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all right guys it's time for you said it i read it take time to respond to my brilliance engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you tube because when you've got something to say i listen now first i don't respond with you who watched our show yesterday about the bank of america settlement which ward four hundred and ten million dollars to customers for excessive overdraft fees extracted by the bank in the last decade yet he commented yesterday on you tube and said i left b o a n one thousand nine hundred two for that very reason my credit union thanks me thanks them now i definitely feel this viewer is paying i think everybody's been charged overdraft fees before and it hurts every time especially when you know the big banks are charging you just because they can't so good for our viewer for taking a stand taking his business over to a credit union forty thousand other people did that this very same weekend for bank
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transfer day so you got to wonder if banks don't get a clue actually start treating their customers with some respect instead of squeezing every penny they can out of them for more people just might do the same thing and next don't respond to viewer the washer tool time starring michele bachmann's comment that if you don't work you don't eat or you shouldn't eat out of that commented on you tube and said the hypocrisy of the right wing is painful to watch she wants government to stay out of our lives regulate less yada yada but of course there are things that they want to regulate who you love how you love what you put into your body who you marry what a woman does with her womb she really would love to regulate what god you worship and how they venerate jesus and his message then bomb innocent third world peasants tell the poor to work or starve and help the rich rob us it makes me sick. and hypocrisy of the right wing it really makes me sick to five to hear one more politician breach about the virtues of small government and less regulation more freedom all while working to take away my freedom to choose what to do with my body
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the freedoms of anyone else being able to marry whoever they want to love i think i might pull my hair out and of course they only believe in small government when it comes to dismantling the welfare state or cutting off government aid to the poor of course michelle and other right wing politicians that rail on the evil of government cloak their war against the poor in some sort of moral idea of self-sufficient feet but that doesn't change the fact that they want less government when it suits their political goals and a lot more of it and if it's their day june their daily agenda now our last comment tonight comes from a viewer that watched our happy hour when we spoke about the white house answering a petition saying if there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life at flint commented on facebook and said well of course they don't exist we know the white house would never lie to the american people cough cough and those are my thoughts exactly the kind of just getting no those are my thoughts all right that's of my writing this week and i'll be more with more back with more as usual next week. now the congressional super committee was formed it was designed to find areas that
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could survive with the biggest cuts and undoubtedly the pentagon has one of the most bloated budgets which made it the target of two rounds of cuts first the military is going to have to cut three hundred fifty billion dollars from the budget but if the super committee can't find one point two to one point five trillion dollars to slash from other parts of the federal budget by thanksgiving then the cuts will come back to the d.o.d. and as part of the trigger mechanism the pentagon is going to have to give up another six hundred billion dollars now ever since this plan came out warhawks even members of the g.o.p. have been working tirelessly to keep that second round of cuts from happening even if the super committee fails we opted out of several members of congress well they've all fearmonger of using terms like doomsday mechanism they warn of a possible draft in the future they've even said that the military would be unsustainable if it's this many budget cuts but get a load of just how far some people are willing to go to prevent that as usual john mccain and his merry gang of neo cons take the cake on this issue now mccain's been outspoken against the defense cuts ever since the idea was proposed and he doesn't
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know how to take no for an answer and in fact he even made a statement to the cables saying the secretary of defense and all the service chiefs say that it would do irreparable damage to our national security so obviously we need to do something about it my intent is that sequestration our national defense will not take place now mccain also made the statement about the cuts. which duration is not engraved on golden tablets it is. notional aspiration and those who think we'd have sufficient support to prevent those kinds of cuts being inactive because of the impact it would have. now while mccain is right that the trigger mechanism isn't written in stone it is the law but mccain and graham are simply not satisfied with the little old law senator mccain told the cable he would introduce and support a law to undo the budget control act of two thousand and eleven lindsey graham said
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he would present a substitute to the triggers quote something where the whole country shares in the failure of the super committee not just the department of defense and medicare providers so i'm going to say that if these two men get away with this that would be a truly low point but i wasn't even sure that congress could reach it simply overturning laws so they don't look so they don't the laws they don't like excuse me instead of making the tough choices that's pathetic and sadly it's something that i guess we have to just come to expect from our politicians but newsflash guys the debt deal was signed in august it's done these seemingly endless threats and people like john mccain lindsey graham are becoming ridiculous so stop the fear margaret america will survive if the military takes a few cuts. yesterday arizona state senator russell pearce at this point best known for offering the state's s.b. ten seventy papers please immigration bill was recalled by voters it was a historic event for the state the first such recall and a son a sign of the anti immigrant rhetoric and legislation has gone too far and won't be tolerated but it's still
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a far cry from the comprehensive immigration reform that this country needs and the recognition that this is a human issue one that divides families in fact we've reported to you before that under the obama administration four hundred thousand people a year are now being deported but what happens to those that are left on your report by the applied research center is found that at least five thousand one hundred children whose parents are detained or deported are currently in foster care around the u.s. through freedom of information act request they found that almost one in four people to port in the last year was the mother or father of a u.s. citizen and unfortunately reunification of the family is often not a success let's find out more about how and why this is happening joining me from our studio in new york is set. reed wessler investigative reporter for call the color line says i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and tell me when we look at this figure and you say that five thousand one hundred children now live in foster care their parents have been deported is that a conservative estimate. yeah the applied researchers reach search center found
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that there are at least five thousand children right now who are stuck in foster care because their parents have been detained and deported and that number could be significantly higher we our estimate is as conservative that as it could be if all remains the same in the coming years at least fifteen thousand kids are likely to be stuck in a similar situation and this is fundamentally a result of deportation system that's deporting historic levels of people four hundred thousand people in the last year it is a massive number of people and the collateral effects of that are just starting to be seen and one of those which we've explored in some depth at the applied research center and color lines magazine is that children are separated from their families for extended periods of time and sometimes permanently sometimes these children never see their parents again because they're stuck in foster care and they're
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moved towards adoption so let's talk about how it is that you know that even goes that far that these kids do you end up in foster care when you know a parent is detained and has to wait for deportation hearing isn't it also isn't the government trying to reunite the family isn't that part of their responsibility . when parents are detained in ice is immigration detention centers which are jails staggered around the country often in areas very far away from people's homes the average detainee is moved three hundred seventy miles from the place that they're initially detained when people are in these detention centers they're entirely cut off from the vital line of communication that necessary between families and the child welfare system so when kids are in foster care and parents are locked up in these jails scattered around the country these immigration detention centers they can do nothing to. to be involved with the vital decisions
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about the care and custody of their children even i say is that if they're going to deport a parent they will let that parent make the decision about what happened so their child but what we've found is that that claim on ice is part is simply not happening all the time and some families are being shattered permanently and these children are simply being or fit becoming foster children sometimes being adopted you know i met parents in detention centers around the country who had no idea where their children were and could do nothing about it they were facing the loss of their families. and it's really heartbreaking to think about i'm just wondering where the attitudes that come from the ice agents from you know immigration. do they think that it's better off if the children stay in america and go into foster
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care than you know than sending him outside of the country i mean i understand that a lot of them happen to be u.s. citizens and were born here but they think that it's better to leave them here. i mean what's really clear is that ice is operating under the working assumption that the people it detains don't have real robust lives networks communities and families in the united states and you know people who are deported have lived here often for a long time have deep ties here and have children and so there's a there's really a distinct disregard for that fact and children are suffering the consequences. of these children everybody in the who works in the child welfare system agrees that children are better off with their families no matter what than stuck in the foster care system these kids are stuck there i met i met a woman in detention in arizona who had called the local police to report
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domestic violence and instead of helping her the police arrested her and her abuser as too often happens her children were placed in foster care and she was moved to immigration detention now faces deportation her children remain in foster care that families facing the prospect of being permanently separated and and if she's deported policies and child welfare departments are really all over the map in terms of reunifying families when mothers and fathers have been deported so the barriers to reunification start to rise dramatically and their son. time's insurmountable now step really quickly this is unfortunately just one element of you know the sad saga of what ends up happening because of our immigration laws on the books yesterday russell pearce was a recall he was recalled then he now is famous for the one for being the one that
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wrote the s.b. ten seventy line arizona do you think of that's at least a good sign i mean i know it's not comprehensive immigration reform but is that a sign in the right direction. i think there's no doubt that people in arizona at least are beginning to see that a policy of so draconian show me your papers law that targets anybody who might be an immigrant with deportation is simply not something that should be happening in our state unfortunately those laws are spreading to other states and and they need to be stopped but what's very clear to me is that as long as the obama administration the federal government continues to deport four hundred thousand people a year or so many of which almost a quarter of which are of whom are our parents the collateral effects are going to be brutal and more and more children are going to be left stranded in foster care
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without their parents well it's definitely something that needs to be highlighted market when we talk about it to really get to the point where we start solving the issues that thanks so much for joining us tonight. thanks for having me on. i thought a calm lawmaker goes on a rant screaming of voters in his district all the pending big banks of nice nice old time where an unhappy hour but a page or a love story to tell a story but ending for this kate had been a couple plus a local news report that is truly amazing actors from a. good close up team has been to the region where technological breakthroughs say humanoids. archie goes to the sea.
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a little unusual ways to protect nature. where farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch. but where future developments depends on the way. russia's black sea coast should close up on our t.v. . in canada and the us today it is legal for you to use a bubble bath on your baby that contains a known carcinogen something that causes cancer most of the shine to the most independent they are sponsored by the industry and most of the guys they don't not claim it's a conflict of interest today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month oh my god i'm a nobody with cancer in my five therefore i protect focus because ninety to ninety five percent of cancers occur among people with funny history of cancer the
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pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and administration. in fact there are more farm. industry lobbyists in washington d.c. and members of congress.
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hi guys it's time for tonight's told time award this night because to congressman joe walsh now since arriving in washington this year they will annoy republican has made quite a name for himself he accuses president obama of a lying during the national debt ceiling debate at the same time his ex-wife sued him saying that he owed more than one hundred thousand dollars in unpaid child support and of course he says those charges are untrue but the tea party candidate made voters a promise when running for office that he would come to the sea and rein in the government now over the weekend joe is back in illinois doing one of his cup of joe meetings and during the discussion several people began questioning him about the need for more bank regulations and that just set joe right off. the
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marketplace this mess created this mess short government which is still good for yourself everybody you know we made this. easiest possible for people to be involved in marketplace does he do what the government does the government sets the rules. in the marketplace for the mess we're in right now or i am tired of hearing that. not so nice to see yet another republican standing up for the big banks according to joe they are completely blameless in this whole wrecking the world economy thing it was only the government never mind about the banks of wall street approved mortgages for just about anybody who applied for a loan and the bankers bought and sold those toxic mortgages to investors like candy while knowing that they were worth nothing but of course the big big the wall street didn't have to worry because the us taxpayers would have to bail them out now back to congressman joe walsh real quick he wasn't done defending the banks he bristled at the notion that more government regulations are needed to stop the bad
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mortgage practices this pisses me off too many people don't listen. to these in place already do your job but what do you want to do you want to bombard them with more rhetoric more government. hey joe maybe you should listen to the woman they were screaming at three years after the collapse of the u.s. and world economy most of the same practices are still happening today congress passed the dog frank reform bill but thanks to wall street lobbying it was watered down a lot of the same practices the cause of the financial collapse are still going on more importantly it failed and the too big to fail era but according to congressman joe walsh that's ok because private industry is so good a government is so bad now the last clip that i want to play for you i think proves my point about joe's temper listening as he scolds another constituent. so. you know why for me
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why from what i see for a minute or a minute as you believe. you need this. for you ask you to leave. i don't know joe maybe instead of getting coffee how about an anger management class or two after being questioned about his behavior joe said that he's just really passionate about the issue of hating government i was working on an empty stomach which made him have a quicker fuse the old empty stomach excuse now i think we all know that both the government and the banks are to blame for the collapse of the financial system so for refusing to see any faults of private industry for the collapse of we're giving illinois congressman joe walsh tonight's jolt of award. ok guys time for happy hour and joining me this evening is r.t.
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correspondent christine brewer chief strategy officer at vision strategy thanks for joining me guys. so we've seen you know a lot of reporters go out there and try to do stories on the occupy movement across the country we've seen erin burnett just be you know the total not nice lady about it. but this one i think really takes the cake for like just being happy that you never had to do this story this comes from eureka california take a look. at the bank. on the bank oh someone from this camp spread feces and on us banks do you put them in the bank now it's somewhere on the bank so are you saying that don't you your building on the bank well that. crissy you have to do that on your local news days you know what i was just going to say this is a perfect local story i would have loved to story like this i want to love him he does a jury that had to do with a controversy and have the people that could be involved in the controversy right
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there at my disposal for me to stick their my microphone into their faces into their tents i mean this is a great local story people in eureka california and for any in any small town for that matter if they want to put their a.t.m. card in the a.t.m. machine to get cash out and there was poop all over it i think they want to know what this was a book about so i think it's a great local story i think i think two big rules are broken here one is that as a journalist you do want to become part of the story and one way the absolute become of stories they poop and pee like one hundred times over and over again number two don't say poop in peta bunch of occupy protesters who will immediately turn it into a chant is that group did and are repeating it over and over for the whole city to hear so i don't know i think i think this could been handled probably a little more delicately is ripe and juicy no pun intended as the story and at the end of the day we never found out. the bank of mystery. ok now here's the first everything you keep coming up in all these stories you've done a lot of reporting on fracking you know this is the certain process that they used
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to drill for natural gas and ends up polluting a lot of water supplies for local populations or we've seen them be able to. put their water on fire light like the water on fire so listen to what the natural gas companies are apparently up to this is a woman who was caught on video audio. yes. so she really. with. this release of those photos. or this is. very much. the only. here for us. psyops in pennsylvania to convince people that fracking is good it's just so devious well i'll tell you i spent a lot of time in dimock pennsylvania which is a very very small city there where the entire city has been taken over by
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a company called cabot wheel and gas wanting to frack in everyone's yard and i don't know if they used to but want to draw it fracturing to get natural gas out of the ground. they are regular people a lot of them came to dimock to retire many of them bought their homes hoping they would be able to sell those homes at a profit or at least the same their homes are at zero dollar value right now because the fracking water got into their water system and they don't have a water system that they can use that safe so i don't know if psyops was used but i can tell you that these everyday people living in this rural town in pennsylvania do feel that they were told some lies by the oil and gas company they were told that they would make tons of money every time that their back yards were frocked were drilled in and that didn't happen and so now we see commercials you know on t.v. trying to tell the whole world how wonderful. i have and also i by the way i do always
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feel bad for battlestar galactica fans who see these headlines about how fracking is good or you know and kind of let them down and find out it's really about drilling for oil but i do think you know look this is the kind of thing that actually does happen all the time and the story here is that they got caught and this is something that a lot of the oil and gas homes are doing all over the world but when we hear that military operations are used tactically against our own citizens i didn't hear a lot of the people that oppose it were being the insurgents that's right i mean and i think really insurgents throw this one yeah this is the dresser here we just move on to go to the how do we sort of sort out we are ok so you remember this story from yesterday take a look again. barack obama nicolas sarkozy are now being quoted. from a conversation they had about israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the exchange was overheard at the g. twenty summit sarkozy reportedly said of netanyahu quote i can't stand him anymore he's a liar president obama then responded you may be sick of him but me i have to deal
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with him every day journalist ok so that was a little trash talking we got caught on my that shouldn't have but of course mitt romney has used this to criticize obama's overall israel policy like the statement he said at a moment when the jewish state is isolated and under threat we cannot have an american president who is disdainful of our special relationship with israel we have here yet another reason why we need new leadership in the white house to be the same thing as if mitt romney had said you know i just i just can't stand to watch oprah every day and obama came out and said well clearly romney hates black america this is not committed to helping them right i mean the republicans with anything they can put a stake in of any kind i think it's a good analogy i think i mean if you look at the most recent thing that happened president obama made very clear that the u.s. government those in washington do not support the palestinian bid for statehood for recognition that doesn't sound like a totally phony assertion when you try to say that has this date ok we have to get to this next story really quickly it's basically please. they are never apart and
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they even nest together at night but zookeepers are about to break up this pair so that they can break with females as the species is on the brink of extinction. are the story of their two gay penguins they're in love they sleep together they hang out together they're twenty one in ten years old and they're being separated so they can breed into the normal broken time in twenty one that is some kind of stuff of course something going down the list longer and they just you know or they just want to be together and you know what the last thought of gay penguins which was that i think the bronx zoo in new york they let them have they let them go to an abandoned egg and raised a little penguin. this and this is your little terminator going to hyper and i got to wrap it up. at a table in canada and school pictures are awaiting me tonight i've never die chippings are going to make sure i'm back tomorrow and while you lot the president philadelphia will be on the show discussed targeting killings by the cia meantime don't forget the fan of your show on facebook follow us on twitter if you missed anything about youtube dot com plus still of the show and coming up next.
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from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos to take care of all the people who know the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to turn it around so i started out going to just do firefighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the florida problem this medical. got a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i was it's a same francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against
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a wall of patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care and emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least.
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russia's decade long odyssey into the world trade organization is close to any and as moscow overcomes the last hurdle to excess. by sealing at crucial agreements with georgia. is borrowing costs hit a record high dragging global markets down and sparking fears of silvio berlusconi's promised resignation won't keep the results third largest economy from collapse. and western powers to push for fresh sanctions against iran following the latest report of its alleged nuclear ambitions russia rejects the idea is counterproductive. it's am in the russian cavalry watching r t was marina joshie welcome to the pro.

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