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meanwhile the zeros in the trick she claims have drawn a good hot new case and been to within a year. right now their second part of the big picture political show with tom hartman is coming. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour of violence and property damage marred occupy oakland protests this weekend what can be done to quash the violent factions within the occupy movement also the governor of arizona is waging a new war and it's not about trying to find president obama's birth certificate but if you try to do now and how will it affect the citizens of arizona and you could think a largely democratic state government could pass a single payer health care bill right or wrong what's really behind california's inability to act.

in the best of the rest of the news this weekend we witnessed chaos and violence in the streets of oakland most from police who use chemical weapons and and rubber coated steel bullets against peaceful patriots arresting more than four hundred people unfortunately in response to the police brutality we also also saw some of the more radical members of occupy oakland rise up they battled with police made their way into city hall caused thousands of damn dollars worth of damage and even burned to the american flag at the heart of the occupy movement and from its inception has been the notion of using peaceful protest and nonviolent struggle as a means to achieve greater equality within american society however over the course of history every form of peaceful protest has spun off a more radical violent faction typically

a very small faction and the same is sadly true with the occupy and these radical factions to their use of violence and destruction undermine the very principles of the movement themselves and put a stain on those members who continue to use peaceful protests to accomplish their goals so how does the occupy movement best deal with this problem tina tupac joins me now she is a syndicated op-ed columnist for the managing editor of crooks and liars tina welcome. thanks tom thanks for having me thanks for joining us and i hope i said your last name right to point it was close thank you very much i understand you've been to eight occupies in two countries you've written about it extensively for the atlantic you've been following the movements of the day one and used to live in oakland how big of a problem are these minority factions who push a quote diversity of tactics and quote which is code for ok if for some people to smash windows. it's a problem because really this these tactics taint the entire movement when i woke

up in the morning and i saw the now iconic very recognizable picture of the occupiers burning the american flag on the steps of city hall after it had been broken into my first reaction was that is what their enemies should have photo shopped in order to discredit them and here they are doing it to themselves. and you have five thousand people who shut down the ports of oakland and you have two people breaking windows it turns into five thousand people who broke some windows so i guess it absolutely tate's their. entire movement but it also destroys your moral authority when you start using these tactics you can't go after you know the illegal attack there are these somewhat legal tactics of the banks in these these there are. things that they have risen up

against when you yourself are going and doing graffiti and breaking things it just doesn't first of all to peaceably assemble and petition your government if you got into a surprise was right and so and what they're doing and burning the american flag is absolutely protected speech but breaking into city hall and causing property damage is not protected speech civil disobedience is civil if it looks like it riot it probably is as i've been watching this and i saw this movie before i was in s.d.s. back in the sixty's and and knew some people didn't know exactly what is going on right i absolutely do and three thoughts came to mind one was infiltrators by the police or or groups that want to blow up the occupy movement to genuine splinter group like the revolutionary communist party group or the world can't wait groups are. you know one of those folks or three people who are just politically naive

they they just don't understand how you know they don't understand how this stuff plays out in the media around the world long enough to figure that out. what's your sense of and is there is there a fourth or fifth there could be and what's your sense of what is fueling this. well i think in oakland specifically and i like your third option and i agree with you i think it's you know people who are a little naive they haven't read about other groups you know i mentioned the weather underground in my piece and now a solid linsky who's been vilified recently by gingrich he said that the weather underground should have been on the establishment payroll because they were helping the establishment in a lot of ways all they do destroy the us right they absolutely absolutely and with these tactics in oakland they actually make the oakland police look good and that's really hard to do because the oakland police haven't been community policing for forty years i mean if i lived in oakland if the oakland police get out of their car

they're arresting you these are not people that are are easy to make look good but when you have people who say that from occupy breaking into city hall that you know makes the cops and their tactics look justified so strategically it's not very good i think that there is a lot of. it's resentment and people who are myopic instead of people with a long game and a strategy and and that's unfortunate because it undercuts anybody with a long game and a strategy you know i have been saying from the very beginning that occupy you know michael lewis quite famously said that occupy has justice on its side they have the facts on their side they have history on their side they have the public on their side it only takes a couple of these these individuals who are not denounced by the way by occupy as a whole to ruin and really taint the entire movement well and that's that's the question is what point i remember one of the first times that there were

guys dressed in black and with hoods and things and they it seemed like they were all men. this was a month or so ago in oakland smashing windows and there was some footage of it and along with the footage this was stuff that the. mainstream media didn't pick up but you could see it on you tube and you know the movement knew about it along with them especially the windows there were also all these people from the oakland occupy movement standing along the street shouting at them stab stab don't do that and they were completely ignoring them i mean people were physically and these people were like you know throwing chairs and things at the occupiers who were trying to stop them at what point does the occupy movement as a whole have to address this and come out with a statement and and and what about this diversity of tactics that you know keeps coming up like hey it's like diversity of opinion isn't a wonderful thing when some of those tactics within that diversity are going to

destroy the movement. tom i think that they're at this point i mean they're they the movement is a little over four months old as far as being a viral kind of hit in this country and i think that this is the moment when they have to stand up and i've had people say well how can occupy that has no leaders how can they denounce this how can they say that this is a fringe movement and it's the same way that they can say that they're going to have a march in solidarity with oakland they just say it and i think that they are absolutely at this point where if they want to be a nonviolent movement they have to decide that they're going to be a nonviolent movement but nonviolence is not we're going to be nonviolence and less the cops mess with us then that is a you're not you're violent status is contingent on the cops and that means that the cops have control over your principles absolutely and that is what's not getting across to people who believe in these diversity of tactics very very well

said tina thanks so much for being with us tonight thanks the greater or thank you so much for having this discussion i really appreciate it thank you tom thank. those screwed workers in arizona last week the number one priority for governor jan brewer was boosting her own book sales that's why she met president obama on the tarmac at the phoenix airport last wednesday start a fight with a man wagged her finger in his face for the perfect photo op to publicize her book and by the way it worked the book shot from number three hundred forty three thousand on amazon that meant there's three hundred forty two thousand above it. to number seven mission accomplished now this week governor brewer and a republican soldiers in the state legislature have a new priority going after public worker unions republicans in the arizona state senate introduced legislation this week that puts wisconsin governor scott walker's

war on unions on steroids the bills would ban collective bargaining for public employee unions forbid public employees from deducting part of their paychecks to go to union dues and unlike in wisconsin the bill also targets police and firefighters this is the democratic senate minority leader david shapiro described it it looks like an all out assault on the right of workers to organize he's right but it's more than that it's an all out assault on the middle class an american middle class that is quickly vanishing not over here and take a look at this chart this is here we go here we have. a union membership as a share of income and a share of income going to the top one percent it's pretty straightforward stuff when union membership goes down so does middle class income union membership is the red line middle class income the blue line and mother were top one percent that's the green they go up ever since we started reaganomics thirty years ago eighty

percent of all new wealth created in the united states since reaganomics as gone to just the top one percent. and before reagan and pure you see the numbers and before reagan the c.e.o. worker to pay ratio was thirty to one now it's four hundred seventy five to one in some industries it's ten thousand to one. unions democratize the workplace the reason why these things are so intertwined like this is because unions are democracies within the workplace we have a demonic democratic government within that we have an economy that has little kingdoms these kingdoms are called the workplace and when the kingdoms become oppressive you get a democracy inside there to balance the power of that zero pression and then what happens is a fully democratize workplace will help both as its owners and c.e.o.'s and its workers create a strong middle class but when you take democracy out of the workplace take out

that balancing power of workers the middle class dies and for the oligarchy that's the whole point they want to all for themselves even if it means doing it by creating bubble in a crash economies you know rebrand spin and bubble and crash again let's steal as much of this is this is all about ripping off the middle class and we were ending up very rapidly with a middle class in america that pretty much is it and that's a tragedy for all of us and it's also dangerous for democracy. after the break democrats in california have failed twice this week to pass a single payer health care bill what's behind the failure and who is really to blame.

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here it's the good the bad of the very very slowly ugly good thirty eight of the world's top climatologists you may remember our good bad and ugly segment yesterday that are very very ugly went to the wall street journal for publishing a less than scientific global warming denial op ed written by sixteen scientists whose field were. anything but climatology well today a group of thirty eight of the world's top climatologists wrote

a scathing letter to the editor of the wall street journal chastising those editors for publishing that original op ed and telling them to check with climate scientists for views on the climate letter went on to state that the op ed was written by the climate science equivalent of dentists practicing cardiology the letter picked apart the credentials of the sixteen deniers as well as the so-called science they used to say that global warming doesn't exist congrats to these thirty eight climatologists for standing up to rupert murdoch and his right wing media empire the bad east haven connecticut mayor joseph maturo jr you may remember material making the news last week for his stunning statement that he would eat a taco when he went home as his way of reaching out to the large latino community in east haven well material ran his mouth again yesterday when asked about his choice to appoint a puerto rican city committee and not an ecuadorian which is the larger population

in east haven material smugly said. no you don't have to come from a certain section of a country. and then as if that wasn't enough of a gap material added as you know darker for you why not for you blatant racism the material has displayed twice in two weeks is frankly intolerable society and particularly in elected office and he a new one for some time sure. and the very very ugly alabama state senator shadrack mcgill according to a deal the bible is quite clear that increasing teacher salaries would only lead to less qualified teachers he made this remark at a prayer meeting in which he also said the doubling teachers' salaries which are only at thirty six thousand a year now would not help education. a two thousand and eleven report showed that alabama is we down the list when it comes to chip a across the nation mcgill also said that it was a fact that keeping teacher pay low is a well known biblical principle. gill of may have seen the hidden writing about

teachers' salaries in the bible but he sure didn't read anything about increasing the pay rate for state legislators a whopping sixty seven percent in two thousand and seven to be more specific mcgill a part time legislator is making more than a full time teacher with a master's degree and fifteen years of experience it's clear mcgill just wants more money for himself quoting the bible cover up his own personal greed now that's very fair. so a very strange happened on capitol hill the house subcommittee on energy in the environment was meeting today and filmmaker josh fox the guy who made gas land was arrested while trying to film the the event he was he just showed up and he was trying to film this thing at this this hearing on fracking at the orders of republican chairman and here here it is. so you go.

out. on the ship. was that this is serious. was the public hearing right there in the public. right now do you think you know you are you. are. there you go you leslie i want to move you out to. we received. yeah as you know some of the democrats in the media were saying where's the transparency fox later released a statement about his arrest he said the first a memo to the constitution states explicitly congress shall make no law that infringes on the freedom of the press which means the no subcommittee rule or regulation show he should prohibit a respectful journalist or citizen from recording a public hearing congressman jerry nadler agreed he said i've served in the house of representatives since one thousand nine hundred two in all that time i cannot

recall a chair of any committee or subcommittee having ever ordered the removal of person who was filming a committee proceeding and not being disruptive so what's going on here well i think it's pretty simple pretty straightforward and people want something kept secret something fishy zob. this is a symptom of corporate control of our government and these lawmakers don't want the truth getting out about fracking truths like the halliburton loophole that was passed in two thousand and five dick cheney's influence on the e.p.a. and fracking in violation of a two thousand and four e.p.a. report that said the it could wreck groundwater if it was legalized you know the the bottom line is what happened here is that the fractures were afraid that they could be punished by the congressmen were afraid that they give the power punished by the fractures we've reached the point where it's like it's a carrots and sticks i i mean i have an acquaintance who was a member of congress

a couple years ago and told me the story about a. lobbyist essentially somebody associate with a lobbyist coming to him and saying we're going to spend a couple hundred thousand bucks i forget the exact amount in your district we can use it to destroy you or to make sure that you get reelected which would you prefer . i mean how do you how do you respond to something like that his response was to say i'm not going to run for congress again literally he just so that's a full board but you've got you know the republicans here who are being paid off by the oil industry and have you know all these buddies among the fractures and halliburton which was a company that was nearly in bankruptcy because because dick cheney when he was c.e.o. acquire dresser industries before he became vice president now this giant corporation that's making a billion one point six billion dollars a year of fracking you get these big corporations they could either punish these members of congress by running people against them in primaries and things or they could contribute to them they can give the massive campaign contributions this is

just another example in my mind this is just another example of the corruption of our political process by big money they've got the carrots hey you want to campaign contributions and they've got the sticks oh you don't you don't want to go in so ok we'll support your your opponent and it shouldn't be we used to call this bribery and corruption it's time to get money out of politics. when it comes to a single payer health care system we have to look toward canada the canadian government didn't just one day say it's time for a single payer system and poof everyone was covered. instead it was a process it was a process that started locally it began in one thousand nine hundred six when so

scratch one became the first province in canada to say that everyone should be able to get medical care when they're sick bypassing the says catch one hospitalization act well that was a big step forward here's this catch one here well that was a big step forward. the province actually wanted to do more it wanted universal health care for all of its citizens it just didn't have the money and so the way to few years in one nine hundred fifty alberta saw what was going on and say oh it's a cool idea let's try something like that and they passed their own plan they gave health cut health coverage to ninety percent of their population so in one nine hundred fifty seven the federal government saw what was going on around the nation and passed the hospital insurance and diagnostic services act that paid for half of all the cause of any single payer system that was created by any of the provinces after that by nine hundred sixty one fifteen years after cisco each one all ten provinces and similar single payer systems today canada has one of the highest life

expectancies in the world and spends almost a third less a year on health care than we do in the united states they're doing something right up there. the point here is that a single payer universal health care system won't be enacted overnight in america just like it wasn't an act that overnight in canada that's because the for profit health insurance companies here have latched on to our lawmakers and our economy so i eat. take an act and pry them off and along the way no matter how much salt we toss on them will be plenty of setbacks on the road to making health care of basic right in america and we suffered one of those setbacks this week california could have been our so scatch one for the second time in the last couple of days a build a create a single payer universal healthcare system in california the nation's biggest state got a majority the votes of the california state senate but didn't pass one thousand senators

voted yes fifteen senators voted no but the single bill it payor bill came to vote shy of getting the type of majority it needed to pass because the california senate you need twenty one votes out of forty members to make matters worse the votes were there but the senators weren't for democratic senators alex alex podia one vargas michael rubio and rod wright did not vote they abstain. had any two of them voted yes california right now would be on its way to establishing a single payer health care system not to mention two democrats voted no rod calderon and lew korea so that's six democratic senators six of who shot down this bill when they when the people of california only needed two votes the stars were aligned in california for single payer this bill had passed the state's legislature before twice in fact only to be vetoed by republican governor arnold schwarzenegger but this time

a democrat jerry brown was in the governor's mansion and democrats control the legislature but these six democrats let us all down and we were pretty good idea why. keep your friends close keep your enemies closer that's the strategy for the for profit insurance banks toure's that they're going to continue to use in coming years as more and more americans demand a single payer health care system here at home that's how the banks toure's won in california the two democratic senators who voted no ranked in the top ten in the sun in contributions received from the health insurance industry in the last election in two thousand and ten lou korea pocketed forty seven thousand one hundred dollars in iran calderon took in thirty nine thousand six hundred they both voted no that might not sound like a lot but for local elections that's a hell of a good chunk of change and one of the democrats who abstained from the vote alex padilla he got thirty six thousand seven hundred ninety three dollars from the health insurance industry in two thousand and ten to win this election he also ranked in the top ten so here's the tragic reality these weren't contributions

these were investments that the same sort of investments that wall street hustlers made in mitt romney down in florida were just two hundred donors raised thirty million bucks for the romney super pac romney didn't win florida his investors want is that romney find himself in the white house and those investors are going to see big returns by keeping the capital gains tax loophole in place or dismantling wall street reform or the keystone x.l. pipeline. in california for profit health insurance bankers have for years been making an investment in politicians so that when the day came that the for profit health insurance model was in danger as it came this week the insurance industry banks toure's would have enough politicians in their pocket to keep the status quo in place some of the six senators likely people who want to be lifelong politicians and would rather do what's best for their careers than for their constituents probably didn't want their campaign contributions cut off so they did as they were told others are for more moderate districts and are watching their backs knowing that thanks to citizens united one hot shot health insurance executive can drop ten

million bucks in the next election and that state senator would be out of a job we the people lost the health care battle this week in california with virtually no coverage by the mainstream corporate media because we can't compete with the enormous money in our politics and until we get some states men and women who don't care about being lifelong politicians and who are willing to stand up to big money and do what's right we'll keep losing and losing and losing a single payer health care system in america starts with getting the money out of politics and that starts with your going to move to amend or or corporations are not people dot com to get involved. that's it for times big picture get out there and get active democracy begins with you tag your beautiful.

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