well i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for sleep you think you understand it and then you blame something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is or you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

because i'm lauren lester and. to believe in a. test that nobody seems to know. that never appropriate to face but hardly argument that they're being overly dramatic. hi guys. right the last time we discussed the methods used by states across the

country to arrest occupy protesters governments of use arrived activists like arcade legislation or even passing new laws to get the protesters out of there but with these arrests on americans also losing their first amendment rights are free speech and the freedom of assembly. producer in a sense you find out what you have to say. does the first amendment give people the right to say anything they want whenever they want and wherever they want but not quite u.s. courts currently operate under what they call time place and manner regulations meaning the government can often stop you from sleeping in public places blocking sidewalks or say blocking the flow of traffic so most occupy protesters are aware of these rules and they try to cooperate but what do you do in a city keep changing these rules like in austin texas where thirty eight people were arrested because they put up a food table two days after the city made a new rule against food tables or lieutenant night to six in the morning now

a national tendency to a good judge to tell officials to stop and forcing new rules are being used to arrest occupy protesters so when the rules start changing one vehicles are protesting is this it and for you know the first amendment well jason said i don't think we are losing our rights americans don't know enough to actually size them so when infringements happen they still believe they are treated fairly frank said we have already lost our first amendment it is gone and i am proud to say i was arrested in chicago on october sixteenth trying to defend the first amendment mike told us it's obvious we have lost it but at least one state has judges that are giving people a chance to cities where protesters are taking place are walking on a very thin ice protestors feel they are actually sizing their rights under the constitution many police forces seem to see those rights as second to enforcing law and order and that is where the major disconnect lives. now as always thank you for

your responses and here's our next question for you from the show we spoke with lucy half off about the general strike which shut down the port of oakland yesterday we want to when you think that effective tool for the occupy movement to use if not what you are is be doing to make their voices heard and say you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and you know his response just might mean that only. now just when you thought the banks couldn't be any more shameless in their quest to squeeze money out of americans looks like they found new ways to target those who are suffering the most you see most people who need help from the government including those that are unemployed or on food stamps are getting aid through prepaid debit cards a major banks receive contracts in forty one states are prepaid debit card holders can use their banks to play in those funds but it doesn't come for free in fact many people are taking the opportunity to charge you banks excuse me or take the opportunity to charge small fees every single time people use one of those debit cards j.p. morgan chase wells fargo bank of america and u.s.

bank are among the most well known banks that have contracts for the prepaid cards so what kind of fees we're talking about well take us bank for example they allow the card holder to make just four withdrawals per month without a chart after that it's a dollar fifty for each visit to the a.t.m. so one u.s. bank customer robin robin bill is an unemployed man from oregon who lives off of one hundred eighty nine dollars a week now since he uses an unemployment money to pay all of his bills rob says they easily as more than four transactions a month and he's afraid to withdraw all the money from his card in one transaction because i'm very happy seven thousand dollar overdrafting eight so the huffington post reports that some of those banks even charge for those using these prepaid cards are either employ just for checking their balance or for using a debit card to pay for things online so clearly the banks about a way to make a profit off of those who've been hit the hardest in our economy now according to mark potter advisory group which monitors the consumer payment industry prepaid debit cards have been. a very popular way for the banks to pile on the fees in two

thousand and ten the durbin amendment a last minute add to the dodd frank bill caps how much banks could make off the consumers who use their ordinary debit cards are those same restrictions don't apply to prepaid cards designed for the unemployed and those on food stamps now i'm hearing how the big banks are taking money from not only all of us all the time but even those that are suffering the most think it's really not surprising that so many people are protesting the financial firms in fact then diego has taken their disgust story the banks a step further yesterday was that withdrawal wednesday at the imperial county labor council called on the public to remove their funds from the banks now the move comes just a few days before nov fifth which is being called bank transfer day calling all people closer accounts of for profit banks and transfer them elsewhere so perhaps this news about banks targeting the poor could encourage more people to take part of the movement stop giving their money to those that are profiting off of people's pain in this economy. now the last couple of days over in europe have been well you

could call the world went first greek prime minister george papandreou said markets tanking other european nations into a frenzy after he announced that he would put the latest european deal to come greece's debts up to a referendum calls for his record resignation and although he refuses to step down for now he did announce today that the referendum is off now the greek finance ministry official said that greece only have cash until mid december and after that without the eight billion euro person it greece will be unable to pay its debts or pensions or salaries so with this move into a save the day or as the eurozone still in a world of hurt the g twenty that's going on can right now is any side the entire world is watching and waiting for europe to try to fix its mess joining me to discuss the us economy economic analyst gonzalo europe and sol thanks so much for joining us tonight and let's let's go back right so everybody is breathing a sigh of relief at least for this one second right now because the referendum vote is off but before it was on people were saying that well greece may as well kissed its membership in the euro zone to buy that banks are going to collapse and this

would be the end of the world where you say later the referendum had gone through that the vote had been in no what would have happened. greece would probably have been kicked out of the eurozone or whatever the left somehow or other you know there would've been no other way for them to fix the situation. despite the whole thing just bizarre and just fascinating the way how seemingly intelligent people here who at least if you know did resumes just completely screwed the pooch i mean pup and monday set over to have a referendum and then on thursday he's saying no we're not going to have her and as i understand it i don't speak reese but i understand that it's a speech before parliament republic was just this rambling and was a fair that went absolutely nowhere and. if it's just a disaster it's just incredibly amusing i would be laughing out loud if it weren't so tragic because ultimately if you are going to suffer are the people and

ultimately european people i think that greece is a basket case and should just ignore it and should start paying attention to italy and we should pay attention on the elite also france at the end of the day what matters are the bronze threads that is the cost the additional cost that each country's paying above the german bronze and the treasury bonds us treasury bonds and french bonds are giving to keep and that is very troubling because the whole idea of saving greece i was just a firewall to protect italy and spain but now it'll italian debt is going through the roof and now finally starting to pick up that's the look problem so greece is now just a sideshow it's a circus freak it's nothing important it's italy and france that's what we have to be worried about now but so how can you possibly say that greece is nothing important is that because it's doing has already been spelled out for the gaffe course the greek people are are going to suffer or they have been struggling with austerity plans but at this point they only say that they have until they're not

cash until december if greece does no default if this all goes under is still going to trickle down effect everyone else first before italy portugal or in france my type. well i think of the markets are already with this whole charade that happened over this past may get in the markets already discounting greece altogether and just you know writing off a greece is done. they were going to run out of money on december fifteenth because they need to roll over i think was four billion euros worth of debt and they certainly didn't have the money and in point of fact after problems arose announcement of the referendum the troika. european commission the international monetary fund and the european central bank said that they were going to hold off and ing off the last the next tranche of money that received it so that it had there been a referendum on the fourth as originally intended it probably would have gone against the bailout or against austerity measures right here and there horror that's right that would have withheld the money and on december fifteenth we sort

of gone down the tubes now. suspending the referendum doesn't guarantee that they're going to get the money the greeks don't have to jump through all the hoops that each troika have set up. let's assume the people you know let's assume that they get the money and jean is already dead on december fifteenth there is no she thought her credit which is where they were going to circle of well in temporary italy has to roll over approximately forty billion euros worth of debt. for those who don't know rollover that means basically to get more money to pay off previous looks yup the italians don't have forty billion euros worth of money to pay off that were rolled into and i'll talk about that they have the italian banking situation which is to cure it and it's just each year it is substantial and so the italians have to worry about their own mess as well as their local banking mess so that's still going to be a lot of money so now that reese may or may not have been solved we don't really

know but let's see a lot of us and it has been so contemporary we're going to have italy to deal with and that's forty billion people that's out let me out let me interrupt for a moment here so what's going on right now is you also have world leaders gathered in common france of beautiful lovely place at the g. twenty and everything else has kind of been put on the backburner the eurozone debt crisis. at the top of the agenda and you have a lot of pressure being put on from president obama and so i just want to put in the forbes list of the hundred most powerful people into this right the way are they what it is obama is the first most powerful person when you have that in your putin and then you have with him is now but at the moment are these three actors virtually. able cower less to do anything unless greece gets its act together they just have to stand by and watch as the global economy goes back into another recession another tumble. well the problem is you're of course and now the

chinese have already said that they're not going to bail out europe are not going to kick in funds to the european financial stability facility which is what the los arcos he has been trying every reason basically making the chinese to do so the europeans are going to solve this mess on their own. beast those three gentlemen that you mentioned they might be the most influential people on the face of the planet but you know when you have a particular crisis when you're house on fire it doesn't matter how rich and powerful you are in a day it's the fireman you know holding the code's who's the most powerful not if you get situation in the situation that we currently find ourselves at which is we can the european banking structure and you know a collapsing insolvent sovereign a sector you're going to have to go to the local governments at this point in time i have to say that. now tell us all how george up in jail is the most powerful man in the face of the planet because his actions or whatever you want to call that

what he's doing his actions are going to churn in the fate of europe and that's and so it all. again or whomever you know they might be very very powerful overall but at this precise moment a guy who's holding the whole problem grow and yes clearly unstable and i guess so our authorities didn't take that one so account huygens i got enough unfortunate rhapsodic thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you for having me. now still to come trying to protect students from bullying lawmakers in one state just one of the problem perhaps not tonight's bull's-eye or unhappy hour a day friending on facebook leads to arson in iowa plus an eighty three year old man gets arrested for kind of process with something ok back. to the police corruption.

like what a protester nobody seems to know. but never a pepper sprayed in the face of the argument that they're being overly dramatic. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly is if you understand it and then a glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. the same.

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all right guys it's time for tonight's told time awards night because two g.o.p. lawmakers in michigan senate now they just passed a new and. and yeah you heard me right i think you have the senate michigan passed a lot of protect kids from bowling but i'm still giving them a troll time war might be wondering why i was happy as they're trying to protect children but just stick with me as i explain this one so help prove my point i'm going to call on michigan state senator gretchen written or for some help she's democrats voted against anti bullying measure just listen as she addresses fellow lawmakers about not safe school law which is named after a teen that plane who committed suicide shortly after an anti-gay hazing incident you may be able to pat yourself on the back city and see that you did something but in actuality you're explicitly outlining how to get away with bullying. now according to senator wicker this new law gave students a blueprint on exactly how to bully and now be held responsible for it listen to

how she explains how lawmakers crafted this new piece of legislation you're exceptions have swallowed the rule and passed it today a bullying kids is ok if a student parent teacher or school employee can come up with a moral or religious reason for doing it that's right some of the g.o.p. loaded up is anti bullying bill with exceptions that based on religious and moral views now the new reform requires every school district in the state to have a policy in place to address point complaints but the bills language that says requirements don't give a statement of a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of a school employee a school volunteer pupil or people's parent or guardian so basically if you're a christian or things homosexuality is a sin that it's totally ok for you to bully or gay classmate because your religion makes it ok i mean this is just so wrong but having their way here isn't letting republican lawmakers off the hook here off the hook here she actually places the

blame for a future goalie in their hands. in fact not only does this not protect kids who are bullied it further in danger's them by legitimizing excuses for tormenting a student and the saddest and sickest irony of this whole thing is that it's called mattes safe school law and after the way that you've got it it wouldn't have done a damn thing to save matt. so i have to say is congratulations lawmakers there you've now given a license to police to terrorize students in your state and you named a law after a kid took his own life after being bully but this new anti-gay bullying law as i mentioned it was named matt safe school law after not admiring his father told michigan newspaper that this government sponsored this is government sponsored sanctioned bigotry and called it shameful that religious and moral protections are out of the last minute personally i greet i think of beyond shameful the

republicans in michigan state think that they can surround intolerance and hatred in the cloak of religious freedom religious beliefs are not an excuse or a free pass to bully herb use another human being and the fact that elected officials would actually take the time to write these sorts of exceptions into law that makes me sick and that's why republicans in the michigan state senate are tonight's tools i'm with. our guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening is our producers and churchill and julian sanchez research fellow at the cato institute thanks for joining guys do you really read paying purple i think we have a nice little color going on here it's neither here nor there just a statement had to make let's revisit really quickly is a story that we did a couple of days ago or was it last week maybe it was

a dead horse that horse girl just take a look at this this is actually a local woman who climbed inside the carcass of a dead horse without her clothes on to pose for pictures but there's more to all of this photos of the woman and her boyfriend holding what appears to be the forces heart. so then the boyfriend of a girlfriend eight the whores in there was all about wanting to be closer to the whores that was the original excuse now she's come out and said that she actually got the inspiration for this from star wars like that one scene where they actually went on the toilet on. you know they have to cut open the guy and put him in there i haven't seen anything that's defiled my childhood memories of star wars especially since this is the phantom menace. i do it's so ridiculous i mean she could just drop one hundred dollars gotten a ton ton sleeping bag which are readily available on line and he lived out her dream she didn't need to open a horse i think of kind of a cop out because everybody obviously freaked out relax your security if you want to go it's make make it quick there's

a side of course carcass and she tried to blame it on george lucas is basically because she's also just ridiculous because she's a wannabe actress slash nudist who says that she wasn't looking for attention but i'm sorry want to be actress nude photos equals i want attention so she said she was inspired by damien hirst instead of. you know instead of star wars she probably got a grant oh jesus jesus i think these move on to the next one here you guys but i'm with you on the totally the tension thing i don't know if this with stories any better eighty three year olds maybe take a look. elderly city council candidate from iowa is facing prostitution and assault charges eighty three year old ben clifford dawson from center ville was arrested following an investigation into accusations he offered to perform sex acts on someone to repay a loan johnson is also accused of grabbing and kissing the victim without consent he is out of jail on two thousand dollars. now this is clearly sad on many levels

because what drove him to not be able to prove pay his debts and he felt like that was the only way to do it and somebody has been victimized but when you're. going to say yes to settle favors from you well first of all we have absolutely no idea what the woman looks like maybe you know eighty three to yeah maybe she was eighty three or maybe it wasn't completely unwarranted sexual advances however i have to say i think of this is the result of too much but i agree is that's just me. i think you need to spend the time on the internet or you might you might get the impression that there are in fact people were into that i just find it odd that it's labeled as prostrate usually when you know someone offers you money for consensual sex not when you is be sexually assault someone and then ask to be paid for it yeah i do agree i don't think this is prostitution he was also charged with sexual assault ok so badly for sure but it's just like really eighty three i. just

think that at this point nobody wants sexual favors for me anymore i mean i don't know maybe i needed to be wanted a bit of the role of the legal sex right now but. but supply stopped for he could you know you would be into it if you thought it was a viable option for him i mean whether or not that's something he has the knowledge he doesn't really add a lot of the last one and he does not even work anymore having really performs actual food. that does not cause heart attack and you can still take eighty three you know he everybody who sees a nursing home gotta control you know people who already have you as you know i'm not eighty three like honestly if if you're taking care of growing eighty three i think. i intend to continue having sex until i actually get it and get anything on you know the state i mean maybe after so i don't want to release it was ok i'm not fair once i get all of i will say the exact same thing at the moment i'd rather not think about it go let's remind our next story how do the facebook you know being

mean i'm going to actually take your house or down at least that's where we think the story here is because husband wife woke up and her house was on fire and the police report said it all happened over a facebook dispute because according to courting to one woman the other one is angry because she ended their friendship on facebook and it all started because she asked her to create an event on facebook for a party she did that there a lot of declines as the event approached they want to look like the party might be a bust that's where they really got into a big fight over it because maybe she wasn't pimping her party well you know on facebook and that's in the house. you know this is this is like way this is like you know how every fortune cookie you can make hilarious if you read out loud you talk on in bed on the end the same way every journalist thinks simply a story that's fundamentally has nothing to do with facebook if you add on the internet i mean it's a story about the social dispute between friends they went crazy if it happened over the phone or by you know printed mail this bill would say oh it's

a mail story friended her on facebook but she could be friend to her in person it's i mean it's not totally a story that is not about. he spoke it only happened on facebook as it was two thousand and eleven let's get over the shotgun vanity fair it is you friends that want to facebook at this point let's ask in different areas of his you know officially over like that's how you judge it that's all i don't know the bottom line is this proves once and for all that facebook is evolving and causes are saying that this is a different approach we now know that also it's really frightening that woman looks totally normal but she's the type of person who you are and somehow sound well let's move on to something that i think personally seems a little more obvious but i guess this is a new study take a look. they can cheesecake and other delicious yes fattening food may be addictive and you study in rats suggests that high fat high calorie foods affect the brain much of the same way cocaine or heroin does and when rats consumers food in such great enough quantities it leads and pulse that eating habits that resemble

drug addiction. that doesn't shock me at all i kind of in a way i know what i open a bag. of something i cannot stop so i've just long but you know i've long assume you these things because i own because i was so they're comparing it to cocaine so after you open that bag of chips and eat them and they're all gone two hours later are you like holy cow you know i need to go prostitute myself to get more chips as that ever happen you know so is that the same i say not spy agency laughter but no you know what you're going to see a study the other way is. the same study sort of the rats also would prefer sugar water cocaine which leads me to wonder like maybe rats and humans are not actually similar enough to this readily you know cross apply these these are the results cocoa. has like water one hundred one for joining me tonight that's provided so thanks for listening and they treat me back tomorrow you want to miss my interview with robbery mortals like me and me time just because i'm a fan if you want a show on facebook and follow us on twitter you missed any of the nights or any

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