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well here in d.c. the massive keystone x.l. pipeline protests have died down in recent months but doesn't mean the battle over the keystone pipeline has died down in general and in fact the pipeline has become a major focal point on capitol hill or the senate voted on a new measure designed to keep president obama out of the decision making process now their idea was to cut it out of the equation because the pipeline originates in canada and not in the u.s. but the measure needed sixty votes to pass and a quite literally sprung obama into action he and his team lobbied other democratic lawmakers into saying no to this bill our ports are that obama phone calls himself so you can imagine the g.o.p. he was none too happy about that. this report this morning that the president is personally making phone calls for democratic senators he takes my vote for them and asking them not to. and frankly charge to even comprehend how. completely out of touch he is on this issue. now those words were simply not convincing

enough because the measure failed today fifty six to forty two of eleven democrats voting in favor of the measure now mitch mcconnell says of the president is out of touch he's referring to all the job opportunities that supporters say could come from the construction of the pipeline even a former president bill clinton has shown support for the pipelines capabilities and speaking of jobs has become a divisive issue for the labor unions on one hand some labor unions are in favor of projects of the projects potential for job creation touted in ads like this one. the pipeline will produce or three hundred forty thousand jobs over the next four years. by private industry to produce something american really. stable source of energy produced in north america. now according to union websites it turns out that more union members are actually opposed to the pipeline than those that are in favor of it check out this chart while three point three

million union members favorite keystone four point nine million have come out against it and those union members who side with obama say the president has done the right thing putting the environment first and they believe that he stone won't be the answer for the growing gas problem. prices have risen even higher today's national average three sixty five president obama says his republican rivals are using the pain at the pump to score political points yet prices are up another three and a half cents just from yesterday twenty seven cents from a month ago. now some say the keystone pipeline can cause a spike in gas for the midwest region and bloomberg says that residents could see the price go up at least twenty cents a gallon org notes that some of the oil supply will end up in foreign markets because both producers are working side by side with texas refineries to move the product to the global market shipping the blackall to europe latin america and china but will side a lot of landowners solve concerns about how trans canada project is going to

affect their property and then r.t.c. spoke with residents in texas that are if the benefits of the project might actually outweigh the costs one point seven million gallons can leave you without triggering a real timely detection system and trans canada is request they will not add any additional ground patrols to work for those undetectible leaks and not something huge problem you know that could be spilling daily into our water supplies and sewer creeks into our springs believe that this would actually lower the price of gasoline and diesel fuel here in the states. on her. now while the texas land owners took their concerns straight to the politicians in d.c. native americans of south dakota took a different approach on several members of the oglala lakota tribe that were the transplant the trucks were trying to bring supplies to parts of the pipelines route last monday about seventy five members decided to put their foot down literally. so

my trucks loaded with enormous slow pipeline components research across the road sometime during the afternoon on march fifth call it went out of view digital media participants were mobilized for what we saw recorded for impromptu gathering blocks the road with their bodies to prevent somebody trucks and pipeline components from crossing. at least five people were arrested when police were called in to break out that barrier like the people in texas the old law lakota tribe believe that the roots of the x.l. pipeline looking to make their water supply. poison there people all for the sake of making a profit and keeping all of that in mind trans canada have a company behind the pipeline construction plans to refile its application to build the northern section of the oil line within the next few months and protesters still guiding in the midwest specially in parts of texas and south dakota residents want to make sure that it's known that they stand with obama and oppose the pipeline so all the measures around the keystone failed in the senate today something tells me that the battle for the pipeline is long from over. now unless

you've been living under a rock this point you've probably at least heard about the campaign to stop tony maybe you saw trending on twitter as has tagged conan twenty twelve all thanks for nearly thirty minute documentary by the nonprofit invisible children something that went viral and by viral i mean since being posted online on monday march fifth it's garnered more than thirty nine million views on you tube here's a short clip. our goal is change the conversation about cultures and get people to our. own we have printed hundreds of thousands of posters yard signs and fires that are right now today include of major cities all over the world. now documentary aims to bring awareness to just leader the lord's resistance army which terrorized uganda for decades over the last six years has fled from aquatic republic of congo and central african republic now briefly describe the brutal history of uganda the thirty thousand children that have been abducted over the

years boys turned into child soldiers girls turned into sex slaves and the film calls on people to support invisible children to donate thirty dollars get hit with the bracelets stickers posters all included and it tells the earth to participate in a day of action on april twentieth to spread the word hang up those posters and stickers all over the world for the endgame here is to have arrested this year two thousand and twelve brought to the international criminal court and for the u.s. to keep one hundred military advisers that were deployed last year there to help it happen but there's a lot of critique out there a lot of people should learn consider before they donate so let's take a little bit deeper into the sky with me is christopher chambers of the blog turner's revenge and lecture at georgetown university chris thanks so much for joining us tonight. first stars and for we get into the details here the history or this organization thirty nine million views on you tube but it's only been out there since monday and i think it has maybe another six million of e-mail i mean that is a a viral video of

a person like all. that's that's the very definition of viral and that's the whole point i mean this is you know the filmmakers couched this as an experiment and we are moving into another age with this i mean you saw it with occupy wall street you saw it with arab spring i mean this is a new tool social media and people are using it this is a new generation of people that are creating this content and it sparks a lot of problems with the older generation the thing that they don't seem to understand the old generation that is that you know we different media has come along you know radio and then t.v. and then the internet i mean the internet was the prototype for this with door for i mean we have pharaoh actress mia farrow she said without the internet and blogs putting up in bed video nobody would have cared about this well this is just a natural progression you know so i mean now the problems however you know i have maybe foreign policy intervention is right well i want you to get it but first you

know finance wise right coming under a lot of heat they've released their tax records out there you know they're trying to be very responsive in this entire situation but it looks like they spent a lot more on the media and the production part than they do you want to actually giving. donating or trying to fill that but at the same time that's what they do right as they look at their filmmakers this is an experiment i'm not making any excuses i mean i don't think this is going into the rome of say why close john and yearly haiti where it was you know there was a lot of money that was moving around that was not going to where it was supposed to go here they could probably make an argument that money is where it's supposed to go because we are in the social media business where we're out there generating kids think that people get that when they spend thirty minutes writing this document. i'm going to wear a bracelet and that makes me feel ok i'm going out i think so i mean you know let's face it i mean a lot of this is psychological a lot of people who are probably clicking and

watching it do. probably don't even know where uganda is they probably don't know that there are one hundred you know u.s. military advisors over there and they're over there for good reason but you know that's always going to happen when you live in a disconnected society disconnected world and social media is the only thread that's holding all of this together these guys are just twenty one on that thread and you know i don't fault them for that but yes in terms of background you know and you also have another issue i mean there is this there's always a racial component with africa where it's the old one thousand century white man's burden thing and we need white sea viewers to go in there and save these people from savages i mean there is that aspect of the ugandan people also making sure right i mean their number one goal from the way the video looks is that get any it's going to happen in trying to arrest them bring in the international criminal court and everything's going to be ok they make it seem so simple what happens to all those other child soldiers what happens in iraq if there is there is corruption

in there is poverty there is disease in the rest of uganda where there laurie hasn't even been a year and you get something saying that and n.g.o.s on the ground have been saying that you have totally oversimplified this situation i think they understand that and one of the filmmakers john big hollywood director even sergio it have to be oversimplified because we live in this disconnected age when you're trying to get people who probably don't even know where you get it is to get engaged and this is what we do we engage people it's like when things are engage people and inform them versus you know and this is where i start to have issues too where i think you see a lot of these liberal humanitarian grounds are we just want to help it ends up being about intervention. we already have one hundred military advisers that are there they're not going anywhere so i don't know why they're freaking out in this video as if they have on administrator is going to pull them out but it's this concept that you know that militarily you somehow need to engage they admit that

the ugandan military is. also corrupt in their allegations of rape and whatnot but they say we got to work with somebody well and that you know and again that's oversimplification angle that's where the n.g.o.s that are there and ugandan people are saying whoa whoa hold up but if you i think these guys are not thinking that far ahead it's viral it's going to be that is that is the twenty first century younger mindset at work here and you see that in journalism and politics all over the place i don't think in the forehead if they were maybe they pulled back a little bit but you know. i guess. you know they've i think if they're seen of their call they say that they have made because of conan famous and a lot. yeah everyone's talking about it you know forty five million views online combined it but then at the same time you know watch out what it is exactly that your friends think you are because they which you wish for you might have another you know we have we have another. human interventions and where you know there has

been a lot of you have written a lot of exactly their lives in the letter thank you for your writing us tonight. our side our last break of the evening well we come back are we headed for the one child policy that's in the south often seems to think humans are tools i lord i know how to be our fans and former for newsday evolved into using country song as a solar flare heading towards earth as to the other thing for. people calling what you said for free and fair elections. and they're still reporting from the. if you can hear behind me a little out of solutions.

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guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and this time it goes to former g.o.p. presidential candidate and current congresswoman michele bachmann on tuesday she appeared on news on a news show called real news from the blaze that airs on glenn beck's online paid subscription channel and she decided to tackle the g.o.p.'s war on women it has been reduced to

a war on women right or wrong that is what is being read as in the public you think we've totally bungled this debate well well i think that it is a mistake for us to get caught in a trap that the left would love to have a stay on same. it would be a mistake to get caught in that trap on michelle two things here i don't think it was a trap set by the left i seem to recall the right leaving themselves that little present and then circling back to step it themselves words dancing in it initiative twenty six would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person that would effectively banned all abortions including those resulting from brain or incest republican lawmakers under fire in georgia for pushing a bill that is pregnant women should be put to death if they have a miscarriage this is. susan. who gave her for a congressional committee and says that she must be paid. right

virginia lawmakers passing a bill that requires a woman to have an ultrasound before having an abortion in pennsylvania is considering the same type of statute. yeah i'm pretty sure the right made that bed for themselves but then later in the interview michelle decided not to take her own advice and double down on the g.o.p. and sandy. it isn't far fetched to think that the president and states could say we need to save health care expenses the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family michelle and even talk to the douglas about t.l.c. if there are nine hundred kids in fallon because i'm pretty sure that that statement is based on absolutely no back whatsoever but again we are talking about michele bachmann here's the facts are kind of a rarity but michelle's favor was so over the top that it even shocked the bully's crew take out this response congressman are you suggesting then that this

administration or and next administration would actually advocate a one child policy like communist china yes michelle please and like are you suggesting that america is headed towards a one child policy. the president i'm it states unilaterally can tell insurance companies you must offer the morning after abortion pill you must operate sterilizations you must offer contraceptives free to the recipients of those products because we tell you to which means they're effectively setting the price as well that says that whoever the health care dictator could conceivably could make that order as well. well i mean that's pretty rich michel actually wants to argue because liberals want to provide women with more health care to ensure that the needs of women are met all across america and their rights are in danger of being stolen by a health care dictator even though obama is working to ensure that women have the

right to choose when and how many children they'll have but eventually it's going to lead to them having fewer choices and being told how many children they can have makes perfect sense so for not standing up her own gender's right to make decisions about their own bodies and instead twisting this debate to fearmonger about communist style once our policy is michele bachmann is not sold on whether. our guys it's time for a happy hour and joining me this evening lauren lyster host of the capital account here on r.t. and comedian lafayette right hey guys. did you know that today it might be and not really but there's some scary stuff going on in space take a look. listen to this a huge solar storm the largest in five years is already hitting earth today at four

million miles per hour now look at the strong winds and deliver a knockout punch to your g.p.s. splosion right there that is where the other solar flare emitted all that radiation some of which got here at the speed of light which takes about an hour roughly other which travels a skill set between three and five million miles an hour. i get this point and we're ok i don't really think anything got distracted that i thought of but biggest solar flare storm inner solar flare in six years or something like that with the word which would have knocked out the rise in people who were. no work take the. crowd of people is going to stop that you me now right yeah exactly. the first thing that. came from my mind was oh no must be doing this story today because she loves space stories and you were and the second thing that came to my mind was weight power grades g.p.s. is this going to be the next like solar flare or a dusty old complex that is suddenly a threat that we need to guard against and build up industry against you know

because for republicans we don't really believe in things like solar flares or global warming or climate change or more scared of cyberwarfare and hoppers hurting the grid this is just a little you never know how it started that's how it always starts that's my prediction ok let's move on to something that i just find really kind of creeps me out but there are some santorum fans out there that decide to create this song take a listen. man. there's the room experiment a little bit that is the exact opposite thing but i think what i see that video is that there is hope for our nation again my hope for the nation is that the super pacs are

a little more powerful than those singers but i can give us the bill of rights really really not according to them just. i don't know if people from. speaking about being freaked out but i don't know if this ever happened to you guys but definitely there were was a class that i took in college that had a cool name called the violent universe and we all had to get it on as it turned out not being as cool as a supposed to be and so there's something similar a class called surviving becoming zombie apocalypse but the teacher at least made a video to get students. in terms of. so. yeah.

so the name is a hook and the class actually is about studying mass catastrophes and human behavior and life or death situations i mean the whole place all of this is like i put a lot of thought and so out of the zombie apocalypse because i don't get laid so but not you prepare properly for that situation the one thing you need to do you just this is not the last you follow the poor why do why what is the why do you know why do i do middle america people who don't have t.v. then they've got guns i mean the big guns are not going to save you you need generators you know these things but you know i'm sure you have how many sounding movies if we all. survived this is what the funny thing is actually. really research behind this c.d.c. actually has the apocalypse campaign because what they found is if you're prepared for a zombie apocalypse you actually are well prepared for a hurricane or disaster or terrorist attack or whatever so i think this is along the same probably as you get it lined up that day and sides say it but i mean

really not of not if you know what you're doing credibility ok i'm going to walk in there and i watch the show i love zombie movies from i'm going to talk about it you just run some dude named dale there's like three see and then you're good and like they're not going to hate you because you're black at this point because you know they can use they're going to sort of. they hate the zombies. more all right i'll give you that when because i haven't seen all that many zombie movies so you know i'm not even a traitor. speaking it's obvious actually but if there is a new bill. basically it's this woman that has just revolutionized being able to wear tight clothing for her women. cheryl blakely the inventor of spanx she is the youngest woman to make the forbes list on her own with no help from a husband or inheritance. spanx i never would've guessed you know years ago when

spanx came out that she would be a billionaire but they pretty much are the best thing ever but seems like dunes were kind of trying to capitalize on this to tell you design houses have a leaning designer range of tights that it says are unisex and they're being snapped up by by men i don't buy that sorry he's trying to design houses or trying to ride this bank you know wave but what i actually where he might have you seen the infomercials for like they make the white that are kind of like yeah it's pretty eyes that suck it on your nose for men and evidently really popular according to the sales associate i spoke to the last time i was at nordstrom but those are actual tights to be worn outside your clothes with stars on them so what's your experience of space i mean. would you want to talk to or do. you know. it's going to be marks. somebody knows i'm sorry i'm not going to be alone here that's not just me don't embarrass me here don't you know they don't love you they

don't know why they're there booty is good when they do the do that's really disgusting is it you're just going to walk around with legs no you sure do zoeller and you know it does and i guess gert over your tights i'm just going to have like the but i mean i don't know i'm just i'm just trying to befriend are you reading your words i was world no one on the other side of it oh i don't even like skinny jeans but that's just me i'm trying to you know myself and sort of the weirdos who were. so progress all right and i think that we read it we've gone too far this. are you guys thanks for joining me tonight i've got to wrap it up but. thank you for tuning in and making to come back tomorrow gary weiss author of and read nation is going to be on the show to discuss a monthly unemployment report i mean time to forget to become a fan of you on the show on facebook you can follow us on twitter as anything ever miss if you find it all you tube dot com slash you want to show us the interviews as well as the show in its entirety there and coming up next because i think it's.

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