called the violence against women act which provides funding for investigations prosecutions of domestic violence against women i know it's one of those rare occurrences where the name of bill actually adds up to what it does but the bill was originally introduced by then senator joe biden and was passed into law under president clinton in one thousand nine hundred four since then it's been reauthorized twice by congress once in two thousand again in two thousand and five both times there were no objections plenty of bipartisan support a no brainer and the bill hasn't faced objections because it's been pretty successful this for thus far according to the huffington post the reporting of domestic violence has increased by fifty one percent that's not saying that domestic violence is necessarily up or rather a sign that women are feeling more comfortable coming forward to police about the abuse well now the a.w.a. as it's called is up for reauthorization again with a few modifications designed to place an emphasis on reducing sexual assaults strengthening housing protection for victims and putting more focus on preventing domestic homicides but this time around some people are objecting to the the

authorization efforts and senator chuck grassley is leading the charge republican from i was says that he has problems with three of the provisions for stars he's opposed to the part of the would give protections to abuse victims which is designated to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation he said quote these substitute creates so many new programs for undeserved populations that are risks losing focus on helping victims of every group is a priority no group is a priority so chuck is one of those conservatives who thinks of the community as undeserving of being protected from violence and would seriously but chuck doesn't just have a problem with the provision he's also upset about expanding the availability of visas for abuse victims who are also undocumented immigrants see according to the pop politician the way is meant to protect victims of violence it shouldn't be an avenue to expand immigration law or give additional benefits to people here unlawfully and another insane comment from chuck animists. to take

a moment to remind him that undocumented women have always been included in this language the only revision is the part about expanding the visas from ten thousand to fifteen thousand so chuck has a problem with that those five thousand abuse victims are now for chuck to call off the whole thing and finally he's opposed to tribal language which has been included in the reality draft this would give native american tribes limited jurisdiction to prosecute those who have committed acts of domestic violence on their land so he says that this provision would extend travel jurisdiction over non india now actually it would hold those accountable who commit acts of violence against native american women so there you have it grassley opposes elements to what extent protections to gays undocumented immigrants a native americans or in other words he does want to protect anybody who's disliked by the republican party so i think it's pretty clear chuck is telling the line despite the efforts put in by other politicians to make sure that women can feel safe this senator has a different set of priorities let me just explain something when it comes to protecting women against domestic violence it doesn't matter if they're gay or

straight legal or illegal or what their race or ethnicity is domestic violence is not ok in any situation so why does it matter who the victim is so for playing partisan politics potentially leaving more women at risk to become victims senator grassley is tonight's told time where. guys it's time for a happy hour and joining me this evening is jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant military blogger black dot net and kevin glass managing editor at townhall i gots to go and. are you ready to talk to one of my favorite topics. oh. ok this story is pretty of me as of the first time. we can't help ourselves we love

states. just take a look at this clip and explain the whole story and it's awesome. a former u.s. government consultant claims to have knowledge of at least three secret meetings president eisenhower had with an alien civilization that consultant is timothy good shown here lecturing good says eisenhower met with aliens at a new mexico air force base in one nine hundred fifty four. i just wanted to be true so bad i love that story i'm obsessed i mean this isn't new to anyone who's watched the history channel you know they have those ancient aliens programs on all the time but you can find you know an expert like this guy purporting to have. internal documents showing the u.s. government contractor who is a long time ago and who isn't out there some of the like and says eisenhower did it what did we do you know i'm going to cure you but with you and we got what were the android smartphones and any one of those years i don't know that right little green

that's what we got. but eisenhower probably is cashing checks right now on that one . out of the next one which i don't know if you guys are basketball fans or not but linsanity is happening take a look. lin sanity has reached new heights hundred rafted and unknown just a week ago harvard grad jeremy lin of the knicks has new yorkers lin saying last night he outscored kobe bryant and racked up a career high thirty eight points if you were the los angeles ninety two to eighty five. all right so that was friday's game and for me this is a little bit of a tough subject because they beat the lakers i love the lakers i was kind of bitter about it but this kid really does have a pretty incredible story so who but now it's got to the point just one week where lin sanity is so crazy that i think are the two people have tried to trademark

earlier reach the u.s. and patton trademark office to try to trademark the term linsanity. i'll be honest i am insane for jeremy lin i. think with ladies in any great story it was amazing when they beat the lakers no offense but you know this. this gets to a policy problem in the united states you know people are trying constantly to cash in on things that they don't invent and obviously people are trying to trademark the term linsanity to sell t. shirts or drive people to their website or something like that you know it's a real problem in the united states when when people are trying to take things that aren't theirs and use government force through the patent office to get away from us now with the rest you know what are we supposed to do what you can buy his agent cash for and i'm sure he'll win the patent claim and i'd just like to point out that once the football season ended pro sports is over until next fall and. germany was in ruins he already on drafted from zero is

a great affirmative action where he's an agent in the national ballet bones and you're basically said yesterday that nobody would care if he was an asian that was terrible i was terrible jeremy lin it's a great story you know it's a great story but it's also true he broke the rookie pool are the points record for the first five starts beating shaq's record he's not it's not just an affirmative action you know that he's always like he's actually accomplished and i'll give i'll give you that ok. let's talk about a. business idea that it's going to. college kids college kids take a look at. this service is a five dollars ride to anywhere in an arbor the morning after a little too much partying her poster advertising the shuttle has gained momentum on sites like bro bible total frappe move sports illustrated and she's talked with local radio stations so it's a walk of shame shuttle like you wake up at dude's alice and you're like going to get home and i don't want to walk home in my life this time do you believe many

remember that a vending machine with the the b. pill the plan b. pill that we were talking about. last week she actually has a coupon to drop you off the one in the slot a bag she's got a coupon for five dollars on a bag you get a slot bag with your side of the show you walk of shame think that no it's not a good idea. but no she actually includes a coupon for five dollars on the plan b. all you want i don't know if you said that innovation is dead on college campuses clearly we have kids who are smart they're entrepreneurial and they know where the demand is it's true no i have good friends from college that do something where there are designated drivers and they'll come pick you up and drive your car home for you this is just like designated driver for the day after excellent market where you go you've got all your bases covered pretty and afterparty ok last one this is a neighborhood where they're paying kids to attend school. seniors who show up five days a week on time to behave well will get twenty five dollars every friday underclassmen

will get ten dollars you know you have that we haven't seen you know and you know we could come in the school you know so that tells me that this incentive that we're trying to use is actually working. what do you think i mean you know in areas where they have a really hard time actually getting kids to come to schools is that a bad idea i want to hate i really do i would love to hate this but if it works who cares they waste so much money you take it away from that if they can somehow get away from the teachers unions and get in the hands of the kids i am one hundred percent in favor i mean economists tell us time and time again incentives work and all of incentives cash is the best. and hopefully maybe in this case money will raise a couple grades raise some attendance rates right some graduation rate for growth there you go pay for test scores pay for the rest of pay for play. thanks for joining me tonight that's it for tonight so thanks for joining and make sure to come back tomorrow very brittle from archana center will be on the show to explain

why cyber war is the new yellow in the meantime though it's become a fan of a lot of you on facebook and follow us on twitter there's anything you ever missed you can always catch now you've got a lot of sales and coming up next is the. resistance is not of politics but a culture. is couldn't get. on it's own. cultures of resistance on marching. culture is that so much

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somewhere between respect and rhetoric a clash of two ideologies on one side is a sink or swim capitalist mentality and then the other a helping state hand so who has a right china or the us will explore. president ahmadinejad is smiling for the cameras today after a major nuclear advancement and iran is also stepping up its game against the e.u. as well so will iran really cut off oil supplies to six european countries i want will they do in retaliation many western powers interested in fomenting unrest and syria and so they'll turn a blind eye to extreme weapons coming in through the borders well it's

a game of duck duck goose the u.s. has a history of picking friends in the middle east but picking sides can backfire certainly has in the past so as history destined to repeat itself in syria. good evening it's wednesday february fifteenth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching our t.v. . well china the friend china the enemy a key ally or a rival to be feared with the rhetoric coming out of washington it's often hard to tell the difference the front of fro the countries are intertwined economically and in these difficult economic times it's hard to ignore the extent of china's economic success many western common commies are floundering prompting some to even declare a crisis in western liberal capitalism meanwhile in the emerging markets of asia

brazil south africa and elsewhere there are sailing a right along on the powerful wave of state capitalism and whether guided by the invisible hand of the market or a carefully planned state strategy capitalism does seem to be evolving and countries like china well they seem to be doing something right and it's certainly worth asking whether there are some lessons for the us along the way well for that i'm joined by and leash is a professor of economics at the new york university and he's the author of this book here what the u.s. can learn from china. hi and thank you so much for joining us today now i want to begin by looking at sort of a lot of the rhetoric that we get especially out of the g.o.p. candidates running for office we often see this tendency to blame china on you know loss in manufacturing on our economic woes how valid are those critiques i think that the. critiques the rhetoric levied against is

mostly. really unfounded because when we accuse them of being unfair with trade and accuse them of state capitalism that's not similar to ours. the evidence is quite to the contrary. the us actually engages in state capitalism too we have darpa which is basically an arm of this department of defense that invests in all kinds of companies that can develop new weaponry for our defense department we obviously support all our large multinational banks. because they're all too big to fail and so the only difference here is we will socialize the costs and allow private private gains whereas in china. even though they also explicitly back the banks there they

don't give out gigantic billion dollar bonuses to their bank and executives and so i would say that it's it's really unfair it's not really state capitalism versus liberal capitalism it's really more of who has more crony capitalism and that's really at issue and that's an excellent point when i think that sort of slowly the starting to filter into our society with with movements like the occupy wall street movement but it hasn't really sort of filtered into to the mainstream and one point that you've written about in a world with art without china is how china's growth has actually helped ease the economic crisis here in the u.s. i don't think that that's something that most americans are used to hearing so if you can just explain that briefly absolutely well what a lot of americans don't understand is that without china a major segments of our economy wouldn't be employed we always

focus on manufacturing here by the politicians but. because of china we have grown a lot of jobs in the service sector such as in the legal field in finance in marketing and sales so these jobs are not being accounted for and in fact those are higher paying jobs and it really benefits the economy that way and i explain in the article that the federal reserve here has done many studies that show that because of our trade with china we actually make more money here than if we didn't have china in the picture now switching gears just a little bit to the way that sort of elections are run i want to bring up another point that you've written about sort of looking at how the u.s. could learn a thing or two from china in terms of how politicians are picked because of course

here we often hear china's political model. criticized for quite quite loudly so but a lot of times we have people who are elected into office who don't necessarily look out for the greater good of the country so talk a little bit about the difference or what exactly it is that the u.s. could learn from china's playbook when it comes to running for office absolutely a lot of americans have this misconception that china is just a dictatorship. it's untrue because. a lot of these jobs are not earned through patronage what they are are positions that politicians earn so if i can make an example and then knology is china is more like a corporation the people that run the country. earn their way to the top through decades of government service similarly we don't allow a c.e.o.

a c.e.o. has to demonstrate over his career that he has the experience and the knowledge to lead an organization and so it's the same with china. the leaders basically have to first pass the competency test which tends to be very difficult fewer than twenty percent of the people that take it actually pass and then once they're in the central government system they're rotated to different positions throughout the government for five year terms and they can't serve a term for more than two years and so. this this. system of moving them around so that they don't deliver value of corrupt relationships with just that particular region organization that they must be developing ways to improve the institution while they're there because they have. various evaluations by people who work with them

and this is all handled and evaluated by the largest human resources department in the world. they basically promote the people that do well demote the people that don't do well and so by the time that someone is considered for the top position in the country they have already helped serve hundreds of millions of people in china in a beneficial way well that's certainly go ahead. oh and so what i suggest that there are elements of this system that might work in a democratic capitalist society the idea of maybe reintroducing civil service exams because we only have that in the foreign service in the us today. the idea that people actually have to prove some compton c. before they are appointed positions people and we're going to unfortunately we're

out of time but the idea that people have to prove competency in what they're actually talking about before serving in office is certainly a brilliant one and i definitely think that it's something to consider sort of move politicians around so they don't have time to establish those corrupt relationships with lobbying firms and various influences so unfortunately we have to leave it there for now but hopefully we'll have you back on the show that was and leave the economics professor at new york university and the author of the book what the u.s. can learn from china. well nowhere does the drumbeat to war ring louder than when it comes to the threat of iran the narrative at least in the mainstream networks to pick steve islamic republic as a major threat and the aggressor there must be contained at all costs for the sake of world peace and democracy runs behavior is taken as an act of aggression no matter what it does any sort of defiant statement is deemed as an open invitation to war it's a bit reminiscent of another scenario the buildup to the war with iraq there's a threat of met weapons of mass destruction al qaeda and iran pundits lawmakers

warning that the time to act is now or else and u.s. opinion seems to be swaying to a recent poll in fact found that nearly half of all likely voters think the u.s. should be willing to use military force to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and while obama has called for a diplomatic resolution to the issue he has been just as clear that no option is off the table now the rhetoric was renewed today after iran announced major developments in a nuclear program at a fuel to the fire with reports of tehran and cutting off its oil exports to six e.u. countries a provocative move but also a logical one according to journalist gareth porter whom i spoke to earlier today. in the iranian move to threaten to cut off exports of crude oil to european countries not the first time they've done it and of course it's a logical for thing for them to do because it is a bargaining tool for them to try to get greece spain and. italy

particularly the three major european countries which do import large amounts of oil from from iran to pull back and say well maybe we can figure out a way to avoid a cut off of our and ending of our dealings with iran are struggling economically or struggling economically and this gives iran an obvious bargaining chip which the iranians are the ones who are going to always play their bargaining chips they are the world's greatest bargainers it's not for nothing that we talk about persian rugs they're the original persian rug salesman and they always want to hold off or hold on to the bargaining chips until they can play them when the timing is right and i think they now feel this is the time to do it so that what accounts for example for israel's rhetoric clearly the israelis are you know have a geopolitical strategic interest for not seeing a nuclear armed iran but it does seem like the talk has been kept up massively in

the past few months well there are two different levels of this at one level there's no doubt the israelis particularly benjamin netanyahu the prime minister are playing the threat of war against iran for everything it's worth to try to put pressure on iran to put pressure on the united states perhaps even more than that iran to do something more drastic more fundamental against iran of course what they really want to the united states to attack iran's nuclear facilities but behind that there is a very serious question as to whether prime minister benjamin netanyahu who has himself personally a kind of must side a complex as some jewish friends call it or or a messianic complex about being the the savior of the jewish people and thus being willing to risk. really the end of the state of israel so there is a serious question about that and i i don't know the answer but but it does in fact demand very careful attention to it to his role in this but yet the timeline of all

this came from the u.s. it was panetta who leaked our sort of said that he's expecting the israelis maybe i don't i view the as another ploy another bargaining. tactic if you will to try to put pressure on iran to say look it's a good cop bad cop routine at the same time i do think that the obama administration is very concerned about the israeli policy that they want to distance the united states from any threat of war by israel against iran and should the israelis make that decision it's not clear what obama would do whether he would come to israel's assistance or not he's been making very quiet very subtle signals to both israel and iran that the united states would stay out of a war if united states bases and forces were not attacked but let me just step back for a moment and. bring to bear

a little bit of historical perspective in this situation where everyone is very excited the u.s. news media sort of hyperventilating over every new. charge against iran and every new statement that iran makes about its nuclear program it's wise i think to just remember only a few years ago two thousand and six when the iranians were actually talking to the european three the u.k. germany and france sitting down to negotiate the iranians were actually offering to limit the number of centrifuges to three thousand or less that is a deal that if the united states and the europeans would have leapt at it would have avoided this kind of crisis at that point the united states was not willing to support the deal and it was not willing to give that element. that the iranians demanded which was a security guarantee the europeans wanted it the bush administration refused and how can you have any serious talks with iran without really talking about

a security guarantee that is of the essence of the deal that has to be made right well i mean you know you talk about sort of the rhetoric coming out of the mainstream media and even from our own politicians and the assumption is or the portrayal of the iranians is always as these you know irrational actors this terrifying threat and yet we haven't really seen that at least not in recent history the iranians acting out you know not of course is a complete caricature or hardly even a caricature worth paying attention to because the matter of fact is that the iranians are very careful calculators they're very clever negotiators they carefully consider the balance of forces and what their assets are and what the the assets are i think they are the exact opposite of the caricature that we're hearing from particularly of course from the israelis but also from from the united states to a great extent and yet the israelis for instance the israelis have attacked unprovoked

we saw the bombings a few years ago the israelis of course have not admitted to having a nuclear program but have also not signed on to any sort of international and as a student of international politics i have to point out that the contrast between israel and iran militarily is really quite profound the israelis have very great offensive capabilities the iranians have nothing they have no offensive capabilities at all all they have is the ability to retaliate both through assets in other countries their allies particular allies in the middle east and through you know retaliation through through missiles against israel and against u.s. bases in the region so really they are a defensive power by definition by the very state nature of their military assets and the lack of us so in that light. since you say in your piece is sort of talked about the u.s. seems to be hinting that it would only get pulled into a conflict of its own soldiers or its own ships or its own bases were attacked

could we see perhaps there's so much brinkmanship here. and attack that was done perhaps by somebody else in order to pull the u.s. into that well that of course that of course is always a danger that there could be a false flag attack or an effort at least a false flag attack but i can tell you that both the iranians and the americans are going to be very very alert for anything of the sort and it will have to be done very very well in order to pass the test of scrutiny by both countries right and very briefly when we you know we see everyone sort of throwing around this drumbeat to war myself included what would be the consequences even if a quick u.s. military intervention attack and iran i mean it seems like they're being a lot of the from the united states i mean i can guarantee you with almost certainty that the united states is not going to take the initiative to attack iran the question is what would happen if israel attacked and what i'm hearing is that the u.s. military is very determined that the u.s. response.