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 the republican from iowa 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 the substitute creates so many new programs for undeserved populations that are risk 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 and i'm just going to take a. i would 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 is a 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 indians now actually it would hold those accountable who commit acts of violence against native american women so there you have it grassley oppose elements that extend protections to gays undocumented immigrants and 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 hey guys. 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

spates. just take a look at this clip and it explains 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 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 lin sanity is happening take a look. linsanity has reached new heights hundreds of 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 so 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 in just one week where lin sanity is so crazy that i think are the two people have tried to

trademark earlier reach the us and patton trademark office to try to trademark the term linsanity. i'll be honest i'm insane for jeremy lin i. think with ladies at any rate story it was amazing when they beat the lakers no offense but you know this gets to. 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 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 drafted from zero is

a great affirmative action story 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 earth 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 guys. 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 frac 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 and i like this title 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 though in the slot 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 thing that no it's not a good idea. but no she actually includes a coupon for five dollars on the planet who want it enough and 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 to look. you show up five days a week on time to behave well you'll 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 you know so that tells me that disincentive that 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 to last until money is all the stuff 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. what are you guys thanks for joining me tonight that's it for tonight so thanks for joining and make sure to come back tomorrow carrie britto from arcadia center will be on the

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you need to know this the banks plan to remake europe is now well underway there's an iconic quote from chuck book the fight club which the main character tyler durden says only after disaster can we be resurrected only after you've lost everything you're free to do anything that quote has new meaning now when we look at the technocrats at the i.m.f. and what they're doing to europe and in particular greece at the behest of global banks toure's if the i.m.s. was tyler durden portrayed by brad pitt in the movie it would say it's only after europe has lost everything the banks can profit off anything we're seeing in europe now is the takedown of a small but important part of a comma of a continent's economy through forced austerity the big news in all the financial rags today from the financial times to the wall street journal is the collapsing parts of the european economy. for the first time since two thousand and

nine the seventeen nation euro zone economy contract and shrinking three tenths of a percent in the last quarter of two thousand and eleven one more quarter of negative growth and europe will officially be in a recession and looking at individual nations you can see why the british economy shrank by two tenths of a percent in the fourth quarter of the way to austerity measures from conservative prime minister david cameron who proudly proclaimed that europe has entered the quote age of austerity quote portugal's economy shrank by one and a half percent in two thousand and eleven and is projected to shrink by three percent this year and portugal has done everything the i.m.f. has asked it to do taking austerity poison pills and slashing budgets and what's happened it's gotten worse portugal's debt to g.d.p. ratio went up from one hundred seven percent to one hundred eighteen percent and that's not because portugal added more debt but instead because their economy shrank thanks to austerity spain and italy are also adopting austerity and also

watching their economies tank spain's debt to g.d.p. ratio was thirty six percent for the crisis now after austerity it's expected to more than double to eighty four percent by next year as for italy in two thousand and nine their debt to g.d.p. ratio was one hundred five percent and now thanks to austerity it's going to take up to one hundred twenty six percent by next year this is sweeping across europe or at least parts of it and is the reason why the entire continent is on the verge of another recession but nowhere is it worse than in greece athens is just now putting out the flames after days of violent riots in the streets greek people went on strike said buildings on fire and clashed with police to fight back against austerity measures being shoved down their throats by the i.m.f. austerity measures that aren't working going on two years into the austerity assault the greek economy is still tanking shrinking by seven percent in just the final quarter of two thousand and eleven and still in need of another bailout since

. two thousand and nine a quarter of all greek companies have gone out of business half of small businesses in that country say they can't meet their payroll in the first half of two thousand and eleven the suicide rate in greece spiked by forty percent half of the entire greek population under the age of twenty five is right now out of work if greece has in-laws debt everything yet thanks to austerity and it's getting pretty damn close as economist and author max fraud wolf said on this show earlier this week. this is on the ambiguously a disaster this is a sort of excel aerated great depression shock being delivered to greece we've never really seen anyone cut their way to prosperity in fact this is and that's where we get to the bigger picture of all this back to where we started if austerity doesn't work in fact if it has never ever worked ever in the history of the world in any country then why are people who we consider to be smart economists still pursuing it why didn't these so-called smart economists look what happened in

the one nine hundred seventy s. in the one nine hundred eighty s. when forced austerity in places like chile argentina and nations that were formerly part of the soviet union led to years and years of pain and suffering for average working people by what they see what's in front of their very eyes today as athens burns reason why because austerity isn't supposed to work it's not supposed to make economies better it's supposed to make economies worse remember what i said at the beginning only after europe has lost everything in the banks to profit off anything what's going on right now is a financial bulldozing of europe nation by nation so the bankers and the rich buddies can come in and buy up whatever's left of the commons at a low low price and make enormous profits into the future this is crisis capitalism it's what naomi klein wrote an entire book about europe has a long history of embracing the commons. the health care system is part of the con and they have public utilities their telecom infrastructure we talked about this last night it's considered part of the commons and you've got the obvious commons

of police and fire schools they're commons extends even to things like colleges but in countries like greece the commons also is their historic here and their ports democratic socialism which is the principal form of governance in europe has been very very strong in those countries that are pursuing it like denmark sweden norway germany france they're doing just fine but some of the particular when you look at what happened with goldman sachs and greece back four years ago and see how this is all begun if these commons if these countries like it can become privatized then there's a bunch of people who can make a whole lot of money off and the way to do that is to create a crisis or exploit one you bulldoze the economy with austerity and you let the banks gather up whatever is like a nation with a lot of resources it is for example in greece the chinese are making huge

investments and reese's main port iris qatar's invested five billion dollars in tourism and infrastructure there is selling off their country wealthy germans and scandinavians want to make greece the florida of europe as an article about this new york times over the weekend. greek they're turning greek islands that used to be the property of the government of the people into expensive retirement homes for wealthy europeans now that the economy has collapsed it's a fire sale for the country if you take down the government space is created so the corporations and very wealthy individuals can step in this is a piece from russia's russell short post piece in the new york times he said whether or not the country pays its debts other nations and foreign companies now understand the greek government is powerless so the future they'll take over buyable assets and run parts of the country by themselves this isn't just happening greece other cash strapped nations are going to be following suit and they're selling off their comments they'd love to turn you know it again same thing with

spain it used to be a big vacation paradise now it's going to become a private vacation paradise europe is going to turn into a giant disney world for the rich it's already happening by the way in the united states were seen this with c.c.a. buying up state prisons they're actually they contacted all fifty states last week and so you know we'll buy a few prison facilities you have to guarantee customers to us and we'd like to lobby you for drug laws and things like that but in any case our public utilities are being sold off education is be sold off austerity is working is exactly as it should it's taking us basically back to feudalism it's destroying our nation is destroying parts of europe other parts of europe are profiting tremendously off this and who wins the banks toure's. i. i is one's are you ready to rumble joining me on the panel for tonight's lone

liberal rumble don. genome own geno u.s. senate candidate former special agent with the u.s. secret service and former new york police department officer and lachlan mark a mark that's right market investigative reporter with the heritage foundation center for media and public policy thanks to both of you for being here and let's get started i was just reading about austerity in europe and it seems like the republicans are hell bent for leather to bring this to the united states it's you know cutting we've seen in twenty five. twenty four red states. so far three years seven hundred thousand people laid off and you know like this. now we've got this tax deal this payroll tax cut and unemployment benefit cut and. you know they're talking about extending this but the republican succeeded in lowering the number of weeks for unemployment benefits for ninety nine dollars seventy three weeks why would that be a good thing you know to take more money out of people's pockets who would be

consumers who would otherwise stimulate the economy well i think the data the unemployment rates are pretty clear you'll see that if unemployment was given for five years unemployment takes down not coincidentally after five years the incentive to not work is there i think that you realize that most people if they're if they're given just a couple hundred bucks a week they'll just not work it's not just because you don't mind it's not just conservatives saying that you can look at anyone from new york times poll paul krugman of new york times the columnist or alan krueger the recent edition right now white every job opening there are for people who are but but the point is that for a job i mean that my my my you go serious about. not only one of the we're not talking about blaming the victim here we're talking about incentives and i'm telling you that it's not just free marketeers who are who who say that an incentive it's a safety net giving people money for doing something will inevitably result in more

people doing that and it was a serious depends on how much money you give the business is textbook economics and i say that literally because paul krugman himself has written it into his textbooks that one of the reasons for prolonging unemployment spells in europe were unemployment benefits are much more generous generally is been precisely because of those on what is going to are you get unemployment benefits you get free health care you get free childcare you get things none of those things or have well that's what people are paying for i'll agree with you but none of those things are available in the united states people people when they're on an unemployment they're screwed and they know it and they're not trying to stay on. employment of the vast majority of around trying to just cause all of this is. a simplistic ad hominem argument when the reality is having studied psychology and economics what lachlan said is right the incentives are there i'm not saying everyone but we're saying is the incentive is there to not work if you don't have so very proud so you agree with cutting the number of available weeks for unemployment from ninety nine down to seventy three we need to make it realistic we can look at that right now is

a very prolonged the profession but that's what makes some but that's also a form of austerity i mean what drives an economy is people spending money i don't agree with us we're still spending it's just a third party spending your money there's no wonder less what they're spending your money there's still money being spent going after the seventy third week they're not spending anything they don't have any money they're spending the taxpayers their money not the third party government money still being spent in other words the benefits that would be spent by unemployment people instead of unemployed people excuse me instead of tax dollars being taken from taxpayers to then go towards unemployment benefits that are being spent by the taxpayers them so you. know well you could say if you're to if you're talking about wealthy taxpayers i'd say no there is simply put it this was bank accounts but. it was what the thing what drives and what creates jobs is demand and demand is caused by people but what i did what i always say to the folks who bring up that topic is where did the man go people don't demand things now that they say that their demand is

a function of wages period econ one hundred one no wait wages drive down wages are a function of productivity we get it we're going to take a break we'll be right we'll be right back coming up why do republicans think a nineteenth century energy transfer plan so it's twenty first century america just five more rubble coming up after the break. you just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old so if you tell the truth. i'm a contestant i'm a total get a friend that i love traveling hip hop music and. he was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without you or his place.

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by the bag long liberal tonight i'm joined joined by dan bongino u.s. senate candidate former special agent with the u.s. secret service and former n.y.p.d. officer and lachlan marc a investigative reporter with the heritage foundation center for media and public policy welcome back guys. the transportation funding bill this is there's the obama version of the house version and since the constitution says all spending begins in the house the house version is the one that counts and the house version put together by the house republicans calls for a nine percent reduction in infrastructure we're back to austerity. the

republican secretary of transportation ray la hood who is still are registered republican calls this the most part is. and worst transportation bill he's ever seen from a member of congress as well republican member counters it it it's a touche allies is the war on unions makes it harder for them to unionize. it also blows up california proposed high speed rail system and ends consistent funding of highways the gas tax have been doing this since eighty two every year was forty billion dollars last year that out of the gas tax that was dedicated for highway funding this is going to end one year and again and oh and there's a huge giveaway to big oil. in this thing how how can this be good for america they have a spake and there's been no greater act the u.s. government has instituted it was had a more disparate impact upon minority construction workers so i find it odd that we as republicans are constantly lectured on inequality and yet davis bacon the

numbers are there when davis bacon says is that if the federal government is funding a project in and in a community whoever is hiring the people in that project have to pay whatever the prevailing wage of the community might be twelve dollars an hour might be thirty dollars which is having to divert to find what the prevailing wages were which is the wage that union employers pay pay their employees only when you have a majority union employers but the point is that these are not as used all over the country in areas where there is no you know that's right and the prevailing wage was. originally fined by the marketplace between the employers and employees right but when those rates are defined by what union workers in the state pay but they're not it what would you find by the prevailing wage in that we're going to davis bacon even mentions unions ok we're talking about prevailing wage laws state prevailing wage laws are based on what union contractors pay in that state ok so so apparently there's something in this transportation bill blows up davis bacon is that why you brought this up yeah because i find it ironic that we're.