we re talking about the occupy wall street movement, now in its sixth week in cities across the country. large crowds have taken to the streets in philadelphia and boston and elsewhere. they re protesting income inequality and the lack of jobs. last week, herman cain said those fired up over america s economic troubles had no one to blame but themselves. here s what he told the wall street journal . don t blame wall street. don t blame the big banks. if you don t have a job and you re not rich, blame yourself! then this past weekend, cain fired another shot at the protesters on cbs face the nation. watch. my parents never said that we hope that the rich people lose something so we can get something. no! my dad s idea was, i want to work hard enough so i can buy a cadillac, not take somebody else s. but, listen. now cain is tweaking his message and saying the protesters should be blaming someone. the wohite house. here s what he said last night during the bloomberg
fired up over america s economic troubles had no one to blame but themselves. here s what he told the wall street journal . don t blame wall street. don t blame the big banks. if you don t have a job and you re not rich, blame yourself. then this past weekend, cain fired another shot at the protesters on cbs face the nation. watch. my parents never said that we hope that the rich people lose something so we can get something. no. my dad s idea was, i want to work hard enough so i can buy a cadillac, not take somebody else s. but, listen. now cain is tweaking his message and saying the protesters should be blaming someone. the white house. here s what he said last night during the bloomberg/ washington post gop debate. that response was directed at the people that are protesting on wall street. not that 14 million people who are out of work for no reason of their own, other than the economy s not growing. not the millions of people that are underemployed. they h
icc is gearing up to investigate moammar gadhafi for possible crimes again the libyan people. immigration and organized crime are the big issues. the discussion when the presidents of the u.s. and mexico get together in washington later today. mexico s felipe calderon is due to sit down with barack obama in a few hours time. relations between the two neighbors have been strained of late. u.s. diplomatic cable released on wikileaks poses u.s. officials criticizing mess can security agencies, the army and its response to gang violence. earthquake rescue teams in new zealand s christchurch have given up finding survivors. no new rescues since last week. the focus is recovering bodies now. the death toll is 161. police estimate it could rise to as high as 240. police in northwest pakistan
josh, the importance of the suez canal to the u.s. recently came up in the some of the leaked diplomatic cables. anyone who doesn t thi. a lot of people have been following the wikileaks diplomatic cable. this is from march, 2009, i pulled up the words here. it talks about the aid that the united states gives to egypt. and it says that the tangible compensation the u.s. gets in return includes egypt s peace with israel and also, the u.s. having priority access to the suez canal and also, to egyptian air space. so it is absolutely clear. to u.s. officials and to people all over the world, that the continuation of that suez canal and being able to get as many ships as possible through it, is key for global trade, is key for u.s. business all around. and that s something everyone is keeping a an eye on closely, christine, making sure that nothing happens to change that. josh levs, thank you so much.
peaceful revolution and pressured chinese companies not to do business with google, the diplomatic cable from wikileak says one cable company is seeking to back out of an existing contract and two others stopped moving ahead with negotiations. a big hit for google. two reasons. google s the only international search engine doing business in china and, two, they re negotiating with the chinese telecom companies to develop google s mobile internet service. amidst accusations, drew, you said, cables from january 2010 show china was hard as work dorg its own work hacking, breaking into google and more than 20 other u.s. companies described as tarts of sophisticated attacks from china. the cables don t say exactly which companies were targeted or the kind of information china was after. not only going into google to try to shut it down, also using it to develop their own