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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 a little bone to pick with the g.o.p. state legislature restorers we should know that the g.o.p. in new hampshire they've 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 smaller crazy potatoes compared to what the state senate just passed yet because they just gave excuse me the state house they just gave their seal to the approval of the house built by four to which would require school districts to adopt a policy allowing an exception is a specific specific course material based on a parent 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 now 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 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 that hinges off the notion that dinosaurs were here two hundred years ago but what if it doesn't stop there nadal 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 the. scientific research that's going to be no biggy or how about you don't think that your child needs to know addition or multiplication will that neither does the state legislature just make up your own way to add and subtract because you know

who needs 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 of newt 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 end 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 of 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 said it 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 tool time winners. now over the last year we've reported on a number of troubling and just downright depressing stories of 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 consolidate after he was shot and killed by brown's oh police in the hallway of cummings middle school police were called after people at the school noticed they 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 street was 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 them 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 didn't 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 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 boys 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. but i mean. this is it was a. revenue. 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 while i'm to shooting to disarm rather than kill to go sheeting debating before taking action like i said looks like the trend of police using excessive force has now unfortunately become the norm. but 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 a spanish film academy even quit their position in protest so what's going to 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 solomon 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 i guess if you can start by telling us you know how much is this law in spain. it's a fairly similar law in that it targets what they call roads 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 out to 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 a reputation or at least the president 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 say they're lenient they haven't forced the law properly and you know i think the thing we hear constantly from the coverage of the police is that they're just trying to enforce the law what they're interested in is shutting down rob riggers 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 sides 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. 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 know anything more about this letter from the ambassador 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 is going through and putting pressure on various governments in all sorts of different ways all around the world to try to 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 whether 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 us 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 other governments what to do. you know this is what's really frustrated 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 or in 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 it will recall it 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 dead but i thought they were doing great. chris dodd gave a speech in. the couple weeks ago in washington d.c.

where it said that the film industries of spain and sweden have 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 fine and so again you know this is the make of these apocalyptic scenarios that you know artists will be destroyed unless these laws passed as you saying the head of the spanish film industry resigned in protest of these laws these aren't about protecting artists the copyright monopolies are the biggest threat to artists they're the real pirates they're constantly stealing loyalties from the people who actually make the movies music that we love but these laws are a threat to these big companies and their stranglehold on the artists their control of the distribution market that allows them the power to steal these 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 say protect ip act here domestically you know coming from all the tech giants coming from a lot of legal scholars. 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 then it up even reversing at their support for are you shocked or surprised very proud of the influence of the online community. i have to be proud of it it's an amazing example of house powerful self organizing is you know the rhetoric community isn't doing this sort of thing because a couple of people you know like 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 sites 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 the go daddy boycott they got everyone on reddit to take part they started pressuring other come. anees who used to leave together and had an 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 foley doc peddled they were one of the prime supporters of the bill in the internet community and now they've totally denounced it. well and i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and looks like spain unfortunately gave in hopefully we won't see the same thing happen with self or protect ip here at home so keep fighting. all right still to come tonight my fireside friday and that unhappy out ahead health affect their grades in school and somebody has stolen musical instruments from my old high school to really get into all that after the break. into i don't really know what the mechanism to do the work of bringing justice for accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama

as they care is now a version of american exceptionalism. you know i sometimes see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tough hard welcome to the big picture. before. the.

bottom of the capitol and i'm laura mr. either the we the the roughing. what a protester nobody seems to know. that never a pepper sprayed the face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic. to tonight's fireside fridays with your host. 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 there 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 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 susan schulz 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 industry is 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. put it they don't lobby because it's fun they see quite the opposite they lobby they spend because it yields results so in this study and 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

well turns out 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 a 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 that 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 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. left there i was giving it a little more is a little more political and not just but but i think is. 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 to your question is much more fundamental than whether they attend houston schools it seems to me i want to see if they're living here i don't want to see a whole thing 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 we don't get all the. immigration but i like what obama did today you know the one is the reason they changed 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 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 but you wait to apply for all this stuff so now these people get to apply for

a waiver so they can say in the u.s. 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 from here for nine months to the truth i'm all about to stay here that they get the same they don't have to say oh oh to hold on it's not maybe it's not a watch a just a policy change even though 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 the rights and that's that's all i wanted as long as we can still explain. in our pick fruit for twelve hours a day yes there's a narrative this is great yes there are never cool with that let's talk about one of the things we do in america in america and this is what happens when we try to counter with kids often. they can. i can tell you

start. going through this to go into a grocery store she looks at the gloom she's a smart little girl she can do whatever she wants. she can do it. right she's the going and want to. were the remains of our people we desired to you we just had to do it you are very very very. right about our kid is that he packs a suitcase and he says i believe. ok sorry sorry but go away the whole point we bring up that is that france. appeared to connor's nutritionist behind a very popular controversial die is now suggesting that kids be graded on their weight. somehow on their own they're now i'm worthy 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 supporting 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 or 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 but you get good grades and better place. but you just do better in school if you lose you get extra points through you don't actually believe yeah yeah you know yeah you know actually do better than to go to the worst kind of 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 broad of a good looking guy like oh my god i want to do it what are you going to do the only

job she ever gets is like the senator secretary of state whatever that secretary of state had to combat what a prize this is going to fly in america. to dump you to be president. i would have said you took the dumb people are they on what i do i do the gears really other good stuff well there you go with it i'm sorry sorry so check this out which i think it's hilarious as one a little scary about jon huntsman if he were to come president. it was. interesting. all right now we have to note mentioned there that this is a you tube video made by somebody called an age liberty for paul but 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 already grammys that really are in a way not honest here we are with jon huntsman the chinese land jury let's listen discuss this 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 somebody every day you know i mean i don't believe what is the same there is public especially as i intellectual and elitists right which are the key is the sure however minor won the right president to be bilingual all right let's move on to his bilingual didn't work the china wants to own all our debt they need to speak english thank you all right if you believe her to the story about the two by the other door and i saw on her like i guess that. 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 burglars in recent weeks the latest theft taking

place and had beach they could be sold on the black market and used by other bands like mexican local bands for bondo music apparently there's 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 is that many feels too bad and they blame it on the back they can back they can i don't i say larry i actually had 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 and i was an asterisk on ok ok i can show you my receipt just right now what about the shows on facebook when 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 the school's staff using the extent i think the school needs to conduct an investigation. but is a note where the story and i am really not going to you're going to get out of it

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