in large quantities of full of gas at which an answer is orgasms avocados are known to be average easy access the catholic priests in spain banning their consumption because of how powerfully seductive they were other foods like basal garlic and oysters produce similar effects but the most powerful aphrodesiac is chocolate which releases incredible amounts of dopamine in the brain that same chemical we were talking about earlier that makes people more focused on each other and gives us a pleasurable sensation so now that you know the science and the right chemicals behind love you're ready to go and tonight when you're celebrating with us special someone just remember there's a little more to your law than meets the eye. it's the good the bad of the very very hard day she was fully ugly the good know all of eight after hearing that is grandma could lose her house from defaulting on her mortgage the twelve year old made decided to take action in one month he was able

to raise ten thousand five hundred dollars enough to save his grandma's house a home they've been in the family for three generations from foreclosure and a february fifteenth auction day when asked about his extraordinary act of kindness lamaze i want to help so it was very dear to me my grandma has fallen on hard times and is going to lose their home before the maids efforts his grandma had turned to the government for help with payment programs and the banks over neither did anything to help a big pat on the back to our. representatives state representative and governor governor and to the president not asking for money asking to help them find a program and they couldn't do a twelve year old save the thoth. a big pat on the back to know it for his generosity and for not abandoning his grandmother to bad the same can't be said for our government or the banks for years the bad arizona state republicans republicans in the arizona state senate of introduced a bill that states it says that educators and in the state's public schools and

universities can be fined or suspended or even fired if they quote engage in speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the federal communications commission concerning obscenity indecency and profanity if that speech or conduct were broadcast on television and radio basically teachers would not be allowed to teach or use any book with profanity any clue to the dictionary that the law is so pathetically read that underage teachers would also not be able to go to the bathroom or have sex or shower ever the matter where they are this bill is another example of frivolous legislation which republicans try to show just how conservative they can be at the cost of people's freedoms and their education and the very very ugly g.o.p. t.v.'s liz trotta in an interview on fox so-called news sunday contributor liz trott i was asked about her thoughts on the pentagon's new rules easing the ban on women serving in combat relation there high numbers of sexual assaults on women in

the military here's what she had to say we have women once more the fact that it's going wanting to be warriors and victims at the same time now what did they expect that's right in a matter of seconds trotta said that women in the military both want to be victims of social sexual assault and should expect to be raked over the course of the last decade and really history many women have valiantly paid the ultimate price in the name of protecting our country and to suggest that they want to be victims and expect to be raped when they decide to defend our nation well that's just very very . given just trying to check my e-mail here it normally takes like two seconds but

for people who have used too much data the wireless providers are throttling down their connections basically giving us dial up speeds should take just a few more minutes you know my service provider says it's necessary so they can manage data usage on their network so why is it that in the united states which is supposed to be the best in everything especially connecting to the internet people have to wait two minutes for data to load on the internet especially when they pay a pet a pretty penny for the so-called unlimited data plan the answer is because our government has coddled the major telecommunications corporations in america for far too long giving them monopolies in the marketplace and we know competition consumers are screwed having to choose between one plan that cost too much or another plans far too slow or anyone is both too slow and cost her watch. without competition there's no real drive in america to produce faster connection speeds at lower costs as

a result the united states is rapidly falling behind the rest of the developed world in two thousand and nine our average connection speed which is three point nine minutes that puts the united states comfortably in eighteenth place in the world yeah we're number eighteen oh and here's something else you might find interesting we pay a lot more for our shoddy internet connections and pretty much anyone else in the world we pay about forty dollars a month just for a crummy three point nine minutes connection that's just internet no t.v. no phone just internet forty bucks a month but in france guess what customers get for forty dollars a month try internet at a blazing twenty to thirty minutes plus unlimited phone service plus h.d. t.v. with over one hundred channels and a d.v.r. all included you'd be looking at close to two hundred dollars a month for a package like that in the united states but it's just forty dollars a month in france and in japan and south korea download speeds are reaching one hundred minutes again united states averages about five that make any sense to you

check this here. still no e-mail so why are france and japan doing that we're not doing well they're forcing their telecom giants to compete basically they're telling their providers that they have to share their internet infrastructure so that multiple competing companies can use the same wires the same cables and the same satellite towers that blows open the market for competition since a startup company then doesn't have to make a massive investment to lay wire or put a satellite towers all over the place it then comes down to who can deliver the faster speeds on that wire offer more channels and who can give lower prices and better customer service. when the internet first started we were all using dial up regulators in the united states forced the phone companies to allow competing internet service providers to use the same telephone lines the phone companies

couldn't walk companies out as much as they wanted to and they tried and that's why we had an explosion in telecom competition compu serve a well to the little startup by a speed in the basement down the street there were literally thousands of them but once broadband came around and bush's f.c.c. regulators jumped in and handed the telecom giants like sprint and verizon monopoly power over their wires and infrastructure so they could be exclusive providers on that infrastructure with no competition of consequence as paul krugman pointed out in new york times article titled the french connections if the companies controlling these passageways can behave like the robber barons of your levene whatever tolls they like on those who passed by commerce suffers and so also do our internet connections it's time for our government regulators to stop giving monopolies to these giant corporations something by the way that's pretty much only

done here and in third world countries like mexico and force open the marketplace to competition like most european countries to our broadband infrastructure even though privately built is a part of our commons including the wires passing under and above our common streets in the satellite towers broadcasting over our common airwaves big telco and cable companies should only be able to own such infrastructure so long as they're willing to share them with competitors at a reasonable price only when that happens only when any company that wants to have access to this internet infrastructure will americans be able to surf the internet at the same speed as the rest of the developed world. it's about time my email has made it through. as it for the big picture tonight for more information on the stories we've covered visit our website thom hartmann dot com free speech or go to dot com also check out our two you tube channels or links to

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to a lot of show we'll get the real headlines with none of the mersey and we're going to live out of washington d.c. so i'm going to speak to glenn greenwald about whether it's the media that's pushing the war the wrong narrative even more than the government in china is b.p. is in the u.s. for a visit so what's on the agenda and what is the say for the relationship between the two countries and also a new pew study shows that one in a voter records are flawed but how do we get past the myth that this is a sign of massive voter fraud and instead focus on our outdated paper based system of registration we're not all that and more fair not including a dozen happy hour but first let's take a look what the mainstream media has decided to miss.

well another day in the political horse race of the g.o.p. race and what do you know there are two new polls for the mainstream media to cover obsessive fully. rick santorum is now on top in two brand new major national polls out there this morning underfunded and outmanned two new polls show that rick santorum is now tied with mitt romney in the republican race for the white house the back and forth race for the republican nomination is all tied up in the polls right now a dead heat between mitt romney and rick santorum in recent weeks he's really gaining momentum and now in a statistical dead heat with mitt romney that's right according to this hugh research center poll as i want to look at right now he leads by two percentage points in terms pulling ahead of mitt romney in two national polls and riding a double digit surge into a dead heat with the former governor santorum is gaining ground and confidence this is the momentum that he built by these wins just we can go today in colorado

minnesota and missouri. now it's definitely interesting to look at the resurgence if you can even call of rick santorum especially relative to the entire race to the white house right the consistent proof that republican voters really are not that stoked on mitt romney but at the end of the day are they still going to go with mitt is this just another flavor of the month episode like we saw with bachmann and cain and gingrich before now i think of those are valid questions and go ahead spend a few minutes talking about it but again do we need the nonstop around the clock santorum mania to take place at a certain point you just want to scream at the top your lungs tell these people for the love of god to give it a rest especially when there are so many other things going on in the world and if we're going to spend countless hours looking at polls and statistics why not branch out a little bit why not look at other stats that come out on a daily basis that will tell you about widespread systemic. and abuses within our country i'm going to give you one good example today that i've really seen covered

anywhere else and we've known for a while now the n.y.p.d. has a bit of a stop and frisk problem my problem i mean that there is an obscene amount of people who are being stopped and frisked in new york and there's a lot of evidence of points to clear racial bias and the majority the time what they end up getting people for is maybe having small amount of marijuana if anything not stopping violent crimes from happening so in the years since two thousand and four when this program began the n.y.c. l.-u. says that more than four million people have been stopped in two thousand and ten the n.y.p.d. broke their all time high record of stop and frisks with six hundred and one thousand and fifty five stops but guess what new data is out for two thousand and eleven and attorneys out if they've broken their own record yet again they would gotham as described best as another champion season so here's the big number for you in two thousand and eleven the n.y.p.d. stopped six hundred eighty four thousand three hundred and thirty people on the

street turns out only twelve percent of those were arrested or received a summons the rest were all released now if you want proof of the racial bias i want to give you the breakdown for the last two years in two thousand and ten about eighty four percent of those stopped by police are black or latino while only about nine percent of those people stopped are white last year we saw the same old thing eighty seven percent were black or latino and nine percent were white and i say it's a pretty clear sign that there is discrimination at work here that innocent people are being harassed that there is a massive problem seems like a number of city officials in new york agree with me they've asked the federal government to launch approach because they feel that thousands of young people are being criminalized and the mainstream media where they've been on this issue well as you say they've been steering clear of it ignoring it acting like it does not even exist now you might try to claim that this is too localized of a problem for the national media to be covering but come on you've got. you know the on a daily basis on this show we point out how d.c.

and new york oriented the national mainstream media is they live in a bubble they prioritize everything that happens within this little bubble of new york and d.c. over what's going on in the rest of the country technically the stop and frisk issue fits into the bubble but who are we kidding right the bubble only includes government officials media leaves not the rest of us not the thousands of people living in muslim communities that have been targeted by the n.y.p.d. for their religious beliefs and then monitored with the help of the cia mind you and certainly not the hundreds of thousands of minorities that are being harassed and stopped by the police and treated like criminals just for walking down the street and i'm not saying that this policy doesn't play a role that we don't have a need for a vigilant police force but let's not let our judgment in our understanding of the importance of the value of civil liberties to be clouded by some kind of fear that is a police weren't breaking new records every year and how many people they stop and frisk the world would be a much more dangerous place because the truth is the numbers aren't there to back

it up but back to the point here this is exactly the kind of story the kind of statistics and numbers of the mainstream media chooses to miss. it so we've been covering the incessant cheerleading for war against iran pretty extensively on the show drawing comparisons with the buildup to war with iraq the threats of weapons of mass destruction al qaeda and how can we forget the u.s. intelligence community saying that iran now poses the number one terror threat against the united states and it seems that public opinion might be swaying thanks to that fear mongering recent poll from the hill shows that amongst their respondents nearly half of all likely voters believe that the u.s. should be willing to use military force to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon forty nine percent said military force should be used while thirty one percent said no and twenty percent weren't sure but well. we've come to expect a certain kind of drum beating from various pundits and so-called experts here in

washington very small but influential group mind you how big of a role is the media playing in this pre-war scenario do they seem even more eager for military action than the u.s. government itself joining me to discuss this is glenn greenwald salon columnist and author of his new book with liberty and justice for some how the laws used to destroy equality and protect the powerful thanks so much for joining us tonight now in a minute here i'm going to play a specific clip from n.b.c. that you chose to point out when you were writing this latest piece but first you know just on a broad base tell me why it is that you think that the media might be pushing this even more than the government does right because at the same time we have sanctions from the government we have leon panetta going on the record in interviews saying that israel might strike sometime soon we have the president saying that no or that all options are you know he's on the table. well i think you know the media is always a really close to the american government but they're also close to other sources

as well including officials in the israeli government and they. have been in the us government instead have positions a great influence on top of that you know the american media i think is does naturally inclined to ever be any media is as being this kind of unmitigated evil and the killing and its relationship with the united states in this very uncritical wave of suggest that anybody would be aggressors is the united states isn't it's a mistake or a sense of script that you when you make a media amp and they immediately start beating the drums for the room i think there's an element of excitement there bam israel on top of a sort of web based is a good wavings which is what happens when you can fetch and will study people with some of the political opinions and you can run ads campaigns together that you get as a media event then you want to impede the match to it will remain critical scrutinize it but instead few it and jump on the bandwagon and you see it time and time again and we're seeing it again that of the right so let's take a look at this example from jamaica chefs that i met and they say he's their

pentagon correspondent and auburn is going to play a short clip of that and then lay tell us exactly what's wrong with it if it's not obvious enough yet. and if israel launches it strikes against still runs nuclear program iranian leaders have threatened i'm all out war. the u.s. navy's fifth fleet would be the world's first line of defense and its commander vice admiral mark fox said today they're prepared to take on just about anything a run of throws at. pilots here at. that is because it is extraordinary there are so many deceived packed into such a short clip for one thing that. there is really. it's a space and grabs bang on its nuclear program that is really bad is bad israel has already started and better and better. if

a country did that today we certainly consider it to be and it will get they dictate the way it is being the one who may forever. get into the using the as they say the united states fifth fleet would be the first line of defense. as their goodwill is being so that bad the persian aggressors and that the united states is there to defend it from this aggression but in fact it's the united states and easily the bad metrics that the aggressors in every single lebanese united states and israel have a threatening of a daily basis that will extend all the united states and israel invading army and airspace and dropping bombs on their country those two nations have been engaged in ashrams of covert will still do against iran from assassinating their science and someone said to sending cyber sophisticated biases and cyber warfare into their facilities to funding and arming into this group back to back that use an iranian dissident group to belittle israel and the iranian government and then you add on

top of that the fact the united states has or elements of the insert who have military bases surrounding that country are almost every may bring a neighbor or you some is crass aggression the united states and israel in their views and we'll see new selling the united states may have to defend the rebels are already in aggression it's rooted purist and those are sort of propaganda and you know the attitudes that we see in terms of this are really interesting too for example right we had u.s. officials coming out last week saying that israel was in fact funding the enrique. a in order to carry out or at least play some kind of a role in the assassinations the murders of nuclear scientists in iran you have some people arguing that well it's ok if israel's doing it because it's for a good cause and i thought was kind of interesting that kevin drum decided to step in here and take a look at both sides and he basically made the following point saying that it's still terrorism when israel does it so says still is it terrorism yes do both sides

use it yes is this in many cases the future of warfare probably yes is there a better alternative that's a good question so you know what's your take on that is everyone to start assuming that well that's that's the future warfare that's the way that it's going to be. a woman is and is is what kevin graham said which is basically inducing terrorist attacks aimed at civilians and every she's being honest about the fact that even his sad. and him sad face they've been the terrorism in the cause is really behind so disturbing about it is the. measure and including american muslims who have been prosecuted for having family extenuated willing to delegate it to a state of his ations and a head injury you know returned the kennedys. with a fabby m.h.a. which is also having it it is a military strike in the zation is that the evil that you can add but you're supposed to have the republicans and leading democrats and the gang receiving huge

payments from them and make a going out of you kidding us be meeting with get you need is a valid it is asian and the idea of a gay that would be prosecuted is unmentionable it's unthinkable a decent company and yet it's every bit as a reader to but i doubt it is asian with matured as a player on top of that if it's true as n.b.c. news included the flu it is funding and or them being in training is to this group and by definition of the rooms on the list of state sponsors of jews and that's the definition of a state sponsor of terror as. i'm somewhere a state that sounds and trains and arms. and it's the united states of this book i make a i have a list of terrorist organizations that claim a claim state of israel and the associating with them to send this group to do interest attacks on the radio and server blowing things up and shooting scientists who are civilians and so devastated because when most of that everything that was

in the world is justified based on the need to stop terrorism and here is the united states' closest ally they can give human period to them and many of the leading name because of their actions and from headquarters assuming money from those terrorist groups in the beginning on its behalf or true quite remarkable it shows just how really and manipulative this concept of terrorism the is now i want to talk about public opinion public perception here too you know it's interesting because our intelligence agencies are telling us the iran is the number one terror threat to the united states but just on small scale attacks however this entire concept as to whether or not we should use military force against iran has to do with iran's nuclear program which our officials are telling us that we have no proof as to whether or not they've really decided whether they want to have this nuclear program or not but why in that case you know if the drumbeating specifically coming from the media a lot of the time is surrounding iran's nuclear program do people still buy it

haven't we learned from iraq you know don't we have enough examples there that where you start to get a little bit skeptical. but the things that's being done in terms of the propaganda campaign is there's a slight of hand gun because everybody knows including our own the jews have a good program in the sense that they're trying to develop nuclear energy which everybody agrees is that absolute right to do and say other times that we need. to do is their tap about nuclear program and in part of that that's a nuclear weapons program in part that it's beyond dispute that they actually developing nuclear weapons even though. there's an official as an intelligence official agency has said that we have no evidence whatsoever that it is as actually decided even to develop a nuclear weapon let alone into what they wanted so this is pure fear mongering it's exactly the same thing that happened the way somebody in the future convinced of the libyan saddam by telling americans that he was developing

a nuclear weapon it's the same thing and that is a question i mean what i what i look at today with public opinion is the public opinion about reunited states and they're going to support of the world that we have in the end came to view it as a mistake there's a quote of the opposite and in the end came to view that as a mistake so you think of some plan they would say we keep getting tricked into supporting these with others that actually inadvisable that we end up being against the misstep to call the next time around when you have the attitude seems to be. as i do is i'm convinced as a supplier and then back in the state that this time. the listener is really necessary and has our support and it just shares the currency the fear mongering is a very strong word of it when factor in human beings it's necessary for evolution there is a cowardly and these media reports and this constant drumbeat is designed to play i'm out there to tell you that if you don't crash the iranians there will crash sure there's another arrest i'm done atlanta bad and here police department

officials running back around the city the most absurd of course america right now . it was strongly related to this time of. year and it was never drawn from a factor of two years or about the group and he also mentions that new york especially susceptible today right because of the large jewish population that happens to live there but you know it definitely does seem you know if you're plays a huge role glenn thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you for having me. time for a break and when we return it's valentine's day which means anonymous is on the offense so it's going to tell you about the latest attacks and with great power comes great responsibility that's the message that president obama has chosen for the chinese vice president was in town today or talk about what that great responsibility might be for the very.