oh and we never got the. safe ready because freedom. of the women in the. middle of the world are all. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so 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 saw you don't i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

talk about the big picture on tom hartman 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 the search week actress and author bill mckibben joins me as he shares his wish plus the g.o.p. has passed another one of paul ryan's budget plans this one targets snap

supplemental nutrition assistance program also known as food stamps help break down his bizarre plan and just where the idea of cutting food assistance to the poor comes from here's a hint the movie was just released and finally a daily take tonight on lolita on the a spot in 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 new mexico threatening to turn housing communities in

a massive piles of ash i mean awful winter filled with unusually damaging storms much more pocalypse rather do we need to go through before climate change is accepted by our lawmakers well apparently a lot more in the first few months a republican rule in the house of representatives we witnessed an unprecedented all out attack against the environment from stripping the environmental protection agency of its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions 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 in the face of this is salt kerry washington d.c. an army of youth activists and take 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 on our environment is bill mckibben

activist and potter at three fifty dot org he's also the editor of numerous books including his most recent earth and bill welcome welcome to the studio always good to be with you tom great to have you with us these recent storms what's one of the nature trying to tell us do you think that there's actually well you could 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 recent i mean it's the biggest insurance company in the world munich re said at the end of last year that the only plausible explanation for what was going on around the planet was global warming really busy you talk 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 end our lives at risk for us they're telling us to take note really most of the world is starting to do so except inside the beltway here where we have a crew of politicians who think that because they can rewrite the tax in the us

they might also be able to write the laws of nature over that's not working out so well 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 hand them to the i believe this stuff is there an incredible propaganda and we have no way to look and people 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 right now us and look the other direction across lafayette park at the u.s. chamber of commerce which is going to change even more than the koch brothers these

guys are the mount everest of climate that they're they provide they represent all the big old oil corporations they claim to represent all of american business good 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 is that if someone you know just on the sidewalk told you that their plan for dealing with climate change was you would change your anatomy you would cut a wide swath around them on a 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 by. i work it's called the u.s. chamber doesn't speak for me and we are getting powers and tens of thousands of businesses across the country to say we're nimble and creative enough it's what capitalism is supposed to be a great virtue yes creativity we can adapt to a world that runs on wind and sun it's only a few oil companies and quite companies that can't they are the ones that are driving the political debate it's amazing. global warming causes earthquakes i saw this and 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 well apparent i think apparently so much melting has been going on there is we look legit or even in greenland we can begin to see some sort of seismic events as the ice comes off but

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 waste about four to half percent moister than it was forty years ago because normally or all the water vapor the cold that's what loads the dice for de lucia and their own pork that's why we're seeing these major 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 kremlin to pay 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

our 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 three fifty we would be proud. 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 doubt or of your positions would you want to refine that for a minute so three fifty is the most important number in the world with 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 which life on earth is adapted ok and that's a verb it struck we've taken that number and around the world over the last three years we're going to rise to 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 if they want the scientific data people get it it's like if you go to the doctor the doctor says sir your cholesterol is too high you don't a 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 that 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 bill thanks so much for taking a very much and keep up the great your c three fifty dot org and what's the web site for 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 so thank you both 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 mean repeat that republicans voted nearly unanimously to privatizing 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 the republican republican plan does it also cuts the snap federal food assistance program on the food stamps a program is helping over forty million people not starved 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 that 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 the 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 fact cats over and put them in the lifeboats this is an absolute disaster it's a 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. the reason i want to see atlas shrugged you know the the movie and you know i read the book when i was in high school i mean i you know it was like most a lot of people that are the read the cliff notes version is like a thousand pages and it's kind of overblown 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 and that the these ideas of powerfully influenced republicans for example. first of all let's take a take a look at the trailer and this is just the trailer for this from a small. we're going to bring good and we should do it from the inside. i am. sorry. we can't afford to allow the expansion of the company which produces too much of it will look like the steel mills they are not getting my mettle to find a way to fix you and your brother try to undermine or go to the government maybe you should that it's like. it's bad enough i prefer to have work because. i ask you some questions how deep is the ocean

high is this guy who is john galt. in order to save my family's business going to have to abandon going to take the construction company what are you going to cost one. child i. am not going to run into everything was tremendous to break that triangles i'd like to try camping myself. to meet my you know my own mind it's us who lived through. the contempt that's me i will destroy. pretty dramatic stuff. actually it's maybe getting about a ten percent rating from from. from the critics any and in any case as i point out this movie is based on a book by a woman in iran actually it's not her real name but it is 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 i was shrug and

there are a lot of republicans who view iran as basically their idol their inspiration to people would have us. on ran more than anyone else they're fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism the morality of individuals but the paul writes the ram polls the magician jordans these are the faces of the new ideas rand celebrates capitalism and the individual the inspiration for a lot of these young guns comes from a high cards of the past ronald reagan friedman iran to iran author of the novels the fountainhead 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 bookseller sure it was out so you got to get a theme from that new movie k. like you said you've already got a case of the music obviously because essentially three i am

a big fan of iran and read all over novels and so if i'm reading reviewer today i think she would do a great job in showing us just how wrong what 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 as think progress toward iran and believe. that it in its essence but 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 seventy 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 and said he was there pick her up and took her out and murdered her brutally murder he

wrote later talk in his brag 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 it was the word ransom for you know ransom her but she was already dead already killed her even though he tried to get the money from her 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 then 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 a body in his room at the bellevue arms apartments and 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 shouldn't finish it which is why our probably was not finished arise 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 she was talking about hickman she wrote in her own diary other people do not exist for him and he does not see why they should have been 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 her work the hero of her 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 artifice in the contemporary american way of night judeo christian religion a modified government regulated capitalism read by the majority will other reviews that said that you scorn churches and the concept of god are these accurate criticisms yes christ every important moral leader in man's history has told us that we should love one another rabbi is this kind of love in your mind if. it is the more of it because they are months 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 it he said needs a young man there are very few of us spent in this world by your standards so while gritty of not. yes they are very few very very few

sociopath's in the world. and that's the essence of the movie and that's the essence of iran's work in c.s. and subjectivism it's the essence of libertarianism that there is a very small number of very wise people who are the producers who are the ones who understand everything and we know them because they're rich even if they inherited it from daddy or grampa 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 philosopher the rick snyder and paul ryan and alan greenspan and the billionaires who are driving this whole process in michigan and wisconsin and what not are are dancing to it's time for us to clearly identify the sociopaths among us. after the break an era for offers up some bad news for america see the dubious distinctions our nation now claims in tonight's deleted.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realized everything is ok. i'm sorry this is the.

crazy alert we'll strip for votes a group of fish 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 or 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 these guys have definitely found a way to accomplish that goal the politicians are part of the pirate party in finland is probably why the short on cash the pirate industry in europe hasn't been all 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. the united states of america has the highest prison population among all other developed nations an average o.e.c.d. to nations in prison about one hundred forty people for every one hundred thousand people but here in the u.s. 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 sturdily

numbers reveal some inconvenient truths about american society but they also have 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 dollar bill mcguire made over one point six billion bucks as the c.e.o. of united health care for ten years instead of actually going toward 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 third if 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 ireland's poland the czech republic japan switzerland is zealand canada and ireland all of those countries all of them we rank behind in how much we spend to help our least fortunate citizens the result we rank above all of them in how frequently we imprison are citizens 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 and 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 if we don't rein in our spending germany by the way currently spends three times more than the u.s. on social programs the voting more than twenty one percent of their g.d.p. to their people we can only part was seven percent of our g.d.p. to help our people and germany is booming economy because they had 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 a 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 maybe america can even once again become the great nation it was before ronald reagan and his conservative buddies inspired by an rand stopped building our schools bridges and factories and redirect

our money to tax cuts for billionaires and boondoggle star wars projects for his defense contractor campaign donors made 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've covered visit our website harben dot com and. also check out our you tube page to you tube dot com slash the big picture on t.v. and this is sarah shows available free podcast on i tunes and don't forget him ocracy begins with you when you get out there and you get active tag you're it in the suit of.

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