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national markets were again dragged down on wednesday by fear is dead could also spread to the globe. and let's go back to the i want to show now for a move at how social media sites could be compromising members privacy. we've got. the biggest issues good voice ceased to face with the news makers. alright it's time for you said it i read it or take time to respond to my brilliant and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got something to say i listen now first i want to respond to christina robinette who commented on our interview with jeff kaye on water torture she said on facebook when criminals start using euphemisms for her rendition acts it sheds a whole new light on what we take for granted in our everyday lives while spawning
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dangerous levels of complacency i have to agree with her here as jeff pointed out in our interview the entire media simply takes the government's word as truth they like donald rumsfeld come out and say that there was no waterboarding it get mo and then even bother to question him they let him get off the hook on a technicality or as christine says a euphemism calling it water treatment doesn't really make it all that different from waterboarding both are torture plain and simple and somebody should have called donald rumsfeld donald rumsfeld out on that one it's time for the media to step out into the sunlight realize that the us government lies to them from time to time i know it's earth shattering but it's true now i want to respond if you are who commented on our story about a teenage boy who was tasered to death basal sunshines that on you tube these tasers should be illegal or at least treat of this deadly weapon this kid wasn't even armed this is out of control and unacceptable and i agree wholeheartedly it is a long overdue that we all acknowledge that tasers are leave it all period they have killed
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a lot of people they will continue to kill unless police departments stop treating them as the easiest way to subdue citizens i don't think that it's too much to ask of police to use the extensive training that they've received paid for by the taxpayer to actually subdue someone who they feel is a threat not. magically take out their taser we're not all criminals we don't all deserve to be treated as such and the manufacturer of the tasers taser international is also to blame they continue to market their product as non-lethal even though it's responsible for more than three hundred forty taser deaths since two thousand and one so they need to own up to the consequences of taser use start telling police departments the truth tasers can kill now lastly in response to my interview with a cast member of the new show russian dolls a wall hype tweeted willow to show and i still can make cameos on the new russian dolls show they are the two hottest russian american dolls i know of and i'm sorry to say that still waiting for my invite to appear on russian dolls maybe just got lost in the mail. today for my days ranting and i will be back with more next week
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. the sky. the light will come and. so man still carriers will be singing. today there is a glimmer of hope coming out of california when it comes to privacy see the d.n.a. act aka prop sixty nine has been a contentious issue in the state despite the fact there was a successful ballot measure back in two thousand and four and the legislation said that every adult arrested not convicted just arrested on a felony charge would have to submit a d.n.a. sample so as of today over a million samples have been collected and the idea is to create a d.n.a. database for the state of california to help police departments but they fully privacy advocates spoke out against the law saying that it's not right to connect or collect their genetic information if you're not convicted of a crime that's a violation of your fourth amendment rights just because you're arrested doesn't mean you have actually done something wrong whatever happened it all innocent until
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proven guilty thing or at least in this case innocent until your d.n.a. will be entered into a california state database and when it finally reached the first district court of appeals sixty nine was ruled to be unconstitutional the court wrote the. the d.n.a. act authorizes is the warrantless and suspicion less search of individuals before judicial determination of probable cause to believe that they have committed the crime for evidence of crime unrelated to that for which they have been arrested now i agree with the judge here but let's look at how this legislation got to where it is today just like any other contentious issue that elicits a very strong emotional response from voters there is a lot of money thrown behind both sides of the d.n.a. act and california is a great example of how this process works take prop sixty six is bills an amendment to the current three strikes law which was also passed through a ballot measure and it said that anyone who commits three crimes must have the third felony charge be a special violent or serious crime in order to mandate a twenty five years to life sentences voters probably have their own opinions on
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this issue especially since the three strikes law was viewed widely as a sweeping failure but when the ads about prop sixty six came out with a very convincing celebrity scaremongering against it surely people's opinions were swayed. on the proposition sixty six twenty six thousand dangerous criminals will be released from prison child molesters rapists murderers keep them off the streets and out of your neighborhood no one sixty six keep them behind bars. yeah you just grab the governator throw in a few lines all rapists and murderers out on the streets and it's really easy to see that his encouragement contributed to prop sixty six not passing or how about one of the most popular pieces of legislation this decade prop eight which was designed to keep marriage between a man and a woman. proposition eight fails there's a whole bunch of consequences did you know that churches that read out their facilities for marriages could be forced to out same sex marriage ceremonies on
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their properties if proposition eight fails religious adoption agencies may be forced to place children in same sex marriages were just continue providing adoption services all together nearly all public schools in california provide education about health and sexuality if prop eight fails children will be tied that marriage is between party a and party be regardless of gender vote yes on proposition eight. see what i mean i think we all know the power of advertising and when lobbying groups take to the media to get their message across using lies and half truths the results for themselves on the ballot prop eight passed and gay marriage was not allowed in california thanks to the scaremongering so let's shift our focus back to prop sixty nine and the d.n.a. act despite the fact that there is support for collecting d.n.a. from arrestees there is a reason that we have courts to settle issues of our most basic rights in an impartial forum without millions of dollars poured into the decision so sometimes it's best not to let the public sorry i mean lobbyists decide on social issues for
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the first district court of appeals to step in and stand up for privacy i see that as a true glimmer of hope. now if you become a member of a social network do you have to use your real name that's facebook decided a couple years ago and that's what google plus has made their new policy as well and it started a fierce debate about the use of pseudonyms the concept of anonymity on the web and whether you should expect it to according to the tech giants you should it in fact randi zuckerberg the former facebook marketing director and sister of mark zuckerberg said the following said i think anonymity on the internet has to go away people behave a lot better when they don't have their real names doubt i think people hide behind anonymity and they can feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors but there are a lot of people fighting back against this statement now a new website is dedicated to the cause of anonymity called my name is me so joining me to discuss this is eva galperin activist with the electronic frontier foundation if i want to thank you so much for joining us and if you can first start
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by describing what this web site is all about my name is me as a direct response to google plus and what are you planning on doing with it. well my name is me is in fact made up mostly of google plus users who are very interested in making sure that google plus google understands that google plus users want the freedom to use their own names on social media networks. and what are you planning on doing with this site i mean do you think that you might actually convince google not to do it because their numbers are still skyrocketing people are joining and rose oh what's particularly interesting about what google is doing right now is that google plus as i say is not yet open to everyone they're still in what they call an open beta where they are inviting limited numbers of people to come to the site and are actively soliciting our opinions about what the
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site should look like and in that interest the people who disagree with google plus's real name policy want to let google know this is not how their shapes should go forward when when it finally launches all right so now it's got to really you know what you think is at the core of this debate i read that quote from randi zuckerberg where she thinks that people might hide behind their identities if they have the possibility of anonymity but is that necessarily always a bad thing do some people actually need to hide absolutely there are people who need to hide when they're speaking out online there are many groups all over the world who have traditionally used anonymous speech in order to make their views known most importantly marginalized people are the are the people who need the protections the most people who are hearing abuse people who are whistleblowers people who are worried about being tracked down and then nobody it's not just for
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trolls anonymity is one of the key features of activism online. now i want to know if you agree with something that alexis magical wrote over the atlantic which i thought was kind of interesting as he says this really is revolutionizing the way that we lead our lives because there's a huge difference between what's being expected online versus what might be accepted expected in normal life for example you can walk down the sidewalk and you can scream down with the government and still nobody's really going to know who you are they might know what you were wearing what you look like but now if you want to say anything on the internet then it will could always come back to haunt you and they could find out everything about you so is this completely different to you from from the way normal life is lived offline. this is very much unlike the way that life is lived offline and it's unlike the way that life was lived online until very recently when with the advent of facebook and facebook's insistence on real
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name policy for its users pseudonymity and anybody you were entirely standard online until facebook came along and all that we're asking google to do is to stay in line with those historical standards so what is it exactly that's in facebook or google's interest here just so they can get more people's names and sell those names and that information to the advertisers make more money. it is absolutely all about advertising. both google and facebook understand that people's real names are worth money to advertisers it allows advertisers to link that information back to back to your credit data it gives them a much broader picture of who you are if all they have is a pseudonym they have all kinds of very interesting you know website traffic about you but they cannot link it back to your real identity and that is why real names are social networks now i'm just curious to do you think i mean the so why when facebook came out with this right about four years ago they decided also
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to make people have to use their real names i feel like there wasn't as much of an uproar and so why is there one now with google plus is it because different people we have more of a techie crowd that's actually been the first ones to start using it. well there are a couple of different reasons the first is that google is actively soliciting our input they want to know what we want this site to look like and that's certainly something that facebook did not do in its early days furthermore facebook was a real news service from the very beginning it was based around the sort of real identities of college students often college students who went to the same college and that's really what helped set those norms and so people understood what was expected of them when they went into these. thank you for joining us and you know we'll see if google actually listens to what you guys say there are a lot of other people who are joining this web site my name is me and personally i also agree i think that you should be able to retain their anonymity on the web
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our it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight it goes to the pentagon if you watch our show before you know that we take issue with the insane amount of money at the pentagon spends on defense and less wars and recently we've also been following the story of the f. twenty two an f. thirty five fighter jets if you're not familiar with the two the planes are
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currently ground it as an all of the planes are not working the whole fleet so what's the big deal you ask stuff happens well you see actually according to wire the entire joint strike force joint strike or excuse me joint strike force problem has cost the american taxpayers three hundred eighty two billion dollars and rising and with all the f. twenty two is an f. thirty five is grounded that means that the u.s. air force currently has zero stealth fighters in the air after spending hundreds of billions dollars on that so that twenty two has been ground over a possible faulty oxygen system after they found anti-freeze and oil in the blood of pilots which apparently caused the pilots to act drunk while flying the jet that's just what you want right a drunk pilot in a plane that's vast and carrying weapons and the f. thirty five is parked because of a valve problem so with all the problems surrounding these jets you would think the pentagon would think twice before ordering any more of them but you would be wrong no see the pentagon is simply enslaved to the military death row complex here in
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the us on the department. fence website there's a press release that reads lockheed martin court lockheed martin aeronautical company fort worth texas is being awarded a five hundred and thirty five million dollars advance acquisition contract to provide a long lead parts and components required for the manufacture of thirty eight low rate and national production f. thirty five lightning two joint strike fighter aircraft for the air force that's right you heard me correctly the pentagon just spent another five hundred thirty five million dollars to buy thirty eight more f. thirty five fighter jets this week is anybody at the d.o.d. even thinking the planes are grounded now and you want to run out and buy a few more why the pentagon do something so stupid i don't know maybe they were inspired by this. i
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. don't know a lot of the large give make all the slick ads of flying jets and rock music that they want but it doesn't hide the fact that their jets are all currently grounded because of technical problem after technical problem now earlier in the show we discussed the new super committee formed by congress here in washington to cut the deficit anybody's watching i think we just found five hundred thirty five million dollars worth of cuts that you can make over the pentagon for ordering thirty eight more of f. thirty five fighter jets we're giving tonight's tool time award to the pentagon. our guys time for happy hour this evening and joining me tonight is archie correspondent lauren lyster and jake brewer founder of realist idealist labs thanks
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for joining me guys pleasure alone or seen me so let me tell you about a little story that's going on in california the california department of corrections the real the rehabilitation has actually convinced facebook to take down the profile pages of prisoners which you might think like that seems kind of screwed up why would they do that and that's because in the past they've had a little problem with certain prisoners posting certain photos on their facebook take a look. but also a man serving a thirty year prison sentence for murdering an oklahoma sheriff finds a way to post some surprising photos on facebook fox twenty three news found pictures of thirty two year old justin walker posing in his person so. they barely either who. to many people i thought with that guy was just one of the examples as well posting pictures of kind of partying maybe smoking a joint in the. four foot ball was about an affair part about this story though is
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that the press releases that went on even the local news reports focused on the fact that it is a federal offense to have a cellphone in the jail so they didn't mention the bomb or the knife or any of the things in the photos they just said you know it is illegal to have a cell phone how do you know for football that he would kill that is greatly i can't believe we've been doing stories about prison strikes where all they can get after doing a hunger strike is some cold weather caps and wall calendars and the kids are getting. their posting the pictures on facebook i mean i was going to modeling and do not under protest to get out of prison i was at that point you figure if you can get a blog in there you probably can also is something you know clearly the guards here don't know you are on the prize and we should make too much light of this issue because it wasn't agree with the massive prison population in california and the supreme court also ruled the conditions they're inhumane but this one is just a well that's just super embarrassing at least some guys are doing a little better with conditions where they're little more medicated to them there's
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only one for thirty years of good behavior will be out in like six months. ok we want to the next one you know some office environments are better than others and some are a little worse than others and well i think we've all really enjoyed watching this particular show that might explain how some of the words. you know oscars a lot of worse than most but i'm not going to choose. to be so funny. casual day. oh my gosh that they actually were going to say it was ok we just used that clip because we couldn't play what i do you think there's a place that they like that we're going to do it but in reality there is an actual study that just came out and basically told you that your coworkers might be killing you they spent something like twenty years conducting a study and they found that those people who felt like they had less emotional
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support or no emotional support in the workplace were two point four times as likely to die during the course of that study compared to those who had stronger bonds with their peers at work than this this year even and seventy think upside i'm sorry it's fine it's not i think the upside is that if you have a good work environment then you're happier and you're more likely to live longer so if you know i am very. worried let me let all of you who are under it is wonderful lived through this years been really bad for the workplace i think because they also found that basically by sitting all the time you would die faster yes so now your colleagues are killing you your chair is killing you also here in d.c. i'm pretty sure that the complete culture on alcohol which i mean none of us have anything going around that you know i'm pretty sure just since being in d.c. i've lost at least ten years just in five years of actually living here so hard working steadily and fortunately you know you just can't win because you can't get a job unemployment is a huge problem then you get a job and it actually just killing you slowly like all. how do we do broken.
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so we were speaking of presidential elections earlier obviously going crazy over i like i said i saw her stand the obsession with i love because it is really represent america but let's talk about some of the candidates here rick santorum does not believe in gay marriage but this is the way that he was trying to explain to people why he doesn't believe in gay marriage which doesn't really make a whole lot of sense to me but you take a look and decide. marriage is what marriage is marriage existed before there was a government like you know handing up this and saying this glass of water is a glass of beer well you can call it a glass of beer but it's not a glass of beer it's a glass of water and water is what water is marriage is what marriage is. i don't i don't really i don't understand at all i applaud him for trying to you know make an analogy that people can understand but it just has so much room for interpretation and for expanding upon i mean like water is water but you can put
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crystal light in it you can book kool aid in it you can change it out you know it's not always water doesn't always need to be water which is a great analogy for why you should have gay marriage you know else ring the lines in many different many different colors and flavors yeah and i think someone should tell rick that you can call kind of discriminatory bigoted ideology you know rational analogy but it still doesn't change the fact that it's discrimination and bigoted ideology and that's all he's bringing to the table here and bringing with it really really bad and i mean i've got to work you know if somebody does commercials about the the light beer that's just. not masculine and so i think that you could also just dispute that some beer actually is water i'm not i mean i'm saying with right now logically that's wrong i mean that's the moral this time of course those great commercials when you know they go for a long run and they get back and then they have a beer you know this is your motivation i think that's really the direction he must
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mean that that's what i call college are you. know let's move on to the last one this person that i really really really hope he doesn't run for president or maybe i hope he does because i think it's crazy and hopefully people won't vote for him i don't know but he's been talking about it for a long time and he's back talking about it again. while i might want to run for president i'm looking at this i have been for quite some time and you know our foreign adversaries are not waiting for us to get our economic house in order terrorism the threat of nuclear proliferation belligerent russian attitudes and others are all out there and they threaten the economic recovery when you're ready to declare we've got you know they're. ready saying you know i honestly can. decide what would be i mean michele bachmann is absolutely crazy in many respects but i really think it would be scarier john bolton is actually the president this is the guy that reminds us that we have to bomb iran immediately we only have eight days to bomb iran or the world is going to come to an end and he makes these prophecies
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all the time we would be in a million wars if it was up to john bolton i don't. think you know i don't know you know i. so one thing about jumbled also that i'm looking forward to is that if he does run that i kind of miss my gravelle from the two thousand and eight race you know just kind of like you need the wacky professor on the side so i think he'd kind of serve their role but the point he's making in his press release about running for president are just so ridiculous he's saying you know obama has a terrible stance on security like the guy who has successfully gotten us out of iraq or were you know drawn down has upped the ante in afghanistan has killed osama bin laden and we've not been attacked like what's your point here and you know we've got to mention obama's doing probably well john bolton's way. and our war on terror here in number of other countries the republican dream also those are to disappoint you guys if you want to win that race i think it just says this he said this in our tea several months ago i think it's just that this isn't very good and i think that all of the lines like i run you know this is the airtimes every now
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and then it comes down to that they are going to get a rabbit out thanks for joining us if a night show thanks for tuning in to come back tomorrow and it's a whistleblower thomas drake and his lawyer jesselyn radical be on the show to discuss their take on the obama administration's war on leakers meantime got to get to the fan of the ilona show on facebook and follow us on twitter and coming up next is adam first.
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mine. would be soo much brighter than a few moments from phones to pressure. from stunts on t.v. don't come. in india oh geez available in the movie the joint the hotel rooms the movie that's the gateway photo to brendan period truly the torch was to. you can it was which will. see don't need to go and publicly and rather send the colonel was a photo as used to retreat. a sickness in society or a sickness in the system as the u.k.
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authorities mop up the aftermath of the riots locals ask if the government will undo the crime and citing social vacuum it helped create a. paranoid and prepared with its economy teetering on the brink of american stock up on food supplies radios and guns to get them through doomsday which some believe could be right around the corner. and ethnic serbs in northern kosovo say they live in fear of having their. land and property taken as tensions remain high following weeks of violence. good morning to you it's eight am here in moscow this is archie coming to you live with me and use in our way our top story the british prime minister is blaming criminal aspirations for the nights of riots in the u.k. but locals from the vile.

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