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a free book. drug free radio go to our t.v. dot com. welcome to the lower show get real headlines with none of the mercy rule of our washington d.c. now tonight we get another update from occupy oakland thousands shut down the city's port last night a peaceful demonstration but in the late night hours a hundred clashed with police others vandalized banks and businesses so are now seeing a breakdown within this group are tea parties who seek out an awful fills in then g.o.p. candidate and former governor of louisiana buddy roemer will join us to talk about his support for our five wall street as well as some staggering statistics about corporate tax dodgers and the world leaders are gathered at the g.
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twenty pushing for a solution to the eurozone sovereign debt crisis the greek prime minister george popper girl was called off the referendum but in greece still the sate gonzalo the u.s. leader is going to join us around we're going have all that morphy tonight couldn't he does of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so the herman cain maybe or maybe not psych scandal continues on thanks to the mainstream media so doing a fully reporting on every single twist and turn as if it's a sport when i say twists and turns i really mean it. herman cain blames the campaign of a republican rival mccain campaign now blaming it texas governor meanwhile the campaigns all seem to be pointing fingers at each other kamin for the finger at the rick perry campaign and the chief of staff for the cain campaign pointed squarely at the texas governor rick perry's campaign rick perry and his campaign. herman
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cain and his family an apology the perry campaign who was being accused by herman cain's campaign of leaking this information is flatly denying this involve but knowing the finger at the romney campaign. now any normal person can see right through this campaign's love it because it takes all the attention away from their weak candidates and their weak policies and the mainstream media well obviously they take the bait because they hate actually analyzing when certain candidates suck and are unfit to run and how their policies are only for our economy further down the great so they're busy with the he said she said finger pointing high school drama let me fill you in on a brand new report that you need to know about now we told you before on the show that bank of america the exxon mobile some of these biggest companies paid no income taxes in two thousand and ten but let me tell you now that it's only scratches the surface a new report from citizens for tax justice highlights just how much the biggest
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companies dodge their taxes and exploit the various loopholes and subsidies so next time somebody tells you that our corporate tax rate is too high that america is a business friendly anymore you just throw some of these statistics their way i see to see t.j. looked at two hundred eighty companies all of them are fortune five hundred companies and they found that on average those two hundred eighty companies only pay half of the thirty five percent corporate tax rate and in fact seventy eight of those corporations in the last three years had at least one year where they paid no federal income tax at all and thirty corporations didn't pay one single dime over all three of those years but they did break and collect. one hundred sixty billion dollars in profits so some of those thirty corporations are names that you will easily recognize general electric wells fargo boeing horizon honeywell dupont not only did somebody somebody is not pay any income tax they actually made money after taxes take for example and twenty times they reported an annual profit of almost
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twelve billion dollars now if you go by the thirty five percent corporate tax rate they would have owed about four point two billion but they not only didn't pay four point two billion they actually paid zero and they in fact had a negative tax liability of seven hundred and three million dollars so they made more money. now i was going to use the words of the authors of this report at this point because i think they said it best they wrote most americans can rightfully complain i pay more federal income taxes than general electric boeing dupont wells fargo horizon all put together and that's an unacceptable situation and you know what i could not agree more that is unacceptable and that's why people are protesting joining the occupy movement all across the country and despite all this information and the public's realisation of how unfair the system is well congress is doing absolutely nothing to close up the loopholes because they're too scared of the corporations to line their pockets and it's not going to get any better if you look at majority of the g.o.p.
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candidates the ones who want to lower the corporate tax rate even further in fact some want to get rid of that corporate tax rate altogether and have the mainstream media doesn't even bother to talk about this report to put it into context to compare that to the plans that these candidates have to offer because they just can't heal themselves away from that he said she said scandal of this herman cain stories becoming everything else that's what they choose to miss. now yesterday we covered the general strike at occupy oakland at the time of our program and was cheerful music was playing police are nowhere to be found i didn't stay that way as the protests went on into the evening and that's made it five to ten thousand protesters shut down the port of open for several hours last night by blocking gates and not allowing truck traffic and around at one point this video was taken of a protester being run over by a car but as the evening turned into late night an early morning clashes between
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protesters and police broke out with tear gas flash grenades and rubber bullets lumps again becoming part of the equation now some say it was a few who ruined it for the many by vandalizing local businesses so it's argo let's find out what the mood is like today after another night of chaos archly producer lucy catherine joins us right now with more clues you thanks so much for joining us and you know like i said i think we just lost her for a second. all right we're going to try to dial her back up again for a moment but if you're a member lucy and i spoke yesterday on the show and she was outside the sun was shining and the music was playing and everybody was really excited about what was about to happen now i also told you yesterday that the police union had written an open letter to the mayor saying that they were very confused about what happened because at one point the mayor had an initially told them to go and clear out frank plaza and get the protesters out of the encampment that's when we originally saw the first rounds of tear gas and flash grenades of rubber bullets being used and
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after that we also saw scott olsen the iraq war veteran become injured and you know so since then of course the police have gotten a lot of critique and then merging quine went back in the next day said that she supported the occupy movement she went to even go visit scott olsen in a hospital so the police and wrote this open letter saying that they were confused that they didn't know what side they were supposed to be on that they want to remind of protesters they're also part of the ninety nine percent and that they felt like the mayor had turned them in to a bad guy and so it's interesting if you look at what happened yesterday during this protest the mayor came out and she actually praised lucy i think we finally have a back on the phone i was just saying that marriage incline actually praised the protesters last night that had peacefully closed down the port of oakland and then said it was a few bad seeds that really ended up leading to some of the violence and the clashes between the police can you explain it in your eyes what you saw how it all went down starting out you were saying in your intro it did start off and they're
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really good in fact we talked yesterday when people were showing our gridlock going after that area where protests from march where we actually did sort of get a little bit of a foreshadowing of why that eventually worked very down because during a speech on march third march at two pm our so called and a popular march gathered money for our property and destruction. takes place for one character i think you guys might have me and video that for after show we can so you know we we decided we have video and last night in the background to keep going ok so anyhow i we we ended up going on this march and we thought that rather well fargo branch next to us that was vandalized there was no windows broken and huge crowd was standing there i went over there and i actually talked to some of the folks that witnessed it and they said again with the black watch it was the first of all it's not so much a group a tactic a certain anarchist use so they say they're
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a witness that the couple dozen folks directly black their faces were converts they came in the smash the windows and they ran away and supposedly those are the same guys who are responsible behind the vandalization at the. whole foods that seems pretty high we went to the march everything was beautiful everything was calm for having a good time i actually did not know we talked about this earlier i did not see any police officers present after march their city to call scooters that perhaps are hidden somewhere but you know completely completely peaceful and so the purpose is to come back from this sort of a victorious nonevent. event for them to read the success for the party and have all of this excess energy and perhaps black bloc guys there or just a few rowdy sort of got out of hand and that is when the you know what really hits the fan well you said you know what really hit the fan from what i heard from what
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i read reports it said that there was a giant bonfire that had been lit and you know there's only a couple hundred people left and that's what the police originally were drawn to before before the club right again. this is what happened so basically i was actually walking around there with a colleague of mine we noticed that there was sort of a promotion down the street we walked down there we were hearing reports of a foreclosed home that had been reclaimed by the occupiers occupy wall street folks we walk down there and there wasn't back some sort of a foreclosed property they were pulling out furniture putting it down in the street as a sort of barricade but it began as a barricade for a party you know folks are running around damn thing there's music playing people are drinking and bass suddenly we noticed a group of about ten ten or twelve. men and women all dressed in black their faces were covered they ran up to the barricades with these black tires. on to stick around for tires what are you doing and perhaps to bring them to notice and out before the situation got out of hand we noticed actually eighteen white unmarked
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vans with riot police officers pull up and leave down the block the police officers all got out and stood information which was for this group of people a very provocative call that is when we saw protesters chanting screaming at the police and i didn't personally witness the fires started and they're turning around and then i saw the fire fires going but that is when the barricade was lit on fire and after that fire went off the police officers issued a call to the first and they started shooting at tear gas rubber bullets supposedly i can actually see the rubber bullets the problem the protesters had brought over the remnants of it and they were these heavy bean bags essentially that would probably hurt a lot if you got struck with that there's a pretty pretty intense situation at the end of the day the standoff continues for several hours actually the police officers closed in were right on the front lines and they kept assuring the order to disperse they said that anyone in the area would be arrested but they had permission to use non-lethal weapons tear gas and
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whatnot but at the end of the day it was almost a staring contest between the riot officers and the several handfuls of protesters that would mean both sides are really there to know each other and i go after many tell me what they're doing to the. unity between the protesters is it the way some people are describing as they feel like there are a couple bad seeds i have ruined it for everybody for what was up until that point are peaceful demonstrations. oh absolutely absolutely i did have a chance to go to the meeting favorites some colleagues who did and that was actually a major issue of discussion in fact some of the process or said brought up the issue of a potential problem with people who may have been planted by the police to provoke the protesters and to do sort of more drastic actions they're very. sort of reeling from last night and they don't really quite know what to make of it is it just a few individuals with different needs or is it some sort of a tactic by the police to separate them but to provoke them into actions that get
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that press definitely they're dealing with right now and that have sort of divided the occupy oakland community here at least tell me what happened because i was following your tweets last night and you had jumped into a c.b.s. news front and then said that there was some kind of confrontation going on where protesters weren't sure where there was a half wanted to let you through because you were hardly and have said no because the word for argue what happened alone is absolutely and saying so we happens great video of everything that went down and want to rush back to feed it so we can get it on air so it's possible to support so that they shut down a future and of course because of the general strike there won't really taxis in the area the only way that we're going to get out there in time is if we faced a ride with one of the trucks that we had asked fine folks at c.b.s. to give us a list unfortunately riding around a bit a couple of thousand rowdy protesters and workers media trucks probably not the best idea to start throwing things at the truck before the barricade and they would let us pass and eventually the cameraman made us get out just because we had our
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luggage jackets on and were sort of claiming that we were there from the start the protesters ended up getting into a heated discussion the surrounded us they would let us have half of them said you know these guys are with archie they've been probing it from the start they should go the other ones were much more radical much more militant we did end up getting out of there ok but it was a really really tense situation and in fact a couple of sort of people michael. the first time i think people like your brain you know we're not there to support them in a bad light but we're just trying to get the story out on here where we have. really pro-car situation i haven't we are very thankful for you i thank you so much for filling us and it looks like you know some kind of cracks are beginning to emerge there as the group gets bigger and who knows is trying to become a part of it like you said maybe some people are trying to provoke some violence or you know just people that have other interests thanks so much for joining us thank you now start of times and i mean
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a supporter of doc five last people right since the first couple weeks so tonight will get g.o.p. presidential candidate buddy roemer take on everything from corporate taxes to the place he's my guest. was. was. going to the police when he was. like what a fantastic nobody seems to know. but never a pepper sprayed face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then something else you
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hear sees some other part of it and realize everything is ok. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.
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mr. and fresh on the heels of a troop reorganization across the middle east which we told you about it looks like the obama administration could be looking to end the u.s. combat role in afghanistan sooner than originally planned now this is of course according to his source a government official told the a.p. of the obama administration is considering a change in the military's role in afghanistan sooner than planned so while u.s. troops are getting gauged in a combat role the ship could move u.s. troops to more of an advisory role and focus on training duties at a much earlier time line so if his agenda does go to affect u.s.
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troops especially special ops forces would still be involved in combat the afghan forces would then take the leave and the u.s. would offer their support no decision been made yet at this move would carry more broad implications for the rest of own afghanistan some are speculating and this could mean a faster drawdown of our troops in the country because the mission to train afghan forces would begin sooner rather than originally planned now it's not forget here that there is training going on now it has been for years but it would become the priority and of course this is all speculation government officials have rushed to assure the media that even if the mission shifts faster than originally scheduled the u.s. will stay true to the original withdrawal date at the end of two thousand and fourteen which we also have to take with a grain of salt because officials have been very cryptic on actually settling on that date definitively so it's important to emphasize that this is an early plan no changes and go into effect until an agreement would be made at a nato meeting next may in chicago so there's still plenty of opportunity to shift to a completely different game plan between now and that but a lot of people are aren't saying that this change in operations would mimic what
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the u.s. has done the rock back in two thousand and nine president obama switched troops in iraq to an advise and assist role or a precursor to the formal end of u.s. combat operations in the country although we all know that our troops have still been there in combat in danger losing their lives so it's all rhetoric and with an election it just a year around the corner even whispers of the u.s. ending yet another unpopular war afghanistan might help obama at the polls but even if this new policy does go into effect next year how much would really change as jack rice pointed out during an interview on monday a shift won't mean a win for america. we will not when we can't get any you don't know who he pays or we don't know who the bad guys are and surely in many ways we've both you know it's all gone so i and then he's on the other and she can't figure that out since we expanded our operations or shift change our operations it doesn't really address the fundamental failures that we've already had in the past and share here
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continue to work well with each. now currently there are ninety eight thousand u.s. boots on the ground in afghanistan with ten thousand scheduled to leave by the end of this year however if the u.s. isn't going to revise the current withdraw they are still going to be heavily involved in combat operations they just won't be directly leading the charge so it doesn't seem like any revolutionary changes to me. now let's go back to the information that i was giving to you at the top of the show this report from citizens for tax justice and now learn that some of the largest companies in this country third fact some of the largest companies in the world so pay any income taxes or at least haven't done so for the last three years despite raking in billions hundreds of billions now this is part of the reason that so many americans across the country are upset this is part of the reason that they're occupying different cities and trying to get their voices heard so what's it going to take to get washington to listen joining me to discuss this is former governor of louisiana and republican presidential candidate roemer governor thanks for coming back on the
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program tonight it's been a while since we spoke so you are and you know i know that you went down to the coffee party only g.o.p. kind of so far doing that you went down to part to express your support for occupy wall street you still feel the same way. i do they were skull feet group you. can't but i like their spirit i mean they sense something's wrong in america when the richest and the largest the biggest in the most powerful don't pay a painting and students have to pay fifteen twenty five thirty percent there is something wrong in america but so i'm curious as to what you think about the recent developments we've really seen a lot of the extension about i will bet now say it's hard to oakland california and what we've seen there the last couple of weeks are constant clashes with police facing the use of tear gas
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a flask unaids of rubber bullets you know what do you make of that will it it saddens me and i'm not saying these students are perfect and surely they must abide by the rules that our democracy set since terms of protecting the lives of individuals i agree and all. but it's the spirit that i remember in the vietnam war protest by young people when i was in college and we we brought our troops home we killed fifty nine thousand americans there for what reason and the young people brought home i remember the civil rights marches and in the deep south why i grew up on a farm and had a cross bar and in my father's yard because as a methodist he believed that people ought to be treated fairly change comes it's never easy and here's my lesson at sixty eight i think a leader. a would be leader
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a listen to people first and be in express opinions i went to wall street to listen to the young people and i'm glad i did so do you think that perhaps police chiefs mare's like. klein. let this continue they should tell the police to stand back just let it go on he said that's how it happened when it came to ending the vietnam war yes well in i'm not a law enforcement officer and i would not want my fingers and anyone who is they do a great job however demonstrations the voice of young people. our debate in the streets require some patience and compromise and room for it to to play itself out or build itself up you and i don't know how this is going to go on but i'm hoping that we live in
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a country they would encourage debate and allow people to meet in public place for public discourse now there are rules they have to follow but i'm hoping that the police chiefs of america will give them room to express their opinion there are a lot of their belief and how america should change that's what i'm told now if that's a certain officials out there try to express their support for occupy wall street or at least say if they're listening to the message seems like nobody really wants to take the blame and i think that this is especially true where we speak about federal reserve chairman ben bernanke who is giving a free press conference yesterday where he said the sympathizes with the movement with the idea that so many americans are dissatisfied with the inequality in this country but that they fed and blamed the fed that bailed out all the bags what do you think about that statement you agree with the world and he says he's right they should blame washington d.c. they should blame the president of the united states and the congress will
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ultimately ask control of affairs i mean this finger pouring is not getting us anywhere it starts at the top it is my belief that washington d.c. no longer listens to people not usually on people they don't listen to working people plain people people who built this great nation and i think it's a shame i think it weakens our position in the world as a lot of the leaders in the world and n. is a leader of that stands for freedom we are practice what we preach and it's my belief that a president needs to be free to lead that's why i don't take pac money i don't take super pac money i don't take special interest money i have limited to one hundred dollars fully reported solely disclosed free to leave. now so i want to get back to united spoken about this before you think that corporate
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influence should be you know the corporate money should be so much in our political system you think that corporate tax loopholes need to be closed up so now we have this report that shows you that thirty of the biggest corporations didn't pay a single dime in income tax over the last three years seventy eight didn't pay at least one year out of three years and you know the problem was that big. yes i you know i i've run a small bank community bank it's about a billion dollars in size that's small in america a we didn't foreclose on a single mortgage holder we didn't shut down a single business we restructured we did that for us we thought that was on our best interest as a community bank i don't see that spirit in corporate america as you were not taught a month or so ago corporate america made more profit last year then any year in their history and they did it by giving jobs away over c s n
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imploring cheap products here better not made to fair standards i think we need to change our tax code it's written by the corporations don't you think the lobbyists from g.e. had more effect on our tax code then to every citizen here i think they had more effect and i think they worked in g.e.'s best interest we are a work in america's best interest and the president ultimately if he doesn't i will all tell me this do you think that congress is too scared to stand up to these corporations to stand up to general electric to stand up to exxon or to horizon you know there's an interesting development today there's now sixty democrats and forty republican lawmakers that have written a letter to the super committee signed them that everything should be on the table including revenues which means taxes going up so who is it that's holding it back is it all of congress is to scared is that this this twelve member group that has
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too much power of instance they're. r.k. speak for all of congress i haven't been in congress in twenty years i enjoyed my years there have been take pac money i was a democrat that work with republicans my goal was a better america. i have no apologies for that but i do think that the power of special interest money might not have such every congress man or woman but needs touched most of them i asked the speaker of the house and the president of the senate to not pick her committee members who would take pac money special interest money or lobbyist money during the time they served on the committee i was ignored look i'm not trying to bring america down i'm trying to build our nation and when your nation is control by the one percent at the top the either the very
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wealthy or the very special interest you have a problem and i'm telling you america has a problem and it's not dealing with it it's blaming other people it's pointing its fingers but when the gas at the top are bought and paid for you do not have a free country i governor thank you so much for joining us tonight face. now still to come tonight we have our thursday to sniff and it's a tiny summit is underway perhaps but the allies focus on the girls and that crisis highlights from the other member countries of the of the. internet only the mechanism of the digital world to bring justice or accountability . but i have every right to ignore my government's doing your one annoyed by paying taxes.

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