bring it to the conservatives within the granite state see all eyes have been on new hampshire since it's now their turn to take part in the primaries but rather than hang on who's going to take the presidential nomination we have little bone to pick with the g.o.p. state legislature for starters we should note that the g.o.p. in new hampshire got some pretty radical ideas a few of them just proposed legislation that would require any future bill to find its origin not within the u.s. constitution but rather with the magna carta something that you would think would be unconstitutional but anyway that is small a crazy potatoes compared to what the state senate just passed get this they just gave excuse me the state house they just gave their seal to the approval of the house bill five four two which would require school districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception does the specific specific course material based on a parent's or legal guardians determination that this material is objectionable so in other words if a parent isn't cool with the subject being taught in school then they can legally pull their child out of that class and the school is responsible for making an

alternative curriculum to teach that student instead if anybody out there is saying to themselves that is absolutely nuts i'm right there with you but the worst part is the house has already approved this bill and we have to his government is totally ok with parents picking and choosing their child's courses and then putting them together like a lego set and then placing the onus on the school to bend to their every whim to just think the parent doesn't like the idea of their kid studying evolution they can just have the kid learn creationism and only creationism instead teachers all of us have to create a curriculum the hinges off the notion that dinosaurs were here two hundred years ago but what if it doesn't stop there down the periodic table hey no worries kids don't need to know chemistry the school will just come up with their own alternative i'm sure that when they're in med school doing some kind of scientific research that's going to be no big or how about you don't think that your child needs to know dition or multiplication well that neither does the state legislature just make up your own way to add and subtract because you know who need. math or

maybe your anti cursive will the ads all good teachers can just come up with a whole new set of characters for your kid and they will definitely serve them well in the future or maybe you don't want your kids to be learning about sex and as he does in health well then in that case just tell them sex doesn't exist and babies fall out of the sky or maybe you think that american history is for the birds well forget about those textbooks just give your kids have a new gingrich's alternative history books which by the way case you haven't read those new tells you what really happens during the civil war so i think you guys at home get my point you can't just make up alternatives to a curriculum in all cases just because somebody isn't ok with it now only will actually harm a child's education but as the state's democratic party says it will and education in new hampshire as we know it's allowing children to be removed from any lessons their parents choose and luckily for the children the granite state governor john lynch who is a democrat is expected to beat of this legislation keeping it from becoming law but the fact the g.o.p. members of the state senate were actually proposing the law is absolutely crazy not

to mention stupid makes me wonder about their own education so for attempting to create a huge financial burden for schools a huge burden for teachers and to put education into jeopardy new hampshire's g.o.p. lawmakers are tonight's time winners. now over the last year we've reported on a number of troubling and just downright depressing stories the use of excessive force by local law enforcement and sadly it looks like that trend is going to continue in two thousand and twelve right now a middle school in texas is mourning the death of fifteen year old jamie consolidates after he was shot and killed by brown so police in the hallway of cummings middle school police were called after people at the school noticed that can solve was carrying some sort of a weapon on him and they said looked like a gun so as you can see here it does look like a gun only turns out that it wasn't but when the student is confronted by police that's where the cops took matters into their own hands. both ortiz put the school in lockdown and tried to get the eighth grader to drop the weapon and.

instead officers say the teen pointed at them forcing them to make a split second decision. that split second decision by police left in solace with three bullet wounds the last one in the back of the head and it wasn't until after the student was dead the police determine that the weapon was a pellet gun and fire any type of bullets and that pellet gun wasn't capable of doing any true physical harm to anybody at the brown so police department stand firmly by their decision to shoot to kill. and we commend the actions taken by all those involved fortunately nobody else was hurt in this incident and that's what we're grateful for. the police never offered up an apology for shooting a teenage boy in the head instead they commend their officers really to commend officers on a boy was shot in the head for having a non threatening weapon what alternate universe these officers exist it a fifteen year old boy is dead and they pat each other on the back as family

obviously very strongly disagrees with the move and they believe the cops should have used a shot the taken down not a series of bullet wounds that would ultimately lead to his death. i mean i understood. that i mean sure in them three times and that's and this is it was a much. i don't have a new. and there's no doubt this is a tragedy what's even more troubling is the growing number of incidents where police feel the need to unload their weapons and anybody who's in question why have to shooting to disarm rather than kill negotiating debating before taking action it's like i said looks like the trend of police using excessive force has now unfortunately become the norm. well just this week the spanish government passed legislation known as the law something many are comparing to sopa stop online private piracy act working its way through the house of representatives that we've spoken about so often here on this show public opinion and spain is heavily opposed

to this bill and in the fight to stop it the head of the spanish film academy even quit their position in protest so last spring two such a thing well turns out that the u.s. government has been heavily pressuring them to do it so much so that a letter has been leaked showing that just last month u.s. ambassador alan solomonic wrote a letter to the outgoing spanish government threatening that failure to pass the law would leave their credibility in question so is our government doing the bidding of the entertainment industry and in turn bullying the world joining me is aaron schwartz executive director of dramatic progress and thanks for joining us tonight and i guess if you can start by telling us you know how much like is this law and spain. it's a fairly similar law in that it targets what they call roadsides but it has all of the same clauses so it doesn't have a full judicial review so it can be shut down without a trial and it goes after a lot of things that would be considered free speech and would be totally legal under spanish law it shuts them down too and i mean if we think about the spanish

courts and their reputation or at least the precedent of they said to this point they've usually been pretty lenient pretty understanding in these types of cases right. yeah you know i wouldn't be lenient they've been forced a lot properly and you know one thing we hear constantly from the cover of the local news is that they're just trying to enforce the. what they're interested in is shutting down rob rakers well we had a perfect test of this in spain one of these sites they're upset about it went to court there was a trial there was a procedure and the judge ruled that the site was perfectly legal under spanish law so what do they do they get the law changed their problem is not that the sites are breaking the law it's that they don't like the laws as they are they want to do whatever it takes to shut down anyone who competes with them well but turns out that it's our government that's the one that's putting a lot of pressure on the state department specifically do you think more about this letter from the ambassador and he says that spain's credibility might be threatened

and this was when the out when the government excuse me the former government was just leaving but were there any real threats. i mean it's part of a whole series of wiki leaks cables that have come out where we see the u.s. government basically acting as an agent of the copyright monopoly that's going through and putting pressure on various governments in all sorts of different ways all around the world to try and get them to pass the laws that hollywood wants using the same thing in new zealand where you know there have been threats of withholding money and of providing assistance and basically you know what in the u.s. government paid to set up copyright offices in these countries it's just totally ridiculous that the u.s. would use its power and influence to help one tiny sector of the american you know it's of american corporations what also seems a little hypocritical last time that you were on the show you and i were just discussing hillary clinton's speech that she was giving about internet freedom around the world and yet here we are telling having governments want to do. this is what's really frustrating is on the one hand there are some great people in the

state department who've talked about the values of internet freedom and try and encourage it around the world and other there and you have another department of the state department which has been going around trying to shut down internet freedom and bring censorship to countries around the world i think you know hillary clinton needs to get her act together and make sure that she fights for the values she despises instead of just letting the people who work for her. go and try and stop them now one of the things we've done a lot of that in discussing so is that a lot of the information the studies the statistics that our lawmakers have been using to try and push for it often turn out to be misleading or sometimes even untrue or just completely outdated and so do you think we've seen the same thing here happening with spain and i know that mike masnick pointed out that our politicians have always said that the spanish film industry is completely debt but i thought they were doing great. chris dodd give a speech in. the couple weeks ago in washington d.c. where it said that the film industries of spain and sweden has been totally wiped

out which you know prompted a request from the swedish and spanish film industries for him to apologize i mean anyone who knows the girl with the dragon tattoo knows that swedish film industry is doing just for them so again you know these are the make of these apocalyptic scenarios that you know artists will be destroyed unless these laws as you say the head of the spanish film industry resigned in protest of these laws these are about protecting artists the copyright monopolies are the biggest threat to artists they're the real pirates they're constantly stealing loyalties are with people who actually make the movies music that we love but these laws are threat to these big companies and they're stranglehold on the artists their control of the distribution work at that allows them the power to steal the royalties that's what's in threaten here and that's why they're so desperate to stop the internet now we've seen a lot of growing opposition at least to protect ip act here domestically you know coming from all of the tech giants coming from a lot of legal scholars and you know the same time i'm just curious what you think

about the reddit community and what they've done because they've had a lot of pressure on people they said at first that they were they said that they were going to target specific politicians and they went after go daddy the ended up even reversing in their support for sopa so are you shocked or surprised or proud of the influence of the on line community. i have this arm pretty proud of it it's an amazing example of house powerful self organizing is you know the reddit community isn't doing this sort of thing because a couple of people you know like even me or the other people who co-founded credit told them to do it you know they are excited about this issue because it means so much to them so it's like reddit would not exist it goes like so the past and they've come up with all of these brilliant tactics to make a difference they came up with they would go daddy boycott they got everyone on reddit to take part they started pressuring other companies who use go daddy to leave together and have them enormous effect if you look at a graph of domain transfers over time there's this big spike when read it starts

talking about go down the support of sopa and as you know go daddy fully back pedalled they were one of the prime supporters of the bill and the internet community and now they've totally denounced it. well and i thank you so much for joining us tonight and looks like spain unfortunately gave in but hopefully we won't see the same thing happen with self or protect ip here at home. i thought of. friday and happy hour if you tell the fact they're great in school and somebody has stolen musical instruments from my old high school so we get into all of that after the break. you. are this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that

out of many we all want that war we breathe the we hope. to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government a free. to. you. you have very motivated people i'll cross the country who are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves but the fact is. we're brick and. i. think. we are counting in proper counting and i think it's spreading. it's cutting off our. it's making the marker see.

pos. i had a family i lived in the failing nice community wasn't rich was an upscale it was just like you know our society ok then they started showing up what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of. these are. the rules of the legally legally we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the law so i figure here's one of the major trails into the united states. i watch and they run run down my property and something about this noise. is a legal. orders from a legal wire is protecting the country and the kind of guy who doesn't mindedness

pants dirty so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well that we all carry some subtle routes. to tonight's fireside fridays with your host of cops. there are a lot of ways to look at money in our political system and see where the two are intertwined connected attached at the hip so openly that it no longer becomes a question of where corruption exists but more like where doesn't it where don't moneyed interests get their way above what the needs of average americans or the country as a whole might be now these days the signs are everywhere and thankfully people are finally waking up to it they're waking up to the massive inequality that exists in our system the wealth gap that continues to grow in a country that used to pride itself on its massive middle class and the american dream they're waking up to the poor decisions made by justices on the supreme court

that allowed corporate money to flow freely into our elections money which drowns out the voices of those who vote and elect on their own behalf to have their interests represented either waking up to the revolving door the elites immunity that's afforded to those at the top too close to power to ever bear any responsibility or pay a price for their actions the thing is this awakening it's only beginning and it needs to keep moving and it needs to happen faster so in order to keep that momentum going we need to keep looking at facts that studies that members of statistics that all add up and show that there is no argument against the truth that the system is bought today love you present you with a new study that comes from the university of kansas xander and schultz now we always talk about lobbying the insane amount of money that corporations trade groups unions all interests pour in to try to get congress to do their bidding as the lobbying industries continue to grow over the last decade you can be sure to realize that it's not all in fact if you get people to lobby because they like

doing it or as n.p.r. but it they don't lobby because it's fun and you see quite the opposite they lobby they spend because it yields results so in this study children alexander decided to find one bill passed by congress where they could track the return on lobbying investment and so they decided to use the american jobs creation act a bill that gave multinational corporations a one time. seemingly a large tax break and here's what they found by comparing how much the company spent on lobbying for that specific law how much those companies saved in taxes what turns out of the return on lobbying for those corporations was twenty two thousand percent let me just repeat that for you twenty two thousand percent so that means that for every dollar they spent on lobbying the companies got two hundred and twenty dollars in tax benefits now i guess it shouldn't be all that shocking to us at this point right we've always known that corruption existed but if you look at these figures for one dollar you get hundred two hundred twenty you

save two hundred twenty i mean that corruption has become cheap corporations can just by their own tax rate and of course that is a mean that every single lobbying effort will bring returns like that this is just one example but i'd say that it's a pretty overwhelming one and it deserves to be noted so there you have it ladies and gentlemen once again we get to see how easy it is to get washington to do your bidding if you have the cash how easily our politicians are bought and i'm not going to say anything more here i think it's pretty clear but let's just keep it simple the more studies the more figures the more numbers that we have that show how sad and sick our political system is the more we need to show them the more we need to discuss that because the more that people know the less they'll be able to sit back and stay complacent the more they'll want change i'll be willing to fight for it.

i've got time for a happy hour and joining me this evening is r.t. web writer andrew blake and mike riggs associate editor at reason augustine and reason dot com thanks for joining guys you know i like it when it's just me and the boys. let's start out with something that's a little more is a little more political and not just bide but i think it's. now we play this clip before on the show and it just reminds you that at one point republican candidates could even talk about immigration as if it is a human issue take a look. at the answer your question is much more fundamental than whether they attend houston stores it seems to me i don't want to see if they're living here i don't want to see a whole think in six an eight year old kids being made you know run totally educated and made to feel that they're living with outside the law. so unfortunately these days they don't get all that. immigration but i like what obama

did today you know what is the reason they change the rules for immigrants that are applying for legal status so now instead of making you leave the country breaking up families while you wait for your documents you get to stay yeah the great irony of this is that system is called the touchback system where so you live here with your husband who's a citizen your children are citizens but you are undocumented so you have to touch back in the country you're from sometimes for as long as like five years while you wait to apply for all this stuff so now these people get to apply for a waiver so they can send us while they're still in the us i think it's great it's the first good thing he's done on immigration and i'm glad he didn't wait until nine months until his reelection away the problem here for nine months. i'm all about that they stay here that they get to say they don't have to say oh it's not maybe it's not a watch a just a policy change or even even before there's a waiver a special waiver i mean if you're if you come to the country and you don't have papers and you get caught you you have to leave and you can't come back for ten

years so these people if they have family here that need them they can they can apply can we still exploit them that's going to have you know where you have it so that's that's all i wanted as long as we can still explain that it was an hour and pick fruit for twelve hours a day yes there's a narrative this is great yes you are never cool with that let's talk about what are the things we do in america in america and this is what happens when we try to counter obesity with kids off. break. i can tell you sounds. good for me this is bring you into the grocery store thanks add the glue she's a smart little girl she can do whatever she wants. best she can do it. here i choose to going and want to see. where the remains are people we decide to you we just had to do it you're very very very. right about our kid because then he

packs a suitcase and he says i believe he was ok sorry sorry but go away the whole point we bring up that is that france. appeared to con his nutritionist behind a very popular controversial di is now suggesting that kids be graded on their weight back on their own they're now unworthy of love they are because they're so grotesque in large yes i was a great idea please tell me more about it was yes i know i'm a support is i'm just saying the plan calls for high school students to be allowed to call to take a so-called ideal weight option in their final year exams the baccalaureate under which they would earn extra points if they kept a body mass index of between eighteen and twenty five year the problem with this is that b.m.i. is not legit because we did a whole test one time on our show and we had our coworker tim who is like a bodybuilder and his b.m.i. was just through the roof compared to another coworker of ours and if you looked at them side by side you know the one was clearly brighter and uglier and you get good

grades and better place he does that say. oh yes there is a great job. but if you just do better in school if you lose you get extra points sure you don't actually believe yeah yeah you know yeah you know i actually do better to go to those who are going to leaders and this is like it's you know it's no coincidence that the richest people are often like really attractive like can we not perpetuate that can we get some ugly people on top ok good looking guy bush not too ugly. brought about a good looking guy like oh my god i want to do you good what are you going to do the only job she ever gets is like this senator secretary of state whatever that secretary of state as a consolation prize this is going to fly out of there because you were there too dumpy to be president. i would have said ugly but you took a dump you are well right to the good other good stuff we're living real with it sorry sorry so check this out which i think is hilarious as one a little scary about jon huntsman if he were president.

right now we have to mention there that this is a you tube video made by somebody called an age liberty for paul. so it's not actually a big ad it's out there but it's come on can we just draw it like there's a very clear line in the sand ron paul's campaign did not make this you know i'm not saying the ron paul campaign ok graham he said really are in a way you don't really want to hear how we join the chinese land jury let's let him go why is he here he came out of nowhere and he speaks chinese am i don't really want to know a good guy we need whatever you know you are doing my job what was the same thing every day for all those years or so here is my intellectual elitists right which of the can is the sure how very far along the right president to be bilingual all

right let's move on to what was bilingual didn't work with china wants to own all our debt they need to speak english thank you all right if you believe half of the story about the tuba yahoo and i have no more like i know that's absolutely twenty thousand dollars into his were stolen but the best is this really really weak reasoning and they're using to explain why they think it happened. musical instruments and some local schools have been the targets of. at recent weeks the latest test taking place and they had they could be sold on the black market and used by other bands like mexican polka bands or bondo music parents there is some claim that there's an increase in spanish music culture i don't know if that's the case or not that's certainly a good theory that's like those messed up thing i've ever heard that somebody steals to but they blame it on the back they can back they can i go get my theory i actually heard a really good alternative theory which is that you went home for the holidays so

can you explain that can you tell us where you were listening to this recently ok ok. i didn't know about the shows on facebook do you have is that what. the big blow to the music community i hope the top brass within the l.a.p.d. look into this i wonder if they suspect anyone on this school's staff. i think the school needs to conduct an investigation. but it's a note where the story not every day every girl you know what you're going to get rid of it up to be real good that's it for tonight so they are tuning in making the comeback monday the baker is going to be on in the meantime you know everywhere that you can follow us on line on facebook on twitter and on you tube and coming up next in the news. if the shooting something inappropriate for

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around the clock news and comment you're watching r.t. . since the last american troops left iraq the country's manage its own affairs but the consequences are proving fatal for some a decade of conflict was meant to herald a move to democracy but journalists there saying brutality against them is rife. discovered this spring iraqis inspired by neighboring arab countries began protesting against their government in a square in baghdad one which shares its name with the better known counterpart in cairo turkey. but iraqi journalists trying to cover these protests silenced by the government security forces in today's are journalists who speak out routinely imprisoned beaten or just simply killed seems to be a high level of into.