welcome to the capital in calgary i'm laura mr. einhorn there's the reason we're rocking in her own way what do you want us to overdo seems to know. that never appropriate the face quite hard the argument that they're being overly dramatic.

hi guys has time for you said it i read it right take time to respond to my brilliance and engaging viewer comments from facebook twitter and you too because you've got some to say listen now first i want to respond to a viewer the watch my interview with glenn greenwald on among other things the president signing the national defense authorization act on new year's eve s.t.'s six one six seven eight commented on you tube thought experiment what if w. would have passed and how would journalists have behaved they c.l.u. exactly well i think of this thought experiment of yours would come out with two very different results because the a.c.l.u. has in fact been rightly so very hard on obama for his civil liberties record and very much so for his support of the. mainstream journalists on the other hand have not there's been a very little coverage of the bill in general and of course president obama signing statement which promised that he wouldn't attain indefinitely american citizens and that was taken at face value who cares that he's broken promise after promise since he took office get mo gallon still open state secrets is plenty of times and while

a lockie an american citizen dead without due process the list goes on but they still chose to give the benefit of the doubt to obama time and time again and you better believe they would not have done the same thing with bush and exxon respond to view or the watch our interview with julian sanchez on whether or not so what would even stop piracy skies fall and commented on you tube of course it will stop piracy making drugs legal stop drug use in the us right. because the government says something is bad then puts a lot of money into fighting it that it just miraculously goes away oh wait no after four decades of the so-called war on drugs millions of people are incarcerated billions have been spent and drug use has not gone down in fact public opinion has turned more towards legalizing marijuana than ever before so let me just give a little tip to the government your war on drugs has failed the only thing we did successfully was take away american civil liberties you can't stop people from taking drugs with a war and you won't be able to stop piracy with a war either especially when the law you're trying to use is completely misguided

and finally i want to respond to a viewer and a fellow u.c. santa cruz eric denard said on facebook i'm a religiously regular viewer and a huge fan and also fed a fellow banana slug merrill college ninety five you are a my must see t.v. keep up the great work so thank you so much eric for watching it means so much more coming from bananas but personally i'm stevenson for life that's my ranting tonight but i'll be back with more as usual later in the week. last friday the u.s. supreme court decided to hear yet another case involving your fourth amendment rights let me deciding for the first time whether or not the reaction of this little guy is enough for a judge to issue a warrant let me explain a bit what that means let's say for example of the police are walking down the street and a drug sniffing dog reacts to the smell of drugs from the sidewalk outside of a house the supreme court is going to decide whether or not that response alone is enough for a warrant that's

a little bit nuanced because it hasn't been decided exactly where drug dogs reaction is enough for search and where it isn't as i'm sure most people have traveled through a u.s. airport or busy train terminal know drug dogs are constantly milling around sniffing your stuff and reaction from them almost definitely get yourself searched and the courts have backed up that notion time and time again they've allowed search warrants based off drug reactions in what they deem public spaces like airports for traffic stops but it's an entirely different legal legal ballgame when you're dealing with someone's private residence which is exactly why the supreme court will be weighing in to decide once and for all now as wired points out it also ties right in with a g.p.s. tracking case the supreme court heard in november because that deals with what law enforcement can get away with from the sidewalk outside of your private residence remember the obama administration once again coming out on the opposite side of your civil liberties claims that there is no higher privacy in one's private movements directly outside a private dwelling as in your driveway now the cases of green court agreed to hear

comes out of miami dade county florida police searched the home of joe as sure dean is and sees one hundred seventy nine marijuana plants based off of the reaction of a drug dog sniffing outside the house and will challenge a previous supreme court ruling which said that thermal imaging devices used outside of a house to detect weed growing violated the fourth amendment and quote the right of a man to retreat into his own home and they're be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion the notion seems almost quaint now doesn't it well certainly does the miami. police who stated sounding positively obama as the dog sniffing the air outside the house doesn't trample on anyone's privacy the florida supreme court disagreed throwing out the evidence and saying if a case invites overbearing and harassing conduct which you can understand police can simply direct dog's attention to certain residences without any prior wrongdoing and it's also well the data that dogs do reflects police bias so that said it's an important case because it could lead to yet another trampling on what

little remains of the fourth amendment so let's just hope they rule with the florida supreme court rather than with the miami police. well here's an interesting development the associated press and twenty eight other and news organizations including the new york times and the washington post are all getting together to launch a new company called news right now the idea here is to track the use of their original reporting online and eventually to try to make blogs and other news gathering services try to pay for it according to the washington post news writing codes original stories with hidden data that includes the writer's name and when it was published those encoded stories send back reports to the registry and describe where a story is being used and who's reading it and the technology can even locate stories that have been cut and pasted in whole or in part so they say that this is just to make sure that those who republished their content do so with integrity but does that mean for blogs and for aggregators and how does it apply that little thing that we like to call fair use join me to discuss that is david sirota radio talk host and author of back to our future how the one nine hundred eighty s.

explain the world we live in now david thanks so much for joining us tonight before we get into this particular company here i'm just curious i mean do you think if there are certain gripes to have with blogs with aggregators that you know redirect traffic to their site instead of the original site that might just paraphrase a story and then people never read the entire thing. i think there are definite issues about where the revenue for real journalism comes from and i think that there are many different nuances to this there are certainly sites out there that take reporting that took resources to report and essentially as you say paraphrase what's been reported and there's no revenues back into the journalistic endeavors where that story was originally reported it simply forwarded along that typically it's forwarded along with a link to the source material but i think the journalistic organizations that are putting in that investment have a legitimate concern that if we want more journalism of the same kind that simply

allowing that journalism to be forwarded by an aggregator without any resources being put back into the journalistic endeavor we're not going to have that journalism therefore in the future and i think that's a legitimate concern on the other hand i think the concerns about fair use are also that it there needs to be a way for content that's out there in the world on the internet to be criticized to be evaluated to be challenged in a way that doesn't encourage financial penalties and let's say that this that this does work out the way they want to right that they do start monitoring and they do start putting pressure on other companies out there in blogs and aggregators to pay up do you think that that that called bullying doesn't go as far as censorship. i don't know if it goes as far as censorship but i'm not so sure that's the initial goal here i mean i take the news organizations in this sense initially at their

word that they're looking for ways to make sure there's revenue coming back into those journalistic endeavors and not because they're you know nice people it's because their business they're trying to make revenues like other businesses what i worry about is that it ends up being used as a financial weapon against those voices out there who are citing that information in order to challenge it scrutinize it and question it that you can imagine a situation where let's say of bloggers out there are an independent journalist is out there citing exerting pieces of a widely cited let's say new york times story or or other news publications story and debunking showing where it's wrong and that a news organization doesn't like that then that news organization calls an independent journalist to pay us for the privilege of exerting our story now if that is allowed to stand you potentially create a situation where the democratic small the freedom of questioning and

challenging what's in the public square incurs an undue financial penalty and let's face it if there is anybody out there that there is there has to be a challenge to a lot of the time on their reporting i would say that it's some of the organizations that are taking part here like the new york times or our like the washington post and you know david day and i have a firedoglake had kind of an interesting idea too because he said if they're going to go ahead with this news right program or a company that they thousand thing out there called blogs right and see how many times you know information or stories or a certain angle is just ripped off of a blog and then written by one of these more established i guess you could say newspapers and absolutely no credit is given to them what do you think of that idea well i think it's an important point. the notion that the only people doing journalism in this country are quote unquote major media organizations is a joke it's a fetish i mean we saw the recent publication of michael hastings book from michael

hastings the rolling stone reporter the rolling stone reporter who broke that story about general stanley mcchrystal now rolling stone is certainly a bigger news organization but it's it's not what you consider and major type of political news they broke that story and they were largely denigrated by the traditional mainstream media organizations that are potentially going to be part of this effort to financially penalize those who criticize those mainstream media organizations so i guess the point here that that day was making over firedoglake and i think it's worth repeating the notion that the only institutions doing real journalism in this society are the old traditional legacy organizations is rob it's not acceptable it's not true and continuing to forward that idea i think only highlights the shortcomings of those traditional news organizations because it's so patently untrue it's a now they've set up the company news right is going ahead is there any way to stop

a they think there's going to be a big fight over this or will they make people pay up. i think what's going to happen is if they operate with too heavy a hand you're going to see a backlash and there's a situation here in colorado where there was an effort to use a law firm called right haven to try to crack down in this kind of similar fashion and what it happening was that company got so aggressive that it became a p.r. nightmare for the major media organizations behind it they were trying to crack down on so-called copyright violations in a similar exerting situation i think it news right moves forward with a very very heavy hand and they say they go after a journalist a blogger who's simply substantively criticizing a piece of material from one of these journals mortgages ations and they come down with a heavy hand it's going to be a p.r. nightmare for. my life i think it'll be interesting to see this battle play out if it does indeed become a battle david thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you. still ahead tonight

the t.s.a. tries to show off its accomplishments but we're not impressed any details with at school time and happy hour a popular place gets in trouble for a racist receipt and chris christie shows off his jersey roots while he's campaigning for mitt romney. into that only military mechanism to do the work to bring justice or accountability . i have every right to know what my government is doing you want to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama as a terrorist version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you. hear or see

some other part of it and realize that everything is. you don't know i'm tough hard welcome to the big picture. before. you. go to the capital account because i'm lauren lyster. theory that the reason the the roughing.

but what a protester nobody seems to know. the number of pepper sprayed the face but part of the argument that they're being overly dramatic. guys it's time for it's a nice tool time award and i were giving it to the folks who claim that they're making america safer the transportation security administration created under the department of homeland security was put in place after the september eleventh attacks and their job is to protect transportation outlets especially airports by now i think we're probably aware of how much outrage this branch of the government has produced from the average traveler between those invasive x. ray scanners the pat downs the border i'm

a list ation and the overall lack of respect for passengers privacy a lot of people aren't so fond of the t.s.a. but we're about to show you is only going to add fuel to that rage i'm afraid you see in the t.s.a. this blog on their government web site they decided to share what they call their top ten good catches meeting with big top people trying to carry on to a plate after all with so much public outrage directed towards them they need to try and prove their worth but just wait until you see this list and then all of the side of this is actually helping the reputation that all see their top ten includes finding wild animals like birds and snakes or wrapped in a panty hose trying to be snuck on to planes in miami and l.a. number nine comes from a college student who tried to travel with his science project which just haven't look like in revised vaunt at the number eight position and nonmetal weapon called a tactical spike was found in the sock of a passenger at a pensacola airport number seven in our landlines from a passenger in a salt lake city airport number six is a stun gun as disguised to look like

a cute little pink smartphone thanks to a female passenger l.a.x. and there is a flare gun which also comes in at number five. top ten list ninja knives hidden inside of a hollowed out book called the shadow warrior those committed number four but we should note that this was not brought to the airport by an actual ninja coming in a number three is a broad topic with handguns in general over twelve hundred fire. those are found in airports in two thousand and eleven some of which were loaded number two is one firearm in particular a three eighty pistol that was strapped to the ankle of a passenger at a detroit airport and the number one good catch of last year small chunks of c. four explosives they were found a bag of one thousand on his return flight not even on his first flight with the c four it's now going over all these good catches you're probably thinking of the items seized probably shouldn't be going on airplanes but you know something else here none of these ten items are actually ever linked to a terrorist or terrorist activities they were all brought on by just your typical passenger none of those situations led to any suspicion of terrorist motivation so

all the t.s.a. decides to get cute on their blog go on and on about how they're keeping you safe from idiots who try to sneak their pets or toys onto a plane let's just take a moment to remind you about how much this organization is costing the american people for fiscal year two thousand and eleven the obama administration put more money in the v.h.s. budget to give them forty three billion dollars to work with and the t.s.a. got an extra five hundred eight million rounding out their budget to somewhere in the range of eight billion that makes up fourteen percent of the entire homeland security budget eight billion dollars going to t.s.a. employees their tools and their devices and what are they really have to show for it nothing that i consider all that impressive that's for sure now one blogger's even argued the items featured in the t.s.a. blog could have been found under the pre nine eleven security checkpoints and procedures and i guess the t.s.a. officers they're under a lot of pressure to prove that they're getting those billions of dollars for reasons so they pimp their fines on their government blog and while yes it's a good thing to be the items are found in congress created the does not make the

t.s.a. any more significant or worthwhile the week before if anything it's running a false idea of the government should be able to invade your privacy because their techniques really work but for trying to make themselves seem valuable with this cheesy top ten list t.s.a. is tonight's two all time winner. our guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening is r t producer jenny churchill and matt welch editor in chief of reason magazine and co-author of the book that accusation of independence thanks for joining you guys thank you ari we've seen quite a few interesting campaign over our days here at the alone a show and one thing that comes up a lot is that people need to speak english here's an ad from from alabama from back in the day. why do our politicians make this give driver's license exams in twelve

languages this is all about we speak english if you want to live here. oh i love that all right so now arizona is also applying this i guess this concept but they're just singling out one person there is one woman alexandrina cabrera who is one of several cal candidates running for council city since city council excuse me and family was arizona and like the majority of her constituents like eighty eight percent of them she speaks fluent spanish and so now people are trying to force her to take an english proficiency test to see if she can read and write and speak english but they're not making anyone else do it and the former mayor who is the one that's pointing all these attacks at her because he doesn't like her because he's been trying to get people recall them starting a fire as has admitted in the past that his english isn't even perfect well i am pretty sure she was trying to get him recalls which is why he was upset but i have

a problem with this a lot of people are saying it's racially motivated while there are a lot of other people that are on the council and running for the council that english is their second language so if it was racial then why is it only being directed at her he's saying that she needed a translator for some instance i think a legal issue he had with her so i don't know i think this shows what all these kind of laws that are passed that sound irrational that are proposed by people who want to restrict immigration generally speaking and this you know english only the new congress loves that mitt romney loves it etc it shows how they actually work in practice which is they are used to people who. finds irritating this woman is totally irritating so they're using this law the arizona law about checking immigration status like all such laws in the criminal justice system you use it when someone you think just kind of annoys you as a cop you annoy me so i want to check your papers and. i completely agree with you however i don't think there's any issue with requiring people who want to. in the u.s. government to speak english i see no problem. right let's move on to. do

our next story here here we can have a little throwback because once upon a time on the show we were talking about i.b.m. getting some kind of patent so that your g.p.s. devices would take you to retail areas which works out for a lot of the companies that want people to drive by their stores and jenny i believe what did you call it i think that's a little show us what used to call it maybe first they could you know get the bypass ghetto button but david had to go home and other person or do you play there . jenny it looks like your dream actually. microsoft has been granted a patent that's designed to make its maps more pedestrian friendly basically what people are calling the avoid ghetto option well i don't know if you noticed but in that clip i'm actually wearing a mock turtleneck i think i must've been channeling steve jobs but just the genius

. you know our neighborhood would probably be classified as a ghetto under this so for me it's just a win win the kind of people who would be attracted to do this. would not come back never do i did think of a potential issue with this if i were a mugger the first thing i would do is figure out the routes that this was telling people were safe to walk on because anyone worth mugging is going to be on those routes and i just think. people do stupid stuff too like who was the woman the she claimed she. got hit by a car because of the g.p.s. and then she sued and i don't know i don't know help some of these people need to let's move on to another story that's been blowing up over the weekend over something that happened at papa john's take a look. they're picking up a pizza at papa john's a woman named men he chose looked at her see where her name should be and saw something disquieting name lady. naturally she took to her twitter account and posted

a picture of it which has since been retreated over five hundred times saying hey papa johns just f y i my name is a lady chinky eyes. i just wonder how much time it took for them to type that alex lady with an eye look this is a sign of how much progress we've made in this country in twenty five years back when at least i was a teenager we're going to the movies and seeing a long duk dong as a comical asian character in john hughes movies and now they can't even get a freakin rule of three on a story about receipt racism this is like two anecdotes and this if this is the worst we've got in america we've come a long way baby but i mean that's like the number one thing you learn when you work at a restaurant is you never put anything in the computer that could ever be seen as. derogatory because it gets printed on the seat i thought the number one thing that you learned was how to spit in the food of the people that you didn't like well

that's but that's the whole point is you do it where they'll never see it. ok now let's take a look at chris christie who is campaigning for mitt romney and running with a little bit of a hard time dealing with some of the occupy wall street protesters they came out and saying it kills jobs and he gets all flustered does know how to handle it chris christie on the other hand is what he does. really. thank you don't go down tonight but he going to be john. i guess that's why people like him. i mean i don't like the condescending i look at usury he's going to come to new jersey i have the soft bigotry of low expectations the fact that he's not in a federal prison right now is

a sign that he's already punching above his considerable weight i think useful. well i think you know there's two input two possible implications there either tony soprano is paying that woman a visit that night or chris christie is paying that woman a visit at night either of which are terrifying to me a visit but rather than a little scare or what the later did that is basically say that this is obama's fault that he's turned you people against me and mitt for standing up what we believe in which is just a whole different helping their running around at all your standing what it was three people are upset about thanks for joining me tonight and that's it for tonight's show thanks for tuning in and make sure to come back tomorrow plain cohen former investment banker and author of money and power goldman sachs came to rule the world is going to be on the show he's going to discuss how he says wall street turned a crisis into a cartel and meantime don't forget become a fan of the lower show on facebook and follow us on twitter there's anything you missed tonight or any other night you can always catch dolly you tube dot com

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i'm sam saxon for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture just in case the few one hundred republican debates in two thousand and eleven weren't enough for you there were two more this last weekend less than fifteen hours apart from each other so were any of the other candidates successful and knocking down mitt romney or is wall street's favor republicans headed for an easy win and in his closing speech in iowa last week ron paul clung to his libertarian ideals and dream.