quarter this is for three months out of the year right increase to four hundred thirty eight point three million for the fourth quarter of two thousand and eleven c.c.a. generated net income of forty point five million now that's after they had paid one point three three million to david adele one point three three million dire berman earlier years kevin baldwin you know one point one five seven million john ferguson two point four nine four million i mean they're paying their executives millions of dollars they're paying their stockholders forty million dollars it looks to me like nine percent roughly the has been paid out as profits and they're doing this with with our taxpayer dollars this is the comments. shouldn't the job of a prison be to imprison people and rehabilitate a people rather than to make a profit it is in order to be able to run it in the most efficient way one way to be able to do it is to give the private sector an opportunity to be incentivized to be able to run a more efficient prison system and then run

a more effective presence whenever we've whenever we've turned large chunks of our commons over to the private sector our you know the best example i think of the last and most people are familiar with this is enron you know you had cities and in some cases even a couple of states privatizing public utilities selling them down ron saying look at all the money we made well and then you know hey let's make some more money and that's you know very different situation grama crash and burn understand that analogy but it's a very different situation there are states that have actually conducted studies to look over the years about how companies such as c.c.a. have been able to run these institutions the state of louisiana for example conducted a study that compared a state run institution with an institution run by c.c.a. and they determine statistically that c.c.a. writ institution that ran a very well and had a what about tell us it was fifteen percent more effect what that tells us is that there's something that can be learned by prisons but again again do you really want a corporation whose principal business is keeping people in prison. out there

operating in the public sphere it's i mean they have literally participated in lobbying for harsher penalties they don't have any control over the judiciary system they're not going to be privatizing the judiciary system that i can be privatizing the prosecutors they can funnel their money through through half a dozen different places including the u.s. chamber of commerce to lobby for stronger drug laws to lobby for longer sentences or just just to support law and order candidates this is what for profit corporations do they make you know it well they're allowed to make a profit though i mean what there has been as to what is not all things about of the system well what they don't have in organizational what's known as an organizational conflict of interest they run the system they don't control the judiciary they don't control the prosecutors have someone who doesn't they don't even are saying this is a lot they don't even interface when people go through this system no one even interfaces for there is not even for them to go through the system but there's not a imposed citizens united there's not a for profit corporation in this country that doesn't have influence over the law

making process while they're allowed to have participation the political process in the in many instances have a first amendment right to be able to have freedom of speech in parliament let's have us a man in their own right and not have them run our prisons but in this environment where we have absolutely these states and the federal government are not just broke there and we're not hearing why did arizona dea privatized one of the prisons just last month because that is the king a trend that over the last twenty five years over a dozen states have continued to increase the privatization of prison c.c.a. is one of over a dozen companies that bid this process the government contractors go through a very competitive process they have to bid it if not in the not just regulated you know you know again if we're talking about you know the pentagon buying computers i don't want the government making the computers. but i think it you know private company should be making computers but word and private companies can be out there lobbying for ways to make computers more profitable but i don't want a company. lobbying for ways to make prison more profitable but how will you or i

might be the one who end up in that prison because some whack a doodle lawmaker got some broader is tale about wearing yellow ties or how does the state provide a better infrastructure or better methodology for all of these prisons the states are broke the federal government is broken federal government even when they run their own postal service they use the fed they use fed ex which is on the g.s.a. schedule even the federal and state governments understand that there's an important place in our society for private enterprise and when these items are to nothing and they help i'm not disputing that i'm simply saying that there is this thing called the commons it's why you have like the commonwealth of virginia there's this thing called the commons the functions that government is is designed to provide and we i personally don't think that it's a good idea for those things to be provided by private or these states for profit these states over the last twenty five years have voted with the trend of demonstrating that certain states like new mexico for example have about forty four

percent of their inmates that are being served by a government contractor that are in some aspect being privatized the subtleties of the state a little demonstrated their church picking the same way the charter schools do though they're not run supermax prisons the not taking the most difficult they're leaving all that to the state what you're what you've got is you know the ghetto is ation basically or. i lack a better word of prisoners there are different strategies in different security levels of prisons that these companies are serving and that type of the cost of each contract is depend upon what the security level is but regardless of that it is a cost effective approach that we have to rabbit. leave you with the last word thank you for dropping by tonight pleasure as always the strategy that corporate america has employed over the last few years to eat up more and more of our commons is really paying off at least for them i was talking about the cancer stage of capitalism consider financialization through buying up prisons schools public utilities overseen is that wall street. is well look at the.

this is the percentage of walsall wall street that represents our economy twenty one point five percent in two thousand and nine it was about ten percent back in the seventy's and manufacturing has dropped from truck ordered on to ten percent this is crazy wall street is playing a bigger and bigger role in economy which which means massive pay days for guys of wall street for the big corporations in two thousand and eleven the six biggest banks on wall street paid a total compensation of one hundred forty four billion dollars was the second highest ever were supposed to be a crisis right second highest ever bonuses fell last year a base pay didn't morgan stanley's pay two times two hundred percent goldman sachs three hundred percent since for their c.e.o.'s since two thousand and eight six big banks dished out five hundred thirty nine billion dollars in compensation they received eight hundred seventy nine billion dollars in bailout funds why are. you in this so that they can robo sign so they can engage in more mortgage fraud more

securities fraud creating bubbles and beyond the banks what about the entire corporate structure this whole idea of eating the commons and turning them to profit. throwing americans in prison for profit do nine health care where we have a for profit health care system where the only developed country in the world that allows this to read did a whole brilliant. two hour special on this for the corporation for public broadcasting made them take his name off it because they deleted the one sentence that he thought was so critical in which he pointed out that america is the only country among the developed countries in the world that actually allows legally allows a profit motive in the health care industry in the health insurance industry profit over going to war you know. not to eisenhower franklin roosevelt famously said i'm not going to see one war millionaire made off the current troubles profit on pollution and this really is the cancer stage of capitalism we need to get control

of this. crazy alert these dogs are making a lot of noise it appears that mitt romney's dog isn't the only one who has a bone to pick with him dogs against romney is a group reportedly founded in two thousand and seven after news about the now infamous crate gate broke in which it was revealed that romney had tied the family dog to the roof of their car for a twelve hour car ride. former massachusetts governor mitt romney was in pittsburgh today for a fund raising visit answer some questions about a boston globe report that during a family vacation for twenty four years ago he strapped his dog cage with the dog inside it to the top of his car during a twelve hour road trip you know peta has not been my stand over the years and they're not happy that my dog likes fresh air. the group now has its very own blog website also offers

a variety of merchandise for sale including i ride inside cars stickers and mitt is mean t. shirts canines of dogs against romney and their owners are appearing tonight at madison square garden in new york city the say this year's westminster dog show they're staging a pawed protest to mitt romney's treatment of animals and how much effect dogs against romney's message will have on the general public ahead of this year's election one thing is for sure they really are a super pac. after the break republicans are trying to stick the keystone x.l. pipeline project into crucial transportation legislation how did americans decide to stand up to this latest hostage taking and can we kill the keystone pipeline for good. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old so if you tell the truth.

i confess and i am in total get of that crap because he is and for. that he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the world with his place. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

back to the big picture i'm tom arbonne coming up in this half hour republicans are keen to still pass the keystone x.l. pipeline project hundred americans show their opposition to the project it will or voices be heard also since adam and eve everyone has tried to understand the nature of love but this new research suggests about what really brings us together and telecom giants love to pinch every penny american consumers how does europe avoid this thievery and can the american system change. in the midst of the rest of the news republicans in congress are trying to resurrect the keystone x.l. pipeline one month after president obama officially rejected it or at least over the short term in the house republicans approved legislation to force approval of the pipeline and plan to stick that legislation into a transportation bill that's going to be voted on this week publicans in the senate

are also working on attaching the pipeline to a transportation bill that has a little chance of sticking in the democratically controlled opportune for remember this is the same pipeline that would be carrying tar sands oil some of the most toxic stuff on the planet from canada all the way down to texas across some of america's most precious natural resources including the largest aqua for in the nation and this is the same pipeline that greenpeace is filing suit against the company trans canada which is in charge of building the pipeline for overhyping job creation numbers bogus claim the pipeline is going to create twenty thousand new jobs the actual numbers are probably closer to four thousand temporary jobs and this is the same pipeline that will not be used to boost domestic energy production but instead be used for trans national oil corporations to ship oil to asia and south america. by the way our number one export today in america is gasoline so we

don't even really need the damn thing but if republicans thought they could do the bidding of texas oil billionaires without the american people noticing they thought wrong especially over when over twelve hundred people were arrested last year in front of the white house for protesting against that very same keystone x.l. pipeline yesterday the environmentalist site three fifty dot org launched a twenty four hour effort to create to collect a half million e-mails calling on assad to hold firm and not give in to big oil republicans joining me now for more on how this effort went and what else needs to be done to kill keystone for good i'm joined by environmentalist bill cabot founder of three fifty dot org author of numerous books including is latest earth with two ways making a life on a tough new planet bill welcome back. good to be with you as always thank you for thank you for joining us bill how many people as of now have signed the petition at three fifty dot org well this was kind of amazing. we set this high bar we said we're going to try to collect half a million signatures in twenty four hours half

a million messages to the senate we had no idea if we could do it we enlisted everybody in the environmental movement every group and then a lot of other parts of the progressive community change dot org and move on and democracy for america and so on and so forth we loop past the five hundred thousand message mark after about six hours and fifty four minutes last night i think the final tally was eight hundred two thousand messages to congress in twenty four hours that's something like one in every four hundred americans on a single issue that no one even heard about eight months ago i think we've made it pretty clear this is the environmental litmus test for additional years this is the thing that's prime people to put their bodies on the line and then to go on line in massive numbers. it's pretty amazing part of me kind of wishes we were still back

in the telegram marriage because this would have been you know one of those jimmy stewart scenes where they're bringing them in by the creek to the senate offices bill the in the pipeline pieces the pipeline are already in place up in the northern part of the united states they're expanding the ports and the refineries down in texas in anticipation of the oil arriving there they're be expanding the size of the panama canal and they're building super tankers to carry more of that gasoline that that is now the number one manufactured export of our nation through the panama canal and off to asia as well to to south america and europe. and these guys as you say seven months ago nobody even knew what this was and they were not just well into the planning but well into the implementation of it you have put a significant log in the road in front of them. i'm guessing they're not going to give up easily no i think not big oil is not used to losing they almost never lose

and they're mad about this when the president denied the permit the head of the american petroleum institute said there will be quote huge political consequences unquote i mean he's mr big oil and he has the resources to back up his threats so good on the white house for being willing to do is stay brave in the face of that kind of threat now we need the democrats in the senate to do the same thing and one of the pieces of good news today was that chuck schumer from new york one of the people we were worried about because he hadn't said that he was going to really stand firm on this he came out to souter noon in said you know what. i'm going to work hard with harry reid to make sure that no amendment about keystone makes its way through. meanwhile to staff to noon the white house issued basically

a veto threat to the house transportation bill citing their plans to revive keystone as one of the reasons so. god knows how this will come out if we win in the home run it'll be a minor miracle maybe a kind of major miracle but what we're showing today is that the environmental movement has found its voice again anyone who thought it was kind of graining into irrelevance is wrong in twenty four hours all the environmental groups in the country working together have managed to produce a real groundswell. were able to show what it is that we care about and how passionately we care about it and the biggest reason of course for that is simply that the impact on the planet's climate we have not been able to get serious legislation through washington i'm addressing the climate crisis for twenty years

and given the current congress we won't get it through so we're reduced to fighting global warming one project at a time it's not the ideal method but it's what we've got and by god we're going to do it as hard as we can build recap for us why the stakes are so high with regard to the keystone sure and the biggest reason is that these tar sands in alberta are the second largest pool of carbon on earth second only to saudi arabia now burning the oil fields of saudi arabia is what's raised the temperature of the earth a degree already we do not want to find the next saudi arabia and do the same thing with it now that we know about climate change that's why we had the largest civil disobedience action in this country in thirty years with twelve hundred fifty three people arrested that's why we were able to surround the white house. with people five deep in november that's why we just had the most concentrated burst of

environmental advocacy maybe since the fight to save the grand canyon from being flooded back in the late one nine hundred sixty s. this was a big day and it was a big day for every environmental group in the country that unity is really what made it happen so where do you go from here bill well we'll keep monitoring this fight and hope that we're able to drive a stake through the heart of this thing we're also going on the offensive one of the things we really have to get across to people is how absurd it is that the new federal budget not the president's budget but but the budget that congress is likely to approve will have billions of dollars in subsidies for the fossil fuel industry and why this industry makes more money than any industry on earth you know it doesn't need subsidies we don't need to like be finding out how to burn coal and gas not only learned to burn him for two hundred fifty years all this is is big

fossil fuel companies giving small presents to legislators and getting big presents back with our money so we're going to try to disrupt that if we can you know if people will help they should go to three fifteen dot org and joining in this fight there you go three fifty dot org bill mckibben bill thanks so much for being with us this. thank you very much tom dick your use of the keystone x.l. pipeline being attached to it this transportation bill being jammed through congress by republicans is frankly a terrible piece of legislation one that if enact it will take america backwards not forwards for example it's called house resolution seventy seven the house version of it and at its heart it's just profoundly flawed with bad ideas and shoddy pricing the bill is costing two hundred sixty billion dollars that's a nine percent cut from the last transportation spending package we're cutting money for transportation seventy five thousand bridges in america right now are

structurally deficient like the one in minnesota that fell down and killed thirty some odd people transportation secretary ray la hood who as i recall was a republican has labeled this the most partisan and worst transportation bill that he's ever seen here's why there's a twenty five percent cut in subsidies for amtrak the republican have always tried to destroy am track but ridership on amtrak is growing so why why put out the bill and ends dedicated funding to mass transit with twenty percent of revenues from the federal gas tax which traditionally a funded best transit going away why well because the rich republicans have their own private jets and limos so they don't need those thinking mass transit is twenty percent from the gas tax that goes to mass transit to help move people around it's been we've been doing this since one thousand nine hundred two. in two thousand and

ten the last year that we've got you know solid figures for it brought in forty billion dollars that was spent on mass transit under this resolution of this of this bill h.r. seven mass transit is going to be paid for by a one time appropriation so they can say you know see we're not cutting so much there's a big chunk of money right here it's a one time appropriation when in a one time appropriation then what. we've been doing this it's a two year to bring it to a screeching halt next year h.r. seven bars funding for california's proposed high speed rail system you know it's bizarre to me when you think about where they're going to cut high speed rail that is moving people around at high speeds but they want to move or oil at high speeds from alberta to the gulf of mexico this is absolute insane this covers the lack of funding from the federal gas tax by taking royalties from oil drilling on public lands in other words if you want to make some of that money back up there were the

republicans are pulling out of the gas tax what you know open up more national forests for drilling it allows for longer and have your trucks which both the fact the environment and destroyed broads and bridges exam some already underpaid transportation workers in the fair labor standards act structures are going to get overtime so this is that's a seventy four year old law by the way guarantees basic worker rights the u.s. needs a far sighted future focus transportation bill not house resolution seven as i said senator i move quickly from border borders republicans want to do with this bill we should be focusing on moving people. coming up in tonight's daily take the telecommunications industry gougers americans for every last penny how are europeans escaping this kind of pilfering and how can americans say no to the corporate greed.

we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old until she told the truth. i'm a contestant i'm a total get of friends that i love traveling hip hop music and pretty. much it was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without you see it's a place. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

that is valentine's day it is celebrate we have a special geeky science for you since the dawn of time people have been studying the very nature of love asking the question what causes a person to be attracted to another and what helps to keep that love going is love something accidental or are we indeed programmed for. well new research conducted by rutgers university by professor helen fisher using m.r. eyes to look into the brain activity of those who are in love suggests that a combination of hormones and neurotransmitters actually creates and promotes a state of what we call love for example the neurotransmitter dopamine makes an individual more focused on the object of their life and to some extent addicted to them. is released in the brain when a person is doing something very pleasurable so it makes sense that it would appear in the brains of those in low serotonin another type of neurochemical which creates

feelings of hall was found to be in lower levels in the brains of those newly in love this is seem to explain the anxiety in anxiousness people feel in those initial stages of love since there's not enough serotonin present to provide a calming effect also men who were in love had less testosterone than single men while women in love had more testosterone than single women which fischer said give some biological credence to the popular notion the men in love are tamed while women in love are a little wilder now the neuro chemical oxytocin which is released in the brains of both men and women during sex and it's essentially the hormone in the body that promotes attachment and emotional empathy is present in higher levels in those in love there actually is a chemical keeping those involved together. the research conducted at rutgers prior research has also shown that scent has a great deal of influence when it comes to love for example research done at the

university of kentucky at florida state university shows that men who smell the t. shirts of women who are obviously ting had higher levels of testosterone and were more likely to use sexual language than men who smelled the t. shirts of non obviating with similarly men who were in the presence of obviously women were more likely to act macho and manly around them and for years. there there has been the common belief that pheromones play a large role in attraction and love so much so that many perfumes and clones are infused with it so there really is a science to being in law one that is largely beyond our control unless we know the right foods to eat to boost the right chemicals in our brain the spirit is for example which was served to bridegrooms during their pre-nuptial dinners and one nine hundred centuries france is known to contain large quantities of fully cassatt which enhanced orgasms avocados are known to be average easy acts of catholic priests in spain banning their consumption because of how powerfully seductive there were other foods like basal garlic and oil.