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 love than meets the eye. it's the good the bad of a very very hard day she was fully ugly the good no love eight after hearing that is grandma could lose her house from defaulting on her mortgage the twelve year old may decide 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 that had been in the family for three generations from foreclosure and a february fifteenth auction date when asked about his extraordinary act of

kindness lamaze i want to help someone who is very dear to me my grandma has fallen on hard times is going to lose her 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 brought to our representatives state representative the 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 bed 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 their high numbers of sexual assaults on women in the military here's what she had to say we have women once more the feminists 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 raped 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 suggest that they want to be victims and expect to be raped when they decide to defend our nation well that's just really 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 of everything especially connecting to the internet people have to wait two minutes for data to load on the internet especially when they pay a petty 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 given 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 caused 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 and to start a company that doesn't have to make a massive investment to lay wire or put a satellite towers all over the place and 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 bias p.

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 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 has 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 if in the big picture tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website thom hartmann dot com for organizer to dot com also check out our two you tube channels or links the top part in dot com this entire show is also available as a free video podcast and i tunes and you can visit on our dot com download the audio podcast of our daily three radio show and we have

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rather as to mark the anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising in bahrain are put down with tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims of western governments hypocrisy of a different revolts in the region. one sided reports from syria blaming only the regime for atrocities is seen by some as an attempt to hide the truth of the conflict. by sweeping rebel crimes under the carpet. and sizing up the rivals u.s. leaders could joe china's visiting vice president and leader in waiting she jinping as of today she is fine for the upper hand in a turbulent relationship. plus more deals are being made their.

picks up we'll tell you which sectors that most popular and business in twenty minutes. are saying live from the heart of the russian capital this is. the pictures all familiar regime forces cracking down on protesters but this time they're emanating from bahrain just hours ago activists trying to mark the one year anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising were dispersed by heavily armed police and there's a bennett now reports the weapons as well as the tactics may have been imported from the u.k. . tear gas and stun grenades supposedly the work of a reformed police force but one year on since the first anti-government protests were crushed in bahrain it seems not much has changed the only difference now the

crackdown has been planned by one of britain's former top cops john yates used to be assistant commissioner of london's metropolitan police he now works for bahrain's monarchy which says he's there to oversee police reform the police have borrowed or behaving despicably their latest trick is to throw cans of tear gas into homes of people they don't like shut the doors and people have died choking to death tear gas or use out of doors and i think for any british police officer or overstimulate stars retired to be associated in any way with that is this is wrong yes resigned from scotland yard last year in early fictive of the phone hacking scandal he popped up in bahrain in december as part of the regime's p.r. campaign to clean up its image a campaign pushed hard it seems by yeats himself he recently told the daily telegraph his new charges had a well rehearsed plan for the anniversary of the uprising adding the concept of

reasonable reaction to provocation has been reinforced as for the uprising itself yet said this isn't organized protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community and then you get thousands and thousands of people protestant demanding their rights and you call that vandalism if you seem to forget that there are sixty five or sixty five people actually died in france from police brutality activists in bahrain insists their protest was peaceful their aim to reach the iconic pole roundabout in the capital manama they say they were met by tanks toxic gas and rubber bullets what we witnessed on the ground as not. different or from what the impact as previously but it's been extended through the toxic gases and use of poisoning so. mr john is contributing we should see

a positive things at the ground what we see today as nothing acceptable it may not just be british tactics bahrain's easing but weapons to government figures show the u.k. sold over one million pounds worth of rifles and artillery equipment to bahrain from july to september last year long after blood was spilled that despite insisting all licenses had been revoked as for yates his contract runs until april by which time he hopes to put in place concrete reforms on this evidence that seems a long way off bennett's r.t. london. for middle east expert eric alley says the different attitude world powers have taken to bahrain's uprising is easily explained by how useful the regime is to them. those countries which are regarded as allies of the west or stooges of the west basically. criticized regularly it's not just the gulf states

and bahrain in particular it is also countries like yemen whose brutal dictatorial president president former president is currently in the united states receiving medical treatment there were demonstrations in saudi arabia a few days ago which got very little coverage of course the saudis have no democracy at all it is probably the most undemocratic country in the entire arab world no one talks about this because it's a useful country it has always and it does what the west starts to mention in bahrain was greenlighted by the united states which is very strong. and they crush the uprising. what erica has also spoken to us about the current crisis in syria that's in a special interview next hour but before that has what else is coming up in the program. turkey wants to keep out the economic war on iran

decided to protect its national interests by continuing to watch and wait while. activists in syria claim government troops have sent tanks to attack residential areas in the country's fourth largest city of hama that sounds the fighting shows no sign of abating in the epicenter of the uprising the city of homs but it reports hard to verify there are concerns that some want and the regime painted in the bad light and the opposition since the beginning of the uprising in syria last march the regime of bashar al assad has been accused of refreshen torture and killing but with abad much of homes while the main strongholds of the opposition in its second week blame has to focus on assad's forces attacking civilians and shelling residential areas. the beautiful yard calls himself a member of the opposition an intellectual not the re one his tresses from

a social democratic group originally from homes he blames assad for mistakes which allowed bloodshed at the start putting the country on the road to crisis but he just defies what the regime is doing in his native city now he is the two i mean he is trying to. protect civilians i think that in many gangs you know there is a title and everyone can claim that he belonged to this title and no one can ban him no one can. say that you don't have the why to talk to have the startle so i can i can't claim that i belong to this free syrian army who can bear me who can prevent me the danger posed by the armed forces was seen in the killing of a french journalist last month and he says when he went to homs he put in his mind that the syrian opposition is very peaceful and the g.m.

is trying to frame them so he he was like a pioneer in the call and he was killed by the some gang attacks on government targets have become increasingly bloody themselves with twenty eight people killed and scores injured or an attack on a military base in a letter last week and f.s.a. free syrian army representative admitted responsibility before the organization later denied it blaming the government forces a claim ridiculed by regime. insurgents and terrorists have committed this attack only an insane person could say that the government is killing its officials and officers and destroying its own administrative buildings these armed terrorist groups were created to commit these crimes and they have committed them in the past and will continue to do so if the west and then arab states. supported the u.s. is aware of syria's power it realizes that there are people in syria. against the

ideology and that's why the u.s. supports them undermines their right of. action instead of the american model of. last sunday the arab league vote still for full political and financial support for the opposition to unify its ranks it is similar call from the leader of al qaeda and muslims to unite efforts to help overthrow bashar al assad recent reports suggest iraqi weapons could tare troops and libyan rebels a role in syria on the opposition side this makes for a volatile and highly dangerous makes. many western powers interested in fomenting unrest and syria and so they'll turn a blind eye to extreme weapons coming in through borders like lebanon and turkey to create the very militant i won't call them terrorist but very dangerous armed groups that are determined to create war and peace and syria foreign

pressure has focused on the assad regime but the syrian government and its international supporters say there's been a total failure to acknowledge violence from a position forces which has been a key factor in the country's present turmel. nati damascus syria. is now inside syria for her first hand reports our impressions on the situation there you can check out her twitter feed her latest tweet she says locals are skeptical about the latest arab league initiative to bring in peacekeepers deeply concerned that are given the chance of any fighting in the country. patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spiked told r.t. that some major players are rejecting peaceful solutions for syria and polarizing and really complex situation. the removal of diplomats from syria. the. desire to arm the free syrian army from the west and to basically support

them to give them kind of sectioned off training areas where they can develop an open strong opposition apart from the kind of threat of a sad all suggest that you know the west isn't willing to have you know encourage any kind of dialogue or discourse at all alternately they want you know they've now polarized the situation they've now said you know. this evil we need to get rid of him they use those kind of terms evil you know the. ogre or bogeyman and you know the syrian people are vulnerable victims who need to be protected by the west now i think we saw the same thing with get out and it's always very striking that you know it was only two years ago that assad was seen as the great reformer in syria the west were basically queuing up to talk to him. when asia times correspondent asked about says unlike libya syria won't fall under western influence through intervention because it has a stronger position in the region. well this stakes in syria are so much higher

compared to libya because this is that directs each act that direct clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the one in on the other side much more david was in libya in libya russia and china and even that the other brics and germany as well they said ok maybe this is not the red line yes let's give them the benefit of the doubt i mean the french the brits and the americans the country was destroy syria you cannot do that because first of all they're going to have to fight the real army even if they're not very competent but they are battle hardened there's been two wars in the middle east the syrian army it's a smaller country there's more population you cannot simply landings asian is out of the question because the it would go all over the place the repercussions to turkey to jordan to iraq to saudi arabia so nato spread is to foment civil

war and that's it's like there's actually what they are doing what china stance on syria cropped up on the first day of talks in the chinese vice president's visit to the u.s. she doing things american colleagues voice disappointment with beijing and moscow vetoing recent uing a solution on syria. china was criticism of it's tied to trade laws and lack of copyright in force and that's the thing vice president talks to me. brief exchange is that they was. it's unlikely this sized up changing thing likely to be beijing in the next decade christine for example it's now an accumulation between the two economic times. he loves me loves me that age old question is one china at least has every right to ask for guarding its relationship with the united states just in the last three years china has been winding down mind gerri.

praised and envy for its ability to do whatever it wants to right now in china the government can disconnect parts of its internet in the case of war we need to have that here too the chinese pay zero capital gains tax folks in congress are also going to get a chance to decide later. in the month whether our construction workers should sit around doing nothing while china builds the best railroads the best schools the best airports. in the world but it turns out those chocolate covered compliments seem to come just as frequently as those cold hearted criticisms from human rights to currency devaluation to trade we finally need to confront the issue of trade with china all too often china's been competing in a way that's tilting the playing field and is unfair to u.s. work and it's not just the president himself those hoping to take his job also tend to flip flop on china these guys around for us and and and and and looking for ways

to. to work to harness china doesn't want to various they want to see has succeeded thrive so we can buy more chinese products ivan eland senior fellow at the independent institute says the paradox transcends the rhetoric we borrow a lot of money from china too so it's quite a curious thing that we're really borrowing money to pay for defending other countries from china right i mean that's what really doing the mixed messages are reaching the masses as well in a recent gallup poll by fifty two percent to thirty two percent americans were more likely to name china than the united states as the leading economic power in the world today even though it's not however in a separate survey when asked which country represents the greatest danger china came in second only after iran in life and love there appears to be a fine line between resentment and respect i want to beat china i want to go to war with china and make america the most attractive place in the world to do business

if you look at china they're in a very different such as they say for their own retirement security they don't have the f.t.c. they don't have the modern welfare state and china's growing it's that growth and the sharing is caring relationship that has bound these countries in this holy union this trade and economic interdependence with china is really a defining factor and perhaps like most relationships there's nothing simple. about the one between the u.s. and china there are disagreements about who gets to lead when how to spend the money and how to raise the children but the fact is this relationship is one that's going to be around for generations to come in washington christine prison now our team. paul craig roberts he said in president reagan's administration says that u.s. desperation to stall china's rapid rise could prove costly the united states says is responding to china in two ways one it's trying to reduce china's independent

access to oil and ran accounts for twenty percent of jones oil so it doesn't make a lot of sense for washington to go to china and say look in bargo yourself from iranian oil and let us go to an american puppet in office in that country as well so we can prevent your economic development from catching up to us too quickly and the united states is responding to china also with increased military presence united states says that the south china sea is an area of national interest to the united states there of course that doesn't make any sense it's like china saying the gulf of mexico is an area of national interest to china so the united states.