to carry guns somewhere or other we've just said that they should allow that means that they have the right to disallow it's a right it can't be allowed or disallowed it's a right to who are licensed what how do you get a license for a right trained i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and that what's in front of here is going to die that's all the training you really really need. and show me a five year old that doesn't know that. it was gun control that contributed to the tragedy at virginia tech. going through this is course what we're talking about that has to go we've had it with creeping gun control no more gun control get rid of virginia tech problems by

get getting rid of gun free zones don't get rid of more people keeping guns out of the wrong hands that's. what is helpful is arming the population so we can shoot trucks thank you. but i'm a scholar goddard i'm twenty three went to virginia tech in two thousand and three found myself on april sixteenth sitting in class and that's when my life changed. the good laws in this country are we at virginia tech happened as a result the brady campaign has a mission to enact sensible gun laws to help protect americans. brady campaign didn't ask me to come and words of that i want to go work so that i will tell me what exactly is going with it was that. i did a six month internship with brady so came in to meet with the brady campaign office today and i come back at them full time as

a full time advocate on the hill talking to the congressman i've talked to local people to grassroots the media but i want to get a few and i want to talk to the guys who actually make the law. let's see this e-mail account was created to attach to op eds and written pieces i did. this after i wrote our guns on campus editorial so i get some interesting responses from people this one entitled would you prefer to save yourself and others or lay like a rag dog here's another one with all due respect sir if you or no student or teacher would have been carrying a concealed weapon on four sixteen two those seven you would not have been shot. i love or knows that when you have all the time in the world to think about it as you write it it sounds quite simple but when your very own a man's pointing a gun it sure is about to pull the trigger it's absolutely

a different thing. if the only person in the proof that has a one in twenty twenty. one student did have a gun in the classroom how they respond to a shooter coming and now it's time to begin our experiment. casually begins talking about the gear i've got if you're going to be back. to attack the instructor is down a student hit joey struggles to get his gun out stuffed in his shirt not a single student was able to effectively return fire on the shooter before being shot themselves or shooting another student in the class and students who said they had many hours of training on this range froze up completely that was the first shot and the second shot was right in the chest and to recap now of how our students did half of them couldn't get the gun out including the student with the most training those who did get it out couldn't shoot fast enough or accurately enough to save themselves and there was a constant danger they would kill

a friend or innocent bystander they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time to little brothers ages two when eight outside ploy suddenly someone fired six gunshots redevelopment this morning on thursday shooting of a philadelphia police officer a second suspect was caught by philadelphia police eight guns were found at the original crime scene would make a forty seven's another assault rifles for the killers of homicide victim number one hundred forty. this year. but a philadelphia for you not to have a gun. crazy as. we need water to live and you can't live without water and philadelphia urban streets you can't live without a gun and urban communities called the police they might come hour later forty five minutes later as a lot of time for anything that you know to be perfectly honest i have a good. and i'm not the type of guy who killed people i never killed anyone and i'm

not that type of family but even a family man. in a straight. line knows philadelphia's reputation is one of the deadliest so you're actually in the deadliest neighborhood. in one of the deadliest cities in one of the deadliest countries. in the civilized world. if you've been shot before. like on three different occasions twice and wanted to do and how many of you know somebody who's been shot raise your hand if you know something's been. ok so i'm going to walk you through the experiences of one young man this is lamont adams you know five years more than ten thousand people and. this is hard to wrap your mind around the fact that we can live in a city that the cradle of american history and to think this so many of its people

can be shot young man squeeze four rounds into his back and dropped this young teenager then stood over the month and shot him ten times more. columbines that happened over the bridge or in virginia tech's it happened but there anomalies. and you see how folks react when that happens you know i think columbine thirteen kids maybe. thirteen kids mainly to fit in a weekend here the other side tries to argue that the world is easily divided into criminals and non-criminals wage on the freeway very well it's friday but all of us get angry people get drunk people have road rage people get depressed a family wiped out by one man with no history of violence a woman shot and killed her son at a gun range then turned the red weapon on herself would guns are available people who without those guns might have been someone who got angry or threw

a punch all of a sudden turn into someone who got angry and grabbed a gun police say was very angry because his boss had yelled at him for not wearing his safety glasses and talking on a cell phone call he could miss on the someone in the home with a gun is more likely to have gun violence in the home without a gun he was having trouble drilling a hole through the wall so he decided to use his twenty two caliber handgun to make a hole one of the bullets went through the wall and struck his wife in the chest killing her i know a lot more people that have been injured by guns than have used guns to protect themselves we need to intervene before these people get shot. what could we do about the gun what could we do about how the gun is sold what could we do about laws about guns in the united states. this group has been around for about a year and a half here and a half there about started out with fifteen mayors and today we have three hundred fifteen mayors representing over fifty million people mayors against illegal guns

wanted to respect gun rights to have reasonable regulations just like we respect first amendment rights but has regulations on the first amendment to protect the safety and welfare of people the federal government has requirements in terms of background checks and who can buy guns those laws are not enforced the way they should be number one and number two there are ways around them for example the gun show loophole that's the most insane thing in the world i'm good at like you look it's no secret in this country how gods get into the hands of criminals. the most common way is probably through straw purchasing the cultural loophole is another very common way. it's done here that. this source that. some of it's just thirty students

also don't because they were. used to have this thing out of my parents put in my underwear. after the first trip that this gets hot became very comfortable were quick. this was his idea from way way back he was still convalescing from the injuries when he came up with the idea and i didn't know how to help him do it. so i was very nervous for news that the equipment would work right then that he would get what he wanted i was. the only thing i wasn't nervous about was was whether he could find a gun point because hubby said i was simply spot about. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you

glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day.

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well the little guy with people all goes well you'll be able to do it all but president obama and his republican rivals aren't looking at the signs of an economy in decline they're more interested in dollar signs more specifically the ones dealing with their campaign will show you the other side of the coin. the most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to battle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs and the u.s. is stirring the pot again and cooking up trouble in foreign countries all under the guise of democracy promotion but what they're actually promoting is their own interests abroad. or since i've been traveling the world and teaching people how to

get rid of their pets cubic feet so you come up with these three easy steps and speaking of too many cooks in the kitchen we've got the recipe to revolution in three simple steps and if you can't take the heat well you know how the saying goes . good evening is wednesday february first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you are watching our t.v. well over the next couple weeks president obama and the first lady will be getting out of washington they'll be spending time around the country including in sunny southern california but they're not there necessarily to enjoy the sun they're going on some very important business the business of fund raising california of course a huge cash infusion to any national campaign it's also a state with one of the highest rates of unemployment foreclosures and homelessness

but don't expect the obama's to stop by any of the neighborhoods suffering from those issues and as artie's ramon glinda shows us there are many problems in the golden state the obama will never get to see. if that were to come to places like this in south central los angeles or down to l.a. to the skid row part section of the of the city there will be surprised at the reality this is the stark reality the first lady and the president do not see these are the voices in here all you got to do is look on many people will be in the homeless all you do is many people being laid out grown the way down and maybe down the drain for good gary bull right lives in los angeles is skid row rather on the streets of skid row he is one of the city's fifty thousand homeless i don't think much of them coming to l.a. or any place else is what they do not what they say. he along with community

activists argue the white house hasn't done enough to address our nation's increasing wealth gap main issue of homelessness and poverty in america is obviously not a priority with the obama administration. basically poor people are being kept invisible poverty has risen in california every year since president obama came into office today six million live below the poverty line and one in five californians lack health coverage unfortunately president obama has been a huge disappointment to a lot of as well but right in his neighbor's struggle the obama's have repeatedly tapped their state for donations a glitzy obama fundraiser here in beverly hills is open to those who can pay more than thirty five thousand dollars for a dinner plate many of those are hollywood's biggest power players who get to flex their political muscle behind the walls of these multi-million dollar mansions

meantime in california more than a million homeowners have lost their home to foreclosure since two thousand and eight and it's estimated there will be a million more foreclosures in the state this year not of people being affected haven't heels not being affected ok in los angeles's historic black neighborhoods there still appears to be support for nation's first african-american president but some of that support is wavering the communities hit especially hard during the financial downturn the state continues to oppress and exploit obama's the spokes person for in the city's poorest neighborhoods there is a sense that they've been for gun while the nation's elites continue to prosper and influence monopoly capitalism has just developed than just an oligarchy. bailing out the than the one percent he's doing everything that he said he would. as the obama's court that one percent and the millions of dollars to their

political war chest we have just family so large you know crying out for help and trying to get answers to their crisis from everything i can tell it's done very little to reverse the downhills laws what used to be known as the land of the free and the home of the brave in los angeles. r t r and so on one hand presidential campaigns cost money and when you're a democrat big money often comes from hollywood but when political winds are already drawn as the golden state already often votes blue for president how does this impact what the president gets to ignore i spoke earlier with george hammond you're the founder of survive and thrive t.v. he spoke about some of the major crises the state is experiencing and why he feels the president is turning a blind eye to most in need. there's no jobs you know we have a high unemployment rate. it's feeding your family you know it's just it's

basically providing the basic necessities to get your kids to school putting shoes on their feet clothes on their back and it's a daily struggle for survival you got a whole group of middle class americans that are now on food stamps for the first time they're on welfare for the first time they're getting lost in the maze of applying for all these benefit programs and there's a lot of people fall through the cracks so you see i'm combining households sometimes for families to household sometimes people living in the backyard i mean it's basically middle class americans here in the street scrapping for cans bottles . do whatever they can to survive it's pure survival mentality here for the for the middle formerly middle class in california and we just had a report we've been showing some pictures now of you know the vast amount of homeless people in the streets there are skid row of course one example but it's up and down the coast and it's in some of the deserts in the valleys in california as well but you know i'm a california resident former at least and it's not just this problem of

homelessness it's foreclosures and it's also a state budget that has not been under control for several years now so we have that on one hand on the other hand this is a state that often votes democrat and so president obama in courting. their vote won't really have to court it and probably won't get as much attention by some of the republicans making any promises to make any changes as a result talk about that sort of dichotomy and how because it's a large state that seems to at least in the last few decades vote one way a lot of the major problems just get ignored. i don't know we're kind of maybe schizo phrenic on the presidential elections here in california you know people have their candidates or three going to support republican or a majority of time you know people supporting the democratic nominee but i think people are really perplexed because a lot of people out here supported obama they thought he was going to bring hope and change and when they got is the most dismal economy since the great depression

and a lot of the normal people are just mad that politics is just disgusting to them because they're just trying to get a job at a fast food restaurant and trying to feed their kids so i mean it's the story over and over again politics in these stories coming out where obama is going to come out here a seventy two million dollars from you know hollywood moguls it just kind of makes you want to puke for me i can't even watch some of this some of the hollywood programs that are put out right now but i think a lot of people just the way they deal with it is they just get lost in the superbowl they watch their sports teams and their reality shows and they just try to forget about it so a lot of my friends a lot of people just aren't talking politics because i think in general lot of people are just disgusted with the whole process they know it's corrupt the common person knows it's corrupt sometimes it does get a little depressing now which is that the first lady michelle obama was in inglewood california and that's a neighborhood that has been some pretty rough spot she was promoting her let's move campaign to help work on childhood obesity around the country. but what would

you choose george if you had to give the obama's a tour of certain parts of california what do you think they should say. i put them in a tent and make them live on the street for about a month and put them on a street corner and beg for food and see how they enjoy that lifestyle just trying to survive out here with no money and no help at all for want of a ride i know three hours and you're the tour guide where do you take them. i understand your i think the i think they know what's going on i think they have an idea the economy is they don't care. obama is just a puppet puppet of the federal reserve he's a puppet of wall street he's a puppet of one of the biggest fundraisers for him the pharmaceutical the military industrial complex i mean obama and the republican candidates are all part of the

same class they're all interested in making money and supporting the corporations and wall street interests so even if i showed how bad some of the areas are here they could care less because we don't have the money to give and that's all that he's going to be meeting with people with a lot of money that was george hammond or founder of survive and thrive. so let's talk now about a different kind of power from washington and whether or not it may be waning the power and pull of american democracy building groups as you may have heard of gyptian authorities are preventing americans working for u.s. based non-governmental organizations n.g.o.s from leaving the country a couple of people actually on a no fly list now they're talking about putting those people on trial in a dispute over the groups lack of an official registration with the government many of those americans and that includes the son of one obama administration cabinet member has taken refuge at the u.s. embassy in cairo pro-democracy groups have been around for decades and their power

was really seen about ten years ago you may remember the uprising in serbia and which president slobodan milosevic was overthrown by the people there well it turns out much of that was orchestrated and funded by the united states to this day many of the same activists though continue to train opposition groups around the globe they're giving how to sessions in revolution in countries they want to see changes take place but as are the lucy catherine of reports the game of regime change can sometimes be dangerous. this is the business of selling a lot of sky high heels barely there clothes revolutionary styles exported in the fashion capitals of the world hello i'm moderately evil. and this is the business of selling well revolution fresh exporting how to lessons and revolution aided by the democracy capital of the world democracies

after all aren't born knowing how to run themselves a decade ago marriage launched the serbian student movement that helped oust president slobodan milosevic. the group was called out for resistance and it bore the now familiar symbol of the clenched fist but behind the spontaneity of the uprisings was a carefully researched strategy guided by the west no boy somalia is a balkans columnist who's been chronicling the events in serbia since one nine hundred ninety nine the or poor movement itself was just a tiny student organization that it got subverted taken over the operatives then expanded it turned it into a branding empire and ended up basically one ing the ground the grassroots level of the revolution thus turning it into an astro turf where they were run by the needy which very openly goes in and says our goal is to more promote democracy a new york times investigation documented the extent of u.s. assistance according to journalist roger cohen poor was no ramshackle students

group but a well oiled movement backed by several million dollars from the u.s. but the objective is regime change the objective is to install a government that will execute orders the worst thing about all this is that it's undermining a concept that enabled the united states to claim moral leadership in the world in the first place with milosevic gone i've been marriage now spends his time advice ing activists abroad never. since i've been traveling the world and teaching people how to get rid of their pesky dictator so i have come up with these three easy steps so you too can get in on the action and laugh your way to freedom the video was made by students at the school of authentic journalism in mexico for narco news t.v. but ivan has helped develop a video game called a force more powerful in which players can practice scenarios like organizing mass protests and overthrowing dictators today our poor is called canvas and with the

help of the internet their methods and symbols are exploited the world over from the color revolutions in georgia and ukraine to venezuela and the arab spring uprisings in egypt william angle has written for over thirty years about washington secret geopolitics he's convinced that canvas is not acting alone the instigators of those so-called spontaneous protests least twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth have all been preordered eyes said you are seeing some of the people leaders of the protests have been trained in belgrade in serbia by all poor activists financed by the us state department. this thing has state department and u.s. intelligence all over it three easy steps and that's all it takes to overthrow your very own government so that's revolution become a commodity a product that could be branded papist mass produced an export of all across the globe well just like i've been a video this too of course is

a spoof but the game of regime change is quite real and its unintended consequences can be downright dangerous. alchemically the american taxpayer i think is getting. the short end of the bargain because they're there bankrolling people that are going around the world fomenting astroturf revolutions that are eventually backfiring and they're backfiring all over the place and once the people find out who was behind this their anger turn. through the american government computer can people once your boss receive you can repeat it over. and over. and easy recipe but the aftermath may be the hardest and of washington. now earlier i spoke to robert naiman about all of this he's the director at just foreign policy i asked him to talk a little bit more about the connection between what happened in egypt the arab spring and also what happened nearly a decade before in serbia formal yugoslavia take

a listen. well i think the community presented a little bit overstated we don't know nobody knows every thing that went behind every group that participated in the january twenty fifth. and i don't know some news you know reported that some of these people we tend to. stick with it to attribute everything that happened to dark conspiracy washington i think it's a mistake and it doesn't really you just doesn't do justice to circle crisis made by people who you choose to overthrow most people recognize those brutal dictatorship. and also i think it gives the united states too much credit for being an unseen hand and also the gooks the fact that the u.s. for for encouraging the beginning was opposed. at least you know

who the initial statement was pushing characters you couldn't vice president biden for was a friend who works now to markets with us and through the the u.s. will soon need to obstacles. and it was perceived as such by people on the street in january twenty third open that they saw the u.s. is. not about i mean i agree like i guess i can definitely see your point it's giving the u.s. a little too much credit to say they played you know the most major role obviously when you look at egypt it was about the people kind of getting out there in the streets but don't you see at least how connection at least can be viewed if there's these strategies these underground strategies things being planned if there's these sort of revolution teaching schools out there a lot of people know about this.