a pastor isn't the only one who's funneled money into education initiatives democratic representative sheila jackson lee has obtained for earmarks for the university of houston since two thousand and nine which has come to five point three million dollars for the school but she's not just passionate about education she also loves her husband elwyn dearly and i mention that he's worked at that university for decades and call it a coincidence but elwyn has had quite a few promotions over the years and he now sits as the university's v.p. for community relations and institutional access and he makes over two hundred thousand dollars a year a representative robert andrews of might have taken some cues from sheila leave because he has also secure earmarks for a college with his help rucker's at law school in camden has received three point three million dollars in earmarks i guess is an associate dean of the school that's right his spouse senator tim johnson is a member of the set of the procreation is committee and has been a cheerleader for the pentagon's mad an engineering teaching initiative called starbase so with the help of seven other senators johnson dropped an extra four

million dollars into the education program oh and did i mention here that johnson's wife barbara is the supervisor for starbase so now that i've shared those few examples with you should also take this time to point out that it's not that i don't support more funding going towards education believe me i do but lawmakers are prohibited from using earmarks or programs will benefit themselves their spouses or their immediate families because the post points out most don't disclose their spouse's employer so nobody checks say and i guess nobody knows but i think of the message here is clear the rules do not apply to that despite their recent very public opposition to earmarks as their way to help with the deficit at the end of the day they still want those dollars going to their favorite pet projects now some of the politicians that i mentioned began funding these projects per year mark moratorium and it continued straight through as if nothing has changed at all they just found ways around it take for example last year's defense authorization bill house armed services committee made a billion dollar special fund where members. can add amendments and direct funds to

projects within their districts that make no mistake of it those lawmakers swear that those bill count as earmarks after all that would violate the band they put on themselves so they said that didn't count because the programs would have to compete to actually get that money thankfully another senator staff did some research pointing out that one hundred fifteen of the two twenty five amendments were previously slated to be earmarks so i think you guys get the point lawmakers might be trying to portray themselves the good guys of by saying at the put their projects aside for the sake of the country but in reality they just found a really clever way to work around the moratorium that they themselves put in place so for demonstrating yet again the corruption and politics go hand in hand we're giving congress knights tools i'm award. guys time for happy hour joining me this evening are two praise for jenny churchill

and comedian tim young guys. you're like all the dark dressed crowd today in orlando when i'm black you know i'm being that and you are now in three states last night i mean it's going on. let's talk about whales and whether the ones at sea world are slaves take a look. the people for ethical treatment of animals need. to see and demand their release peter see this in a news release all five orcas are violently seized from the ocean and taken from their families as babies they were kept in small concrete tanks and reduced to perform stupid tricks. you guys know what i think about peta so you could just go. oh i guess my point here would be i don't really understand how they could be much richer i would think they would measure their wealth an amount of fish that they're given and they're given a lot of fish you know the day that they can go to an a.t.m. and you know take out because they would be richer if they were in the wild now

they're saying they're slaves because they're forced to do things they don't want to do but i'm just saying like how can you say they're slaves they're being you know monetary only compensated very for sheen the shamrocks show at seaworld i have it's the worst any time that anyone has to dance around forcibly to we've built this city on rock n roll that is the worst they are slaves actually the real deal here is that the trainers are there like their i guess relatives on the lawsuit so these trainers who have gone to school for marine biology for eight years and have doctorates are forced to wear like sequins and dance around with them kind of i think more for the trainers than the whales all right i think free willy is annoying whatever. they. want to introduce this we've spoken about oklahoma's person good bill a number of times here on the show it's the one that basically says that conception

or that human life starts them all conception and would basically make contraception illegal in the state and so now one lawmaker is actually fighting back taking a little bit of i know a little something from the meaning of life take a listen. so listen to this basically senator johnson who represents oklahoma's forty eighth district has introduced an amendment to the bill mandating that the same rights and benefits be granted to sperm basically saying any action which manage actuates or otherwise deposit semen anywhere but in a woman's vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child i love it i think it's genius we did way to go back with jack you ation is

now officially illegal now it's murder because it would be let alone get out of my usual show where there's only about you know i think that we should actually take this a step further and we should have you know kind of a shout out funeral type thing for all of the sperm that was so brutally murdered that at a time you know every teenage boy is a mass murderer i don't we should have a moment of silence every show for all the murdered sperms out there my thought but i don't have a very long moment of silence so yeah like the whole show possibly it could work. but. let's that we have something else that we should cry about a little while back and we're really excited is a new law was passed when it concerned online gambling take a look. see now we're soon you'll be able to gamble online the city is the first in the nation to do those measure part of the d.c. budget which just passed the thirty day congressional waiting period the wagering expected to start late this summer well the d.c.

council decided to just ruin everyone's life today and they did so they took a vote it's a on the online gambling and decided that no dice that's no longer allowed and they enacted a ban on new strip clubs in an area of north east because there's already four of them i think they're. we dispensary and so they're afraid that it's going to become the new red light district of d.c. i'm a lot more concerned about the personally the strip clubs than the gambling but even the worst for a little bit right here right they don't need to add more strip clubs and i'll look at you're going to ban them you're going to ban the way you want to give you room you don't want to give room for expansion for a new strip club a lot better and it's actually going to come in a lot of women have to put their themselves through college i understand that but there's no walk dances in d.c. and i'll look to you can remember you understand so you know it's terrible going to maryland. i mean i think it's ironic because i want to monitor these people on the d.c. city council and see how many of them are caught in

a red light district type area over the next year because it's always the ones wanting to regulate these types of things who are then later in a scandal with a prostitute is this a red light district type area really even exist anymore it should be honest all right let's talk about porn star moving from strippers of porn stars sashi gray she before she was trying to just read to children in school and that caused an uproar for some people. these photographs posted out to say look innocent enough a nice looking woman greeting two young students at emerson elementary school in compton but that young woman is also this young woman staunch a great model and award winning actress make that award winning actress porn star you say. all right so she's in trouble again turns out a sense films are releasing one of her final scenes as part of artists and they wanted to donate a version of the proceeds without her knowledge of the national education association read across america program but they don't want the money they said no

thanks we don't want your cash because it is your money money really trying to just take the money even if it's from porn again i don't really see yeah but i want to take something to help the children read who cares who is going to first put themselves through college porn stars can pay for reading for america i find the saddest part of this that she's being drug. into this yet again and for no reason i mean she doesn't want to donate this money they want to donate this money on her behalf they're trying to create buzz and they are capitalizing up and running and i actually think it's kind of sad for her she just wanted to read some kids controversy now some organization is taking advantage of her name controversy as you probably goes by her real name when she reads it is not the stage and. i don't know about that we didn't get to this last story but we're going to have to do it tomorrow because it's about incest and fun things are joining me tonight that's a good night so things are going and make you come back tomorrow alex sides all this going to be on for happy hour and here to talk about incest so in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the launch on facebook and follow us on twitter if there's anything you

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get ready for a shake up rick santorum might have swept last night's primaries but don't count your chickens before they're hatched ron paul's campaign is off the rise so is the g.o.p. ready to line up behind the party's most consistent candidate. this is a consistent pattern a lack of concern for the environment and for human life and of course that's something that's part of the imperial mindset protecting american interests no matter the cost the pentagon is covering the globe both with military bases and pollution leaving you and i had to pay the price we'll show you why personal safety

doesn't help anyone. and that's the report u.s. officials don't want you to see proof that war in afghanistan might be a quagmire after all and that our enemies are poised to rise to power will bring you the state of the taliban. it's wednesday february eighth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching r t. well the race to be the next republican presidential candidate has shaken up this after rick santorum swept all three states and last night's primaries now mitt romney's cozy spot as front runner isn't so certain anymore throughout the race various candidates enjoyed their time in the limelight only to be taken over by a new g.o.p. flavor of the week but one candidates popularity has remained consistent ron paul

and there are signs now that he is gaining momentum as specially after coming in second in minnesota where he beat romney and gingrich and take a look at this poll according to the latest telephone polls coming out of coming out front runner mitt romney lost some ground in recent days dropping from thirty to twenty nine percent ron paul is now in second place nationally his support group five percent putting him at twenty one percent rounding out the bunch newt gingrich's support fell by one to nineteen percent and rick santorum support rose by five to eighteen percent so with support for other candidates slipping is it ron paul's time to shine well a recent event shows just how passionate paul supporters are and about oh there was a special evening caucus to accommodate certain religious voters and it was ran by prominent casino owner in the state his name is sheldon adelson here he is he also

pumped a lot of money into a super pac to support gingrich but that didn't stop swarms of ron paul supporters from showing up and causing quite a commotion well our next guest was there to tell us how it all went down blogger and activist just in trouble joining me just moments ago take a listen well when i wrote there was. you know my feeling was this this these are just regular people showing up because this caucus was right in the morning saturday and a lot of people missed it couldn't make it. so once they found out this thing out seven o'clock a lot of people showed up and wanted to participate and i felt like it was just regular people showing up so i called it ron paul supporters warmed it crashed it i didn't feel that way especially since quite a few rabbis and jewish people spoke. or so what do you think it says about

you know the fact that it was mitt romney who this guy poured all that money into yet you have all these loud very passionate vocal ron paul ron paul supporters really showing up to support what does it say about kind of ron paul's supporters and his base well it was interesting because this guy who owns the nation. sheldon adelson he actually supporting gingrich and he was sitting right there. he was about the twenty feet from me and you could so he was a little irritated because so many people were clapping and applauding but the ron paul people were talking and there were quite a few jewish people and rabbis who stood up and spoke for ron paul he was sitting there i didn't take it because he was supporting gingrich through all of this. very

interesting ron paul certainly has a very passionate following want to talk about some of the more recent developments as far as the election last night the results really shake things up for the republican race mitt romney's front runner status isn't so certain anymore is it not at all. i just think people don't really trust him or like him it's just the media's been showing everybody well he's the front runner he's the guy you've got to go after. this is the guy but that's not really a reason why you or somebody. i mean it was he was the anti-christ or maybe it could be a rama no. trying out each candidate i just wish they would ron paul. newt gingrich he sucks now it's running out rick santorum he's awful if you know anything about it hopefully ron paul be the next guy. and so with rick

santorum sweeping all three caucuses last night the kind of shows that he is the alternative to mitt romney it's because some republicans conservatives are furred ahead as the massachusetts moderate so we are seeing this divide within the republican party but ron paul's followers are you know they're always there they always stick around no matter what what does this divide within the party me and for paul's campaign well i just don't think that anybody anybody calls them so republicans could say that they're good for the constitution or that they're against limited government for that they're against just spending the homeland or defending our borders and since ron paul supports all those things it just baffles me that he doesn't receive more support but i think it's because people just aren't or they just don't know they haven't really looked at him they haven't studied them

they have no idea so if he got more coverage more people really thought about it i think it's a or will continue to grow and what is it about ron paul that riles his supporters up so much because once you start listening to him and but so much just the overall message he's trying to get across you're just gonna wake up and you realize wow our country is being run by the federal reserve which is a private organization run by private people and but roland. you realize that i realize the wars are a lie you realize the war on terror is fake the war on drugs is a complete joke once you start to wake up to all this you getting into it and you stay around hoping or you don't change. and you know the fact that he is getting momentum and that he has made it this far is a huge improvement from the last time he was running and the election so ron would

you say that ron paul's image as a fringe candidate has changed. to james is the four continues to grow he came in second a strong second and answers he came in second in many of those so people are going to start to realize ok gingrich is finished for a whole bunch of these contests so why can't we look at ron paul as being just as viable as newt gingrich or anybody else. blogger and activist just in trouble. and afghanistan is not the only place the u.s. has left a mess around the globe where america has waged wars and set of bases and even here on u.s. soil the actions of the military have left a dirty and even toxic mess for local communities and as it turns out the united states department of defense is the biggest polluter on the planet and as you'll see the mess may just be too expensive for the pentagon to clean up. the united

states department of defense the planet's biggest polluter with hundreds of military bases around the world the department is responsible for more ways than any other company or country this is a consistent pattern of a lack of concern for the environment and for human life and of course that's something that's part of an imperial mindset the problem has persisted throughout history from nuclear testing in the pacific in the fifty's fire. to nato attacks dropping depleted uranium in libya it gets into the water table and it does damage to the kidneys and the liver is very very highly dangerous some countries say they've had enough like japan which is pushing for the ouster of u.s. troops stationed in okinawa what looks like nine hundred thousand people in okinawa and thousands others across japan seems to represent people saying as they have been for quite some time that they have just had enough others suffer in silence it

tends to be connected at least conceptually to environmental racism countries are being occupied and just leveled or destroyed afghanistan and iraq now libya and if you look at history in the late twentieth century i mentioned vietnam earlier. is another place where you're going to see the sad thing this is going on a vehicle with naval bombing in puerto rico and it happens in our own backyard like campbell is you north carolina where for three decades people bathed and drank contaminated water. convinced that this what caused her illness and death veteran jerry n's manner believes he lost his nine year old daughter to cancer causing radioactive toxins he and his family were exposed to while based there they were told that they have these contaminants in their drinking water or have years. or very. well and he's not alone one in ten americans live near

a military site or something some superfund site because military bases extreme approaching not only radioactive pollution also you know jet fuel how is this able to happen the entire politics is controlled by fossil fuel interests wall street interests and military interests and though the contamination is costing lives the cost to clean up the mast may be too big for the pentagon an estimated three hundred twenty billion dollars that's almost half the pentagon's budget instead the money is being spent here on wars in afghanistan and iraq and military operations elsewhere. and in today's climate in congress the environment is not at the top of the agenda this is the most. house of representatives in history so far this congress the house of representatives has voted again and again to block

action to address climate change to hold. water pollution well president obama recently announced his plan to boost military presence in australia a military buildup also happening and watch the province in south korea with the pentagon splurging on expanding their military reach there seems to be a little funding left to clean up existing basses around the globe and washington was wall r.t. . and joining me now for more is derek crow political director of the brave new foundation thanks for coming on the show derrick so the u.s. department of defense is the biggest polluter in the world how is this able to happen. well i mean part of it is that the united states continually goes to military every solutions across the globe and when you are the world's largest consumer of oil products for example that just means pollution and typically you

also have military contractors who are there to make a buck and don't really care about environmental regulations or in a lot of cases the safety of the troops they're supposedly serving i mean you had you know anything from water contamination in camp le june to the burn pits in iraq and afghanistan and it's a persistent problem and it leads to about i think it's a report said seven hundred fifty thousand tons of toxic waste produced every year and you get sad you know that the worry isn't really too much about environmental regulation that says the u.s. tries to advise other countries on environmental policies and how can the u.s. do so when it has its own cleaning up to do what we really do have our own cleaning up to do here in the united states and as your report said the congress of the current congress isn't really inclined to be environmentally friendly in the first place but a lot of it has to do with simply the profit motive behind the companies that contract for the pentagon i mean you've got these these huge corporations that the c.e.o.'s are in the richest zero point zero one percent of americans who are really

just interested in making a buck and then you've got a congress that's not particularly interested in environmental regulation right now and when you put those two things together what you get are people chasing the dollar and leaving a huge mess in their wake and as these messes are being made a lot of them fatal and toxic who is profiting from this well i mean if you look at the top pentagon contractors it's very clear it's companies like lockheed martin boeing north of grumman raytheon these companies if you if you check their statistics on the government misconduct database for government contractors you'll see that many of them have these environmental infractions and settlements that they've had. to pay to communities or to the military the u.s. government and really it's just about profit for these companies i mean they claim to be very patriotic but when it comes down to it they're just after the dollar and the environment you know goes hand in hand with human health talk about the medical

effects of defense pollution around the world well in the really permissions and the thing that people don't think about oftentimes is that portray this as being you know anti-military when you're agitating for you know the u.s. military to come out and really stick to these environmental regulations it affects the troops everyone just really easy example would be these burn pits that were being used to dispose of trash in iraq and afghanistan and the toxic smoke coming out of that and the things it was releasing into the ground water is poisoning the troops and you get the situation like camp we june or even our nuclear program and at hanford in washington state there there's time after time when i that we've tried to produce weapons with hazardous materials or simply trying to dispose of waste from huge deployments where we put the lives of the troops at risk and. now that the mass i mean it's already been made why is it not a priority for the pentagon to clean it up. well the pentagon's got other priorities frankly and

a lot of it said at the top we have these huge deployments there are these big ticket weapon items that cost a lot of money and they squeeze out other things in the budget so you've got you know the profits of companies like lockheed martin and boeing and raytheon and or the brahman that really is forming the core of what's going to come out of our defense budget in the next couple of weeks and so while we're spending all these monies on huge weapons programs that by the way oftentimes don't work there's not room left in the budget that's this dictated by congress in the pentagon for these kind of cleanup and it's just frankly not enough priority and if we set priorities that were more in line with actual human security and that includes environmental health we would make room in the budget for these kind of things which are just not seeing right now and as the u.s. plans to expand that there's the shift now to the asia pacific region i mean do you expect more of this to continue or. or it's more pollution or do you expect them to maybe but try to make this a priority it's who at least implement some environmentally friendly practices so

this doesn't happen in the future as much well let's let's be hopeful right we should hope that they would make this a priority especially after reports like this are drawing attention to it but the simple fact is when you've got a fossil fuel based military moving in huge numbers around the globe like the american military is there's going to be pollution and when you've got these these companies that are primarily interested in a profit motive they're going to be trying to maximize their profits and the lives and health of the community and in their path really kind of takes a backseat so you've got to take the profit motive out of our military engagements and you've just got to get leadership that has more of this is a priority unfortunately there isn't much talk about this cost of war the environmental cost of war thank you so much derek for for weighing in on this that was very crowded political director at the brave new foundation. well as the u.s. troops prepare to leave afghanistan he recently reports suggest what america fears the most now.