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says it's considering cutting oil sales to six e.u. countries but wouldn't do so at the moment because of the cold winter striking europe. syria's president announces a vote on a new constitution that would effectively and nearly fifty years of single party rule in the country i mean the rising turmoil. and rallies marking a year since the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain protesters face yet another harsh crackdown with police using tactics and weapons from the u.k. . next a look at the financial turmoil looming over europe and ask whether measures being taken are strong enough to establish a solution ilona show coming up. welcome

to the lot of show we look at the real headlines with none of the mercy and we can live out of washington d.c. so i'm going to speak to glenn greenwald about whether it's the media that's pushing the war with iran narrative even more than the government and china's v.p. is in the u.s. for a visit so what's on the agenda and what does it say for the relationship between the two countries and also a new pew study shows that one in eight voter records are flawed but how do we get past the myth that this is a sign of massive voter fraud and instead focus on our outdated paper based system of registration or you know all that and more fair not including a dozen happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. well it's another day in the political horse race of the g.o.p.

race and what do you know there are two new polls for the mainstream media to cover obsessive fully. rick santorum is now on top in two brand new major national polls out there this morning underfunded and outmanned two new polls show that rick santorum is now tied with mitt romney in the republican race for the white house back and forth race for the republican nomination is all tied up in the polls right now a dead heat in recent weeks he's really gaining momentum and now in a statistical dead heat with mitt romney that's right according to this hugh research center poll is going to look at that right now he leads by two percentage points in terms pulling ahead of mitt romney in two national polls and riding a double digit surge into a dead heat with the former governor santorum is gaining ground and confidence this is the momentum that he built by these wins just we could go today in colorado minnesota and missouri. now it's definitely interesting to look at. the resurgence

if you can even call it that of rick santorum especially relative to the entire race to the white house right the consistent proof that republican voters really are not that stoked on mitt romney but at the end of the day are they still going to go with mitt is this just another flavor of the month episode like we saw with bachmann and cain and gingrich before now i think that those are valid questions and go ahead spend a few minutes talking about it but again do we need the nonstop around the clock santorum mania to take place at a certain point you just want to scream at the top your lungs tell these people for the love of god to give it a rest especially when there are so many other things going on in the world and if you're going to spend countless hours looking at polls and statistics why not branch out a little bit why not look at other stats that come out on a daily basis that will tell you about widespread systemic problems and abuses within our country i want to give you one good example today that i've really seen covered anywhere else and we've known for a while now the n.y.p.d. has a bit of a stop and frisk problem my problem i mean that there is an obscene amount of

people who are being stopped and frisked in new york and there's a lot of evidence of points to clear racial bias and the majority the time what they end up getting people for is maybe having small amount of marijuana if anything not stopping violent crimes from happening so in the years since two thousand and four when this program began the n.y.c. l.-u. says that more than four million people have been stopped in two thousand and ten the n.y.p.d. broke their all time high record of stop and frisks with six hundred and one thousand and fifty five stops but guess what new debt is out for two thousand and eleven and in turns out that they've broken their own record yet again they regard them as described best as another champion season so here's the big number for you in two thousand and eleven the n.y.p.d. stopped six hundred eighty four thousand three hundred and thirty people on the street now it turns out the only twelve percent of those were arrested or received a summons the rest were all released now. if you want proof of the racial bias i'm

going to give you the breakdown for the last two years in two thousand and ten about eighty four percent of those stopped by police are black or latino while only about nine percent of those people stopped are white last year we saw the same old thing eighty seven percent were black or latino and nine percent were white and i'd say that's a pretty clear sign that there is discrimination at work here that innocent people are being harassed that there is a massive problem seems like a number of city officials in new york agree with me they've asked the federal government to launch a probe because they feel that thousands of young people are being criminalized and the mainstream media where they've been on this issue well let's just say they've been steering clear of it ignoring it acting like it does not even exist now you might try to claim that this is too localized of a problem for the national media to be covering but come on you guys you know the on a daily basis on this show we point out how d.c. and new york oriented the national mainstream media is they live in a bubble they prioritize everything that happens within this little bubble of new york and d.c.

over what's going on in the rest of the country technically the stop and frisk issue fits into the bubble but who are we kidding right the bubble only includes government officials media leaves not the rest of us not the thousands of people living in muslim communities that have been targeted by the n.y.p.d. for their religious beliefs and then monitor it with the help of the cia mind you and certainly not the hundreds of thousands of minorities that are being harassed and stopped by the police and treated like criminals just for walking down the street and i'm not saying that this policy doesn't play a role that we don't have a need for vigilant police force but let's not let our judgment and our understanding of the importance and the value of civil liberties to be clouded by some kind of fear that is of police weren't breaking new records every year and how many people they stop and frisk the world would be a much more dangerous place because the truth is the numbers aren't there to back it up but back to the point here this is exactly the kind of story the kind of statistics and members of the mainstream media chooses to miss.

all right so we've been covering the incessant cheerleading for war against iran pretty extensively on the show drawing comparisons with the buildup to war with iraq the threats of weapons of mass destruction al qaeda and how can we forget the u.s. intelligence community saying that iran now poses the number one terror threat against the united states and it seems that public opinion might be swaying thanks to that fear mongering recent poll from the hill shows that amongst their respondents nearly half of all likely voters believe that the u.s. should be willing to use military force to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon forty nine percent said military force should be used while thirty one percent said no and twenty percent weren't sure but we've come to expect a certain kind of drum beating from various pundits and so-called experts here in washington very small but influential group mind you how big of a role is the media playing in this pre-war scenario do they seem even more eager

for military action than the u.s. government itself joining me to discuss this is glenn greenwald salon columnist and author of his new book with liberty and justice for some how the laws used to destroy equality and protect the powerful thanks so much for joining us tonight now in a minute here i'm going to play a specific clip from n.b.c. that you chose to point out when you were writing this latest piece but first you know just on a broad base tell me why it is that you think that the media might be pushing this even more than the government does right because the same time we have sanctions from the government we have leon panetta going on the record in interviews saying that israel might strike sometime soon we have the president saying that no are the all options are you know is on the table. they are going to. close to the bill but they are supposed to be sure this is really socialism is really going to. go to the us government and still positions of. influence sometimes. the bad you know the america media thing just does naturally inclined to. be enemy is as being this kind

of unmitigated evil indicating and its relationship to the united states in this very i'm critical of suggest that anybody should be aggressors is the united states is and that's a mistake or a sex of script that you when you make a media and they immediately state beating the drums for we think there's an element of excitement so bam is way on top that will serve at least as a good ratings which is that. new concepts and study people with some of the political opinions and you can add characters together that you get as a media would have been around to impede the message to the critical scrutinize a bit instead few have and jammed on the bandwagon and you see the time and time again and we're seeing it again that of the right so let's take a look at this example from jamaica chefs that i met and they say he's their pentagon correspondent and auburn is going to play a short clip of that and then later tell us exactly what's wrong with it if it's

not obvious enough yet. and if israel launches airstrikes against still runs nuclear program the iranian leader is threatening them all out war. the u.s. navy's fifth fleet would be the world's first line of defense and its commander vice admiral mark fox said today they're prepared to take on just about anything a rather throws out. of here at. that is because there are so many deceived lives packed into such a shroud club. space and grabs back in its nuclear program. that as bad as the study. of a country did actually say we consider it to be. yet they depicted as being the one who may feel that. it is the reason the as they say the united states fifth fleet

will be the first defense. as there is being so that the persian aggressors and that the united states is there to defend their from this aggression that in fact it's the united states and easily metrics that the aggressors in every single instance and there's no evidence for that a daily basis that will extend the united states and israel invading army and air space and dropping bombs on their country those two nations have been engaged in all sorts of covert will still do against iran from assassinating their science and . sending cyber sophisticated by this is inside the will ferrell into the facilities to sun then you know i'm a new to this group. that is a marine dissident group to their free will and the iranian government and then you add on top of that the fact the united states has a bunch of the in circle who have military bases surrounding that country are

almost every may bring a neighbor or you simmers class an aggression by the united states and there's a scene the united states may have to defend there we're. going to question that's who the purist and those are sort of five of them but you know the attitudes that we see in terms of this are really interesting to for example right we had u.s. officials coming out last week saying that israel was in fact funding the enrique. a in order to carry out or at least play some kind of a role in the assassinations the murders of nuclear scientists in iran you have some people arguing that well it's ok if israel's doing it because it's for a good cause and i thought was kind of interesting that kevin drum decided to step in here and take a look at both sides and he basically made the following point saying that it's still terrorism when israel does it so says still is it terrorism yes do both sides use it yes is this in many cases the future of warfare probably yes is there a better alternative that's

a good question so you know what's your take on that is everyone to start assuming that well that's that's the future of warfare that's the way that it's going to be . i mean is. that kevin drum set which is basically inducing terrorist attacks aimed at civilians. this is being honest about the fact that the event is sad. and i'm sad fact i've been to tears i'm on the cause is really bad and so disturbing about it is that. including american muslims who have been passive cupid for having family attenuated ranks to designated terrorist organisations that. carries. the i mean k. which is also designated tears in the test of an assertion is that the able to provide material support to. the public into leading democrats and the receiving huge payments. yeah make a get out of the killing us be meeting with leaders of that organization and the

idea of a day that will be passed acute it is unmentionable it's unthinkable decent company and yet it's every bit as a reader to believe that it is asian with material as a player on top of that it's true as n.b.c. news applauded that is funding and arming and training is still a school then by definition that was on the list of state sponsors of terrorism that's the definition of a state sponsored terrorism some state that funds and trains and a terrorist group and it's the united states of us could make a i have a list of terrorist terrorist organizations and here is our primary claim state of israel and the associating with its ascended this group to do terrorist attacks on the any and seven blowing things up and sharing scientists who are civilians and said that mr hubbard is the america that everyone seems that is in the world is justified based on the need to stop terrorism and here is the united states' closest ally and good human clear to them and many of the leading neighborhoods of

rational to and from that assume money from those terrorist groups i think are going on its behalf to root cause. most of the live shows just how and where you do the cards of the crews in the. now i want to talk about public opinion public perception here too you know it's interesting because our intelligence agencies are telling us the iran is the number one terror threat to the united states but just on small scale attacks however this entire concept as to whether or not we should use military force against iran has to do with iran's nuclear program which our officials are telling us that we have no proof as to whether or not they've really decided whether they want to have this nuclear program or not but why in that case you know if the drumbeating specifically coming from the media a lot of the time is surrounding iran's nuclear program do people still buy it haven't we learned from iraq you know don't we have enough examples there that where you start to get a little bit skeptical. well the things it's being done in terms of the propaganda

campaign is there's a set up and because everybody knows including them that they do have a clue in the sense that they're trying to develop nuclear energy which everybody agrees is that absolute right to do and say the kinds that we need. to do is they're tapping nuclear program and impact that that's a nuclear weapons program then pass that it's beyond dispute that they actually developing nuclear weapons even though. there's an official as an intelligence official agency has said that we have no evidence that's available that it is as actually decided even to develop a nuclear weapon into what they want and so this is pure fear mongering that's exactly the same thing that happened the way somebody in the convinced of the against by telling americans that he was developing a nuclear weapon it's the same thing and that is a question i mean that when i look at today was candid opinion as to the public opinion about reunited states and their support of the world and the avonlea and

then came to view it as a mistake that was a quote of the of the of the end came to view that as a mistake so you're going to some place they would say we keep getting tricked into supporting these winners that actually inadvisable that we end up being against the most skeptical the next time and yet the attitude seems to be. is that the isn't convinced us to support them and that is a mistake but this time. the this is really necessary i suppose and it just shows the potency of fear mongering there's a. murder there when factor in human beings it's necessary. because we have these media reports and this constant drumbeat is designed to play i'm out there to tell the truth that if you question reality ends there will crash sure there's a lot of arresting done atlanta bad and here police department official running the back of the city the most absurd of course and. he's very. strongmen running into this kind of campaign is very effective and if you remember the drunken or faculty

user that's when this was running through it and that he also mentions that new york it's especially susceptible today right because of the large jewish population that happens to live there but you know it definitely does seem you know your plays a huge role glenn thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you for having me. time for a break and when we return it was valentine's day which means anonymous is on the offense that's going to tell you about their latest tax and with great power comes great responsibility that's the message that president obama has chosen for the chinese advice president was in town today and talked about what that great responsibility might be after the break. which was that some of you are going to try to go over to the muslim world to take your pick the ones with britain and argentina again sparring will be the status of

future these lines is this dispute it. as today we'd like to address for we'd like to take a moment to address an error that was brought to our attention that we made while reporting on bradley manning's article thirty two pretrial hearing at fort meade maryland one of our updates aired in december we noted that adrian lamo was a paid informant and so we'd like to make a correction to that statement where i was not a paid informant when he communicated with bradley manning in an online chat room the chance the subject subsequently led to the army privates arrest according to wired limo became a confidential informant for the army from july of two thousand and ten and held that role until mid to late two thousand and eleven over he was compensated by the government for any expenses incurred during travel and was given

a new hard drive to replace the one that was taken into evidence by the military so we apologize and we regret the error and we'll continue to bring you all the details surrounding p.f.c. bradley manning as we learned them. well today it is february fourteenth valentine's day today when people all over the country doing their best to dazzle their loved ones with tokens of their affection anonymous on the other hand has come up with its own way of saying happy valentine's day by packing of course and in event of a hack the day members of anonymous have targeted pennsylvania best based security company combined systems incorporated if that name sounds familiar to you think back to last year we saw uprising in egypt and efforts to overthrow then president mubarak. a number of have been posted on social networks suggesting the tear gas conscious were made in the united states the canisters of transit with the name and address of combined systems a company based in the state of pennsylvania. well that's right that same company has become the focus of of anonymous efforts today not only have they taken down

the web site for the company but they've also allegedly taken personal information of employees and clients like email addresses phone numbers and passwords they've also published a series of intercepted emails from the company which seem to confirm the hack although at this time we can't vouch for their authenticity now the hackers have a history of focusing on security companies government organizations and basically anybody who opposes the occupy movement and uprisings in the arab world so i guess that it's not too surprising that c.s.i. his website was taken down and its statement anonymous reaffirmed its recent calling c.s.i. war profiteers who quote shop magic chemical weapons to military and cop shops around the world stephen went on to say you shot gas protesters running them off public parks in the u.s. several dozen died because of your tear gas used in egypt did you think we forgot why did you not expect us but why did the hacktivist choose today to protest the company well not only is it valentine's day but the fourteenth also commemorates years since the uprisings in bahrain began yet another gulf country the scene

protests and reports say that at least sixty people have died during the clashes between demonstrators. forces some of whom died after exposure tear gas also not forget u.s. allies saudi arabia sent troops to bahrain last year during the height of those protests and according to the new york times more people have taken to the streets in that country this week to mark the one year anniversary of the demonstrations and just like we've seen in the past police relied on tear gas to keep the protesters away. so at the same tear gas made by c.s.i. it's quite possible now anonymous. indicated that there would be a series of hacks today when it tweeted the message stay tuned but at this point we've only found the pennsylvania company to be a victim of today's actions and i think it's safe to say that anonymous has left an impression on the company and if nothing else a valentine's day that they'll definitely remember. well there's an important

visitor in town today chinese vice president xi jinping who is in line to become the next chinese leader next year was welcomed by president obama here in washington after meeting in the oval office a state department luncheon was held with the likes of henry kissinger by blank and fine of goldman sachs as well as the c.e.o.'s of chevron dream works disney and coca-cola on attendance now president obama said that he welcomes that china's peaceful rise and expects relations between the two countries to continue on a cooperative track his relationship is obviously a complicated one take a look at public opinion here in the u.s. a gallup poll from february tenth shows that fifty three percent of americans view not the u.s. but china as the world's leading economy and a.b.c. washington post poll from today shows that fifty two percent of americans have an unfavorable impression of china so with so much competition what will the relationship look like between the two joining me to discuss that is economic analyst gonzalo lira and sol thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess for starters what do you say about this poll this is the second year in

a row now that americans say that they see china as the leading economic power and not the u.s. well it's you know because china is america's credit and so your creditor is always the most important person in europe financial relationships we owe chinese a lot of money and so there are the. now she isn't quite the leader yet right this isn't happening until next year but how important do you think it is to try to solidify if you can really even use that word this relationship now while they have the time while he's here in the states well it's important for our memories because number one we want to make sure that we. want to make sure that china will continue to purchase treasury bonds and will not start don't. treasury bonds will not use faith in the treasury bond market and so it's very important for the further department i'm sure geithner's drones are out there talking to the chinese counterparts time in the united states is a great credit risk and blah blah blah so it's important and that sense now of

course this gentleman here is definitely going to be the next leader of the chinese never make any kind of times you shouldn't have so he's the next man in charge and so it's logical that they're going to try to trump it is funny when you think of his guest list at the state department luncheon that i just mention right we have goldman sachs entering kissinger call a chevron it's very clear the business plays a big role in this relationship. sure they round up the usual suspects and they're all there to convince the chinese to keep on not lending money to the united states and the chinese have problems of their own and do very worried about it that's one of the united states and europe because after all china is producing goods and services for the european market markets and if those two markets begin to tank china begins to have trouble and course there's a task between the chinese companies probably and the chinese people whereby the party controls political power in exchange for giving employment to the chinese people now that tacit agreement is broken and you're going to have riots and

essentially our spraying in china which nobody wants so you know it's in everybody's best interests is the vision should running smoothly and for china to tell europe and united states get out of this recession depression by any means possible while the same time the trade is a big issue between the two countries right now us china and chinese trade deficit right now that to twenty two hundred ninety five billion dollars now when the president is giving a state of the union address event last month he announced this trade enforcement units that would be investigating things like this in countries such as china to think about is a good idea. or that i think that the chinese just kind of die because it's what it is which is the domestic political. blah blah you know and it means nothing in the real world contacts that trade relationship between china and say it's going to continue we call china is the most important relationship the united states has

insofar as buyers of treasury bonds and and suppliers of consumer goods and products but the problem is that there's a famous saying in banking circles when you can't pay a million dollar debt to your bank that's your problem but if you can't pay a billion dollar debt to the bank that's their problem see it in the chinese recognize that the united states has done so far into debt that is very difficult it is to be able to pay steps back and so the chinese want their money but they don't want to stabilize the whole situation in the process of getting their money they don't want an american default and so both sides are very careful in their relationship because they both recognize how fragile both their respective positions are the chinese army has to make sure that it's being meets its people have to be the american government has to make sure that it's keeping its people out and so they have to work in tandem and that's what they're doing why i think i i wonder if you agree with me and say that we saw some of the balance there play out just in even the different states.