hours firing off angry letters to local newspapers now don johnson of gilbert arizona wrote to the arizona republic this letter he said i'm insulted that local t.v. news crews are now calling this kind of storm a haboob how do they think our soldiers feel coming back to arizona and hearing some middle eastern term also quoted in the daring new york times investigative piece is diane robinson of wickenburg arizona she's also a mat she claims of the dust storms interstates are unique herodes excuse me mr weather man who gave you the right to the right to use the word who've been describing our recent dust storm while you may think there are similarities don't forget that in these parts are just as mixed with the whoop of the indians dance the progression of the cattle herd and warning of the rattlesnake as it lifts his head to strike. arizona's just arms are not so unique of a warrant a new media or logic term i'm sorry newsflash to the people of arizona who is of the dust storms that have been plaguing your state are called period end of story big news for decades now you know it's almost like these people are scared by

weather and using a middle eastern term to describe a storm that means muslims are going to rush to arizona and start practicing sharia law trust me people muslims are not going to start coming to arizona in hordes they see how you treat is batiks no other minority group is in a hurry to visit now i almost would have preferred these haters complained about the fact that they use the word boob in it that way they would look like a bunch of islamophobia just a bunch of prudes so tonight's tool time award goes to the people of arizona who are contemplating the use of the word and a close second for that award actually goes to the new york times who actually put manpower into researching and writing this story i can save them some time with a simple banner headline that read arizona still a state of bigots c'mon guys as much as i love this story maybe this is the kind of stuff you should just leave to gawker. last night thirty seven year old andrew to young was executed in a georgia prison and that entire execution was recorded for the first time in

decades a video camera recorded the entire execution an issue that was highly contested in court now we've told you several times on the show about states across the u.s. facing a shortage of a key piece of the lethal injection concoction sodium thiopental now foreign manufacturers of the chemical concoction stop shipping their product to the u.s. because of their opposition to that chemical being used for executions. but rather than halting those executions states decided to improvise they started making modifications by using just pentobarbital that's one of the three drugs that's normally used to execute someone so pentobarbital is typically used to have lead to date or even kill animals and it's never ever been federally or medically approved in the u.s. to use on humans by itself so not surprisingly defense attorneys for other capital punishment prisoners started to inquire as to whether or not using pentobarbital alone is sufficient for the lethal injection process they wondered if that would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment and at the end of june we will injection

using just that one drug made a lot of people question just that when people reported that they saw the prisoner jerking his head several times before he died so windy guns lawyers tried again to appeal his death they cited the use of just one drug and georgia judge decided to kill his execution film his execution for visual proof of how pentobarbital affects the body during a lethal injection now since execution thursday night no reports of come out so far about the prisoner suffering any pain or experiencing any unusual movements or reactions to just using that one drug but the mere fact that a judge felt the need to record the execution because of the grave doubts about that drug i think that speaks for itself and even though there has been huge public outcry against using a drug normally reserved for animals on be able to eight states have already used it to put eighteen inmates to death this year that's really shows you how far states are willing to go to carry out the death penalty states are willing to essentially carry out medical experiments on death row inmates and that just makes

me sick so the bottom line here is that this drug is not approved for use alone on humans and states should not be using it period end of story. now does internet piracy actually help the movie and recording industries that's what a study carried out by germany's society for consumer research found so you all monitoring the media consumption habits of users of kino. they found that not only do these users and not fit the description we often hear from industry lobbyist things like parasites leeches free loaders whatever other word you can think of they in fact go out they buy more d.v.d.'s they go to more movies and they on average spend more at the box office and their non pirating counterparts that's a conclusion that brings much to the copyright legislation the actions of law enforcement have been cracking down recently brings it all into question but here is the real kicker the study itself was commissioned by entertainment industry lobbyists and it's one that they never wanted anyone to see what exactly did they

have to hide will join me to discuss it is mike masnick founder of the blog attacked or mike thanks so much for joining us tonight i was hoping that you could give us a little backstory as into who commissioned this report and why well it's it's it's not entirely clear who commissioned the report there or not they don't really want to go public with it but the group it did a lot of work for different parts of the movie industry so it was. probably all. so how do you think they figured that the people that normally download more music or download more movies. they are just more interested they're more more aware they want to see more so they go out and consume more if they get a taste. yeah it's i mean there have been a number of different studies that have all showed a list this is probably at least six or seven that have shown this kind of activity and basically what it says is that the people who are the biggest fans of music and movies are the people who are the most the most active in terms of consuming it

both in terms of the authorized ways and the unauthorized ways so really what you get a sense of when you look at all of these studies and not just the latest one but all of them is that these tend to be the best bands that the industry has they tend to be the biggest consumers and the reason is that they tend to go for these other authorized sites isn't necessarily that they want stuff for free because obviously they're paying for other stuff but because they feel they're being under certain they're not getting big. packages. and therefore you know this is this is another. it's basically giving a message to the market you know what they're really looking. so you would think then the entertainment industry would be happy about these results so they want to use them to their advantage now they have you know an inside look into

a way to make more money but instead they decided to take it out of the spotlight they decide to hide it and try to make it so that this study never actually saw the light of day i'm just confused why would they do that. i mean when you look at it you know the industry's always kind of this this is their focus is on keeping control and not changing the overall structure of the market where they're kind of the gatekeeper where they have extra advantages in terms of being that. but. even a situation like this like if they were smart they would look at it and say like well here's an opportunity we're recognizing these are under-served us tomorrow and you know they're willing to spend if we just serve them better we could probably make more money but they you know it's just not in their d.n.a. you know they look at it it's like that's that's a very different way of challenging the market and attacking the mark and that's not the type of thing that. you know they want to hold on to their old way of doing this. ok so what we're seeing still is a little bit of that inability for them to i don't know join in the rest of us in

the twenty first century to come to reality and realize that the the market the entertainment industry the way that people consume isn't what it used to be. yeah i mean i think that's you know that's a big part of it you know i mean if you look back honestly at the history of you know all different kinds of. what the industry likes to refer to is piracy it's the same thing over and over again it's never as bad as the industry makes it out to be and it's almost always just an indicator of where the new technology has allowed more efficient ways of distribution and promotion and it's really just a way that the consumers indicate to the industry like this is what we want to do you know come and serve us with a better legitimate offer. now of course he said this is the first study that's come out with the same conclusion but if that's the case if this evidence has been put out there then how can we keep seeing more copyright legislation the more lawmakers decide to approve even if there is information out there that that's

contrary to why don't we see more journalists reporting on it as well. you know that's just part of you know part of the way. part of the way this works i mean part of the story behind infringement has always been that it's you know it's such a pure evil that it's the absolute equivalent of but after things like that which really aren't true but i think the industry is so committed to that story that anything that takes them off message even if it would actually help them they just they can't make that shift i mean it would certainly call into question a lot of the other things that they've said and i think you know part of this just they're afraid of that i mean if if they basically admit that the very basis of what they've been saying for decades isn't true that makes it very difficult to take them seriously in the future and so i think they're just they're just committed to this line of. pitching that just you know isn't true that's a little embarrassing for them but the interesting thing about this study is that

even though they tried to hide it it still came out so i guess is that show you the power of the internet you just can't suppress information anymore. yeah but you know it's one of those things again kind of show you know this industry more than anything you know they want to try and hold that back and pretend that yes they can keep you know keep the internet from doing what the internet does best and that is distributing information. all right but i guess in this case they are they won for a little while but at least now some people are starting to speak all of the four part of course hasn't been released yet mike thanks so much for joining us thanks for having me. well still to come tonight we have our fireside friday and then at the end of the way it's let's say hello it's a happy hour strike in chicago gets heated literally lahso for an airline has a new and very interesting safety video i think it's about.

forty two thousand americans die each year from car accidents thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here part is easy is even more devastating kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year.

to tonight's fight inside your home. this week the massive prison hunger strike that was taking place in california came to an end and it came to an end in its fourth week when the help of nearly fifty inmates was already failing when some couldn't even hold water down anymore and it ended with

a very meager and pathetic concession that was made by the department of corrections and rehabilitation see what the prisoners one from the department if you can even call it that or cold weather caps while calendars and a few educational opportunities what they lost amongst many other things was bringing an end to solitary confinement that's something that's rampant in our prisons that's something that by international standards is tad about to torture which specialists say can cause severe psychological and physical damage while the prison strike there is and it and thousands of prisoners across the state of california remain in solitary now learned this week that another prisoner in pennsylvania has been placed into solitary confinement and that prisoner is leonard peltier that's a man that we've spoken about many times on this show a native american activist a man who was convicted of killing two f.b.i. agents in one nine hundred seventy five who to this day maintains his innocence who's trial has been a question for decades about his fairness and who countless figures around the world consider a political prisoner but this isn't even about health care is

a legit innocence or his guilt this is about his treatment here's a man who's sixty six years old he suffers from diabetes from hypertension he's exhibiting signs of cancer according to his doctors and since june twenty seventh he's been in solitary confinement at the u.s. penitentiary in lewisburg and he's been ordered to stay in solitary for six months it's something that he's described as a cement steel hot. it's it's got a one and a half inch slot under the door and that's the only source of cool air getting in healthier spends twenty three hours in the solitary cell five days a week with one hour of exercise allowed in allowed in a cage now for the other two days he has to be in the cell for twenty four hours and you want to know why he was put into solitary confinement this according to prison incident reports and peltier is attorney because after receiving a letter from a scottish supporter which contained a twenty pound note healthier trying to return it having money isn't allowed for the prisoners so after the mail room wouldn't take that letter back he addressed

a letter to a friend he placed the money inside so he wouldn't be breaking the regulations and that morning guards intercepted that letter they searched his cell and while searching one of the guards decided to reach the top bunk where peltier does not sleep they verily found a wire hanging out which shocked him peltier had nothing to do with this wire but because the guard was shocked by it pelletier was found to have engaged in conduct which just rubs or interferes with security most like in the prison programs own words an assault on a person so now the ill sixty six year old is sitting in solitary confinement and has five more months to go and what's the point is an ill sixty six year old man really a threat a danger to those prison guards and if international standards and psychologists all say this amounts to torture then why is anybody in this country which supposedly does not torture why do we put anybody in solitary confinement you know it's something the inmates in california are willing to die for to bring attention

to this group practice so the least that we can all do is spread the word bring a light to this issue stand up and say that it's wrong. ok. it's time for happy hour on this friday evening and joining me tonight is our correspondent lauren lyster and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger at black that thanks for joining me guys it's friday only having us happy friday. ok so we just have a really depressing story about people actually being tortured and being held in solitary confinement. look don't get me started on the show yet even if they are it rightly or wrongly convicted a lot of that california hunger strike was a. thank you lord. they got to go to be great which is actually really depressing

and i think it shows that tells you a lot about this country the fact that after all the people who are willing prisoners only get done is that they've got to be any good real or just a rule that it's inhumane the way the prisons are in california we are treating people those are human rights abuses that are happening on our very own soil and i think it's something that you need to actually deal with but if you want to talk about another human rights abuse that maybe it is not really as drastic at all that it's happy hour let me try to get back to where i know it's really here. to look it would have been to a bunch of hotel workers that were striking at the park hyatt in chicago. you know hired workers say someone turned down the heat lamps typically used in winter for their picket line combined with the outdoor air temperature linda long says it was hotter than i had kitchen she's worked in for eleven years they cut me out of this like we wouldn't. you know. it kills them she will say heat lamps were

turned off when the pressure gabriel carrasquillo has been in. we know that there is a massive heat wave going on throughout the entire country right now and the protests are show up as they just turn on the lamps is horrible. that's a negotiating tactic i can get but i'm going to go with that that's kind of smart as a rule of go joke is that how you set up all that garbage up next to put the heat lamps on it stink them right out of their old protest i have to say that of all of the things we see happen to protesters and there are some nasty things that happen to protesters this is one of the more creative tactics that we've seen and less harmful than tear gas or rubber bullets or some of the other tactics now do you see this is the labor strikes just the game and go shooting although it's not good you know you know but it does you know more you gain more of this we have if we never see any negotiating we never see you know those that are striking actually believe that should be back in the kitchen or the note on the side like these don't win but

having done stories on these union lock outs and labor disputes you play dirty too of course they do but they don't when they don't they don't blast heat lamps on. to the next story these videos always crack me up and we've actually shown our audience a couple of them on the show there is one from colorado when john elway was involved and so now the department homeland security has yet another video to talk to you about terrorism and how you should prepare and how you should always be monitoring and observing and if you see something you should say something but some people have taken note as to who exactly the terrorists are in this video take a look. reported suspicious activity should not be based on a person's race religion or gender. but rather on behaviors that seem suspicious or out of the ordinary.

never take unnecessary risks or try to act as an official investigator when observing the reporting. ok i think there are two things that going on in this video personally one i think there's a little bit of that political correctness going on which is where obviously they're trying to say don't base people just don't look at them or think they're a terrorist just based on their religion or their ethnicity and that is that which is true but you never don't usually see at the apartments care to say that and the second thing is they're obviously still trying to freak people out and tell them the now obviously homegrown terrorism is such a massive threat and you have to keep your eye out for everybody all the time in their journal if they're in the subway the news or cell phone that is actually working the subway well i don't think that we have to be that concerned that this video will have that much of a fear scare tactic impact because it is ten minutes long who would know to watch a ten minute long was really a guy already here i am going to get there the first three minutes i say come on this day and age we want the sound byte we want to pass you got to get through it all to the. who's

a terrorist do you guys like me me and my friends of the terrorist and it was minorities and women and muslims are returning as it was also that was i mean you said political correctness you are absolutely dead on and i think it's wonderful that they're going to point out that the bulk of terrorism is committed by white american males you're not being sarcastic being honest. i think i was you know what about how many you know going there how do you live in a house every feeling the acts of terror you talk about timothy mcveigh if you talk about you could talk about it with. jared love there was a nutshell you talk about terrorism but i don't think that one hundred. there is a system just activity and lot of times it's f.b.i. it's entrapment they're entrapped the you know if you if you do that are they going to really like terry and then maybe you kill him by terrorism way for ninety five percent plus were killed by most of the vast majority of going to build according to a new record of the people who track that see don't know where over what period i don't

want to see these statistics because that's not true but fine if you're going to go down that road then talk about the fort hood shooter who was actually mentally crazy do you call him a terrorist or just a not so what he was shouting allahu akbar as he was to give a powerpoint presentation merissa that's what it was we were going to hit and discriminating against muslims he made a point of it and the reason he wasn't called beforehand is because people were scared to say anything about it it was out it became a political correctness as you say works there are that good or bad i'm not just i'm a phobia against muslims they're always characterized as the tariff i think it's good that there's finally some action you know are we got we only have a minute and a half and two stories so really quickly let's make by the temple and take up. right not just what i took up. i should down the government. i mean liberal state conservative direction joining me from the experts wrong. all right so what we couldn't show you there is that he actually used images from the

miracle on ice where the american team won knockout game in our a.b.c. wants to see him who was stupid this working on his campaign that would have thought that you can use that well they're using a fair use excuse and think it might be covered and i'm just really perplexed as to how this going to apply to a political ad i mean if this was used in a journalistic way i would kind of understand it but come on you know it's trying to show it was here this is what he should because who is to plenty i'm going to vote on anybody but obama i have no clue bill is even is so. nobody is trying to sell itself but nobody wants to know who he is can we can we play this last clip really quick let's go. we reconvened you keep your seat belt fastened throughout the flight but if you do need to get on the seat down i just simply cannot fly so you know it's new zealand they're trying to tell you to be safe because you have nothing to hide so they just painted their bodies like that i do like that but here's my problem with this i couldn't tell that they were painted i was i spent the whole first half of the video you know nobody really that's not close it looks

like your last time you had be on here did the boob job you are going to go back to be one hundred percent again we just didn't get it. you know so they try to be were is gay they just make it work are you guys thanks for joining me that's it for tonight so thanks for tuning in make sure you can back on monday i will not be hosting the show next week i'm going to make butler and lister our brilliant arty correspondent and frequent happy our guest will be filling in and i know i'll miss you guys too and the means i'm going to get to become a fan of the a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter you missed anything on tonight's or any other nights you can catch it all you through dot com slash the a lot of show and coming up next is out of first. if you follow up on my doubt you'll go to the. sort of a twelve pack and archaic part of. it goes back to

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nice twenty four hours a day you're watching our top story now norwegian police say at least eighty people have been killed in a shooting spree at a youth camp on the area near the capital the attack came shortly after a powerful blast shook the government center in downtown oslo at least seven lives a thirty two year old norwegian man has been arrested in norway in connection with the tax law bushell is following the developments for. a huge number of casualties at the youth camp an attack of this nature on this scale has never been seen before has it. yes that's right the number of casualties estimated has skyrocketed to witnesses in me in intially said it was around ten since then the

numbers have gone up dramatically the man dressed in police uniform apparently entered the labor party used to rally and began shooting indiscriminately dozens have been killed and there have been horrific stories of people swimming for their lives hiding in the bushes and it came around a couple of hours just start off to sleep huge government building blast in the sensor. just behind me huge government building blocks just behind me in the center of all's low which blew out windows and was heard for several kilometers around the city center sending a huge pile of smoke across the city now the second blast was also still to have been perpetrated by the same man police believe the is a link to explosion at least seven people were killed and and including the prime minister's office his building was also home.