well. we never says there's safety ready because freedom. in the. world. will. lose them. 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 realize everything you thought you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

i'll go back to the big picture on thom hartmann coming up in this half hour just hours after treacherous storms ripped through parts of the nation hundreds are taking time to honor mother nature this earth week activist and author bill mckibben joins me as he shares his mission plus the g.o.p. has passed another one of paul ryan's budget plans this one targets snap the

supplemental nutrition assistance program also known as food stamps help break down his bizarre plan and just where the idea of cutting include assistance to the poor comes from here's a hint the movie was just released about and finally ideally take tonight on lolita on the a spot of the world that's currently occupied by our nation. the united states of america. today kicks off earth week and it comes on the heels of a violent warning from mother nature over the weekend forty five people were killed in six states in the norm a storm that ripped across the country causing widespread damage and wildfires are right now sweeping across texas and new mexico threatening to turn housing communities in a massive piles of ash coming off

a winter filled with unusually damaging storms and much more apocalyptic weather do we need to go through before climate change is accepted by our lawmakers well apparently a lot more in the first few months republican rule in the house of representatives we've witnessed an unprecedented all out attack against the environment from stripping the environmental protection agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in voting down efforts to cut off taxpayer subsidies to big oil polluters even dismantling the house committee on global warming republicans have put the environment of a top of their list of things to destroy. but there are some of us who are just not going to lay down the face of the salt air and washington d.c. an army of youth activists in taking to the streets over the weekend and today pledging to call out big oil polluters and corrupt politicians who are standing in the way of a clean energy future for america and one of the people behind this effort to fight back against the koch brothers funded attack are about our environment is bill

mckibben activist and founder of three fifty dot org he's also the editor of numerous books including his most recent earth and bill welcome mr you always good to be with you tom great to have you with us these recent storms with some of that nature john tell us do you think that there's actually well you can never see this particular storm is the product of global warming you can say we're seeing wilder and wilder weather as the temperature warms and it's not any more just scientists are saying it's the biggest insurance company in the world. green said at the end of last year that the only plausible explanation for what was going on around the planet was global warming earlier this year to about the giant swiss re insurance company of the insurers the insurance companies around the world absolutely i mean these are the people in our economy we ask to enter our lives risk for us they're telling us to take note really most of the world is starting to do so except inside the beltway of europe where we have a crew of politicians who think that because they can rewrite the tax and the lies

they might also be able to write the laws of nature or that's not working out sort of the laws of physics. in fact you know speaking to that point the entire one hundred percent the entire freshman class of republicans in the house of representatives have all gone on the record denying that there is any such thing as human made global warming how do these people i mean are they just dancing to the tune of the people who are paying them to the i believe this stuff is there any credible propaganda media have no way to look into people's souls and understand but we can look at who funds their campaigns that's why there was a huge demonstration downtown d.c. today probably the biggest demonstration about climate change many years in this country and it started in lafayette park right next to the white house but everybody turned their back on the house and looked the other direction across lafayette park at the u.s. chamber of commerce or systems. even more than the koch brothers these guys are the

mt everest of climate that are out there they provide they represent all the big old oil corporations they claim to represent all of american business. fifty five percent of their funding came from sixteen big companies they don't have to tell anybody who they are but it's pretty easy to figure out because they spend their time essentially trying to make the planet heat up as fast as they possibly can and they filed a brief with the e.p.a. last year saying they should not regulate carbon because in the event that the planet warmed humans would be able to adapt their physiology in order to deal with this. the oceans come up we just grow gills as that but if someone you know just on the sidewalk told us their plan for dealing with climate change was you would change your anatomy you would cut a wide swath around them on the sidewalk but if they had two hundred three hundred million in the back pocket to hand out in campaign contributions apparently that's enough you know people just nod at whatever lunacy they put forth here's the thing

that's not american business speaking that's a few dinosaur industries so at three fifty dot org we've started this huge campaign it's really going. barbara it's called the u.s. chamber doesn't speak for me and we are getting thousands tens of thousands of businesses across the country to say we're willing creative enough for capitalism supposed to be its great virtue yes creativity we can adapt to a world that runs on wind and sun it's only a few oil companies and cool companies that can't they're the ones that are driving the political debate it's amazing. global warming causes earthquakes i saw this in a report that was traced back to science i would lay yes on the list of many things to worry about with global warming i wouldn't worry too much about it well apparently i think apparently so much melting has been going on this is we're going to iran in greenland we can begin to see some sort of seismic event so the ice comes off the. look we've got much bigger issues than that to deal with the ocean

is thirty percent more acid the atmosphere is about five percent and we still are for a half percent moister than it was forty years ago because more water vapor than cold that's what loads the dice for do you lucian don't work that's why we're seeing these mega floods in place after place maybe most dramatically look what happened last summer in russia we had that we could heat wave and it's so spooked the credit that they cut off all grain export to the rest of the world they're the world's third biggest grain exporter the price of wheat and corn went up about seventy percent within a couple of weeks there are a lot of people around the world tonight eating less than they would like to because they simply can't afford it due to climate change we're in a fix and we've got to start taking it seriously in washington because until we do have a chance of the rest of the planet starting to move slowly about. i recall back in one hour carbon dioxide parts per million in the atmosphere we're below three fifty

and we were told by james hansen that it's going to hit thirty fifty we would be. point of no return we're now at three one three ninety one going up about two parts per million per year and thus the name three fifty or you're going to say would you want to riff on that for a minute so three fifty is the most important number in the world what that nasa team said was any value for carbon in the atmosphere greater than three fifty is not compatible with the planet on which civilization developed and the which life on earth is adapted. nesa verbatim we've taken that number and around the world over the last three years we're going to it's about fifteen thousand demonstrations in every country but north korea c.n.n. said the most widespread political activity in the planet's history. despite the fact that it so you want the scientific data people get it it's like if you go to the doctor and doctor says sir your cholesterol is too high you don't pay you don't

say i need a whole disquisition on the entire liquid system in order to understand this you take your pill and be unless you're an idiot you don't go to the internet and start looking around for some doctor who says the cholesterol isn't real or that you know it doesn't matter or something like that you get with the program and do what needs doing and that's and that's what you guys are doing so well and congratulations on a bill thanks so much for taking a very much for people to great to see you three fifty dot org and let's the website of the and the people who organized this weekend with these incredible kids called power shift and test them and three fifty dot org and we'll tell you all you need to know to help with this chamber of commerce thank you bill thank you now more than ever mother nature needs our help so let's get out there and fight for. republicans passed paul ryan's two thousand and twelve budget out of the house on

friday voting nearly unanimously to privatized medicare i may repeat that republicans voted nearly unanimous later privatized medicare last friday. and what are they doing with those savings from privatizing medicare they're giving enormous tax cuts to transnational corporations millionaires and billionaires but that's not all of the republican leader or part of them plan does it also cuts the snap federal food assistance program known as food stamps a program to help the over forty million people not starve during the great bush recession and three quarters of snap goes to households with children the average person receives just over four dollars a day as part of their snap benefit and apparently has far too much money for paul ryan the republicans need to take back those four dollars a day from forty million people literally take food off their tables they hand over hundreds of millions of dollars to rich people who already have hundreds of millions of dollars in their banks accounts it's like the titanic is sinking and

instead of calling for the for the for the lifeboats for the women and children they're saying hey bring the bad cats over and put them in the lifeboats this is an absolute disaster it's a very very bizarre philosophy at work you can't you just can't make this stuff up and there's a there's a background to this for us over the weekend. and i want to see atlas shrugged you know the the the movie and you know i read the book when i was in high school and you know you know it was like most a lot of people did of the regular cliff notes version it's like a thousand pages and it's kind of overblown drano about how the producing well the core idea is actually a sociopathic idea it's that some people are producers or job creators and others are basically consumers or users or leeches or parasites.

and that the these ideas of powerfully influenced republicans for example. first of all let's take a take a look at the the trailer this is the trailer from this from this movie. we're going to bring good and we should do it from the inside. we can't afford to allow the expansion of a company which produces too much the federal can look like steel mills they are not getting my metal or find a way to fix you and your brother try to undermine or go to the government maybe you should but it's like. it's. time for the first time ever because. i ask you such questions how deep is the ocean why is this guy who is john galt. in order to save my family's business that i have

to abandon going to take these construction companies what are you going to call this one. in town come. nothing's going to run you can do whatever you call your lender straight but the triangle i'm like you tried can't think myself. what you mean but you know my own way it's us who needs to. think up a trust me i will destroy. pretty dramatic stuff. actually it's. getting about a ten percent rating from the the from. from the critics any and in any case as a point out this movie is based on a book by a woman in iran actually it's not her real name but it's the name that she took on here in the u.s. as well we'll leave you with that and. it's based on the novel while was shrug and

there are a lot of republicans who view iran as basically their idol their inspiration take a look at this. i mean ran with anyone else is a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism the morality of individual ism but the paul ryans the re-employed the jim jordans these are the faces of the new ideas brand celebrates capitalism and the individual the inspiration for a lot of these young gods comes from i cause of the past ronald reagan friedman iran iran author of the novels the fountain head an atlas shrugged. yes it was certain writers that just had this vision of the future over the past year the economist and others have reported sharply rising sales in france booksellers that it was out so you got to get a scene from that new monetary like you said you know if you got a piece of. music obviously it was essentially free i am

a big fan of iran and read all over novels it's with the rain we're here today i think she would do a great job in showing us just how the government is doing. so who was i and rand by the way a great montage put together there by the folks over at the center for american progress and think progress dot org iran and believe. that it in its essence that the ultimate human good was total selfishness total selfishness i realize it may sound a little bizarre but along with me in one thousand nine hundred seven there was a guy by the name of william hickman. he went to a school and. asked for a young woman to come out her name was mary and parker and you know the the said he was there to pick her up and took her out and murdered her brutally murder he wrote

later talk in his bragged about it actually i was a serial killer and killed several people before she was the famous one she was the daughter of a fairly wealthy guy and he tried to bribe to do or what's the word ransom for ransom or but she was already get you already killed her even though he tried to get the money for a father or did and in fact there was a newspaper of the day and this is quoted over an alternate article by mark ames. that said you know then he took a pocket knife and cut a hole in her throat and he cut off each arm to the elbow then he cut our legs off at the knees and he put the limbs in a cabinet he cut up the body in his room at the bellevue arms apartments then he removed the clothing and cut the body through at the waist he dismembered this little twelve year old girl iran and in the early one nine hundred in the one nine hundred thirty s. when she had just come to the united states from russia where her father had lost his pharmacy in the bolshevik revolution and was developing her ideas for

anti-communist ideas and what not took so william hickman she decided he was her hero literally her hero. she wrote an entire as yet unpublished novel not actually she didn't finish it which is why our probably was not finished or was not published where the character was based on her and in fact she went on to say that well actually here's what she said literally these are these are words that she said about him choose talking about him and she wrote in her own diary other people do not exist for him and he does not see why they should it when had no regard whatsoever for all that society hold sacred and with a consciousness all his own he has the true innate psychology of a superman he can never realize and feel other people now she's saying this as if it's good she's saying that this is great stuff car work the hero over novel the fountain head she said he was born without the ability to consider others she based

her first book i mention that so here's iran in her own words being interviewed by mike wallace on these topics. you are out to destroy. most every edifice in the contemporary american way of life judeo christian religion about a proud government regulated capitalism read by the majority will either abuse it said but you scorn churches and the concept of god are these accurate criticisms yet every important moral leader in man's history has taught us that we should love one i'm not a rabbi is this kind of love in your mind it borrow it is the moral it is no place month and then if a man is weak or a woman is weak then she is beyond he is beyond love he said he does not desire he certainly is a young man there are very few of us then in this world by your standards who are gritty of law i'm pro-choice yes they are very few there are very few

sociopath's in the world. and that's the house and so of the movie and that's the essence of iran's work and see essence of objectivism it's the essence of libertarianism that there is a very small number of very wise people who are the producers who are the the ones who understand everything and we know them because they're rich even if they inherited it from daddy or grandpa and therefore we should put them in charge of society and these are the guys that rick snyder i mean this is this is the woman this is the philosophy that rick snyder and paul ryan and alan greenspan and the billionaires who are driving this whole process in michigan and wisconsin and what . are are dancing to it's time for us to clearly identify the sociopath's on the us. after the break a new report offers up some bad news for americans who the dubious distinctions our nation now claims in tonight's daily take.

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 saw. is a big. crazy

alert strip for votes a group of finished issues who are short on cash are resorting to more drastic measures to get their names out of the electorate to promote their naked truth campaign the politicians running for a seat in parliament are posing naked in a magazine. finished voters typically cast their ballot for individual candidates rather than for a specific political party so candidates from smaller parties with less campaign money have to find a way to stand out with voters it looks like you guys have definitely found a way to accomplish that goal the politicians are part of the pirate party and fillin is probably why the short on cash the pirate history in europe doesn't tell that lucrative over the last few hundred years but posing naked in magazines could be just the thing to lure voters back to work for scott brown.

you can tell a lot about a nation by where it spends its money in the case of the united states we're a nation of convicts the organization for economic cooperation and development of the o.e.c.d. is a group of thirty four of the most developed nations in the world and according to a new report released by the o.e.c.d. united states of america has the highest prison population among all other developed nations on average o.e.c.d. nations imprison about one hundred forty people for every hundred thousand people but here in the us we imprison more than five times that number seven hundred sixty people for every hundred thousand mostly people who got busted in our field war on drugs and the majority of them are not white there are more african-americans in prison today and were enslaved in america in eight hundred fifty before the civil war the startling numbers really reveal some inconvenient truths about american

society but they also haven't come about by accident in fact they translate into massive profits for the prison industrial complex in america a powerful lobby within the halls of congress there are a lot of throwing people in jail isn't the only thing that the new o.e.c.d. report tells us about america we also really know how to waste money on health care more money is spent on health care in america than any other o.e.c.d. nation and yet of those thirty four nations we rank twenty seventh in life expectancy behind slovenia that's because nasa chunks of our health care dollars go to lining the pockets of for profit health insurance executives like gullibility of wire made over one point six billion bucks is the c.e.o. of united healthcare for ten years is that actually going for treating sick people . we're the only o.e.c.d. nation that doesn't consider healthcare a basic right the rest of the developed world looks at us and thinks we're crazy

but perhaps the most startling thing about the new o.e.c.d. report is where our nation ranks in spending on social programs the social safety net for our people we rank thirty fifth out of thirty four countries we fall behind france sweden austria belgium denmark germany finland italy hungary portugal spain greece norway luxembourg the united kingdom slovenia the northern alliance poland the czech republic japan switzerland new zealand canada and ireland all of those countries all of them we rank behind and how much we spend to help our least fortunate citizens the result we rank above all of them and how frequently we imprison or says it's those are not two separate numbers they're related if we don't spend money helping people when they're down educating

treating them giving them some bootstraps and they have no other choice but where does work to resort to any means necessary including crime just to survive near the bottom and social spending on top in prison rates that's the america of today and yet republicans in their latest budget passed on friday want to further cut spending for the poor and keep people in middle class they warn will become like europe you know germany for example we don't rein in our spending germany by the way currently spends three times more than the us on social programs devoting more than twenty one percent of their g.d.p. to their people or we can only part was seven percent of our g.d.p. they are people and germany is booming economy because they have big government program kept people employed through the banking crisis but that doesn't matter to the cons. i just want to cut spending moving us daily more and more in the

direction and frankly becoming smaller we love to compare ourselves to the rest of the world and after world war two all the way up until one nine hundred eighty those comparisons made america look really good but today compared to the rest of the world america is the runt other than being number one in military might by distinction we all page huge amounts for there is much to brag about in the rest of the developed nations are doing better than america in terms of life expectancy drug abuse teen pregnancies infant mortality crime violence you name a social ill america leads the rest of the developed world and the good news is that americans are waking up to this in huge numbers political activism particularly among young people is exploding and maybe america can even once again become the great nation it was before ronald reagan and his conservative buddies inspired by and rand stopped building our schools bridges and factories and

redirected our money to tax cuts for billionaires and boondoggle star wars projects for his defense contractor campaign go there's maybe if we all spread the word far and wide enough. and that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website at our dot com and. also check out our you tube page at youtube dot com slash the picture artsy and this is our shows available for free podcast on i tunes and don't forget democracy begins with you when you get out there and you get active tag your it will sort of.

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