that's. why i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then a glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok if you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture says. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right leg. and rocket even one well. we

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artist time for show and tell on tonight's program last time we spoke about the pentagon's claim that they knew the guy who shot down the chinook helicopter not get a sandwich thirty u.s. service members if you believe the pentagon they really know who the guy was or was and all you have done is put a producer producer for treason essentially to find out what you have to say. the u.s. military told us that they were able to hunt down and kill the insurgent who fired the shot that brought down a u.s. helicopter killing thirty american and eight afghan troops took a month there are still some tough questions that still need to be answered first the military says it is not certain it was an r.p.g. that far down the helicopter so how can you identify a man who pulled the trigger on an r.p.g. when you're not sure if an r.p.g. round actually hit the helicopter oh the u.s. military said they found this magic information provided by local civilians so what do we know about him who was to say what province was he from surely if the locals

knew who had done this and where to find him someone how to know who he was right we wanted to know do you believe that the u.s. really got the right man rajiv pointed out it looks it took them ten years to find a lot and yet they found out who shot the helicopter before the weekend well miles on the other hand said there is no reason for the u.s. to lie but west side said hell no i don't believe them and told does show us the picture so it didn't happen then he asked just how the bloody hell can they tell all your comments raise a lot of questions one thing is for sure the media needs to question what the pentagon officials tells them not to accept it simply as truth just because it came out of the mouth of a u.s. official when a story of revenge for an act of war against the u.s. is dished out to the press everyone rushed to be the first to break the news just last hurdle isn't a message spreading through mainstream media without much thought. but howard

originated so the next time any government tells a story without supporting information it looks like it's up to you guys to keep asking the questions that most press never will and then decide for yourself politically. now though it's thank you for your responses and here's our next question for you we just spoke about some of the statements that we've heard from the g.o.p. presidential candidates so we want to know what your thoughts are do you think the g.o.p. front runners are more extreme than those we've seen in the past you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows the response just like me. now we've got an update on a story that we told you about yesterday hacktivist organization anonymous organized operation bart to protest the unjust actions of the bay area transit cops over the past few years and last night it took place protesters made a mess of rush hour in san francisco's bart train system yesterday for downtown stations had to be shut down the hacker group anonymous called for the demonstration after transit officials blocked so phone service during another

approaches last week. and some are calling it a real life denial of service attack something anonymous usually does when conducting a cyber protest of a website or organization and this time around protesters were wearing the guy fawkes masks distributed excuse me destructive commuters from boarding trains at the civic center montgomery powell street and market their stations and while they shouted no justice no peace reports say that cell phone service remained on this time around the opposite of what happened last time the public would have had to protest the actions of bart police and the f.c.c. is still investigating whether or not bart had the right to shut off self-service in the first place however it could take some time to determine if they were in the wrong declan mccullagh told me yesterday there's a lot to be sort of that. this isn't something you've seen before in the u.s. solution in memory i mean this is something new to egypt and this is something that needed. their access to social networking sites or other forms of three

communications media used castor and sun so this is going to take people while to figure out who the f.c.c. is looking at it also could do bio if it's first amendment you can buy only that i want for near constitution which also provides certain even broader free speech rights than the federal constitution does i'd be surprised if there were not lawsuits and here really. so all the f.c.c. tries to sort out the legality of the cell phone mess has become clear the people of san francisco are continuing to fight against police brutality and for their rights of free speech and assembly. now it's that technology the internet it's changing the way we interact with one another changing the way that we learn and changing the way that we remember last month a new study was released that show that thanks to the ability to have information available at our fingertips google searches we some consciously start storing away as much that as we used to we all forget things that we're confident we can find on life and we're more likely to remember the things that we think are unavailable

online on top of that we're better able to remember where to find something on the internet but we are remembering the information itself so it's a reorganization of the way that we remember things doesn't mean that we're feeling super or just more efficient else added there's a recent study conducted by telegraph the monitor of our separation anxiety through our smartphones what would we give up an order to have our phone study found that a third of all people surveyed were willing to give up sex for a week rather than go without their self up what in five people were willing to go without shoes rather than their cell phone and get ready for this one at twenty two percent of people said they would be willing to go a week without seeing their significant other rather than go without them so what does that say about our society and we make time between these two stay. when we march in the studio rescue in new york is betsy sparrow lead researcher an assistant professor at columbia university's department of psychology at the i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and first we're going to start with your study here so google is making us remember things in

a different way there are a lot of headlines out there said the google is making us does google is making us do you think this is necessarily a negative thing. we don't know yet. research but i have to show we're using google in the same way that we always use other external memory systems like other people so we've always allowed other people to be responsible for certain types of information and we're just the internet is just a much more pervasive and ubiquitous. poured all through other people and so we're allowing more memories to be stored externally from ourselves and we're getting really sophisticated at knowing where to find things so knowing what. was storing what seems to be the essential thing in today's age i mean if it's making us i don't know you know i don't know if people's grand store of memory is any less but i suspect is that people are becoming more specialized what they remember are we

just you know i guess you could say becoming reliant on certain forms of technology and you know could this be seen as an evolution of sorts mike masnick cover tech very kind of describe it or compare it to the fact that now we have talked to later so you have fewer people memorizing their multiplication tables because you know that at the end of the day you can depend on a calculator if you have to write i mean it's just like any other revolution and you know when you when you look at the from the oral tradition to the written tradition and things like that people worried about what would happen because memory isn't and the same thing is happening now you know people you know think that oh no you know i don't remember phone numbers anymore both are really a skill to remember a phone number you know our brains chunk things and the seven automatically that's our working memory. so if someone took away my smartphone to connect to your other story. for you know for a week or whatever i would remember numbers you know i would have because i would have to it's just that we don't know we don't need to know so we can't we don't need to remember you know that actresses name anymore we can we can store it

externally but if it's something that's important to me you know something that you know i'm going to teach my students or i want to you know i want to know because you know that's my profession and you know that will be something that i will continue to you know two or. so memory is much more about members ation it's about what the next step will be the next several steps will be looking at you know how is memory changed and how might it be beneficial and how might it not be and what is what has really changed all we really got now is just implement. show that we have organized what we encode in a different way so that we're remembered where instead of what you say you know this is preliminary data but would you go out as far as saying that perhaps we need to apply this to the way that we teach students because so much of today's education system is based on memorization right on doing so many tests have never actually. i never been a big fan of memorization myself that might be just because i'm not

a very good at it so one of the things that i've noticed just i mean i teach myself and i've noticed that the students they want to just regurgitate back to me what i've told them you know they don't want to actually show that they understand it or they don't want to apply it to a new situation or something like that so i think that you know taking onus away from memorization could actually be a positive and if you don't have to remember names and dates and all those other things that it might be possible that people are better able to remember the connections or better able to apply it to a new situation like i said before so you know there might be still an unconscious memory trace and this is one thing i'm looking at so there might be still in what we call implicit memory so the if you ask people in a way that's not conscious. they've learned might still be there and those connections will still be there and they may be using them in a different way so that's one thing to look at in education was definitely interesting to think that you would know where to go when you google something and

what website it may be on although you don't retain the information that's actually there so i don't know if that's another sign of that becoming lazy or if that's actually any kind of a critical thinking but let's bring go ahead sorry. i was going to say i was actually pretty florida how well people remembered where to find things because i gave them a really impoverish folder names in the actual study and the trivia statements were really memorable so i found it pretty remarkable how well people remember it so i think it's even more than just doing a google search you know they're able to kind of go beyond that first layer and like really look for multiple sources and you know reliable sources for information and then going beyond you know just a simple google search you know going into you know databases and stuff like that i'm being able to find things so i think it's obviously no doubt that still you know to have now but really just want to get those last question for at a time so that if we talk about this cellphone study could that be some of the reason that we have separation anxiety if people don't want to be away from their

phone is because now they get so much information from their smartphones by being able to google so i think so i mean i know i know if i drop my phone in the toilet or about a month ago. so i don't have one for about a week and fortunately i get all sorts and i don't have to give up sex or anything but. you know if i didn't have my cell phone and it was it was hard not to get information as soon as i wanted it so i do think there is that aspect that we're we do have some you know there is i would say addiction we are dependent on it you know we expect to find out things as soon as we want to and we don't we don't have the patience to look for to wait for information anymore yeah i definitely don't have patients i hate when i don't have service and i can't access everything right there right then and there but i think it's really everywhere you can just about thank you ok bye. now still to come tonight he's an elected official but if you want to ask him a question you not to pony up fifteen bucks why not to night falls and award at happy hour a new campaign ad that promises world peace plus being fat could be healthy profit

warns much. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charging welcome to the big picture. early on. and you know. fuck fuck fuck. fuck.

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hard sacrificed to a time award tonight it goes to congressman paul ryan it was constant republican is now charging it constituents to attend town hall meetings and yes you are be correctly it's now going to cost you fifteen bucks to get your question answered by congressman ryan and paul ryan isn't the only lawmaker to charge voters for these town hall meetings it's actually a growing trend lawmakers are now hiring a third party firms to organize the events in their districts from their home so the event planner then charges an entrance fee with the promise of getting your question answered i'm sorry but what a free democracy what's next they're going to charge you to vote and i think we all know why congress members are starting to charge these events they're hoping to keep angry voters out in recent years or we've seen video clips posted online really getting

a wee bit testy with their lawmakers and congressman paul ryan is not a new theme of the outrage earlier this year after his plan to end medicare and replace it with a voucher system was voted on in congress i should say that a lot of wisconsin voters were unhappy. you want to take a publicly administered program such as medicare and turn it over to a private corporation tell me how my grandma is going to benefit from that if you can you should bear. the risk of the older take on the insurance companies when we can so you're sure it's got the right so. you don't know anything about medicare or what not you know what i'm driving it when i look at your pleasure as you cutting the things that that i agree with entitlement programs they don't do cross the board cuts with the military. all right so just a few months after being called a liar and rude congressman ryan is only taking questions from voters for a price i barely because i'm doesn't understand that he works for the voters they

pay his salary but what's really interesting about this pay per view move so far only applies to republican congressman politico says republicans bank quayle and should private are also guilty of pay that's actually really be surprised the g.o.p. agenda is obviously to privatized privatized privatized privatizing democracy just seems like the next logical step but you member back to the summer of two thousand and nine that's when town hall meetings were getting ugly over health care reform and it was the democrats are facing angry voters. not shots from the health care debate in michigan. where. it's. coming down it was making a georgia they've decided that we're just stupid you and congress have a cadillac health care plan. well after that one of them are craft and start charging now halls so i think this time congressman paul ryan has fellow g.o.p. lawmakers get it through their heads it is time that they do that american citizens

we the people we pay your salary we should not on top of that have to pay to ask you a question you work for us plain and simple so we're charging it in situ and asking the question argus and paul ryan it wins tonight told time warner. ok it's time for happy hour it's evening and joining me tonight is our team producer jenny churchill and jay pretty rare senior communications strategist with new media strategies thanks for joining me guys thanks well we are speaking about it's presidential candidate and. ron paul has a new ad out there and of course yesterday we speaking on the show happy hour about whether ron paul wasn't getting enough attention from the media i mean he did come in second from the straw poll in ames and yet everybody kind of glossed over him

was acting like mitt romney and michele bachmann and rick perry are the only ones worth talking about well maybe people will get talking after they look at this new that it's. it's the story of the lost city star to me. the story from c.s. leadership the story of smith she should. say she said. to be sure. she. spoke. to the. principal. of the state. liberty. to restore america

now. i'm going to go out on a limb and that's probably the most epic campaign ad i've ever seen let you guys. announcement it was actually pretty epic i would say yes i was saying to them i couldn't get that out well i mean i least this one really kind of addresses the issues head on i mean to some polities video also you know actually you know i read the script of it and i thought oh that's a little bit over the top you know this is this is still over the top but it's still pretty good considering these i mean you know i mean like this is clearly the second coming of jesus he is the messiah and now i think it's a play really good with libertarians because from what i understand thank you it's a weird kind of born again christian. have your religion but i believe that's how we're going to end of rant in your heart substantial portion of america so i think that's my problem with ron paul is treated like a bit of a god you know figure in the entire libertarian movement at least from what it

seems like well it's interesting you should use the phrase a bit of a god in fact that's the phrase that was used to describe barack obama when he was running for president i'm glad that you brought this up in fact the dollar. tree really i mean if you're going to secure it let's talk about obama who is a guy who has been during the misunderstanding. i suppose you're making for a guy who was always you kiss me by saying that like ron paul he has the most hardcore supporters right that's something that has been acknowledged by everyone out there as they are dedicated they're hard core as they are calling him to call it to the edge you're calling you're trying to. make some good points in there in this ad about the fact that he has stood by his word which is what makes him such an interesting politician such an interesting time to get candidate is that he hasn't changed his stance five million times and flip flop finally times like every other politician out there over the last thirty years the one that can bring peace i'm sorry right we all hope for world peace to say you're the only one that can bring it home so there's really a little much but what i'm. saying learned not to. accept campaign promise now

we've learned i know i know. but you know clinton clinton got the same treatment he was he was a sensation when he was first running and then we all realized just how you go and he was and i think that we're all realizing this about obama and i think that the funny thing about republicans is that nobody ever gets that kind of choked up about about republican candidates even republicans don't really i mean people are grinning and bearing it with mccain for instance i mean nobody left him for you and it's maybe suck i'm sorry you look at john mccain he wanted people to get choked up and be excited that that might be the president of the country you got to be kidding me but he did what is wrong kerry is really better. kerry was a boring candidate really no i totally agree with that al gore people but people like me charismatic candidates people like that's why they like george w. bush that's why they like me i hear they're not going for employees like be charismatic when you can have an ad that's like an ha a hollywood trailer like temple and the most boring person on the planet i shouted here while watching has an hour but it's all paid to do more ads so some people

think it's time that very quickly i actually took a call founder. peter thiel is given one point two five billion dollars to mission is to create floating libertarian countries in. international waters would you go well i'm just curious as to whether one polled run for president of the libertarian could even have to run i think you'd be anointed he would be a no answer the question and also i think it's obvious that the reason cruise ship is going to take everyone there is no. reason that has a cruise every year all right let's move on to something paul krugman that was saying today when i was obviously his idea of how to stimulate the economy what we need to get back on track. interesting idea that. if we if we discovered. space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the history civilian threat and really inflation and budget cuts just took secondary place to that. this slump would be over in eighteen

months. ok i mean obviously crippling isn't going on out there that argues for the fact that we need to stimulate the economy you need to pour more money into it but that same time currently now is advocating for some kind of a war in order to stimulate that kind of economy and i mean aliens attacking who the hell knows but they were also in endless war and we've been pumping money into defense for the last ten years and that hasn't quite worked so i just i'm just so long this is like a. scene independence day and so i mean it's not take you away from it but i mean glue to be raised. to be fair i think the best losses in life can be learned from the twilight zone so i mean i do admire him i wake up every morning like oh my gosh is everyone going to be ugly today it was ok by the way is one of the greatest movies ever i've seen how do you think how did that impact romantic advice for you did you feel like this was going to do you think a bit was going to make much of a difference. i think so anyway.

so let's move on to here comes another study that may prove them wrong. i'm done with the god story. for you. if you can if you go home and no one's going to chase you are you cheating on the ground. ok that's to invite all those seen from the biggest loser and this woman is tough but that's how she's made her entire career but it's basically the show is really emotional movement i watched a couple episodes and stuff there you really get into it these people are trying to lose weight and change their lives they don't die but now comes a new study that says not everyone who is obese needs to lose weight it's possible to carry extra pounds and still be healthy this is just going to ruin her career i mean we've had guests on the program to come on and talk about why every single study can't be listened to because of the most part they're all crap this is really going to ruin our beer it's not the study people are going to be like oh you know

what i totally love being fat screw it how many people are going to use this to fight against michelle obama's fight against obesity that. those of you watching at home we are the pretty television people that are telling you about. whether or not one thinks but of the other. yeah. i want to thank you very very critical piece you will learn it was never so easy i mean it through very technically i think that's an old saying right is you know you're a certain about overweight this study is ridiculous because it's saying if you happen to be one of the obese people who do not suffer from the entire list of illnesses that obesity makes more likely then you're one of the chosen few and you will not die from any of those illnesses this is why i wouldn't want to get around what i got or have but thanks for joining me that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in make you come back tomorrow and experience in the young turks way back on the trail how many signed up to get to become a fan of the alone a show on facebook and follow us on twitter if you missed any of tonight's or any

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