well. yeah we're never as safe ready for freedom. of the removal of. the. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour our rage erupts in wisconsin after a healthy clerk discovers over fourteen thousand uncounted votes in the race for the state supreme court justice and it seems the clerks work history is just as dirty as the scandal. if you're one of the millions who have a g. mail or hotmail account your emails are not private and yet this government is

trying to keep it that way this is even legal and have you ever wondered what makes you a republican or a democrat well it's all in your head literally. the story coming out of the wisconsin supreme court election last week reeks of something fishy after claiming victory democratic backed judge joanne kloppenburg was shocked to hear that over fourteen thousand votes were suddenly found on thursday is two days later to give her opponent incumbent conservative judge david prosser who has said he wants to continue scott walker's agenda a seventy five hundred vote advantage large enough that there won't be an automatic recount and give republicans in the state supreme court those missing votes were

found in surprised the most conservative county in the state and they want to found those votes county clerk kathy nicholas suprising has a history of past elections and vote totals in fact she's been audited from usual handling of election results and surprise she's a former employee of judge david prosser you know the conservative guy who is running against. so many conservatives pull another facet on the american people and steal another election that will be vitally important to governor scott walker's future union busting efforts here to shed some more light on this issue is brad friedel best of me to journalists blogger and publisher of the brad blog at red blog dot com rad welcome day thank god i'm going to be here great to have you with us fourteen thousand votes turn out to out of nowhere to change the winner of the election what the. believed is going on in wisconsin yeah it's.

actually something odd is going to walk struck down in this county quote jack nicklaus is simply well no election officials should be trusted we need to be able to oversee our elections. she washed them most i can't for the life of biden state has not already counted every single solitary computer everything else walker's shocking because the more i learn about that situation the more troubling it becomes. there was an eighty year old democratic canvasser ramona kid singer who had been sort of pulled out at the press conference that nicholas gave the other day and was sort of pushed forward and told about the numbers we're learning more today that she knew nothing about numbers she was kept out of some of the canvassing meetings something very strange is going on that those fourteen thousand votes that jackie nicholas suddenly announced on thursday actually

reported in a small local news outlet brookfield on tuesday night so nicholas didn't necessarily pull them out of thin air that said we don't know if they're accurate or not because all of these ballots in wisconsin largely as paper ballots that's good been scanned by computers and nobody bothered to actually verify if the computers were recording those the paper ballots accurately or trouble putting on my putting on a tin foil hat for the moment would it be reasonable to assume cappy nick was actually didn't just invent or create those votes they were held back until the last minute while perhaps votes were invented or created elsewhere in the state and then brought out when they were needed and. the classic you know when i when i was

a kid i was a i was my best friend's dad was a professional magician i did magic you know i learned that and the trick is you always want to know what your right hand while your left hand is actually doing the trick you know getting getting the rabbit stuff could be that kind of thing what's really going on is going on around the someplace else in the state and they cathy's on the. that is very much my concern right now because a lot of people are looking at walker saga. cathy nicholas she deserves to be looked at closely because. she's given for all of this simply don't. for all sorts of grief but yet said you know everybody is looking at her and it's a big state and there's a lot of other boats out there and milwaukee doesn't get even have a boat in and there were some reports still unconfirmed on election night out of milwaukee that quite concerned about so yeah i'm concerned that we may have

a bit of a distraction here but again it goes back to the same thing we have paper ballots we should be counting them in front of all the people now i don't know why i'm standing right now is. my understanding right now we just don't marry a lot of understanding is in fact they're not going to count the paper ballots they're just going to run them through the machine the same the same ballots and the same machines again and that they're only going to do with my county do i have the right to you know you. know yes in a recount the way it works in wisconsin is yes they will put the now it's back for the machines unless there is a court order but when. the recount rules allow for that the campaigns to actually examine each ballot before it goes through the machine so it will call it will hand the calendar all of it crazy ought to have a full hand count across the entire state at this time in the hope that the chain

of custody for the state or ballot has been secure for the past week on that thank you very much for dropping by tonight my pleasure the important thing to remember is in this story even if processor prevails in the end nineteen counties in wisconsin switched from republican to democrat in last week's election compared to last november's election this shows is that the american people are fed up with the radical anti-union agenda that the republicans are pushing all across the nation you call it a widespread fever of voters who are more. but i think there's something more important going on here and it's really pretty straightforward and that is that again we have machines counting votes as as i mentioned earlier i just just spent the last five days in germany in germany they vote on paper in fact the only country in europe that tried electronic voting machines was holland they try to do a couple of years ago they said these things don't work or not reliable you can't trust them you can't audit them and they dump them canada tried them for a year they got rid of them now in germany for years and years i lived there for

your back in the eighty's for years and years just like in the united states for decades the you knew i remember back you know if in the if in the sixty's the fifty sixty seven long before there were voting machines everybody voted on paper my mom was one of these volunteers that the you know the people voted on paper and yet the newspaper the television stations were able to call the elections even in bush right they did exit polls something very strange started happening though in one thousand nine hundred eight and then i see ninety eight election and several of the critical states the election polls just didn't come out right they weren't they weren't the same as what they were trying to voting machines that it got even worse in two thousand it's called red shift it was always always working to the advantage of the republicans this shift in some states it was i was seven percent same thing in two thousand and two same thing in two thousand for now you know you could build a conspiracy theory around this or not the bottom line is really simple thomas paine laid it out he said the right of voting for representatives is the primary

right by which all other rights are protected to take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another and that he has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case in other words voting is the beating heart of democracy why do we have government we have government to administer the commons our air our water our police our schools all these other things these are our commons and how do we run the government we tell it what to do . and we need to be telling it what to do without our voice spain mediated by four corporations one of which is own partly in venezuela one of which is own partly in saudi arabia and two of which are owned by people who clearly and explicitly come right out and say that they're affiliated with a republican party it's nuts it's time for us to say no to the voting machine just like canada did just like the netherlands did just like other european countries have and let's just go back to paper it works.

the government lies to read your emails and ability and congress not to take that power away from them as you know that under current law authorities can read your email without a war as long as it's older than one hundred eighty days and not stored in your personal hard drive that means any older email it's left over in a third party server like g. mail or hotmail or yahoo is subject to the government's prying eyes but new legislation aims to change that one class all email whether it's on your own computers our drive or another server as off limits to investigators a lot of. all over the white house the f.b.i. and other agencies are opposed to the bill and are essentially telling us if we want to be safe we need to give up our emails. so this was required to live in

a safe america or is this just another blatant violation of our fourth amendment rights to privacy to recall the electronic privacy information center joins me now to talk about this issue and your walk and thank you very much for having me great to have you here with us in this fate for the start of the beginning here in this facebook world today a lot of people particularly people like you know younger people don't understand even what the word privacy means why what is privacy and why is that important so what we have in this particular instance is an act of the electronic communications privacy act which was written back in one thousand nine hundred six now if you think about the way the technology was in one thousand nine hundred six you can see what the problem is with this act it hasn't been substantially changed since then one thousand and six was three hundred baud modems phone and oh yeah yeah yeah and and so we have a great expansion in technology that has just outpaced the law. and so. are pretty much all of our e-mails on third party servers these days most of them at

this point it's what's called cloud computing where you use to save things like google like microsoft word documents or like your email in outlook on your computer it would be saved on your hard drive this really goes to the question of privacy now the privacy has control over your information now that information is stored up in the cloud which is a remote server that's owned by google that's owned by microsoft it's owned by some third party company so you you lose some control of that information when it said you weren't there you know without getting to walk here on this you know the difference between pocket i'm out and clog even with. servers we're basically every time you log on you suck down all the e-mail and deletes it from the server if you go back into that server and you look at your to lead an e-mail folder there or your emails and there are often there for years and most you set a specific defaults for that not to be there and what is so there is that you've

lost control over your information where it used to be if the government wanted to take that information from your to look at that information they would have taken a warrant they would come into your house they would get your hard drive they would look at that now you might not even know that the government is looking at your information because it's on that server they can simply make a request oftentimes not even involving a warrant from that third party hosting service and they can get your information yes. you know i have two concerns here and they have to do with the government right one is you know i don't frankly want the and i say whatever reading my e-mail but. i don't really care frankly i mean it's not like i'm in some high security business. on the other hand having grown up in america and in some small towns in america i've seen situations where small town cops in fact i know personally and you're a woman who was stalked. by a small town cop. both lived in the same town and the way i'm reading this law

if if if my cousin bobo's a town it was a cop in a town of four hundred people decides he wants to check on his girlfriend always got to do is go to the ice cream and say give me the e-mails and that's exactly why we need a warrant requirement that requirement creates oversight because it requires that law enforcement then go to a court and show that court why they need to have that information the words in other words this isn't just the feds it's not the big government this could just as easily be a small town sheriff this could just as easily lead to the guy be done in in the near shambles you're in georgia precisely what we see these sorts of abuses even with with the big government with the f.b.i. sure yeah and it but it all but frankly it concerns me even more. because so often there are so many cases of of of police officers abusing their power to check up on friends of relatives and girlfriends and boyfriends on

infidelity on all these other kinds of is just another it's just and this brings us back to this issue of people don't understand privacy would it be inaccurate to say as the as jefferson made the right one when he was arguing for the fourth amendment which doesn't have the word privacy and because back then that was a word that people used to describe going to the toilet you know the privy but you know being secure in your person papers and effects that's what we call privacy would be inappropriate or in inaccurate to say that the reason why it's important is that. we can't really contemplate taking on a force larger than the us and less we have the ability to do it with anonymity yes in order to be able to have a real robust power of descends a real robust first amendment freedom of speech you have to be able to have anonymity you have to not be constantly afraid that your government is looking over your shoulder and whether it. yes i wonder whether it's there is one else yes ok

and so so that really is the definition of privacy ultimately and why it's important and any chance to stretch this law is going to be changed there's a possibility we're we're hopeful for it echo reform has been something that's been going on for years that's this hope in this quest for this reform because the law has been outdated for a long time ginger thanks so much for dropping by paralyzed for most of you here with us. sadly in our post nine eleven world our lawmakers have been more than willing to put our rights especially our privacy rights on the chopping block over and over and over again a paraphrase of ben franklin about how those who would give up freedom to get safety deserve neither comes to mind. coming up but i guess we're conservative rules or liberal views originate from here's a hint it's near the place that coordinates your balance of vision and hearing.

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you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some of the part of it and realized everything you thought you know i'm sorry for the big picture.

it's the good the bad of a very very extremely ugly person the good icelandic voters after two thousand a financial collapse thanks to irresponsible banks toure's the government of iceland is trying to repay its bank debt to the u.k. in the netherlands but on saturday the voters said no way and they rejected a national referendum it's actually the second time they've done it it would have forced taxpayers to foot the billion dollar bill instead taxpayers want to see the big banks who gambled with their money footing the bill themselves courts are not going to suddenly issue the kudo's to the voters for taking a stand and putting the banks trees in their place the bad but don't you know that guy in there at all had money from his father and went bankrupt a couple times in the on whatever any of the go on here in an interview with c.n.n. over the weekend from finally put his finger on the real reason why we're all being

a lie. too about president obama's real birthplace. and the grandparents put that in because obviously they want him to be a united states citizen because in those so this is all about getting welfare i mean president obama isn't part of a socialist plot to put their manchurian candidate the white house well done trump first question is whether out the president is canyon and then call his grandparents out to be welfare abusers he's hitting all cylinders now in the republican race to the bottom. so for that monkey here and the very very ugly fox news talking head here johnson i'm fox and friends this morning johnson had some high praise for house speaker john boehner take a look. tell americans supposed to believe that he's actually changed philosophically serious about getting reelected that's what he's serious about and i think what he witnessed is john boehner leading the greatest intervention in american history intervention for a debt and spending addicted congress and white house reeling the greatest

intervention in american history. i suppose intervening to end slavery in the one thousand hundreds communist witch hunts in the one nine hundred fifty s. giving women the right to vote in one nine hundred twenty s. countless other interventions to make our nation better all hail in comparison with republicans efforts to defund planned parenthood so the poor women can get cancer tests that's very very hard. sciences finally discovered the difference between republicans and democrats and it all has to do with our brains researchers at britain's university college in london

did extensive testing on the brains of individuals who identify themselves as a liberal or conservative and what they found was that the brains looked remarkably different depending on which way the individual leaned politically. it all centers on two parts of the brain the a mid villa and the anterior cingulate got a cortex the migdal on the part of your brain more ancient it's part of the more ancient brain processes fear and fight or flight responses among other things as well as fight and flight anterior cingulate cortex or a.c.c. on the other hand which is more recent in our evolutionary functions processes more rational cognitive functions and deals with complexity in understanding the researchers found was that in conservatives the a mid to low part of the ancient fear portion of the brain was much larger than the evolutionarily newer a c c part of the rational brain in liberals the opposite was

true they had a much larger a c c in a much smaller megalo this could explain why republicans are more sensitive to fear producing political narratives like homeland security and war democrats are more able to understand and see the nuances of social political concepts like the we society and equality programs that require deeper levels of understanding and complex thought. beyond just understanding the differences between the brain of a conservative in the brain of a liberal it's even more important to take a look at how a brain develops differently to begin with. i is it that some people have larger image a little bit a middle is than a c c's and vice versa it all happens in the womb. when a fetus is developing the ancient parts of the brain develop first it's sometimes called the reptilian brain because it's pretty much most of their brains through the tiles it's the fear driven most primal part of our brain it's the fight or

flight the kill or be killed part these ancient parts are the dominant parts of the brain even today from modern day lizards in libya and they even drive the behavior of highly evolved animals like you and me they run the necessary skills to survive in the wild they drive fear which in people leads to things like beliefs that obama's a secret muslim and the anti-christ oh and he wants to take your guns away next week but later in the development of a fetus another part of the brain develops the more recently volved parts like the cortex in the a c c and the newer neocortex all working together so we can process complex emotions and rational thinking this is the intellectual actually of the thoughtful part of our brain and it's the part that's bigger in liberals according to the u.k. study and census more recent part of the brain develops later as evolutionarily more advanced and is what essentially separates us from animals then is this part

of the brain that should be nurtured it's part of the brain that advances the human race that allows our species to thrive and unfortunately it's part of the brain is in danger consider a pregnant woman and developing fetus is constantly asking mom and i about to be will born into a safe world or a dangerous world. this is this is the question the fetus is asking mom and the answer back comes chemically in the level of cortisol and other stress hormones in mom's blood and blood stream that she has that is circulating through the baby through the placenta and the woman has a stressful pregnancy like in a war setting or in a society rife with poverty and violence mom produces lots of stress hormones like cortisol that message chemically communicated to the fetus is it's a dangerous world get ready the fetus does this by making the lizard part of the

brain and the image to look bigger and the a.c.c. smaller more fight or flight for the dangerous world and less deep thinking it would be a luxury in a safe or nature is preparing the child to survive in a violent environment by nurturing the fight or flight and fear mechanisms and trading off the more intellectual facilities or faculties the child becomes more animalistic and the problem solving skills are often wanted and geared toward simplistic and violent revolution and the other hand if a mother goes through a more peaceful and less stressful pregnancy then the a.c.c. and other more recent evolutionary parts of the brain develop more in the loser brain and the middle and though that child may lose some of its instinctual fight or flight it's skills and may not be as adept as living in the jungle alone they do acquire a very useful intellectual capabilities that reside in this new more of our brain

they can reason better think up a federally solve problems without violent conflict. and considering our species has emerged from the loss of violent century in the history of mankind the twentieth century saw over one hundred fifty million of us slaughtered by war in one century and i think we should embrace our more peaceful and our more human brains that's why it's absolutely essential that we stop the republican cuts to programs for women and children why it's so important that we strengthen our social safety net particularly for the most vulnerable among us if your children can be born with larger einstein like brains and the future of our species is limitless this is a what's at stake it may produce more liberals but it'll also produce fewer wars under the republican cuts today the world's future may well depend on that's the big picture from our information the stories we visited check out our website and some started a common are. you tube page you dug the big picture. and no forget democracy begins

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