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for. the. it's time for you said it i read it right takes time to respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments on facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got something to say i listen to first of all respond to your who watched our coverage of the occupy wall street movement and see dickinson's that on facebook and two party system has failed us for too long political as well as economic reform should be the main factors in the occupy wall street campaign. now we've
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obviously spoken about the failures of the two party system but many many times on this show we talk about the system's tendency to shut up dissent declare anything outside the mainstream is dangerous and fringe and the two party system which is run by big money donors also doesn't excellent job and making sure that fresh ideas and people are few and far between in the nation's capital that's part of what occupy wall street hopes to address the occupy wall street movement seeks to fight back against the growing economic inequality in america and also the knowledge of our political system is very much to blame for the economic hardships facing millions of americans and an overwhelming a majority of americans actually agree the question approval is an all time low in just twelve percent happy with the current congress while people take to the streets to express their frustrations but it's pretty clear that our viewers right in order for something to really change in this country are going to have to address not only the economic system our system of government as well because at this point through a pretty hard to distinguish an exxon or so on to a viewer who watched my fireside friday on bradley manning's five hundred days of
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confinement blade nine disease that i knew to put on you alone and to mention that many people have forgot about him living in such a terrible condition for that last five hundred days without charge by his own country now almost of the media has either ignored the plight of bradley manning or declared him to be a traitor here on the lower show we'll continue to shine a light on bradley manning and the obama administration's war and whistleblowers manning's treatment is something that all americans should care about because it's a symbol it's a symbol of the u.s. justice system or lack thereof and more importantly it's a symbol of the lengths that the military is going to go to to silence those who speak out and finally i would respond to a kind of you who tweeted to us make war music set ilona show it love your show caught a couple episodes this morning keep up the good work oh mr rick warren bank you so much for watching we're going to keep doing what we're doing that's of my rantings today and i will back with more as usual next week. at an era where technology is central to our way of life that there are difficult. virus so you most people are
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pretty familiar with but most people outside of d.c. really contemplate the possibility of a computer virus stretching the military and that's exactly what happened when danger room exclusively reported that a virus that infected the cockpits of u.s. predator and reaper drones was detected by the host based security system and while they don't know if it was put on the drones on purpose they do think the virus is benign that's probably not the biggest threat to the man devices i mean if you ask me i think the drones themselves what we do with them are the real issue here but specialists of confront the virus has infiltrated unclassified and classified machines at the creech air force base in nevada and once the mainstream media read this report they started buzzing about the sickness american air force pilots from half a world away are able to control drones that are not only surveilling but actually attacking targets how virus has infected the computer systems that operate the military's unmanned drone aircraft used on missions in afghanistan and elsewhere those computers control the unmanned drones that the military uses to fly on and
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attack terror targets abroad. so the big question now. is the mainstream media ever ask about why we think it's legal to use drones all over the world is how did this happen you think of the u.s. military would have the best of the best when it comes to strong cyber security system recorded danger room that's not necessarily the case the security flaws are fairly common many reaper and predator drones video transmitted to american troops on the ground and unlike most companies the military cyber security division doesn't have a quarter per se making it more difficult to examine and determine exactly what happened and how but here here comes the icing on the cake in this story these see it turns out that the air force cyber security specialist didn't even know about this virus though they found out about it just like the rest of us did by reading that danger room article unanswered and named sources within the air force operations said it was not highlighted. when your article came out it was like what
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you states and yeah that's actually a direct quote so i gave kidding me the part of the nevada didn't think the warders appears when a virus attack or killing machines talk about a communication breaks out the military is making it clear that these drones are the future of our military has taken a few statistics here according to the washington post rounds of hit pakistan over two hundred and thirty times hundred fifty drones are responsible for being the militaries in the sky in iraq and afghanistan and let's not forget a drone strike responsible for the recent death of anwar locky in yemen and those stats are just during president obama's term alone it's not just putting a little faith in these machines it's clear that these really are america's weapon the choice for the future for better or for worse but the fact that there is such a huge communication breakdown here doesn't really make me feel that good about our future endeavors so perhaps dangerous given the air force a wake up call to get our twenty first century stay on top of the threats to their drones. now the rhetoric surrounding the alleged terror plot to assassinate the
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saudi ambassador to the u.s. is heating up even the f.b.i. director robert mueller described as a hollywood style script story goes like this a fifty six year old american citizen and used car salesmen who also hold an iranian passport working with them being funded by elements within the iranian regime trying to hire hit men from the set as mexican drug cartel to carry out an attack in washington d.c. and kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. it turns out he was speaking to a da da informant in mexico and was arrested in september but only yesterday the justice department announced the allegedly foiled plot and charges against two men and this was no small announcement the u.s. brought out the big wigs maturity general eric holder to secretary of state hillary clinton and even vice president joe biden who said this today. you know the whole world and the moral of the separation of the arena actions show that whatever action ultimately is taken whether it's an additional sanctions some of which we've already taken and nothing has been taken off the table that the world is united.
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now other republican lawmakers have gone even further declaring this an act of war the state department has issued a travel warning for american citizens abroad so how far could the u.s. actually go with this and how much skepticism should we have to begin with with this plot joining us today in new york is a national security reporter for think progress dot org i want to thank so much thank you so much for joining us tonight and first i just want to get your take on this entire situation here i mean it very much could be a real plot but do you think that there's a little bit to be skeptical about well thanks for having me on yeah i don't i don't think we have all the details of this the indictment was it was only twenty pages it was fairly short and a lot of it was based on this d.n.a. informant who is somebody who started cooperating with the american authorities after they were arrested for for likely a drug crime and you know the details are really sketchy and what doesn't and the
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as you say that's not to say there is no plot but we're really doesn't make sense is that it really doesn't fit the character in the usual modus operandi of iranian intelligence and special forces units and so yeah it's it's it's a bit puzzling what's going on and i hope we get some more details soon and saying that it doesn't really fit the way of a usually do business the fact that they had some used car salesman and that he was transferring large amounts of money see the american banks under f.b.i. control it just seems a little bit sloppy but i think i think we really have to ask here is why would this be in you know iran's benefit they haven't attacked the united states on u.s. soil you know nothing has happened post nine eleven why they want to do this now in washington d.c. . yes they've never struck an attack in the u.s. as you say and and you know the saudi animosity towards iran was really laid bare by the wiki leaks revelations late last year but that was only really the specifics
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and levels in a few quotes we all know that the saudis have really been itching to get the u.s. to to attack iran because of its nuclear program because the saudis are very much afraid of iranian has a monic interest so that rivalry is nothing new either and then the iranians have killed people other places in the world had assassination plots but most of the time they were against radical and other iranian dissidents who were being based abroad and causing trouble for the regime at home and it's never been the case like this where they've as explicitly gone after a foreign nationals doing their diplomatic service and especially tight security place like the u.s. and so it just doesn't make sense on a lot of levels so what do you think of the style in which you know this plot was really unveiled so it's because one of these things could be something that gets passed by and you know goes over below the radar but we had attorney general eric holder come out and you have a press conference we've already had the vice president way and we've had secretary
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of state hillary clinton weigh in i mean they really did bring out all the big wigs and so it makes it seem like now they have to have some kind of a big response. yes i think it's i think that's right that they might have bitten off a little more they can chew because there's not really so much you can do as far as international sanctions the u.s. is still beholden to the international bodies and getting widespread support there and they've had some problems with that especially after the resolution on on the no fly zone in libya got extended the russians and chinese and those sorts of countries have become really wary of of security council resolutions led by the u.s. and then and then yeah they really hyped up this this release and brought out the big guns and i think more than anything it's probably just the you know as i said if this is a real plot then there can be no doubt about the fact that it's a good thing that the obama administration prevented it from being carried out
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especially on american soil but at the same time i think there definitely is a political element to this where it seems pretty clear that the administration is going to run on what has actually been a really successful national security and counterterrorist ratatouille so why not. pop up these announcements even if it's a little bit more difficult to follow through you know those those news stories don't end up you know above the poll told on page one so it's a little bit you know it's sort of a win win for them well i'll tell you why maybe you should be getting these things mean you know for starters we've covered many stories on this show where these could be possible cases of entrapment at the same time because now we have republican lawmakers and you wrote about this yourself today saying if this is a declaration of war and we've already we see this all the time right with john mccain which i'm going with lindsey graham saying bomb bomb bomb away and you know i think that the american public does often give into their motions and we saw the same thing with iraq only or saw the war based on lies and weapons of mass
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destruction so i really would like to see some truth here you know rather than just blowing steam out there but. right i mean if this is concocted which i have no evidence to suspect it is but if it is i think it really is a travesty in that sense that. there's no doubt that this is a further deterioration you know further down into the depths of the u.s. the runway show up over the past three decades and and i think it it really has given a lot of fodder to washington's war hawks which would lead him to push sometimes explicitly for military strikes we had a major mainstream conservative think tank in washington the heritage foundation my colleague eli clifton wrote about it they called for a proportional military response against iranian targets today and so you have everything from those calls to the calls of people like you some of them are kirk from illinois who while he said that we shouldn't react militarily to this he did use it as a means to try and promote his new iran sanctions against iran which are aimed at
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the central bank with the explicit purpose that the sanctions are designed to cripple and collapse iran's currency and bring economic hardship on to ordinary iranians and he said today he was asked on the interview last night about it on the radio i just read about this on think progress today he was asked if these sanctions targeting iran or take food off the plates of ordinary iranians and he said he thinks it's ok to take food off the plates of ordinary iranians that. they whose governments plan bombings on u.s. soil and so i think that there is no doubt that this is pushing forward efforts of people that really want to her ordinary iranians who are doing battled enough under their own government as well as potentially pushing the us closer to a confrontation from iran which. experts universally agree will be pretty disastrous scenario that i have and it's not something that we need and you know i
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definitely think there needs to be some careful treading here i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight thanks very much for having me on it's a pleasure. also the county's an unpopular governor now is filling out for students who want liberal arts because it's mine are told i'm psychic and happy our police bust a mobiles first class trust which i bought when strange take on the nine nine nine plan and some of. those numbers given that we had an apartheid regime right. i think iraq is beautiful and funny well. we never got the book says the bird keep you safe get ready because your freedom.
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you know sometimes you see a story and the seems so sorely sleep you think you understand it and then a glimpse something else here's some of the part of it and realize that everything is all you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. see. if we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i'm just going to live through. the confession i am in total get of friends that i love driving hip hop is a latin phrase. he was kind of yesterday.
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i'm very proud of the world without you she has played. i did sign for tonight's tool time award and tonight goes to florida governor rick scott to the republican just to office this year but he's not very well liked by florida residents who go to the met office because only how they thirty seven percent approval rating and that's the highest of his governorship and just a few months in office he have the honor of tossing the first pitch again the spring training game and he didn't really get a very well welcome from flirting floridians.
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out now besides being booed scotus based criticism after criticism for his handling of state issues it was a wall during a weekend of major wildfires across the state in june turns out he was the speaker treat with the koch brothers he also signed into law a bill that required all welfare recipients to pass a drug test and that's actually cost the state money because virtually no one seeking help was on drugs but the state had to pay for the testing now rick scott is also slash major funding for education and solar. rick scott has just announced his new budget in florida it takes more than one point seven billion dollars out of the public schools and instead of putting out money back into the budget the budget gives it away in corporate and property tax breaks so k. through twelve education gets out of salute me even vis aerated in the state of florida. that's right more tax cuts for corporations but since he's dismantled k.
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through twelve programs or appears that rick scott is now going after higher education as well he visibly keys aside the state shouldn't be spending money on all those liberal arts degrees he said this is a quote i got accused of not liking anthropologist the other day but think about it how many were jobs do you think there are for anthropologists an estate are required on to say do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can't get jobs anthropology iow i want to make sure that we spend our dollars where people can get jobs when they get out now it's got a little further the discussion saying that the who wants to shift more funding to colleges the opportunities in science technology engineering and math he wants to create a new silicon valley in florida rick scott is basically saying screw you to students who are liberal arts degrees he wants state colleges to offer free market friendly majors basically rick scott doesn't like the liberal arts classes and agrees because they educate people on social issues but guess what they also give you critical thinking skills analytical skills things that might come in handy in the
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workplace but you know i guess it goes majors don't fit in with his tea party conservative viewpoints do we need science technology engineering math majors as well of course we do we don't just cut liberal arts out how dare a college offer insight into the world how dare they teach are used to think outside of the box be creative when news flash covers caught one of the things that supposed to make america special that we allow our children to explore new ideas new ways of thinking you know that little world that every politician throws around innovation liberal arts degrees they help encourage that so there is opposition to thinking outside the box or giving florida governor republican governor tonight's killed i will work. our guys time for happy hour and joining me this evening is our jeanne correspondent christine for south. and mcmorris santoro reporter and blogger for
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talking points and thanks for join me guys all right so we said we wouldn't do too much debate stuff very happy hour because we already did a bunch of debates earlier on in the show but michele bachmann you know what we call earlier this year and she was the gift that keeps on giving so we have to play a little clip of what she thinks about herman cain's nine nine nine plan. when you take the nine nine nine plan and you turn it upside down i think the devil's in the details. i know i just love ellen so i mean if you're not so you know you're so right she's the gift that keeps on giving but michele bachmann is also somebody who realize who realizes that she's not really making her face known anymore the interviews have stopped she's not out there as much so she has to come up with these clever little phrases to make sure that she gets on the show and as many others as possible i think you i think it was a cute gesture it's a little strange to talk about the devil at a republican party is throwing her as
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a family i mean this is especially a jesus loving god fearing woman to do that but i think she's desperate i guess that's all she has left right is the conservative social crowd and it was just you know a lot about the devil but about you know christianity i think is ample of how we know these candidates read what good we're going on twitter you get on twitter throughout this whole nine nine nine plan has been so many jokes for six six spirito brutally that someone in a hurry for all the tweets this is that what we're learning about this campaign between all of it's me i don't know if you know this but earlier this week we learned that apparently the rick perry campaign watches the a lot of shows because they put into their new that attacking mitt romney welcome your security that's a big step graduation which really kind of cracks me up because we're i don't know why they would be watching our show. ok let's move on also do something so we've been doing a lot of my wall street coverage we see the people as well that we're on wall street sipping champagne overlooking the people and so now here's another clip some
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of these we are the one percent take a look. and getting a bunch of ridiculous people here together with no real goal is is is is frankly idiotic we worked hard to get where we are and it seems like a lot of people are down here whining that they don't have the wealth that we have and this is america this is going to listen to some. it's like this protest is is un-american. all right so i don't feel like that's a joke let's kind of just do a little because you know actually say those who have it's hard to figure that you see these issues are going to be said on the show every single day eggs of the just get some young hot guy to say it and like that it's normal well that's my thing is watching this guy who says well i should be happy to have my nice apartment and my second apartment this guy has long hair he doesn't look like a guy and i could be totally off base here he doesn't look like a guy that actually works on wall street i think it's probably a joke even if it's not you're right if he's repeating what it sounds like bigotry
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against her legs but i think people care of long hair and be very but i understand this is america california where the people with long hair are usually the people that are real estate agents and part time servers here and there are jobs there really that is where your bigotry let me out of my richer friends of shorter than me but less here than you know because i you know i try to keep it less stress in my life exactly and i mean hang on to it well looks can be deceiving you know what can be deceiving there's i look at it but it's america's like christabel for somebody to do anything. but you know i just think that some of them are like psychopaths killing people and i don't know or maybe they really are just defending their wealth but it's true or they were. very well banner. ok. but. this story about mobile strip club. i want you to row this. little. boy you
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want. why are they your. oh my goodness so the blue lounge was part of your store and now you're in detroit and when the lines play the bear is basically police have a look at it they realize that it operated illegally as a strip club for reveling in it i mean i think if you got it wasn't your idea because i think it's a good one i think it's an entrepreneur only idea that we haven't seen yet really i mean i was i'm working on a story right now about the food trucks in d.c. these are there's eighty of them right now everything you want mac and cheese cupcakes grilled cheese anything but the food trucks have to follow the rules in terms of health standards they get checked out by the health department on almost a weekly basis so i think that if mobile strip club wants to function just make sure they got very very good example jobs in america guys can go to serve. their office they don't have to tell their wives will never find out something you really
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are you i mean i deal with this the way i thought about that underground bunker let's keep the food truck and the circle truck separate but just keep those two things separate i think yes yes one hundred percent ok well you them both but if you're only here for both trucks yes let them pass been back standing let them exist ok last story that we have here this is just and if you want to call this karma. what are they for. they detected a strong boulder of alcohol coming from the vehicle they asked him to step out and when he did you see he was unsteady or you speech i will still down several times and have slurred speech is with those watery and bloodshot eyes he told officers he had two drinks and did agree to appeal sobriety tests now while searching his issue the officers say they found a little less than thirty years special handgun which between the driver seats and the civil council. all right so this is representative curry a lawmaker in tennessee and he was one of the main people that was pushing for this
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legislation for you to be allowed to have your guns in your bars are going to do that maybe then don't get arrested for getting a dui why. you're going to look like everyone is going to go around driving drunk and shooting up the town or you know they say you know for authors you know what you know well the same thing goes for making laws i mean this guy was you know it's a lot of drinking and carrying a gun so that's the kind of law that he writes i mean i think it's and i think it makes sense to me. i don't know what to say i mean. guns in bars and i guess everyone's going to have their own opinion but it does go to show that this is somebody who loves his gun and loves drinking. beers and i love like you know you're very good and i love america because it was with a with a stripper but that's it right here on got to wrap it up i thank you so much for joining me tonight i think the night so thanks for tuning in thanks for the come back tomorrow might read some reason is that what i asked for happy hour i got tickets for my family a lot of show my facebook and follow us on twitter if you miss and it's
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