hi guys it's time for show and tell on tonight's program the last time we spoke with colonel lawrence wilkerson about the g.o.p. presidential candidates and their views on the cuba they're in favor of keeping sanctions and travel restrictions on the country with of course exception of ron paul so we want to know if you think that it's time to lift the decades old sanctions it's going to produce a patrice and ascending to find out what you have to say. most americans think of cuba they may see images of streets lined with brightly painted vintage american cars beautiful was there a nice cuban cigar some rum and salsa all the had the only image they have one from before in one nine hundred sixty one before americans were banned from traveling to the island nation now currently the u.s. state department regulations still require that persons subject to u.s. jurisdictions must have a license to engage in any travel to from and within cuba and if it has anything to

do with tours travel or there is no license for that add that two years of crippling economic sanctions that have a levied on the cuban economy since sixty two and the gap between what american see as cuba and while cuba is really like today grows exponentially so what our viewers think is it time for the u.s. to drop saying sions and travel restrictions to cuba. jen said it's way overdue and cuba is being punished for the having a different political and economic system than imposed sanctions against saudi arabia and a dirty hippie said if the sanctions against cuba hasn't worked yet i don't see what is going to change now cold war is over now christen told us is not only overdue but shameful and added sanctions failed to drive out of power but maybe another couple of years will do it. now everyone who replied agreed it's enough already and while politicians in america debate this dame a really old story cuba is opening up foreign investment to the rest of the world.

so the time is now for the u.s. to drop the sanctions on cuba and allow us to visit the country just ninety miles also short. so as always we appreciate your responses and here's our next question for you earlier in the show we revisit an access international copyright and counterfeiting treaty which has been signed by the united states we saw thousands of people come out to the streets in poland to protest against it we want to hear from you do you think there's enough anti active momentum building to get president obama to allow congress to weigh in here on facebook twitter and you tube and you know as a response just like me. or earlier this month we shared some disappointing news with you the congress passed and the president signed off on the national defense authorization act of two thousand and twelve a bill that raised concerns of civil libertarians across the country even the president himself originally of expressed concern about the provisions of the legislation but it was mostly because it would have taken away some powers from the executive branch in law enforcement and handed over to the military so in the end

he gave his john hancock approving the measure with a promise not to use it against u.s. citizens but i think that ron paul stated on the house floor last week sums up the fears of most people who oppose the n.d.a. . this is precisely the kind of degree shoes distortion of justice that americans have always ridiculed in so many dictatorships overseas nothing in section ten twenty one explicitly mandates holding americans without trial but it employs vague language radically expanding the detention authority to include anyone who has substantially supported certain terrorist groups or associated forces is this really the kind of a united states we want to create in name of fighting terrorism. i couldn't agree with them more but now the bill is a reality there is a call that change the language of the act and this one comes from senator al franken and representative jeff landry they're teaming up to change the provision

that officially gives the government the power to detain suspected terrorists even if they're u.s. citizens so landry and frank and it want to take out the u.s. citizens part landry's house proposal came with the following statement is that any satcher that could possibly be interpreted to allow the president to detain american citizens without charge or trial is incredibly alarming frank and express similar concern saying it to not give people a hearing to not give an american citizen the right to have his case heard in a court i think that's one of our basic rights once we start getting rid of our basic rights we're in trouble and frank and landry are the only ones that are trying to use their political powers to fight as broad sweeping bill senator dianne feinstein tried to change the contentious element of the bill to exempt american citizens but that was rejected by a majority of republican senators however she's trying to reintroduce that amendment and it seems to be gaining some support this time around let's not forget that senator carl levin claim that it was the administration which pushed for u.s. citizens to be included in the language in the first place but first second here

let's step back and look at the bigger picture here of e-mail how i feel about this incredibly dangerous assault on our civil liberties so while i applaud this effort to change it there are a few things that need to be said about our political system as whole a. all in this entire fiasco with lawmakers have to go back and alter a bill after it's been signed i think there's a problem the whole point of the political system is to debate make adjustments compromise and then sign off on a full piece of legislation because lawmakers think that it's the right piece of legislation but what happens here is that these provisions get tacked on to huge military spending bills that will get passed no matter what crazy amounts they have because nobody's going to dare leave defense and fund it so the pressure to pass these bills on a timeline is clearly just too much for our elected representatives to resist so we have to remember this adjustment all that good one also shines a light on much larger systemic problems.

well we've heard newt gingrich talk about lunar colonies many times before but he's getting a lot of new laughs after saying this in florida yesterday by the end of march. thank you we were the first prominent on the moon and it will be america thank you. now while there are a lot of jokes being made about gingrich's lofty goals could be missing a more serious development on january twelfth of this month the obama administration chose not to sign onto an e.u. code of conduct for operations in outer space aimed to both reduce space debris and keep it demilitarized days later secretary of state hillary clinton issued a formal statement saying that the u.s. will not enter into a code of conduct that in any way constrains our national security related activities in space so are is the government eyeing space as another potential war

zone joining me to discuss this is dr phil plait astronomer and blogger for discover magazine thanks so much for joining us tonight and before we get into the fun stuff with newt gingrich let's get into this e.u. code of conduct that the united states chose not to sign on to what kind of rules would we have subscribed to if we had. well it's unclear exactly to me after reading some of this where the united states was having some problems with it i think this was more of just a generic statement that look you know we are military power we have the right to defend ourselves space is a place where the military can and should have a place so we don't want to sign any sort of agreements that are going to limit us in the same time it's not that they said they wouldn't sign something at all they said look we're just going to we're going to work with you guys but these are the constraints we're under right now but those seem like pretty broad constraints which is that we don't want any constraints at all you know if it happens to be

a military constraints and you know are we is there already something that we are planning for the future is already something that we're using you know a number of republican congress members have brought up missile defense. what the military has as far as assets in space of course is the cutting edge stuff is is secret i don't know exactly what they have in space there are treaties that say we're not supposed to have certain assets in space including for example detonating nuclear weapons that's for been however things like spy satellites things like that we know that those are up there recently the chinese in two thousand and seven tested semantic satellite technology they moved a satellite near another one and blew it up this is a clear demonstration there's there's only one reason to do this and this is to show that you can do this and it was a it was a terrible thing to do they they literates near for a bit with thousands of pieces of space debris but what this does show is that look

there are military power since space and it's best if countries that have access to space also do this you know i'm i'm not what you would call you know run military yea and all that stuff and i'm something of a pacifist however understand that not everybody is a good guy and some of these folks are going to see this as a place to put up the military and you know countries have the right to defend themselves but in that case if we choose not to sign on to a trading and they only need to write one ourselves because that could set a dangerous precedent. well that's not what they were saying they said they wouldn't sign something that would limit the united states they they also said in the same time that they would look to negotiate with the europeans to work on these aspects of the treaty so that everybody could be satisfied with the way it goes ion care if that's the you know what they might come up with in terms of a renegotiation but let's move on to newt gingrich and some of the republicans right now we've heard newt gingrich talk about faith for us for

a long time he's always been a fan but him saying that if he's elected president with an eight years we're going to have a colony on the moon that really possible. in a word no. you know i was raised on t.v. shows like star trek and space nine hundred ninety nine and robert heinlein isaac asimov i would love to put a base on the moon that would be terrific and i really think that's something that as a national goal for the united states is a priority you should be a priority and certainly with international partners however to suddenly declare that we're going to do this in eight years without any real foundation for where this money is going to come from or where the engineering the technology is going to come from strikes me perhaps is being based more on the fact that it's a political campaign and he was talking to a crowd in florida which has seen nasa cut off the space shuttle lose the rocket

program the constellation rocket program and that sort of thing so it's strikes me as being a campaign promise more than a real life goal and you know we heard a lot about this at the last republican debate in florida there was of course a question about nasa about space exploration and it seems like all these republican candidates that are constantly calling for less government spending right that don't like government to get involved in particular industries that they're calling for more and they want a space race to continue so i mean i don't know if they have is a hypocritical of them or is this always kind of the one region where we see them calling for government involvement in let's not forget there really is a florida private industry right now with commercialization of space. yet you caught that digit it's fascinating to watch all of the candidates talk about privatization and we have to a small government are going to and then you know they go to florida and what are they saying you know we have to do this now to be fair gingrich's plan did talk

about having private space do this and perhaps setting up an extra eyes which is sort of a basically a very expensive prize to the first company that can do something. for example if you go into space land it turn it around and get back up to space a week later that was the x. prize from a few years back and that was done and it companies will take the seed money from the prize and spend much much more than an order of magnitude more to be able to add to attain it so it sounds like a good idea but a moon base is really expensive you know we're not talking about something it's going to cost one hundred million dollars or even a billion dollars it's going to cost some estimates are thirty five billion or more and that's not even developing the rocket to get us there now space x. for example if it's an american private company that has launched three rockets to orbit and has big plans and i'm actually a fan of theirs i think they're going to do it but this takes time they haven't actually done things like rendezvous with the space station yet or show that they

can bring it heavy equipment up into space and put it into orbit do what they need to do these are these are steps that they're taking they're doing a great job but we're talking about stuff that's going to take years to figure out now we could certainly get started on putting a moon base up by two thousand and twenty we if we really wanted to do it by then we should be well on our way but to say it's going to be done by two thousand and twenty not a permanent station by then doesn't strike me as being feasible either economically or technologically right that may be a break in at the heart that there florida and i often i want to thank you so much for joining us thank you. i still to come tonight thank the americas working hard to keep anybody from prying into their books for the details and still side kind of happy hour in oklahoma lawmaker has proposed and very strange legislation and a penguin makes a statement evidence that the kentucky state house of the reference.

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wealthy british sign on. time. on. the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report on our. hi guys aside for tonight's tool time award and it goes once again to bank of america is he the state of arizona is accusing the of a pitting a fraud probe against the bank investigation was launched by the state in two thousand and ten to look at allegations that the bank had repeatedly deceived homeowners who are looking for mortgage modifications and bank of america is making

as difficult as humanly possible for them to actually conduct this investigation is he back in june bloomberg reported that the they did not have the arizona attorney general's request to interview former bank employees and it looks like that railroading was just the tip of the iceberg it turns out they've decided to go with straight up payoffs let me explain how it was states are calling up the people that actually made complaints against the of a they were really getting called back very often which was weird because these are the people that have filed official complaints against the bank in the first place so they'd like a little bit deeper and they discover that the reason for the radio silence is the bank of america had beat them to the punch they have been made. a few phone calls of their own offering a loan modifications to the borrowers who had made complaints in return for their silence that's right they had to agree not to make any statements that quote defamed disparage or in any way criticize the bank's reputation practices or conduct and the best part is still coming up to the documents read that the bar will remove and delete any online statements regarding this dispute including

without limitation posting on facebook twitter and similar websites so yeah they're actually making people go through their entire social network history and scrub it of any negative comments about the of a that snarky tweet the made about what a holes bankers are that's going to have to go any facebook posts and those are gone too this is a payoff this is a lower rate in exchange for silence past and present and you wonder why people think the banks are so evil now the state is acting asking the courts to step in and tell the bars that they don't have to comply with this absurd gag order which b. of a claims is routine personally i would call it obstruction but for paying off struggling borrowers in exchange for their silence to impede a fraud investigation thank you america is once again tonight still time when.

hi guys it's time for a happy hour and joining me this evening r.t. correspondent christine for south and comedian phaeton smith welcome back feet and we missed you at all right here yes let's start with a really horrible awful story it's just weird to out of oklahoma one lawmaker has a particular cause and he's trying to fight for. a living it's an eye with a brazoria proposal at the state capitol people are talking about an oklahoma senator asking for a ban on fetuses used for food testing lawmaker wants to make it illegal to manufacture or knowingly sell food or other products that contain embryonic still stem cell. i. is there a problem like do people normally put aborted foetuses into food and any food maker is saying that no this is never happened even the guy that brought up legislation said i don't know if it's happening in oklahoma it may be it may not be what i'm saying that if it does happen then we're not going to allow it to manufacture here

but the point is this is bringing a lot of questions everybody to wonder what do you what do you talk about i have a lot of questions i actually wrote them down here we go look food company is saving money by making selling aborted foetuses all right i mean what is aborted foetuses actually replacing it like a short replacement. going with it i mean how many mass producing baby fetuses that they are mass producing that are they locally grown or is this like of coming from china and if that is how they are they are or are they are there any are preserved in my love my baby fetuses or or another question are they freeways. becoming so i want to have some property i don't want to suffer. you really cared if i did ok perfect always going to be a church of like what you're doing right now like a flirt we could do that this is how i would drink this water and i was ok i was just going to say i think this is an attempt at somebody that's very conservative and very pro-life agenda anti stem cell agenda who wants to get people talking

about it wants to get people grossed out about it people who don't think about. the issue of abortion he wants to get them disgusted by it but that's a little more so i guess i'm getting the only reason to say well you know there's a. lot of the smaller government republicans are right you know this is out there and this is exactly how you do you want to be anybody what is the legislating on things that are not issues and so raise up all these stupid questions they are stupid but i want to say i want to smaller government where baby fetuses are legal how about that i'm a republican i let's move on to moving on and. take a look at this story he wants his job back. to lean on the. dancefloor says he was responding to a call for backup back in two thousand and eight when this. an actress in her crew approached him and asked him to engage in lewd acts with her. actually touching them. all right so the guy got approached by a foreign sorry felt her up while on duty do you think you should get a job i think you should get

a job back he wasn't in the whore and he didn't take his clothes off she asked him to spank him a couple times he said his job here service i know he served more than twenty years it's hard to find good traffic cops in any city in america i'm completely for him keep his job also because i'm more used to the more i'm not getting tickets that say all right and b. you know it's funny this would never work a reverse like this is only to work with a male like a meter maid i could be a big muscular do somebody wants to admit johnson that video would never exist and that said to me so you think if it was a woman that was asked to be in a point with a man that she would be it women always say no this is like i'm going to she said yes she's you know you're very clear i like this like you know when the stranger walk i know. to touch that one of the bigger flaws that god put in you know what i mean no offense i think women are equal and all that but god if you will just say yes a little bit more can we move on you know outward i usually i just want to. drink and this has been on the senate floor in kentucky basically they were they were

debating some bill about the local aquaria so they had a little visitor from the local aquarium was a cute little thing when this happened. just because he did on the floor over there . there is that being where your jaw going to actually sit i believe that your desk. this is why you don't bring penguins into the state house i think it was great that they brought the penguin i got all these what seems to me very stiff kentucky legislators laughing about something and somebody clean up the penguin poop i'm sure it's. completely against bringing any animal in i mean they couldn't they could have a picture couldn't believe i was going to make the same factors a cute adorable penguin is a very attractive oh if you see the penguin sitting there i'm afraid of this because i know disney movies are messed me up and we think a lot of animals are cute i don't know what the dangers are penguins but i do want to find that out. i thought it was very clear to me that a really is off all right everybody everybody i talk about classes are far from the top i ever saw nothing of the most dangerous things in the world would have the

pain when we're crazy and there was a death all right you can talk you know the wrong tool can tell me what you would be controlled by people and they could get you to leave your their main black widow . on this for you heard her by penguin in the kentucky state legislature that was talking about that as well. so i love this story this story is so messed up so this kid is in ninth grade sees a substitute taking a nap when he's supposed to be teaching the class or takes a picture of the substitute taking a nap with the cell phone and he shows it to the principal and then the kid gets suspended and this is their reasoning. but the use of a telecommunication device is not permitted during the school day i gree with that policy yeah but maybe that was the only way to prove that the teacher was actually sleeping you teacher was sleeping then maybe the school system needs to investigate that. i agree i mean seriously being on the job and it's the kid that gets in trouble but i guess that's why i haven't seen arcs that's what we're seeing on the

ari i think it's outrageous that kids should be a hero the kid should be congratulating congratulated for trying to make his school system better of course if he's taking pictures of the teachers sleeping he's not going to be learning you think the other students feel that way they're like dude we didn't have to do anything because the substitute was a sleeve and you had to go through it i think we're missing the bigger issue here some stuff to teacher no one who's going to be anyway all right it was an off day for everybody the teacher was sleeping just like the rest of the class should have a sleeping kid should be some are a lot of people who want jobs as substitute teachers who are very qualified former teachers laid off they should be allowed to be in the classrooms not people sleeping yes and there's a lot of students who wants to teach or so they can do nothing and this is really everything he says what he just let's also think about the bigger picture we need are starting to feel learning what to do right if the teacher either leaves them a lesson plan or tells them like here's a movie pop into the tape that you're ok i don't want contention tell me a great substitute teacher story where they set you down and taught you that one life lesson that you learned no life lesson but i had plenty of substitute teachers

who actually taught me the lesson that the teacher would have taught that day really now i never will substitute but it was never the lesson of the day is that we are is all like you exactly that's what those lessons i got behind your kids never yet been with a better school got i got together i was ready to have a thank you for joining me this evening that there are nights so thanks for tuning in admission to come back tomorrow at the ranch as if the reason is going to be on the show to talk about the latest set of flame and embers and also to have a little fun happy hour on the meantime forget the fantasy launched on facebook you can follow us on twitter if there's anything ever miss can catch you to dot com slash fielder still coming up next. please. love

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march in poland as key government websites are down by supposed to warsaw signing up to an international anti-piracy agreement. people fear that some of these documents will give corporations do more to borrow or to take regular users offline i'll explain why you just. ran considers cutting its oil supply to europe good for you sanctions take a practical line that says greece to return to the negotiation table over its

nuclear program. in syria arab league observers resume work after weeks break and are already set to take their findings to the u.n. security council that says government troops launched an all out of town so on a protest propaganda the supper. using common live broadcasting to you from the heart of moscow six o'clock here and karen. thousands have taken to the streets in poland to protest against a new global piracy pact called a.c.t.a. which warsaw has just signed up to internet freedom activists marched in loveland and posed on while hackers attacked key government websites the agreement which was negotiated in secret covers everything from pharmaceuticals to movies and music. at a ship skiis in warsaw for us.