if the military is such a huge consumer of energy it would create a massive new demand for alternative energy which means a new high paying jobs for americans working on the cutting edge of clean technologies this is definitely something worth keeping your eye on that's it for your take my take tonight if you'd like your comments and questions heard on the segment the big picture listen up we want to know your take send us your comments by visiting the tom hartman facebook page by a twitter at tom underscore hartman or in the chat room on the message boards or through the blog at thom hartmann dot com you can also leave a message on our rant line at two two five three six fifty three zero six agree disagree sound off it's all welcome but remember that your comments may be used on the air. just. the good the bad and the very very ignoble asli ugly the good bill gates in an interview with the b.b.c. gates was asked to respond to president obama's call to increase taxes on the

wealthiest americans gates. the united states has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and i certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. that's just justice i don't feel like. people like myself are paying as much as we should. of course mitt romney has destroyed people like gates claiming they're riddled with envy however bill gates and other billionaires like warren buffet who feel the same way have far more money than romney and view pay more taxes as doing their fair share to help the country and the economy it bill gates in the league of extraordinarily rich americans are ready and willing to pay their fair share in taxes and capitalism vultures like mitt romney should be too well said bill the bad sniper crosshairs in missouri five democratic state senators missouri return to work tuesday only to

find large orange crosshairs stickers plastered over their new office nameplates the crosshairs covered the doors of only four democratic women in the state senate and the door of the democratic minority leader some of the senators remove the stickers only to find larger ones covering the doors later in the day in response the missouri capitol police have increased security around the democratic offices and the capitol as a whole but they have no leads on the possible call. republicans routinely use crosshairs for political purposes most notably sarah pail and we all figured the rhetoric would be toned down after the get gabby giffords shooting last year tragically that's not the case of missouri and the very very ugly rick don't google my name santorum president obama discussed his plans to increase access to higher education in his state of the union speech on tuesday in response to those plans santorum sold told c.b.s. news on wednesday that it's no wonder president obama wants every kid to go to

college indoctrination that occurs in american universities as one of the kids is to the left holding to have maintain power in america. and kids learn more about the world and science they tend to vote for democrats more maybe that says something about sometimes republican party more than it says about the so-called indoctrination by the way i guess the only indoctrination refers is the kind that teaches kids the same sex marriage eventually leads to man on dog marriages it's very clear. right now at this very moment odds are someone is get on a plane someplace with a condom full of heroin or cocaine shoved up some hole in their body all

probability it's happening right now as we speak ten twenty fourth's up and t.s.a. security has no chance of finding none at all unless they want to bust out the k.-y. jelly and latex gloves but think about this that balloon could just as easily be filled with c. four plastic explosive instead of heroin and once that person is on the plane you can go in the bathroom pull out the balloon and well you can imagine what would happen. and like the drugs t.s.a. security has no chance of finding explosives and has those high tech x. ray scanners that are in the airports all around the nation shooting doses of radiation at us and displaying our new bodies to t.s.a. agents they only look at the outside of our bodies they're not keeping us safe from a terrorist attack so why the hell are we using them because we're scared stupid we're scared stupid because bush and cheney made us that way after nine eleven we

got hit pretty bad but instead of telling americans we'll be ok and we'll come out of the stronger than before bush and cheney freaked out and so did the rest of the nation instead of treating nine eleven like the crime it was and working with our allies to find those who committed it and bring them to justice in the same way clinton brought to mcveigh to justice we went on the war path we started a war in afghanistan that we're still fighting today we went to war in iraq we started an unknown number of covert wars all around the world in countries from somalia to yemen to pakistan everything our nation has done in the name of security after nine eleven has been over kill and his stereo especially deploying these x. ray porno scanners in our airports back in one nine hundred ninety eight a team of radiation experts were shown some new technology by the food and drug administration in hopes of getting their takes on the public health risks of this

new technology that new machine was called the secure one thousand or what is now known as the church of x. ray porno scanner it was being used in a few prisons to make sure inmates were bringing weapons it but the machine made the radiation experts uneasy as the director of new jersey's radiation protection program joel poti said i think this is really a slippery slope i'm concerned with expanding this type of product for the traveling public. inventor of the secure one thousand a guy named stephen w. smith agreed but he assured the health experts that the places i think you are not going to see these in the next five years is lower security facilities particularly power plants embassies courthouses airports and governments i would be extremely surprised in the next five to ten years at the secure one thousand sold to any of these famous last words because three years later nine eleven happened we

all got scared stupid by the bush administration and now these machines are in airports all across the country and as for the concerns by radiation experts in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight they were largely ignored and their calls for greater research were drowned out by a massive lobbying effort by security corporations who knew that they could make a fortune off these x. ray porno scanners they knew that they could exploit our fear and they did company rapid skin which built some of these machines spent four hundred twenty thousand dollars just in two thousand eight hundred phone lobbying lawmakers their return on that investment in lobbying was two thousand and nine contract for one hundred seventy three million dollars worth of these machines for our airports former homeland security director michael chertoff who played his part in hyping up fear while working for the bush administration went on to become a lobbyist and then went on t.v. telling the american people that these machines were needed to keep us safe and

guess who is one of chertoff lobbyists rapid skin so we all bought it hook line and sinker and now we're all being a radiated when we board airplanes a little regard to the health risks and there are risks. according to research as many as one hundred americans could get cancer from these scanners every single year and in boston union reps at logan airport worry that these scanners may be responsible for cancer clusters that are showing up among t.s.a. agents and despite requests from the union the t.s.a. has yet to provide individual dosimeters to t.s.a. agents to wear or to measure the radiation they're getting hit with from the scanners so senator susan collins is introducing legislation this week to call for a new independent health study of these scanners and some people might argue that one hundred cases of cancer plus a few sick t.s.a. agents out of the billions of passengers of flight here is

a risk we're willing to take to stay safe but these scanners as i said earlier don't work if someone wants to blow up a plane they will and ultimately our best security is actually the other passengers around us on the plane no one's going to let that happen again these scanners are security theater brought to us by the bush administration and lobbyists who are making millions after all they work so well with their why isn't israel which is under more threat than the united states using them and why is your a bandit it's time to stop being scared it's time to stop being doused with radiation and getting groped in the name of so-called security we need to become the land of the free and the home of the brave again as the airport security agent in germany said to me a year ago when she said i don't have to take off my shoes before walking through the metal detector we're not that frightened so enough with the x. rays and don't touch my junk. that's it for the big picture tonight for more information or to see any segment of the show you may have missed check out our website it's on arbonne dot com and don't forget democracy begins when you show up

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shocking revelations in an already troubled post gadhafi libya has human rights groups accuse the military of torturing detainees to death. angry activists back on the streets of poland to protest against the government's signing of a internationally. they say will result in internet censorship. and iran considers a banning oil sales to europe of the use decision to stop importing crude from the country but around says it's ready for negotiations over its nuclear program. and in business the sun is moving closer to increasing its share in the russian

carmaker after us could come within weeks join me for the details of politics. well news and comment twenty four hours a day watching r t i'm kara just several detainees in libya have died in recent weeks as a result of torture according to amnesty international human rights group says the crimes were committed by the libyan military and security forces thousands of gadhafi loyalists remain behind bars suffering the same atrocities handed out under the late colonel's regime. has more. doctors without borders known for going do their job in the most dangerous and notorious places around the globe but in n t c run libya the group has encountered

a formidable obstacle they couldn't overcome burns from electric shocks and cigarettes heavy bruising and renal failure all this evidence of the continued torture of prisoners say the doctors and now after two inmates died from the beatings the international group has stopped its mission in protest patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care in order to make them fit for further interrogation this is an acceptable our rule is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions the news comes amidst rising anger with libya's interim government demonstrations in benghazi last week ended with the resignation of a high ranking member of the m.t.c. in the former gadhafi stronghold of bani walid locals pushed out that are as usual can also forces claim in systematic abuse it started with the very beginning of the

rebellion very beginning of the insurrection the second day of the rebellion. of the african migrants rounded up and locked in a detention center and burnt to death and the n.p.c. expressed support for this time this is part of the strategy of the west you know divide and rule that was given the green light of the torture and execution that we're seeing now so this is a recipe for civil war meanwhile the nato operation that brought them to see to power is by itself raising question it's. a high profile international team of human rights activists has been to leave here to investigate some of make sure that it bears entity of where with that if you go in the friends. and they were guiding the air raids and directing them and could have been eating them if you

are mandated. that. it is very very accurate in a way that i myself saw the killing of so many people in front of my eyes i saw the killing of fifty one people in front of my eyes was fifteen years old and while all sides in the live in conflict are to blame for violence and violations the human rights activists claim not all of them have been held responsible for their wrongdoing. investigating what happened during libya's seven months civil war and the nato campaign to protect civilians this fact the mission discovered again crimes against humanity but the goal was not to judge but to shed light on what happened and not to repeat the mistakes the recent united nations report has revealed that up to eight thousand supporters have been held by militia groups in libya right now and with numerous occasions of torture and revenge killings

throughout the country hopes of a new beginning for libya are fading quickly. r.t. . libya's post gadhafi government the national transitional council has so far failed to bring peace and stability to the country coming up later here in r.t. people abilities guests on cross talk debate why the militias who overthrew the colonel to obey the new leaders is a preview. of who the hell is the n.p.c. who are these people after all these months it's still very opaque who are they. well you know we we know these are people who who who are privileged under the old regime and who decided they could be more privileged under a western style regime i think you know this thing about wanting democracy when one is seeing here because this is not here only us what do we want from him so i said

anything in your interrupting me. i am saying there you have you said. which are simply not true my problem. my problem with the n.p.c. is that a lot of the. exiles sort of come back and some of my actually lived in the suburbs of langley and that's my issue ok my issue is that these are western surrogates. as a matter of fact one of the issues in libya is right now that when you talk to libyans they refer to the t.n.c. the transitional council as a government of foreigners and so i think you put your finger right on these are not cronies of gadhafi as a matter of fact most of those people have been arranged out of the t.n.c. has brought in and i'm not going to. we're exiles and so in a sense that is part of the problem and why they are not legitimate is because they really have no standing in the country at this point.

poland is swept by angry protests against the government support the piracy treaty and protecting intellectual property rights activists say the actor opened doors from the monitoring of tip it isn't freedom of expression and join several other e.u. countries in a closed door signing ceremony in japan on thursday next year he has more. i'm. down with censorship the end so i come to a few trade agreement known as act which poland signed on thursday has upset many internet users across the country in the small town of lupul in alone several thousand people hit the streets fearing the treaty would allow corporations to crackdown on the freedom of speech online the idea of punishing you for publishing the. material. is somehow illogical

to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes for. being used to kill somebody that will be used to our internet activity i believe that talking through the internet email for a form of self-expression this was yet another rally in a whole string of protests held in poland since tuesday large crowds in several cities voiced their anger at the government for signing the document most of the country's government websites were hijacked by the anonymous group they had threatened to reveal sensitive information about the authorities should they go ahead with the act there are certain countries which are very interested in. this is. this is john. and because de. jong businesses. are property and they want to enforce it all over the world but this doesn't mean that this is good for the people and this is why would we

have this protest in poland because people feel oppressed by that essentially actor is about protecting intellectual property from music and books pharmaceuticals and . similar in form to the stalled u.s. bill so that also sparked widespread protests however critics say actor was engineered in complete secrecy bypassing government procedures and the. criminal punishment it allows alerted many any legislation must be founded in the public opinion of what's right and wrong when you have a copyright industry that's talking about extraditing a person who has done nothing but linking to t.v. shows extradition does something useful murder and genocide as this is such an abuse of power think its time is more than ripe for a serious review of what we want with copyright law and it's certainly not calling

. just terrorists. who doubt this will happen given that prime minister to six party hold the majority in the save the government says the agreement is not a threat to freedom but maintained the internet should not be a space of legal. but protesters say they will bring even more people to warsaw central square on friday to stop it becoming a war in the space of just three days protests and phone have managed to gather tens of thousands of people and while this is still little chance that this bill would not make it through parliament the rallies unlikely to die down lets you assess the r.t. reporting from poland. where last k. of the u.k. pirate party says the agreement is just as outrageous and harmful a similar piracy legislation abandoned by lawmakers in america following mass protests. this is part of a line along

a long line of attacks on civil liberties and internet freedom the actor agreement is just right. that we've seen the the soap agreement which was already dropped by the united states under a wave of wave of protests now the actor agreement has the potential to be just as dangerous or even more so to the very fabric of the internet and our economy is so good it's actually going to mean that there's going to be an arms an acceptable level of surveillance on all of our internet connections essentially what this agreement does is it turns your internet service provider into a kind of police officer and that's really one of the problems of the changes that agreement brings about it makes a copyright infringement a criminal offense which is in fact entirely new move. well as to the head few

this are the fiscal function of the year the world economic forum enters its third day as international movers and shakers continue talks about the future of the global economy. and suppressing small business owners in india biting against the west's plans to open up chains of make a superstore. iran says it's considering cutting oil supplies to europe preempting and even bargain you to come into force in july the country's parliament will discuss whether to make the move next week comes to impose sanctions in an attempt to force it back to negotiation table its nuclear program iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad's tyrone is ready to return to talks but its opponents need to compromise. from the campaign against sanctions and military intervention in iran says the country is acting to protect its sovereignty. the

grace period that the vision for six months for does go to take place may actually not be that graceful so iran is taking matters into his own hand and the other issue is that it shows a complex city of feeling in the midst of politics and the power that the iranian parliament holds that is accountable to its people and it's not going to just sit back and watch what's going to happen to the national sovereignty off off the wrong there the it shows that disconnect between. his harlem and his people because this is a model is not something which is going to be to the benefit of the people and there's also is this going to fifteen european governments on their parliament as well i mean it's not the most ideal situation for iran because iran has to find different consumers for costumers or it's all about either at the same time iran is going to be to decrease this dependence on the petro dollar this is a very good thing in the lot longer and of course they remain middle class the

small businesses who would actually do business with a pin business as they're going to suffer but that is. wrong claims that that is for short term and in the long term this is actually going to lead to more independence for iraq as a whole as a nation not just not just one part of the society which is investing in foreign businesses. while the u.s. and europe continue to hit iran with sanctions and strong rhetoric the suggestion of military action against the islamic republic leaves many americans cold well he's going to try to go into the streets of washington to gauge opinion. while the obama administration says its war with iran is still on the table and washington hawks come up with even harsher statements if we could break the iranian regime i think within a year the majority of americans may sense that their opposition to more wars which is reflected in always and polls is being ignored in washington residents of charlottesville in virginia took the matter to their city council which passed the

resolution calling on the federal government to end all its wars and avoid starting the new one with iran the biggest threat right now is that we will get jackknifed into a war against iran which would be a disaster for the people of iran and for the people of charlottesville and the rest of our country david swanson is the co-author of the resolution adopted by the charlottesville city council. of popular will as always been against wars unless pushed in dragged by very manipulative propaganda and they have been trying those who want war on iran have been trying unsuccessfully for years to get the american people on board i went out on the street to see how many people i would meet who want the u.s. to attack iran. do you think the u.s. should attack iran no no not at all so i think we should go it's a terrible idea one of the worst ideas i think i have heard

a while yeah that would be horrible yeah because they're good guys but because. i think another war is just a horrific idea but look on the republican side you've got certain ones over that who want to just can't wait to get us a war it really doesn't look good at all do you think the u.s. should attack iran yes just one out of more than a dozen interviews and it's not just people on the street but many experts in the security field warn against starting a war with iran including the former acting director of the cia people keep saying that the military option is. it is still on the table i think it would be a very bad option but the latter one to use one of the big problems with iran is that if you get into. an open confrontation a military confrontation your risk a cycle of retaliation and response. with great difficulty seeing where the end point is the question one may ask is how does washington continue talking wars with so many americans against them i have

a hard time thinking of any example of any issue on which the conduct of our government in washington corresponds with majority opinion war is not some kind of exception the public is against bailouts for bankers the public is against subsidies for energy companies the public is against wars the public is against just about every decision made on important issues in washington the fact of the matter is that majority of americans don't want a new wars on their plate poll showed they were opposed to u.s. involvement in libya's law but the government went about it in a way many says that the rift between what americans want and what leaders do in the name of the american people is getting larger i'm going to check our reporting from washington marty. on much more from just a few clicks away just log on to our web site to get the latest updates and all the best videos here's a taste for you security control over privacy violation the social net.