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policy of united states policy is articulated by the president of the state is states that we should go and he should not stay in power. wow so it sounds like he really doesn't like get off it he noted twice in a five minute interview with the libyan dictator needs to be held responsible by the u.s. for what he's done and then goes on to say they could all be has american blood on his hands. qaddafi is a proven quantity is the blood of americans son his hands because he was responsible for the bombing of pan am one hundred three he has been involved in other acts of terror. now his gung ho approach to libya if it why he's earned a special spot in the show tonight but rather it seems to be his case of amnesia you see just a few years ago the u.s. had much different sentiments when it came to libya during the bush era efforts were made to mend and that included sending weapons to could offer himself a good old ya do you go here accompanied by joe lieberman and lindsey graham took

a trip to tripoli in two thousand and nine to visit the dictator and self just days before the lockerbie bomber was freed and sent back to libya now he was quoted by the associated press is saying ties between the united states and libya have taken a remarkable and positive term in recent years if you see what i mean about amnesia just two years ago mccain was all about giving weapons to think it ought to be the same guy we blame today for having american blood on his hands not to mention he was ok with the lockerbie bomber being released back in two thousand and nine but what like he didn't have blood on his hands two years ago so we came goes with a big paper to hating on it why must we go through this time and time again we need to either start choosing friends better. or since we're obviously really bad at stopping the world's arms dealer because we always kind of selling them to our future enemy that we end up spending money and lives on fighting against the back to mccain individually ladies and gentlemen this is just the latest of ocracy

coming out of this former presidential candidate and ask for his contradictory approach to libya and gadhafi john mccain is tonight's tool time winner. and we all knew the day was coming to new york times has been talking about it creating a paywall for its online viewers for a while now but it's finally going to become a reality currently the subscription plan is monthly and it will range anywhere between fifteen and thirty five dollars depending on if you want to be able to access it on your mobile devices it's already in place in canada next week it's coming here to the us like anything else on the web there are already problems with this paywall that are being exposed according to bloomberg paywall which is going to cut off viewers after reading their twentieth article has already cost the newspaper forty million dollars just to design but apparently hackers really love getting their news for free and they've managed to come up with a way to circumvent the paywall and it all comes down to java javascript that is it's called n.y.t.

clean and it's essentially gore lines of javascript code if you will that are going to remove the label that pops up requesting that you pay so on the airwaves people are obviously already buzzing about this code saying that it's so easy it should have you been to be considered a hack but rather just a bypass and in fact their pay wall is so easy to get around that many are already questioning if the times is really serious about getting payments out of its readers help you go on to twitter right this very second you can find the code in a matter of clicks like i said nobody is making any efforts to keep this find a secret and the paywall has not even been implemented yet for the u.s. so if they already know how to bypass it before it's even been implemented then what's the point dropping millions of dollars on a project that isn't going. to be effective now i'm no computer programmer but the details of this code seem pretty user friendly so why can't other parts of life be this easy you know i could really use a bypass to access h.b.o. and showtime on my cable box for free for anyone else other than those how did you

get. south dakota strikes again for the national war that's being waged against women's reproductive and health rights the state really is taking the lead yesterday governor jennifer garde signed a bill into law that makes the state the first to require that women who are seeking abortions first attend a consultation pregnancy help centers to learn what assistance is available and that sounds innocent but the reality is that these centers are not medical establishment rather they're anti-abortion organizations and that's not all the state also is going to establish the longest waiting period in the country three days after an initial visit with an abortion provider before that procedure can be performed meanwhile two years ago south dakota repealed the two day waiting period to get a gun so it's now easier to get a gun than to get an abortion so what does that say about the state of the nation earlier i caught up with an experience of the young turks and i asked her just that . i didn't know the first thing that it says is that republicans are hypocrites ok

the reason why they're hypocrites is because the main reason why they want to how very relaxed gun laws is because they say that the government should not play a role in regulating gun control they think that it is the constitutional right to have weapons to bear arms and that the government should pay a very play a very minimal role however what it comes to people's personal lives when it comes to the question of abortion well in that case the government should be involved as much as possible it's just a classic republican hypocrisy i'm totally with you there somehow it's still a never seems to be amusing me or shocking me that they can actually be hypocrites this way and. live with themselves but i think part of the really shocks the most about this is you know if you look at the layout of south dakota this law also now mandates that you go to counseling which in essence counseling isn't

a bad thing but it's not like you're going to be seething unbiased counseling here from someone who actually has a medical license it comes from these centers which are mostly run by anti-abortion advocates than i do to me if i kind of sound like coercion. yes the reason why this bill is so disastrous first of all there are a number of different reasons if you look at south dakota right now they only have two different abortion clinics ok two clinics that actually perform the procedure and the rest are these so-called pregnancy health centers that pretend like they give information about abortion when in fact what they do is they lore vulnerable women then and then if the women are seeking abortion they will fill these women with all of these lies that there will be basically guilt tripped out of seeking an abortion and will be forced to carry the baby full term so in most cases the people

who are. these pregnancy health clinics or centers they will do whatever it takes they will lie about the potential risks of having an abortion just so they can talk the woman out of the procedure so it's crazy and you know just to give you an example of another state that's doing something similar or is attempting to do something similar indiana is trying to pass legislation that would force doctors to tell women that getting an abortion would lead to breast cancer and the american cancer society basically stated back in two thousand and three that that is not the case that it's an absolute lie but legislators in indiana don't care they want doctors to lie to women they want the government to force doctors to lie to women that's absolutely incredible i also hypocritical because you know they claim that centers like planned parenthood will force women into getting abortions which in fact is not the case but yet or someone else on to them you know i feel like we

have. a tough moment in this country when you look at the type of legislation that's being passed and you look at the ideals that this nation was supposedly founded on can you have both you know a democracy dedicated to freedom and a country where religion does play such a large role all in one. yeah i i think that this country was founded on freedom and it was founded on the separation of church and state for some reason people tend to forget about that why are the religious beliefs of christians playing a role in how or what decisions i make for myself and my body that doesn't make any sense maybe maybe i don't believe in the bible maybe i don't believe in your religion so why should your religion dictate the choices i make in my life ok the reason why the founders of this country wanted a separation of church and state is because we should have a real democracy where people get to vote and make decisions for themselves not

where religion you know orchestrates our future or orchestrates what we should do in our lives and it doesn't make any sense so every time i find out that legislation is being passed based on people's religious ideals or beliefs it really upsets me because i think that you can't have a real democracy if you're constantly worrying about accusing people and their religion i believe in freedom of religion in this country i think that's really important and if you are religious individual who doesn't believe in abortion then it's your choice and your right not to have an abortion if you become pregnant but don't you know force other people to believe in what you believe. now today also happens to the one year anniversary of the affordable care act obamacare as republicans like to call it you know it's so interesting if you look back two year ago we saw so many people saying that john boehner saying that this is going to be armageddon glenn beck saying this is going to be the end of america as we know it but you know it's a year later and as far as i can tell we're still here. i think that what's really

going to lead to the end of america art is things like citizens united i love how bakker baiter they don't talk about that at all they don't talk about the fact that corporations now have the right to fund politicians with unlimited amounts of money ok i think that that's what undermines our democracy and i think that's what will the bench will lead to the end of america but i love how they never bring that out they bring up the fact that they think health care providing little babies with health care is going to ruin the country i mean anybody who believes in these clowns or looseness of these clowns there is heartless individuals who don't really have their priorities straight. and you know i think you really hit it dead on when you talk about corporate america there because even with this health care legislation that was passed obviously it's not perfect there are a lot of people out there who are critique it but it just makes you wonder if anything that's going to get passed will ever really make a difference if we don't talk about corporate control in america the same way that was three or four basically just allows the banks to skirt around that reform i

feel like the same you know it's the same thing with health care the insurance industry's still went out at the end. yeah you're absolutely right the number one problem we have in this country right now is the fact that corporate america controls all ok they control the wealth they control all the legislation you know that is the number one reason why the power of the people is you know not being listened to because politicians are getting all of their campaign money from corporations you know they give america didn't spend any money in two thousand and nine on federal taxes in fact the government paid big of america back because of you know tax breaks in the corporate tax loophole that it amazes me if corporations paid their taxes we wouldn't have to talk about education funds cutting education funds we would have to talk about programs like wic getting huge cuts which by the way no running out of time but the house the republican

controlled house wants to cut wic by seven hundred fifty two million dollars and with of course is a program that helps feed infants half of infants in the united states have been at some point ok and i love how republicans say that they're pro-life but they want to cut this program that would help them that would help them live their lives in a healthy way with food and produce it's just they're such hypocrites all the more reason they have to put two and two together for people of the they start realizing from time santa thanks so much for joining us. thank you. we're taking a short break and when we come back one man fights back against his placement on the no fly list and in turn gets a laugh mailed by homeland security i'll give you details on that in just a moment and then do the taxpayers have a right to know if public workers are on drugs the governor of florida seems to think so will debate the latest attack on public employees right after the break.

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if you were when president obama first took office he promised to make his administration the most open and transparent in history and i think we all know the white house is having a little bit of trouble making that happen but there's a group that is working hard to hold the president accountable on up promise he made in two thousand and nine crossroads grassroots policy strategist it's a republican advocacy group and they've launched a new web site called we counted dot org it's a crowd sourced site and it's going to post all documents made available to the public under the freedom of information act and it also shows what information is being withheld and asked the journalists organizations and the public all contribute any information that they've obtained under foil now as more and more people learn about the page crossroads says it will be a way to keep tabs on what information is released what information is it released to the public essentially forming a debate on the true transparency of the current white house now even though the

page has just been launched we have two pieces of information that you already find there and at promoting obama's health care plan that left taxpayers with a three point six million dollars bill elizabeth warren head of the consumer financial protection bureau had dinner with liberal journalists markos moulitsas david corn of mother jones. from american prospect and labor secretary hilda solis shows solidarity towards union bosses by joining meetings or attending events on forty different occasions between two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten. now these are just a few of the freedom of information released documents but needless to say they seem to be promoting the g.o.p.'s agenda and general i believe the more information available to the public the better but it only tells going side of the story then well that's a problem don't pretend to be all about transparency and then only post that information that helps your particular agenda so now we have two to hypocrites to call out the obama administration for not being open and transparent and away he

counted delivery dot org which also doesn't seem to like it or are to be too transparent unless it helps them but i guess we'll just have to wait and see how that website develops and if going to eventually make an honest name for themselves . now isn't democracy grand yesterday governor rick scott of florida signed an executive order to require random drug testing of state employees and agencies or the answer to the governor as well as pre-holiday are testing for applicants and according to scott floridians deserve to know that those in public service whose salaries are paid with taxpayer dollars are part of a drug free workplace that's how he feels i say that we should randomly start drug testing the governor as well but opponents including a.c.l.u. say that scott violates the constitutional rights of employees so to say that this is just another example of government overreach joining me to discuss it is my calculator journalist and contributing editor for in these times and chris friend

independent columnist and president of the friendly fire zone dot com gentlemen thank you both for joining me now chris let me start with you please tell me why on earth you have to surrender some of your constitutional rights to privacy if you want to work for your state. i don't think you're signing any right of privacy no one puts a gun to work with a state government. leper recipient if you don't like that type of regulation you can do one job somewhere else remember that the vast majority of companies in the private sector require drug testing we're not surrendering our constitutional rights it's not like they can come down the street and just kind of you know search you at any given point. if you're a new hire or god says otherwise a random drug test charge her top of one of our rights. people they are paying are drug free in the when i was upset i'm something. like what you say this is should they just go work somewhere else they don't like it this is a completely disingenuous attack aimed at demonizing public employees by florida

governor rick scott now if rick scott was really serious about cracking down on drug use he wouldn't have defunded a database that was to you know. you know these pain clinics that give prescription drugs to people and they give the only prescriptions to people that really don't need them that abuse drugs he funded this database and not only did he fund the database but then he refused private donations to keep the database going so one of cost the state any money to keep this database going you know several drug companies offered to provide several million dollars to track this so why would governor scott walker not on this database that could be used by law enforcement to track down these phony prescriptions the reason is he wants a he include he owns one of these phony prescription you know these pill mills they call him called saul and tech and he makes money so governor walker really wants the governor governor scott not walker i mean the both theories are different if you thought if governor scott really wants to crack down on drug abuse maybe he

should start by cleaning up his own shop or create for me that i mean if this really was some philosophical thing about how the taxpayers deserve to know whether the people whose salaries they're paying are on drugs then why does he have to sign an executive order and is decide on his own why can't the representatives of the taxpayers actually voted for them get a vote on this measure i mean doesn't seem very democratic to me that he just gets to sign an executive order and they because they said so. well of every speech you have a number of different legislatures around the country plan something you've been one of that has a bill in the legislature right now that i think will actually pass me some of the governor and i pass constitutional muster that says welfare recipients will have to be tested in order to receive benefits but i can't believe we haven't switched over yet that's the key welfare recipients see the reason why i want to bring a drug test is the new racialized the attack and see when people actually this is something that starts drugs are associated with african-americans when people think

that the majority of welfare recipients are african-americans and twice as likely to be opposed to welfare spending as a study done by martin back in the ninety's and this seemed to be a tactic is being applied not of public employees which is demonize and let's make them look bad because the overwhelming majority of american support public employees as we saw in wisconsin but the only way you can make them look bad is the talk about them being drug addicts and talk about them being poor and i guess why you bring it welfare then i guess you're saying if they're poor and leeching off the government is that the case might you know about it. this is a racial argument and this is an public you know you're really going to be is not racialized look in the private sector a lot of those companies test for drugs like i would for example of the separate drugs. i'm sorry i never work for a cult especially with a lot of private companies absolutely a lot of private companies test their employees for drugs and when you take a drug test we get hired if you don't like it they can go work somewhere else as

the stewards of the taxpayer money you know public employees the same way that anywhere anyone reading public systems you know there's a fundamental right that people have to know it will not subsidize a drug addict and that you're clean in the workplace this is nothing to do with organized labor or public sector unions let's not go where it's not but then how come to tell me that is why governor scott say that only those working in certain agencies that are important to him need to be drug tested by the courts the legislators those people aren't affected i mean i personally think that if governor scott wants to do this then he should be publicly drug tested and we should all know what his results are look i look i don't have a problem with that i don't ever i think it should be everybody i don't think that just you know separate people or you know has left the agency and he should be across the board for all new hires and then you know random baby test five or ten percent on any given period of time to make sure that people are clean remember taking drugs is illegal and you know there are people who want to legalize it

that's fine call your congressman but the right now it's against the law i want tax very moneys involved i don't you would as a in beijing on your privacy remember we're not talking about boston down your house we're not talking about you know just. because when you're on the street and saying someone hey you know what let's just go you know it's not regard we're going in the public we're least we all our money but we're praying for them and i again you look at makeup of the u.s. supreme court in a number of stages i think there's a real good chance they're saying constitutional muster we're actually in florida because it violates quota pardoning well under florida law because drug testing is is a mandatory subject barring so this is incredibly illegal in this brings up another thing that republican governors like rick scott and scott walker like to do which is they can't pass these measures but they want to demonize public employees they want to make them look bad so they do anything they did i mean we just saw that law in wisconsin were overturned by a court because it was illegal this is a common tactic demonize public employees strong legislation through a legal you know through legal laws and just do all these awful things so you think

that if they had been brought out if we didn't even get to talking about this subject then it wouldn't be in anyone's mind that maybe the federal or the state workers that my taxpayer dollars are paying for my piano drugs but now the legislation has been brought up and immediately you start questioning what is public workers doing drugs nearly as important as the steroids we give to the profits of the big banks that's the clips of drugs i really want to be talking about is the massive amounts of money that's being given way to wall street that's been given away to wal-mart and this is what we really need to talk about you know i don't care if someone gets high as long as they do their job that's all that matters are you guys we have to wrap it up i'm partially chris i'll let you get one last word in here mike i have one question are there things on your planet that problem people like you don't want to live in the real world but as you have these you want to try to make you know racial as an insulator you're going to see that as a real issue issue and you're. going to have to wrap it up a lot of thank you both very much for joining me you know i would just say that if

you're going to do it have people vote on it because it's their taxpayer dollars they're going to go towards the drug testing as well now before we go tonight it's time for our tweeted today james o'keefe the right wing's most people love it not gray hair is running a little low on cash and. his stings to destroy a korean a.p.r. he's racked up so much credit debt that he's now appealing to the american people to raise fifty thousand dollars so we're wondering what the american people tweet and we thought they'd say as the republicans they must have some extra cash after g. funding everything democrats hold dear that's it for tonight's show thanks for coming in make sure you come back tomorrow robert carlin that's on the program discussed whether or not the strategy in libya makes any sense in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of the night's or any other night you can always catch all the you tube slash the lower show we're now posting the interviews as well as the show in its entirety coming up next to the news with the latest headlines from the u.s. .

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