an anonymity or phony names like americans for justice or whatever it may be and even public financing it that if that was our solution it would just mean more money for the t.v. networks it's time for us to return to the doctrine that we held for fifty years an innocence of programming in the public interest that brought us things like the nixon kennedy debates we need to go back to programming in the public interest. up next i'll give you fifty billion reasons why climate change is a serious problem and why we need to do something about it before it's too late. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions compelled to break through it through it has been made who can you trust no one who is in view with a global mission would see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more.

bug about the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour another year another case of freak weather so with billions of dollars in damages already wrong up for two thousand and eleven what's in store for our planet moving forward and could the same national sentiments lead to the murder of j.f.k.

a brewing again in america today last year kate historian lamar waldron question that and the internet's daily take the media doesn't want to call a liar a liar and who will. this is been a war on costly year for stream weather in the united states the massive blizzard in the northeast to begin the year of the mile wide tornadoes that dissin that decimated the midwest the flooding along the mississippi that drowned entire cities for a while for fires the towards the american southwest to hurricane irene which was saw the east coast or been ten different natural disasters this year that each cost more than a billion dollars. so what's in store for us next year and for each year after that as our nation drags its feet on addressing climate change our tremendous job joins

us now she's a climate scientist with the national wildlife federation barbara starr welcome thank you for having me thanks for joining us ten storms a billion dollars and we tried this to global warming clear global climate change or global weirding or whatever it's called that it's really been an extraordinary year for extreme weather with these ten weather and climate disasters but the total damages of nearly fifty billion dollars just in the united states and that doesn't even count the flooding in thailand i knew or portis came out last week from the intergovernmental panel on climate change stating that climate change is affecting these weather and climate extremes and that we can expect them to become worse in the future. so and the i.p.c.c. this is. a panel on the change they just released a new study was in title special report on managing the risk of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptations of the my book. the thing that concerns me is the word adaptations because what i'm hearing from some largely

republican politicians is well yeah maybe even if things are going up you know or the temperatures are going up and i've certainly been hearing this from some of the shills for the well industry humans which we've always had you know environments change we move from continent to continent we adapt. well you know that's the fact of the matter is that we are going to have to do some adaptation we've we've put enough carbon pollution in the atmosphere at this point there are going to be impacts and we're going to need to do some adaptation and the other side if we don't take steps to stop putting carbon pollution in the atmosphere those adaptations are going to bury costly both in terms of money and in terms of people's eyes and well being and much more costly than the efforts to change our energy usage and even taking humans over. picture for a moment if we. richard leakey wrote a book called the fifth extinction or the sixth extinction i guess we don't know

what the five major extinctions were in the whole the sixth extinction it we're losing species or at a rate that has not been seen since the dinosaurs vanished and you know we're using fifty percent of the planets now for the better productivity we were crowding out all the species and forests for example is warming happens in a forest can't move a couple of miles a year it's just it's so how is the nature adapting to this climate change and how might that impact us to the extent that we're interdependent upon nature for everything from our food supply to you know oxygen eighteen our planet well the projections are that if we continue emitting carbon pollution at the rate we're going to twenty to thirty percent of the world's species will be at risk of extinction by twenty fifty and i think that's a really stunning projection right there any it's get backs it gets back to your question about out of me sending out these species are not able to adapt to the

changes at the rate they're happening and likewise human beings you know we've built our societies around the current climate the climate of the past and the climate is changing so quickly we're really not going to be able to it's after all of those if we don't take actions to slow things down so one of the actions we should be very well at the basic thing is we need to stop our deck since the coal oil and gas and and transition to a cleaner energy economy with more as a society renewables like solar and wind and in improving our energy efficiency and that's the basic thing we need to do clean energy i mean i've been i've been watching the t.v. commercials you're talking about natural gas or. you know we're going to need a suite of solutions but i think of a cleaner energy that we really want to look towards is solar and wind things they don't put carbon pollution into the atmosphere and yet here in the united states we're talking about building a pipeline to bring car coal tar snorri from canada down to the. the gulf of mexico where presumably we can refine and export and we're talking about fracking half the

country. probably have a ball there but a good chunk of the east coast anyway it to extract enormous amounts of. natural gas methane which is itself a potent greenhouse gas and when it's burned it produces more c o two is this nuts it is a little nuts and you know we actually did have a victory in terms of the pipeline and that's been delayed at least for another year or so so and i think there are some signs there who are doing the right thing and in fact lisa jackson the e.p.a. administrator announced this two weeks ago that they are going to move forward with regulations for power plants for carbon dioxide from our plant so i mean there are signs of progress but i think we need to be thinking about a much swifter and more aggressive transition is there technology for sequestering carbon coming out of carbon emitting plants yes coal yeah they think that carbon sequestration this you know in the works and i don't think we're quite parents friends that have been operating i thought it was like that's mean people

say solar doesn't work i'm sorry we're here we go solar almost so we're everything else is and everything else has subsidies but you know it's remarkable because doctors say thank you so much for being with st you for having me i appreciate being here climate change seems to move slowly and so your town is flattened by a wide tornado global weirding weather has become a total reality and it's going to get a lot worse fast are some of the numbers from thomas jefferson wrote the declaration of independence global c o two is around two hundred eighty parts per billion we're at that and by the way where it had been for hundreds of thousands millions of years the industrial revolution fueled by coal and oil raise that number to around three hundred parts from the highest level in two point one million years around the time of the presidency of teddy roosevelt we had three hundred fifty parts. per million the upper limit this is the absolute upper limit of of what you know scientists climate scientists tell us it's safe for humanity we

had that in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. and look at look at what's been going on here we are in two thousand and eleven this is from c o two now doubt or and you know we're we're closing in on four hundred parts per million or per billion for millions and this is just this is a sounding really when you consider we're we're pumping thirty billion metric tons of carbon dioxide in the air every year right now at this rate by the end of the century will be eight hundred thirty five parts per million our planet will be functionally uninhabitable at least the way that we're working right now we have to go to near zero worldwide carbon emissions we're going to decade or we're going to see some serious disasters so get involved is a bunch of great groups out there three fifty two hour of c o two net and now dot org amanda's organization and others show up participate and let your elected officials know that you're concerned about this issue.

it's the good the bad and the very very below for. the real a key that honestly i get every good kuala lumpur the capital city of malaysia host of the war crimes tribunals against former president george w. bush and former prison british prime minister tony blair in kuala lumpur war crimes tribunals was assembled by former malaysian for me or my fear of muhammad who has been a very vocal critic of the iraq war in the strictly symbolic four day hearing and tribunals both bush and blair are guilty of crimes against the peace in their verdict the tribunals said the evidence showed that the drums of wars were being eaten long before the invasion. the accused in their own memoirs have admitted to their own intention to invade iraq regardless of international law seven other

bushies including dick cheney and donald rumsfeld will also be tried by the kuala lumpur war crimes tribunal now if only we can get the same action story here in the united states the bap orange river elementary school a sheriff's deputy was called the fort myers florida school last week because the assistant principal had an emergency on her hands she saw two students kiss that's right the assistant principal margaret and hearing glanced out a window and saw a little girl walk over to one kiss it and pulled parent immediately called child welfare officials who rather than telling her she was overreacting called told to call the sheriff when she did police arrived on the scene found no evidence of any kind of sex going on and so the case was a complete waste. and a very very ugly meghan kelly until right last night on fox so-called news two talking heads trying to downplay the now infamous. every spring incident you see days. ritual pepper spray that just burn dries right right i mean it's like

a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially but a lot of actors are looking at that and saying is that the real deal has it been diluted because eventually they should have more of a reality yeah i think that. the cop should have just used to the food products like mustard with cream to disperse the demonstrators and i guess o'reilly wants to see the occupy patriots writhing in pain is there no end to the links fox so-called news will go to to defend police brutality and downplay the ninety nine percent movement. that's very very. crazy alert only in san francisco next month the guinness book of world records will be on hand in the bay city to officiate what could be the world's largest gathering of naked santa clauses to commemorate the tenth anniversary of santa and

then san francisco in which people dress up like saint nick get drunk and commit blatant acts of debauchery around the city hundreds are expected to turn out in their sarah at's and boots and nothing else luckily in san francisco there are no laws against public nudity and guinness will be very strict in officiating the recent record breaking attempt all participants must be wearing a sailor hat perhaps boots gloves and a beard but absolutely nothing else elves and reindeer costumes are not allowed either and most importantly don't confuse the jingle bells with the jingle bells. after the break it's been nearly a half century since j.f.k. was assassinated so why is murder more important now than ever. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through what sort of people have made who can you trust no one who is your view with the global machinery see where are we heading state controlled capitalism

is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. forty years ago today president john f. kennedy was assassinated in dallas texas and even though it's been nearly

a half century there are endless unanswered questions about what exactly happened that day on dealey plaza and beyond that there are still several lessons that can be gleaned from the mood of our nation just before the assassination. and a mood that exists in america today air times columnist frank rich wrote a piece this last week and i exactly that issue describing the historical similarities between the america that killed kennedy and america today rich writes what defines the kennedy legacy today is the particular strain of burial in a tree it would help to bring him down after j.f.k. was killed that hate went into only temporary hiding it has been a growth industry ever since and has been flourishing in the obama years there are plenty of comparisons to be made between the two men but the most telling is the vitriol in engulfed both their presidencies there's no question about it the murder of j.f.k. is still vitally important today to help explain why i welcome when our walter to

show he's a j.f.k. historian and co-author along with myself of the book legacy of secrecy and legacy of secrecy and all of the sacrifices that are welcome welcome back great to be intro thank you. new information about the first well this book who our book legacy of secrecy is going into made into a movie there's some new information about that movie. that's exactly right it was announced just just recently because of the great cost her winning actor robert de niro was going to be one of the stars of film of like a sea of secrecy drawing leonardo di caprio and a character you know is going to be not only starring in legacy of secrecy but also producing a piston this brand new news about robert de niro's very important because robert de niro is going to be playing the godfather of texas and louisiana named carlos marcello who actually admit it as part of this incredible but secret f.b.i. going to cover operation mid eighty's his godfather i mean it may be that he

ordered j.f.k.'s assassination here explain why helping in it all of that was kept secret of course we all deal with government secrecy a lot still today but robert de niro is going to hear great actors going to play this incredible and dangerous godfather carlos marcello and it's going to help to start to get the story out because well now we wrote two books that both total gathered in total eight hundred pages of that's a lot of information a lot of documentation but a movie is a way to get that information out and share it with a lot more people because if you're very right what you are saying start j.f.k.'s assassination is not just ancient history it's highly relevant to today and highly relevant to for america's future as we look ahead to that fiftieth anniversary of j.f.k.'s murder which is only two years away and how is that relevant to them are. well the hard and by the way the movie focuses on carlos marcello with prison and

yet you are informant but an ordinary average guy even a criminal caught his confession but in addition we're going to be here so much more than just the story for the movie he's going to be a two hour documentary or a cat's great producer is going to be producing it and it's going to have more of it ration from our books which really explains how marcello got away with it which was by paul i mean j.f.k.'s assassination and throw you out against it cornett you think al castro illness was just a year after chance nuclear standoff cuban missile crisis so a lot of people high in government from the new president johnson to the head of the cia charlie called and for decades later people like alexander haig was working on some very top secret cuba matters with john and robert kennedy they all believe this and of course alexander he says that i had reason they believed they all die ok astro it ordered j.f.k.'s assassination they didn't realize what we got here and

the trade paperbacks legacy of secrecy and ultimate sacrifice that all of that evidence was only it was all planted by the mafia in the office oh me i'm in the cia and they don't have nothing do with your case murder and that is why u.s. cuban relations have been officially frozen since j.f.k. was murdered so the more we can get the truth out with this with the documentary with with our books we just know there is there is no legitimate reason for the u.s. to still be in a cold war with cuba almost fifty years after j.f.k.'s murder rights and since l.b.j. went to his grave thinking that castro had killed j.f.k. in the in the minute half we have love lamar like to talk about that made industry that to happen and succeeded at a that i that i mentioned in the in the setup. you have eloquently described. this before it's described in the book legacy of secrecy the hate industry that led to

the murder of dr martin luther king the hated history that led to the murder of robert kennedy and of course jack kennedy but in particular that led to the murder of dr kim. tell us about how that was working in georgia where you live. well we see you have got here in a red state and i'd likely live in a blue area like atlanta but what we see the hate it's just almost unbelievable and actually that it's very relevant not just for like the assassination attempt on gabby giffords you know which was horrible but if we're ever going to normalize relations with cuba because down here and i think in red states across the country a lot of purple states and slightly communist scarers of the of the one nine hundred fifty tons o. they were revived of course by reagan in the eighty's and that's still out there so even if president obama or one of the house congress certainly probably the senate were to make efforts to try to normalize those relations the conservative control

of the media in the country would immediately attack them up maybe you know if you saw saudis we may be tossing out terms like socialist and communist and they already do and they use some shoeless of the country i mean us and so i think that really limits what he's ministration can do to normalize those relations in this election year and i do worry about the violence because you're very right it did lead very directly to martin luther king's murder carlos marcello the godfather order j.f.k.'s murder hume is an ardent racist to use than other whites premises the former head of chicago in his closet and so these racist they were exposed for j.f.k.'s murder based survive if you were able to interpret as a marcello in a small way teens murder with other very ardent promises so just that atmosphere of fear and hatred that's mean stirring up that's what republicans been doing since you know nixon perfected these techniques to get elected and by the way super cuba

sanctions from the eisenhower nixon administration which is just ridiculous it is it is really is remarkable and it really is remarkable the maher thank you so much for being with us tonight. thank you so much for the chance of i really appreciated it. the movie legacy of secrecy which is based on the book lamar and i wrote is currently in production at warner brothers and is expected to be hitting theaters in november twenty third teens statement. here's a question if a politician lies well on corporate media that he or she really tell a lie point of mitt romney's new campaign ad the answer is apparently no that's right the perpetual second place candidate the republican race for the white

house mitt romney he's really confident that the voters are going to end their love affair with every other single candidate not named mitt romney in eventually settle on him that's why in his first television campaign ad he's not going after newt gingrich or herman cain he's going after president obama and just as you might expect from republicans who couldn't get elected dog catcher if their ads told the truth about their agenda to carry water for multinational corporations and wall street romney's kicking things off with a big fat lie take a look at this excerpt from romney romney's new ad seems to show the president admitting the talking about the economy hurts his own chances to win an election. i.

thought cups. and truth is probably the president obama did say that. but they were his words here's the entire context what he actually said back in two thousand and eight when he was running against john mccain. even as you're worried about keeping your job or paying your bills or staying in your own. my opponent's campaign announced last week that they plan to turn the page on the discussion about the economy so they can spend the final weeks of this election attacking me. senator mccain's campaign actually said and i quote if we keep talking about the economy we're going to lose. mitt romney and his campaign apparently didn't think the truth was worth bothering with in his new campaign ad so instead

they just lie and he did it intentionally as a romney advisor told politico today when they were called out on we used that quote intentional so the folks over at the center for american progress he's romney's own standard for truth telling to cut the said. we should just raise everybody's taxes there's nothing unique about the united states government knows better than a free people how to guide an economy fiscal responsibility is how clueless and immoral lettuce is raise your taxes some more we just need a little more america's just another nation with a flag romney really did say all those things seems fair and jokes aside though this is where our politics are heading and this is the first ad of the general election season and it's only going to get worse and worse and worse that's because politicians know. that they can basically get away

with anything that is wrong as they don't tweet out of a lewd photo of themselves when it comes to lie that's fair game because the corporate media isn't doing its job anymore they aren't calling the liars liars in washington and calling crooks crooks on wall street. and they aren't calling hacks tax when they look in the mirror and that's why the news media isn't going nuts today pointing out that a man who could be the president of the united states in this first ad comes off as a bald faced liar it's all about access now keeping access to the news makers and if one of the multimillionaire talking heads on t.v. calls romney a liar then guess what romney may not do an interview with that network in the future it's also all about the money strictly hypothetically let's assume there's a billionaire media mogul who owns a cable news network and he wants his taxes to go down so you think he has any interest in calling out is a liar

a politician promises to lower his taxes i don't think so and did go to the for the multimillionaire executives and boards of directors of all the for profit networks as long as the corporations running the networks like your politics and as long as they depend on access to to you to keep viewership up and ad revenue coming in then you could waltz on any time you want spew as many lies as you want and no news person will ever point it out at most a network may allow on a third party strategist from the side of the law but it's not that authoritative and we can expect these campaigns to police themselves and not lie any more than we can expect big multinational corporations to give a damn about keeping jobs in america the main way we the people can know the truth is through the gatekeepers known as the media and without them so much for having an informed electorate one of the most important parts of a healthy democracy it's time to bring back news in the public interest and time to

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