america when they burned down america in two thousand and eight the bankers were given billions and when the poor revolt now these were all the revolutions of the rich from the from the reagan types when the poor of all it's pretty hard to miss strikers were being killed in the u.s. in the eight hundred eighty s. that's always been the one nine hundred thirty s. and so it was outlawed nine hundred thirty five of the wagner act in colombia right now strikers are being are being murdered poor people were burning ghettos in the sixty's and seventy's and dead students and unemployed people occupy movements all across the country our country was birthed in revolution jefferson's quote about blood patriots is not appropriate for today we need to we need to find a new way and occupy something coming up the campaign against corporate personhood scored significant victories this week but where do we go from here just a moment. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break

through get through it if you can may who can you trust no one who is in view with a global missionary see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more.

i'll go back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour we might be one step closer to reclaiming the words we the people and you can thank the for fine people of boulder colorado for that this week's edition of geeky science you might be surprised to find out that much of your life is predestined by the time you're seven years old and yes it really is in your genes and they can change and finally health care in america is a cancer that's making a very small group richer than their wildest dreams and leaving the rest of us to deal with the fallout there is a solution for what it isn't and it's really just. so now the voters in boulder colorado overwhelmingly approved

a constitutional amendment that says corporations are not people where is the movement against corporate personhood go next for more of this growing movement to strip corporations of personhood i'm joined by kate was a supposed belknap of with move to amend or caitlin welcome place all make so much for having me on thanks for joining us how did it go in denver this week. so her it was great our gallant initiative which was a ballot initiative resolution older citizens were deciding whether or not they are we should have a constitutional amendment to abolish corporate personhood and declare that money is not speech that's what they were being asked noted seventy four percent in support of that constitutional amendment that's absolute spectacular we received a picture from occupy oakland i think you've seen it it's showing our screen right now and you know it's like you know it's basically end corporate personhood and this is occupy oakland there's nothing on the ballot in oakland about corporate personhood the idea of this ban is really going to nationals and yeah we go signs

are everywhere there at occupy is all over the country we've been getting tons of orders that's part of why we need them because our folks were asking for something that they could carry to show their support or move to the net and now you have a new campaign or not a newly emerging campaign but there's going to be another vote next week next on the campaign this is missoula montana great until my kids ballot is basically the same thing as boulder and will be voting on tuesday and that's this is basically moot to women strategy to go to communities around the country with local organizers folks on the ground or ballance years who's got florida and say that they want to work on similar campaigns and our our thinking is that we will be able to drive from the ground up this amendment push into washington d.c. because right now congress is totally controlled by corporations so we can't look to congress to solve this problem for us we have to push it through so i shipped in

our styles or at least largely controlled seems like there's still a few holdouts. but they're few and far between how has occupy wall street lit a fire under the move to a memo point. well the occupy wall street and move to mend our amazing energy we were so thrilled to see folks in new york in just such big numbers and we were even more thrilled when it started coming out that one of their mean to me and so let me start with you were seeing one of the mean. discussions at the general assembly were all about abolishing corporate personhood and i mean that's totally ired and so we're getting word from occupiers all over the country letting us know that there is supporting this call for an amendment for a constitutional amendment to balance for a person that's great now six democratic senators yesterday introduced an amendment into the an amendment of the constitution of the senate it doesn't go as far as as

you're suggesting and as i suggested in my book on equal protection it doesn't say corporations are people but it goes essentially say money is not speech it would roll back the bill oddie decision the first national bank decision and a good chunk of citizens united in that regard what are your thoughts on that. it moves the right direction to be sure and it's exciting to see that there are some in washington that are fearing the people of us but we've got this is the key moment and it's really critical that we get it right if an amendment that isn't why it goes forward we're free that that will be the end of the discussion and will have to master up all the explanation to explain why that doesn't go far enough per person who does not just not money elections to be sure that is a big part of it but corporations are also able to overturn democratically laws that protect labor rights that protect the environment that protect communities rates and tell me get rid of per person the idea that corporations have rights of

human beings under the constitution we're not going to really be able to get under corporations under our control so we can only give minimal needs it's not some utils amendment we're encouraged to see it but we don't want folks to misunderstand this moment where really the american people are calling for something further and we need our lawmakers to respond and have a systemic solution to the up it seems the corporations are claiming first to memorize interfere in politics which this intimate addresses the one from these senators but they're also coming forth members rights to privacy for the memories against taking any and self incrimination going back to tobacco and asparagus fourteenth amendment rights against discrimination so that wal-mart's entire can be sat whatever they want and the really the whole thing needs to needs to be taken on so how do people watching at home who want to not just get the money out of

politics which is fine i mean is the start but how do people who really want to get at the at the core cancer here rather than just metastases around to get involved. well going to move to mandatory we have a little action we have affiliates around the country and more coming on every single week and we make we're really serious about grassroots democracy so it's important to us for our campaign and our organization so be it from the bottom up as well as the movement that we're building and the men at work that we're calling for so both can get involved in their community and become so many chapters in their town and work on resolutions like they passed in boulder and like we're sure will pass next week in missoula passed in madison wisconsin and county in april and we have dozens of other communities that are right now collecting signatures to be on the ballot next year and so anyone who wants to join in and actually next week will have house parties around the country over two hundred house parties happening

where folks are getting together to start planning what kind of actions they want to do in their communities to respond to the second anniversary of citizens united which is january twenty first and we just today put out a towel for january twentieth to be a nationwide occupy that or so in federal courts across the country and at the supreme court you're going to be moved on and both letting their fellow community members know who it is that controls our country and one of the mechanisms that they use is the court system so we don't even join us if you want to join us at the supreme court on january twentieth we'd love to have you and there might even be opportunities for civil disobedience trying to figure out what exactly to you but it's time to really take ratcheted up our country is with us and we just need to leave the let it time to occupy the courts that's great thanks so much for being with us thank you so much and move to amend or check it out corporate personhood is

the issue of our time we continue to bring you the latest developments in the move to hand the mark receive back to we the people and you can do your part to go to by going to move to a member. it's the good the bad of the very howard cryptically ugly the good steve murphy the democratic strategist who often plays the role of sacrificial lamb on the sean hannity show stepped up last night and called out an idiot for what he is a conservative propagandist after hannity praised himself as being one of the few voices in the media hype for president obama bill ayers connection murphy spoke up to disagree. but you know the due diligence wasn't done with gore with iraq obama you know what i mean this guy was was it was you know if he has like sitting back say you are god they're not listening to hannity right in the media right exactly i

mean or you know what you're not going why go and why are you worried this isn't a media i still did not surprise me up again to show this isn't a movie this is all. exactly who are here and what are you doing here you're out again do you have a liberal probably get a job you're like out of here you know i'm a gas i can't want to run you know if i'm not whining like i'm honest i think it's fair to say more if you want to fight it back for a while but hey getting a chance to tell a little truth on g.o.p. t.v. also knows fox news well worth well done but then god is with jeff duncan republican from south carolina was speaking with students in a q. and a and delivered this disturbing analogy to highlight our nation's immigration problems duncan said it's kind of like having a house taking the door off the hinges and allowing any kind of vagrant or animal or just somebody that's on your ear or somebody who wants to do your dishes for you to come in and you can say no you can't come in and you can't say no you can still night or you know you can have this benefit using my deodorant. illegal immigration

the same thing is animal sneaking into your house doing your dishes and using your deodorant anyone else have the same problems with under. undocumented immigrants. and i didn't think so and the very very ugly congressman tom price republican from georgia went on g.o.p. t.v. fox so-called news this morning and was asked some surprisingly tough questions about why republicans are focused on passing bills to reaffirm the in god we trust as the national nado and not passing bills to create jobs for its price defended the in god we trust. for the resolution was necessary because we felt it was appropriate to remind the president what in fact the motto of our great but you're not saying he's against religion there is no suggestion in there there was no suggestion that i have absolutely not it was it was an opportunity to say you know

mr president they have the motto of this country is not a poor of us and it seems god we trust actually our founding fathers you wrote the constitution is that they made the motto of this country horrible scene out of many one was changed during the cold war to in god we trust to distinguish us from so-called godless communists i guess republicans want to reaffirm the motto distinguish themselves from president obama and must be a god will socialist or a kenyan muslim or whatever but the man republicans have chosen for the week all in all it was a waste of time and didn't create a single job and it was very very . eight years ago in my book the edison gene i wrote a chapter describing how

a mothers stress during pregnancy uses a feedback loop based on the hormone cortisol to tell a fetus to reduce the brain's intellectual development and increase the size of the brain's fight or flight areas i speculated that this may even have an epigenetic effect it may affect future generations by changing d.n.a. or the way d.n.a. is expressed now comes the proof and international study that was published in the international journal of epidemiology last week as found that a person's environment in utero and during their early childhood years influences brain and biological development and leaves a memory in the genetic code that affects the way genes function the findings could prove major evidence as to provide major evidence as to why the health problems known to be associated with low socio economic status including obesity mental health problems heart disease diabetes and other chronic illnesses can last a lifetime even if persons living conditions improve later in life scientists look

at what's called d.n.a. methylation type of chemical change in specific genes it's linked to lasting changes in the way those genes function basically methylation of a gene is a specific significant at any particular point in that d.n.a. reduces the activity of the gene and this is what leads to the potential risks a team focused on a small sample forty men from an ongoing british cohort study which has followed ten thousand people born in march of one nine hundred fifty eight from birth. and team looked at the d.n.a. of men aged forty five who came from one of two economic extremes children whose fathers were unskilled workers and children's whose dads were company c.e.o.'s and oxford or cambridge university graduates and looking at control areas of twenty thousand genes the researchers found twice as many genetic differences in the group that was brought up in wealthy. confort compared to the group that was raised in

poor living conditions has led them to make the link between the economics of early life and the biochemistry of d.n.a. other than proving that your environment during the critical developmental years in early childhood has a direct impact on your overall health for life the study also shows the d.n.a. is highly adaptable does not remain the same from generation to generation he's epi genetic changes or the biological imbedding of memories genes works both ways so if we're able to reverse poverty and have generations of people living in relative peace and security we can bring about a positive change and a permanent change in genetics they could define a new era for human beings that old saying it's in my genes have to be updated for two it's in my genes for now. coming up in tonight's daily take i'll tell you why americans are apparently all really truly insane.

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criticisms and opinions heard here on the big picture our viewer comments tonight is from the message board over tom arbonne dot com wayne recently wrote lobbying should be abolished and the best way to do that is to amend our system to allow each and every american citizen the right to vote on every piece of legislation that is presented in congress i don't think a lobbyist could pay every qualified american citizen to vote their way maybe it could be named something like the national referendum system we have a vote by mail system here in oregon and it works great and get a voter's pamphlet prior to the election of explains the pros and cons of an issue and our ballot is mailed directly to our home we can look over the pros and cons of the proposals and decide how to vote in the privacy of our own and send our ballot back by mail or and delivered to the polling place have been turned away or taken off the list strictly private and personal which is how it should be stated oregon does a good job of handling our voting system there's no reason individual states could not handle a national system petitioning and voting by mail it would also be

a win for the postal service i buy some extra stamps for that purpose our representatives could present our petitions and they could agree the issues and congress all they want the final vote would be cast by we the people that would be a true majority. well wayne what you're describing is what's called direct democracy they had a variation on a large variation in greece three thousand years ago it took six thousand one people to show up for there to be a quorum for there for a decision to be made and people were selected to show up for that basically by a lottery system sort of jury duty in fact if you didn't show up when your name came up you were called an idiot the origin of the word idiot we have here in the united states when the founders and framers of the constitution put together the constitution they looked at that they said well it's kind of cool but you know it really won't work let's have a representative democracy actually what we have is a constitutionally limited representative credit republic so basically in

a representative democracy we hire people to pay attention to the laws and if there's a piece of legislation you know four hundred page bill and it's going to take is going to be a lot to it i basically want to hire somebody to take the hours and days the months that it's going to take to read that to think about all the possible ramifications to work out the details i don't have time to do it and neither do you. now and that way through the representative democracy we're basically trusting those people to do the right thing and if they screw up or they do the wrong thing or proves that they're corrupt we have this recall system called elections every two years in the house of representatives every six years and so before years the present would kick the bums up now what you're describing are ballot initiatives citizens referendums twenty four states have them and most of them date back to the progressive era the early one thousand nine hundred really to your early years in the twentieth century and it's become actually a very big problem in oregon for example we had

a ballot initiative for what's called the kicker it's an incredibly stupid idea what it says is if there is a surplus any year in the state or any two years because it's a two year cycle if there is a surplus then the state has to write checks and send the money back to the people no possibility of a rainy day fund this was sold to us by a bunch of rich people in in oregon and you know who basically wanted you know large tax payers a lot to get their money back and what it did is it wiped out or going to left us with no rainy day fund and that's the problem with the right to a democracy if you've got interests who can spend millions of dollars convincing average people to vote a stupid way it often happens it happened in california with prop fourteen years ago i frankly wrote representative democracy but i wanted an influence by special interests that requires a member of the constitution that says money is not speech corporations are people get out of the electoral process and let's have real representatives again and for that who to move to amend. that's it for your take my takes and i if you like your

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save vermont up to one point eight billion dollars over the next decade that's right a single payer health care system will cover more people everybody in fact and be one point eight billion dollars cheaper the way it works is that there's only one insurance company in the state that provides basic health care everybody in the state pays into it and it covers every medical bill in the state it is the state no need for doctors to fill out forms for ten different insurance companies no insurance companies trying to avoid pain bills because this system is designed to pay the bills and because it's run by the state it's answerable to the people and it doesn't pay its c.e.o. is the hundreds of millions of dollars at least is like stephen j. hemsley of united health care essentially steal from their customers this is the single payer system in most of the rest of the developed world has adopted and why they all now spend far less than we do on health care and they get better health

care results. so why is the only state close to adopting a single payer system why doesn't every state have single payer systems that are cheaper and cover more people why doesn't our entire country have such a system apparently because we're insane for some insane reason we've decided that it's better to divert billions of dollars away from healing sick people and instead move that money toward financing multimillion dollar homes for health insurance c.e.o.'s. c.e.o. of united health group steven him flee is salary three point two million down is incredible broche profits of the private health insurance industry that is the core of the problem the c.e.o. of cigna and handling the annual revenue nineteen point one billion dollars two hundred ninety two million dollars in net income his salary plus point two million dollars for some insane reason we decided it's better to turns it to certain

c.e.o.'s of health insurance corporations and wealthy millionaires and billionaires rather than using that money to hire more doctors hire more nurses or build more community clinics as the former c.e.o. of united healthcare bill mcguire made one point six billion dollars he's a billionaire health insurance executive in a country where fifty three million americans don't have health insurance or more than forty million americans are on food stamps where one in three african-american children are living in poverty so it makes sense to anyone for some insane reason we've decided billions are better spent on administrative costs the higher armies of number crunchers to scour medical records and deny you and me people with aids for whoever maybe people with preexisting conditions life saving medical treatment these are the for profit health insurance companies death panels. i spend billions on for profit death panels when we can spend the same amount of money just giving

people the surgery or the medicines that they need to keep living it's epochal for profit health insurance corporation devotes thirty one percent of its revenue toward overhead stuff like paperwork c.e.o. salaries and death panels but a single payer system like medicare only has a three percent overhead and with our federal government and state governments going bankrupt because of soaring medical costs it's insane to keep in place a system where one out of every three dollars spent on health care goes towards more mcmansion is for people like dollar bill mcguire our health care system has itself become a cancer on america you know if you had a blood sucking leech on your back that was just sucking a dry and you didn't do anything about it you just left it there to feast you'd be in say it that's exactly what we left for profit health insurance executives to suck us dry leave us sick all so they can just get fatter and fatter and fatter the

state of vermont is working to knock these bloodsucking leaches off their back and it's past time for the rest of the nation to do the same thing i healthcare system should not exist to churn people into millionaires and billionaires like it does here in the united states and should exist to make sure that everyone has access to basic health care which is considered a human right in every other developed country in the world it exists so that health care can be delivered at the lowest possible price with the best possible. goal that's hard to achieve of people like dollar bill mcguire are constantly skim and cash off the top exist so that we're all healthier so that we can avoid disease outbreaks so that we can all be more productive and all raise better families all be alive healthy and available to make this nation a better place. a single payer system is the best way to achieve this as we've seen in the examples of countries all over the world and we'd be insane if we didn't all

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