all right it's time for you said it i read it take time to respond to my brilliant and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got something to say i listen now i want to dedicate today's you said i read it to addressing a piece written about by ben smith of politico he started off his hit piece with the opening lines the russian government propaganda station russia today sometimes does something resembling news reporting and sometimes offers something closer to ham handed soviet style hit these it's let me just start off by inviting ben smith to tune into my program tell me what soviet style hippies as i've managed to churn out because i consider what i do you hear it r t what mr smith would call real reporting and fact i regularly bring up topics and questions that ben smith and his friends in the mainstream media don't seem to care much about such as why democrats and republicans can't seem to agree on anything once it comes to extending the most

dangerous provisions of the patriot act for which they're happy to come together in a show of unity or continuing to allow the military industrial complex to always keep growing now is also one of the only news programs to follow the occupy wall street movement from its first day on mr smith and his mainstream media cohorts were content to sit back and mock the protesters as dirty hippies that is of course tell a story became too big for even them to ignore not just to name a few let's continue on this topic of real news reporting dive into the rest of this little jet the smith wanted to critique the story the reporter r t had done so he continued his real news reporting by saying the following in this one in which reporters mispronounce virtually every proper noun and at one point refer to ronald rumsfeld yes criticizing a non-native speakers english accent that's the really hard hitting journalism that i look for politico because reporters accent is certainly what makes the story now the best part here is that he didn't even bother following up that cheap shot with any real critique of the report. classy and i'm not done with all of mr smith's

real news reporting that he included in this blog post he also ended by saying the channel also occasionally gets mainstream commentators to appear in part because it's one of the few that pays reporters to appear now that part is just patently untrue with the alone a show don't pay for our guests r t america doesn't pay for its guests and i should know that the original piece is since been corrected after myself and my colleagues kindly informed mr smith to argue does not in fact pay its gas to appear although i guess he could've just found that one out by making a phone call doing some real reporting so i thank ben smith for correcting the error but let me suggest the next time you want to write a piece calling somebody else propaganda maybe you leave out making fun of people's accents and get the facts straight first after all i thought that's what real news reporting was all about as if my rantings tonight might have more for you next week . well it's a big milestone for one of the most important and detrimental laws of the last decade the patriot act turned ten years old today and that's not

a happy to see since it was side it's fundamentally changed the way that u.s. law enforcement offer rates in the united states and it's eroded protections to our civil liberties signed into law by george w. bush after the september eleventh attacks the patriot act reduced many of the restrictions against law enforcement when it came to tracking people via computer and telephone without warrants ease restrictions on foreign intelligence intelligence gathering and gave law enforcement more discretion when it came to detaining or deporting immigrants suspected of terrorist acts now it's undoubtedly contributed to the heightened state of security it's become the new normal here in the u.s. since two thousand and one and paved the way for huge increases in surveillance against americans now as much as the patriot act was marketed as a way to protect the united states from outside terrorist threats it's now become the legal justification for much of our domestic security apparatus against foreigners and american citizens alike and it's even being used by law enforcement for drug investigations and other low level crimes which certainly cannot be classified as terrorist threats in fact recent data has shown that delayed notice

search warrants have been used one thousand six hundred times for drug cases and only fifteen times for terrorism cases so it makes it feel really safe doesn't it now over the years mounting evidence has also shown the flaw haven't done much in the name of protecting us from foreign terrorist attacks it's simply eroded our remaining civil liberties but stayed virtually untouched since it was signed back in two thousand and one and in fact president obama renewed three key provisions of the patriot act first the roving wiretap it's a clause that allows the f.b.i. to obtain a warrant from a secret intelligence court associated with the foreign intelligence surveillance act without providing details about how that suspicious person would be tracked there's also the lone wolf measure which allows law enforcement to obtain a warrant without providing proof of the targeted person is a terror threat and lastly there is the business records provision which means that if eyes of warrant. passed out for law enforcement to search through any type of personal records whether it be banking or medical without any proof of the targeted person engages in terrorist activity that any of those seem constitutional to you

when those provisions are set to expire earlier this year senator rand paul was one of the few who spoke out against those elements and of course he was quickly accused of siding with terrorists. he refuses to relent the government will be unable to fully pursue these leads that would increase the risk of a retaliatory which terrorist strike against the whole month and hamper our ability to deal to release a little blow. our rise in response to a scurrilous accusation i've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack america can we not have a debate on a higher plane and a debate over whether or not there should be some constitutional protections so and rand paul was certainly in the minority because those three provisions were renewed with a bipartisan vote who cares about the fourth amendment your right to privacy who cares about the whole concept of innocent until proven guilty now we live in such

a heightened state of panic that our own government is going to break the rules all the time supposedly in the name of safety so here's to the patriot act a law that helps your government spy on you it's been quite a decade ten years of the necessary wide sweeping surveillance by the u.s. government against its own people. now the repeal of don't ask don't tell you could say that the u.s. military is undergoing some big changes progressing toward the modern age but are they still far behind when it comes to its chaplain program and the role that religion plays in counseling one man's pleading for atheist chaplains to be accepted so that those without a religious background get the same services as everybody else so how hard a cultural battle is that and is the show that there is too much religion in our military to discuss this with me is jason torpy president of the military association of atheists and freethinkers jason thank you so much for joining us tonight and as for having me now first start off by telling me why it is that you think that they need to have atheist chaplains right what is it that those who

don't have a religious background who are christian are missing out on the world for two hundred years chaplains have been very focused on their mission to pray with troops in modern chaplaincy in the modern military you have a diversity of religious faced religious backgrounds and beliefs and conscience including atheists that the chaplains just aren't resorts or on aren't trained to provide for and what i'm doing is reaching out to those chaplains three thousand senior officers to help them to help the troops that they don't have any training about so far now how many people would you say are in the military that are atheists or freethinkers as your organization is named well at least between ten thousand and forty thousand depending on the most recent survey forty thousand of the most recent defense equal opportunity management initiative survey identified you know that many so forty thousand that's number two behind all the christians put together ahead of jews buddhists muslims hindus and what i want to do is make sure that there's overt policies that say chaplains have to provide for those service members and to ensure that there is training so that they know how to

properly provide for them what give us you know give us a hypothetical or just tell us i guess how it actually works when you're out in the field when you are in a war zone they can turn you down a chaplain can say that i won't provide you counseling you know i can't help you out because because you're not a person of faith what happens is if i. you know jewish or mormon for example i'll go in and find probably a chaplain that's not my own faith they'll point me in the right direction maybe connect me with a chaplain that is there provide materials and draw from the training that they've had you know kind of world religions and diversity training to help me out and what i what i get if i'm an atheist or a humanist you know they might talk to me but they're going to talk to me without understanding what is science what scientific naturalism is about what human base rock rational ethics are about and they might say well you know you guys don't like to use the term religion so so well that's not really our thing you have to go to some other agency and that's what we want to get away from the idea are you ok though with i mean you mentioned chaplains been around for what two hundred years

in the military but do you think about finally whatever happened to just certain basics right when you talk about the separation between church and state why is it that our military even has a clergy essentially if it's out well this that's really a concern that i think the chaplains need to recognize in order for them to stay relevant in a modern military they have to provide for all service members in the past they could do that with just the protestants and the jews and now since nine hundred ninety they started at the muslims in the buddhists in the hindus they're doing a great job recognizing the diversity of their military so long it's as it's the the istic diversity what they haven't done is said ok we recognize that almost twenty five percent of the military is chosen no religious preference they haven't recognized that the number two demographic after christian is self identified atheists in order to stay relevant and to ensure that they can continue to receive the power in the influence and the monies that the chaplaincy has they need to provide for everyone equally and provide for them well but do you think that there

is you know too much religion in our military because there have been a lot of stories now there are organizations out there dedicated to trying to remove that because there are stories from men that might have been at certain bases you know or training them you know claim that they were forced to listen to some kind of a crazy outlier ryan singel. and they feel like they're being forced into it and pressured and people or people are rightfully concerned about spiritual fitness training for example where the military has decided that they want to teach people how to be spiritual and promote spirituality and what in this is an example of how they totally missed our demographic you know i might be able to do some mental gymnastics to understand how atheism can fit with spirituality but you know what that shouldn't have to happen i should be able to look in that training as an atheist or as a humanist somebody with a naturalistic perspective and see things that are going to help might help me out because if i don't what i see is privilege in priority for religious personnel and i feel ostracized and marginalized in the further it's of my duty to causes more

harm than good wouldn't when they don't ever reach out to atheists and humanists that are represented within within the chain of command i mean so when you talk to troops these days and you know you mentioned there could be these attitudes where you feel like somebody else is privileged right or they get more attention how much of a role do you think that religion plays in terms of the wars that we're fighting abroad right fighting in muslim countries fighting against religious radicals and you have . a lot of conservative commentators in this country that will constantly try to push the idea that we are engaged in a religious war that this is christianity versus islamic so when you talk to troops is that something that's in the back of their minds here's what i hear so if i talk to the troops and they talk they hear people talking about christianity versus islam they say hey thanks a lot for really making our friends in the middle east angry and making our enemies even angry what that is that's a recruiting call when they see bibles with special forces logos on them and when they do when they see christian concerts and then when they see when they see the

religion and spiritual fitness centers and generals talking about how associated they are with their christian heritage and when they when they line that up too closely with the military mission then our enemies have recruiting power from that they say ok it is a religious war let's. recruit the muslims against the christians you know it's going to be one of many things that can be interpreted as a recovery where you think you're going to win this cultural battle yes yes i do but the power right now rests with the chaplains and i've reached out to them they know i'm out here and what i'm wondering about is why is there a deafening silence from the chaplaincy about this i hope they speak out without some official policy because they know they have it in their car military has the most advanced weaponry and machinery in the world but i guess in terms of some of its policies still have our cake and i thank you so much for joining us makes a lot of pressure. still to come presidential candidate complains about the debates hard time when are unhappy our. videos kind of

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at a time for tonight's tool time award and tonight goes to texas governor rick perry after now saying that he was running for president in august he instantly became the g.o.p. star the front runner but thankfully that status didn't last very long and national polls right now he's fourth or fifth way behind her mckay that romney ron paul sometimes even newt gingrich so yeah it's been a rough couple of weeks for the governor but this week his campaign decided to reset so he bought air time for t.v. ads in several early voting states and he started to do more t.v.

interviews so last night he was asked what mistakes he's made so far in his presidential run and get a lot of his answer. well i don't think anybody's ever run the perfect campaign and actually these debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates it's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one minute response so you know if there was a if there was a mistake made it was probably ever doing one of the. ever doing one of the campaigns when all they're interested in is stirring it up between the candidates instead of really talking about the issues that are important lies so rick perry thinks that it's a mistake to take part of the debates i mean really great if you want to be president you need to be able to communicate with the american people this requires that you take part in debates be challenged on your views by both the moderator and your opponents and let's face it to be honest the questions your opponents they haven't really been all that challenging this year about every four years americans

do tune in to watch the debates see a different view and style of a leader that they just my elect and i as a career politician you should understand that so what are your big boy pants stop complaining you signed out the tryout for the job nobody put a gun to your head a major run for president and we all know the texas governor isn't really a skilled debater in fact he really sucks at it. is it the mitt romney that was on the side of against the second amendment before he was for the second amendment was it was before he was before the social programs from the standpoint of he was for standing up for roe versus wade before he was against verse roe versus wade but he was for race to the top he's. for obama care and now he's against it. just never get they got to keep playing it

but just because they're not good at debating doesn't mean that they don't have any value in fact i'm not really sure why he's so worried the candidates rick included have target abates into scripted answers they cut it down to thirty seconds of talking points and they like it no matter what question again that is as they slip into their contrived message case in point rick perry at last week's debate then let me ask question governor perry governor perry the fourteenth amendment allows any anybody a trial that illegal immigrants who's born here is automatically american citizen should that change let me address armand's issue that should rather rather go to bed i rather guess the question and answer that i understand that you get to ask questions i get to answer like i want to and herman arming talked about that's actually a response that is very good if you. see what i mean so the bottom line is we can't handle yourself on a stage with other candidates being asked softball policy questions and you probably should just stay in texas running for president is the big leagues rick

you've got to think on your feet you have to answer unscripted questions so that's why we're giving rick perry tonight's told time award. our guys it's time for happy hour and joining me tonight is r t correspondent christine and jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger at black five dot net thanks for joining me guys absolute and really nice blues going on over there due to fall colors so apparently you know why the story cracks me up so much man boobs are a really big issue at you tube it's the it's a total debate over whether man boobs should be something that has to be censored just the way that female boobs have to or not whether they could hurt poor children's eyes and we're going to show you a clip of one that well i don't know i think it might form your opinion take

a look. oh. oh oh. oh. oh. oh. oh i can't. tell you i wouldn't know what's your take on a man boobs and whether whether they're famous. i think this is a great failure to show in classes in schools kids stay in school be healthy so you don't have to become like this guy he's. well part of the problem with with man boobs those there's you know some people post a video because it depends on what medication they're taking it screws their you know their hormones and they just develop and. i blame first of all seinfeld for the moves episode but the bottom line is the funny part of this article was that the you two guys are saying it's keeping them up at night trying to decide how long a man can be on t.v. before it's something to get a leading they were so adamant about explaining how this is

a major source of debate for them and they wanted to make sure the public knew that this was something they took very seriously i thought it was interesting to think they should get back to thirteen year old girls complaining and singing about obama and leave the man boobs alone just let it people well. you know the you tube and google people. man boobs and now it's making you wish this is actually a. noise that speaking of which but we earlier told you about the story about the blogger who was traveling who had a vibrator in her bag when she opened up her bag turns out that somebody from the t.s.a. had written out a little note get your freak on girl and now that's actually been animated because the story went so viral i think we have a clip take a look julie public was flying to dublin and checked one of her bags at newark airport. the bag was open for inspection by a t.s.a. agent found a vibrator and wrote a message to the owner. aryan is now she's been more to lies i

guess you could say animations but what actually ended up happening is the t.s.a. apparently fired the person they when looked who was on the shift who did it and they lost their job you think. that's of course that's a firing offense i mean come on that's a private issue and i think the funny part is he didn't leave a phone number so i'm not going to go to the trouble of making a ridiculous comment like that leave your phone or be manned up and did we find out if it was a man or woman oh i just i guess i sexually harassed discriminated against you writing looks like a man who was in all the chatter. that is there i don't know i actually thought it was really funny and you know if that was me or one of my friends bags and i saw that on one hand you don't want to think that the people inspecting your bags are thinking about what you're wearing or what lingerie you brought or what sex toys for that matter you brought but apart from that i just thought it was funny i think that that person was probably trying to be funny i don't know if they quite deserve

to get fired but they do deserve some disciplinary action because they need to separate their sense of comedy from what they're supposed to be doing whether you separate their sense of comedy from realizing that people still want to think that they have some sort of privacy in the world to have a sense of comedy i mean it's not an intelligent remoted though the t.s.a. gets to grope you i was really you know how do you lock your only machine. that is the level of just let us to remember you know high quality body cavity searches something you know it was pathetic i let's move on to this next story which is absolutely ridiculous and i want to know where your taxpayer dollars are going to court battles that are fought just take a look at this one. the cornell sisters came to court with photos taken of kim and baxter and what they claimed was baxter's scooped poop taken a dependable condo complex where they all live some photos even came from a camera the cornell's have mounted in their third floor window to keep an eye on the ground below they say kim didn't baxter's poop on purpose to make them angry.

i don't know why there's been some people that obviously have nothing better to do with their time with their first sit there for three days with the cameras mounted and watch every time the woman takes her dog out for a walk and it poops to see if she scoops it or not look at expert commentary the lady who actually owned the dog said she had poop waiting in the car to bring in because baxter doesn't poop that big old body she won the case yes she won the case and you know and i'm guilty i'm a dog owner and it totally irks me when people don't clean up their dogs i always clean out my dogs sometimes i clean up other people's poop clearly there was an issue between these two. i know that's hard about it like a government thing what i other people's dogs there was a lot of horrors are you know i mean just because you know you try to keep your neighborhood clean and all that but i think that there was clearly an issue between these two women it sounds like drama the fact that they were going around with cameras and if they were going to pick it up as evidence then why don't they just pick it up and let it go you know what i mean two sisters living together with

cameras documenting this quakes definitely craigs them to agree with you. really have nothing better to do ok let's move on to something else these are intelligent street signs and this is where farmington hills a suburb of detroit where it's going get your homeland security dollars are being spent on something that could be cool it could be creepy take a look. you need to draw the streets is a digital if. we're going to be populated high profile this. has to be a key component to maximizing shit because we're just through ever touching coming events road we are in for. the systems to be amber alert center as well. i mean what do you think is that cool or is it creepy you know how there's a wireless network inside the poll it has sensors to monitor foot vehicle traffic can transmit all kinds of information for emergency routes basically the poles have eyes. i mean that's what it seems like and that's

a little weird who knows if you've got the same t.s.a. agent writing these funny you know it's also you know those type of people working and surveilling and watching what's going on a little aware of yeah i don't want to polls out there i only have one question how long before the neighborhood kids the little smarty pants is hacked the phone and start posting videos of may well be. visible you're right you're right no matter how advanced our technology doesn't. pan moves in some kind of born i'm sure it'll make up the guys thanks for joining me tonight that's it for tonight's shout things for tuning in make sure you can back tomorrow is going to be on the show and meantime don't forget to become a fan of the i want to show on facebook and follow us on twitter if you missed any of tonight's show or any other nights you can always catch the. last show where you interview as well as the show in its entirety and coming up next is the.

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a deal reached to write off the greek debt and give the country another hundred billion euro in rescue the. family plans to sue nato for a strike late colonel's convoy was trying to sleep in lance is also being blamed for the plot of weapons on libyan streets. you're watching r t twenty four hour news and much more welcome to the program. there are fresh reports of clashes between police and anti wall street protesters in new york followed by arrests several hundred people marched in the city streets to show solidarity with fellow activists in oakland california who suffered a severe crackdown by riot squads west.