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but then we had an apartheid. leg. i think. the one. we never got the case to the safe get ready because our freedom. hi guys welcome to shelly's hell on heels on a shelf which part of our guests have to say on the topic now i want to hear audio has gone to you tube the video response so far to twitter for thought of the question that will host all you killed every monday and on thursday the show long response is a blog like. you
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know some good to see a story and it seems so. easy to understand it and then you give them something else here's the part of it and realize that everything is ok if you don't charge the.
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art it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight our award goes to sarah palin the former half term governor of alaska must be feeling a little bit left out she's not getting anywhere when it comes to the race for the white house next year in fact that most pundits say that she has absolutely zero chance of winning the g.o.p. nomination in recent months her poll numbers have fallen off a cliff so while still allowing that has decided to try and inject herself back into the public debate she didn't come out with a great opinion on the budget debate or our war in libya now instead she jumped on the donald trump rather bandwagon he's not just throwing stones and and from the sidelines he's big in there you see he's paying for researchers to find out why president obama would have spent two million dollars to not show with birth certificate so you know more power to him what. sarah palin stoking the fire of ignorance wherever she. he goes now sarah went on to say that she believes obama
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was born in hawaii but finds a perplexing for the president won't release his birth certificate now as we covered on this show before he has released his certificate of live birth which is what the state of hawaii releases to anyone seeking a birth certificate and officials in hawaii have reviewed the document and called it official so what else do these crazy brothers need now back in february pale and called the berger issue of distraction from the more important issues so what changed between february and april they're became irrelevant that's what changed she saw gone past her in most polls so now she's decided to be a burger cheerleader from the sidelines all in an attempt to make herself feel important and so sorry but i really don't think it's going to work sarah palin you will always be a sore loser who walked away halfway through your first term as governor and quite frankly i don't think the world has missed you one thing since you've been out of the spotlight unless that is of course to make fun of you which you've made so so very easy for us and that's why you are tonight's tool time winner. now we've
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spoken about it before but today it's official in france the full face veils are now officially banned in public which include muslim burkas and i was contentious law was described by government officials as a way to help muslims adapt to their local communities the critics say this law is just a way of persecuting those who follow islam and keep in mind france does have the largest muslim population in all of europe so will this new law spread to other european countries as well archie's daniel bushell has more. here just become a criminal from today a new french law bans covering your face in public is designed to make muslim women integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says he's had the opposite effect. my friends have simply stopped going out at all with new rulings made some scared to speak out but many valid not to change the way they dress the move on
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their minds what the french republic stands for says. he pledges to pay the hundred fifty point for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taken at this point. we are soon france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. that was fired this nicolas sarkozy's integration implies a last month of criticizing the president's approach that he now calls on french muslims to wear staus similar to the one forced on jews by the nazis. these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show a record low approval rate for the french government with bankers asians did liberally story into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the streets the government looks the building of basic public prayer and
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more discrimination say worshippers against the muslim population for all to see more lives in recent years against government policies there are signs of more brewing it is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together those foreign events that were so outraged partners in europe joining planes from illegal to pour titian of rome and send the north. african brit fiji but it's in the in the free for the international ngo that splits the franco german axis the droid's the u. this. axis as as it has been called sometimes is not functioning and let's be afraid it's going to make sure muslim regimes when it picks on its own ethnic minorities why should we stop persecuting christians if you are prosecuting
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muslims saying. to tell us what we should do. the french government groups hold on. civil court for politicians if. he quits. the sea in the coming days. as the world focuses on the topic of spending and the need to cut it there's a new report out there of deals where a very good chunk of that u.s. spy nics budget is being spent for the pre as a swedish based think tank they did a study to determine how much the world has spent on its military budget and the total dollar amounts one point six trillion that's a lot of money when it comes to the military but where the real shocker comes in as when you see this and see very calculated how much each country has spent on the military the u.s. johnnie's the area they spent six hundred ninety eight billion dollars in the past
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year alone to you we thought so too now see very also determined that the u.s. has an eighty one percent increase in military spending over the past decade that means the military budget has almost doubled since two thousand and one and it sounds like a lot but wait until you see it when you put it into the comparison with the rest of the world here's the us with a massive at stake in the total global military budget meanwhile the second highest is china and all the u.s. takes forty two percent of that one point six trillion you'll notice that china the second well their total amount is only around seven percent i don't think it takes a rocket scientist to notice that staggering money now in the u.s. dollars spent dominates equal more equal more than the entire global military budget it makes you think why exactly do we need to spend this much money now while this looming question is so hard to ignore it's obvious that both the democrats and republicans are going to do their best not to acknowledge the elephant in the
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budget the beyond bloated military allowance so far we've heard a lot of talk in absolutely no action and speaking of budgets let's move on to our next story. on friday congress literally waited until the eleventh hour to reach a compromise and not shut down the government they passed a one week resolution with q billion dollars in cuts to housing and transportation programs and agreed to thirty eight point five billion in cuts to be voted on this week but to not expect the partisan bickering and there are the opposite unfortunately now the real battles going to the treasury secretary tim geithner has already warned lawmakers of the u.s. is going to reach its debt limit by may sixteenth at which point congress will have to vote on increasing it or the country as a whole is going to default and the results will be according to most lawmakers and economists catastrophic all the white house was hoping for a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling to avert disaster and leave all the deficit talk until later house speaker john boehner signaled this weekend that it is not
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going to be that simple. when the president says i want you to send me a clean bill well yes well mr president not a chance you're going to get a clean bill. i can just tell you this there will not be an increase in the debt limit without something really really big attached to it. so does this mean that republicans are willing to hold the country hostage all that what they want here to discuss with me is benji's silent aggression the reporter at talking points and you thanks so much for being here thanks for having me first starters i hate these people honestly how old noxious is that the last week everyone has to worry about a looming government shutdown there are eight hundred thousand federal workers that had to leave work on friday not knowing if they're going to come back on monday not knowing when they're going to get their next paycheck and these guys decide to just you know wait till it's down to the wire and how finally i think that it works better for everyone you know it makes it look like they thought the absolute hardest on both sides no one wants to come up with a deal and that's ok i guess we're done for the rest of the week we'll just hang
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out and say oh that's a compromise and so easy when he spent more time i guess that's a nice way to look at it now what's going to happen this week is this thirty eight point five billion dollars going to be an easy one or is it just going to be a complete repeat well it's almost certainly going to pass but the question is how many republicans defect is the big deal john boehner has always had a somewhat tenuous grip on the more conservative wing of the republicans in the house and a number of them at various times revolted against some of the previous short term funding bills that he put before them so there's always the chance of a significant numbers as you know what we don't like this deal we're just going to register our frustration if we have any idea what's actually in it so we have a number but what's what's in this thirty eight point five going gosh is planned parenthood still a huge issue i haven't heard any way to defend say well funded planned parenthood is stored on it it usually tells we do not know yet now they've pledged to put it up by the end of tonight i think by good night so we can actually take
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a look into it but we only know what details they've told us we can actually look. the actual legislation i'm assuming that we know the defense is going to be just fine when it comes to that now as i say when it comes to raising the debt ceiling it seems like that's just going to be another battle and another huge issue in john boehner said there's no way they're going to let just a clean bill go through unless they get what they want to some people have said that republicans are centrally you know acting like this is a hostage situation that they're taking america's future the possibility of us developing the possibility of catastrophic consequences and using that all to leverage it's certainly how the white house is portraying it and they do have the benefit of a lot of mainstream economists and a lot of even conservative economists on their side and john boehner themselves said not so long back that it would be catastrophic he's been very open about it even some of the most conservative members of republican leadership have said this is i believe john boehner called it an adult moment for the tea party this is about
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when it was one of the things you just have to do even this paul ryan plan that was just a beaut this week i would effectively end medicare and just aggressively cut all these different things even under that you still would have to raise the debt limit for years and years and years to come so it's tough for them to really defend holding holding hostage with much credibility so then can we make any guesses when they say it's going to take some concessions you know what john boehner is going to so want from her president in return well the ideal thing the democrats i think are hoping they can bargain him down to be just some symbolic votes say the balanced budget a budget amendment something gets mentioned a lot it's been getting talked up more and more in recent days that has absolutely no prayer passing and even if it i don't think republicans would know what to do with it in terms of running the country really cripples government but at the very least they'd love to take a nice symbolic vote on it and maybe they could get that on the senate floor as part of the. this is the crazy thing to me is that in a new. wall street journal poll only sixteen percent of americans said that they
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want the debt limit to be raised. do they just you think that the average american rises doesn't understand what it really means for them for the u.s. to default on its debts i think that's the long and short of it it's sort of complicated to explain it's not a direct economic result the way it is with a government shutdown say there's actually sort of a process by which maybe the government can truck along a little while and then brings some they get really bad so it takes a little explanation exactly why this is a problem markets would freeze up the economy would just cease to be able to move and i don't think most people are definitely are with the basics of just what happens our ben thank you so much for joining us will see what happens we'll see if it does become a little easier in that we have to gear up for the next battle and president obama will be speaking on wednesday where he is finally unveiling his own deficit plan a counter proposal to paul ryan where it's expected that be entitlements are going to take a hit but also perhaps taxes for the rich are as well so we'll cover that when it
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comes out thanks so much for being here thanks now still to come tonight it was a meeting of minds this weekend in new hampshire billionaire george soros and other economic leaders and thinkers gathered to discuss how to remake the global economy in a very different economic climate are he's going lister have a wrap up on the events only thing but. let's not forget that we have an apartheid regime right. i think. we have a god that says they're safe. because of their freedom. a
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charmer over here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture a. new website which twenty four seven live streaming news times what to do about the ongoing financial hardship unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you may never find one mainstream news. media the political. posts aren't. just.
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guys welcome to shower and tell the obama show we've heard our desktop to say on the topic now i want to hear our audience just go watching you tube video response or the twitter first part of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday the show long response is going to let your voice be heard. so we got an update for you tonight on one guy who took on so many george hotz an avid gamer and tech whiz and former guest on the alone a show was known for jailbreaking the i phone but then he got into deep water when he not only successfully hacked sony's playstation three but then went on to release the code needed for the hack online along with a how to video got out his code put sony in hot water because it created a loophole for anybody who wanted to modify their gaming console and even allow gamers to use pirated games on their system so as you can imagine this put hearts
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into a lawsuit with the mega electronics corporation how it was not hurt he proceeded to push the envelope when he released this rock video on youtube. she constantly. being afraid of your children because the choice the boy is not yours to she. tells me. now we had hearts on our show a few months back when he was asking for donations for his legal costs in fighting the corporation but look psychotic agio hard as fellow gamers column has reached an agreement according to wired dot com sony has dropped its jailbreaking a lawsuit against hogs in exchange for a promise not to fiddle with the p s three system anymore that's right a promise now the details of his promise include an agreement not to perform reverse engineering decompiling or disassembling any portion of a sony product and he also agreed not to bypass disable or circumvent any encryption security or authentic authentication mechanism now breaching the terms
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of the settlement would result in a ten thousand dollars fine for violations but looks like the only way the hard to get out of legal trouble is through agree to keep his hacking ways away from sony products but that doesn't really seem like too harsh of a penalty for me after all so he did treat hunts like enemy number one they even got court approval to hans's pay pal records and to his hard drive we have to keep in mind though that the damage for so many is already done now the encryption code is out there in public where others can still use the code to hack their own gaming systems and that's where hans was not able to speak on the settlement at this time he assured wired that he would keep on fighting the good fight and the best way he knows so here it looks like one guy that so called a major corporation kind of won. it historic new hampshire it was a gathering of the world's leading financial minds they met in order to determine how to move forward in a rapidly changing economic one landscape lauren lyster reports.
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if these hills could talk. the economic theory they would expound upon it. ladies and gentlemen please welcome ideas that could change the world of futures. pretty determined or at least billionaire george soros bringing together ph d's and nobel prize winners with the backdrop of historical bretton woods would suggest someone is hoping it will go back to what you have it was here allied nations came during world war two with an economic system in crisis they came searching for stability they formed the international monetary fund the world bank and established the u.s. dollar as a global reserve currency it's here that decades later in the wake of a financial crisis a group of influential economists and former policymakers have got together to try to rethink that very framework to reflect a different world so everything that we have taken for granted for almost two
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centuries american and european dominance he's no longer in adjusting to that fact and cleaning up the mess of the two thousand and eight anshul crisis in the u.s. to move the country forward critics here paint a picture of near continuous failure of u.s. policymakers to do the job of president barack obama's former right hand economic man so the stimulus should have been bigger well the decision was political i mean the the judgment was we wanted to get as much fiscal quote fiscal stimulus as we could meanwhile the wall street bailouts of the time and probably deserved reaction favored finance they saved the big banks but they have not really gotten more timely going to get. the financial reforms passed by washington supposed to end too big to fail haven't banks still aren't required to hold enough cash that's just one reason critics like this former j.p. morgan exact site putting the country on course for another disaster. terms on what
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one says about crisis but i have to say yes the concentration of power in finance is greater today than it was before this crisis and that's courtesy of the cash flow from wall street to politicians and lobbying corrupting real reform and believe in the leaders tapped to make it despite some with noble goals i think there are others who have taken too much money from wall street but they are doing what you might say whatever the folks want that they are contributing to the do you want to or issue of confidence deterioration coming amidst an increase in inequality in the us where the top one percent are getting richer while everyone else is lagging behind with frustration starting to pour over into the street i seen recently a public union workers in wisconsin. nobel prize winning economist joseph stiglitz believes it's all sending the country in the wrong direction that's right and that was what has brought him so forcefully by that was clapping wisconsin he has high hopes the mix of thinkers and policy makers here will lead to new priorities while
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others are experiencing their own crisis of confidence that new economic thinking will turn into direct action anytime soon the more things change the more they stay the same. lauren mr r.t. new hampshire. joining me for more details from the conference is our tease lauren lister now lauren should we be a little surprised her i don't know maybe a little skeptical that suddenly all these financial elites are worried about a dying middle class and an increasing wealth one that maybe some of them helped create. i don't know to divide but i do think it's a very theatrical i do think that what we're seeing is a little bit from that because that because we're used to hearing activists on our shows talk about this people that are suffering as a result of the rising inequality in this country you don't often hear as many mainstream policymakers or economists concerned about that but many people brought
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is wisconsin and a belief that this might be reaching a tipping point where social instability is coming finally as a result of thirty years of no wage growth well the top one percent have seen their incomes increase pretty astronomically so i do think that you see kind of this newfound. concern with it because it has been more in your face for everyone you know it's not just numbers anymore it's you know hundreds of people invading a state capital because they're going to lose their livelihoods so i do think that you know you're seeing that awareness a little more among people that you may not think that you would ok so we're seeing the concern we're seeing the awareness that we necessarily see it in practice you know you have some stories of how it's not really changing as well i mean i think that this was just an ironic anecdote that i took from the conference you know so many of the speakers were focused on the inequality and how things need to change with government intervention and investment and that sort of thing to bridge this gap in society that it's getting just worse in the united states how workers are
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crunched you know unemployment is high productivity has doubled because workers are being worked harder meanwhile you know i was speaking to some of the security guards that were working there working the event and you know going on the last day was working fifteen hour days. we aren't getting you know long breaks we used to work twelve hours on twelve hours off but you know because we wanted to get the contract and they're trying to you know meet this bottom line and what they want to spend now we're working you know essentially you know much much harder than was ever commonplace and so literally you see this example of the productivity being squeezed out of workers that is just increase you know for in the united states largely you know that in the numbers and it's how can you at the very conference we're academics and policy makers are saying that that need to be brought to an end but it's literally perpetuated there so maybe ironic or maybe i guess a good sign right if it's in your face i'll be more important but not not i mean i
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heard this story because we spoke about it but you don't see these policy makers you know engaging the security in conversation about their work schedules you know it's really not one of the things we don't see a lot of and i brought this up on friday is that any time there's a koch brothers conference we see the left wing media all over. and yet in this case you know on friday i thought maybe the conference was started i looked over the weekend i still saw barely any coverage are they scared here to talk about this summit you know i know someone who would agree with you and that would be the executive director of the think tank to put it on because i asked him about that because going into the conference all that i could find on it that it was being written beforehand was very. skeptical you know very conservative viewpoints blogs about how george soros was trying to end capitalism and remake the global economy and take down america few notches and very kind of fear mongering blogs about this conference and i asked the executive director about that when i interviewed him and he said he was so upset and upset and angry over the silence of
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what he called the centrist mainstream media and he specifically said the new york times and the washington post and he said he thinks they're scared he said he thinks that they're scared of the right you think they're scared of losing for her donors and and he has he shared your skepticism over over over the silence that well i guess i'm happy to know that i'm not the only one that learned thanks so much for filling us in before we go tonight it's time for our tweets of the day so she's not officially in the race but congresswoman michele bachmann said today that if she were elected president in two thousand and twelve she would only serve one term in order to really get stuff done that led every american to quickly tweet how noble but one term would be enough for you to destroy the entire country so no thank you michelle and that's it for tonight so thanks for tuning in they can come back tomorrow shadi hamid the director of research at the brookings doha center will be on the show to discuss the u.s. islamic world forum and meantime going to get to become a fan of the lower show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any
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