he is a major consumer of the west and weapons export. trade unions called for more protests in greece the parliament in terms of cutbacks with scenes of chaos and violence across the country calling. us president barack obama tells top iraq officials by videoconference that one of our troops will leave the wrong by the end of twenty eleven pleas from baghdad to keep several thousand u.s. military personnel in the country as a training things have been rejected about the continuing violence. was the headline back to the washington change is. some.

kind of time for tonight's told time award tonight that goes to a louisiana lawmakers say apparently cash isn't king in the state anymore 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 here in louisiana now it's a law that was during this year's busy legislative. 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 secondhand dealers and louisiana h b n one ninety five was signed into law by the governor on july first but businesses and residents are just learning about this issue and the law is 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 entity 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 and as you can imagine this new law has business owners pretty upset basically house bill one thousand and 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're going to lose a lot of business. i don't want this transaction to be taken away from us i mean it's an everyday transaction all right so why on earth would a state want to ban cash transactions then we have enough of a credit problem in this country while lawmakers say that it's their way of cracking down on criminals who traffic in stolen goods. the bill is targeted at criminals who see anything from copper to televisions and sell them for

a quick buck having a paper trail will make it easier for law enforcement mechanism to be the police department to be able to have something to go. ok so while i applaud law makers for trying to stop the sale of stolen goods they've now effectively banned citizens from freely using united states legal tender did anybody out there 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 leave 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 told time 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 carried out each year according to the death penalty information center the lone star state carried out seventeen executions the most out of any state just in two thousand and ten but fast forward to this year texas death row inmate lawrence brewer invoked 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. 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 then 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's 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 so now the state needs to cut two point eight million dollars from the two thousand and 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 this new eating schedule affects about twenty three thousand inmates and thirty six prisons and that's not the only way they're cutting costs milk is going to be replaced with powdered milk hamburger and hot dog buns will be replaced with slices of bread kind of gross doses 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 cutback is a violation of the federal constitution but if the behavior of texas in the past is any indication that i think we know that they're going to fight back because just when you think of the texas justice system can't get any worse it does as of killing the most people of any statements 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 of 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 activist collective anonymous except for their support for the occupy wall street movement that's going around the country but that hasn'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 to report on 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 undermind anonymous by the government than an analysis of a real threat so joining me from our studio in new york is dan kaplan executive editor of essence magazine dan 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 bulletin that the department of 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 circulated internally at the department of homeland security and it appeared on a public website called the public intelligence website this week. to be honest with you it's really based on some sort of you know some pretty skin evidence around you know aligning anonymous with one 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 to 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. systems and these things that power 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 all right so you're not buying the department of 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 part 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 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 this at least compared it 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 the corruption that may be taken place in governments within corporations and anonymous certainly has infiltrated a lot of organizations are launched 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 that the public really relies on to survive and do some serious damage so you know a lot of headlines this week you saw anonymous wants to critical wants to cripple critical infrastructure core of 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 if 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 that way too in terms of who it is that they're standing up for and that would be for the most part of the little guy for transparency doesn't seem to me like they would go after you know resources that everybody needs but i'm curious because you mention of course that 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 before on this show with someone who thinks that those actually should count as protected speech you can just consider it a virtual setting what's your 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 d. dos 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 for the possibility that it could be considered a talk 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 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 now 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 down to thank you so much for joining us tonight and we'll get to know least what the d.h.s.s. putting out there and whether it's not thanks so much my pleasure. still to come tonight we have our fireside friday and then ahead of happy hour the nine hundred eighty six cobb actually think takes the death of that off plus we're still waiting on the rapture that can just not.

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americans that way doesn't feel that way then some data released yesterday shows that poverty rates rose in two thousand and ten and 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 lower mind what living in poverty actually means for a family of four that's just over twenty two thousand dollars to live on a year and here is an even more depressing figure for you the depth of poverty also increased in two thousand and ten so that means that now six point eight percent of people have incomes that are no more than half of that threshold for poverty. that compare that of course to the fact that the richest people in this country keep getting richer the bank bonuses are only getting bigger and you understand that at this this point. country isn't what it used to be the middle class is shrinking in a society where everybody can make it just doesn't apply anymore but perhaps the most striking contrast that we see is right here in washington d.c. see in this city where the most powerful people in the country gather where political decisions are made that affect not only americans but the entire world

here 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 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 typical household earning more than eighty four thousand dollars a year in 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 there's an occupy movement that's rising up around the country because it's no longer a fair society because the government plays favorites and surprise surprise those favorites are often the ones with the most cash to throw their way and wall street is definitely one of the biggest problems when you think of all the lobbyists for

various corporations various industries defense contractors they're all based right here in washington why would anybody care about poverty rising unemployment all across the u.s. when the contracts keep flowing right here in washington d.c. and if you need any more proof of just how unconcerned your elected representatives are about the money and take a look at the super committee that's got five more weeks until their deadline for a plan to cut at least one point two trillion dollars they've kept those negotiations completely secret and the only details that have leaked out from insiders is that they're not getting anywhere there's stuff they're 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. i don't just like you can't depend on the do nothing congress or the contractors the corporations that actually get something out of that congress to care it's time for americans to take this into their own hands not to occupy wall street is all about.

you guys time for happy hour and joining me this evening as our team producer jenny churchill and matt welch editor in chief of reason magazine and co-author of the declaration of independence thanks for joining me today thank you but it didn't hurt joe already smile when you're. ali you were talking about or smiled. at work when you have a lot to be smiling about because guess what the world is supposed to and today and it did and everybody i think you remember harold camping take a look at him. you may be. able to anyone you me i mean i think it will be a new school. so we already were harold camping because he told us

a couple months ago that the rapture was coming he was so sure that people like sold their homes took their kids out of school. it was it's really really sad how many lives a pig are probably completely disrupted by the fact that the rapture didn't actually happen and so according to harold camping the rapture is was dabbing again today and he said it i mean like are people going to stop believing him and some point did we have a block of time certain to have a certain moment and that's when he was like kind of bad because he didn't want to be. you know he has defended him a lot of times a month so i'm just saying you know the day is not over oh yeah the sun still hasn't gone down well no get me a break the last time he said was going to be like five pm we're going to think it was little but i think to the other thing that we need to know if the rapture did happen right now would we really know because i think we're all kind of stuck here we don't think we're going to we would definitely be left behind with with our martinis and anyway. those that

are going to miss out on the rapture let's move on to something else a prediction that may have actually been a kind of a fake prediction but kind of came true take a look at this sitcom this is from one thousand nine hundred eighty seven matthew perry was and it was short lived this a couple is called second chance and it may or may not have predicted the market off its death. means that you know. thank you oh come on you must come. with jokes and games. then you know it's going to die again this year and it did twenty eleven that clip didn't exactly go that way and it's a really it predicted that he was going to die at some point that's crazy. twenty

eleven is where you guys waiting for a country since then because at least now we would have people who actually look like moammar gadhafi that look like john turturro kind of like a little bit like younger khadafi though you don't think the sort of tall gangly contrasts you know you can never have jewelry on and they're really you know he wasn't doing the mc hammer like there was a green book in his hand and green cross and so if we were. fairly. if david sirota was here he would tell us about his be another thing that we could learn from the one nine hundred eighty s. but it's happening today i think today predictions all the time ok let's move on to pepper spraying cops so you know we've been covering occupy wall street move back and one of the things that originally really got a lot of media attention because for a while there is 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 attempt and then kind of just walked off and 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 one and then now he basically has just confirmed that he's kind of an a hole he said that he's been he's been really tortured since this incident his name by the way is anthony baloney like tony blair and and. so he's really suffered since this incident because people been angry at him but he still believes that he used the proper amount of force and said that he would do things the same way if given a second chance i hate him now i have had no reason to go in fact resprayed those

girls they recur. wow that he would like from all the accounts that i read that i saw he just walked pepper sprayed them and walked 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 conventions right nominating conventions and i mean including in new york in two thousand and four there's two hundred thousand people marching in the streets against the war which is immediately forgotten but it's a pretty big deal time and cops don't know how to act i mean there are people there are not armed you know they're not waving guns and. various people they might be annoying they might be insulting you or whatever but they're not threatening in any way at all and cops completely overreacted we saw that at 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

something we talked about a lot in the show about the military and police and it's really bizarre but i have to say it to me at this point it seems like that was clearly a plant an occupy wall street plant because there's no way that someone would be as down and named tony. too much for me to believe he's full of aloni well i hope so i hope the plan not a real person that just really likes pepper spray 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 their airports and now take it to their interstates. good now and t.s.a. agents are on the interstates fighting terrorism with visible interim only prevention and response or viper operations tennessee highway patrol is checking trucks with drug and bomb sniffing dogs during random inspections. i'll tell you why this cracks me up this morning is like this tennessee we really have a huge terrorism problem there what does i do i'm sitting down to the. immigrants

lie in going to see the other passing anti shari'a legislation now they have to expand the t.s.a. like i didn't realize tennessee with all all 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 well 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 gotta love europe we showed you a kind of a campaign ad from a girl the other week now take a look at this banking ad from the czech republic.

you know i wish banking was like that for me if your every day lets you have a night of air like you know now apparently baking in the czech republic is make awesome experience you'll strangely triumphant. and powerful after having watched 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 a few beers and every rally had like topless girls having a beer so great country this is a. bunker commercial by the way that would be the name of it but yeah i know you're not showing you're not showing the male version right there not a larger than the male version just wasn't a sexy but i don't know apparently when the banks grew in the czech republic it actually feels good thank you and if you don't have a great weekend it will be so that you're married so that he starts hitting him make sure you can back on monday we're going to bring you the latest on occupy wall street and the movement it's spread across the country and meantime don't forget to become a fan if you want to show on facebook. and follow us on twitter if you missed any

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how did they get off easy di un wants an answer after images released following the capture of libya's dictator and his son suggests they were killed in the violently while in captivity. new york's occupy wall street protests go on despite more arrests and inspiring copycat demonstrations to call for social and economic change in asia europe and the middle east. and the launch of a full inquest into the death of former russian agent alexander litvinenko could lead to someone comfortable revelations about the u.k.'s intelligence services.