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ride it's time for you said it i read it or take time to respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments on facebook twitter and you tube is and you've got something to say i listen now first i want to respond to a viewer who watched my interview last week on french president nicolas sarkozy and british prime minister david cameron's visit to libya john jeremiah smith said on facebook they should be wary of mission accomplished syndrome and i was certainly agree with john on this point on the united nations for perry to well. the rebels

as the official government of libya this week in new york there's still a war going on over there just today there was reported fighting and get off the strongholds of syria and bani walid with rebels struggling to take the city so if we learn one thing from the war in iraq i think it would be a let's not hastily declare victory when the conflict is far from settled there is still a war going on in libya and the world should acknowledge that and i want to respond to a viewer who watched our interview last week on obama's chances for reelection next year for a weight said on you tube obama inherited a terrible mess from bush this cannot be contested but unfortunately he has not done much other than cater to the corporations and has become a lackey pity now i think it's undeniable that the problems obama inherited from george w. bush were vast debt war a financial crisis but i also have to agree with our viewer that the change that president obama promised to deliver simply hasn't arrived he wanted ministration is just as close to wall street as the previous one if not closer lobbyists are still running washington d.c. and he's expanded our wars and military presence of brot now what that means for

his chances at reelection we can't be so sure but i think it's safe to say that there are a lot of disappointed obama voters out there now lastly i want to respond to a kind of you who watched my interview with and sparing of the young turks from last week kind of shell said on you tube hope this doesn't sound sexist you two make the bubble headed bleach blonde on phone news look it is and sound insane thanks gals well i know that the bubble headed laws are anything but hideous let's face it the fox ladies look good but thank you for the column and i will continue trying to bring some logic back to t.v. i think my ranting today and i'll be back with more later in the week. now earlier this year we brought you the epic saga which grew out of a huge hack to sony's play station network where the network was hacked several different times and millions of users had their identities and credit card information exposed and sony's been working to improve its image ever since they hired somebody with a background in homeland security to handle the string of hacks that led to company they've lawford offered lots of incentives to current sony users things like free

game and movie downloads to keep them on board but on september fifteenth playstation users found a little update on their gaming system and update informed users about a new location where their funds would be stored and also explain that users would be required to sign a new terms of use agreement and i think it's pretty safe to say that most users well they just quickly scroll through the several pages of the new agreement they click yes but there is an important cause that needs some attention in on the eight hundred page of the new user agreement your unified section explaining that sony is now blocking people from carrying out class action lawsuits against the relevant section reads and dispute resolution proceedings whether an arbitration or court will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class or representative action or as a named or unnamed member in a class consolidated representative or private attorney general legal action so basically sony is sick and tired of being sued for its massive security flaws and

so now they're forcing this agreement onto their users preventing players from using their most effective tool against the company class action lawsuits and they're making incredibly difficult for them to avoid agreeing to that clots so the only way that users can retain their right to file a class action lawsuit is to write so to so many the a snail mail that they don't agree to the arbitration clause within thirty days of signing that agreement i think that's a pretty absurd technique for a tech company to require a handwritten letter i think anybody can see this is a pretty slimy move by that especially considering how many users had their personal information compromised all because so many wasn't able to protect their import. now we should also note that the notification email went out to some network users days after the actual terms of use agreement appeared on the system itself but it's pretty easy to see with companies up to here they know that most gamers are going to stop and read all the fine print scroll to the end click agree to terms and continue playing online not even possibly consider that they're

signing over their ability to sue so in a class action suit so sharing these details are the least that we can do and hopefully as word spreads more people are going to be aware of just what exactly they've agreed to so remember all the gamers out there you do still have thirty days from signing the agreement to write to sony to opt out of giving up your rights to sue in the us. now he's talking a lot about for profit schools on this program does include names like kaplan own kaplan owned by the washington post company by the way or the university of phoenix i.p.t. tact of rye you see their commercials everywhere they offer a more convenient alternative for those who need it to greet and to everyone who wants to go to college and everyone started college but never finished. the commercial nuclear. full time and this is something that wants to be great. when you are. changing the face of education.

and i see the problem with those for profit schools as has been well documented even investigated by congress is that many of them of use shady accounting practices even rolled students in classes without their knowledge lot of other examples too and the deep are great for students attending it for profit universities as it fifteen percent are now looks like a new segment of the population is becoming the latest victims of these schools and how to be better and there are a number of websites with names like g.i. bill dot com user g.i. bill dot us or armed forces edu dot com veterans who earn their education benefits through their service are directed to for profit schools as the answers they don't know is that these websites are run by marketing firms hired by the colleges themselves so just how bad are they getting scammed was joining me to discuss it i'm weinstein national security reporter at mother jones and i want to thank you for joining us tonight and first if you can give us a few more details aside from i guess having these web sites with the really catchy and convenient names how else are they getting veterans to sign up where do we have

recruiters on bases. yes indeed we do alone or we have all. the ways in which the for profit industry has decided it's next cash cow is really military in addition she was you saw these web sites that are kind of picking up. in general curious. the service members looking for information online you've got recruiters that are having access to campus in pieces and we have one report that was reproaching by bloomberg businessweek a couple of months ago about a recruiter from one of these for profits that walked right into a wounded warriors unit in a marine base in north carolina i mean also show advertisements on the american forces network which is generally not supposed to show advertisements but our overseas troops when they look at. the super bowl and major league baseball there are probably some commercials for university of phoenix now that all seems to me as i mentioned of course the scene investigation of these for profit schools because

there has been you know thankfully a lot of documentation of just how corrupt from their practices can be and congress and that's to get into some congress to the investigation why are they still allowing recruiters on a base it's just as you make sense exceptions are exceptions exceptions the problem is that if you're obviously really doesn't have a whole lot of oversight right now the dio do you doesn't generally deal with these issues because they don't call out the g.i. bill which is for veterans who are discharged by and large obviously active duty service members also are able to avail themselves of those benefits but they usually take them through the v.a. the v.a. delegates a lot of the oversight of these big for profits and pretty much every other score to state agencies and state agencies are either overloaded or simply not doing their jobs the g.a.o. brann a couple of different audits and sounds that basically there was next to no oversight of these profits whatsoever and the books were largely functions now as i mentioned when we talk about all the students that end up at these schools they have about

a fifteen percent default rate or they thought on their allowance and we see the exact same thing when it comes to the armed service members. i we're starting to see some of that we don't have broad hard data on exactly where you the fault rates are just yet but all of the evidence that it's both anecdotal and kind of the statistics that have been gathered so far show that in addition to generating just a ton of revenue for these for profits that's aren't getting a whole lot in return even the ones that are actually managing to pay back what they owe because understand it these nice profits are not only taking their benefits but they're also kind of signing them up for private student loans at exorbitant rates not only are they you know the ones that are managing to pay that back are also finding that what they buy really doesn't get them a whole lot of value in this tough job market nobody's really hiring for profit grabs when there are some of the other qualified college educated jobseekers on markets. i think a lot of people are trying to figure that out of all our people you know also with

degrees from ivy league schools nobody can get jobs right now saying imagine that it's especially hard if you went to for profit school but how do they get to this point rakers if you think about it the g.i. bill it's been around for sixty five years as you wrote in your piece to me this is something that was largely credited for expanding the middle class in america here you had all of these post world war two veterans that you could you know who were able to get subsidies when it comes to their education when it comes to getting homes and now you have these private voltaire's of have totally been able to exploit it and when you really see that shift take place right well a couple of things happen the first thing was nine eleven and the global war on terror i think there were good intentions both in congress and in the u.s. population in general that we ought to give these service members something in return for their service for us we've had now two million service members were in and out of iraq and afghanistan and you know most of them are just now looking for jobs and are in that job market and you know we feel like we need to give them back so there was a huge expansion of benefits at the same time you had our private investors are

private equity. firms and major banks who will suddenly couldn't make fast and easy money on the real estate market and pretty much any market and they're looking for a growth industry and right now the for profit schools both republicans and the product ones are real big money makers and this is just one of those things that kind of kept their bottom line flush and it's kept investors interested so you may be looking at the next for big economic growth on us as well. well you know i really hope that they do something about it like you said it's a bureaucratic mess but we've seen investigations about these for profit schools and you know of all people definitely i think that the veterans deserve the help from the g.i. bill and not to be really taken advantage of by these for profit schools out of thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you a lot of. coming out in a few weeks every shellshock man is back to take up our tolls on awards night from tell you what i earned for that honor and from the moment and happy hour sperm

banks say no thank you ginger and. enjoy it only when there was. a doodle would come to bring justice and accountability. i have every right to know what my government would you want to know why i paid taxes. so i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and seem so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's some other part of it and realize that everything you say you don't charge is a big issue. let's

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i did time for tonight's tools on the war and try to go to michele bachmann now we've got some fun here on the show with you of michelle's more colorful statements since the congresswoman began running for the white house but we're giving her tonight still time award for a comment she made about the banking industry and i can't remember it was three years ago last week the u.s. economy began to crumble we were brothers collapse the federal government to pony up eighty five billion dollars to keep making sure it going under and since the time president obama and the democrats passed the da frank wall street reform a consumer protection act now this law was am at regulating many of the practices

that led the financial crisis in two thousand and eight but g.o.p. lawmakers say that this new law which most people with a brain would argue is not strong enough they say that it's hurting our economy and in fact michele bachmann made that exact same claim over the weekend and now i don't believe repealing obamacare also repealing dad frank which is killing the banking industry i got the bill to repeal polls have them. so michelle thinks the banks are hurting they're just getting killed you know maybe she's a little confused basin are hurting when it comes to profits here in the u.s. if anything they're the ones that are making a killing there good friends over think progress pointed out over the weekends thanks for joining. katie morgan chase the nation's second largest bank saw its second quarter profits rise thirteen percent compared to the same time period last year so your profits only twenty three percent wells fargo's profits are up a mere twenty nine percent goldman sachs well they're really having

a hard time their profits in the second quarter they're only up fifty four percent and morgan stanley they were up seventeen percent and to be fair here bank of america actually saw their profits drop by every percent but the f.a.a. marriage trouble they had to settle a point five billion dollars settlement with investors and the agreement reached in june settle claims of the bank and sold the investors for quality mortgage bonds so they brought this on themselves but if we really want to talk about bakes we really want to talk about what's hurting or helping them and let's talk about the fact that despite these gigantic profits the banks really are in trouble but it's not because of dog frank it's because of continued bad policies that dodd frank didn't fix it because our banks are still sitting on god knows how much in toxic assets because the shady trading practices haven't ended and as we watch europe on the brink of collapse we don't even know how vulnerable our own banks may be so bailout may now be coming again to europe all the dealer problems they go unfixed and we touched upon this subject during our show on friday with author unknown prince. but

rather than taking a look at how these banks are really operating and what assets are really there and what potential frauds have been caused by what things are truly valued at and being realistic about a situation they did the same thing here they let banks continue to remain big to get bigger to to keep bad assets to continue to manufacture bad assets without looking at the problem pretending that throwing all of this money deflating the dollar was somehow going to be helpful and they have decided that it was even though it hasn't been so michele bachmann things the we need to deregulate the banking industry the truth is we need more reforms god frank did not go far enough and banks are still making the same shady deals they did in the run up to the collapse in two thousand and eight and g.o.p. lawmakers they want to reward them so come on that is insane and that is why congresswoman michele bachmann is tonight's told time are.

ok it's time for happy hour on this monday evening and joining me tonight is our team lead writer andrew blake and alex siteswap reporter and blogger for the progress or gentlemen thanks for joining me yeah i mean have you back. so obviously there's been a lot about the westboro baptist on the show we interviewed early in fact and so they were out in kansas missouri and they were protesting a fighter's concert because they accused the band of promoting fornicator fornication adultery i dollars tree and fags in their music and they use that word sorry i'm just repeating their words. and so then the proof biters is that i had to play a little song for them in costume take a look. all

right so they performed their song called hot buns and the lyrics include driving all night i got a hankering for something i think i'm in the mood for some hot man muffins. again soon because that's obviously a cigarette but i know it's my rendition anyway i like this approach you know you can't beat the westboro baptist unfortunately the supreme court already ruled that they do get to practice freedom of speech like the rest of us but the beautiful thing about this country and sometimes really frustrating thing about this country but. i don't if there is then why not just laugh at it playing dress up in costume have at it i'd like to say first that i really excited about going to karaoke with you some time specially after that but i've been look i've been protesting the foo fighters. ok but i've been protesting the foo fighters since their second album never got a concert so if you're protesting the foo fighters they're protesting the whisper

about this that or protest the westboro baptist protesting the foo fighters who are protesting what you clearly need more hate in your oh god i don't hate is not. with you i'm very pro this i think we need actually perversely but bear with me more westboro baptist church i think this is the one thing that all americans can get behind even like the craziest tea party republican acknowledges that the westboro baptist church is crazy this is the show everywhere and then we can all join the foo fighters encountered protesting the westboro baptist church get along happily ever after why haven't we started seeing some other bands or whoever i want to see some words created gimmicks now to counter protest the westboro baptist rather than just like getting frustrated and angry at them and hopefully there will be more coming. let's. move on to this story that it's just. how amusing i find it only because i have a lot of red headed friends now if i have throughout my life but as you know it's a recess of g. a lot of people say that it's

a dying breed and i think that there is the largest sperm bank in the world which is located in denmark they're actually going to make sure of that. ahead that they're going to stop accepting red headed sperm it because they're a human redheads in relation to the man people just don't want it so we're wondering if the next step is automatically going to be you know and i ate choking her music video. ok clearly not a bit lonely out there just saying no it isn't her bank but. you know what they say no to red headed spur i don't like her goal out of the sperm bank i blame the people who are buying this premise is they're responding to popular demand of people told likely by they're laying out the things like you know a red x x x x x while we're there to my colleague around and say there's been

medically proven that redheads need twenty percent more anaesthesia the normal people when they go anywhere in surgery they're going to lose more sensitive you know that's i'm guessing why they're not very welcome are sensitive anymore and i will blame the sperm in this case because they're so there they're beyond capacity so they had seventy leaders of semen and that was that was an oath so that's not really that great a sperm bank if you can only hold so the leader of the sea world's big if the world's biggest sperm bank the world's biggest sperm bank only hold seventy leaders the seeming alone oh really. ok this and i don't know that is sounds like a lot to me i don't know if you want to goldman sachs' of sperm but yes a lot of the color of the eggs come together you said sacks. all right well so sperm banks are becoming really elite and the gingers are not about let's move on to our next story so netflix i'm actually not

a netflix users of these stories never are and i'm not subscribed to it they don't hit home as much for me as they do for everyone else on my team was outraged that netflix we know a while ago has their prices and their profits drop and so everybody who has netflix then got a letter from the c.e.o. and basically i'm going to give you three little lines from it in one he said i'm. i owe you an explanation and so i'm it's hard to write this after over ten years of mailing d.v.d.'s with pride but we think it is necessary both the quixtar and netflix teams will work hard to regain your trust we know it's not going to be overnight actions speak louder than words but words help people to understand actions and so will you let me explain a quick thing so now they're separating your services if you just want to stream stuff it's still netflix but if you still want to receive the d.v.d.'s the mail it's not called netflix anymore it's called quick because apparently i don't know they just found out if you so much more creative but it's kind of interesting you get this i messed up i owe you an explanation from the guy that runs the entire

company like oh that's just to make you feel connected to the big theo's really so that's the reason most of the heroes like drug chew in the morning like to ex-girlfriend i'm sorry behave like take me back i've got this new service is going to give you d.v.d.'s this could be a great change but my other three are they about this some guys and stoner never getting there. why did you use a very good already ok bides so what they didn't do netflix preparing here was get the quixtar twitter handle because apparently some guy already had it and we have a few of his he's quite a character and he's by the way been gaining like a hundred followers by the hour today because everybody now is paying attention so one says. shite what a blaze but at the same time i don't f. it where's the bowl it starts. here another one says don't bother telling me who my ex is now dating is now i feel bad for the b. that has my sloppy seconds another is that about his board excuse me about board is

about to go late to school and i don't care. where he just threw clothing on i don't care i don't know i'm really bad at those little so you try a little story things i tried but this guy is cracking me up and he's already tweeting about how he refuses to sell you think i've been getting. but i want to with that contract getting smart i just want to know if this means i have to file a return my copy of cocoa or the topping gorilla so credit for two years now and it's not going back anytime soon. so the children's movie. i'm assuming it's brilliant there's. going to said you would say you can suddenly we're going to do it but it's only something the closer guy might be interested all bullies with quixtar and we can go put whatever that together and go do our homework or whatever but i just want to get like another apology e-mail because i mean come on netflix really isn't that hard to figure out if you can launch the same product but with

a new name then you should probably get the twitter handle or earlies deal with that before you launch it because in this day and age everyone's all over you know social media you already knew he was drunk at you we had when you wrote it succumbs like yeah they didn't get the u.r.l. for quixtar spelled slightly differently this into a little bit you know rush. that happens when you write last minute apologies when you're drunk thanks for joining me guys. thanks for tuning in and make sure to come back tomorrow to speak to sarah jaffe about a trillion dollar underground economy here in the u.s. take everything from prostitution to baby sit down the need to get an appeal or show on facebook and follow us on twitter if you missed any of the night's show or any other nights you can always catch up with flash the lot of show and coming up next is. internally or military mechanisms to do the work of supreme justice or

accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. but 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 you hear sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right.

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