welcome to the lower show now to the real headlines with none of the mercy for him alive in washington d.c. now it's not we're going to talk about the case of troy davis and his last ditch try for clemency was denied today by the georgia board of rules and pardons so tomorrow a man whose guilt is still in question a warden likely to be executed then the unemployment crisis in america has caused the underground economy to grow so what is the underground economy anyway sorry jaffe is going to explain it for us and it looks like the u.s. is shopping around for someone to build a massive new prison for the not ganna stand and all this time i thought we're broke we're going to have all of that morphy tonight including

a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. the outlay of mainstream media continue to turn into entertainment tonight and yeah i know i called them out for doing the exact same thing last friday when they were reporting on countdown to the emmys and super commenters actually tried to defend them because they said it's friday apparently people want to know which movies that award shows they should watch over the weekend you know i still think that if they want to know what to watch they should go to t.v. guide go to entertainment tonight watch access hollywood or any of the other names in the multitude of shows getting catered to entertainment news we still need someone else there to report on real news people come on so anyway today on this tuesday i guess of the mainstream media was pretending that it was friday. well ashton kutcher gets the role but charlie sheen gets the payday and two and a half men the studio is finalizing a settlement deal that would pay sheen twenty five million dollars in misfired last

march by warner brothers which produces the series that's what happens when people are. you know negative and it brings in a really positive response i want to thank all the viewers that you know every night on h l n. yeah you know i really get enough of nancy grace in her real job her day job so please just spare me with this one will you i beg you anyway while the mainstream media has been spending endless hours having producers cut clips from last night's t.v. shows finding guests wasting air time talking about t.v. land let's remember something that's going on in our very real world right now occupy wall street protest is taking place since saturday september seventeenth now originally they had hoped that twenty thousand people would show up to occupy the financial district in new york campout say until bankers heard that people in america had had enough for their corrupt actions their greed is not going by a notice to all the power it keeps being a taking away from the many the many being those forty six million people living in

poverty the fifteen million people that are unemployed the shrinking middle class tell just about all but one percent of us but that one percent those are the few the hold the power and the hold the wealth in washington and around the world so inside again estimated two thousand people ended up coming out of the mainstream media they didn't they didn't know they didn't know reporting on it whatsoever yeah we're four days in there about one hundred fifty to two hundred protesters who still remain there camped in zuccotti park which they've dubbed liberty plaza and at this point at least five people have been arrested some for having a piece of tarp which the police consider the tent another having a bullhorn and some for wearing the guy fawkes masks using some antiquated law about no more than two masked people gathering except during a masquerade party or a similar entertainment and i bet you that they don't use that one against the cuties on hall of we know the protesters continue to say that they're going to be nonviolent some say the police are getting too bruff here's a video of some of those arrests taking place.

thank. god for. the good. so despite all of that happening i mean three media has continued to ignore the story the reporters on the ground there i guess there on the red carpet somewhere prepping for an awards show you know the only place i've ever even seen this mentioned so far was on the rachel maddow show last night when she had michael moore on as a guest but was because more brought up himself not because rachel asked because he was also pinpointing the ridiculous nature of the media and what they choose to ignore from the tar sands protests and from the white house to the occupy wall street protest that's going on right now meanwhile c.n.n.

just teamed up with the tea party do a presidential debate and you remember how the mainstream media covered every single tea party protests the glitz and glam that was involved there you almost couldn't pool's a mistake in it for some celebrity event and that's a huge part of the problem that's a huge reason why wall street is getting away with its crimes is because the mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to them they don't call out our congress with this administration on a daily basis one of the biggest crimes of the century so far one that's gone and punished and since they're too lazy to do it well why would they bother covering a protest where someone else wants to see that's what they choose to miss. all the psych all hope may be lost richard davis said to be executed by lethal injection at seven pm tomorrow night in the state of georgia davis is convicted of murdering an off duty police officer but many questions surround the case including

a lack of any physical evidence and recanted statements by seven of the nine original witnesses and a last ditch effort davis' legal team appealed to the georgia board of pardons and paroles yesterday seeking clemency but this morning the decision by the five member board was announced request for clemency tonight if this case is one that finally got the mainstream media's attention in the last week or so as hundreds of activists have been protesting in georgia sending her to. and u.s. lawmakers have been speaking out but it's been it's been a day out for years this is already davis' fourth execution date and over the past few decades this case is seen in exceptional number of appeals and hearings including a rare step by the supreme court in two thousand and ten which didn't review its case of grants for another hearing to world leaders and government officials have also drawn attention this is well from the pope and president jimmy carter to former f.b.i. director william sessions but if this man is executed tomorrow whose guilt is still in doubt over the history books going to say joining me to discuss it is rather

balco senior writer and investigate reporter for the huffington post thanks so much for joining us tonight and first i guess if you could clarify some things as to whether this really was the last hope for troy davis because i think a lot of people are confused out there some are asking why president obama doesn't grant him clemency or why it's just come from the governor of georgia himself but as far as i'm concerned those two people they can't step in here could the supreme court do something. i mean i can always step in i guess i think the problem is the most to be issues that could be litigated in davis' case have been used made these challenges and he's lost so. it seems really really unlikely that the supreme court will intervene and yet president obama came into being because this is based on the governor of georgia intervened you actually has no power in georgia all the power rests with this clemency board which incidentally the five members the clemency board all have one exception for the five of law enforcement backgrounds

the third was a former top on crime republican legislators so you know davis really didn't have a chance on this board and really got to stop the income people with those. solely with people that kind of background. having one place let's not forget his dream car actually did stay two executions in the state of texas recently and right we have a case of doing back and then just today there was one more for a cleaner faster so i guess things are always possible but we're not sure here but you know another thing happened today which is two lawmakers from the state of georgia one senator and one representative they're now asking those who work in the prison to strike or to pull the sick out so basically they have nothing but just the bare bones minimum amount of employees there tomorrow have we ever seen anything like that on the fore. not that i know it seems sort of unlikely i mean if they're going to if they could get even if you know a couple people decided to do that i doubt they could get enough to actually not be

able to carry forth with the execution but i mean i think there is a you know a real kind of central point to be made here and that is that. i mean it's the people who are pushing for david is that you are right i mean he has exhausted all appeals and he's been given a lot of years but the fact that you know he has exhausted all the checks and balances their system affords somebody in pollution under still this much doubt about this and you still hold closing in on twenty four hours it's. i think is a pretty damning indictment of the system and if we have a penalty that's it we're versatile and fine but. yeah you make a really good point there too and especially you know if you think of the fact that at this latest trial hearing the judges would say that there isn't there is so much doubt surrounding the fact that seven of the nine witnesses have decided to recant their statements and there's too much doubt surrounding it to prove this man's innocence but somehow there's there's not enough doubt to still continue to prove

his guilt and to send him to the execution chamber and not just at that scene so backwards if you ask me. well i mean what happens is during your your trial they have to review you know a reasonable doubt once you're convicted. tables turn and you have to be very very clear to get a new case in beckett and basically have to prove that you found new evidence that wasn't available at the time of your trial and that if the jury had heard it they probably would have believed that you were innocent that's a really really high burden and it needs to be that way otherwise you know people constantly getting you know just it's just this is to be sort of thrown a problem is that a case like this i mean when there are inherent flaws in the system that allow bad evidence to get in as it did in this case you know i wouldn't know for centuries that they were here. problems with eyewitness testimony and then it's been vastly overstated in criminal trials so when you know that there are fundamental problems of how the evidence got into trial the first place and i think you need to lower

that standard you know and be more willing to entertain claims like this i mean you know to d.n.a. testing that there are four thousand system and those flaws exist even in cases where you know d.n.a. wasn't part of the case these are naive to assume that you know the problem is that i want a testimony of prosecutorial misconduct that are only you know present in the any case of the president and i think that the in a testing should trouble in our eyes and make it more willing to you know to go back and look at some of these other cases where your name doesn't really play it will. but do you think that americans are willing to go back there i mean i'm just wondering if you think that we're seeing some kind of a trend in terms of attitudes changing when it comes to capital punishment or fight the opposite it's becoming more divisive because you have some states out there abolishing the death penalty and at the same time now we have presidential candidates that are getting cheered by the crowds when there are incredibly high

record execution record is that is mentioned. well i mean i think some of our are more thoughtful pundits and thought leaders i mean i think you can certainly sense a change in their opinions a punishment i think it's becoming much more skeptical unfortunately i think for most politicians and the general public i mean support is still strong and part of the reason i think is is. our law enforcement officials and politicians have really kind of taken me. the uncomfortable news out of capital punishment media and once a joke about the fact that they you know they saw be in condemns arm with alcohol before they give a lethal injection which sort of doesn't make the sense right there that they were not afraid of infection obviously. but i think the point there is that we've turned you know it's lose a state killing to basically what looks like a medical procedure. and we really are all these rituals sort of involved with it and you know the last two women who were up for execution both of whom you know

were almost certainly guilty were both given given clemency and i think because the governors in those states tennessee and virginia knew that it's sort of unseemly it's uncomfortable to hear of a woman being executed so i think one reason why support a state so strong is that is that the politicians are really taking a lot of bite in the sting out of capital punishment really sort of anesthetized the public. executions should be televised. if the government's going to do this an army which you know we should watch what's going on with before that happens. we know at the same time though and i think you make a good point there that we're so far removed from these executions these days but at the same time a lot of it really is emotionally charged that something of the parole board mentioned here they said we know this is a very emotionally charged case because you see so many people protesting it's very emotional for the family of the officer that was killed they want some kind of

justice too but how do you remove some of that emotion maybe maybe that is a better idea and make it more rational and tell people that you know this is costing so much money we can't afford it anymore. or motional because there are doubts about bill i mean you know you know every every execution obviously is going to have some emotion around in a lot of actions but in this case you take you're asserting a lot of people up because they don't like the idea that we're i mean you know bob barr the former congressman from georgia. you still progress going to say i was in very passionate about the about trying to stop its execution because there's that here i mean and i think there's reason for passion and emotion when there's time to kill someone when they feel. of course we need to be rational in considering able but you know in this case again we have you know he's he was convicted on i would miss testimony which proven to have lots of problems and be overstating things and then some of the night and this is a some sort. and you know the judge the federal judge who reviewed the evidence and

made the hearing said you know this well if i do stuff with this flaw that this is even later that they can't do it so it's even less reliable but some of those were killed and so they were actually pressured by police the first time around and that's something that you know that's a very different sort of memory than memory on for somebody right so there are they get yeah i think we need to sort of the evidence we're actually but certainly there's a motion when the government's about to do something that you. are about they want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and unless something has happened here and the supreme court steps and looks like trade davis will be executed tomorrow night thanks. so me. as still ahead tonight a glimmer of hope for the game u.s. servicemen and women stationed around the world that's later nice trail as you know about the one trillion dollars underground economy here in the u.s. so many americans are trying to stay afloat during the economic crisis or to let you know that's not taking interest off.

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last week first told you about an f.b.i. training handbook leaked by a whistleblower when the expose hateful and very islamophobia training materials being used to teach f.b.i. counterterrorism agents now wired's danger room wired danger room spencer ackerman published excerpts from a counterterrorism course that specifically called muhammad a cult leader and labeled all muslims even those considered mainstream a threat to america and his word quickly spread about a program that moves into damage control mode declaring the elective counterterrorism class a one time affair which ended this april however turns out about claims to be false because danger room is now uncovered a new video displaying the man who taught that course william gahl for giving a similar type of lecture in new york city and that event took place in june of

this year months after the f.b.i. said the man it stopped raining f.b.i. agents now is a lecture sponsored by public private partnership for law enforcement officials and the f.b.i. has scrambled to remove an entire lecture but there is a one thirty minute segment that's been salvaged and that on wired there's been a few changes to gaza or of course for starters he states that he is lecturing as a private citizen and his power point presentation he uses his military e-mail address rather than the one from the f.b.i. and also appears as if rhetoric has also changed a bit since the course he taught in quantico back in april beginning of the lecture he specifically states that he's talking about islam as a government and as an ideology he specifically says under the first amendment that he won't be discussing as long as religion. the the e o e. the e.u. the e.u. the e.u.

. the e.u. . the e.u. . now despite the disclaimer which he uses to cover his ass his general feelings towards muslims are still the same the author of explained that it's pointless to target just one group of radicals like a mosque or al-qaeda and so he suggested the best way to protect the country is to go after islam itself i was speaking of course from a non religion it standpoint he's also got a loophole to continue his battle against islamics planing how holy books are let's not religion then government and offered a ratio where seventeen percent of the text is religious while eighty three percent compromises of islamic law so basically he's finding ways to encourage law enforcement to engage in racial profiling here in the us by declaring that they're really just fighting a system of government not infringing on people's first amendment rights and now just to make sure they hold his audience as attention check out this comparison

that he makes to star wars. the ohio . as you can imagine many other counterterrorism teachers are just outraged that gotham's lecture one even dubbed his ideology as mccarthyism on steroids and as you reported last time some members of congress like senator joe lieberman are now questioning the qualifications for counterterrorist trainers he's even sending a letter to john brennan now calling first get. to be put in place for that kind of training so now the f.b.i. has been called out once again for using the teachings of a man which are widely discredited it is not only wrong or potentially illegal i wonder if they're going to stop lying and actually prevent gone through from

hosting another forum with law enforcement i certainly hope so. and we talk about the struggling economy in this country all the time and more than forty six million people that are now living below the poverty line the fischel nine point one percent unemployment and the real you six measure sixteen point two percent unemployment the fact that large corporations continue to sit on piles of cash and offshore tax havens and take jobs elsewhere while their executives rake in record profits all together you could call this not only a bad economy but it's an employment crisis but there's one thing about it that never gets talked about and that's the underground economy that's rising because of the crisis that we're in not only where you think in terms of prosecution or selling drugs this includes things like babysitting braiding hair doing laundry just off the record and it's been estimated that this underground economy is worth somewhere around one trillion dollars or eight percent of g.d.p. that means lost revenue for the government but there misconceptions out there about whether people are forced into or choose to be in the shadows and as to whether

this underground economy hurts or helps so joining me to discuss it a surge an associate editor at alter net. i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and first of all tell me if there are some other examples here as i mentioned hair braiding doing laundry babysitting and what else counts as being part of the underground economy. it's. your typical day you said you know. your neighborhood. anything but you don't work. as the underground or even. i but that's something that you could say has been going on forever right americans been having yard sales asking their neighbors to help them out what do we have to show us that it's really getting worse now post financial crash i mean. and it's really hard to say with any certainty that it hasn't been worse other than the fact

that you know getting worse and more people are dropping out. and so whatever you can say it's not counted by any government agency but you can assume that we're. seeing that. and i do we have any idea in that case for you know the people who are studying it that are saying it's only in credit increasingly growing how much revenue that means is being lost when it comes to taxes that would have been paid. hundreds of billions of dollars probably. you know so i was compared to the money to see massive corporation. i think of this in tax revenue. and the. wealthy their kids. their homes while their.

well you know you mentioned of course is the money that corporations keep it off for tax havens i know that's something you have to examine here too because we've got a lot of stories on this show where you see the government and the state governments going after people that might be trying to sell type of milk but it's not f.d.a. approved at the same time you have companies like whole foods going after people that might want to just grow their own produce you know and have their own have their own garden in their backyard and do you think that some of the priorities are mixed up here that we should instead of going after people with these type of small operations they should be going more after corporations are sure absolutely i mean . i don't think there's any question. all right well let's go back to talking about underground economy then you know how much of that two factor is in the huge huge labor force about fifteen million people who are undocumented immigrants here in the u.s.

. insists only act and impact it's simply. i mean you have a lot of people who are coming in or working under the table who are in need flooded because they can't so they have no legal recourse because underground were . people who are in legal residency almost as well if you don't have protections of your employer or in your employment report so. whatever they want so you probably want to treat you know again it's people when you know the situation as it gets there and there is action. so there how do you go about changing the dialogue because of course so many of the arguments or here if you talk about undocumented labor people say well they came here illegally and they chose to be in this situation because they don't want to go through the proper routes to get their paperwork or you know they might say that

somebody else's well they're too lazy to apply for any real jobs and have to be responsible and how do you change that and get people to realize that you don't choose to be in this type of situation where you're not part of the formal economic structure that goes on i mean i think first of all it's it's not just ducking the birds it's all sorts of people and so you know i mean we can argue integration policy for hours and hours and hours but what you really want to highlight about this i think it's that people are doing this because there are two options. you know when you mentioned beginning is this is. what are you supposed to do if you cannot. and your. maximum is weeks and millions of people who. it's not about us. it's about people who were and there are any sort of legal means enough to actually.

and the. people should be aware that it's a great sense. and secret to most people. yeah i think it's it's not a secret to anyone in this country except for maybe i guess washington or some of the people on wall street you know we saw lawmaker john fleming yesterday complaining about the fact that he only brings home four hundred thousand dollars every year and that's where you see the real disconnect take place you know in the meantime as you wrote about here this underground economy is only starting to grow so i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight thanks. now showing tells coming up next and then we're being told here in the u.s. that we need to cut budgets we need to slash social services so why is the us government looking to build a massive new prison of the air base not going to stand by that topic in just a few minutes.

into that only we would be mechanisms to do the work to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government's true if you want to know why i think actually that's. what i would characterize the bottom line as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so easy to understand it and then he lives something else here's some other part of it and realize that everything you say. i'm sorry is a big.