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twitter for a plot of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday the show long responses we like your book we. are to type presides tool time award and tonight it goes to michele bachmann again the minnesota congresswoman and possible twenty twelve presidential candidate has been i was weak trying to woo social conservatives and she was speaking at an event and thanks voters that helped oust three i was supreme court justices who ruled the gay marriage was legal in the state which is listen to michelle as she spoke about prohibiting judges from enforcing equal protections in the constitution and that little ole miss when all articles reports articles review nine. constitution we.

should. justices. we have with our already to decide what should. and what. so michelle who claims to love the constitution now want to take away the power of judges maybe she's confused about the three separate branches of government let's just recap for michele here first there's the legislative branch made up of the senate and the house of representatives their job is to make the laws for our country michel you are part of that branch of government just in case you're confused then we have the executive branch of government that's the one that made sure that the laws of the united states are obeyed the president is the head of the executive branch and he's also the commander in chief of the armed forces that we have that you disrobe branch of government which includes the court system the supreme court is the highest court in the land and you see courts to cite arguments about the meaning of

laws how they are applied and whether they great the rules of the constitution so sorry michelle but you can't just take away the rights of judges who rule on issues that you disagree with that's not really how it hurts that my dear would be unconstitutional but as a member of congress since you already know that tell you that organizing weekly constitution classes at the capitol we're going to do with the n.f.l. does and what the baseball teams do going to practice every week if you will our craft which is studying and learning the declaration the constitution the bill of rights just to clean it graciously agreed to kick off our class hour before we cast our first vote in congress will need in a camp that all will have a class on some there are seminar and some segment of the constitution will have a speaker will have questions and answers. oh michele bachmann a walking contradiction in today's political world and that's why she is tonight's tool time winner. now here on the show we've shown you how terrorists have used all

sorts of means to spread their message and how they're trying to do in more innovative and modern ways and we've told you about the hottest magazine inspired we mentioned the hottest magazine for women. are the so-called cause for jihad ists but they're not just using magazines they're also expanding to other means as well like the music world now we touched upon water suit the hottest musicians in the past although frankly not of them were anywhere near grammy worthy but check out this guy his name is omar hammami a.k.a. . and a mommy is an american born in mobile alabama he converted to islam and they join to somalia al qaeda organization offer bopp and this guy is a self-proclaimed jihad it's he thinks there is news of all talents are going to inspire other westerners to join the jihad movement so we just wanted to put him on the to the test so we snagged a copy of his latest album the beginning of the end and all right let's test out

his rhymes with his first track send me a cruise as in cruise missile. at a pretty good. send me a cruise like my little. sammy a couple times like. me again like a. special forces like silent and they're paying the same meal for and save me much much more prepared better. store seventy four seventy more that's what i implore and amazing what it demonstrates. i mean what the hell was that if that's his main track i'm going to say this album is going to be a bust but let me give him one more try with his beside make you high with me. that said to me it was. more to the people we've taken. every day.

some good at being human. and then. we breaking. away. is it just me or does his rap album sound more like excerpts from a book on tape certainly i'm not convinced and i hope that means no one else is going to be either all right so now we know that it's singing rapping skills oh they're not that good but mommy does have an interesting story turns out that he's a well known your hottest military circles and recent reports actually claim that he was killed back in march as are my do any other rappers out there i don't know thankfully there is not even a chance in hell that he'll ever reach the same success as to pot or as biggie but maybe the rumors of his death are going to help get him some credit and some music circles unfortunately i think the jihad is martyr type of circles might actually be into that but let's step back here let's take note of how the jihadist movement is growing it's plain to see that they have absolutely no problem very embracing

modern media methods to spread their method message but examples like the emails are hottest magazine and now militants working diligently to have their voices heard throughout so i just wonder what's next for them a movie a boy band only time will tell but hopefully their efforts aren't going to work hopefully anyone modern enough to be a giraffe or a glossy mags is going to appreciate the freedoms of the world and reject your heart. our debt is something that has in many ways become a constant in america the buy now pay for it later mentality our government has fourteen trillion dollars worth of debt and i only keeps on growing credit card debt i think we've all been there but now student loan debt is becoming one of the biggest problems for young americans in fact for the first time last year student loan debt outpaced credit card debt and according to the new york times it's likely to. a trillion dollars this year and the complications are immense this comes at a time when state budgets are being slashed into asians going up and pell grants

are in the middle of a budget debate on capitol hill the economy is in a recession unemployment is high and now an entire generation has to ask themselves whether it's worth living the rest of their lives in debt just to get a degree earlier from our studio in los angeles i caught up with anika sperry and host of t. y. t. university now by the way the young turks regular show they've been nominated for a way of bees so we wanted to send our congratulations a back to this topic i first asked and tell me what college students have been saying about this on the young turks t y t university show. yeah but what you're hearing and not just in the united states but also in the u.k. is that students are not only outraged by it they're frustrated and they feel discouraged they feel like you know education is no longer an investment because they're hearing all these stories about how to push in is increasing they're taking out these loans at the same time they're getting less for their money because of

the fact that all these universities are cutting programs due to budget cuts and by the time they graduate they enter this job market that is terrible they're not able to find work and they're left with these massive loans and you know the new york times just reported that the average college student graduates with twenty four thousand dollars in student loan debt and straight a four thousand dollars is actually a very small about when you consider some other students actually the majority of students who graduate with almost one hundred thousand dollars and so a lot of students are now saying that they don't even want to think about getting a graduate degree because they have so much debt by the time they get their undergraduate there that they don't feel like it's an investment they're willing to make they don't feel like it's worth it it's very depressing to one of the statistics that the new york times noted or not it's a to sticks but just piece of information is that a lot of these people are still going to be paying off their own student loans when they're ready to send their own kids off to college so it's something that's going

to last thing that's so depressing that it becomes this double edged sword as you mentioned it becomes so expensive that people start questioning whether you know it's even worth it to be in for the rest of your life just to get this degree but then if you look at the situation that our economy is in right now unemployment is much lower when it comes to those people who have college degrees so the students ask you on your show to you know for for advice to ask you should do i go to college why do i not go to college. you know some students have e-mailed me and they've asked whether or not it's even worth it to make that investment and i do think it's worth it but suits need to start looking at student loans differently and they need to look at it in education differently the days where you get higher education and you get to study whatever you want just because it interests you you can no longer look at it that way you can't go to us c. and major in philosophy and think that's a good investment that's one of the worst investments you'll ever make ok you've got to look at what the tuition costs are for certain schools you've got to decide

whether or not that major is going to make you money by the time you graduate you have to think of it as a business investment and i know that that's a really sad thing to think about but it's look you don't want to graduate with a philosophy degree at one hundred fifty thousand dollars in debt you're going to you're going to lose in the long run you know in the new york times article they actually talk to brock obama and barack obama talked about how when he graduated from law school he had about sixty thousand dollars in debt which by the way into these turns is a bargain ok and he said that his student loan payments each month were more expensive than his mortgage and a lot of students don't want to get caught up in that situation and they shouldn't and a really good way to prevent it is to really do your research ahead of time make sure you know how much the tuition is i went to a state school and i loved it i think i got a great education and it was affordable and i was able to graduate without student

loans and i was able to graduate thankfully a decent job market and i think some students should really consider a less expensive schools even if it's not their first choice just look into it. i'm with you on now into i'm also from california i think they were lucky in that sense to california in that we have good public schools i think the u.c. system is great of which you know i was a part of two but it's really sad. right but you can't go to college and study philosophy investor around and do what she wants and use those years to find herself and just think anymore everything does have to be of business but you know and i know you mention that people really need to investigate what they're getting themselves into and one of the things that i think is so under reported in this situation of student loan debt is that these for profit colleges these kaplan's. university of phoenix schools they go for people that often you know might want night school because they have children they work around their schedule but these

people are the ones that are most likely to actually not only have student debt but then to deep on their debt as well. you're right a for profit colleges have been investigated by the federal government a great deal in the past year and it is something that's under reported so i'm glad that you brought it up just to give you an idea of how often students default on their loans after they graduate from for profit colleges keep in mind that only twelve percent of students go to these institutions that includes the university of phoenix kaplan i.t.t. tech to fry all of these for profit institutions that are popping up all over the country only twelve percent of students go to these institutions but you also have to keep in mind that nearly fifty percent of all student loan defaults in the united states are from students who attend these colleges ok so a vast majority of which already of them graduate there are unable to find work and

they're unable to pay their loans back and keep in mind that a lot of the funds that these colleges get are from taxpayers it's federal money that is going into these colleges so they can in turn give this money to students so they can be able to attend these schools so it's your taxpayer money and i really like the fact that the obama administration now is attempting to pass something known as the gainful employment act which would basically hold these for profits accountable if students are graduating from these colleges and they're unable to find work and they're unable to pay their loans well then all of a sudden the federal government is not going to help them with aid and i think that that's a really important regulation to pass. i think that's important because there unfortunately you have so my federal money going to these for profit schools at the same time we see budgets being slashed in states across the board cuts being taken out from education the places where i think people could really use and i think so much for joining us. thank you so much. coming up next it's

a bipartisan effort to keep you safe when you're online i'll tell you about a measure proposed to protect your privacy from companies that want to collect their data and we'll hash out all the details on this bill listen as they come back . if we are right. i think. either one. we have the pleasure to be safe get ready because the freedom.

hey guys welcome michel ancel on the obama show we've heard our guests have to say on the topics now i want to hear audience is going to use you to video response our twitter profile of the questions that we post on you tube every monday and on thursday the show long response is the local.

you know sometimes you see a story at the scene so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here so you saw the part of it and realized everything you saw. boating closes tomorrow on the time magazine online poll that's allowing online users to vote on the world's most influential people for the year and guess who's on this list in fact guess who's in the top ten that's u.s.

army private first class bradley manning who currently as is at number eight on this list now manning as i'm sure you know if you watch our program on a regular basis is accused of leaking classified documents to wiki leaks and he's currently being held in solitary confinement in quantico virginia pending a military trial as we reported several times on this show manning st nick want to go into news to gain worldwide attention for the u.s. and definitely not in a good way just this week alone the u.n. and china have all called out the u.s. government for reports that manning is being tortured while at the military base and he has reportedly being left in a cell for twenty three hours a day under constant watch and forced to sleep naked at night and his harsh treatment is not only led to outrage from around the world but also led to grassroots support on the internet and numerous protest so piers that manning supporters are now using this time magazine poll to draw more attention to his abuse out fact that manning has made it so high on the list i think speaks to how

much support he really does have and just about everyone ahead of him on the list is something the singer. actor and media types but manning is still clinging on to number eight all gaul in prison without any communication with the outside world and interestingly enough manning is now ahead of julian a son who's coming in right below him at number nine now is manning's alleged leak of more than a quarter of a million diplomatic cables but turned wiki leaks into a household name and made julian a songe enemy number one of the u.s. government so let's hope that man he continues to move up in the poll before the voting ends tomorrow i think any publicity about his treatment will help draw attention to his case and the u.s. abuse of one of their own citizens so go out and vote. yesterday senators john mccain and john kerry introduced a bill establishing an internet privacy bill of rights something that consumers and civil liberties organizations have been waiting for for

a long time now this measure would create rules that would force internet companies to explain to users how they collect their data who's going to be able to view it and how they intend to keep it safe so for those companies wanting to get their hands on your info think of your name their e-mail address maybe even your credit card numbers they won't be able to do that without your individual consent and web companies would also have to offer users the ability to opt out of data collection and all tech giants like e bay microsoft intel and h.p. are all signed on privacy groups are saying that this bill isn't going far enough so let's figure out what the pros and the cons are here are the scotts the with me is technology reporter for the hill thanks so much for being here tonight now you know like i said this is something that i think has been a long time coming a lot of groups have been waiting for those who want to hear the microsoft intel h.p. the e.-bay the all of the biggest tech firms are actually happy with this legislation that in a way as opposed to hamper some of their abilities that's when i start to have

a few questions that's when i start to wonder because usually when industry is happy with regulation i mean something's a little off so what can you tell us about possible loopholes or shortcomings within this bill well i think it's early to discuss the shortcomings but there's definitely some concern among privacy advocates there's no hard do not track provision included in the bill and that would essentially be a list of consumers that have chosen not to be included in any targeted advertising or information collection by the firms effected by the law so it's kind of like right now you can be on a do not call bill and or call option i guess that nobody's going to call you any of the telemarketers but at the same time they're saying that within this bill you do have the option to opt out but how does that actually work does that mean that i have to dig. through a web site i have to find the correct link it's going to be somewhere buried deep in the bottom well that's the concern obviously senator kerry held a press conference yesterday where he argued that a do not track list would not be necessary if there was

a good effective procedure but of course the devil's in the details so it really depends a lot of people don't read the sorts of disclosures that you see on the website which which often do articulate exactly what a company is going to do with the information then later they find out that their information has been used in a way that they didn't anticipate and so a lot of it will be how the laws and force the federal trade commission will be in charge of bet and of course there are companies lined up behind us that might also be a recognition that some form of online privacy legislation is all but inevitable and these may be terms that they're willing to live with now so i supposably it within this bill if it does go through they're supposed to tell you why they want to use your information who they might give it to how long they might track it for but same thing if we talk about the logistics of it let's say i am surfing online and i go to do a web page is it going to be in this tiny terms of agreement still or do they have to make it more pronounced i mean are there any rules here that really has to be in the face of the consumer of the users well that's the thing again the lawmakers are

really trumpeting and there was a new bill introduced today in the house again where they say it has to be clear that these things they have to be interpreted by the courts companies it may not be reasonable in all cases for them to spell out in twenty point exactly what they will be doing with their information so the law does say that they have to clearly communicate exactly what they're going to do what form that will take remains to be seen and i think it's something that privacy advocates are going to be paying a lot of attention to call they're already paying a lot of attention to it and that i don't blame them right because if you're going to create these regulations to supposedly protect my privacy online i don't want to have to do all the work i want to be able to just sign up on a list and know that it's already taken care of for me now you said that the f.t.c. is going to be tracking this supposedly there could be fines of up to three million dollars but what i do have. interesting is that apparently private lawsuits and class action lawsuits in that case won't be allowed why is that there are some provisions to limit liability i wouldn't comment authoritatively and say that there are no lawsuits allowed but again that's another concern the bill is not final so

this is open to debate there are concerns about liability with with firms obviously they're very concerned that if they are found to be in violation of consumers privacy that this could be something that spirals you look at some of the social networks they have millions of users so if if a user agreement or for user information is going to be using correctly what exactly the scale of any awards judgment remains to be seen again that's one of the reasons why privacy legislation and internet regulations in general are so difficult is because we really can't anticipate what technology and the law and our user marketplace are going to look like in a few years i can just imagine what a class action lawsuit would look like with something like like facebook or some type of you know web browser i mean this is something that millions hundreds of millions of people use on a daily basis really around the world so it seems crazy to me now i do know that microsoft mozilla google and google they're all working on do not track the tears on their own browsers right now do you know how effective those are going to be

hear anything about them well the federal trade commission basically put it out there late last year that browser manufacturers should really be looking at this technology if they don't want a mandate from the book and that's what you're seeing is that a recognition from old cilla microsoft and google that this is something that's going to come down either way how effective it is again it remains to be seen i have toyed around with a little bit but personally it's not for proof yet in terms of being able to block all be on wanted ads again this is one of those things where if they are not found to be satisfactory by the f.t.c. we can see a lot of mandating that they work better. well hopefully we'll actually see that what do you think the chances are for this law to actually go through i mean it's a bipartisan bill the moment you have john kerry you have john mccain onboard is there any type of. anybody aside from perhaps privacy advocates which i would really say any of our lawmakers are these days so is there any defiance from other lawmakers out there i wouldn't call it defiance to be honest online privacy is one

of those areas where lawmakers are really eager to say especially in this partisan climate look we're going to get together we're going to do something on this we're going to protect consumers it sells well and there are more and more people worried about how sites like google how companies like facebook what they can do with their information so this is one of those things that could be touted as a political achievement and for that reason momentum has been building as i said we saw a new bill in the house where we've seen several efforts in the house to do privacy legislation i would be surprised if we don't see something passed this year i really think that we're going to see laws in this area on one hand i want to say that i i'm happy about this i like the idea that the government is finally tackling to see issue on line privacy for users that finally maybe somebody can tell us that we don't just have to have all of our information collected and stored and then given away to advertisers but i always am skeptical considering it's the same government that wants to wiretap the internet and get of all of our information out there too in terms of when it comes to these regulations but thank you so much for joining us thank you for having me now before we go tonight it's time for our

tweets of the day as we told you earlier not everybody was inspired by obama's speech on reducing the nation's deficit over the next twelve years vice president biden in fact was caught sleeping in the audience so tonight we wondered what would a sleeping joe biden between in his dreams all we thought we he'd say sorry barry but this speech was a big. snow or that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in make you guys come back tomorrow a fellow at the joint special operations university will be on the program to discuss whether relations between the u.s. and pakistan it has. sour note now in the meantime you have to get away from a family alone show on facebook and follow us on twitter and you missed any of the night's show or any other nights you can always catch colleagues to dot com iran or show repos the interviews as well as the shell in its entirety coming up next as our new show at first is the man.

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