it's on the cuba are 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 is 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 american cars beautiful was there a nice cuban cigar some rum and salsa all that's the only image they have one from before 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 a cuban economy since sixty two and the gap between what american see as cuba and well cuba is really like today grows exponentially so what are 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 having a different political and economic system then impose sanctions against saudi arabia 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 a person told us is not only overdue but shameful. added sanctions failed to drive out of power maybe another couple of years will do it. now everyone who replied agreed it's enough already and while politicians in america debate this same really old story cuba is opening up a foreign investment to the rest of the world so the time is now for the us to drop this sanctions on cuba and allow us to visit the country just ninety miles off our shores. 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 counterfeit. in three d.

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 his 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 and for 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 the 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 sachi 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 frank and landry are the only ones that are trying to use their political powers to fight this 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 the know 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 a whole. all in this entire fiasco when 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 or 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 find 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 that 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 my short term term. thank you

thank we you're the first prominent on the moon and it will be american thanks now while there are a lot of jokes being made about gingrich's lofty goals could be missing a more serious development say on january twelfth of this month the obama administration chose not to sign on to 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 in any way constrains our national security related activities in space so our 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 phil 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 at 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 and 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 that seem like pretty broad constraints which is that we don't want any constraint that all you know if it happens to be a military constraints and you know are we as there are to something that we are planning for the theater is already something that we're using you know number of republican congress members and brought up missile defense. what the military has as far as assets and space of course is the cutting edge that 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 literally near orbit 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 rah rah 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 not 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 can 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 space for 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. 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 something that has 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's 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 or 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 and let's not forget there really is a flourishing private industry right now with commercialisation it's. yeah you caught that digit it's fascinating to me to watch all of the candidates talk about privatization and we have to a small government in a 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 x. prize which is sort of 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 it 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 sit and take the seed money from the prize and spend much much more in 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 you're in 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 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 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 maybe you're breaking at the heart out there in florida tonight i thought i want to thank you so much for joining us. thank you. i still to come to think of america's working hard to keep anybody from prying into their books for the details and still tied canada 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. to the. this month trumps my particles that make up the fabric of the universe find

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guys it's time 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 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 b. 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 of 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 making

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 whole 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 if they don't have to comply with this absurd gag order would be 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 freeze out and comedian phaeton smith welcome back feet and we've missed you it's been all right here yes let's start with a really horrible awful story it's just we're do out of oklahoma one lawmaker has a particular cause and he's trying to fight for. we begin tonight 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. is there a problem like do people normally put aborted fetuses into food and you know 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 i think the point is this is bringing a lot of questions everybody's wonder what do you what do you talk about i have a lot of questions i actually wrote them down here we go what 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 if you this is how many mass producing baby fetuses are 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 they are there in the preserves in my love my baby fetuses or or another question are they freeways because i am becoming so i want to have some property i don't want to

suffer. you really cared if i did i came here for it always will be a church i like hearing right now that i can flirt we can do that this is i will 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 going to really really never say whether you know. the smaller government republicans are right you know this is happy hour this is exactly how you got 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 i was totally 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 her . all right so the guy got approached by a foreign sorry felt 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 he started 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 want to talk to me 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 porn with a man that she would be it women always say you know this is like i'm going to get it she said yes she's 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 to the awkward i usually i just want to let you know that i'm drinking this has been on the senate floor in kentucky but 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. with just difficulty to go on the floor where there. is that being where your dog never actually said 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 into 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 moves a mess 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 money were very personal relations awful right everybody everybody i talk appliances are far from the top i ever saw none of the most dangerous things in the world what if the pain when went 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 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. 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 and takes a picture of the substitute taking a nap with his cellphone 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 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 but it's the kid that gets in trouble but i guess that's why i haven't snarks 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 and i think we're missing the bigger issue here so that up to teacher nobody was learning any way all right it was an off day for everybody the teacher was sleeping just like the rest the class should have a sleeping kid should be just read a lot of people who want jobs as a 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 teacher so they can do nothing and this kid is really everything he says where he just let's also think about the bigger picture we need are starting to be 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 want to lead the way in a very contention tell me a great substitute teacher story where they set you down they 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 that you know i never will substitute but it was never the lesson of the day is always like that we was all like you do drugs or that's about the lessons i got behind your kid never yet been with a better school with god are you guys going to have a thank you for joining me this evening that separate night so thanks for tuning in ad make sure they come back tomorrow and to read as if the reason is going to be on the show to talk about the latest unemployment numbers and also to have a little fun happy hour now the time to forget the fantasy launched on facebook and follow us on twitter if there's anything ever missed can catch youtube dot com last feel are still coming up next.

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. i. arm syrian opposition fighters tightly controlled the damascus just fifteen minutes from the center now as the u.n. propose closed door talks on how to end the conflict. crowds are taking their own get to the top in poland as people gather outside the presidential palace to protest the online anti-piracy pact which threatens regular internet use in. libya's new leaders face accusations of torture is doctors without borders pulled out of a key city saying the same patients keep returning with new interrogation injuries

. live from moscow now you're watching r t with me kevin zero in for a good company our top story syrian opposition fighters are encroaching towards the capital of an already to seize control of a town on the outskirts some suburbs and deeds of seen nearly two dozen killed in the past two days and buildings heavily shelled a correspondent sara first was there when we got there we were met by the free syrian army he would now have control of the area and they showed us around they took us into the stands and there was absolutely massive anti-government demonstration going on there's a funeral procession going on at the same time as well so we were able to speak to the people who were living in the same.