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i marries and caucuses on tuesday it is wealthiest supporters standing right next to the politicians officially turned into puppets with the wealthy elite foley no strings and illinois law says it's illegal for civilians to videotape police officers fifteen years in prison if this isn't changed how will it affect the occupy movements plans to show up in chicago the g eight and nato meeting. president obama really ticked off a lot of people with his recent decisions to require religious institutions hospitals specifically or for offer free contraception in their employer sponsored health insurance plans or the left democrats are saying it's a politically unwise decision heading into an election year on the right republicans are saying it's an all out assault against a constitution going to war on religion and rick santorum is saying that the president is about to rez resurrect rose peer bring back the french revolution's you team. what's left is a government that will tell you who you are what you do and when you do. want to
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live in france we came to getting. these gentlemen we're not going. but if we do. and probably the president obama and his mom don't want to fight in america. and we are headed down that only. start investing in companies now according to rick santorum their stock is about to go through the roof but another crazy argument for the man and dog guy shouldn't distract us so what's the bigger picture of president obama's decision to break this down with me as tommy christopher a correspondent white house reporter and media i tell me welcome back thanks for having me tom good to have you with us what do you make of the reaction the reaction of the media to this story and while the media either is that a horrible job on this story and then part of that is because the obama administration has done a great job either. the entire dod the dominant theme of this has been no this is
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an assault on religious liberty and i think that's because the administration didn't come out very aggressively and frame this as an issue of equal protection for women which that's the conversation that we should be having that the media should be having at the very least and that that conversation should be equal to the concerns of religions which i'm not blind to but there's a different dream saying you know that we're it's a war on religion and we're trampling our religious liberty and saying you know what it would be nice if we could accommodate their allegiance while still protecting women equally might take on this is where the only one of the thirty four nations the only one of the fully developed nations in the world doesn't have a common health care system at its core you know a government owned sponsored paid for health care system and therefore what has come into the end and then you know they'll have religious ones around the periphery but what has happened is because of that there are whether it's the seventh day adventists loma linda or whether it's the catholics or other groups we
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have religious hospitals that have become part of the religion part of the health care commons and i think frankly the argument the debate i understand agree with the women's issue debate but i think that it really should be if we had a national health care system then and all the religious hospitals were moved out of the periphery so that they could say you know we're only going to serve our own people we're only going to hire our own p. . we're only going to be our own people were here for us and you could have you know one for orthodox jews and you there are as many as you want one for catholics and one for fundamentalist christians and one percent of the us and one for you know and whatever it may be then it would be an issue that this should be a national healthcare issue the failure of our health care system that well sure well i think you know if you if we did have national health care i'm going to do you know move them to the for free or die and i think what's being confused here is the and i don't see running a hospital as the practice of religion you know i mean it can you sure it was practicing christians and that was one of jesus' main injunctions he went around
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healing the sick people you know heal the sick matthew twenty four yet however if they want to do that if they want to run a clinic where you lay on hands and you know that's practicing religion that's fine but i mean. that's what you're saying if they're going to treat the general public then you know they have to they have to decide do they want to be do they want to be in that business or not you know and you know i don't see that you know if there were national health care and they could say well because i you know i don't think churches want to do that i don't think they want to say oh we're going to treat our own kind of you know. mask a political observation i wish. you great palaces come out with a really interesting op ed piece of the scene or just just came out a few hours ago and he suggests that the people who are the big money people behind mitt romney names through through these really aren't happy with romney and that they could have spent just a little tiny bit of money in colorado for example just a one media market just just a couple thousand bucks basically they had romney when they chose not to and what
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they're trying to do is end up with a brokered convention so that they can and because they're pulling the strings and they're the big money guys they can and they've already tried to get christie in once so they can get christie in as the as the candidate rubio as well as his v.p. and all these other guys will be gone i'm curious what your thoughts are on that that conspiracy theory does your well i'm on the specifics and there's no way christie is going to run this year and. probably not really even if he's drafted you know because you know i especially now that the economy is looking up and the president's approval ratings start to turn around you know it's going to be hard to beat him and you know if you've got a billion bucks well yeah but i mean if you're chris christie you know when you much rather run in two thousand and sixteen against you know if you're not in common you know against somebody else and certainly you're not going to hurt the republican incumbent so no i don't think i don't think christie that's the thing the problem with that whole theory. you know i can see what he's saying about the money but the problem with drafting somebody like christie or jeb bush is that
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these guys don't want to get in this year they want to wait two thousand and sixteen but the money people are looking at the supreme court and they're looking at the strategically and they know that if they're going to continue to be able to own our elections it's going to require maintaining that five four majority on the court because the minute they lose that's sort of the that will get reversed and suddenly the big money people be standing on the outside looking in oh yeah but if they want to i mean there's range at that or do they want to have somebody out of the white house from their point of right but i think the problem with that they think falls apart when you try to figure out who the hell they're going to draft because i honestly don't think christie or jeb bush or anybody would have a brain is going to i mean why do you this field is so weak welcome rubio gave a gave a knock out of the ballpark speech to see pac i mean you know he could be the next barack obama i think yeah well exactly we have perhaps why in twenty six you put him with somebody like joe biden who's you know kind of an ok guy you know number two saying we're right exactly why would why do rubio or christie want to shoot or why this year we took twenty sixteen and then you know run against somebody else i
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don't know i don't know who the democrats are on that well it's a good question and that's that's why you know i've also wondered if biden and hillary might switch jobs that i don't know if. it's an interesting one to see. biden romney speaks french i want to we're told by the good team thing romney does speak for i was surprised that that santorum didn't point that out i was going to think that you know i think the most under-reported stories. it too was one and you can tell me if this was just a wild rumor i read in two different places was that his kids gave an interview in the last couple of weeks and one of them that they were asked the story about the dog in the rough and what i'm told the story that when they finally got to canada and took the dog off the roof the dog ran away and nobody's ever seen him since now i did hear that someone going to me yeah but you know it may well be you know i could create a cat said going dog i don't i mean first of all there in canada right so you know there was there was a guy who showed up you know he was dogs against romney you saw that with he had to get a few cattle in the toughest car with the with the stuff of stuffed dog in it and
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the police pulled his car for its actively thought it was a home and they're going to say even a dog might universal health care their way in canada so it's so universal health care women's rights interesting stuff tommy christopher thanks a lot for dropping by thanks for having us always great getting your insights into your shit you know we're the only nation in the world that doesn't have a government sponsored health care system at the center of those leading religious institutions on the fringes and health care should be a basic right here in america provided by we the people to all of us if that was the case in america today that president obama wouldn't have even needed to make the decision he did and rick santorum wouldn't be complaining about getting us let's make health care a human basic human right here in america just like in every other developed nation the world already exists it's called medicare and to be able to all our seniors added eat to it call it medicare part d. and make it available to everyone and religiousness twosomes can run their own institutions for their own people and not inflict their religious beliefs of people who don't share.
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it's the good the bad and the very very ill lakra maybe lists lee again the good. laila borough. burroughs had one wish before she died last september she wanted to help the homeless so she left her condo the city of san francisco to turn into a shelter city now is deciding whether to convert the burros condo into a shelter or sell it and put the assets of the city's almost fun five hundred thousand dollars specked and sale price of the condo would help the city put up one hundred fifty families and housing would help those facing foreclosure stay in their homes and corporate greed runs amok class warfare is all the rage and millions are living in poverty it's heartwarming to see a relatively unknown person do so much good for those. bad this is the state
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representative steve holland as if it wasn't clear that there's a growing anti mexican immigrant sentiment in many parts of america holland came up with a new way to help show mississippi's particular distaste for mexicans he introduced a bill house bill one fifty that in mississippi would rename the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. there we go with the freedom fries controversy all over again unfortunately for hollande he and his amigos can't actually rename an international body of water they can only change how the state refers to it somehow the bill has garnered enough support to make its way to a committee and if approved would go and approved would go into effect just before independence day time and maybe holland should focus on more pressing issues like the level of poverty in the state subpar education system. and the very very ugly hampshire republican state legislators hampshire's republican controlled legislature wants to get rid of. lunch break. you heard the lunch breaks they
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recently introduced a bill p.o. law requiring employers to give their employees time off for lunch the main rationale for the bill is that all employers will give their workers time for lunch . because the goodness of their hearts just like scrooge would have provided for bob cratchit out of the goodness of his heart. to have republicans clearly remember how many companies like for example wal-mart were sued how many times for denying workers a lunch break is simply no room for goodness in the heart in the corporate playbook nowadays it's all about squeezing whatever profit they can out of their workers and ensure legislature thinks that's just fine and that's very fair. coming up in tonight's daily take a large subplot of the occupy movement as good as been civilian journalism spreading the movement so what will happen in chicago the summer of the big g. eight nato meeting where that's illegal.
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it's thursday so it's time for my favorite topic because i'm a total science geek geeky science as you might be aware i was out the past two
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days because i was battling bronchitis and the flu and for those those two days i was fasting the boys found the old adage of starve a fever at least for me is true and now promising new research on mice shows it may work with more than just a common run of hours fasting may actually weaken tumors and help the process of chemotherapy be more efficient in fighting the disease the research conducted at the university of southern california showed that the combination of fasting cycles plus chemotherapy was either more or much more effective than chemo alone according to wall valter longo professor of german talaga biology sciences interestingly longo and colleagues also conducted a study in two thousand and eight that demonstrated how fast fasting protected normal and healthy cells from the effects of chemotherapy treatment most of these analyzed the effect of fasting on various types of cancer including breast cancer skin cancer and for a brain cancer all of the cancers. study showed that fasting combined with
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chemotherapy slowed the growth of tumors and limited their spread throughout the body while extensive testing with fast on humans with cancer has yet to be performed positive results seem very possible fast as previously been shown to be helpful with a variety of other human problems human health problems for instance it's been shown to help the immune system fight off colds and infection faster and it's even been shown to help alleviate high levels of anxiety and stress small study ten cancer patients conducted in two thousand and ten showed the fancy fasting along with chemotherapy treatments cause the patients to have fewer side effects of the drug so be it the flu or something much nastier it may well be that just taking a break from eating for a few days is one of the best things you can do for your body. wash and a lot of republicans are asking themselves right now as how how the heck is rick santorum still in this race this is man and dog rick santorum we're talking about
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a guy whose name is synonymous with. google so how's he doing it the answer a guy named foster friess that guy who was standing behind rick santorum on tuesday night as santorum delivered his victory speech friso used to be a supporter of romney in two thousand and eight and jumped ship is now using his fortune to be the leading contributor to see in terms of corporate super pac known as the red white and blue fund he's admitted to giving at least three thousand three hundred thousand dollars to the cause but friess won't say how much more he's invested in santorum is this good for our democracy should one millionaire or billionaire be able to keep a candidate in the race and what strings are attached to the money of santorum or any other super pac owned candidate wins. paul sherman joins me now is the tourney with the institute for justice all welcome thank you tom but we have you with us so we apparently no longer have people running we have front men for. the corporate
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or special interests or whatever groups run it's like the groups running against each other super pacs against each other how is that good for democracy well i don't think that's an accurate statement of what's going on here what's happening is that groups are spending money on political speech and some of that speech is persuasive to voters some of it isn't persuasive to voters but ultimately what's happening is voters are making the decision who they want to have in office that's what the essence of tomato yours you're suggesting that the essence of democracy is that. if company never advertises their food product nobody ever goes out and buys a. that doesn't matter people will eventually find it as advertised it doesn't work . i'm not sure how that plays into what's going on here with the i just said the the essence of democracy whoever runs the most ads is going to win may or may not win he said may or may not work and i'm challenging that assertion and say the reason why advertising is
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a trillion dollar industry in the united states is because it does work and so if these if the big coal and big oil and these guys are buying ads they are buying votes well they're not out handing twenty dollars bills out from the polling place what they're doing is they're running ads that put a political message out there those political messages may be persuasive that's certainly what they're intended to do but ultimately they have to have an effect on the voter when a voter goes into what they have to tell you as well crafted ads of course yeah so that that has nothing to do with the with a candidate who's a state's person. the message that's being conveyed in the ads has to persuade the voters that this person is worth having that doesn't mean it's a person actually is it just means that the ad agency to put the ad together was successful in convincing the voters who should be deciding who has the qualifications to be in office other than the vote i don't think i don't think a billion dollar trillion dollar corporation or a multi-billion dollar corporation or a billionaire frankly should be making that decision i don't you know i i think it
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should be up to we the people well it depends on what. you think the role of voters is if you think that voters have their minds made up for them by advertising that might be you know i don't know and i think that the voters i think that the the the people running for political office or that have access to free time on television and radio and you know like like the nixon kennedy debates in one thousand sixty were were very very little money was spent on advertising and there was lots and lots of free media and it worked very very well and you you ended up with candidates who by a larger up hold and. what the government can't do is tell independent people or outside groups that you've spoken too much about a political candidate actually it can except that the supreme court says it can't know actually going back all the way to one thousand nine hundred seventy six the supreme court has said that an individual can spend as much as they want to get their political message out there so you know situations like you know we've spoken before all about oakleigh tucker says ok with it it's not plutocracy because people aren't buying votes that it's only the rich guys can afford to run for office
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that's already. not only rich guys can afford to vote to run for office it does cost money to get ads on television it costs money to put television shows on the air but that's just part of speaking out to a mass audience there's no way to get around that in our modern information economy . i'll leave you with the last word thanks a lot for show and thank you very much if you. will in my opinion we have to get money out of our politics if we want our government responsive to we the people again it can be done with a constitutional amendment this is corporations are not people and money is not a speech to amend or to get involved. why is there any seemingly endless number of young people showing up at occupy wall
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street movements first an obvious answer is to. is this is the first generation since the one nine hundred thirty s. who are coming of age in a world where it's unlikely they'll do as well as their parents thirty years of reaganomics has ripped a hole in the american dream but it also something to do with the fact that fewer young adults have a job in america than ever before only fifty four percent of americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty four are employed right now that's the lowest number ever recorded since the tracking began more than sixty years ago and to make matters profoundly worse they're drowning in over a trillion dollars of student loan debt the most ever recorded in the history of this or any other country reaganomics and clinton omics has created a lost generation of americans which is helping to fill the ranks of the occupy wall street with. the choice a simple live in the streets or take to the streets but that doesn't explain why the movement got as big as it did as fast as it did it doesn't explain how
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a small encampment in zuccotti park with little street mainstream media attention turned into a worldwide movement for that we have to thank the police images like these led to occupy spreading like a wildfire women getting corralled and pepper sprayed in new york the streets of oakland turning into a war zone cops firing tear gas canisters canisters of people's beds and shooting rubber coated steel bullets students sitting peacefully in protest at the university of california davis well within the rights laid out the first amendment getting doused with chemical weapons in the face. these are the images that have inflamed the american part of this revolution and we can thank citizens citizen journalists who took out their cameras when times got dangerous to record these images. they needed to make sure that the chance around them were true that the whole world was indeed watching. this video is as crucial to the movement as are
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the horrors of the unemployment figures the ongoing corruption washington d.c. and the crime is that it looks like wall street bankers are going to get away with scot free but in illinois and chicago where a massive occupy demonstration is scheduled in may with the g eight and nato coming to town to hold joint summits videos like we just saw those kind of images are illegal according to the illinois eavesdropping act of one thousand nine hundred sixty one it is against the law to record a police officer and those who violate the law could face up to fifteen years prison. with tens if not hundreds of thousands of patriots set to converge on occupy chicago in a few months this could be a big problem luckily one illinois state representative elaine nec writes is proposing an amendment to this law under illinois house bill thirty nine forty four which she introduced citizens will have the right to film law enforcement officers
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in any public space and most of the brutality we've seen from the n.y.p.d. the opi to the u.c. davis police has occurred in public places to be able to videotape what's happening is the people's best defense against excessive police force and ironically web cam videos are also the police's best self defense when anarchists begin trashing things and the police actually have a legal obligation to respond. even chicago police superintendent gary mccarthy agrees with us as he told the panel of oil any university recently as far as the use of videotape by certainly endorse it for the protection of the police as well as civilians there's no argument when you can show videotape and can look at what happened and of quote the occupy movement the act i assume they are by wall street movement has been remarkably peaceful in the nearly five months of its existence and the proof is out there in the thousands of hours of videotape that's been
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recorded showing peaceful demonstrations all across the nation let's hope things are peaceful in may when the movement heads to chicago a city that seen its share of violence and police brutality in the past but for self-defense or just for the historic record we just so that we all know just so that we can all look back on these moments the movement needs to have its cameras andy. and legal. to make sure the whole world is really watching so if you're in illinois be sure to let your state representatives in your state senators know to support this legislation to amend that nine hundred sixty one. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to tarpon dot com free speech dot org and our to dot com also check out our two you tube channels there are links to tom hartman dot com this entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and visit to download the audio podcast of our daily new to three radio show and we have
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feed now in the palm of your. question. call. us gathers a coalition of nations to help bring down the syrian regime and directly as american weapons reportedly find their way to and us of forces. great labor union stage a two day strike in response to the latest wave of stereotypes which they say is pushing workers and the economy towards a financial abyss. politically proactive a group of public figures from russia's civil society gather a widespread support on their quest to keep the presidential elections fair and transparent. a.t.m. of the russian capital you're watching our joshua welcome to the program al violence
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in syria is escalating and there's no u.n. backing for foreign intervention so anti-acid forces across the world are seeking other means to topple the president the u.s. is setting up an international coalition aimed at supporting rebels in their struggle against a must because so called friends of democratic syria will involve countries willing to prop up the opposition and piled. pressure on the regime direct military action is ruled out but reports suggest british and qatari special forces are already in the conflict and while the u.s. and its allies criticize russia for supplying military hardware to damascus there are now calls from american lawmakers to arm the opposition in response syrian troops are trying to stem the flow of weapons already being smuggled in from neighboring countries but as artie's marine aboard now reports the region's been flooded with american arms. at the united nations security council.

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