say the palestinian autonomy is already economically strong enough to stand on its own feet. in. the e.u. and seek a diplomatic solution to the intense standoff in northern kosovo between ethnic serbs and kosovar albanians over the border controls pristina seized the disputed checkpoints from local control leading to a deployment of nato troops to keep the peace the serbian majority in the north feel that their rights are being violated by the mostly albanian south. and my colleague will be here in about thirty minutes time with a full look at your news but right now it's time to go to our washington studio for the show part two stay with us for that.

it's time for you said it i read it right take time to respond to my brilliant and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because when 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 now i most certainly agree with john on this point when the united nations is preparing to welcome 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 report of fighting in the get off the strongholds of syria and bani walid with rebels struggling to take the cities so if we learned 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 magenta for zero eight 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 that it's undeniable that the problems obama inherited from george w. bush were vast debt war a financial crisis but also have to agree with our viewer that the change that president obama promised to deliver simply has a right the obama administration 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 brought 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 sparing of the young turks from last week patted shell said on you too hope this doesn't sound sexist you to make the bubble headed bleach blonde on phone news look hideous and sound insane thanks gals

well i know that the bubble headed blondes are anything but hideous let's face it the fox ladies look good but thank you for the compliments i will continue trying to bring some logic back to t.v. at 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 the network was hacked several different times 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 plague the 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 the 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 claas that needs some attention getting on the eight hundred page of the new user agreement you're going to find a section explaining that sony is now blocking people from carrying out class action lawsuits against that relevant section reads any 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 that's 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 in a sony the 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 was unable to protect their. 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 if the 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 positive to consider that they're signing over their ability to sue sony 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 mass. now we've spoken a lot about for profit schools on this program those include names like kaplan own

kaplan owned by the washington post company by the way or the university of phoenix i.t.t. tech to bribe you see their commercials everywhere they offer a more convenient alternative for those who needed to greet and to everyone who wants to go to college and everyone started college but never finished finish watching the play to be called the week. and everything is good it's something that wants to be great. universe university to 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 default rate for students attending for profit universities is it fifteen percent but now looks like a new segment of the population is becoming the latest victims of these schools and that would be veterans there are a number of websites with names like g.i.

bill dot com user g.i. bill dot us for armed forces edu dot com veterans who earn their education benefits through their service are directed to for profit schools as the answers but 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 adam 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 are do we have recruiters on bases. yes indeed we do alone or we have a whole broad ways in which the for profit industry has decided that its next cash cow is really military in addition to which you saw all these web sites that are kind of picking up. in general curious. service members looking for information online you've got recruiters that are having access to campus and bases we have one

report that was before open 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 and they 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 seeing commercials for university of phoenix now it all seems odd 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 some of their practices can be and congress investigated this of congress did the investigation and why are they still allowing recruiters on the bases just as you make sense exceptions exceptions exceptions the problem is that the bureaucracy really doesn't have a whole lot of oversight right now the dio deal doesn't generally deal with these issues because they don't dole out the g.i.

bill which is 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 school to state agencies and the state agencies are either overloaded or simply not doing their jobs the g.a.o. ran a couple of different audits and sounds that basically there was next to no oversight of these for profits whatsoever and the books were largely sections 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 get on their loans do we see the exact same thing when it comes to the armed service members. we're starting to see some of that we don't have all hard data on exactly where the default rates are just yet but all of the evidence that'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 objects aren't getting a whole lot in return even the ones that are actually managing to pay back what they owe because understand that these these for 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 grads when there are so many other qualified college educated jobseekers on the markets. i think a lot of people are trying to figure that out of all a lot of 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 want to for profit school but how do they get to this point right because 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 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 vultures of have totally been able to exploit and when we really see that shift take place right will 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 cycle in and out of iraq and afghanistan and you know most of them are discharged now and looking for jobs 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 a private investors a private equity. hedge funds major banks who 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 for profit schools both the public ones and the private 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 big economic bubble in the u.s. 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 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. well coming up but if you need that michele bachmann is back to pick up our told time award tonight from tell you what her for the honor interesting moment and happy hour sperm banks say no thanks to ginger and. download the official location. called touch from the.

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stooges free. download free blanquita cullum. i did sign for tonight's tool time award and tonight it goes to michele bachmann now we've had some fun here on the show with a few of michelle's more colorful statements since the congresswoman began running for the white house but we're giving her tonight's told time award for a comment she made about the banking industry now if you don't remember it was three years ago last week that the u.s. economy began to crumble lehman brothers collapse the federal government to pony up eighty five billion dollars to keep. from going under and since that time president obama and the democrats passed the doj frank wall street reform and 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 leave repealing obamacare also repealing dad frank which is killing the banking industry i've got the bill to repeal both of them. so michelle thinks the banks are hurting they're just getting killed you know maybe she's a little confused banks are not hurting when it comes to profits here in the u.s. if anything they're the ones that are making a killing of our good friends over at think progress pointed out over the weekend banks are enjoying quite a stellar year j.p. 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 if 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 now morgan stanley they were up seventeen percent now to be fair here bank of america actually saw their profits drop by three percent but b. of a trouble they had to settle a point five billion dollars settlement with investors and the agreement reached in june settled 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 banks we really want to talk about what's hurting or helping them but let's talk about the fact that despite these gigantic profits the banks really aren't trouble but it's not because of dodd frank it's because of continued bad policies that dodd frank didn't fix it's 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 a bailout may now be coming again to europe all the problems you know they go on fixed and we touched upon this subject during our show on friday with author no reprints. rather than taking

a look at how these banks are really operating and what assets are really there 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 that we need to deregulate the banking industry the truth is we need more reforms dog 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 c'mon that is insane and that is why congresswoman michele bachmann is tonight's tool time winner.

ok ok it's time for happy hour on this monday evening and joining me tonight is our tea web writer andrew blake and alex sites wall reporter and blogger for think progress or gentlemen thanks for joining me yeah i mean have you back. so obviously this book a lot about the westboro baptist on the show we interviewed earlier in fact and so they were out in kansas missouri and they were protesting a full fighters concert because they accused the band of promoting fornicator fornication adultery idolatry and fags in their music and made use that word sorry repeating their words. and so the biters decided 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 on the i got a hankering for something think i'm in the mood for some hot man muffins. that's obvious and they sing it but that was 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 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 play a song dress up in costume have at it i'd like to say first that i really excited going to karaoke with you some time especially after that but i've been i've been protesting the foo fighters carry. ok but i've been protesting the foo fighters have their second album and i never got to the concert so if you're protesting the

foo fighters they're protesting the westboro baptist that are protest. protesting the foo fighters who are protesting westboro you clearly need more hate in your oh yes i know what it is. now i'm toying 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 the show everywhere and then we can all join the foo fighters encountered protesting the westboro baptist church get along happily ever after well i hope when we start seeing some other bands or whoever i want to see some more creative gimmicks now to counter protest the westboro baptist rather than just like getting frustrated and angry with them and hopefully there will be more coming. let's move on it's pretty good move on to this story that it's just messed up how amusing i find it only because i have i have a lot of red headed friends know it's have my life but as you know it's a receptive gene 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 instead they're going to stop accepting it red headed sperm it because there are too many 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 am chosen her music video. not of this level yeah they're just saying you know if it's part of a bank but they don't what they say no to red headed sperm i don't lower a bolt out of the sperm bank i blame the people who are buying this part of this is they're responding to popular demand people told me by the way you know that things like. that my colleague around him say there's been medically proven that

redheads need twenty percent more anaesthesia than normal people when they go. it is more sensitive you know that's guessing why they're. sensitive any more and i will blame the sperm in this case because they said they're beyond capacity they said 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 ask me if it only holds seventy leader of the sea world's big the world's biggest sperm bank of world's biggest sperm bank only hold seventy leaders the same it alone oh really. ok then i don't know that is. like a lot to me i don't know if you want to goldman sachs' of us. to come together he said. all right well sperm bank where becoming really and the gingers are not allowed let's move on to our next story so netflix i'm

actually not netflix users of these stories never or am 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 read their prices and then their profits drop and so everybody who has netflix then got a letter from the c.e.o. and basically i was going to give you three little lines from it in one he said i messed up i owe you an explanation and he said 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 wait let me explain the quicker 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 a male it's not called netflix anymore it's called quick stir because apparently i don't know they just thought it would be so much more creative but i think it's kind of interesting you get this i messed up by over the next one nation from the guy that runs the entire company if you like that that's just to make you feel

connected to the. very similar something he wrote like drawing two in the morning like 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 it's going to be great i'll change but my other fear they wrote this some guy's a stoner guy writing never getting there. why did you and you're only going to go ok so they didn't do netflix preparing here it was get be quick stir twitter handle because apparently some guy already had it and we have a few of his tweets he's quite a character and he's by the way been gaining like one hundred followers by the hour today because everybody now is paying attention so one says board is shite what a blaze but at the same time i don't know if it wears the bowl it's. you know the one says don't bother telling me how my ex is now dating because now i feel bad for the b. that has my sloppy seconds another said about his board excuse me about board is

about to go late to school and i don't care what i'm wearing just threw clothing on i don't care i don't know the girl i'm really bad at those little so you try a little sort of things i tried but this guy is cracking me up and he's already tweeting about how he refuses to sell it's like i've been getting offers but won't do without a contract getting smart i just want to know if this means i have to file a return my copy of coke or the talking gorilla had it for two years now and it's not going back any time that a movie set up a children's movie. i'm assuming it's something brilliant just going to said you. can start over going really really but it sounds like something the clicks or guy might be interested all the bullies with a quick stare and we can go put on whatever the f. together and go do our homework or whatever the flight is going to be like another apology e-mail because i mean come on netflix really is about hard to figure out if

you're going to launch the same product but with a new name then you should probably get the twitter handle for it or at least deal with that before you launch it because in this day and age everyone is all over you know social media you already knew he was drunk at two am when you wrote it succumbs let you know that even though the u.r.l. for quixtar spelled slightly differently this into a little bit you know rush all right well what happens when you write last minute apologies in the middle of night when you're drunk thanks for joining me guys thank you for the night show thanks for tuning in to make sure we come back tomorrow to speak to sarah jaffe about the trillion dollar underground economy here in the u.s. take everything from prostitution to the baby sitter now let me get an appeal on a show on facebook and follow us on twitter if you missed any of the night's show or any other night you can attach on the you tube dot com slash a lot of show and coming up next if there.

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israel calls for resumption of bilateral peace talks with palestinians were seen by many as a last ditch effort to prevent them from asking for recognition on the world stage . as the sixty six of the session of the united nations general assembly gathers full force in new york city russian foreign minister sergei lavrov holds his first official meeting with u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton find out all the latest details ahead in the program. the euro zone's third largest economy takes a hit below the belt as its credit ratings downgraded sparking fears of an even deeper financial crisis across europe. multiculturalism under the microscope turkey's president visits berlin trying to break down a wall of issues facing the immigrant community in germany.