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gets a lot of praise around here wiki leaks founder julian assange was a war of the gold medal just the other day from the sydney peace foundation for his exceptional courage in human rights but just as a son was honored the statesman acquired a copy of a document that might surprise a lot of people and looks like the master leaker feels threatened by other leakers according to the british news source assigned to handed out a confidentiality agreement to everyone who works with the whistle blowing web site which basically is a gag order this document explains that anyone who releases any and i mean any type of information acquired by weekly will face a fine of twelve million pounds that translates to almost twenty million dollars now another thing that we should note if you continue reading the document it states that releasing this classified information would damage the whistle blowing web site saying a lot of opportunity to sell the information to other news broadcasters and publishers so after reading that line we can't really help but wonder is this

really about the money after all we think about it and assad is really worried that he can't sell the information how is he any different from any other commercial company your business out there now the statement goes on to explain this a ludicrous find is based off of what is highly would is highly sought after and often classified material and how much it might be worth in the typical open market so i'm sensing a little bit of hypocrisy here but a sign that says that he's dedicated to work to keeping the world transparent but only on the condition that he's going to be rewarded handsomely or that people don't make this organization transparent i mean look i get it i saw you just create the now famous website with information that most other media outlets out with out there would have died to get their hands on and i do think that they've done it well by the fight for transparency around the world but if that's going to be your principle you're going to call out governments and news organizations then don't be hypocrites so for going against his own ammo for the sake of maybe making some

money doing the signage is tonight's tool time winner. and there's big big jobs news tonight from meredith baker you might be asking who is that well meredith baker is currently going to five members who make up the federal communications commission that's the federal government board that regulates radio and television broadcasting and other telecommunications systems now it was announced today that she's leaving the f.c.c. in june when her term expires and she's already lined up a brand new shiny job period take a guess where we've khan cast that's really interesting timing considering that meredith voted to approve the very controversial comcast takeover of and b c universal just four months ago and the timing is a little too convenient for me to prove a giant corporate merger like get a job i mean welcome to d.c. right where corruption is just a part of everyday life now of course that technically there's nothing illegal and her taking this job she supposedly will be able to lobby for the f.c.c.

directly for two years but i think that we all know she's going to be using her influence that she had mass while being a member of the f.c.c. to do her new corporate overlords bidding in the most effective way possible now this is the exact type of obvious corruption in terms of revolving doors believes everyday americans who believe that their government's rotten and in this case i think they'd be right well this is so normal in d.c. politics of the commissioner of the f.c.c. actually issued his sincerest congratulations and best wishes to baker on her jump from governments to the private sector isn't that nice everybody is just in bed together now in the comcast n.b.c. universal deal was first proposed in december of two thousand and nine lot of members of congress called on the d.o.j. and the f.c.c. to reject that takeover. but i know my previous career is giving me reason to be concerned when the phrase they're very concerned about the actual

merger of comcast and n.b.c. universal and b c universal one of the largest media conglomerates in the country and called the largest cable television provider with america want to join forces to control an even greater portion of the media industry in order to smooth the waters carcass has double your mouth the body making campaign contributions contributed from three quarters of the members of the house and the. now despite those protests from congress merritt along with three other members of the f.c.c. voted to approve the comcast n.b.c. universal deal so after taking heat for the planned merger comcast and n.b.c. decided it was time that they felt the public tell them that this deal is really great for everybody so they launched a massive media blitz. bringing comcast and n.b.c. universal together to really mean for his. shows in. the zone to man the singing

you cannot be easy to salute if you feed the. beast if you wrap your t.v. computer devices. so i guess by means of their p.r. efforts were it merited well baker voted to approve the merger and then got a new job out of it now comcast swears that they never discussed a job with meredith until after the f.c.c. approved the merger you know what maybe that's the case but after incident after incident of people using government jobs to make money in the corporate sector i'm just not willing to give baker the benefit of the doubt so merit our baker pretended to be an independent member of the f.c.c. and ended up just being a corporate shill. well today five major oil company c.e.o.'s were called the capitol hill to testify before congress to defend their need for tax breaks all despite record profits it's no doubt a show trial a charade to make the government look as if they're working in the best interest of

the american people but is there any chance that it could really lead to real reform party scale and ford has more on the top talks of america's big five. i think you're out of touch deeply profoundly out of touch and deeply and profoundly committed to sharing nothing you have an easier time convincing the american people that a unicorn just flew into this hearing room than that these big oil companies need taxpayer subsidies where we have to pay you and the cost is not a it's a legitimate tax deduction the c.e.o.'s of america's big five oil companies were in congress today you know that he championed the free market we love to compete i mean that is what we thrive on competition they were on the hill to defend something very different tax incentives credits and subsidies four billion dollars worth of now but if you see big oil companies who raked in a collective thirty five billion in the first quarter of two thousand one lone as the most vulnerable americans make

a lot of money that's fine it's american way. but it also seems that the subsidies are not really that necessary anymore but can it go phillips slammed those who want to end those subsidies as an american did you really mean to question my patriotism and the patriotism of the twenty eight other united states senators who are co-sponsors do you believe that president obama is an american because he has proposed cutting oil subsidies do you believe that former president bush speaker boehner congressman ryan are un-american because they have expressed cutting oil subsidies the plan would shrink america's one point three trillion dollar deficit by twenty one billion over ten years and with gas hovering around four dollars a gallon and everything on the chopping block it was an opportunity for senators to show they feel americans pain do you think that your subsidy is more important

than the financial aid we give to students to go to college could you answer that yes or no but it's very difficult question for you like big tobacco and goldman sachs before them boy that timberwolf was one should he heal how much of that should he deal did you sell to your clients after two twenty two thousand and seven parading c.e.o.'s before congress so representatives can grill them generates press but leads to little reform the same oil companies testified in two thousand and eight and two thousand and five when gas prices spiked all those c.e.o.'s then said they did it tax incentives you all have done as major oil companies a dramatic about face this morning in two thousand and five all of you were there mr maule but all of you said you did not need cacs incentives to drill for oil and today you've come to say you've got to have them when oil was at one hundred

dollars a barrel i just think that position defies common sense and big. oil's response to the extent that taxes or higher in the united states will look elsewhere to the extent that foreign tax credits are limited it will be even more difficult for us to compete overseas as well so with all the provisions that have been considered it will make it more difficult for us to do business raise the cost of doing business ultimately produce less in revenue for the u.s. government fewer jobs and. move against the president's agenda of reducing imported oil congress is expected to vote on the close big oil tax loopholes act next week but let's hope what nine million dollars flowing from chevron twelve point four million i mean from exxon nineteen point six million coming from conoco phillips and seven point three million i mean from b.p. america it's unlikely the public interest will be able to speak louder than black coal he went forward artsy washington d.c. . so while lawmakers put on a tough face today with the big five oil companies are we really going to see them

take away those tax breaks or the threats of moving offshore and all those big bucks spent on lobbying for big oil going to keep the status quo and to discuss this with me is a reporter and blogger for think progress dot org and a progress report so thanks so much for joining us tonight like i said we the congress congress or the lawmakers that were there in this hearing really did try to act like they were calling out these oil company executives but do you think that we're actually going to see them take away the tax breaks or really you know transfer any of that into legislation how many times have we seen this dog and pony show over and over again and i think that's what americans are thinking when they watch this i mean it is going to become a perennial favorite try to get rid of these wasteful subsidies and tax very spoiled companies and we basically what happened a few years ago was that was the last attempt and we actually couldn't break a filibuster of the senate it was fifty nine to forty injuries from louisiana a huge oil producing state blocked the end of the subsidies last time and i'm

hoping what happens this time is that you know well prices spike you know where we where. before and with companies like exxon actually being a most profitable company last year by fortune magazine and c.n.n. i'm hoping that america's start putting pressure and it's going to come into all of its any of its viewers where you would think maybe it would become intolerable to continue this behavior but you know if we use the example of wall street c.e.o.'s from goldman sachs and j.p. morgan that all came on the hill and were all paraded by members of congress we still haven't even seen a single one of them being prosecuted for the financial crash of two thousand and eight those people brought down the entire world economy i mean compared to that rising oil prices this chop change you know exactly the one thing i think that we can count on is actually the companies i feel like right now they're on the right i mean they're acting desperate they don't have anywhere near the amount of clout that wall street does i mean we had the c.e.o. of conoco phillips saying that it was un-american to criticize their subsidies and obviously when you when you behave like that you're going to face public anger you're going to and you're going to actually see people start to change their

opinions we saw a number of republicans during the town hall sessions they held during this break their easter i'm actually it's a very fiery questions the town halls and a lot of the reverse their position they all voted in march to keep oil subsidies unanimously republicans voted that way but a bunch of them told people that i wasn't actually change their vote you can go really so now i think if we're seeing some of those obstinate conservative lawmakers she's demise where we making progress here why is that always the go to is that it's un-american and i mean i understand sure americans don't like taxes right but why is it on american to get a little pressure on these companies that are actually shipping jobs overseas that are keeping their money in bank accounts overseas and they aren't paying their fair share period you know i mean i think that's exactly the point we did a study over a center for american progress and we actually found that exxon's effective tax rate over the past three years is actually lower than the average american so you know if you're an average american out there working hard you're paying higher much higher tax rate actually than exxon mobil which is the world's most powerful corporation right now so i think when we talk about what's american what's what's

american soccer price if you're trying to make sure your countrymen are paying certainly. prices and also just getting back you know making sure you live in a great country not just be concerned totally with your prostate so instead what they're doing is we heard more threats today saying you know if you want to come out as they were you will just move elsewhere will go overseas that means fewer jobs created here at home and that means that you know the entire idea of trying to be less dependent on foreign oil you can kiss that goodbye but you know let's talk about the amount of money going on here each one of these big five oil companies spent at least you know nine to ten to twelve million dollars a lobbying congress so do you think that that's there's no way we can win you know i mean it's not only the lobby those are important but it's also important that they employ a lot of people these days i mean the two democratic senators who have seen being sort of absent on this issue are mark begich. also mary landrieu both men come from asia or prison states alaska and louisiana and i think there's a lot of legitimate fears among these companies it was take off and ship away jobs but i think the way that we can do that is you know we can't be held hostage here

corporations if you want to be american you know stay here and pay your fair share if you want to leave someone else's stuff in the markets a big market well i hope that those kinds of threats at least work for those that thank so much for joining us tonight thank you. now still to come on tonight's show we have a show and tell and then if you want some of that compares health care to slavery and of on is under fire for giving her eight year old post talks sit around for happy hour in just a few minutes. and. then we head to the heart of hearts. i think a lot of the one. who doesn't love the show's nuclear safety get ready because of the freedom.

hey guys welcome to show itself on the obama show we've heard our guests have to say on the topics now i want to hear our audience has gone to you tube to video response or to twitter for thought of a question that we've hosts on you tube every monday and on thursday the show long response is going to leave your voice be heard. for. so. far.

you know the story it seems so. easy to understand it and then something else here's the part of it and realized everything you thought you knew going into. the . hardest time for show and tell on tonight's program now last time we told you about the mass protests in mexico where thousands are tired of the drug violence in their country and president calderon's policies when many argue that the u.s. drug policies are in fact fueling the cartels we want to know if you thought american policies are helping or hurting the drug war in mexico so let's go to produce a protest in offense here to find out what you have to say. president obama said on

tuesday that we now have twenty thousand boots on the ground i knew were poor as the way said just last month more than one thousand four hundred were killed in firefights murdered or discovered a mass graves civilians are demonstrating in the streets it sounds like a hot spot in the middle east but no this is the latest situation surrounding the us mexico border the vast majority of you that responded told us you were struck policies aren't doing any good what's needed is not anti drug legislation but rather some form of legislation to make drugs illegal on twitter miles told us well mexico and the u.s. need to legalize drugs because of prohibition for both nations has been too high chris said the minute the u.s. government ended prohibition in the twenty's they gave lost their black market profits the shooting stopped and peace returned tiger both added if we legalize it would grow herself and it would be a non-issue but is it really that simple tim said it would make perfect sense and

all drug prohibition today but thanks to property seizure laws. and local law enforcement agencies were receiving more federal funding based on how many drug arrests they make a doubt it will ever happen my take and his speech on the border this week the president focused on gaining latino votes by talking about immigration reform a way to allow good hardworking people to cross into the u.s. what he did not address is how will keep the drug dealers and gang members from sneaking across with them u.s. drug policy has been a failure just like immigration and if the u.s. and republicans continue to argue if these are two separate issues then they will never come to a compromise and ineffective legislation and all we may end up with is more boots on the ground. now as always we appreciate your responses and now it's time for our next question earlier in the show we discussed the thousands of people in solitary confinement in u.s. prisons america likes to pride itself on its human rights record but many would argue that solitary confinement is anything but humane so we want to know what you

think do you think that solitary confinement is torture you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air . time for happy hour tonight and joining me for this evening's happy hour is politico's dave knees and archie correspondent lauren lyster thank you so much for joining me or having us on and ok so you know we've talked about toddlers and tiaras and just messed up things that moms do to make their little girls like a natural but this one i think a really crosses the line this mom not only gives her eight year old where not only does she wax or at an even though the eight year olds have body hair but she also gives her botox and this is how she defends herself take a look. they were just telling me about the lines on her face and how you know

a lot of the moms there they're giving their kids botox and it's pretty much like the thing i'm not the only one that does it you know a lot of moms do it and i think a lot of the kids. making the big impression on the lines on her face and stuff like made her probably influence her to want to do it a little bit more. i don't know who these moms are but i hate the way everybody's doing it so i can do it through are you seriously botox for an eight year old people this is insane it is simply insane and i think what's interesting is like the amount of attention and the amount that they paid to you know get this little girl wanted it's like are you kidding it's a little girl who cares if you want that she's eight she should be getting botox i think that this mother should have her taken away from apparently i mean this is a big deal and even listening the interview with little girl she didn't really have a rationale for it she said it hurt you know they were going to whatever it was and the rationale i don't want to. even. be

different if she were saying i really want is really right she wasn't saying she wanted it and why did the mother you decide to go on television to tell if this was that and did you know her side of the story. tension i mean they're obviously she's a beauty pageants they want media they want all kinds of attention but i agree with you i think like child services should be called i think of child abuse that is just the most i don't even like i have no honestly speechless and that doesn't happen all that often but i don't even know what to say about it let's move on to the next one rand paul. had a little something to say about health care and whether it should be your right or not take a listen but regard to the idea of whether or not you have a right to health care you can realize what that implies it's not an abstraction position that means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me means you believe in slavery it means you're going to enslave not only me but the janitor. little the person who cleans my clothes the assistants who work with the nurses. i just don't understand

how many times can we use slavery as a metaphor to something out of slavery if you think you have the right to health care before i think of republicans of you slavery saying that what was it like abortion is slavery i mean it's never ending the problem is i mean. rand paul is a strict constitutionalist but any time eighty's politicians compare anything to slavery or the holocaust it's like there should be a rule book never go there with a comparison what you want to do we don't want anybody to do right but he also this is another attention getting remark i mean it's getting played on your show it's going to get played on other cable news outlets and rand paul was known for this like it was interview to kill a did you see even the girl behind him what i like is the girl that stayed behind and was kind of like mike growing more and more valuable than the other thing to have to say well you all did later and deal with it was gone it's even. hearing something i got interested i was really. i decided to understand how many times the

. lavery is a metaphor and and you're right not to mention the logic itself i don't like ok so then our public teachers you know slaves because they're slaves to public education which is a writer people you know well but the educators you know wanted to be whether the government should have to provide health care there was a candidate but is that logically follow that any doctors are going to find every article doctor is a slave to you just because the guards are dr bernard late. but i think there is a bigger debate of whether the government should have to provide insurance by law not a big league maybe it is a view that can be done with it so the navy can only body harder to make it we have one really good one where really good clip to play this is dan adler who is a congressional candidate in southern california take a look asians are fifty percent of voters. all titians don't speak that's why i'm here i have you should tell me. you're not alone so many people in this district

korea if you know actually my wife is korean to you and my family is jewish we might. get that represent every one of the thirty six districts my name is dan out of and i definitely approve this message. i think he's trying to send a good message there and saying that my dorothy's they all look out for you but that is that just went wrong in so many ways personal everything that medicare it's not if you get discriminated against when it comes to medicare based on whether your career heard you were black i mean that's like i think of the wrong issue to bring up not to mention you know make that excuse oh my wife is korea like that could have a justification for him to run an ad that that i think very early says if you go i really i think that's sometimes how people real people say funny things even if they're joking and it is an ad that the bigger picture is it tries to be inclusive

and caters to minorities only to exist who can see that all right more than everyone but minorities should stick together remember it doesn't add up to the thing that the majority elect me i'll go blind together with minorities to support their issue that's the point and it's meant to go viral this is a political campaign that has a lot of candidates in it it's under the radar it's a special election that's going to happen next week the other candidates have a lot more money. spent how does this guy getting attention he's getting it right now and he hopes to go far wrong maybe she's getting it right because of the best way to do it stand orderly my good and orderly and bigotry not to mention i like this is like i feel like a liberal version of those dale peterson or republican gun ads where you know republican i was toting a guy who i want to fire all of this is the liberal you know ok i got to ride but i was right and i thank so much for joining me tonight but the big night show thanks for tuning in come back tomorrow we'll have and that's when test author of the book or lockdown high when the schoolhouse becomes a jailhouse on the program to discuss the real scary trend of companies trying to

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