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welcome to america land of the free unless you me that you want to use a cell phone or protest the government and that case we reserve the right to brand you a terrorist and block your communications how to say i agree with the viewer it's quite interesting that in countries like iran or egypt want to turn off cell phones during government protests it's totalitarian yet when the u.s. does it it's a safety measure all in the name of safety so the little bit like hypocrisy to me and i respond to a viewer who commented on our school time last night about representative paul ryan charging money for his constituents to attend a town hall aaron political set on you tube this is a great idea if you charge admission and you'll keep out all those pesky poor and lower middle class folks out right now all right it was all of us that i've pulled taxes it is truly hope palling the way that money is corrupted our political system corporations pay millions of dollars to co-opt our politicians by political influence and now every day americans are being asked to pony up just as their representative

a question at the sad day when politicians seek to further reduce the already when dealing political influence of the everyday voter who is a millionaire funding their campaign now next on respond to a viewer who watched my interview last night with the brilliant east smith founder of the blog capitalism harvey birdman again comments on you tube and said they both were hot pink how embarrassing very sorry to break it to the viewers but no i don't coordinate my outfits with my guests so yes we both have to be wearing pink and i can't speak for my guests but i can say for myself that i was very much not embarrassed about the color coordination now lastly i want to respond to your eight thirty two who tweeted i'm kind of digging the alone a show on r t dot com think for yourself mainstream media makes us sheeple thank you for starters and yes i agree you must break away from the pack for today's ranting and i'll be back with more next week. and well it's been a number of weeks since the debt deal was signed that includes a three hundred fifty billion dollars in defense cuts and the possibility of about

six hundred billion more of the bipartisan super committee can't come up with a deal and the trigger effect goes into action and the cries against these cuts are only getting louder at first it was your typical warhawk lawmakers organizations like the heritage foundation and then leon panetta the new secretary of defense got in the mix saying that three hundred fifty billion would be hard enough and even called the trigger a doomsday mechanism after which the democratic president barack obama are firmly he agreed with panetta now don't forget the panetta also said he thinks that before congress takes another swipe at defense they should come from social security and medicare and raise taxes but if we want to read we've through some of this hysteria try to figure out what could actually happen what could actually get cut well you have to look at much farther than the statement that you're officials make these are the facts that they don't want publicized according to that in this debt deal that was signed they managed to slip in there would it would apply not only to defense but also security spending which encompasses programs such as homeland

security border enforcement foreign aid and even even veterans' benefits as potential targets around washington i've already jumped at the idea of overhauling pay and retirement previously considered untouchable so does that system actually need reform or are weapons systems being chosen over the needs of those who risk their lives for the country or the skies this is retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer senior fellow for both the center for advanced offense studies and kept america tony thanks so much for joining us tonight now you were just on the show so good weeks ago talking about this and you said that you think it's all a game make no one's actually going to make any cuts here but it seems like perhaps they found exactly where they're going to cut are they going to go for benefits. well i think that's one of the easy fixes they always go for to begin with you have to remember that the veterans are not a large lobbying group they do have representation in service has somewhat of a association but they really can't match the funding or prowess of a boeing along. any of these large corporations which frankly make

a turn of money off of defense programs so frankly what you're going to see is them pushing very hard to mainstream maintain the status quo while others are going to be asked to pay the bill and i think that's why i think we've talked about that both on and off the air and frankly that's for the tealeaves appear to be pushing this whole issue because now i ask you obviously you might know much more about this than i do because they'd try to make arguments there were all you know why the annual per person cost for active military military duty personnel has this sort of almost fifty percent right that there are so many people now the defense department has too many employees are these actual things that should be addressed or are they just becoming scapegoats i mean we may have more costly military personnel but we also have ten years of work. well let's be honest here the real soaring number of people have been contractors if you need to look at the stats on isn't fact you all

may want to go and check out project on government oversight they have the stats that shows that we're talking about literally hundreds of thousands of civilian contractors being added to the books one of the sad truth about afghanistan for example is that there are as many as as many contractors civilian corporate hired contractors on the ground as there are military personnel so frankly because should come from there first for anyone who's being paid for example one hundred thousand dollars a year the corporation is barely making fifty percent above that another hundred thousand dollars above it so there's clear money to be made and frankly it's an excuse and so what they need to do is look at all these corporate contracts first before they start actually looking at the people who have to do the hard work the soldiers and actual d.o.d. and other civilians having to do the actual dangerous missions so when you hear the new secretary defense leon panetta saying that if the trigger went into the fact that happening more than three hundred fifty billion dollars in cuts that would be called a doomsday mechanism would have been

a doomsday for for for the politicians that might actually have to talk tough for the defense contractors. i think they're bracing for this more than they're saying and i was in meetings yesterday with d. o. d. on this issue and this is what they're talking about they're talking about going to a budget based rather than a strategy based defense i think about that for a second the reality is that they're trying to basically figure out what amount of money they have and then figure out how they can spend it and still do everything we're doing so that's what they're telegraphing right now what that means in the real world is this they're going to cut in areas where they can think they can get away with it is the old adage the squeaky wheel gets the oil so the people are going to scream the loudest are going to be those who are contracted to do government work and i just mentioned some of them be a and these other folks so that's where there's going to be a huge battle. there are they let me say this for the audience there are clearly

cuts that can be made safely the question becomes. will they do the right thing and look at where those cuts can be made or will they do or wrong thing which cut where no one will scream which generally speaking is benefits and things like that and again ask for it but it's going to come over the next year i also know last time you promised they would have the specific examples for me of what you think would be a good project or a good areas where we can cut spending let's wrap let me yeah i'll just tell you right now there's a certain agency national geospatial intelligence actually agency which actually has a chain of folks who do nothing more than internal briefings i think about this they do internal briefings safe self promote this cell actually is paid each member over one hundred thousand dollars and from my it from my understanding there's like twelve people doing this internal marketing why on earth would an intelligence organization be internally marketing its products to itself think about the insanity of it and yet this is one of those critical programs that is necessary for

the sustainment of the community nonsense so what i'm saying to you and you know your audience can judge for himself or is that adding to the. national offense of any one it is also a promotion so this is why i'm telling you and others and by the way those are all contractor a lot of them on for a second i tell you there's not a lot of people like to actually say these things and named these programs the last time you were on you also said that you just received a retirement letter in the mail no warning can you tell us more well they basically emailed me my retirement order saying thanks a lot so you're around and yes they were a bit rude about it they basically are and never really been happy with me being in a policy level role and i civilian job as most of your audience knows you know i am a reserve i was a reservist and i work at a think tank which is policy stuff and let's be honest really honest here a lot of folks i've been told this by a general officer joe the general officers don't like the fact that a lieutenant colonels out talking about policy so i think some of this is just.

sour grapes that if you will about the fact that i'm i'm doing a lot of the policy and they just don't they don't like it but that's the way it is vibing it's really important that people like you do speak out it's awesome not forgetting the audience that you had a book that was printed ten thousand copies of it were her and what has never been done before so i think somebody talking to us thank you. now on the topic of defense spending we would dedicate ourselves to reporting to you the latest in that wasteful military spending just recently we told you how the entire fleet of f. thirty five an f. twenty two fighter jets have been grounded you a slew of serious mechanical problems and now an audit from the inspector general shows that questions are being raised over five million pieces of body armor that the army has used in both iraq and afghanistan for the past ten years. the pentagon report questions the reliability of five million pieces of body armor safety tests were conducted with the wrong place they were inconsistent and two designs were approved without any testing. approving body armor they didn't even bother

to test can't really say i'm not surprised now that i gave in-depth information about seven military contracts for armor plates known as ballistic inserts and in the report the inspector general wrote consequently the army cannot be sure of the ballistic inserts meet requirements as a result the army lacks assurance that five point one million ballistic inserts acquired through the seven contracts provide appropriate protection over the course of the two years of the i.g. investigated these inserts they noted that they did not conduct any tests on their own regarding the structural integrity of the armor sadly politicians have been calling for the in-depth research of this equipment since two thousand and six when representative louise slaughter noticed eighty percent of marines died from wounds in the upper chest region issuing a protective equipment to our troops fighting tirelessly abroad and the pentagon can't even take the time to make sure those soldiers are going to be safe but here's something else that's going to get your blood boiling the price tag of that wasteful armor and those seven military contracts are ballistic inserts came to

a cool two point five billion dollars that's right billions for army the pentagon can't even promise will work and they can't be bothered to test it's just more money to flush down the drain right after the trillion dollars of the pentagon is invested in those oh so precious fighter jets you know the ones that are currently not flying. so let's just hope that the military would actually look into the inconclusive evidence for the army by armor unlike in the pentagon signed yet another five hundred thirty five million dollars deal with lockheed martin for thirty eight war at thirty five despite the fact that they don't work so there you have it more provably going to love to spend money without doing their research and no wonder they want they don't want to have their budget cut by the government they just need all that money to throw around of military equipment that doesn't even work and worst of all who lives at risk. now still to come tonight for your rights the county of new york wants to ban certain people because of safety concerns we have more not

a ward also ahead in happy hour popular clothing line offers of pay pay a group of reality stars to not wear their clothes and also don't want a vacation from the avery it's a camping trip to a tropical destination i can come up. sometimes to see a story and it seems so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's the part of it and realize that everything you. are. and yet. five. ft.

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to starboard side school side a warden tonight goes to suffolk county new york now the county is located on long island and they're having problems with gangs so community leaders and police have decided that they've had enough of gang members in their town so they've come up with a new way to deal with this issue. is it a legit of the crackdown on gangs or is it a breach of the first amendment that is the controversy to write a tell along where an anti gang initiative was launched today that prohibits dozens of known gang members from hanging out with each other and the tell the voyage. that's right so your leaders and bullies are asking

a judge if it's illegal to band gang members who are too poor to while a public area and when doing now the area covers the downtown business district and police say the measure is desperately needed in the community which isn't plagued by gang violence between two fighting factions of the bloods gangs have the propensity to take over school your. street corners playgrounds and many areas within a downtown. they do not own notion rates. and here's how this proposal would work a judge must sign off on the plan out approve the thirty seven members from the way in danger and braveheart blood's who would be banned from the area and the thirty seven members or people who've already had run ins with police for gang activity and if they violate the judge's order they could face contempt of court charges now i'm just wondering personally what these run ins are they get you banned from the city how they bylane find felonies or is it simply something like getting pulled over and as you can imagine i'm not the only one who are some questions about this

proposed gang free zone it's not sitting well with civil liberties organizations and well basically sane people. it's plainly unconstitutional but civil libertarian so even going members have it right the suffolk county chapter of the new york civil liberties union planning to fight the injunctions in court we have the one of the most highly paid police forces in the country i'm sure they can come up with creative thoughtful and smart solutions to violence. i know it's crazy right even gangbangers that write the reporter almost sound shocked at the concept they're obviously not supporting violence gang behavior but one point of the police and the government here in the us acquire the power to simply ban citizens that they don't like from public places and we giving police departments the power to determine who it is that gets banned come on we have documented story after story on this show of police corruption so this band is just asking for trouble what happens in former

gang member becomes reformed only ever be allowed back in this city i went to the police don't like somebody and they just banned them too it is absolutely absurd of the police have no better ideas to combat gangs than to banish them from some place come on you guys you can do better than that now i'm betting the court system is going to stop suffolk county from these gang free zones for attempting the obviously unconstitutional and plainly stupid ban we're going to give suffolk county leaders tonight's tool time award. ok time for happy hour tonight from joining me this evening as archie correspondent lauren lyster and alex sites wall reporter and blogger for think progress dot org and the progress report thanks for joining me guys thank you so really big news in the fashion world today abercrombie and fitch had

a little something to say to these guys. thank you every. american pride and joy the jersey shore so abercrombie and fitch has actually asked not to wear their clothes anymore there's the like they just don't want to wear their clothes you wear these they will literally wearing our clothes i was really curious i didn't like who wears abercrombie and fitch anymore as i had for maybe pre-teens or when you're like fourteen or fifteen years old and abercrombie and fitch should be all about you know tanning engines they're the only hired good looking people i feel like they're making a big mistake you know what is so funny you said that because back in the day before i was a broadcast journalist i used to be an equity research analyst and i used to

actually cover abercrombie and fitch and their brand was suffering from a tarnished whatever they think is going to be tarnished by the situation more several years ago so i can attest to the fact that the situation is probably helping their sales if anything i mean i can understand how the jersey shore doesn't really help your image but it's going to get really expensive for them because i think every single person who wears overcoming fish is tarnishing their image i mean really if you're this is the exact you that should be positive promotion for them i think the situation is exactly their their prime client should put them on the cover of the next i think that says a lot about abercrombie and fitch right because you know if you're watching to an abercrombie and fitch store they only hire people that look like models that are attractive that is their criteria which also is i guess you could say unconstitutional you know and so now they're just being very blatantly obvious about they still only want certain people wearing their clothes that any color you don't know you're totally they should because that's their sales kind of and on it

but they want threw away or like burn their clothes for a new concept. it didn't work as opposed to donating it to charity or having it sold through you know those discount stores like ross or t.j. maxx rather than tarnish the brand they burn their clothes they're all about people that's it i mean you walk into never come into shore which i will admit i've done on one occasion and it feels like the jersey shore there's music both in the lights are kind of low it's overwhelming smell of cologne that is this is all going to middle of them are going through oh yeah this is perfect for them so you know like you're just there as they're having an identity crisis they don't want to look in the mirror yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. let's move on. for starters just just talk about this video and tell me if you know where this kid is from. is that going to do with the story over that little kid is german and little kid that we're. looking at we never said we were adults here.

there's an eleven year old boy in germany who actually called nine one one to report his mother for forced labor just because you told him to do some chores and call around the house and i don't use crack i mean they're pretty innovative approach he actually had a logical argument you know this is child labor not legal i think it's pretty clever why don't i ever think about that this kid is the hero of kids everywhere and the nightmare of parent yet i never mean to read this press because nine one one in germany oh go on one or whatever it is going to be getting a lot of calls from kids that think that they will do you know you're just getting so smart these days right now they have they they know they can say like i'm going to sue you or i'm going to call child services on you know this is coming from children and let's stop it kids i mean spouse. you know hey i don't want to take out the trash and i forced labor i'm calling the cops i'm going to start doing it like you better when they can't. and that's one of them are you the head of his

time. someone who is not. at all. how do you respond to people who say that your campaign has been a mess so folks first of all chris that i took seriously brooch injunction to put aside the talking points and i wish you would put aside the bunch of questions. now by the guy i met newt gingrich chris wallace but so nuking rates that's even really have a campaign left anymore i don't know i'm gonna launch and say no he's not going to be president but he didn't out you know everybody right now is in iowa and we're also going to soda or new hampshire new to the now i think he's actually taking his campaign to hawaii and to hollywood first they're making a stop in hollywood and they're going to screen to use builders and they are then they're going to hawaii that is the best excuse for somebody who knows that they

have no shot at winning anywhere but all these people have already donated money would seem to say well i think you my loyal followers i'm going to take a vacation in hawaii this particular absolutely you think i'm going to go everywhere you want to go on a place then yeah i mean a couple things first of all the timing is a little suspect here in that it's nuking is anniversary with his wife and he just happens to be going to hawaii eleventh and lives that are eleven of her and i mean you know well who knows if they make it it's well also he's campaigning for the republican nomination for president why he will not play a big factor in that and even if this were the general election barack obama is from hawaii it's a democratic state there's probably like three republican voters there this is a clearly it's a disadvantage an errant move of all time and yeah just coincidentally it had been see coincide with their anniversary and so you know he obviously doesn't like paying for things we saw the debt that he racked up at tiffany's so. you know just kind of scheme when it comes to giving his wife stuff and i was kidding obviously you got that big of a down that he had a gun maybe but it was going to be stuff on board i mean i think that's what's

really going on here if you're newt gingrich a staff why are you staying on or you get a free trip or why i stick around well obviously you get candid and you know that you're losing. you know whatever the thing is. you know you guys you line think. ok a lastly here we do we have a clip here i don't remember ok we have a clip. take a look. america's largest tobacco companies are fighting back against federal drug administration regulations they're suing the f.d.a. over some extremely graphic warning labels that they want to put snack over the package of cigarettes the company's going to be forced to use by two thousand and twelve they say that the federal government is violating their free speech rights. i mean i think this might actually go pretty far i've heard waving people saying that today they think i mean specially considering the type of money the big tobacco has behind it but this might go all the way up to the to the supreme court

i mean i don't know what do you or why do you think you have creative with your warning labels i think it is on the part of the f.d.a. they already have warning labels on the cigarette i don't understand why they have i don't know that they're you i think with and so different because they're emotionally charged right because the greater the d.n.a. that you have and so they're saying that i'm violates their free speech the reason they're saying what poll you're violations you know they all have the same things on their smoking facts but i don't know who and when here i don't i mean i'm a pretty you know a big government progressive but even this makes me a little bit uncomfortable and they basically with the cigarette companies are saying is that they're being forced to subsidize the government's anti-smoking message which sort of seems like a legitimate is i mean joking is an obvious looser you probably know of any other one who turns out to wrap it up unfortunately but i mean i think there are legitimate points definitely on both sides are you guys thanks for joining me thank you kareena for giving us a little embellished today. thanks for tuning in make sure you come back tomorrow jamila believed in the american prospect will be on discuss the congressional black

caucus his job event in atlanta and the state of unemployment in the black community and he's kind of getting the family launch on facebook followers on twitter watch everything you tube dot com slash the loader sale and coming up next and over the next. takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event but the planet has time we don't. see spring going on for months twenty five years and since it's been eco terrorists before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorists in this country when the nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who were accused of property sabotage and label of then as terrorists someone you destroy

property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not a terrorist real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle. and the children who plant trees on the weekend with their cub scout troops that's the. type of. time. wealthy british soil signed. last night. market.