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not because it may not be a good idea because it's an election year and right now nobody in congress wants to have something which happened yesterday happen closer to the election it's just not going to it's just not going to fly you know after the election is over that's a different story but right now this whole issue is actually just yesterday this is not. similar already does the military reduce the new open bill in the house so you know i think they are moving forward with ok i want to change gears a little bit here just jason if i go to you now it's also ok go ahead jason jump in . i was going to say on the open act and the important distinction is that there is the there is available of independent review before any of the censorship actually happens which is something that i think is very important for protecting freedom of speech in which is one of the principal defects in the protect id act one of the things that the white house has zero going on ok if i can ask you and i think was pretty impressive this seven thousand maybe more sites when i went dark on wednesday i mean w
not because it may not be a good idea because it's an election year and right now nobody in congress wants to have something which happened yesterday happen closer to the election it's just not going to it's just not going to fly you know after the election is over that's a different story but right now this whole issue is actually just yesterday this is not. similar already does the military reduce the new open bill in the house so you know i think they are moving forward with ok i want to...
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pedia are blacking out their web pages for the entire day they're protesting an anti-piracy billing congress a defiant protest today several web sites including wicked pedia literally shutting down their sites they have gone dark today as a protest of a new bill that many critics say could lead to censorship that's just the latest in a widening base of high profile sites protesting a pair a pair of them of anti-piracy bills making their way through congress the bills would force us internet providers like comcast or eighteen t to block communications to offshore sites that steal content this is really the unprecedented step for internet companies in the united states to use their home page to protest a very bad very bad public policy. although i have to say about this is welcome mainstream media welcome to the world that you've been ignoring for so long where opposition to these two anti-piracy laws has been growing for months welcome to the world where the biggest tech companies were online communities like reddit where blogs and think tanks the legal scholars far and wide have all been voi
pedia are blacking out their web pages for the entire day they're protesting an anti-piracy billing congress a defiant protest today several web sites including wicked pedia literally shutting down their sites they have gone dark today as a protest of a new bill that many critics say could lead to censorship that's just the latest in a widening base of high profile sites protesting a pair a pair of them of anti-piracy bills making their way through congress the bills would force us internet...
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congress there. to communicate with their local representatives and i think also just you know exercising their voting rights and exercising their rights it's rooms are not in the political process it's two thousand but we need issues are going to go away courts are still trying to figure out how to grapple with technology so i think the best way for citizens to be actively involved is to use a creativity like they used yesterday and find ways to be involved in the political process and it's. why i think i guess today might help in the sense that at least gave people this feeling that maybe they can actually make a difference if they do go out and vote or call their congress members or write to them and that's not always going to be big money and they get a story is obvious that we're now at least that was my takeaway christina thank you so much for joining us tonight. i'd still to come this a day after the online world came together to fight so but the d.o.j. continued their war against pirates we'r
congress there. to communicate with their local representatives and i think also just you know exercising their voting rights and exercising their rights it's rooms are not in the political process it's two thousand but we need issues are going to go away courts are still trying to figure out how to grapple with technology so i think the best way for citizens to be actively involved is to use a creativity like they used yesterday and find ways to be involved in the political process and it's....
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usually that would be a city issue is a city issue the mayor has spoken but no you see for some reason congress wants to get involved here which is actually quite rare as usually they don't really delve into local d.c. governance issues they continue to overlook serious issues in the past like the shocking aids epidemic where one of the highest rates of aids rates of aids and hiv in the entire country disease department of health says that seven percent of d.c. residents between the ages of forty and forty nine are infected which is three times what the world health organization classifies as an epidemic but congress i don't wait on that issue or what about d.c. schools they're amongst the most troubled in the nation that's something that former school chancellor michelle rhee spoke about openly in the film waiting for superman. you wake up every morning and you know that kids are getting a really crappy education right now she think the most the kids are going to. go i don't think they are i know they are. all right or how about poverty considering that washington d.c. as a state ranks third i
usually that would be a city issue is a city issue the mayor has spoken but no you see for some reason congress wants to get involved here which is actually quite rare as usually they don't really delve into local d.c. governance issues they continue to overlook serious issues in the past like the shocking aids epidemic where one of the highest rates of aids rates of aids and hiv in the entire country disease department of health says that seven percent of d.c. residents between the ages of...
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the use of the word regulation of congress or within basically within rules defined by congress for the exact wording wouldn't be possible and the last president to really seriously take the seriously as franklin roosevelt. would have been possible instead for congress to pass a law saying that the supreme court does not have the power to say that corporations are persons well you know that even more politically impractical in my view it is more politically impractical because it's asking congress to do something but i also actually believe that the supreme court it's a dynamic process so yes con the supreme congress has the ability to define the jurisdiction of the supreme court congress has some ability to define the numbers of justices on the court which is why we had franklin roosevelt's so-called court packing plan there is a healthy tension that the elected branches should bring to the supreme court from the president to the congress and you know when president obama called out the supreme court two years ago after citizens united and that was considered shocking no that's not sho
the use of the word regulation of congress or within basically within rules defined by congress for the exact wording wouldn't be possible and the last president to really seriously take the seriously as franklin roosevelt. would have been possible instead for congress to pass a law saying that the supreme court does not have the power to say that corporations are persons well you know that even more politically impractical in my view it is more politically impractical because it's asking...
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responsibility for curbing piracy in light of the law that is in front of the laws that are in front of congress right now. well i think internet companies have a responsibility to not knowingly participate in pirated information or information for which. the copyright use is in question in other words if they know that something is being used illegally then they obviously should not allow it to be on their sites but you know most internet sites don't have a way to know what's in there most of them simply act as what you might call giant receptacles of data and as a result they don't specifically look at what the content is somebody complains about it so they have a responsibility if they know that it's illegal but they may not know jason what do you think about that i mean to what degree should the internet companies be held responsible because if you're if you're a website like youtube i mean i've talked to people at youtube it is very very hard to police it because so many uploads going on through every hour and we're looking at and go through the course of months and years it's a huge number
responsibility for curbing piracy in light of the law that is in front of the laws that are in front of congress right now. well i think internet companies have a responsibility to not knowingly participate in pirated information or information for which. the copyright use is in question in other words if they know that something is being used illegally then they obviously should not allow it to be on their sites but you know most internet sites don't have a way to know what's in there most of...
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this corporate takeover of our congress that i was just referencing in that room. pseudo state of the union address is not accidental it was put into motion back in one thousand nine hundred six by a group of robber barrons railroad actual robber barons claiming that the fourteenth amendment which was passed in eight hundred sixty eight to free the slaves also freed the corporations because want to reference the word persons it didn't have the word natural before it which would be humans the supreme court pick this up dozens of times over the years most recently was citizens united but the fact of the matter is that no congress has ever passed a law saying that corporations are people or that money is speech. and the money is speeches that are probably no president has ever pushed for it on the contrary many presidents have condemned it and going all the way back to grover cleveland in eight hundred eighty seven the year after the santa clara county decision in the supreme court where he said that corporations had become the masters of the people and that their iro
this corporate takeover of our congress that i was just referencing in that room. pseudo state of the union address is not accidental it was put into motion back in one thousand nine hundred six by a group of robber barrons railroad actual robber barons claiming that the fourteenth amendment which was passed in eight hundred sixty eight to free the slaves also freed the corporations because want to reference the word persons it didn't have the word natural before it which would be humans the...
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after which he's expected to return as head of the general people's congress party parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for saleh who's been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of by which he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel patrolling a checkpoint two churches in the area were also attacked meanwhile the death toll from a series of bombings in can no on friday now exceeds one seventy and continues to rise islam the sect boko haram has claimed responsibility for the majority of the violence that's plagued northern nigeria since christmas. at least sixteen people have died and one remains missing after an iranian passenger boat sank in the persian gulf off of the country's southern coast the ship set sail despite a travel ban imposed on life vassals ahead of a storm that captain who survived the accident is now being questioned by police. beijing rings in the chinese new year in spectacular fashion from a bell tower in an ancient part
after which he's expected to return as head of the general people's congress party parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for saleh who's been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of by which he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel patrolling a checkpoint two churches in the area were also attacked meanwhile the death toll from a series of bombings...
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why not why wouldn't congress consider if you think that the banking system is not working why wouldn't congress consider its own provision would you do it no you do it while they're at it again federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he is now pushing congress to help housing bernanke he wants the broke home proper offers fannie and freddie owned by the u.s. taxpayer to provide cheaper mortgages to more of the same taxpayers makes sense we think maybe bernanke he has his hands full just propping up the big banks let's get to today's capital account. as i said europe is really a sore that will not heal government medicine yeah not helping so much so let's see what's been going on lately france had a not so hot bond auction the country may not be looking so aaa after all spain is warning its banks to set aside fifty billion more euros to guard against bad loans greece needs dough as some of its citizens are forced to search through dumpsters literally for bread and you see it right there now the country faces the risk of default in march unless it gets a new bailout deal also investors dro
why not why wouldn't congress consider if you think that the banking system is not working why wouldn't congress consider its own provision would you do it no you do it while they're at it again federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he is now pushing congress to help housing bernanke he wants the broke home proper offers fannie and freddie owned by the u.s. taxpayer to provide cheaper mortgages to more of the same taxpayers makes sense we think maybe bernanke he has his hands full just propping...
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the way he decided to take a moment to bash newt gingrich last night when it comes to the history of congress . which you listen to in my view and the speaker's rendition of history go back to nine hundred seventy this involving a washington is in my view a perfect example of why we need to send to washington someone who has not lived in washington but summers lived in the real streets of america. lived in the real streets of america without the wall street maybe some beautiful street a gated community i think that we all know that you are the furthest thing from a real american that one could define it just because you worked in the private sector doesn't mean you know anything about what it's like to be an average american being born into political royalty making millions working at a venture capital firm bain capital doesn't make you understand the experience as americans neither do here today i'm talking huge houses in utah new hampshire massachusetts and a couple in california and a net worth estimated at around two hundred fifty million dollars but for some reason missings of think that
the way he decided to take a moment to bash newt gingrich last night when it comes to the history of congress . which you listen to in my view and the speaker's rendition of history go back to nine hundred seventy this involving a washington is in my view a perfect example of why we need to send to washington someone who has not lived in washington but summers lived in the real streets of america. lived in the real streets of america without the wall street maybe some beautiful street a gated...
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situation in a positive light if they're acting but take it with a grain of salt i was congress with legislate this way on all issues that do concern your privacy. now on january eighteenth we saw a day of online protests that at least for now killed so and protect ip two pieces of legislation they were working their way through the house and the senate they were sold as anti-piracy measures but in fact threaten the freedom of the internet as we know it now aside from google wikipedia and other big websites taking part we also saw the reddit community play a huge role and pressuring not only businesses like go daddy to change their stance but also members of congress like paul ryan well guess what they're not stopping there the community has now come up with a proposed plan to create a piece of legislation called the free internet act and ideas are already flowing so it's just a fun experiment or might we see a piece of legislation coming up from lawmakers but from the people well joining me to discuss it is alexis ohanian co-founder of reddit alexis nice to have you back on the show
situation in a positive light if they're acting but take it with a grain of salt i was congress with legislate this way on all issues that do concern your privacy. now on january eighteenth we saw a day of online protests that at least for now killed so and protect ip two pieces of legislation they were working their way through the house and the senate they were sold as anti-piracy measures but in fact threaten the freedom of the internet as we know it now aside from google wikipedia and other...
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of the united states is largely a do nothing congress in the face of economic calamity and this is really been their attempts to say hey we're doing some about the economy we're going after all this on the entire thing which really you know is not as big of a problem is they're making it out to be so you know yes it's terrible but they would do a hell of a lot better if they went after offshoring jobs and you know things that really made a difference in the economy you know in a more large scale so i think a lot of this is grandstanding and it will continue to happen i mean there's you know there are going to be government terms that blocking the internet or controlling the internet you know it's so now to be in trinity you know it's always going to be intense but that's way issues like this and movements like this and you know people coming out to speak out against this are important i don't want to give your opinion on the protests that have washington reeling or read up on the anonymous hacktivist group there's plenty more on our web site at r.t. dot com. thanks. and as the web users a
of the united states is largely a do nothing congress in the face of economic calamity and this is really been their attempts to say hey we're doing some about the economy we're going after all this on the entire thing which really you know is not as big of a problem is they're making it out to be so you know yes it's terrible but they would do a hell of a lot better if they went after offshoring jobs and you know things that really made a difference in the economy you know in a more large...
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when the one hundred twelfth congress adjourns twenty five members are going to be retiring from the elected posts the notables among the three proper senator bill nelson the democrat from nebraska and senator jon kyl the republican from arizona the most powerful guys the k. street lobbying firms are now aggressively hoping that these people these twenty five retiring members of congress walk through the revolving doors here's a quote as a retiring class this is a very valuable class a lot of these members are marketable and will be welcomed by k. street with open arms this is what i've been adler mccormack group had to say to lobby for the lobbyists are right now holding mock drafts like like drafting. athletes and things only in this case it's in drafting politicians are retiring lawmakers can make up to a million and a half bucks a year lobbying of the three hundred fifty to retire. congress member since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine percent have gone on to become lobbyists many members of congress are tired and then they're quick to say oh mary become a lobbyist i'm not
when the one hundred twelfth congress adjourns twenty five members are going to be retiring from the elected posts the notables among the three proper senator bill nelson the democrat from nebraska and senator jon kyl the republican from arizona the most powerful guys the k. street lobbying firms are now aggressively hoping that these people these twenty five retiring members of congress walk through the revolving doors here's a quote as a retiring class this is a very valuable class a lot of...
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and occupy activists descend on congress and the white house saying it's now money that makes all the decisions at the top be invented didn't live up to the hype of organizers hope to draw tens of thousands of people. to retreat now joins us with a sports. you know the fourth quarter not to welcome to the program thanks for joining us this hour the headlines. doing well defending champion came close to the only one game to make it into the third round of. them all the season. gets a walkover into the next round well to prove on court that it is to play in round three. and on a winning streak. of home ice to register consecutively three in the child. had to start with tennis where roger federer has advanced into the third round of the australian open the world number three didn't actually play in the second round as his opponent back of germany it withdrew from the tournament with an injury while thomas birch of the czech republic played only three sets to make it into the next round seventh seed check out class. of thirty to ease in the in the second set through a side track to titrat
and occupy activists descend on congress and the white house saying it's now money that makes all the decisions at the top be invented didn't live up to the hype of organizers hope to draw tens of thousands of people. to retreat now joins us with a sports. you know the fourth quarter not to welcome to the program thanks for joining us this hour the headlines. doing well defending champion came close to the only one game to make it into the third round of. them all the season. gets a walkover...
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the occupy activists descend on congress and the white house saying it's now money that makes all the decisions at the top. a number of european energy. time in twenty minutes in the business but it's. on air and online twenty four hours a day your watching welcome to the program. pushing for stability through dialogue in syria calling for military action against sovereign states russia's top diplomat also criticize western sanctions against iran as he faced media questions on the. global arena in twenty seven. hours at the foreign ministry for us now. the situation in syria dominated the pose to the foreign minister who was sure is keeping efforts to bring peace to the troubled country very much alive isn't it. for all of really reiterating what's been russia's. ongoing situation in syria from the beginning saying that both the the governments.
the occupy activists descend on congress and the white house saying it's now money that makes all the decisions at the top. a number of european energy. time in twenty minutes in the business but it's. on air and online twenty four hours a day your watching welcome to the program. pushing for stability through dialogue in syria calling for military action against sovereign states russia's top diplomat also criticize western sanctions against iran as he faced media questions on the. global arena...
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in the us is where it says that a corporation has a right it does not say the corporation we have a congress that is empowered corporations to treat them mostly like individuals and so if we had a republican carlie's name any place in the congo in the constitution this is not going to extend her rights on anybody where does it say in the constitution that individuals that are members of a corporation don't have any rights when do you. we're not talking about any of those no we're talking about individuals who band together to form a corporation and they want to or individuals who like to man together forming a you hear well is that give them more of your own home harney or a human hold on the right i mean it works in a court agnostic home and let me tell you the corporation was not a person it was a collection of ninety thousand people but you wanted to regulate itself is not a personal you have been efforts non-small regulation i'll tell you when you have to treat them like something you know they are often treated like a person if they're if they're going to be honest president should corp
in the us is where it says that a corporation has a right it does not say the corporation we have a congress that is empowered corporations to treat them mostly like individuals and so if we had a republican carlie's name any place in the congo in the constitution this is not going to extend her rights on anybody where does it say in the constitution that individuals that are members of a corporation don't have any rights when do you. we're not talking about any of those no we're talking about...
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and all members of congress are going to really have to take account of that it's important though to keep in mind that the copyright owners and technology companies are only two sort of sets of stakeholders and we also have ordinary members the public and users of consumers of copyrighted materials and so i would hope that any process going forward would be inclusive of them as well we just have not had an inclusive process this is very interesting as you may mention i know history and sideways if i'm going to we're going to weigh in here i mean i think that you jason you bring up a very interesting point here i mean do you think if the industry wrote it in sent it over to congress because this is jason pointed out and i said early in the program in a lot of politicians in washington are walking away from it even though they used to be supporters i mean did they actually read it or did they listen to their constituents and did they listen to these technology companies or change. i think what happened is two things one of which is i think we should make it abundantly clear to the peop
and all members of congress are going to really have to take account of that it's important though to keep in mind that the copyright owners and technology companies are only two sort of sets of stakeholders and we also have ordinary members the public and users of consumers of copyrighted materials and so i would hope that any process going forward would be inclusive of them as well we just have not had an inclusive process this is very interesting as you may mention i know history and...
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are involved in corruption like that bribery like that well i mean ultimately every member of congress who's taking a check a contribution from a lobbyist or from a company or from a union or anyone who needs or get something from washington whether it's conscious or not they're involved in it alternately you can't accept something from somebody without unless you're a oh yes absolutely they all do and what i'm saying is you can't as a human being if somebody gives you something you're going to feel gratitude and even if you don't do with that person once right there you say look i can't you can't buy my vote for two thousand dollars and most of them say that of course but the issue is if you do something nice for me in my heart i'm going to have to feel little bit better about you and what i'm saying is that is the moment of the problem if you're a public servant with all the crimes that you committed there's still a sense that you were used as a poster boy is kind of a scapegoat for the corrupt system that is very much alive and kicking i want to ask you about the supreme court decis
are involved in corruption like that bribery like that well i mean ultimately every member of congress who's taking a check a contribution from a lobbyist or from a company or from a union or anyone who needs or get something from washington whether it's conscious or not they're involved in it alternately you can't accept something from somebody without unless you're a oh yes absolutely they all do and what i'm saying is you can't as a human being if somebody gives you something you're going to...
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and occupy activists have descended on congress and the white house saying it's no money that makes all the decisions up the top but the events didn't live up to the hype and organizers who had hoped to draw tens of thousands of sports is up next year an artsy with dimitri. hello the sports are not the welcome to the program and in this culture. doing well defending champion jobs only one game to make it into the third round of the grandstand of the season. gets a walkover into the next round. to prove on court that he deserves to play in the round three. and on a winning streak. to him make on home ice to. victory in the case. so let's start with tennis where roger federer has advanced into the third round of the australian open the world number three didn't actually play in the second round opponent back of germany withdrew from the tournament with an injury while thomas parish of the czech republic played only three sets to make it into the next round the seventh seed check out class all of year of belgium easily won the first second so. only in the decider to check on a tie break. r
and occupy activists have descended on congress and the white house saying it's no money that makes all the decisions up the top but the events didn't live up to the hype and organizers who had hoped to draw tens of thousands of sports is up next year an artsy with dimitri. hello the sports are not the welcome to the program and in this culture. doing well defending champion jobs only one game to make it into the third round of the grandstand of the season. gets a walkover into the next round....
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congress what so well. what we what we said to congress once we needed a financial rescue package because the credit markets were stopped up and so hank paulson using tarp completely differently than how he presented to congress was the question and that happened that actually happened and hank paulson got off pretty unscathed for what many people have accused him of doing there we all move past it now we have president obama signing away our constitutional rights with the n.d.a. the national defense authorization act with an amendment that says american citizens can get military detention without due process so the question is the legislative i guess rape on autopilot i want to bring him back back and dr paul craig roberts to answer that question i just gave a couple of examples dr roberts going back to hank paulson to bring back that history lesson to our viewers i know our viewers are very familiar with it and then looking at obama today and the kind of acts that he's signing it is the legislative rate a
congress what so well. what we what we said to congress once we needed a financial rescue package because the credit markets were stopped up and so hank paulson using tarp completely differently than how he presented to congress was the question and that happened that actually happened and hank paulson got off pretty unscathed for what many people have accused him of doing there we all move past it now we have president obama signing away our constitutional rights with the n.d.a. the national...
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congress. i kid there's a lot more to it than just that but i do say good job everyone the entertainment industry is already pissed too and it's great hollywood moguls are now reportedly telling president obama that they're going to stop their donations to his campaign because of the administration's stand on sopa and pipa but they'll learn that they won't be able to buy influence forever and so let's hope that that's true let's make sure that's true by staying vigilant about sopa and pipa because while they haven't been voted on yet while sopa is been postponed they're not fully dead so don't like congress think that you're not looking anymore and then try to pass them on the sly but for what was achieved yesterday i think that it's a pretty big deal the mainstream media and their painfully short attention span. they chose to miss. well some are calling it a bit of unfortunate irony if i may use the words of mike mastic from that the same day that a massive protest was staged against sopa and
congress. i kid there's a lot more to it than just that but i do say good job everyone the entertainment industry is already pissed too and it's great hollywood moguls are now reportedly telling president obama that they're going to stop their donations to his campaign because of the administration's stand on sopa and pipa but they'll learn that they won't be able to buy influence forever and so let's hope that that's true let's make sure that's true by staying vigilant about sopa and pipa...
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the eightieth congress was elected in one thousand nine hundred six truman called it the do nothing congress even though it did do a lot namely kill progress it sabotage truman's hopes for a single payer you know universal health care system for example and they passed half heartedly overriding term truman's veto which created the were right to work states were corporations could move in to do business with out unions i call them right to work for less states and because of that congress the eightieth congress united states fell behind when it comes to creating an economy that benefits the ninety nine percent and not just the one percent while germany surged ahead and that's where we are today it took a crisis to put germany back on track and at this rate it may take a crisis to get america back on track as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our web sites at thom hartmann dot com free speech dot org and our team dot com also check out our two you tube channels or links to thom hartmann dot com also thom hartmann dot com check out all the
the eightieth congress was elected in one thousand nine hundred six truman called it the do nothing congress even though it did do a lot namely kill progress it sabotage truman's hopes for a single payer you know universal health care system for example and they passed half heartedly overriding term truman's veto which created the were right to work states were corporations could move in to do business with out unions i call them right to work for less states and because of that congress the...
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street movement the granddaddy of them all turned four months old tuesday and celebrated by occupying congress over a thousand people swarmed capitol hill yesterday as part of a day of action against a corrupt political institution peaceful patriots won by the offices of members of congress and demonstrated outside on the capitol grounds they didn't even roughly fifteen hundred patriots marched to the supreme court building to demonstrate against corporate personhood and the citizens united ruling and then the crowd marched to the white house to protest the new indefinite detention law that the president had signed for an update on yesterday's actions and where the movement goes now that it's taken its message to the three branches of government america i'm joined by ben mann ski democracy advocate and campaign manager for the green party's presidential candidate dr jill jill stein and ben zucker a participant with occupy d.c. ben and ben welcome if you can because they are going to be this new so let's see ben. ben mans he will start with you i want to go to state what i thought you guys did
street movement the granddaddy of them all turned four months old tuesday and celebrated by occupying congress over a thousand people swarmed capitol hill yesterday as part of a day of action against a corrupt political institution peaceful patriots won by the offices of members of congress and demonstrated outside on the capitol grounds they didn't even roughly fifteen hundred patriots marched to the supreme court building to demonstrate against corporate personhood and the citizens united...
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speech about it the night it happened here mind of congress and the entire country quite a few times in his state of the union address just this week so it's one of the biggest successes of the administration likes to claim so in that light how could a feeling these videos or these photos do any damage to national security this is by no means something that is a secret and personally i think a little bit of proof would be nice and so just get a load of what argument the justice department is making now to continue the excessive secrecy so they have filed papers asking a federal judge to rule against judicial watch saying if the cia's drone program which technically the cia doesn't acknowledge is also one of those things that everybody knows about it despite the fact that everybody knows about it they continue to keep it a secret and continue not to let out any details including the number of civilian deaths because if they did release any of the details to the public on a program with the public already knows about it would still risk jeopardizing national security now let me give yo
speech about it the night it happened here mind of congress and the entire country quite a few times in his state of the union address just this week so it's one of the biggest successes of the administration likes to claim so in that light how could a feeling these videos or these photos do any damage to national security this is by no means something that is a secret and personally i think a little bit of proof would be nice and so just get a load of what argument the justice department is...
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after which he says expected to return as head of the general people's congress party yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for saleh who's been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of by which he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel trolling a checkpoint two churches in the area were also attacked meanwhile the death toll from a series of bombings in kano on friday now exceeds one hundred seventy and continues to rise islam a sect boko haram has claimed responsibility for the majority of the violence that's plagued northern nigeria since christmas. the battle over some scotland's possible split from great britain is dividing opinion in an increasingly disunited kingdom scots have been told they can hold a referendum on independence but only on the government's terms and london says a divorce would come at a price artie's laura smith explains. to a three hundred year old union that one waves and talk the known world. the country's cl
after which he says expected to return as head of the general people's congress party yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for saleh who's been accused of suppressing protests and ordering the killing of demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of by which he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel trolling a checkpoint two churches in the area were also attacked meanwhile the death toll from a series of...
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after which he is expected to return as head of the general people's congress party yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for saleh who's been accused of suppressing protests and killing many demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of which he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel controlling a checkpoint two churches in the area were also a torrent meanwhile the death toll from a series of bombings in ca no on friday now exceeds one seventy and continues to rise islam the sect boko haram has claimed responsibility for the majority of the violence that's plagued the northern nigeria area since christmas. beijing rings in the chinese new year in spectacular fashion from a bell tower in an ancient part of the capital it's tradition to sound the bell one hundred eight times to herald the start of the lunar calendar year the night sky was also lit up by fireworks displays across the country as more than a billion people celebrated bringing in the year of the water dragon. this week russia has seen
after which he is expected to return as head of the general people's congress party yemen's parliament recently approved immunity from prosecution for saleh who's been accused of suppressing protests and killing many demonstrators. another bombing on saturday night in the north nigerian state of which he has killed eleven people including several police and army personnel controlling a checkpoint two churches in the area were also a torrent meanwhile the death toll from a series of bombings in...
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and candidates for congress have got to take a pledge to. these things and where individual should start is in getting keeping where that in getting their members and their candidates that they want their votes they better sign this pledge and they better do it and if that doesn't happen something like that run and think whatever get it through it's almost like we need a grover norquist of our date as i knew this kind of flat right as opposed to which i was second one absolutely well former lobbyist jack everyone thanks so much for speaking with us today for having. and we're almost out of time of the capital account is up next on our t.v. we'll check in with laura lister to see what's on the agenda hi christine you know let me just start of the question if i was going to lend you money christine don't you think you'd expect to give me something in return you give me you know a little bit of interest or something that's normal right know because you're my friend who can i take all the time i wanted to pay it back to you and you'd be fine wit
and candidates for congress have got to take a pledge to. these things and where individual should start is in getting keeping where that in getting their members and their candidates that they want their votes they better sign this pledge and they better do it and if that doesn't happen something like that run and think whatever get it through it's almost like we need a grover norquist of our date as i knew this kind of flat right as opposed to which i was second one absolutely well former...
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that's because of the deal lawmakers reached the last time around but hey guess what that didn't stop congress from rejecting the debt ceiling increase again but what we'll discuss let's get to today's capital account. all right so in the race for the white house texas governor rick perry has announced he'll drop out of it he's going to endorse newt gingrich so naturally a lot of the u.s. media is focused on what this means for the republican field on who can be elected u.s. president in two thousand and twelve but here is one area where it most likely won't matter at all who is president and where you if you're us voter literally have no say either but nonetheless it affects you it affects me it affects people all over the world i'm talking about the actions of the federal reserve and its control over monetary policy if you're watching this show i don't have to tell you twice now the central banks decisions do not have to be approved by the president or by congress it is independent yet it is more than tripled the money supply largely through quantitative easing since the financial crisis pum
that's because of the deal lawmakers reached the last time around but hey guess what that didn't stop congress from rejecting the debt ceiling increase again but what we'll discuss let's get to today's capital account. all right so in the race for the white house texas governor rick perry has announced he'll drop out of it he's going to endorse newt gingrich so naturally a lot of the u.s. media is focused on what this means for the republican field on who can be elected u.s. president in two...
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kangaroo court and it was a show people say you were a tory it seems your ability to buy members of congress how did you do that i don't think i was necessarily except on the margins much different than most of what goes on here but what happens here most on porch name which what i did in terms of pushing over the lines even of this activity is lobbyists and people want something from congress raise money for congressmen give money to congressmen in terms of political contributions by meals for them take them golfing take them on trips take them to sporting events and i probably did more of it than most did and i pushed over certain lines that are in the sand and broke the law but it's something that goes on far too often in washington you want to set and i found it very very interesting that that once you just a moment you offered a job to a congressional staffer you own them right there was no greater control that people could have over congressional offices than to have the head of that office know that they're going to come in a few months to come work for a lobbying firm from that minut
kangaroo court and it was a show people say you were a tory it seems your ability to buy members of congress how did you do that i don't think i was necessarily except on the margins much different than most of what goes on here but what happens here most on porch name which what i did in terms of pushing over the lines even of this activity is lobbyists and people want something from congress raise money for congressmen give money to congressmen in terms of political contributions by meals for...