even when it's going to fix the problem there because there are better factors are the people that are going to be hurt by having to spend a couple of more dollars are a couple of very disingenuous things about this debate one thing that they voted on was a show vote i mean it was a ride or a ceremonial thing of course people are going for a moment and sort of fall out of the line secondly remember remember you can talk about this and you can say all of this is a terrible thing but when it came to the payroll tax debate i mean it was kind of obvious like if you're going to let it if you're going to let it rise like they don't want to talk democrats and want to talk about oh this is a tax increase if it goes back up they only said that one of the of the bush tax cuts both have the effect of contributing to the deficit it's true that graphic is accurate and that's not the point of contention but the idea that you can have this debate and not honestly say that it's not just a partisan one is absurd now going to the question of taxes you talk about saying how when times are good republicans say that they can't raise taxes the fact is there is something in tom your head explode of this but there is something to art laffer curve it really does have a very commonsense role obviously and at the zero on the one hundred percent points

but that's that's not the question my question is bush has bush took us to a forty year low on cap corporate taxes and a ninety year low on personal taxes and according to reaganomics that's supposed to produce ecstasy in paradise and wonders but what where are the jobs where you're talking about is the deficit this being eaten alive by entitlements i mean if you're going to use the deficit not talking about the deficit i'm talking about tagged as a low you guys got your tax cuts where are jobs if you're there are metrics for success if the economy is going to improve it has to do with the government not running a deficit i'm not hearing where the jobs are where is the what is the economy improving do so so you'd cut taxes as reagan did and you borrow the money from other countries you cut taxes as george bush did you borrow the money from other countries you guys said that was going to give us jobs now you want to play one that gave us a deficit what happened in the ninety's following the collapse of the cold war did clinton raise taxes like crazy no did that yes yes he did in one thousand nine hundred three you know if you go to the floor that was represented. so this will

create a great depression like we've never seen before and every single republican voted against that tax increase and it brought us a balanced budget but clinton stood there as a moderate he governed to the center and he had even the you know even welfare reform resulted in and resulted in a period i love here it's nice either we got to move along i mean i haven't heard anything about where the jobs are but we've got time for our last question a quick fire the super bowl is of course this weekend and aside from the football itself the commercials draw a lot of attention so what might we see the g.o.p. candidates being spokesman for how about ron paul a spokesman for acme pain away now with heroin or mitt romney spokesman for acme dog carriers now you can attach one to the roof of your private jet or a new gang word spokesman for acme moon shuttles round trip fare includes tonight stay in the bio in the biosphere. or other ideas this is pretty obvious is not mitt romney for just from i mean just from a. guy on her face in the room cult deprogramming services for ron paul supporters

ok i'm going to take it on paul to do a throwback i think or a slight or something less government more filling oh well that's probably pretty good story and you know what he said santorum the best right well i mean i'm going to say santorum is going to is the spokesman spokesman for the new acme internet search engine known results from google allowed. vince thanks thanks all works it's always for being. who acted alec i mean really have you ever seen a palette that looks like this is brock obama newt gingrich alec i haven't

this is a representative democratic republic here the united states or at least is supposed to be it's a government where we the people elect legislators to represent our interests and a corporatocracy that's a government where the legislators are own or run by corporations and there's an organization out there it's called the american legislative exchange council that appears to be taking america down the road toward corporatocracy a few times a year alec gathers together lawmakers corporate c.e.o.'s and lobbyists all together in the same high end resort hotel ballrooms to present to the elected officials model legislation written by the lawyers of alec and voted on by the corporations if the corporations approve that legislation and gets carried back to the state legislatures or even the u.s. congress by the obedient lawmakers in attendance who submitted his new laws and

it's long been speculated because he identified laws keep popping up in state after state republican lawmakers who attend alec conferences are taking their orders directly from alec and therefore legislation dealing with everything from voter id laws to harsher prison sentences for drug offenders to dismantling e.p.a. regulations have their roots in alaric. now we have some proof in florida republican public and state representative rachel bergen introduced legislation in the state in the state house back in november of last year to reduce corporate taxes something that's right in alex wheel house she got a bit sloppy though and forgot to take out alex mission statement is located at the top of all it's model legislation so the laws she introduced had a header that read whereas it is the mission of the american legislative exchange council to advance jeffersonian principles of free markets limited government federalism and individual liberty. nice words but if thomas jefferson was alive

today and read alex's proposed tax loopholes for rich people and corporations he'd barf or declare another revolution so here is state representative bergen who was handed legislation written by corporate interests at alec to reduce their own taxes and she turns around introduces that legislation into the florida state house with no changes as if it was their own idea the week language still in the top her office discovered the screw up they withdrew the legislation really quickly and reintroduced it without the alec mission statement. it was too late the group common cause sought and blew the whistle you know it's becoming increasingly clear what's going on in our country now that the supreme court has given corporations personhood rights and said that money is speech through super pacs and think tanks like alec we elect representatives and they represent corporations so i say why hide it from now on our lawmakers should just be honest with us take cue from

representative bergen in florida. i mean i've been pushing for to make members of congress wear nascar patches in their suits like nascar drivers so that we know of corporations are sponsoring them for years but i think they should also put a new header on top of all the new laws they propose letting us know who a law will benefit the most for who wrote the law in the first place for example the next few weeks republicans in the us house of representatives will hold hostage either middle class tax cuts or infrastructure spending or both to try to force the president to approve the keystone x.l. pipeline and when they do that legislation should come with a nice little header that says we're as it is the mission of the cobra there's no other oil barons to maximize their profits by keeping our nation addicted to dirty fossil fuels we had news this build a force the construction of the keystone x.l. pipeline or later when republicans again try to gut new wall street regulations

their legislation needs to have this federal whereas it is the mission of goldman sachs j.p. morgan wells fargo and other wall street bankers who fund our campaigns to maximize their profits with predatory lending five percent and economic destruction we introduce this bill to dismantle the consumer financial protection bureau and other wall street reforms in dodd frank or how about when house republicans again try to repeal obamacare whereas it is the mission of united health care at another for profit health insurers to make massive profits denying children's health care turning down lifesaving treatments and jacking up premiums to pay for more c.e.o. mansions we introduce this building repeal the affordable care act this is much needed transparency or that would be and so we get a constitutional amendment that says the corporations are not people and that money is property and not speech then we have to have this sort of transparency to see who's buying whom on capitol hill and whose interests are being represented above

we the people. go to move to amend or free speech for people dot or to put an end to the corporate takeover of our democracy that's it for the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website at totn arbonne dot com free speech dot org and our cheetah could also check out our two youtube channel stillings with tom hardy dot com this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free thom hartmann i phone and i pad app in the app store you send a speed back to twitter and tom underscore our been on facebook at tom underscore hartman our blogs message boards and telephone comment line at tom harkin dot com and don't forget democracy begins when you show up a good actor get out there get active tag your it sit next week.

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that was. with the u.n. expected to take action on the syrian crisis activists in the country crime massacred as hundreds are allegedly killed by government troops in the flashpoint city of homs. violent protests against the police and the military government escalate in cairo and across egypt with several people killed and hundreds injured plus. as election fever hits moscow with just three months to go before the presidential vote tens of thousands are expected to demonstrate from the streets of the russian capital a little later on saturday. with

the top news headlines and commentary from moscow to you this is our team glad to have you with us the u.n. security council will meet later on saturday with a vote due on a draft resolution on syria the text has been softened at russia's request dropping demands that for regime change and fresh sanctions this comes amid unconfirmed reports from syria of a new crackdown in the city of homes with hundreds allegedly killed has more from new york. by friday morning the russian foreign ministry issued a statement saying that it could not support the revisions of the draft resolution as it was because it's not dress address all of moscow's concerns a lot of sentences leave room for interpretation and i think that is the issue that russia has with the text of this resolution it does not want to leave any doors

open for regime change in syria because basically russia china and many other countries have vocalized the fact that the security council should not be used as a tool to impose regime change in any country around the world in this case in particular to syria it should be the security council should be new moving towards coming to a peaceful solution where both parties see in part in the conflict should come together at the table russia has its main concerns in the aftermath of what took place in libya it is not going to see repeated circumstances in syria in the meantime there have been reports from opposition groups in syria that roughly two hundred people have been killed in renewed violence in the city of homs according to the syrian observatory for human rights the army is shelling the city of fresh asha's in other cities for syria house also reported clearly this violent conflict is garnering attention from all parts of the world as the on international

community continues to find a way to reach some type of consensus on how to garner and lead to a peaceful solution in syria or to use marina there reporting from new york and you can get her latest updates on twitter and also check out our to news stream to stay up to date on the events in syria. over in egypt now police used tear gas and fired shots at protesters who have been trying to storm the interior ministry building for two days seven people have been confirmed killed as violence grips cairo and several other cities the unrest was sparked when more than seventy football fans died during an after match clash three days ago protesters accuse the police of failing to prevent the tragedy thousands of demonstrators in cairo are also calling on the ruling military council to give up our middle east analyst

walid far as it says the rejection people are furious that many of the ousted president mubarak's generals are still in place. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is the military council because it really has all the powers and they are demanding that those powers will be transferred quickly either to a government or to an elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i link this to something that happened couple weeks ago when the military council of order and security forces were going to shut down democracy agencies both and you can n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s u.s. they n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the mexicans so very have been entrancing power to democracy that they want to cut the deal with a force which most likely will be the muslim brotherhood there is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down but then again in a leader and yet benefit agencies are acting as if still very damaging to going

around what is happening right now in large segments of civil society but typically the youth of egypt will began to revolt and that revolt was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood and that some of those youth are angry at the government because they want the ministry council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear that egypt is moving towards and. well of course as always we would like to know what you think about the latest events in egypt today we are asking that why column has not yet returned to the country following last year's revolution log on to our website r t v dot com to take part in our latest poll. so far almost half of you believe it's because of the allies of ousted leader hosni mubarak are still in power almost a quarter say it's in the interest of radicals to maintain an writes about seventeen percent believe the reason behind instability is that many protesters

still have no jobs and a minority suggested that every revolution creates its own downfall good r t dot com to cast your vote. and you are with our team still ahead for you this hour the debate over copyright players often get. the anti-piracy treaty designed to protect intellectual property has it europeans in revolt find out why they say it violates their basic rights. plus the unusual attraction why a robot called a roxy is unlocking the hearts of men looking for love. when exactly a month from now russians will head to the polls to vote for their next president but this saturday in moscow tens of thousands are expected to demonstrate for fair elections as well as rally in support of and against the current leadership artie's peter oliver has the latest. but what we're going to see on saturday is

a march through the center of moscow two through on the road exactly behind me to block a square where a rally will take place now this is a rally of people who are protesting against what they see is irregularities taking place during the the parliamentary elections here in russia which took place on the the fourth of december tens of thousands are expected however i can tell you it is bitterly cold here in moscow that is expected to have some kind of effect on the the amount of people coming out of the authorities are on board with it however they have said the protesters must remain within the letter of the law and one thousand police officers will be deployed in order to keep the peace here now in terms of who will be attending we've heard from the current procrit of the independent candidate for president to they said that he will be at the meeting however he said that he doesn't plan to give any speeches as far as the other candidates go those the other names on the presidential ballot nobody else is

expected to to attend the protest this isn't the only demonstration it will be taking place on saturday elsewhere in the city there will be pro-government protests going on these people who expect to go to other squares in the in moscow to say that they don't want to revolution that they don't want to see turmoil in russia again they don't want to see going back to the days of the early ninety's since the elections in december we have seen that to be approved not united russia the ruling party follow through on some of the promises they made to you to make changes to the electoral system we've seen well the very expensive program of putting webcams into polling booths every at polling stations every polling station in russia is now being fitted with a a webcam allowing them to allowing people to to log on at home and to watch him become if you will your an armchair observer at the at the election so that's been put in place. independent league of of service set up to monitor the

elections that will take place on the fourth of march and we've also seen right to me putin say that one of the criticisms that the protesters had of him were saying that he was on television and on radio and in other media far more than any other candidate know that to be approved and said that he's going to slash the amount of time he's on the air in order to as he says give the other candidates a fair crack of the whip. parties appear all over reporting for us there and of course we're going to hear more from him throughout the day as events unfold and we're also closely following the pre-election developments in russia online go to our t.v. dot com to get all of the latest information along with you the background on presidential candidates and analysis of the protests here's what else you can find on our web site right now. notorious activist group anonymous has found out what the f.b.i. thinks about them and leaked the audio recording online listen in on what was said on our site. also online for you america's first lady gives everyone an impromptu

lesson in keeping fit during an appearance on a top chat show watch the video on r t dot com. or. as humanitarian groups accuse libya's new government of abuse in the country's detention centers it's been revealed and that a former senior official may have been the latest victim of torture libya's ambassador to france has died in custody twenty four hours after being detained by a militia group reports a claim that photos of sixty two year old omar show evidence of bruising and other wounds rights groups say that torture and executions have become commonplace in makeshift prisons run by former rebels middle east expert and

a journalist shandon says death is in the spotlight for political reasons because the same militia that allegedly killed him is also holding colonel gadhafi son. i don't think the militia responsible for the the likely torturing to death of mr will be held account but there's a lot of interesting political games going on in libya it seems to me very clearly is that why this focus now on the on the militia is because there's a tiny militia there's entirely people are holding saif al islam and the west especially the i.c.c. are very fearful about what this one tiny militia are going to do with saif al islam saif islam doesn't have access to a sinister as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely is that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to being

tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france. protests have been raging across europe against the last two weeks signing of a new copyright treaty which enforces intellectual property law on the internet opponents say the international act document enforces censorship and is a violation of human rights and as artie's dumbarton reports more demonstrations are expected over the weekend. the streets may be snowy but here in sweden the heat is being turned up in that most modern of political debates surrounding internet freedom protests have been called here in the capital as part of a wider reaction in europe and the u.s. against laws perceived to infringe on the public's access to the internet but target this time actor the anti counterfeiting trade agreement signed by countries around the world the people behind the law point out that it's important to try and

protect the copyright of the people who make music to make video and distribute it around the world if you say well everything should be free well perhaps no one will write any books or produce music or fields etc. it would disappear but much less because it's not profitable for those against it say it's a wolf in sheep's clothing a way for governments to control their access to the internet and that it was held in secret but it was designed to be very punitive to those found breaching copyright rules the next generation has grown up with the ability to say anything to anybody else on the planet today ideas that lit out for themselves to have a freedom of speech never before imagined we don't need to ask anybody's permission to present new ideas and. all of a sudden corporations want to take that away because it inconveniences them and

millions of young people are rising up in anger at the formation of pirate parties not just here in sweden but elsewhere in europe is evidence of how high the status of those internet freedom campaigners has risen and there's politics not just in the european parliament but also on the streets internet freedom campaigners are urging people to put their views across before the european parliament votes on this in june to try and stop the legislation before it's made whether it's done in parliaments and in political boardrooms or on the street few expect this to be a calm debate party's tom barton reporting for us there now coming your way this hour accepting old frames the new way. new branches of religion attempt to change the face of the nation with some saying the transition could have dangerous

consequences. and now for something completely different finding the time to connect with loved ones can be a struggle in today's hectic world but now men are being given the chance to have a lasting relationship with a doll doesn't demand too much time or attention to can reports the future of relationships around the world could soon look very different. when toys for boys become more then toroids originally when i first got her i call her my synthetic girlfriend but it's actually progressed to the point where it's like you know she's my wife thirty seven year old they've kept from detroit says he's been in a relationship with his sex doll for more than ten years and it's him and it or in her that he found his better half slippers perhaps not even worth getting out of bed at this point these days they've cats bond with a dog seems like

a joke to many but according to a british artificial intelligence researcher dr david levy in a few decades romance between humans and robots will be a common thing i'm completely convinced that within about forty years people will be falling in love with robots and even marrying them and this could be the great grandmother of the future perfect robot mate meet roxie america's first sex robot it talks and senses touch what are you wearing. you know how do. you. want to. go ahead and is he touching her. artificial intelligence engineer doug hines believes that he created the perfect alternative for those who for different reasons can't

or are too busy or too lazy to connect with human beings we created like a bridge that gap between you know going in maybe going out with someone else you know just meeting someone in a bar or what have you and just randomly maybe picking up a social disease instead of dealing with it you could have the sex robot that would be your companion not only listen to you talk to you. interact with you public opinion about sex robots now is well mostly you know. that's what it's for robotic sex when i wait a minute isn't that marriage i mean i would not be the saddest christmas if i thought you could be into this. but dark hines seems to be very serious about his creation the japanese are even more serious about robots and. every new model there look small.