are you ready to rumble joining me for today's big picture about ronald mathew the senior editor at the capital research center and author of the book subversion nk amanda beadle reporter and blogger at think progress and brian darling columnist as human events and director of government studies at the heritage foundation welcome to all of you what have you are with us with the job numbers improving and contraceptive arguments kind of falling flat republicans have shifted their line of attack against the president to gas prices as predictions that will hit five bucks the summer and maybe that war more by election time yesterday the president came out blasted those who want to turn this into an election issue. what is it. that's

a college coed susan fluke. who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex lives that make her now i know this is hard to believe but some politicians are seeing higher gas prices as a political opportunity you're shocked i know. but it's true right in the middle of an election year one would have thought so recently the lead in and one new story said and i'm quoting here gasoline prices. are on the rise and republicans are licking their chops now for the record the first guy wasn't the president although some republicans have treated him as if he were in any case we do not have a shortage of oil we actually exported more oil products than we have imported for

the first time in sixty two years and doesn't love it and continue to president obama has reduced our dependence on foreign or your oil each year he's been in office in fact the number of operating oil and gas rigs in the united states has quadrupled in the three years since he came into office the us now has more operating oil and gas rigs and the rest of the world combined it which was very much not the case when obama came into office and we have the lowest demand since one thousand nine hundred seven highest highest in fact our number one export right now is gasoline all manufactured goods we export more gas than cars and computers than anything so isn't that obvious that this is just politico this is this is being churned by well in fact let me let me just add this and that and then also and my soliloquy here. is driving billions in oil futures seventy three percent of all trades for the weekend in feb seventeenth were by the banks seventy three percent a year ago it was like thirty percent typically it's counter parties and speaking

of the business times coke executive david chang said in the physical business purchase of crude oil from producers and storage offshore and anchors allow us to benefit from the contango market they're buying gasoline and shipping it off shore so that they can drive down available quantities and drive up prices it looks to me like the gas prices are being manipulated by the republican party donors like the koch brothers big oil and wall street they're all making our way to the spirity isn't it it's what i want to see made out of work of brighton confederacy for helping to put all this production on line because president obama doesn't want to produce more oil domestically he doesn't want to drill in anwar and shut down drilling in the gulf of mexico after the oil spill and then he turned it back on again yet it took him so long to enjoy a lot of the. i mean on water either. and president obama has has there's more permits out there that aren't being used that are being used in this way so no one's a great example of the president shutting down or oil production that would have been refined and added to that wasn't my question my question is why you know with

the ass prices going up as a result of these guys manipulating the markets how can you blame this on obama bathroom well i'm not i'm always delighted to have the statistics that you present whenever i come on your show because the always seem like they're coming from another world i don't know that it's necessarily true so actually from the wall street journal well all journalists all journalists are liberal even if they're with the wall street journal for as i know i was with the bond buyer you'd think that they would like markets they didn't. i find it very hard to believe that gas prices are rising as a result of a conspiracy regarding futures contracts that's just that's just so far out of the evidence two thousand and eight. but whether you want to call it a conspiracy or not the fact is still that there is rampant speculation in the oil market is that it is driving the price up at the same time that there is a rest in the middle east so you're seeing problems in production the fact is that

there's so all of these different factors that are feeding into the fact and rising gas prices there's nothing to be proven that keystone is going to lower those prices there's nothing proven that even drilling in anwar would affect those prices but at that point you're destroying part of the environment for no reason for the idea that twenty years from now would have lower gas prices if if were the and beyond that why are we having debates in the united states right now about transporting oil a nineteenth century energy product basically early twentieth century transporting oil rapidly across the country instead of high speed rail transporting people rapidly assertions that it right when they've made a point is that ok we need to look at all options right now short term long term look at everything you can't just say. going to build the keystone pipeline that's going to take everything because it bogs but what they have done is it and the president can't take credit for increasing prices with all the problems we have in the mideast when you look at what happened in libya i mean could you not say that we've had a disruption in while production in libya and many of these middle eastern countries

that you're all worried about here we export the more petroleum products that we're because we're george bush healthy get more oil produced on line but that may be but if we're exporting more than we're importing then it seems like the price should go to you guys when the price you will all be good at a price is high because then you can move for your miracle fuels bio fuel prices high the president doesn't get reelected so no i don't like that but who eats on record saying he wants gas prices to rise he just doesn't want computerized quickly enough that that it causes political blowback of course he wants her to state gas prices steve that he was going to ask her i said you don't actually rely on the cost of the externalities associated with them to get the oil companies are not paying the cost of our military to protect the shipping grounds but let me move a lot to speaking of foreign policy and this week president obama disarmed one of president bush's axis of evil and he didn't drop a bomb and didn't put a single trip on the ground and change for food aid north korea not only agreed to stop enriching uranium shut down their nuclear program they agreed to stop testing

missiles and delivery systems just that's it no more so bush handles iraq the axis of evil one of them four thousand forty four hundred dead american troops hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians dead five million internal refugees a trillion dollars of american treasure gone. barack obama takes out one of the axis of evil with a phone call well that's not true i mean do you really trust this new twenty something leader of north korea to follow through with his promises yeah if he doesn't his own people are going to kill him. these are plans going to coalesce and you will be aware of that aren't. you but he's continuing and i i think it's an important i mean it's a communist dictatorship there's not it's not a communist it's just that they you know it is a common scenario they call themselves that but it's whatever i mean there are marks would never look the rug the globe we're we're looking at the moment president obama i mean it's been

a miserable failure throughout the globe we're looking at one of them brotherhood's taking over in libya you say here's a new way he goes tell you who he says any says terror on his dictatorship and they do it oh so you can have things are going to get better in the next five to ten years and you could try me over the next twenty to thirty years try think when we look at what we're going to look back on as the same way that we look back on ronald reagan same teardowns no we're not because they're not going to have a stable democracy ok matthew to me either way it is obviously no there's no reason to believe north korea is ever going to honor its obligations it has violated these agreements repeatedly over and over again this is stored in a racket where they want food because basically north koreans eat eat bark and harass and each other and actually in some in many cases they do they've been running this scam for a long time so i don't know why is it you doesn't demand you know why you think that just because they've agreed to seek food this time this is really just beginning it really works better than bob's point does humanity kick in at what point does the fact that why they're not need to go back and there's no promise but

the fact that there is improvement there are signs of improvement and there are signs that we can the u.s. will be providing food to a starving nation basically they ok i think. we have a clear difference of opinion here sondra floor i guess is. he was to testify on it was going to testify before darrell rice's committee on contraception although he decided only to have men testify so she testified to that before democratic committee and her testimony had nothing to do with her sex life it was never mentioned i mean she could be a virgin for all we know and never had sex in our life she talked about her her friend her roommate we are polly's hysteric cystic ovarian syndrome and this young woman who is testifying as a was student here at georgetown. the birth control pills were preventing sis from growing on her ovaries she was denied coverage under the assumption that she wanted it for birth control so she started to pay for it herself and was a hundred bucks

a month until she couldn't afford any more than she stopped in a massive sister ovary forcing a hysterectomy and now she's been thrown into menopause at the age of thirty two unable to have children and has an increased risk of cancer or heart disease that was the story this is what rush limbaugh said about. what is it. about the college coed susan fluke. who goes before a congressional committee you essentially says that she must be paid to have sex with does that make her image a slut right and here's what he had to say today probably one comes forth with this frankly a literary claim that she's having so much sex and her buddies with her that she can't afford it and not one person says what would you ever think about maybe

backing off the amount of sex that you have so there's a clear disconnection between what lynn was talking about when she's apparently hallucinating and what actually happened a is it time for him to apologize might this be the end of rush limbaugh or b. is he back on drugs. more than anything it proves that it's almost turning into a war on women but it if it's the idea that you can bash women to the point that and into thinking that it's a bad thing but it's not it's if she's not it never has sex then mentioned sandra fluke stressed about it but it's you know we don't know that's what if you talk about the health benefits that her friends have i think that the problem is that it's a health benefit for women it is a necessary part of health care and should should catholics be forced to fund sterilization abortion drugs and contraception if it's against their moral beliefs so you're in you're in favor of ready shari'a law into america that's call us ism

is not truly alone well shari'a law is from islam and if you are you can't pick religions if you say that anybody when you have belief government you are a law that says you can exclude people based on your morality and religion then you are imposing sharia law in america you're imposing sharia law in the sense that you're having the government say you must buy this you can't buy this we have a government talked on system with the federal government is this actually the employer to be able to impose sharia law on their employer i think the employer should be able to make moral judgments about what they pay for with the money now if you didn't shoot into the religion which is employers be able to impose catholic law or shari'a law on their employees. i don't like the employer sponsored health care system and i don't really do either so i'm not really sure how to answer that question i think we should have a free market in health care get rid of the state the state barriers the interstate barriers so you want to order a high interest entirely to the tender mercies united health care i want to be exotic your medicare party everybody

a bill we want to impose it on everyone that is correct ok but ok all right we have to wrap it up thank you all for it so far we'll come back with a quick fire with our more more of the rubble after the break and enter nice daily take how we do to get back some kindergarten principles in order to save and rebuild our economy. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i wanted to tell the truth. i confess and i am going to get a friend that i love rap and hip hop music that is pretty. cool he was kind of yesterday. i'm very proud of the will without since he has played.

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the big picture rubble our panel tonight matthew bishop senior editor at capital research center author of the book subversion amanda beadle reporter and water at think progress and brian darling columnist and human events and director of government studies at her kids foundation ok quick fire last question we've seen our fair share of right wing conspiracies floated around recently so the question is which one is your favorite eight courtesy of michael savage and world net daily breitbart was murdered by the obama administration here. let me ask my audience the

question what do you think do you think he died of natural causes from overwork exhaustion got a heart attack and died or do you think it's possible that he was executed assassinated by some a fair use force is it america or be courtesy of america coppa county sheriff's department and joe arpaio that president obama's birth certificate definitely is a forgery. close examination of the. we're here today to see we believe. from who was the fish indeed of forestry and. may have been committed or courtesy of fox business channel that very serious is a propagandist an act in america. that will be set to be released nationwide next month is about i would land creature who speaks for the trees and fights rampant industrialism. so matthew where you think.

i'm not a fan of the theory i was just hanging out with him so a friend of mine on friday in in michigan and he looked he looked pretty healthy yeah pretty pretty hard for me to be light hearted about it yeah well then in any other theories. i think you just overworked himself and he wasn't in very good shape oh yeah i agree with john you know any man stood him in the shoes me. a man of your thoughts on a lighter note i got to go with. the fact that joe arpaio is now trying to argue that the president is not actually us that is that because we cannot buy into the birth certificate is about as laughable as the pink underwear that he that he is paraded around arizona to try to prove the lack of civil rights that he has and what i mean what i find out about the whore pio thing is he was posted for not investigating child sexual abuse charges against hispanic children and instead he's taken his resources and created this committee. and they will all be wearing magic

underwear is president if when president romney takes office he made. this is a true conspiracy rush limbaugh and grover norquist actually do run the republican party ok actually true there you go and my theory my favorite conspiracy theory is that the pigeons from outer space are trying to take over i think this is an actual movie that's coming out this is what you're seeing on the t.v. screen this is the cover but i've been saying this for nine years on the radio what do you have whenever you have powerful people meeting together anywhere in the world. and i think i've ever seen a dead pigeon no ever seen a baby pigeon no there robots on the planet xenu they drop them down here they spying on us every six months the mothership comes brings them you know plays back the tapes drops them again so i might agree with. you. i don't believe in the five and. anybody who can rebut that i cannot think of any of you ever seen

a bad pigeon or a big mouth i've never seen a baby. they don't see a pair of robots from a plane it's not a oh shit that's it i'm in the. van to. brian thanks so much for being with us that i think it's good to have you all here will be very. grassroots activism is alive and well in america like it hasn't been since the one nine hundred sixty s. from rooting out corruption in government to ending than the one percent domination of our economy to turning off our war machine movements or capturing the hearts and minds of americans from coast to coast compelling them to get out there and get active or really this is just the first step it's what comes next that we need to start thinking about after we take back our democracy what sort of new economy we

want to built what are we going to replace corporate capitalism with for an answer that we have to look inside ourselves and literally inside ourselves into our d.n.a. new research in the journal science points to one of the main differences between humans and chimpanzees that has let our species dominate the planet and that is our ability to share researchers to groups of four year old children and compare their ability to solve puzzles together with groups of chimpanzees working on the same puzzle or most of the groups of children completed the puzzle after a few hours none of the chimpanzee groups could do the same the reason why was not intelligence. but sharing intelligence and children learn from each other and communicated what worked and didn't work and copied each other as the study said teaching communication observational learning and pro-social ality all played

important roles in human cultural learning but were absent or played an impoverished role in the learning of chimpanzees this is what the researchers described as humility of culture essentially the gathering of knowledge to advance a culture of society and spur technological improvements we as humans do this really really well whereas our animal counterparts don't so the question is this if it's in our genes to share and that has that's what has pushed our species to advance the way it has then why don't we apply the same standards to our economy after all if there's one thing our current corporate capitalist culture ates it's sharing in fact even the word sharing is a bad word out of corporate media outlets like fox so-called news if you dare say the words share the wealth here immediately labeled as a communist but what happened in two thousand and eight when obama said it to joe wurzelbacher the guy instantly became famous as joe the plumber for being offended

c.e.o.'s don't share profits with workers they pocket profits so i can salaries that are hundreds even thousands even tens of thousands of signs bigger than their employees corporations don't share dot technological infrastructure like cell phone towers and the ground wires so that more and more small businesses can get in the game and give consumers more choice they control them to maintain their own profits the entertainment industry doesn't share its movies and music they lock them down and lobby for laws to throw people who call themselves file sharers in prison. sharing seems to have no place in our economy but as corporate capitalism continues to ride out our democracy and hollow out our middle class we've got to come up with something else luckily the transition to a sharing economy is already underway that take it take a look at what's happening in chicago where workers are occupying the republic

window and door factory three years ago bank of america cut off a loan to the factory forcing managers to shut down republicans five hundred workers didn't budge and eventually got enough support from the public the bank of america backed off giving them time to find a new buyer unfortunately now republic windows and doors is in trouble again and rather than looking for a new guy or the workers are saying screw it we'll do ourselves we'll own the plant and we'll run it to try to set up a worker owned co-op a business model that's now catching fire across the united states of america you can see co-ops in places like madison wisconsin where i was last year to keynote the fighting bob i got picked up in a taxi cab by a lawyer so wise a lawyer driving a cab you might ask because he makes good money and has great benefits since he works for a company that has embraced the sharing model he worked for union caps which is a worker own co-op so he also along with about two hundred cabbies dispatchers and

mechanics is an owner of union hands. co-ops are different in corporations because instead of a small group of shareholders of a c.e.o. owning the company calling the shots and and pocketing all the money all the workers own the company and all the workers have a vote in how the company is run and all the workers share the profits that the company makes and he's the wealth is shared and people still have an incentive to work hard because the harder everyone works the more profit everyone makes the only difference is we're no longer competing with each other we're cooperating and the union cad cooperative model is working it's one of the largest of fork have fleets of medicine with the most cars of the best service and employ intention with it retention rate of eighty five percent with most workers sticking around for more than five years in fact there are nine other co-ops just like union cab all within five miles of the state capitol in madison from bakeries to engineering companies

that pharmacies they employ over four hundred people and they're doing thirty million dollars worth of business a year and all across america there are roughly thirty thousand co-ops in all sectors of the economy including three hundred workers including unclear including over three hundred worker co-ops only more than three trillion dollars in assets bringing in five hundred billion dollars in revenue and employing over two million workers it's obvious co-ops are alive and well in america as well as in the rest of the world where over three million people rely on earth in are actually coal out according to u.n. estimates. so instead of building an economy that goes against our nature as humans that suppresses our desire to share why not embrace who we are we've been able to survive and grow as a species for thousands of years not because we competed with each other but because we shared with each other over the last few decades as billionaire funded think tanks that promoted greed is good austrian economics and selfish

libertarianism is good things and reaganomics has created a lottery economy made the rich richer vastly richer and the poor poorer and destroyed the middle class we've forgotten what it means to share and look for it's gotten us we now stand in the midst of an economic collapse social instability and enormous wealth inequality with all of the social programs that come with problems going to come with that so let's go back to doing what we as humans do best sherry . and once again build an economy off that simple and natural principle this is just war stuff twenty it's fewer than thirty states and it's twenty four twenty five states now have laws is the charter was that that allowed you to start a co-op corporation or sometimes they're referred to as b corporations benefit corporations corporations that are of benefit to the community we need to make sure

that every state in the nation allows the creation of co-ops that was legal form so that that can work and you know if you're active in your state get active in in making co-ops work there that's the big picture for tonight for more information the stories we covered visit our web sites the top. free speech or in our team dot com also check out our two you tube channels or events at target dot com this entire show is also available as a free video i guess that i tunes and you can visit target dot com and download the audio podcast of our daily in three radio show and we have a free childhood i phone i pad app at the abstract it sounds feedback and twitter of toddlers or hartman facebook it's on underscore harmony in our blogs message boards it's all for comment right at thom hartmann dot com and don't forget them ocracy begins when you show up when you participate get out there get active tag your it will see a c.n.n. story.

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