mr. time for tonight's told by rewarding tonight he goes to a louisiana lawmakers they apparently cash isn't paying in the face. cold hard cash it's good everywhere you go right you can use it for anything to pay for anything but that's not the case you know louisiana now it's a law that was during this year's busy legislative session. that's right in the state of louisiana the legal tender of the united states is no longer welcome everywhere they can no longer be used in buying and selling goods at second hand dealers and louisiana eighty one ninety five was signed into law by the governor on july first but businesses and residents are just learning about this issue and was

so proudly written that has everybody confused for example let's listen to a line in the bill that defines a secondhand dealer it's anyone other than a nonprofit and b. who buys sells trades in or otherwise acquires or disposes of junk or used or secondhand property more frequently than once per month from any other person other than a nonprofit entity shall be deemed as being engaged in the business of a second hand dealer what so if you are a yard sale for two days that makes you a second hand dealer flea markets sound like you're totally out of luck as you can imagine this new law has business owners pretty upset basically house bill one hundred five says those who buy and sell second hand goods cannot use cash in those transactions and it flew so far under the radar that most businesses don't even know about it we lose a lot of business. i don't know if this transaction if you take it away from us i mean it's an everyday transaction all right so why on earth but

a state want to ban cash transactions do we have enough of a credit problem in this country well lawmakers say that it's their way of cracking down on criminals who traffic and stolen goods. as the bill is told the criminals who steal anything from copper to televisions he sell them for a quick buck having a paper trail will make it easier for law enforcement mechanism to be the police department will be able to. ok so while i applaud lawmakers for trying to stop the sale of stolen goods they've now effectively banned citizens from freely using united states legal tender if anybody up or think this bill through and now the government wants an electronic way to track people who buy and sell anything more civil liberties flushed down the toilet but there's a bigger issue here to see this new law is once again going to target the poor a lot of them don't have debit or credit cards they live paycheck to paycheck and they often pay in cash so i guess that they're just getting screwed here so

congratulations with the analog makers you actually started down the slippery slope in which the government can place restrictions on individuals trying to buy and sell their own private property and that's why we're giving tonight's top five award to louisiana politicians who actually voted for this ridiculous law which targets the poor. and now this year all eyes have been focused on the texas prison system which is a tourist for the number of executions carry out its year according to the death penalty information center the lone star state carried out seventeen executions the most that in any state just in two thousand and ten but fast forward to this year texas death row inmate lawrence brewer and broke his right to a last meal before he was set to die over brewer found a way to stick it to the man right before he was set to die by not eating a single bite of that huge final meal. to too chicken fried steak a cheeseburger and fried okra three say he this ice cream pounded barbecue peanut butter fudge how about a pizza and three repairs to wash it down and he didn't touch any of it so now

texas will no longer offer death row inmates a special last meal. that's right rather than placing that special last meal before a texas death row inmate dies he will now just eat whatever is on the regular menu that day and that's an issue for which there's some debate in this country death row inmates deserve a special request or not let's talk about this new measure that's coming up now the state needs to cut two point eight million dollars from the twenty eleven budget for criminal justice department state prison inmates are going to lose one of their weekend meals so rather than texas inmates receiving three square meals a day during the week and now they're just going to get two meals a brunch and then an early dinner and a few eating schedule affect about twenty three thousand inmates in thirty six prisons and that's not the only way they're cutting costs and milk is going to be replaced with powdered milk hamburger and hans odd buns will be replaced with slices of bread kind of grows in the first state to cut down to two meals a day similar weekend schedules are also in place in ohio arizona and georgia and

we should also note that texas has a law against keeping prisoners from eating three meals a day but that apparently only applies to county inmates not those of the state so it looks like they found a way to get around even the barest of protections for the state's prisoners and the a.c.l.u. is currently fighting this move saying that the food is a violation of the federal constitution but if the behavior of texas in the past is any indication that i think we know they're going to fight back because just when you think of the texas justice system can't get any worse it does and the killing of most people of any state this country isn't enough they will want to make sure that prisoners don't have enough to eat all for the sake of saving their budget maybe one day they'll realize that the criminal justice system cost so much because you lock so many people up but rather than take a look inward at your own policies they're just going to kind of deal. now recently we haven't heard too much from the hacktivist collective anonymous except for their support for the occupy wall street movement that's going around the country but i haven't stopped the government from labeling them

a dangerous threat just this week the department of homeland security released a bulletin warning that anonymous that may be interested in crippling critical infrastructure and the news has caused a lot of news outlets report of the possible dangers of the hacktivist but where exactly is all that coming from our guest tonight says that it looks more like a dire move to discredit and undermine anonymous by the government that analysis of a real threat so joining me from our studio in new york is dan kaplan executive editor of essence magazine and i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and if you can start by just telling us a little bit more about this bullet in their private homeland security put out do they have some kind of evidence some kind of proof as to why anonymous would target critical infrastructure sure but this was something that was certainly internally at the heart of homeland security and appeared on a public web site called the public intelligence website this week and to be honest with you it's really based on some sort of you know some pretty scant evidence around you know aligning anonymous with wanting to cripple critical infrastructure

and you really need to take it with a grain of salt i think any kind of details anyway you know what is there evidence there has to be i don't know is there like a e-mail a tweet something in a chat room that was said. yeah well one of the big pieces of evidence is a tweet that i suppose that anonymous member posted giving some information of some reconnaissance work that he or she did into some of these control systems a particular piece of software to be exact and you know when you talk about the control systems and you know skater systems and these things that power or industrial controls. power plants and that sort of thing a lot of the research community even the good guy researchers are poking at this stuff so everybody is looking at it because you know it's rather it's a rather new research area it's a lot of this stuff is getting connected now to the internet so everyone is really looking at it and the fact that one suppose

a member of anonymous is looking at i don't think it's much of a deal big deal i would say you're not buying that i mean a homeland security's argument here in fact you think that maybe they're just trying to discredit anonymous why do they want to do that. i mean that's what it looks like i mean you have to you know you have to consider the motivation behind something like this right so the apartment of homeland security wants to discredit undermine subvert the actions of anonymous because anonymous has made no qualms really about their distrust of government about their distrust of corporations and so it would make perfect sense to me for the department of homeland security to you know lean on something like critical infrastructure in order to sort of you know name and shame and get the public to be opposed to a group like anonymous now even when writing about it said at least compared somehow to the way that the government is going after waking me do you think that you are synonymous. i think so i mean again the both of those

organizations certainly want to bring to light. corruption that mean to take in place and governments within corporations and anonymous certainly has infiltrated a lot of organizations or launch denial of service attacks making you on able to reach some of these websites of corporations and government agencies so it makes perfect sense the da just wants to sound the alarm that they're going after a critical infrastructure and that's a really scary thing to do i think because when you talk about what scares the daylights out of people within the security industry the people i talk to on a regular basis it's the possibility that somebody is going to break into critical infrastructure into power plants into oil and gas pipelines into waste water treatment facilities or things of the public really relies on to survive and do some serious damage so you know a lot of headlines this week you saw anonymous once too critical want to cripple critical infrastructure in the d.h.s.s. and i think that's a dangerous road to go down i don't think anonymous is in the business of.

disrupting human life of anything i mean given their support of wiki leaks and occupy wall street there are kind of a human rights organization now i think that you know they would like to see themselves in terms of who it is that they're standing up for and that would be the little guy that would be for transparency doesn't seem to me like they would go after in a resources that everybody needs but i'm curious because you mention of course you know some of the style of the attacks and the things that anonymous has done including d.d. o. s. attacks and i've had a conversation with her on this show with someone who thinks that those actually should count as protected speech and you can just consider it a virtual setting let her take. i mean that's certainly a gray area and i think that's something that is going to come up and within the court system going forward i think the dangerous thing to do you know especially when you're talking about creating laws in stiffing penalties against these denial of service attacks is dangerous because

a lot of people lying deede dawson attacks with hacking in there are two entirely different things you're not actually breaking into a corporate network and pulling out data and that sort of thing you're simply sending a tool to shut down the ability for people to access a website so they're two different things so i think it's important for lawmakers to understand the difference between the two as per the possibility that they could be considered a type to be considered a digital sit in i think that's really interesting and i think it's something that a lot of people you know might be thinking it is is what it should be you know is in fact a sit in and i think that's something that's going to be you know determined possibly by the court system yeah i think that we're definitely going to see that you know be carried out in the courts soon and maybe some of those questions will be answered and want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and we'll get to nellie's whether d.f.s. is putting out there and whether it's not so much my pleasure.

so to come tonight we have our fireside friday and then i had a happy hour and i think eighty six cobbs actually predict the death of that author plus we're still waiting on the rapture back into some of. the beliefs of the left anything. like what a fantastic nobody seems to know. that it will persuade the face of the are going to take it being overly dramatic. so. you know.

to tonight's. speech. this week we're blessed with a whole new boatload of show us just how dire the economic situation in. our political establishment is for little. americans. released yesterday shows that poverty rates rose. in almost every single state in the. country in mississippi and in mexico more than one out of every five people are now living in poverty and i remind you what living in poverty actually means

for a family of four that's just over twenty two thousand dollars to live on and here and here is an even more difference and thank you for you the debt of poverty also increased and that means when i was six point eight percent of people have incomes that are no more than half of that threshold or already have been part of that of course the five of the richest people in this country keep getting richer the big bonuses are only getting bigger and you understand that at this point this country isn't what it used to be a middle class is shrinking in a society where everybody can make it just doesn't apply anymore. the most striking contrast that we see is right here in washington d.c. so in this city where the most powerful people in the country gather or political decisions are made of like not only americans but the entire world where poverty runs deep it's here one in ten people had incomes that were less than fifty percent of the government's official threshold for what counts as poverty but here in the nation's capital we also have the lowest poverty rate overall in the nation and

that's thanks to those very wealthy suburbs that surround the city center say according to other figures provided by the census bureau washington d.c. is now the wealthiest u.s. metropolitan area to go house or earning more than eighty four thousand dollars a year and federal employees average more than one hundred twenty six thousand a year so now you can see a little better how big this problem is how deep inequality runs in the fact of the biggest disparity is right here in the nation's capital. this is why it isn't often my movie that's rising up around the country because it's no longer of fair society because the government plays favorites and surprise surprise those favorites are often the ones with the most cash to throw their way along the street is definitely one of the biggest problems when you think of all the lobbyists for various corporations various industry defense contractors they're all based right here in washington why would anybody care about poverty rising unemployment all across the u.s. only on. blowing right here in washington d.c. and if you need any more proof of this how unconcerned your elected representatives

are about their money and take a look at the super committee with five more weeks until their deadline for a plan and at least one point two trillion dollars they pepper those negotiations the police secret are the only details that have leaked out from insiders that they're not gaining any ground they're stuck there in gridlock they haven't even decided on the basics like where to start they are in no rush to put the pieces of this country back together to help average americans get out of the gutter because in their view everything's just fine you can't depend on a do nothing congress or the contractors the corporations that actually get something out of that congress to care. for americans to take us into their own hands not the other guy wall street was all about.

and it was time for happy hour and joining me this evening is archie producer jenny churchill and that welsh editor in chief of reason magazine and co-author of the declaration of independence. i think you got into the church who already own your. all you know the church cannot change smiled. wryly work when you have a lot to be smiling about because guess what it's over all those pots and today and again and everybody i think you remember harold camping take a look at him. you. mean . there will be a huge school. so we all remember harold camping because he told us a couple months ago the rapture was coming he was so sure the people like sold their homes to their kids that school. it was it's really really sad how many lives a pig are probably completely disrupted it brewed by the fact that the rapture

didn't actually happen and so according to harold camping the rapture is was dabbing again today and it i mean things like are people to stop believing him at some point that he had like a time certain you have a certain moments like this when he was like kind of because he didn't want to be. as definitive as a lot of times a month so you know i'm just saying it's not over oh yes i'm still hasn't gone down well you know give me a break the last time he said i was going to like by things right with i think to the other thing that we need to know if the rapture didn't happen right now would we really know because i think we're all kind of stuck here i mean we're going to we would definitely be left behind with a martini. anyway. i'm going. to miss out on the rapture let's move on to something else a prediction that may have actually been kind of a fake prediction but kind of came true take a look at. this is from one thousand nine hundred eighty seven matthew perry was that it was short lived it's

a couple is called second chance and it may or may not have predicted the market off that step. it means that you know. thank you oh come on you must come. jokes and games. then you know it's going to die again this year it did twenty eleven was hard that clip didn't exactly go that even if it really predicted that he was going to die at some point that's crazy oh now you know that twenty eleven where you guys waiting for a contradiction because at least now we would have people who actually look like moammar gadhafi look like john sure toure he could be i got a little bit like younger cut off you know you don't paint the sort of tall gangly

contrasts you know you can have of jewelry and they're really you know he wasn't doing mc hammer like there wasn't a green book in the hands of the green cross and so if we were. clearly. if david sirota was here he would tell us about another thing that we could learn from the one nine hundred eighty s. that is happening today i think today predictions all the time. ok let's move on to pepper spraying thoughts so you know we've been covering our i was removed one of the things that originally really got a lot of media attention because for a while there just completely ignoring this was an incident where a police officer went up to a group of women in new york pepper sprayed them basically out of the blue it just seemed like a really vicious attack and then kind of just walked off and everybody saw this. pretty uncomfortable video take a look. all

right so we have to remember of course that not every single cop is a bad cop ray and there are definitely bad thieves involved this guy really seemed like well and then now he basically has just confirmed that he's kind of an a hole he said he's been he's been really tortured since this incident his name by the way is anthony baloney like county line and. so he's really suffered since this incident because people have an anger at him but he still believe that he used the proper amount of force and said he would do things that the same way if given a second chance i hate him now i have no reason to go out and pepper sprayed those girls they were corralled and he was like from all the accounts that i read i saw it as pepper sprayed them and walk away it shows how totally out of whack police kind of protests have have become i mean i've covered the last i think six major party presidential contests conventions right nominating conventions and i mean

clearly in new york in two thousand and four there's two hundred thousand people marching in the streets against the war which is media we forgot but it's a pretty big deal it's time and cops don't know how to act i mean there are people there are not armed you know they're not like waving guns and does various people they might be going there might be insulting you or whatever but they're not threatening in any way at all and cops completely overreact we saw that the execution that happened already forgotten the guy's name because we have so many executions in this country with troy davis right i mean they they had complete like riot gear cops down there for something that was going to happen right yeah it's actually i mean something we talked about a lot in the show about the military's ation of police and it's really bizarre. but i have to say to me at this point it seems like that was clearly planned on occupy wall street plants because there's no way that someone would be as dumb and then tony baloney that a little too much or immediately followed me well i hope so over the planet not

a real person that just really likes pepper spraying people let's talk about tennessee really quick because they have his brilliant idea that they want to expand the t.s.a. take it out of just the airports and now take it to the interstates. down t.s.a. agents are on the interstates fighting terrorism with visible interim only prevention and response or viper operations to see highway patrol he's checking trucks with drug and bomb sniffing dogs during random inspections. i'll tell you why this cracks me up where is it that this morning like this tendency to really have a huge terrorism problem what does everyone sniffing dogs those are immigrants like you going to see that we've got is passing anti shari'a legislation now they have to expand it t.s.a. like i didn't realize how this was the kind of all the homeland security money like this has just been over were disproportionately spent in places were no terrorist is ever going to go and it's

a way for local police agencies to get fancy quickly being the perfect example of that and also i will note that all kind of people would blend in really well with the people in the appalachians. ok you know you go above europe we showed you a kind of a thank you campaign ad from a girl the other week now take a look at this banking at the czech republic. you know i wish banking was like that for me if you're every day as you've been working on a fairly early baking in the czech republic is every day orgasmic awesome experience you'll strangely triumphant right and powerful after having watched it now the czech republic is the best country in the world i think this is proven again when i

used to live there they had a political party called the friends of beer where their program was to serve you beer and every rally had like topless girls having a beer so great country this is the. punkah commercial by. no way that that would be the name of it but yeah i know you're not showing you're not showing the male version right is there not to like or send a male version to some party like wasn't a sexy but i don't know parents when the banks were you in the czech republic it actually feels good thankfully i mean i have a great weekend with me so i never made it but he's returning head make sure you can back on monday we're going to bring you the latest on occupy wall street and movement it's right across the country i mean time to forget speaking of fantasy i want to tell on facebook and follow us on twitter if you missed any of tonight's or any other night you can attach them to the class they want to shell and coming up next in the.

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