everybody has come to the conclusion that valid taliban is there to stay so if we ever expects the bill it be in afghanistan they've got to be part of something the deal can be seen as one of the biggest breakthroughs in the ten year conflict in afghanistan but the fact that the u.s. is still trying to negotiate with the taliban shows that the u.s. is far from declaring a victor

that is the u.s. uld be making statements standing in for the importance of democracy but at the same time not try to actually shift the power balance within the country in one direction or the other. i think this almost always backfires when this is tried. the second principle is to accept that pakistan doesn't share the same priority with regard to the terrorism issue and this would lead to not providing pakistan undue influence in afghanistan, sort of recognizing that we have different goals, and for pakistan to participate in the reconciliation process in afghanistan they would have to demonstrate that they are willing to squeeze insurgency and use the leverage that they do have with the afghan taliban to bring them to the table to compromise. the third would be conditioning aid to pakistan but not cutting off. we are already moving in that direction. the congress recently passed legislation which would condition all aid to pakistan on meeting certain benchmarks so we are already moving in that dir

i think the u.s. should really speed up its transfer of power in all its ramifications to the afghan government the obama administration is now having talks with the taliban the taliban want to set up a headquarters and cutter the obama administration after the troops leaving iraq is now talking much more about the troops leaving afghanistan and this has created more tensions but i think the solution for that is the u.s. to hand over the management of the background prison over to the afghan government and to start developing to the afghan authorities in general so you're saying also what speed up that proposed troop withdrawal before twenty fourteen if that's the case is the country really ready in terms of security for the u.s. troops to completely withdraw. but what is ready mean i think unfortunately the obama administration is talking about leaving in twenty four entirely due here to find the scenes he's negotiating to have quite a significant number of troops stay beyond that date i don't think t

barack obama has announced a new road map for the u.s. military with an emphasis on making the military a leaner cheaper the plan calls on the armed forces to abandon their ability to fight two simultaneous land wars and reshift focus on stepping their military superiority across asia pacific our correspondent has details. the new strategy is to move away from ground wars from long term stability operations to mobile wars where the u.s. can as we don't put out a put it shift and deploy forces to fight any enemy anywhere they said they're going to invest heavily in new capabilities seen drones in space technology is to give the u.s. military this whole new shape which is the defense secretary said it will be nothing like the cold war or the post cold war military meaning they are moving away from ground wars told words air wars toward the intelligence war so to speak the u.s. is pull troops out of iraq would feel like thousands of contractors behind president obama said it was draw all day for u.s. forces in afghanistan which is due in twen

there's uproar in the u.s. says the president authorizes the north to detain terrorist suspects without charge trial or the right to defense rights advocates saw describe the unprecedented measures as a blight on obama's legacy of. iran test fires a long range missiles during naval drills in the persian gulf and says it's prepared to hit back if it's attacked it comes as western nations plan to impose further sanctions targeting its oil financial sectors.

the u.s. economy. gingrich isn't giving up yet. he's vowing to fight on until the republican convention in september. >> let's get a thought on this from david. i don't know if i'd say this -- well, we are in the states. how much of a distraction is the u.s. election? >> it is a it distraction and it's important. our general feeling is that at the end of the day the u.s., unfortunately, will get downgraded again. we have a recovery, though, that the u.s. is actually growing and the general view from us at least is the u.s. will continue outperforming expectations. >> gdp weaker than expected last week. do you think that will be revised up? >> i'm not sure. the point about these -- >> do you think growth is going to get stronger than that? >> yeah. >> i'm just wondering as we go towards an election is it inconceivable the growth numbers might get better? >> they could well get better. our sense is the u.s. is growing 2%. one quarter may be weaker. one may be stronger. the rate of growth of the u

the u.s. has released employment data for december and the results beat market expectations. the u.s. labor department says the jobless rate dropped 8.5% from 8.7%. the previous month. the figure was better than the market forecast of about 8.7% and the lowest in almost three years. employers generated 200,000 more jobs in the nonfarm sector, which sensitive to economic trends. the transportation and warehouse industry added 50,000 jobs. most of those gains occurred in the courier and messenger sector. >>> michael woodford's campaign to return to the top post at olympus is over. he says his tussle with the optical equipment maker has taken too much of a toll on his family. that means he won't lead a proxy fight on behalf of some investors to push for new management and a new board of directors in the wake of the company's accounting scandal. >> if i'd come back, even with the majority, olympus' main bank and creditor wouldn't want me. didn't want me, and i don't want to see that for olympus. it

just more of the same brok obama's new vision for the pentagon is aimed at saving money while making the u.s. military more lean and mean critics charge this new mission is no different from the one obama inherited from the bush era the u.s. will remain the world's policeman. and. to cross-talk washington's new military strategy i'm joined by matthew rothschild in madison he is the editor of the progressive magazine in los angeles we have christian whiten he is a principal with d.c. international advisory and a former state department senior adviser and in london we crossed to frank jackson he is vice president of uniting for peace all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's see what mr obama has in mind for the pentagon. in light of budgetary mandates passed by congress last year requiring reduction in overall defense spending president barack obama has announced a new strategic initiative for the american military in contrast to his predecessors the president's plans no longer call for the u.s. to be able to fight two convention

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so what is preventing the u.s. economy for recovery could it be wait for it education we've heard the president and other leaders talk about the need to invest in education to keep the u.s. from slipping further behind other nations but does this even make the grade is the right kind of education lacking keeping u.s. workers held back toiling for increasingly rich elites entrepreneurial analyst extraordinaire reggie middleton will make the case and speaking of education in america has that help.

bush might have meant no but the u.s. now is saying yes and pulling its finger off the trigger long enough to negotiate with the taliban so our american officials admitting that the afghanistan can't be won. it is wednesday january fourth eight pm in washington d.c. and christine freeze out there watching our t.v. well there's no turning back now the madness has begun for real now people are actually voting i'm just talking to pollsters and with those votes now counted the results are in probably think mitt romney won the iowa caucus caucuses with thirty thousand and fifteen votes rick santorum got just eight fewer advantage than him and ron paul came in third place with twenty six thousand two hundred one thousand votes now in total and i well last night about one hundred twenty two thousand people voted the first real test of the voters well in this country hundred twenty two thousand people isn't that much and when you think about iowa it's not only in extremely rural states it's also about ninety one percent white acco

no longer call for the u.s. to be able to fight two conventional wars simultaneously in different parts of the world and his vision for smaller more nimble military america will be able to respond to asymmetrical threats like terrorism as well as the more conventional threats such as china's growing maybe obama insisted that the cuts would not come at the expense of america's security we will stay vigilant especially in the middle east as we look beyond the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the end of long term nation building with a large military footprint will be able to ensure our security with smaller conventional ground forces the white house and the pentagon are committed to increasing its presence in the asia pacific region while maintaining cost savings by getting rid of expensive cold war era systems though according to reports there are no plans to mothball any of the eleven nuclear powered carriers that the u.s. navy has obama's plans were assailed by many republicans including several vying for the op

the u.s. and its allies continue to accuse iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons a charge to iran denies that of the corporate report card affairs website says pressuring iran further will eventually lead to war in the region. i think it's quite remarkable to think that france and the us and other countries would be willing to step up sanctions that have already had such a profound effect on the iranian people on the basis of their hunch that iran to run is developing nuclear weapons as as france has basically put it is quite remarkable because that really does is tantamount to an act of war and and really the i think the only logical outcome for this is another increase in military tensions between the countries involved in that region that are already on the knife edge of military tension so it is quite an explosive thing to be talking about and i think the escalation in recent weeks with the recent ten day military drill in in the straits of hormuz has to be weighing heavily on the mind

u.s. federal courts in the last ten years the u.s. federal courts have prosecuted over four hundred terrorism suspects in that in that same time in guantanamo only six people have been prosecuted so therefore why is the civilian justice system seen as being ineffective to deal with terror suspects in the states. i think some of it is politics i think that there is a fear that terrorism suspects inside the us will generate some sort of terrorist activity but in fact the numbers make clear hundreds of terrorism suspects are arrested and tried in the u.s. all the time so there isn't any increased risk and i think that people are afraid of the legal system when in fact the legal system is what keeps us safe. aside from the legal treatment that the cases where there's a military or civilian case against a suspect a terrorist suspect what about the way they're being treated at the moment in guantanamo many would say the policy is actually made a number of achievements the ousting of saddam hussein the killing of bin laden didn't the interrog

so if the u.s. productivity numbers are coming through, the housing market proem, which was vast is towards the end of it being a problem and switching the, way, and you've got this energy situation changing, that's not a bad deck of cds. >> rose: so if the president came to you and said we have this problemn america with job creation. what we need to have job creation. we need companies to have demand, and, therefore, companies, once they have demand, build their inventory. therefore, they need new people. we need them to make that bet on their own company and, therefore oamerica. >> yeah. >> rose: that's what we need. what's missing from that happening? two scenarios, and neighbor a thd. one scenario says they're uncertain-- they argue about this. they're uncertain about demand and regulation and tax reform and all stuff. >> i think there are three bits which are missing, one of which perhaps is a simple thing called time. >> rose: right. >> as we creep forward at the margin, i think time is delive

the torture around in afghanistan the man in the u.s. the u.s. army hands over control of its main prison in the country within a month after claims inmates have been severely news. the french and german leaders are stressed the boosting economic growth is a priority as they try to stem the eurozone debt crisis in their first meeting of the new year they've also been calling for a quick conclusion to negotiations on a new treaty which will in shrine strict fiscal rules but is he going to report some worry that germany above all sees this as an opportunity to increase its political clout. billions of euros had been injected into the greek economy while its population has been given shot after shot of austerity measures in most cases that cement wages cut taxes raised my friend the famous composer. crees. compares it with a time before the fascism and what they are doing is to destroy the democracy greece is that democracy has seen the elected pm swept into the political gutter and replaced by an unelected technocrat who just happened to be a forme

>>> the battle of south carolina. u.s. republican hopefuls campaign in a contest that could determine the nominee for president. mitt romney has taken great strides in the race to become the u.s. republican party's presidential nominee. the former massachusetts governor won the iowa caucuses and then the new hampshire primary. now he enters a critical stage. the primary next week in the state of south carolina. romney garnered 39% of the vote in tuesday's primary in new hampshire following his win last week in iowa. he's a moderate. conservative congressman ron paul is an advocate for small government. he won 23%. former speaker of the house of representatives, newt gingrich and former senator, rick santorum tied with 9%. south carolina is a conservative state. republicans there will hold their primary on january 21st. >>> over the past 30 years, the winner of this primary ended up clinching the party's nomination every time. romney is the frontrunner. he'll close in on the nomination with another win. >>> iranian authoriti

the u.s. government has the has the ability to take out websites now you know passing so passing sort of. further kind of set those abilities in stone in u.s. law and i think that. what we saw with act and what we were starting to see with sopa and pipa is that the entertainment industry has a vested interest in sort of getting these bills through quickly and you know they want to have the most aggressive. legal combat against piracy that they can and it's in their best interest to kind of get the laws made and started forcing it before the public has a chance to weigh in on the government seems to be helping and that let me just press in a different you really quickly we just found out that twitter is changing one of its policies and they're enabling the ability to read reactively withhold content from users in a specific country so you know if something is if a tweet is illegal in a certain country they will actually censor the tweet in that country what do you think of them from twitter. you

the u.s. and. in the u.s. republican presidential hopefuls are pushing to win over the people of iowa in the first election of the voting seizing the polls are the first in a state by state qantas to choose obama's republican rival in next year's presidential election candidates ron paul rick santorum and mitt romney are the current favorite around one hundred twenty thousand are expected to vote on tuesday . massive forest fires have swept through chile's southern and central regions with one confirmed death and over twenty thousand hectares of force landed stroy hundreds have been forced from their homes as firefighters battled to control the blaze that spread across three provinces south is currently suffering from a prolonged drought and heat wave making it highly vulnerable to fires and israeli tourists has been accused of negligently starting the blaze while camping in the region's torah still pain national park. up to fifty thousand people have fled their homes in south sudan and scores are feared dead

s presence in the u.s. power utility equipment business, and it continues two trends we've seen with buyouts this year, according to richard peterson of s&p. >> companies with an abundance of cash on the balance sheets, the access to credit and the willingness to do deals should spring back some transactions. and more importantly, if you look at the fact that two of the three biggest deals in the u.s. involve foreign buyers, that may be a trend that we'll look forward to in 2012. >> tom: the other sizable deal announced today involves auto parts retailer pep boys being buought out by a private equity fund. this is a $1 billion deal including debt. the deal allows pep boys 45 days to shop for other offers. if this deal closes, shareholders will get $15 per share. >> susie: speaking of deals, a lot of talk today about facebook. the social networking giant may file paperwork this week to sell its shares to the public for the first time. the "wall street journal" is reporting that the offering could value facebo

the u.s. and japan work toward new sanctions on iranian oil while trying to avoid negative impacts on their economies. diplomats from the united states and japan are trying to cinch up the pressure around iran. they're meeting in tokyo to discuss new sanctions to block iranian oil. consumers in japan and elsewhere fear that could drive up the price of gas and slow economic recovery. japan gets about 10% of its oil from iran. the japanese side has asked the americans to be careful about how they impose sanctions. u.s. delegates said they'll try to avoid negative repercussions as much as possible. >> i am confident that as we continue to work with japan that they will -- that they will take the steps that are necessary. >> japanese representatives hope to get an exemption from the sanctions under certain conditions. they're exploring ways to reduce oil imports from iran. u.s. diplomats said they would make exceptions for some countries, depending on their trade with iran. the americans hope to us

on legally operate within the u.s. only around the world the u.s. says that they're speaking for democracy around the world for human rights around the world well really the u.s. wars are a form of absolute terror there is no other way of explaining secret rendition torture kidnapping targeted assassinations drone attacks on countries which the u.s. is not even in a declared war this is coming at a time of new struggles here in the u.s. at a time when there has been a mass movement the occupy wall street movement and more than a hundred cities across the country and every one of those occupy movements were shut down illegally by the police both president obama has violated the very pledge and he made to shut down guantanamo to expand and open the rights here and yet you have an even more reactionary grouping pledging more wars expanded u.s. agenda of broad and against the rights of working people right here at home and all this is in a time of great economic crisis and hardship for millions of people right here a huge calculus meltdown of the economy

well the u.s. now shifting energy away from the middle east to asia pacific that's because that is where a lot of the action is with china's growing economy and expanding influence in the region president obama recently announced a plan to scale down the military budget but part of that plan is eroding in on asia china and the us now two of the world's biggest economic powers and we see somewhat of an arms race going down now with the two countries the u.s. pumping billions into new weapons to deploy to the region here's a look at some of them. well this is a fighter jet lockheed martin is working on it integrates advanced cell technology as an sensor systems with supersonic speed and then there is this you're looking at a sketch of the most expensive piece of military equipment ever to be created the first of the navy's next generation aircraft carriers nearly three football fields long weighs more than a hundred thousand tons you quipped with two cutting edge nuclear reactors and defense missiles

obama says the u.s. will be able to ensure its security with a smaller ground force. >> our military will be leaner, but the world must know the united states is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible, and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats. >> defense secretary leon panetta made it clear the military will no longer be large enough for large scale ground campaigns. still, he noted that american soldiers could win a conflict on the korean peninsula, and counter the iranian threat in the straight of who are muz. the u.s. will help allies defend themselves through diplomacy and military assistance. north korea says new leadership will promote nuclear development under military led rule. the statement was issued by the north committee for peaceful reunion i have indication of the fatherland on thursday. the statement refers to the south korean president's new years speech. he said if north korea halts nuclear activities, the south will provide