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a military strike on iran's nuclear sites just as he prepares to face the mighty israeli lobby i'll be back with more news in full detail in half an hour from now in the meantime it's back to the idea in the show and in. our guys it's time for tonight's tools on award and tonight we're giving it to the house legislature from the sunshine state by now we all know that florida came up with some pretty wacky bills of the past few years thanks in part to the unpopular governor rick scott but tonight we have that's what our focus to the florida state house are lawmakers have been passing bills on religion now for starters the house got its hands on a bill that would allow parents school legislations that the only students could leave the prayer and the participation of the optional obviously the bill's been controversial however religious leaders in florida seem to be ok with it and part.

muslim jewish and other religious leaders support the bill under one condition as long as it doesn't become predominantly only one religion that's offering prayer. after all lawmakers afraid of the bill as a religious freedom issue so it looks like the sunshine state is taking a cue from conservatives like rick santorum because he's not going through this whole separation thing either i don't believe in an america where the separation of church and state is absolute the idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state with is absolutely an authentic call to the to the objectives and vision of our country. let me ask a question here and santorum talks about church as referring to all religions are muslims jews buddhists included under his label of church or is the only thing about evangelicals i think we all know the answer to that right and sadly the florida house seems to be on the same page because within twenty four hours the

state house also passed a bill that would ban courts from using religious or foreign law in making a legal decision lawmakers voted in favor of house bill twelve zero nine and it was sponsored by representative who explained the bill designed for the cases throughout the country where courts have upheld islamic code found the truth comes out right this practice created to battle shari'a law that not an issue that we keep seeing legislation drawn up for and lawmakers waste taxpayer money and time on fighting across the country now you know after hearing about the house the greens who incorporate prayer and public school and trying to ban sharia law i think there is a point to be made if lawmakers are picking and choosing which religions they want to protect they say that it's ok for christians to pray in school and in turn around attempt to clamp down as long being in the courts and frankly where the house took almost no time at all the way either one of these major bills says just how lightly they take it all christianity good islam bad so we're tending to stand up early just freedom but only for one religion florida's house lawmakers are

tonight's top time winners. now it comes to the department of defense and the budget problem seems like no expense is spared over the years that trillions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled into the air force and its family of fighter jets and planes something that the audience looking to continue this week general norton schwartz announce of the air force is working on a new long range on a program program that's already underway would involve eighty to one hundred planes with a price tag of at least five hundred fifty million dollars but we're not going to see those bad boys in the sky until the mid two thousand and twenty so there's still a lot of work to be done but what exactly does five hundred fifty million dollars get you the air force plans on making the planes stealthy capable of carrying nuclear weapons and allow the option of being manned with human pilots or flying their own like a drone so a drone that can carry a nuke seems a little scary to me now the air force also wants the bombers equipped with radar jammers lasers that can burn missiles and the capabilities to control a fleet not one but a fleet of drones so it's

a pretty hefty wishlist but let's step back a second shall we because i have this crazy idea how the air force make sure their current programs are capable of working properly before they give the thumbs up to start a whole new one as we've mentioned many times on this show the joint strike fighter program has cost billions and billions of dollars in cost overruns and that's not all the star fighter jets that twenty two of the f. thirty five have been riddled with technical problems and we're not just talking little things there were numerous reports of the accident systems failing i live and even died from the lack of oxygen to the brain as they were flying the jets and the problem was so bad the both f. twenty two and the f. thirty five have been grounded repeatedly and as of this week the twenty two s are still stuck on land the same reports of oxygen issues now these jets are going around for six years and the twenty two's cost about eighty million to thirty five's cost about ninety million to build and the maintenance package for those are eight trillion dollars over the long term or they're the most expensive weapons

system in all of history. and they don't even work so let's take a moment to talk a little common sense here if you dropped millions of dollars into a top of the line car or a mansion and it's still not operating you don't just move on to another project cross your fingers at the same problems don't occur again but the pentagon is so intent on being the biggest and baddest military force military force in the world that they just don't seem to care how much it all costs which for the taxpayer is a very sad reality. now american consumers have become used to buying goods and cheap cost something at this point it's been equated with cheap labor in other countries making it possible we're also growing used to finding some of the best deals online and then getting those products delivered real fast with the perks of free shipping or overnight delivery especially around the holidays but how many of us actually know what it takes to get the products to us what kind of labor practices go on in the shipping centers right here at home in the united states there are currently a number of lawsuits one in particular against amazon or workers of complain of

horrible conditions and being treated like quote pieces of crap one reporter wanted to go find out for herself by working at a mall that made a product giant shipping worldwide in mississippi this is a place where complaining isn't tolerated unreachable goals are set the work is backbreaking ships are ten hour minimums and worker safety takes second place to productivity it's not described that this was her time as the warehouse wage slave inside the online shipping machine so joining me to discuss it is not to call and human rights reporter for mother jones magazine and i sally back on the show tonight and i guess if you could just summarize summarize this experience for us in a couple of words of what it really felt like to work at this place what would you say. well feels like nobody cares about the people who work there basically the only thing that really matters is the efficiency and the speed with which you can you know do your job it's all about keeping costs down so that consumers don't have

to pay for shipping and so that prices can be discounted on the products and so that the that money basically comes out of the treatment of the workers who get very little money have very few breaks have crazy products in equals are almost impossible were impossible for me to meet because i don't work there very long but i practice where i would be able to get one thousand three hundred orders a day which is you know the sort of thing that they make you do so it's just it's there's no regard for the people who work there so it's pretty miserable. how bad would you say it was in terms of you know you when you call yourself a a wage slave and so would you say these conditions border on something that we think would be you know that we think we would have regulations against that workers would have protections against in this country yeah there should be you know actually this one day when i asked my supervisor if i could go to the bathroom

lot i was trying to you know run around and get my job done he started laughing and he was like this isn't china but if you do go to the bathroom it's going to affect your product to be in if you don't hit your numbers you get scolded and told that you're doing really bad job so i was like you're laughing you know like the conditions here are you know and obviously it is better than working in china but by american standards when i describe you know what it was like to work in this place in you know in this country and in this century people will say this is the america that you're talking about because it sounds like sort of thing that you know people ought to protect against. well let's talk about one of the issues here too is that there is a large part of the workforce that are temporary workers and so they don't get paid as much as the permanent workers do you mention that some of these people actually just move around the country from city to city working one temp job to the next and

so how is that that that's become something that businesses can get away with for somebody can be considered a temporary worker for years on end well because the companies you know contract out to other companies that do their temporary staffing and so there's sort of a there's a removal of you know somebody being responsible for what's going on and it's you know you're hired sort of as a contractor they call it like it's a contract there so you have very limited if any at all health insurance you don't have paid time off you don't have you know vacation paid sick days and things like this that you would have in a normal place and it's the best way you know cost wise for companies to do business because if you have people who you don't owe anything to whatsoever except for seven dollars an hour or eight dollars an hour that's obviously the cheapest

way to get it done so this is actually it's a trend to use temporary staffers not just for on line shipping but also for hotel work and in the hospitality industry and things like that just to you know have people who you are not accountable to and you can just fire them whenever you want and get new ones when you need to and it's it's super super cheap and effective and so would you say that's a sign of the times you know when we're talking other people that were working at the shipping center here is it because they just can't get worse work elsewhere because unemployment so high because of the economy or has this temp transition been going on before that. well that's going to it is a sign of the times because you wouldn't do this job if you didn't have to you know everybody who works in there you know so why are you here what happened to you that you had to have a job like this because if you had options you would not take that sort of treatment from your employer so everybody inside this warehouse and the warehouse

recognized that this is sort of the job of last resort and one of the people who i was working with even said you know they can treat us however they want because they know we don't have any other choice you know if the job market was better and you had different job options and then these companies would have to make these jobs were peeling and they'd have to treat people better otherwise people just wouldn't work there so so the economists that i talked to said yeah you know if the economy was better then people could demand better labor conditions but at this point it's probably not going to happen so the company has a definite taking advantage of it but you know you also bring out. the fact that hey this industry of shipping things online or shopping online is something that's only growing and we're all getting used to the perks of it because not only can you find the best deals on the internet a lot of the time but it's just so easy gets delivered right to your doorstep in origin or wherever you receive your packages but do you think that it's really

about asking americans whether they'd be willing to pay a couple dollars more to better the working environment for these for these employees or is it really just about the companies being about their bottom line and being slowly profit because you know even if we want to pay a couple more dollars are we did we agreed to that's not necessarily going to force the company to change their practices. i mean it's it's right on the one hand these companies you know what if you buy from wal-mart on line for example these are the kinds of film and centers and you mentioned amazon these are the sorts of conditions that they have nobody is under the. you know illusion that wal-mart or amazon couldn't afford to lose a little bit off of their bottom line that's true but you know there are smaller companies as well and in order to compete with these bigger companies they have to make their shipping free if there was a standard you know if people knew what it was like in these warehouses and

a standard was created you know some people will pay more for people are not going to stop buying stuff the internet i mean when i was working there people were ordering you know even toilet paper up and because it's easy and we don't have time to go to the store and whatever but if there was a standard created for people who you know for shipping companies that actually treated their workers humanely there probably is a segment of the population the same people who you know pay more for again exclude or you know things like this or by a local call those people probably would pay more and seek out those services to make sure that they weren't complicit in this terrible terrible treatment of people who have no other choice i think the most people just don't know but you have one should read your piece it's definitely a an interesting insight into how these places were it back and so much for joining us tonight thanks tony. our guys our last break even battle with a back fire fed friday at happy hour i can now selling entire ready to assemble

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a great way to fix their budget woes the company proposed in exchange for cold hard cash of the states would just have to sign a twenty year contract and c.c.a. also require that the prisons be capped at ninety percent capacity and went over not only the evidence out there that shows the prison private is privatization does not in fact save money but also the sickening idea that states actually have to promise to provide enough criminals are now thankfully groups out there speaking out against this and a letter spearheaded by the a.c.l.u. and signed by twenty six other organizations they call the governors of all fifty states to reject this offer from corrections corporation of america and warren to their offer is a backdoor invitation to take on additional that's increasing c.c.s. profits and impeding the serious criminal justice reforms needed to combat the nation's mass incarceration crisis and the thing is it's not just groups like the a.c.l.u. they're taking part there was also another letter sent out by thirty two religious organizations and they say that there is

a moral imperative and reducing incarceration through evidence based alternatives to imprisonment and you know what look if you. letters there all right the problem in this country is that we do indeed have an incarceration crisis we have the largest prison population in the world not only is it expensive it also creates an underclass of people that cycle through the system are then deprived of their voting rights unable to find work unable to become normal citizens again functioning members of society so the solution is not to just give prisons to private companies for cash and the promise you can fall in the world is that actually sound like an answer the real truth is that we need to reduce the prison population we need to reduce sentences for nonviolent offenses we need to take a new look at the entire approach realize that rehabilitation programs other alternatives out there might be the right step forward there are other ways but states bribed into a bad idea because they can't get their budgets in order that should make all of us

were so it's up to these governors to make the right decision and say no to c.c.a. it's also up to all of us to make sure that these organizations aren't the only ones speaking out against mass scale prison privatization because nobody should feel comfortable with a promise to keep prisons full. our guys it's time for happy hour and joining me this evening sam sacks producer for the big picture with tom hartman and mike riggs they're out reason i was ina reason dot com i got thanks for joining me for of this. well let's just start with this really embarrassing story for now of me i can't stop laughing about it basically followed brian williams do the dirty work and explain the details. a little bit embarrassment for now so they've now admitted

forty eight electronic devices have been lost or stolen in just a two year period that includes a laptop computer that contains the other encrypted codes for controlling the international space station. really i mean not only do they lose this stuff but then you find out that the codes for the international space station where an encrypted the whole time and that's pretty embarrassing i saw understand from sources be scared or not like what is the international still really you know like a year ago and they're just having they were use about it like what i don't know or worried when i lose my debit card i think than i am that they lost the laptop space to me this is also the international such as our space station so it's like when you lose your friends call our message and i'm swear word else well i'm going to give it to the villains didn't want to you know didn't have a girl domination of mine there's a war what if i mean what if it's like those. prison papers that were found in like a pile in iraq that we found out all the stuff about interrogations and what if

this is like sitting in a garbage can and downtown manhattan or something and probably i think somebody is at some bar telling some girl you want to go right in my space stations like this that i can make that television. or know something and then do it cleverly my wife who controls the space station yeah what shows you girls i give it to girls. so yeah i don't i don't know how to use a pick up chicks but there's got to be something to do with. my goodness ok. you know why military signori going to let what is going to say or it's. like a little cottage in space or something yeah next next it's yeah it's crazy i don't understand why anyone would like the father is or mother is but he does it just freaks me out like.

if you. could. there is one where the real baby that she is actually flipping around is crying and you know it's incredible and i just want to ignore and for a baby it's not post-partum depression this is how mothers who wish they weren't mothers deal with. you know home was the first thing they do when you bring the baby in when it's not breathing and we were bruises and with this the babies like limber looks really good help the you know you just scared to death by swinging it around like a rag isn't this what michael jackson was doing i mean isn't this basically what he was doing when he when he would be able to thing like that runs ahead of his time and yeah and we limbo know. this russian woman who's doing this in egypt what is once women. she's right here what you said she's russian i don't know what.

you're trying to get me to. she's only going to read i think it's just me ok and i'm mumbling again so let's move on to this french guy that's trying to take a look style here on google's camera remember to keep your pants off google street view caught businessman in northwest france urinating on his driveway and now blurry face figure is suing google for damages he claims this picture has made him the laughing stock of his small town he wants the snapshot taken down and ten thousand euros his lawyer tells reuters everyone has the right to a degree of secrecy in this particular case it's more amusing than serious but if he had been caught kissing a woman other than his wife he would have had the same issue but is this really google's problem one of the company's lawyers call it a lawsuit implausible. i'm going to argue he would have very different problems if google had caught him kissing somebody else why i don't know a little more than just embarrassing. being frenchmen i just. you know

don't be peeing outside like i don't want to play his front driveway but i did look like a backyard it's you know when i ask i don't know and you know i looked at that picture a lot today and i couldn't if you hadn't told me that's what he was doing i would think he was just surveying that dump of a backyard yes and really that's what he should be embarrassed about. so sorry there is little that i thought was a little bit rattled that i was a little strange all right let's move on to ikea who you know he had ikea because the furniture is key. are put together by yourself the why but now they're actually previewing their very first home this thing is called acting and basically it's a one bedroom home because eighty six thousand dollars six thousand five hundred dollars and it can be delivered to your empty lot by a semi truck and one or two big pieces and it's already constructed and partially

furnished with an i.q. above your kitchen and bathroom and starts. i think is really tiny i mean somebody walking around with seventy five thousand dollars in their pocket after you buy this but i kind of won't let alone i like kind of cozy spaces. you know if you like you know just do all the work for you but you know just like he's represented here to build a house you know like here for everything i'm sorry you know we had all of the roof was going to last longer how was this not just the swedish double wide trailer like i'm going to do with florida and we have things like that all the time they cost half as much they're not quite as skilfully furnished but it's like her no like i don't want to live there but this is going to look like yeah i guess like you know i think it will show a picture of the outside you know what because there's like a propane tank a pit bull chained to a like a sack when it's not really a large yard because nobody has one yet yeah and i know exactly where they're going to ponderosa trailer park and saying quote florida so it'll be a very. trying to everybody hangs out at ikea they're like they all just lounge

around and party and sleep i'm serious let's not have swedish people you can consciously do that because there's nobody here to lounge around on that wall and i mean i think that's one reason i'm not sure why they do it and that's where people started i was really i definitely would go to costco just for the free food samples and i was hungry like you know sometimes a report published in there he's pretty frantic and i was you know alderson on sort of. you. i go yeah i'm cheap yeah you get it but they're ok we're ok so dinner with her dad thanks for joining me that's a pretty nice so thanks for joining in an adventure the guys from back on monday would have been really prince author of black tuesday but on the show and meantime don't forget to become a fan of the i want to show on facebook you can follow us on twitter if there's anything you never missed you can find it all that you can drop right here on a shelf and coming up next is the news.

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upon. me early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the former still evil empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand us troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have power bases of america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases a fly in the noises our north of those bombed the us of all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for them speed. since the into world war two spaces have been.