criticised russian politics on his exit from of the party he was expected to lead in fighting parliamentary elections in december and. now we're back on track and back to part two of the alyona show from our washington studios. it is time for showing talent and i program now last time we told you about the staggering numbers on american poverty from the census bureau over forty six million people are now living below the poverty line has no doubt shed light on a growing problem in our country but are there any real solutions to the producer

patrice and assented to find out what you have to say. and do in two thousand and nine the recession officially ended according to the business cycle dad in committee of the national bureau of economic research and tactically we keep hearing now we're in a recovery stage but try telling that to the two point six million more people that fell into poverty last year we learned this week that in twenty two and poverty in america grew to the highest number since the census began measuring fifty two years ago these are the numbers last year forty six point two million lived in poverty we never had forty six point two million people in this situation before twenty point five million of those were in deep poverty earning around eleven thousand dollars and eighty six million did not even work one of the week out of the whole year oh and don't forget in august there was zero job growth in america zero excuse me but does anyone in washington get it congress in the meantime is only looking at budget cuts and figuring over jobs bills

a recent post to wait around and see how much things are going to get worse this year it's too bad so many people have to suffer so politicians in washington can't deny that average americans are just slipping down an economic black hole so. after all the talk out of washington we wanted to know what you thought could be done to turn around this economy and what we heard sounds like an economic policy is good as any we've heard so far first romney said end the wars downsize the military and cut subsidies for oil companies second jason holloway told us slap high tariffs on imports and bring factory jobs back to america step three jason hate the great he said bring jobs back home lower gas prices and fix the minimum wage he believes that the minimum wage should be the minimum cost to live not the minimum that a company can pay you it's amazing the kind of commonsense answers you can find from asking common citizens oh wait isn't that who are representatives in washington are supposed to be representing. now as always we thank you for your

responses and here's our next question for you today is the third anniversary of lehman brothers collapsing and triggering the global financial crisis three years on we don't seem to be in better shape and if anything our banks are only bigger so let us know what you think do you think the government would let another big bank fail you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and you know as your response just might make it on here. i've been spending time on facebook at work because a felony could lying about your age or weight on a dating website land you behind bars or hearing in the senate today by the senate judiciary committee reviewed expanding a lot that could make a lying on the internet just that a felony let me explain here back in one thousand nine hundred six the computer fraud and abuse act was set into law to deter hacking however throughout the decades legislation for the computer fraud act as expanded to cover a wide range of issues to make any act that quote exceeds authorized access to a computer a violation and a violation currently is a misdemeanor but the white house is looking to upgrade that penalty to

a felony so what exactly is considered exceeding unauthorized access these days but believe it or not that language is so broad that it's pretty much up to whomever is in charge and you know those terms of service boxes the have to accept before you join. sider you purchase something online well if you violate those and the justice department considers that a violation what's even worse if you violate the computer fraud and abuse act you're not just facing trouble from the feds but this law also allows private parties to file civil suits as well so now we know what's at stake let's focus on the senate judiciary hearing which discussed increasing that penalty of the violation as i said earlier the obama administration is the one that would like to see the violators face a felony that's a move the white house wants to tighten controls over the internet for the sake of cybersecurity but a lot of committee members pointed out today the widespread method of violation could cause more trouble than it could good then there's al franken and patrick leahy are worried that the current state of the computer fraud act already reaches too far leahy was quoted as saying we want you to concentrate on the real cyber

crimes and not the minor things now the committee has yet to vote on this legislation but one can only hope of the questions about the broad language of the bill could help prevent the government from overreacting when it comes to what they deem computer fraud all the name of fighting hackers anybody remember the protect children from internet pornographers act of two thousand and eleven that's the one which would require i ask you keep everyone's internet records along the whole host of other data for up to eighteen months in the name of fighting child porn and this expansion that we just spoke about that's starting to remind me a whole lot of that one meaning that it is not good. now let's look back to an operation that was conducted by the f.b.i. almost one year ago on september twenty fourth of two thousand and ten that the i read the homes of anti-war activists across the country five minneapolis homes to homes in chicago as well as the office of the antiwar committee were raided and according to the f.b.i. the warrants they had were seeking evidence in support of an ongoing joint terrorism task force investigation and activities concerning the material support

of terrorism now to date twenty four activists have been targeted all were asked to appear to grand jury in chicago and all refused but has the f.b.i. dropped the case not quite most are actually still waiting to see what's going to happen to them while their personal belongings that were taken in those raids including their passports haven't been returned so how do they see it well joining me to discuss it is jeff sundin anti-war activist whose home was raided and a member of the committee to stop f.b.i. repression jess i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and i guess if we can start by going back to almost a year ago on september twenty fourth tell us what happened when your home was raided. well we can at that one in the morning i was actually still of stairs in bed and my part of my daughter that was scared we all heard a loud banging at the out that door by the time i came down the stairs my partner and daughter had opened the door and about eight f.b.i. agents had burst through the door and it began organizing them so they go through every rumor. they were here for about five hours and that is that they went through

everything they would take a bio folder and look through everything will pay it that was in the bio we're going to see if there was anything of interest to them it was in my daughter's seven sheet with six years old at the time it was where her room it was my grandfather's belongings have clear earlier that year and i had a box of his sort of like momentum in the end they took so many many banker boxes. but the paper so we're going to see these and mostly notebooks than tape are relating to my political work and my international travel they were especially interested in anything related to colombia or power and they didn't have to question the that day but they had a myself and my partner just the job here before a grand jury in chicago was talk about some of your political work then what is that exactly what has made you a person of interest here you are an anti-war activist have been for

a while but specifically when it comes to perhaps material support of terrorist organizations when colombia and palestine are involved explain to us why you would be suspicious. well the united states government has taken it upon it so to create terror a list of terrorist organizations not objective thing that gets you all who are there are. wild claims in the building because it would make you a terrorist it having a different political out with the united states government and so in many cases i disagree with our government's view about who is a terror act i think that bombings that you go over afghanistan and iraq really calls into question our own government that discuss the question of terrorism that said i traveled to colombia more than ten years ago where one of the things i did was probably in southern yet where people talk were happening with the revolutionary armed forces of colombia one of the groups on the terrorist list was

very public about my experience i wrote about it when i returned that is very interested in with the process where for people. and we now know that in fact it was my work and that of one other person in saudi arabia was the colombian people that initiated this into. some of us look at our group have been to colombia though not very many a few more but not everybody has have been to palestine and that the letter clearly went to the u.s. i've taken aside in civil conflict and that that every one of the start of the conflict there again and for anyone in the united states to do things like publish their statement and you think we're going to whether it is a question of whether or not we even have the right to do that well just some of the things that you know because of it we talk about colombia and we talk about palestine that's not exactly what we're talking about one we're thinking about our war on terror and al qaeda here but do you think that the policies post nine eleven

have been used to you know to allow the federal government to come in and to spy on you to take your belongings in that sense. i think that the right people living inside the united states were severely abridged after nine eleven the first communities targeted really heavily with the sort of pull back of the liberties where arabs and muslims especially immigrants and we have thousands of people who were detained were questioned and many who were deported suspicion of relation with terrorist organizations they never had realized again in court you know people were just automatically suspect and that was a horrible thing to watch and in fact many people have been imprisoned on targets like the ones that i'm being investigated for but their organizations like the holy land foundation which was a good look biggest look for charity in this country and supported syndergaard and hospitals and health care centers in the palestinian territories a place where hamas is the elected government and operating charities there made

subject to the law but even if they supported terrorism but i mean it may interrupt you really quickly because i only have a minute left but i want to know so now it's been almost a year you decided not to go to the grand jury and what's happened as any of your belongings been returned you have any idea what's going on with this case what might happen to you. it really difficult the proceedings of the grand jury secret the latest word that we have from the prosecutors is that they are seeking multiple were diamonds but they may be even already one of those indictments they may be held for some reason but some way we believe that some number of the twenty four targeted activists are going to be told that we're facing criminal charges and the most of our property had been returned and my case my passport was and my mother is sick and i want to go visit her she lives abroad and i had to apply to the prosecutor to have my facts work they let me have it for one month and i had to

return it when i got back and so that says to me that i'm definitely so a target of the a and we believe that it's really just a question of how many people and when we're going to be facing a criminal case i will keep looking at it here jeffrey thanks so much that after joining us tonight. thank you. now we come back they are hungry german couple seeking fame are tonight's full time winners that had a happy hour his televangelist pat robertson finally lost it plus the japanese love for robots strikes again. like millions of americans have lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about this it's about me to.

say i. need you. now. since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light sleep. at

night school time award tonight it goes it's a lot of these yes the fame hungry couple was journeyed their way into yet another p.r. stunt now if you're familiar with them the d.c. area couple known as the white house party crashers they're accused of crashing president obama's first state dinner back in two thousand and nine and causing a media circus. white house party crashers what was your reaction when you saw the headlines. devastated bruce said in this either why why did the sharks devastated. we knew. the facts which with time you know our side of the story and everything will be heard. now while this law he's we're happy to tell their story to n.b.c.'s the today show after the story broke when they were called to capitol hill to testify before congress they refused to answer questions on the grounds that it might incriminate them but i house's job as a law is from using the white house party crashers label to seek fame and fortune.

to me and in my going. that's right the couple took part in the bravo series real housewives of d c and that series was the fifth installment of the real housewives series but the d.c. season was a total bust bad ratings told force bravo to cancel the show after just one season so since that time that's a lot he's continued their quest for fame and the same time inflicted it's a major major pain on america especially make a muscle oii and her attempts at a music career. ok in hindsight we were always short of war and you turned on your t.v.

before you played that clip sorry but now that you have the back story the salon he is let's just fast forward to yesterday local news stations here in washington began reporting that mckayla salon he was missing her husband went on t.v. crying asking for help in finding his wife and naturally everybody thought this was a p.r. stunt turns out make a left her husband ran into the open arms of another man. tareq salahi thought his watch mikhail was missing big drama for the salon he's folks he got on the phone called police cid she may have been kidnapped but the sheriff's department says she left on her own with a good story it seems even saying that a good friend is journey guitarist we'll shown you advise that she did not want mr shaw to know where she was. then nowhere. hanging out with a very famous eighty's guitar and mchale philosophy was longtime friends with the members of journey you know i actually feel sad for m.s.m. b.c. fox and c.n.n.

the fact that i made it on the national cable news network that was covered for hours yesterday that's just appalling this is the best the local news story i'm not even sure belongs on local news i think the right will help but this ego driven couple seems to know how to play the media for coverage and without reason we're giving tarik and mikhail a salafi are told time award and while we're at it we're going to toss in the mainstream media for covering that crap. and it's time for a happy hour and joining me tonight is r t web writer andrew blake and alex siteswap reporter and blogger for think progress dot org thank you for joining me gentlemen ok so we're going to start our story over in france this evening as we know you're going to just say offensive things and get away with it in france apparently as we all learned from the john galliano incident.

i think it's common it's common given give us a second i think you guys i mean you know it's true you know like you yeah yeah yeah. ok he was actually found guilty what was the last week or two weeks ago but now france is dealing with a nother major controversy they have removed and this is you know i phone app called jew or not jew which identifies whether or not french politicians and celebrities are jewish and apparently they have a french law that it violated which outlaws the identification of an individual's religion without their consent or the compiling of information about religious beliefs but. you are not a jew after we have that here in america but only in france and i hope this will waste my time for. adam sandler's hanukkah song which i think sort of got at the

same thing when he listed all the celebrities that are jewish but i mean you know i think it out maybe a little bit too far but i'm more and more of them in the french law that you're not allowed to do this kind of thing seems like it would totally not fly in the states told violation of first i mean well yeah i mean no matter what you think of it saying things like well you know what john galliano said was offensive and you can call it disgusting but the fact that you can actually get in trouble for saying that in a public space just reminds you about how we actually do have free speech here and you can say offensive and horrible things and not actually have to you know go to court and pay money for it pay fines and maybe even go to jail which is just completely continues to boggle my mind i don't know about you guys. i mean you discovered same crap when you talk with the mainstream media so yes we do have some freedoms over here as well and very some very unfairly my viewers like it when i say crap too so just crap crap crap and i don't care if the ratings. ok let's move

on to you to another country that never speaks to stops amazing me. japan they have the first robot to take part in a triathlon take a look. see vote you could try to. buy two of the company's evil to better trees certain food as the morning on attempt to run twenty four and was to be historically could influence just before on friday the twenty fourth. to the choose assume it was because the rule book apparently oblivious to sit you can't just kept on going. i love the dry british humor the robot apparently oblivious to it and it just kept on going even breaking robot i think that kind of you know takes some of the excitement out of it the whole point if you want to do triathlons like this is this incredible physical feat you train for for months you know i can't even imagine the emotions of completing something like that let alone winning and a robot that doesn't know any different but something seems fishy because. comes out of japan and they're sending it over to enter the iron man competition in honolulu you remember the last time the japanese just showed up in hawaii but. it

didn't work out that well and then the last time they tried taking over america is when they sent kobayashi over here and he tried he broke the hot dog record we gave them joey chestnut and i have a feeling that we're going to figure out a wee tribute elite once again i'm not concerned about the safety of america but you say you think that there are japan i mean there are there robots are going to be some horrible dangerous things that yeah. yeah you know they're no use robots you know i mean maybe down the road but this robots a little unintimidating but i'm totally going on the same page with you on the marathon thing i said let the robots to everyone talks about how robots will do the jobs that humans don't want to do i do not want to run marathons so i said let the robots have the marathons they can have one hundred mile bike ride it's all about that ok you have a point there i would i would never want to do a marathon or a triathlon i guess that makes me a lazy horrible human being but it just does not sound. like an achievement that i

would want to train for it sounds like a miserable miserable experience so sure let there. but i think still plenty of people want to do it and now let's talk about power robertson our favorite televangelist who says you know crazy bigoted stuff all the time this time some people actually think they may have taken it a little bit too far take a listen. i have a friend whose wife suffers from all simers she doesn't even recognize him anymore and as you can imagine the marriage has been rough my friend just got bitter at god for allowing his wife to be in that condition and now he started seeing another woman he says that he should be allowed to see other people because his wife as he knows her is gone and i'm quite sure what to tell him please help what he says basically is correct but i don't know it's cruel but. if he's or do something he should divorce or in-store all over again. now i think you should be able to divorce whoever you want raving you can do whatever you want but it's just funny to hers some of these christian religious zealots who go on about how you

have to abide by a marriage only being between one man and one woman but what about the whole death you know till death do you part love you and think nothing and help are that just kind of flies out the window yes through that. scott yeah you know you have marriage there i mean there's you know gay people can't get married because it'll somehow degrade the institution of marriage but you know if your spouse isn't so good anymore doesn't remember you heard of the curve of alzheimer's they're dead anyway basically is what you had already gone you just added to the list of groups . things don't care if the jews in the senate had to do that and now you have people with yeah ok get rid of them tear water on to the with good job now let's talk about ok first we're going to play you a clip and this happened i think last weekend during the ceremony for september eleventh and then i'll explain afterwards. thank you.

ok so that somehow michelle obama whispering to her rock became some like right wing media the everyone thought she said all for the flag and then fox news even picked up on it is this ridiculous thing and so this week the obama campaign launched a new front at something a web site called attack watch and they asked people to send in submissions of what obama supporters deemed to be unfair untruthful media attacks on the president we think it's a little good idea to tap watch people like it they have one hundred thousand users so far enough i signed up because they said i would get a free i pod i have. the i pod come free loaded with all the attacks on obama and the better i had to go through so many surveys to get their hopes. i mean there's clearly a need for this like the clip you played if you go on but there's a bunch of websites that sort of websites that are running polls now and you can guess what michelle obama said and they're all like all this for the terrible

flagger down with the flag of the united states and it's like i don't think she said what you could it was like coming time and i'm hungry i mean you have no idea where that damn flag really quickly we have our last story so american apparel held the contest because they've been criticized for having skinny models so they wanted to plus size models of the girl one but she really did it all as a ploy and then she had her friend take pictures of her like eating waffles and nasty chicken and now they've stripped every title and those are the pictures kind of like what you did when you say. but i mean i don't know i think she should have i think americans should go on with that they're supposed to be this like countercultural cool hip thing and they kicked her to the side we have now they've given themselves away they're like you with a waffle you're fired. exploiting someone that's their thing good for them there's still their clothes as often as i can but there's sticking to what they know best exploiting people i think they went ahead and call that. disgusting to so we go american apparel always winning our thanks guys for joining me tonight and so that's it for night's show thanks for tuning in make sure you can back tomorrow and

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